A50 NO MORE GHOSTS [1940]

First edition:

NO MORE GHOSTS | Selected Poems | by | ROBERT GRAVES | Faber and Faber | 24 Russell Square | London

Collation: [A]8 B–E8, 40 leaves.

p.[1] NO MORE GHOSTS; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication, printer’s and rights reservation notices; p.5 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; p.[6] blank; pp.7–8 CONTENTS; pp.9–79 text; p.[80] blank.

18.7 × 12.4 cm. Bulk: 0.7/1.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed; watermarked with a crown and Abbey Mills | Greenfield. White wove endpapers. Bound in grey-tan boards; back blank; front printed in blue: No More | Ghosts | [star] | Robert | Graves; spine printed in blue from top to bottom: NO MORE GHOSTS BY ROBERT GRAVES FABER

Price: 2s. 6d. Number of copies: 2,000. Published in September 1940 in bright blue dust-jacket printed in black. The back panel of the dust-jacket lists eleven books in the Sesame Books series.

Contents: 1. The Haunted House – 2. Apples and Water – 3. Time – 4. On Dwelling – 5. Love in Barrenness – 6. Vain and Careless – 7. In Procession – 8. Angry Samson – 9. Ogres and Pygmies – 10. The Bards – 11. The Cool Web – 12. The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – 13. The Castle – 14. Full Moon – 15. Vanity – 16. Pure Death – 17. Sick Love – 18. The Presence – 19. Nature’s Lineaments – 20. The Furious Voyage – 21. Callow Captain – 22. The Beast – 23. A Love Story – 24. The Legs – 25. Flying Crooked – 26. Warning to Children – 27. The Laureate – 28. The Terraced Valley – 29. Recalling War – 30. Certain Mercies – 31. Ulysses – 32. Down, Wanton, Down! – 33. The Florist Rose – 34. The Thieves – 35. Sea Side –36. The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – 37. The Cloak – 38. To Bring the Dead to Life – 39. Defeat of the Rebels – 40. Never Such Love – 41. The Poets – 42. A Jealous Man – 43. The Advocates – 44. On Portents – 45. Like Snow – 46. End of Play – 47. The Fallen Tower of Siloam – 48. The Great-Grandmother – 49. To Sleep – 50. No More Ghosts

Notes: Impressions: 2nd, March 1941 (2,000copies); 3rd, June 1945 (2,000 copies); 4th, January 1947 (2,000 copies). The cover legend on the second, third, and fourth reads: No More Ghosts | selected poems | [star] | Robert | Graves; the second impression has black printing on the covers; the third and fourth have blue.