A36 POEMS 1926–1930 1931

First edition:

POEMS | 1926–1930 | BY | ROBERT GRAVES | LONDON | WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD | MCMXXXI

Collation: [A]8 B–F8 G4, 52 leaves.

p.[i] POEMS 1926–1930; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii]title-page; p.[iv] publication and printer’s notices; p.[v] NOTE; p.[vi] blank; p.[vii] quotation (2 ll.) from Laura Riding; p.[viii] blank; pp. [ix]–[xi] CONTENTS; p.[xii] blank; p[1] I; p.[2] blank; pp.3–14 text; pp.[15]–[16] blank; p.[17] II; p.[18] blank; pp. 19–34 text; pp.[35]–[36] blank; p.[37] III; p.[38] blank; pp.39–48 text; pp.[49]–[50] blank; p.[51] IV; p.[52] blank; pp.53–74text; pp.[75]–[76] blank; p.|77] V; p.[78] blank; pp.79–89 text; pp.[90]–[92] blank.

20.2 × 13.4 cm. Bulk: 1.1/1.6 cm. White laid paper; top edge only trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in maroon cloth with white cobbled design; back blank; front has maroon label: POEMS (1926–1930) | Robert Graves; spine has maroon label: POEMS | 1926 | to | 1930 | Robert | Graves | [rule] | Heinemann

Price: 3s. 6d. Number of copies: 1,000. Published 9 February 1931 in mauve dust-jacket printed in white and black.

Contents: Note – I: Thief – Saint – Gardener – Ship Master – Philatelist-Royal – Lift-Boy – Brother – II: Castle – Cabbage Patch – Railway Carriage – Front Door – Repair Shop – Landscape – Bay of Naples – Tap Room – Sandhills – Pavement – Quayside – III: To the Reader over My Shoulder – In Broken Images – Flying Crooked – Hector – Interruption – Act V, Scene 5 – Dismissal – Reassurance to a Satyr – IV: Hell – To be Less Philosophical – Synthetic Such – Anagrammagic – Midway – Lost Acres – In No Direction – Guessing Black or White – Warning to Children – Dragons – History of the Word – Against Kind – V: O Love in Me – Return Fare – Single Fare – It was All Very Tidy – The Terraced Valley – The Age of Certainty – The Next Time

Note: An extra spine label is tipped to p.[92] in some copies.