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

A52 THE LONG WEEK-END [1940]

a. First edition:

Collation: [A] 8 B–2F8 2G4, 236 leaves.

p. [l] THE LONG WEEK-END | A Social History of Great Britain | 1918–1939; p. [2] blank; p. [3] title-page; p.[4] publication, publisher’s and printer’s notices; p. [5] To | K. G. in gratitude for much | hard work; p.[6] blank; p.7 Authors’ Note; p.[8] blank; pp.9–l0 Contents; pp.11–455 text; pp.456–472 Index.

Price: 12s. 6d. Number of copies: 4,000. Published November 1940 in pale cream coloured paper dust-jacket printed in black, yellow and red. It has the price printed on the front flap in one line: "12s. 6d. net.". The back panel of the dust-jacket lists Faber Library titles No. 1 through No. 43, omitting No. 29.

Contents: Authors’ Note – 1. Armistice, 1918 – 2. Revolution Averted, 1919 – 3. Women – 4. Reading Matter – 5. Post-War Politics – 6. Various Conquests – 7. Sex – 8. Amusements – 9. Screen and Stage – 10. Revolution Again Averted – 11. Domestic Life – 12. Art, Literature and Religion – 13. Education and Ethics – 14. Sport and Controversy – 15. The Depression, 1930 – 16. Pacifism, Nudism, Hiking – 17. The Days of the Loch Ness Monster – 18. Recovery, 1935 – 19. The Days of Non-Intervention – 20. The Deepening Twilight of Barbarism’ – 21. Three Kings in One Year – 22. Keeping Fit and Doing the Lambeth Walk – 23. Social Consciences – 24. ‘Markets Close Firmer’ – 25. Still at Peace – 26.

Rain Stops Play, 1939 – Index

Notes: The first impression of A52a was printed by Latimer Trend & Company.

There was a true second impression of A52a published August 1941 (not noted in previous editions of this bibliography) printed by Western Printing Services. It was issued in a canary dust-jacket printed in red and black. The back panel of the jacket lists Faber Library titles No. 1 through No. 52, omitting Numbers 18, 22, 23, 29 and 41. The price is printed in two lines on the front flap: 12s. 6d. | net

Faber’s ‘second edition,’ although it is called ‘impression’ on p.[4], is a photographic reprint of this edition with minor rearrangements in [A]; the dedication has been moved to p.[4]; p.[5] Note to First Edition; pp.6–8 Note to Second Edition; 4,050 copies were published in May 1950 at 16s. in a blue dust-jacket printed in black and red. The book was printed by the Pitman Press. There was a second impression in 1950 in a dust-jacket as above, but priced 14s.

Hutchinson issued a photographic reprint of the ‘second edition’ in paperback on 25 July 1985. pp.[1], [3] – [4] have been reset but the remainder of the contents are the same: the dedication remains on p.[4]. It is 19.8 × 12.6 cm. and bulks 3.5 cm. There are 4 additional blank leaves (pp. [473] – [480]) at the end of the book making the total of 240 leaves, perfect bound.

Cardinal/Sphere issued a photographic reprint of the ‘second edition’ in paperback in 1991 at £6.99. This was followed in 1995 by an impression by Abacus priced £8.99.

This book has been translated into Danish and Swedish.

A52b. First American edition (1941):

Collation: [1]–[13]16 [14]12 [15]16, 236 leaves.

pp.[i]–[ii] blank; p.[iii] THE LONG WEEK END | A Social History of Great Britain | 1918–1939; p.[iv] publisher’s emblem and notice; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] copyright and printer’s notices; p.[vii] To | K.G. | in gratitude for much | hard work; p.[viii] blank; p.[ix] Authors’ Note; p.[x] blank; pp. [xi]–[xii] Contents; p.[xiii] THE LONG WEEK END | A Social History of Great Britain | 1918–1939; p.[xiv] blank; pp. l–439 text; p.[440] blank; pp.441–445 Index; pp.[456]–[458] blank.

Price: $3.00. Number of copies unknown. Published 27 May 1941 in white dust-jacket printed in red and dark blue.

Note: Impression: 2nd, 1941.

A52c. Readers’ Union impression (1941):

Collation: [A]/A*88 B/B* – O/O*88 P8 Q4, 236 leaves.

pp.[1]–[2] front pastedown endpaper; pp.[3]–[4] blank; p.[5] THE LONG WEEK-END | A Social History of Great Britain | 1918–1939; p.[6] blank; p.[7] title-page; p. [8] printer’s, publisher’s and dedication notices; p.9 Contents; p. 10 Authors’ Note; pp. 11–472 as A52a.

Price: 2s. 9d. Number of copies: 19,000. Published in November 1941.

A52d. Second English edition ([1961]):

Collation: [A]16 B–N16 [O]16, 224 leaves.

p.[1] [title and publisher flush left:] The Long | Week-End | [centred 3 ll. blurb] A FOUR SQUARE BOOK; p.[2] publisher’s advertisement; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication notice, dedication, and publisher’s and printer’s notices; p.[5] CONTENTS; p.[6] AUTHORS’ NOTE and NOTE TO THIS EDITION; pp. 7–448 text. The final three lines of p. 448 is a statement of conditions of sale.

17.8 × 10.8 cm. Bulk: 2.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in magenta, red, blue, gold and black; inner sides blank.

Price: 5s. Number of copies: 20,000. Published in October 1961. This is Four Square Book No. 375.

Note: Impressions: 2nd, 4 November 1965 (10,000 copies; price 6s.); the title-page and pagination differ but the collation is the same. This is Four Square Book No. 1380. There is a later issue of the covers which carry the price of 10s. / $A1.00 Australia.

A52e

General comments

It has proven difficult sort out the sequence of the various impressions of this W. W. Norton edition. The clues lie in the upward changing price of the book over time and the advertisements at the back for later numbered titles in the "Norton Library." At some point Norton began to use a number sequence on the verso of the title-page to indicate a printing sequence. This may have occurred well after the first several impressions. Complicating matters is that fact that some of the impressions do not bear a printed price.

A52e. Second American ‘edition’ ([1963]):

Collation: 240 leaves, unsigned, glued at spine.

p.[i] THE LONG WEEK-END | A Social History of Great Britain | 1918–1939; p.[ii] blank; p.[1] biographical notices; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] copyright, publication, dedication and printing notices; p.5 Note to the First Edition; pp.6–8 Note to the Second Edition; pp.9–472 as A52a; p.[473] blank; pp.[474]–[477] publisher’s advertisements; p.[478] blank.

19.6 × 12.9 cm. Bulk: 2.2 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in red, blue and black. Later covers were white paper printed in black and grey.

Price: $1.95. Number of copies: 53,961, in several printings.

Published in 1963 as N217 in The Norton Library series. In the first impression p.[474] is headed "THE NORTON LIBRARY". The first advertisement is for Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp... and the highest Norton Library numbered title in the terminal advertisements is N217, listed three down on p. [475].

Notes: This book would appear to be a photographic reprint of the second ‘edition’ of A52a.

The publishers report the number of copies sold rather than printed and say that this figure, 53,961, was as of 31 March 1985.

Reissued in 1994 by Norton. 20.9 × 14.0 cm. Bulk: 3.1 cm. Bound in white paper covers printed in blue, green black and red and with multi-colour reproduction on front cover of Dover Front, a painting by Graham Bell. Price: $12.95. There was a second impression priced $15.95.

A52f. Third English edition (1971):

Collation: [1]122–6127–1410 15–2012, 224 leaves.

p.[1] PENGUIN BOOKS | THE LONG WEEK–END | [blurb]; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, publication, copyright and printer’s notices, dedication, rights limitation notice; p. [5] CONTENTS; p.[6] AUTHORS’ NOTE and NOTE TO THIS EDITION; pp. 7–448 text.

18.0 × 11.0 cm. Bulk: 2.2 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in cream, orange, brown and blue-grey.

Price: 50p. Number of copies: 17,148 sold by March 1986. Published in July 1971.

A52g. Fourth English edition (2009):

Collation: [i-iv] v [vi] vii-xviii [xix-xx] 1-412: 216 leaves.

p. [i] The Long Weekend; p. [ii] blank; [plate, back blank, facing title-page]; p. [iii] title-page’ p. [iv] publication history; publisher’s edition, copyright , printer’s and binder’s notices; credit for introduction, frontispiece and binding illustration; p.v Contents; p. [vi] blank; pp. vii-x Illustrations; p. xi-xviii Introduction; p.[xix] To K.G. |in gratitude for much hard work; p.[xx] blank; pp. 1-3 Authors’ Notes; p. [4] blank; pp. 5-392 text; pp. 393-412 Index. Four leaves of illustrations each inserted between pages 140-141, 236-237 and 332-333.

24.5 ×17.0 cm. Bulk: 3.8/4.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed; blue-grey wove endpapers. Bound in black cloth photographically printed in colour on front and back covers and spine with image of the Armistice Day celebration in London, 11 November 1918; spine printed in white: THE LONG | WEEKEND | Robert | Graves | and | Alan | Hodge | [publisher’s emblem]

Price: £29.95. Number of copies unknown. Published March 2009 in cardboard slipcase covered in maroon paper.

Notes: The Introduction is by Juliet Gardiner.

The Folio Society edition follows the text of the 1971 edition published by Penguin

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