SECTION A: Books written, co-written or translated by Robert Graves

A32 GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT [1929]

a. First edition:

Collation: [A]8 B–2E8, 224 leaves.

p.[1] GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT; p.[2] list of works by Graves; [photograpgic portrait plate, facing title-page, with tissue guard, back blank]; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication and printer’s notices; p.[5] MY DEDICATION IS | AN EPILOGUE; p.[6] blank; pp.7–9 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; p.[10] WORLD’S END; p.[11] GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT; p.[12] blank; pp. 13–437 text, with illustrations facing pp. 152, 190, 246, 262, 296, and 364, all backs blank, and double fold-out plate between pp.322/323, back blank; p.[438] blank; pp.439–443 text; p.[444] blank; pp.445–448 Dedicatory Epilogue | to | Laura Riding

Price: 10s. 6d. Number of copies: 5,000 [but, see Notes]. Published on 18 November1929 in white photographic dust-jacket printed in black; the photography is by Alfred Cracknell; design is by Len Lye.

Notes: Expurgations in later states consist of a short passage on p.290 and a poem by Siegfried Sassoon consisting of the last 4 ll. on p.341 and all of pp.342–343. Faber and Foyle, Modern First Editions: Points and Values (Second Series) (London: Foyle, 1931) suggest that fewer than 100 copies of the first state exist.

A copy of the first edition, first state was offered by London bookseller, Adrian Harrington, Ltd.in December 2020 described as ‘Sewn and bound with tapes, endpapers, and glue to spine, but no binding. Possibly a proof or advance copy, printed on thinner paper than the hard-bound first edition.’

This book has been translated into Catalan, Czech, Dutch, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.

The nature of the changes between A32a and A32b seem to indicate that A32a is merely a pre-publication state, rather than a true first edition; nevertheless, A32a is generally considered the collector’s impression.

A32b. Second state (expurgated) ([1929]):

Title-page as A32a.

Collation: as A32a.

Remainder as A32a except that p.290 has a deletion marked by 3 asterisks in a V-shape; p.341 has 3 asterisks in a V-shape at the bottom; pp.342–343 have 4 asterisks in a diamond shape; and there is an erratum slip tipped in between pp.398/399.

Otherwise as A32a.

Note: It would appear that 5,000 copies of this state were printed in November of 1929.

A32c. Second impression ([1929])

Title-page asA32a.

Collation as A32a.

Remainder as A32a except: pp.290–295 reset; as A32a to p.341; then: pp.341–435 text; p.[436] blank; pp.437–441 text; p. [442] blank; pp.443–446 Dedicatory Epilogue | TO | Laura Riding; pp.[447]–[448] blank.

Size, bulk and paper as A32a. Binding: red cloth; otherwise as A32a.

Price: 10s 6d. Number of copies: 30,000. Published in November 1929 with dust-jacket as A32a.

Notes: Impressions: 3rd , November 1929; 4th, November 1929; 5th, December 1929.

An erratum slip (as A32b) is tipped in between pp.396/397.

Illustrations face as in A32a.

This book sold 20,000 copies in the first week and 30,000 by December.

A32d. First American edition (advance copies) ([1930]):

Collation: [1]–[27]8 [28]4, 220 leaves.

p.[i] GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT; p.[ii] publisher’s notice and list of works by Graves; [portrait plate, facing title-page, back blank]; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] copyright, printing, printer’s and binder’s notices; p.[v] MY DEDICATION IS | AN EPILOGUE; p.[vi] blank; pp.[vii]–[viii] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; p.[ix] WORLD’S END; p.[x] blank; pp. 1–426 text, with illustrations facing pp.141, 179, 235, 251, 284, 308 (fold-out) and 350; pp.427–430 DEDICATORY EPILOGUE | TO LAURA RIDING

21.0 × 15.0 cm. Bulk: 3.0/3.7 cm. White wove paper; top edges only trimmed and stained black. White laid endpapers. Bound in maroon cloth; front blind-stamped with publisher’s emblem in centre in double-rule circle, 1.7 cm. in diameter; back blank; spine stamped in gold: [heavy rule] [dashed rule] | GOOD-BYE | TO ALL THAT | [dash] | ROBERT GRAVES | [dashed rule] | [heavy rule] | Jonathan Cape | Harrison Smith

Price: $3.00. Number of copies undetermined. Published before 13 January 1930 in cream dust-jacket printed in light olive green, black and maroon; printed in December 1929.

The publisher’s advertisement in Publishers Weekly, 21 December 1929, p. 2808 gives a publication date of 6 January 1930.

Notes: Four impressions of this book were printed prior to publication, the first three in December 1929 and the fourth in January 1930.

The front flap of the advance copies dust-jacket has a biographical sketch of Graves in three paragraphs and does not bear a printed price for this book; the back flap has an advertisement for The Paris Gun with the notation “To be published in February | Probable price, $3.50”; the advertisements on the back panel are headed by ‘Humanity Uprooted’; the back panel is printed entirely in black. One copy seen with back panel printed in black and maroon, with the first and last two lines in maroon. One copy of this jacket was seen with what appear to be production symbols printed above the advertisement on the back flap: OH447 | 100

No American edition seen contains the passages expurgated from A32a.

A32e. First American edition ([1930]):

Collation: As above.

21.0 × 15.0 cm. Bulk: 3.0/3.7 cm. White wove paper; top edges only trimmed and stained black. White laid endpapers. Bound in maroon cloth; front and back blind-stamped with double-rule rectangular box with double-rule diagonals with publisher’s emblem in centre in double-rule circle, 2.6 cm. in diameter; spine stamped in gold: [heavy rule] [dashed rule] | GOOD-BYE | TO ALL THAT | [dash] | ROBERT GRAVES | [dashed rule] | [heavy rule] | Jonathan Cape | Harrison Smith

Price: $3.00. Number of copies undetermined. Published 13 January 1930 in cream dust-jacket printed in light olive green, black and maroon.

Notes: Four impressions of this book were printed prior to publication, the first three in December 1929 and the fourth January 1930.

The front flap of the regular issue dust-jacket has quotations from reviews and bears a printed price of $3.00 for this book; the back flap has an advertisement for The Paris Gun, the last line reading: ‘Illustrated, $3.50’; the back panel is printed in black and maroon, as above and the advertisements are headed by Good-bye To All That.

A32f. Life and Letters impression ([1931]):

Collation: as A32c.

p.[1] [entire at right:] THE LIFE & LETTERS | SERIES, VOLUME 22 | GOOD-BYE | TO ALL THAT | [series emblem]; p.[2] series notice; [frontispiece]; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication, publisher’s, printer’s and papermaker’s notices; pp.[7]8–9 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; then as A32c.

19.9 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 3.0/3.6 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in green cloth; front stamped in gold: [double angular wavy rule] GOOD-BYE [double angular wavy rule] | [rule as before] TO ALL THAT [rule as before] | [at left: series emblem]; back blind-stamped with publisher’s emblem; spine stamped in gold: GOOD-BYE | TO ALL | THAT | [series emblem] ROBERT | GRAVES | JONATHAN CAPE

Price: 4s. 6d. Number of copies: 6,000. Published 14 July 1931 in a white dust-jacket printed in green.

Notes: Up to 36 pp. of publisher’s advertisements are bound in at the end, in some copies.

Cape also reports a 7s. 6d. issue (not seen) made up of 500 copies from A32c and 350 copies from the Life and Letters impression, published in July 1941.

A32g. Blue Ribbon impression ([1931]):

Collation: as A32d.

p.[i] GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT; p.[ii] publisher’s notice and list of books by Graves; p.[iii] blank; p.[iv] portrait; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] copyright, impression and printer’s notices; p.[vii] MY DEDICATION IS | AN EPILOGUE; p.[viii] blank; then as A32d; no plates.

Price: $1.00. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1931 in white wove dust-jacket printed in red and black.

Note: Printed by the Cornwall Press.

A32h. Second edition (revised) (1957):

Collation: 180 leaves, glued at spine.

p.[i] Good-bye to All That; p.[ii] blank; pp.[iii] — [iv] list of books by Graves; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] designer’s, photographer’s, typographer’s, LC card, copyright and printing notices; p.[vii] Prologue; p.[viii] blank; p.[ix] Good-bye to All That; p.[x] blank; pp.[1]2–243 text, with pp. [12,17, 22, 29, 36, 41, 47, 61, 67, 82, 91,106, 119, 141, 166, 181, 192, 199, 209, 226, 238, 245, 255, 265, 279, 291, 297, 312, 320, 324, 334] unnumbered; pp.[344]345–347 Epilogue; pp. [348]–[350] blank.

18.1 × 10.5 cm. Bulk: 2.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in red, black and blue-grey; front has solid red box upper left, at upper left of which is: A123; below the box is the photo of Graves used on the A32a dust-jacket; below this is a solid blue-grey box reading: An autobiography | [publisher’s emblem] A Doubleday Anchor Book; right-hand side of cover appears as a white column, inside of which: 95¢ | Good- | bye|to| All | That | by Robert Graves | A Revised Second Edition; the last two lines are continuous with the last two lines of the left-hand column. The back has a white column at left, inside of which: Good-bye | [blurb of 28 ll.] | An autobiography; the right side has a solid blue-grey box at top, inside of which: to All That continuous with the rest of the title; below is a photograph of Graves c. 1957 in a pose similar to that on front; below this is a solid red box inside of which: by Robert Graves | [publisher’s emblem] A Doubleday Anchor Book. The spine has a red band at top, inside which: Robert Graves; below which is white band inside of which: Good-bye to All That [from top to bottom]; below is a blue-grey band, inside of which, upright: Anchor | A123

Price: $0.95. Number of copies: 25,000. Published 7 November 1957.

Notes: The cover design is by George Giusti; the later photograph is by Susan Greenberg. The ‘revisions’ make substantially a new book.

Impression: 2nd , (copies:10,000); The Giusti covers were used for 10 or more impressions. Later impressions in ‘The Anchor Literary Library’ series were published in a reduced trim size which measured 17.6 × 10.4 cm., though the bulk is the same; the cover is here printed in wine, brown, and pink and the front is a reproduction of “Captain Robert Graves” by Eric Kennington, courtesy of the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. The imprint now reads: DOUBLEDAY ANCHOR BOOKS | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. | GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, there is an extra leaf at the front of the book and three extra leaves at the rear of the book, all blank; the price at this point was $5.95. Later impressions were issued in a larger, modified format (20.1 × 13.2 cm.), still using Kennington’s portrait of Graves with pink being the dominate colour on the front and back covers. Here, the imprint reads: [publisher’s anchor emblem] | ANCHOR BOOKS | DOUBLEDAY | NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY AUCKLAND; Prices seen: $8.95-$12.00. The covers were again modified in the larger format, retaining Kennington’s portrait of Graves. Here, the bottom of the front cover adds text: ‘INTRODUCTION BY PAUL FUSSELL’. The Fusssell introduction occupies pp. [v]-vi-xii. The cover design is by Ashwini M. Jambotkar. The price range for copies seen in this style of covers is $12.95-$16.95.

Ocatgon Books (a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux) issued a reprint in 1980. PBound in green cloth, stamped in gold on front and spine. Issued without dust-jacket.

On 1March 2018 Everyman’s Library (associated with Penguin Random House in the UK) published hardcover impression in dust-jacket, with an introduction by Miranda Seymour. On 24 April 2018 Everyman’s Library (associated Alfred A. Knopf in the US) issued an identical impression in the US.

A32i. Second English edition (revised) ([1957]):

Collation: [A]8 B–T8 U6, 152 leaves.

p.[i] GOODBYE TO ALL THAT; p.[ii] list of books by Graves; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright and printer’s notices; p.v LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; p.[vi] blank; p.vii PROLOGUE; p.[viii] blank; pp.1–303 text; pp.304–306 EPILOGUE; pp.[307]–[308] blank; plates, printed on both sides, appear between pp.88/89, 104/105, 216/217 and 232/233.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 2.5/3.1 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in black cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: ROBERT | GRAVES | Goodbye | to All That | CASSELL

Price: 21s. Number of copies: 6,027. Published 14 November 1957 in white dust-jacket printed in black and yellow.

Notes: Impressions: 2nd, May 1958 (2,001 copies); 3rd, November 1961 (1,512 copies); 4th, January 1966; 5th, October 1969 [termed on p. [iv] “Fourth edition, second impression October 1969”]. Cassell issued an unillustrated 6th impression in September 1977, termed on the p. [iv] “Fourth edition, second impression September 1977”]. This is listed in the second edition of this bibliography as A32k, Fourth English edition, Second impression. Issued in a white dust-jacket printed in red and black and priced £4.50. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in silver,top to bottom: ROBERT GRAVES Goodbye To All That Cassell

My view is that A32k is not a new edition and rather part of A32i.

Twentieth Century Classics/ Book Club Associates published reprint without illustrations in 1969, as did Guild Publishing in 1979. Octagon Press issued a photographic reprint of this edition in 1980.

A32j. Third English edition (revised) ([1960]):

ROBERT GRAVES | [swelled rule] | Goodbye to All That | PENGUIN BOOKS

Collation: [A]16 B–I16 144 leaves.

p.[1] PENGUIN BOOKS | 1443 | GOODBYE TO ALL THAT | ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem]; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, copyright and printer’s notices; p.[5] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; p.[6] blank; p. [7] PROLOGUE; p.[8] blank; pp. 9–144 text; [8 pp. illustrations]; pp. 145–278 [279] text; pp. 280–281 [282] EPILOGUE; pp.[283]–[288] publisher’s advertisements.

17.9 × 11.0 cm. Bulk: 1.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in orange, grey and black.

Price: 3s. 6d. Number of copies: 40,000. Published 24 March 1960.

Notes: Impressions:listed by publisher: 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1971 (twice), 1972, 1973, 1973 (twice), 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1983 (twice), 1984, 1985, 1986, 1986 (twice), 1988; covers vary. In 1989 the book as issued in a larger format (19.3 × 12.9 cm.) in Penguin’s Twentieth Century Classics series. The front cover shows a detail from a painting by Stanley Spencer. Cover prices seen ranged from £4.99-£7.99. This cover style continued for about 10 years and was replaced in the same dimensions on 28 September 2000 in the Penguin Classics series, with a cover photo by Jeff Cottenden. The prices of the copies examined: £7.99 and £8.99. The publisher’s website reports the book was reissued on 7 April 2011 in the Penguin Essentials series at £6.99. Format: 18.0 × 11.2 cm. Bulk: 1.4 cm. The cover art is by Kate Gibb.

An Australian edition or issue was published by Penguin Books Australia in 2009. Bound in white paper covers printed in orange and black, the book was printed and bound in Australia by Griffin Press. This was followed in 2014 by an impression bound in white paper covers printed in Army green and black. The book was printed and bound in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group, Maryborough, Victoria. Price: A$9.95.

A32k. Fourth English edition (abridged) (1966):

Goodbye To | All That | ROBERT GRAVES | [series emblem] | CASSELL · LONDON

Collation: [A]8 B–M8, 96 leaves.

pp.[i]–[ii] series advertisements; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright and printer’s notices; p.[v] CONTENTS; p. |vi] blank; pp.l–170 [171] text; p.[172] blank; p.[173] POEMS BY ROBERT GRAVES; p.[174] blank; pp.175–186 text of poems.

18.0 × 12.3 cm. Bulk: 1.3/1.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in cloth-simulated boards (white printed in light peach, grey-brown and olive).

Price: 8s. 6d. Number of copies unknown. Published September 1966 without dust-jacket.

Contents: Goodbye to All That (abridged) | Lost Love – Symptoms of Love – Woman and Tree – The Secret Land – Rocky Acres – Spoils – I’m Through with You Forever – Flying Crooked – She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep – Brother

Note: Red Lion Reader No. 1.

A321. Fourth English edition (revised) (1981):

Collation: [1]–[17]8 [18]4 [19]8, 148 leaves.

p.[1] GOODBYE TO ALL THAT; p.[2] frontispiece; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, printer’s and copyright notices; pp.[5]–6 [in shaded type:] ILLUSTRATIONS; pp.7–12 [in shaded type:] INTRODUCTION; p.13 [in shaded type:] PROLOGUE; p.[14] blank; pp. 15–292 text; pp.[37–38, 47–48, 65–66, 85–86, 105–106, 125–126, 145–146, 168, 191–192, 203–204, 229–230, 253–254, 283–284] unnumbered, being full-page black and white illustrations printed on one side only; pp.293–295 [in shaded type:] EPILOGUE; p.[296] blank.

21.7 × 14.4 cm. Bulk: 1.8/2.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed, top edge stained mustard. Olive wove endpapers, printed with map of the Western Front. Bound in silver-grey cloth with silkscreen of troops on the Western Front printed in black running from the back across spine onto front. Spine stamped in gold: GOODBYE | TO ALL | THAT | [reversed C, *, ordinary C] | ROBERT | GRAVES [publisher’s emblem]

Price: £8.50. Number of copies: 14,440, in two printings. Published in February 1981 in cardboard slipcase covered in mottled grey paper.

Note: The second printing of 4,000 copies was in January 1982. Bound as above and in same slipcase. Third impression in 1996 [third and later impressions are bound in khaki cloth with silkscreen of troops on the Western Front; issued in a cardboard slipcase covered in dark green paper.], 4th and 5th in 1997, 6th in 1999, 7th in 2001, 8th in 2003. There may have been an impression in 2008.

A32m. First American edition (annotated) ([1995]):

p. [i] GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT | AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY; p. [ii] blank; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation notices; LOC and British Library cataloging data; p. [v] CONTENTS; p. [vi] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; p. [vii] ABBREVIATIONS; p. [viii] ix –xviii; p. [1] GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT | AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY | [in brackets:] 1929 EDITION; p. [2] MY DEDICATION IS | AN EPILOGUE; p. [3] WORLD’S END | [text of poem] | LAURA RIDING | (From Love as Love, Death as Death; p. [4] blank; p. [5] 6-320, with pp. 15, 23, 28, 34, 40, 45, 51, 63, 69, 82, 90, 104, 114, 133, 153, 166, 175, 181, 187, 201, 212, 218, 226, 235, 249, 260, 269, 282, 291, 298, 306 being blank; pp. [321] 322-323 DEDICATORY EPILOGUE | TO | LAURA RIDING | [in brackets:] 1929; pp. [324] 325-326 EPILOGUE | [in brackets:] 1957; pp. [327] 328- 382 ANNOTATIONS.

21.5 × 13.8 cm. Bulk: 2.0/2.5 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Paper-covered boards pictorially printed in black and maroon with photo of Graves on front cover.

Price: $24.95. Number of copies unknown. Published 28 September 1995. Issued without dust-jacket.

Notes: This is the text of the first English edition, second impression (A32c). It excludes those passages in A32a to which Sassoon objected and includes the epilogue from the revised edition (A32h). A biographical essay and annotations are by Richard Perceval Graves.

A32n. First English edition (annotated) ([2014]):

p. [1] PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS | Good-bye to All That | [biographical note on Graves]; p. [ii] biographical notes on Fran Brearton and Andrew Motion; p.[3] title-page; p. [iv] publisher’s, publication, copyright, printer’s, ISBN, publisher’s internet address, and Forest Stewardship Council notices; p. [v] Contents; p. [vi] blank; pp. vii-xvi Introduction; pp. xvii-xix Chronology; p. [xx] blank; p. [1] Good-bye to All That | [1929]; p. [2] MY DEDICATION IS | AN EPILOGUE; p. [3] World’s End; p. [4] blank; pp. 5-446 text; pp. 447-450 DEDICATORY EPILOGUE | TO LAURA RIDING; pp. 451-474[475] Notes; p. [476] blank.

18.0 × 11.0 cm. Bulk: 2.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in gunmetal grey and black.

Price: £8.99. Number of copies unknown. Published 1 May 2014.

Notes: This is the text of the first English edition, second impression (A32c). It excludes those passages in A32a to which Sassoon objected.

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