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

A46 ANTIGUA, PENNY, PUCE [1936]

a. First edition:

Collation: [A]8 B–U8, 160 leaves.

p.[i] “ANTIGUA, PENNY, PUCE”; p.[ii] list of books by Graves; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publication and printer’s notices; p.[v] TO | WILLIAM FULLER, | IN GRATITUDE; p.[vi] blank; p.vii CONTENTS; p.[viii] blank; pp.1–311 text; p. [312] blank.

Price: 7s. 6d. Number of copies unknown. Published 15 October 1936 in white dust-jacket printed in black and purplish-brown. The front flap of the jacket is a cancel pasted onto the stub of the original flap.

Notes: The first impression, p. 100, l.11 has ‘ytyle’ for ‘style’; p.103, line 15 has ‘being’ for ‘been’; p.293, ult. has lowered ‘1’ in the word ‘several’; in some copies these misprints have been corrected by hand. I have examined four copies where the word ‘several’ is correctly printed, with the errors on pp. 100 and 103 present. Such copies would seem to have come later in the print run, after a repair was made, as an advance copy exhibits the lowered ‘l’ on p. 293.

Earlier editions of this bibliography indicated A46a was published at 10s.6d. It seems possible that the initial printing of the dust-jackets had this error and that the erroneously priced flaps were excised and replaced by cancel flaps priced 7s.6d., the published price of the book.

Impressions: 2nd, April 1938 at 3s.6d. The second impression is bound in blue cloth stamped in dark blue on the spine in the same manner the first impression. At odds with the April 1938 date for the second impression are the first two lines on p. [iv] which read: First published 1936 | Reprinted · 1936

The dust-jacket of the second impression has integral flaps. It is seen in two states: with and without the price of 3s.6d. printed on the spine panel.

This book has been translated into German, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.

There was a photographic reprint by Cedric Chivers Ltd., Portway, Bath, in 1971 “at the request of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association”. Identical in content except for the title-page.

A46a.l. First Canadian impression (1936):

Remainder as A46a save for “SEIZIN- | CONSTABLE” being replaced on spine with “MACMILLAN”

Price: $2.25. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1936.

Note: All misprints listed in A46a have been corrected in this edition.

A46b. First American edition ([1937]):

Collation: [1]–[21]8, 168 leaves.

p.[i] [whole enclosed in wavy-rule rectangular box:] The | Antigua | Stamp; p.[ii] list of books by Graves; p. [iii] title-page; p.[iv] edition, copyright and manufacturing notices; p.[v] TO | WILLIAM FULLER, | in gratitude; p.[vi] blank; p.[vii] Contents; p.[viii] blank; p.[1] [whole enclosed in wavy-rule rectangular box] The | Antigua Stamp; p.[2] blank; pp.3–326 text; pp.[327] – [328] blank.

Price: $2.50. Number of copies undisclosed. Published 8 March 1937 in white dust-jacket printed in oxblood red and black.

Note: There is a variant binding, as above, but with spine stamped in black.

A46b.1. First European edition in English ([1937]):

Collation: [1-6] 7-287 [288], 144 leaves.

p. [1] THE ALBATROSS | MODERN CONTINENTAL LIBRARY | VOLUME 335 | [star] | ANTIGUA, PENNY, PUCE; p. [2] publisher’s advertisements; p. [3] title-page; p. [4] dedication, printer’s, publisher’s and copyright notices; p. [5] CONTENTS; p. [6] blank; pp. 7-287 text; p. [288] printer’s notice.

18.0 × 11.0 cm. Bulk: 1.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in orange and black.

Price: Unknown. Number of copies unknown. Published c. July 1937 in white dust-jacket printed in orange and black.

Note: Issued as Volume 335 in the publisher’s Modern Continental Library series. Termed ‘COPYRIGHT EDITION’ on front panel of the dust-jacket and on the front cover.

Reference: Higginson, Appendix II, p. 298.

A46c. Second English edition ([1948]):

Collation: [A]l6 B–K16, 160 leaves.

p.[1] ANTIGUA, PENNY, PUCE’ | BY ROBERT GRAVES | (605); p.[2] publisher’s note; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication, publisher’s and printer’s notices; p.[5] CONTENTS; p.[6] blank; p.[7] TO | WILLIAM FULLER | IN GRATITUDE; p.[8] blank; pp. 9–314 text; pp.[315] – [320] publisher’s advertisements.

18.0 × 11.0 cm. Bulk: 1.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in orange and black.

Price: 2s. Number of copies: 60,000. Published in January 1948.

Note: This is Penguin Books No. 605.

A46d. Third English edition ([1968]):

ROBERT GRAVES | ‘Antigua, Penny, Puce’ | [publisher’s emblem] | PENGUIN BOOKS

Collation: [A]16 B–H16, 128 leaves.

p.[1] PENGUIN BOOKS 605 | ‘ANTIGUA, PENNY, PUCE’ [and blurb]; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, publication, copyright, manufacturing and sales limitation notices; p.[5] CONTENTS; p.[6] TO | WILLIAM FULLER | IN GRATITUDE; pp.[7] 8–255 text, with pp.[17, 27, 36, 51, 64, 80, 89, 103, 114, 133, 145, 154, 168, 172, 185, 199, 208, 216, 226, 233, 246] unnumbered; p.[256] blank.

18.0 × 11.0 cm. Bulk: 1.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in orange, red and black.

Price: 25p/ 5s. Number of copies unknown. Published in October 1968.

Note: Impressions: 2nd, 1984 (copies: 6,000); 3rd, 1986 (copies: 3,000).

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