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

A62 WATCH THE NORTH WIND RISE 1949

a First Edition:

Collation: [1] –[16]8 [17]4 [18] – [19]8,148 leaves

p.[i] [decorative band] | WATCH THE NORTH WIND RISE; p.[ii] list of books by Graves; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] copyright, printer’s and designer’s notices; pp.v–vi Contents; pp. l–290 text.

20.0 × 13.4 cm. Bulk: 2.3/2.8 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in cloth-textured grey paper; front and back blank; spine black cloth stamped in gold in solid blue rectangular box: [decorative band] Graves | WATCH THE | NORTH WIND | RISE | Creative Age | [decorative band]

Price: $3.00. Number of copies unknown. Published 18 March 1949 in white dust-jacket printed in olive, yellow, red, blue and black.

Notes: One thousand copies of this edition were issued with a leaf signed by Graves tipped in between the front endpaper and p. [i]. These copies were produced by the Autographed First Editions Club, Limited and offered at the published price.

This book has been translated into Czech, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish.

A62b. First English edition ([1949]):

Collation: [1]/l*8/82/2*–9/9*8/8, 144 leaves.

p.[i] SEVEN DAYS IN NEW CRETE; p.[ii] list of books by Graves; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publication and printer’s notices; p.[v] CONTENTS; p.[vi] blank; pp.1–281 text; p.[282] blank.

18.3 × 12.3 cm. Bulk: 1.9/2.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in black cloth [copies are seen with either vertically ribbed black cloth or with black horizontally ribbed fine net cloth, irrespective of the state of the Contents page, and this seems to be without definable issue significance]; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: SEVEN | DAYS | IN | NEW | CRETE | [nine rules in downward-pointing triangle, plus dot] | ROBERT | GRAVES | CASSELL

Price: 9s.6d. Number of copies: 12,257. Published 29 September 1949 in white dust-jacket printed in red, yellow, grey and green. The dust-jacket was designed by John Aldridge.

Notes: Robert Temple, Catalogue no. 9 (1979) reports a copy with CONTENTS page numbered ‘v’ at foot. In Catalogue no. 42 (1985) Robert Temple argues that the state, or issue, with the CONTENTS page numbered ‘v’ is typical of the first state, or printing.

Some copies were issued issued in a jacket with ‘OVERSEAS | EDITION’ printed in blue on the front flap. Copies are seen in both types of cloth noted above and with the contents page numbered and unnumbered.

This book has been translated into German, Italian and Spanish.

A photographic reprint of this edition was published in 1971 by Cedric Chivers Ltd., Portway, Bath, “at the request of the London & Home Counties Branch of the Library Association.” It differs in that p.[1] has a blurb, the title-page and its verso are altered to describe the reprinting, and it contains sixteen pages of publisher’s advertisements following p.[282].

A62b.1 First European edition in English ([1952]):

p. [1] TAUCHNITZ EDITION | New Series | 110; p. [2] blank; p. [3] title-page; p. [4] copyright, publisher’s and printer’s notices; p. [5] CONTENTS; p. [6] blank; pp. 7-277 text; pp. [278] – [279] publisher’s advertisements; p. [280] blank.

18.1 × 11.0 cm. Bulk: 1.6 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in cream paper covers printed in black and green; inner front cover has blurb and inner back cover has publisher’s advertisements.

Price: Unknown. The book does not bear a printed price. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1952.

Reference: Higginson, Appendix II, p. 298.

A62c. Second American edition ([1963]):

[entire flush left:] [four lines of caps and lower case same size:] WaTCH | THe NOrTHWIND | rIse | ROBERT | GRAVES

Collation: 128 leaves, glued at spine.

p.[1] summary and blurbs; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p. [4] copyright, publication, and publisher’s notices; pp.[5]-[6] CONTENTS; pp.7-254 text; pp.[255]-[256] publisher’s advertisements.

16.3 × 10.9 cm. Bulk: 1.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed and stained green. Bound in white paper covers printed in yellow, green, blue, pink and black.

Price: $0.75. Number of copies undisclosed. Published 18 July 1963.

Notes: This edition is Avon Book V-2075. The last line on the back cover reads: “Printed in the U.S.A.”

There was a Canadian issue or edition in covers identical to the above except the last line on the back cover reads “LITHO’D IN CANADA”; all edges stained yellow; p. [4] reads “. . . Printed in Canada . . .”

A62c.1 Third American edition ([1969]):

Collation: 128 leaves, glued at the spine.

p. [1] blurb; p. [2] blank; p. [3] title-page; p. [4] publisher’s, rights reservation, trademark and printer’s notices; p. [5] Contents | p. [6] blank; pp. 7-256 text.

17.7 × 10.7 cm. Bulk: 1.5 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed and stained red. Bound in paper covers printed in black, green, yellow, orange, brown and yellowish pink. Cover illustration by Bob Foster.

Price: 75¢. Number of copies unknown. Published June 1969.

Notes: This is Avon book V2296. This is a new edition. The publisher treats this as a later impression of A62c, terming it on p. [4] ‘Third Printing, June, 1969’.

A62d. Second English edition ([1975]):

SEVEN DAYS IN NEW CRETE | [publisher’s emblem] | ROBERT GRAVES | QUARTET BOOKS LONDON

Collation: [1]82–188, 144 leaves.

p.[i] SEVEN DAYS IN NEW CRETE; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s copyright, ISBN, printer’s and rights reservation notices; p.[v] CONTENTS; p.[vi] blank; pp. 1–281 text; p.[282] blank.

17.7 × 10.1 cm. Bulk: 1.7 cm. White wove paper, all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in multiple colours including black, blue, white, red, green and yellow. Cover illustration by Ron Kirby.

Price: 75p. Number of copies: 7,500. Published June 1975.

A62e. Second Impression of the First American edition ([1982]):

Collation: 152 leaves, glued at the spine.

[2 pp.] blank; p.[i] [curved ornament] | WATCH THE NORTH WIND RISE; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] By the Same Author | [within a rectangle of curved ornaments; a list of 11 titles by Graves]; p [iv] blank; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] [within rectangle of curved ornaments:] copyright, rights reservation, LC card, and printer’s notices; pp.vii–[viii] [angle of curved ornaments] Contents [angle of curved ornaments]; p.[ix] as p.[i]] p.[x] blank; pp.1–290 text; pp.[291]–[292] blank.

20.0 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 2.0 cm. White wove paper, all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in tan, orange, yellow, cream, and black.

Price: $7.95. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1982. This is book number N687.

Notes: This appears to be a re-imposition of A62a. The cover was designed by Honi Werner.

Second impression, 1987.

A62f. Third English edition (1983):

Collation: 152 leaves, glued at the spine.

p.[i] SEVEN DAYS IN NEW CRETE and biographical notes; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation, BL cataloguing and printer’s notices; p.[v] CONTENTS; p.[vi] blank; pp.[vii]viii–xxii INTRODUCTION; pp.[1]2–281 text; p.[282] blank.

19.6 × 13.0 cm. Bulk: 2.1 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper cover printed in blue, green, red, yellow, tan, purple, pink, yellowish pink and brown.

Price: £2.95. Number of copies: 5,000. Published 20 October 1983.

Notes: The cover illustration is by Paul Allen.

The following classified advertisement appeared in The Times Literary Supplement on 13 September 1985 (p. 1016) under the heading of Announcements:

Oxford University Press

regrets the distress caused to Mrs Laura (Riding) Jackson by the introduction to their edition of Seven Days in New Crete by Robert Graves. In his introduction, Martin Seymour-Smith expresses certain views of people and events, which may be read as statements of fact. Mrs Laura (Riding) Jackson completely repudiates these views and regards them as malicious. Mr Seymour-Smith has agreed, in the light of these objections, to revise his introduction for any future impression.

A62g. Fourth English edition, ([2012]):

[all flush left:] ROBERT GRAVES | Seven Days in New Crete | [publisher’s emblem] | Penguin Books

Collation: 104 leaves, glued at the spine.

p. [i] PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS | Seven Days in New Crete | biographical sketch of Graves]; p. [ii] blank; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] publisher’s, edition, copyright, rights reservation, printer’s, ISBN and paper sourcing notices; p. [1] [within a rectangular box with decorative ends:] SEVEN DAYS IN NEW CRETE; p. [2] blank; pp. [3]4-196 text, with pp. [11, 18, 27, 34, 46, 52, 63, 70, 77, 89, 100, 106, 113, 123, 132, 142, 149, 157, 166, 175, 185, being unnumbered]; pp. 195-204 publisher’s advertisements.

19.7 × 13.0 cm. Bulk: 1.2 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in pale grey, medium grey, black and orange.

Price: £14.99. Number of copies undetermined. Published 26 January 2012.

Notes: Issued in the publisher’s Modern Classics series.

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