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

A48 COLLECTED POEMS [1938]

a. First edition.

Collation: [a]/a14/8 A–M8, 108 leaves.

p.[i] COLLECTED POEMS; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p. [iv] copyright, printing and printer’s notices; p.v list of works by Graves; p.vi quotations from Riding (3 ll.) and Skelton (7 ll.); pp.vii–xi CONTENTS; p.[xii] blank; pp.xiii–xxiv FOREWORD; p.[1]–190 text, with pp.[1, 35, 75, 107, 171] being section headings and pp.[2, 36, 74, 76, 106, 108, 170, 172] blank; pp.[191]–[192] blank.

Price: 10s.6d. Number of copies unknown. Published 10 November 1938 in buff dust-jacket printed in black and red.

The geometric design in red on the front panel of the dust-jacket is by Eric Ravilious.

Contents: Foreword – I: The Haunted House – Reproach – The Finding of Love –‘The General Elliott’ – Outlaws – One Hard Look – A Frosty Night – Allie – Unicorn and the White Doe – Henry and Mary – Love without Hope – What Did I Dream? – The Country Dance – The Hills of May – Lost Love – Vain and Careless – A English Wood – The Bedpost – The Pier-Glass – Apples and Water – Wanderings of Christmas – Pygmalion and Galatea – Down – Mermaid, Dragon, Fiend – II: In Procession – Angry Samson – Warning to Children – Song: To Be Less Philosophical – Alice – Blonde or Dark? – Richard Roe and John Doe – The Witches’ Cauldron – Ancestors – Children of Darkness – The Cool Web – Certain Mercies – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – Love in Barrenness – The Presence – The Land of Whipperginny – In No Direction – The Castle – Return – Lust in Song – Nobody – Without Pause – Full Moon – Vanity – Pure Death – Sick Love – It Was All Very Tidy – III: Callow Captain – Thief – Saint – The Furious Voyage – Song: Lift Boy – The Next Time – Ulysses – The Succubus – The Stranger – Trudge, Body – The Clock Man – The Reader over My Shoulder – The Smoky House – Green Loving – The Legs – Gardener – Front Door Soliloquy – In Broken Images – On Rising Early – Flying Crooked – The Foolish Senses – Largesse to the Poor – The Goblet – Fiend, Dragon, Mermaid – Fragment of a Lost Poem – IV: Galataea and Pygmalion – The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – Sea Side – Lunch-Hour Blues – Wm. Brazier – Welsh Incident –Vision in the Repair-Shop – Hotel Bed – Progressive Housing – Interruption –Act V, Scene 5 – Midway – Hell – Leda – Synthetic Such – The Florist Rose –Being Tall – Lost Acres – At First Sight – Recalling War – Down, Wanton, Down! – X – A Former Attachment – Nature’s Lineaments – Time – The Philosopher – On Dwelling – Parent to Children – Ogres and Pygmies – History of the Word – Single Fare – To Challenge Delight – To Walk on Hills – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – The Poets – Defeat of the Rebels – The Grudge – Never Such Love – The Halfpenny – The Fallen Signpost – The China Plate – Idle Hands – The Laureate – A Jealous Man – The Cloak – The Halls of Bedlam – Or to Perish before Day – A Country Mansion – The Eremites – The Advocates – Self-Praise – V: On Portents – The Terraced Valley – The Challenge – To Whom Else? – To the Sovereign Muse – The Ages of Oath – New Legends – Like Snow – The Climate of Thought – End of Play – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – No More Ghosts – Leaving the Rest Unsaid

Note: Both A48a and A48b were printed in Great Britain.

A48b. American issue ([1939]):

Collation as 48a.

21.6 × 13.9 cm. Bulk: 1.7/2.2 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed; top edges stained black. White wove endpapers. Bound in dark brick-red cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [publisher’s emblem in black and gold] | [solid rectangular black box, inside which next 7 ll.:] [rectangular broad rule box, inside which:] | [rectangular light rule box, inside which the next 5 ll.:] | COLLECTED POEMS | [wedge] | ROBERT | GRAVES | [next 2 ll. at bottom of spine:] RANDOM | HOUSE

Price: $2.50. Number of copies undisclosed. Published 16 March 1939 in a buff dust-jacket printed in black and purple.

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