A40 POEMS 1930–1933 1933

First edition:

POEMS | 1930–1933 | BY | ROBERT GRAVES | London: | ARTHUR BARKER LTD. | 21 Garrick Street, W.C.2 | 1933

Collation: [1] –[3]8, 24 leaves.

p.[i] POEMS | 1930–1933; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p. [iv] publishing and printer’s notices; p.[v] CONTENTS; p.[vi] blank; p.[vii] NOTE; p.[viii] blank; pp. 1–38 text; pp. [39] – [40] blank.

21.4 × 13.6 cm. Bulk: 0.6/1.2 cm. White laid paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in grey boards with black cloth spine; back blank; front stamped: POEMS | [swelled rule] | BY ROBERT GRAVES | [swelled rule] | Nineteen Thirty to | Nineteen Thirty Three; spine stamped in gold, near top, running up: Poems by Robert Graves

Price: 6s. Number of copies unknown. Published 8 May 1933 in a glassine dust-jacket, unprinted except for the front panel which is printed in black: 6/- | Net

Contents: Note – The Bards – Time – Ulysses – Down, Wanton, Down! – The Cell – The Succubus – Nobody – Danegeld – Trudge, Body – On Rising Early – On Necessity – Ogres and Pygmies – Music at Night – The Legs – Without Pause – Devilishly Disturbed – The Clock Men – The Commons of Sleep – The Foolish Senses – What Times are These? – The Felloe’d Year – Largesse to the Poor – On Dwelling – To Whom Else? – On Portents – As It Were Poems I, II, III.

Note: Impressions: 2nd , September 1933.