A67 POEMS AND SATIRES 1951

First edition:

ROBERT GRAVES | [star] | [in red:] POEMS | AND | [in red:] SATIRES | 1951 | CASSELL & COMPANY LTD | [heavy rule] | [light rule] | LONDON

Collation: [A]6 B–F4, 26 leaves.

p.[i] POEMS AND SATIRES; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p. [iv] publisher’s, publication and printer’s notices; pp.[v]–[vi] CONTENTS; pp.vii–x FOREWORD; p.[xi] POEMS; p.[xii] blank; p. 1–21 text; p.[22] blank; p.[23] SATIRES; p.[24] blank; pp. 25–33 text; p.134] blank; p.[35] REVISIONS; p.[36] blank; pp. 37–40 text.

18.3 × 11.7 cm. Bulk: 0.4/0.7 cm. Cream wove paper; all edges trimmed; watermarked: Basingwerk Parchment. White wove endpapers. Bound in green cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, bottom to top: [light rule] [heavy rule] [light rule] CASSELL [four-pointed star] POEMS AND SATIRES 1951 [four-pointed star] ROBERT GRAVES [light rule] [heavy rule] [light rule]

Price: 7s.6d. Number of copies: 3,100 (1,100 wasted). Published 30 November 1951 in cream dust-jacket printed in light maroon.

Contents: Foreword – POEMS: 1. The White Goddess – 2. The Chink – 3. Counting the Beats – 4. The Jackals’ Address to Isis – 5. The Death Room – 6. The Young Cordwainer – 7. Your Private Way – 8. My Name and I – 9. Conversation Piece – 10. The Ghost and the Clock –11. Advice on May Day – 12. For the Rain It Raineth Every Day – 13. Questions in a Wood – 14. The Portrait – 15. Darien –16. The Survivor – 17. Prometheus – SATIRES: 18. Queen Mother to New Queen – 19. Secession of the Drones – 20. Damocles – 21. Homage to Texas – 22. The Dilemma – 23. General Bloodstock’s Lament for England – 24. «¡Wellcome, to the Caves of Artá!» – 25. To a Poet in Trouble – REVISIONS: 26. The Progress – 27. Traveller’s Curse after Misdirection – 28. Sergeant-Major Money – 29. Brother