A11 THE MEANING OF DREAMS [1924]
a. First edition:
THE MEANING OF DREAMS | BY | ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem] | CECIL PALMER | FORTY-NINE | CHANDOS | STREET | W.C.2 | [flush left, within square brackets:] Printed in Great Britain
Collation: [A]6 B–L8 [M]4, 90 leaves.
p.[i] THE MEANING OF DREAMS; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] copyright and printer’s notices; p.[v] TO SUSAN | AND | JOHN BUCHAN; p.[vi] blank; pp.[vii] viii–xi TABLE OF CONTENTS; p.[xii] blank; p.[1] chapter title; p.[2] blank;
pp.3–167 text, with pp.[17, 31, 61, 77, 103, 113, 133] being chapter titles and pp. [18, 32, 60, 62, 76, 78, 102, 104, 112, 114, 134] blank; p.[168] blank.
18.7 × 12.3 cm. Bulk: 2.1/2.5 cm. White wove paper; top edges only trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in dark blue cloth; front and back blank; white label pasted on spine: [whole enclosed within rectangular decorative rule box:] THE MEANING | OF | DREAMS | Robert | Graves | Cecil | Palmer
Price: 6s. Number of copies undetermined. Published in September 1924 in blue wove dust-jacket printed in black.
Contents: Past Theories as Far as Freud – Theory of Double-Self – Primitive Thought – Varieties of Dreams – Survival of the Past and Other Problems – Value of Dreams on Their Own Account – Practical Benefits of Interpretation – Dreams and Poetry.
Notes: A11a and A11b were both printed in England.
There are variant bindings of black cloth and blue-grey cloth.
This book has been translated into Spanish as El Sentido de los Sueños.
A11b. American issue (1925):
THE MEANING OF DREAMS | BY | ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem] | NEW YORK | GREENBERG, PUBLISHER, INC. | 1925
Collation: [A]6 B–K8 L12, 90 leaves.
Remainder as A11a.
18.5 × 12.4 cm. Bulk: 2.1/2.7 cm. Paper as A11a. Bound in pebbled purple cloth; front and back blank; white label pasted on spine printed in blue: [all within a decorative rectangular border:] THE | MEANING | OF | DREAMS | Robert | Graves | GREENBERG
Price: $2.00. Number of copies unknown. Published in May 1925 in pale grey dust-jacket printed in black. The publisher’s advertisement in Publisher’s Weekly, 28 February 1925, p. 688 gives a publication date of 16 March 1925.
Note: The title leaf is a cancel.