A71 HOMER’S DAUGHTER [1955]

a. First edition:

HOMER’S DAUGHTER | by | ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem] | CASSELL & COMPANY LTD | LONDON

Collation: [A]8 B–O8, 112 leaves.

p.[i] HOMER’S DAUGHTER; p.[ii] list of novels by Graves; p. [iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, publication and copyright notices; p.[v] To Selwyn Jepson, of course; p.[vi] blank; p. vii CONTENTS; p.[viii] blank; pp.ix–xvii PROLOGUE; p.[xviii] blank; pp.l–204 text; pp.[205]–[206] blank.

18.4 × 12.3 cm. Bulk: 1.9/2.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in black cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: Homer’s | Daughter | ROBERT | GRAVES | CASSELL

Price: 10s.6d. Number of copies: 15,000. Published 24 February 1955 in eggshell dust-jacket printed in black, yellow and matt olive.

Notes: This book has been translated in Croatian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Swedish.

A new impression, on slightly larger white wove paper (19.6 × 12.6 cm.) was issued by Cassell in 1973. Aside from the paper the other alterations were: last line of the title-page reads: CASSELL ∙ LONDON; the verso of the title-page has been brought up to date; the book is in 16’s ([A] B–G); and it is bound in canary cloth, front and back blank, spine stamped in green: HOMER’S | DAUGHTER | a novel by | ROBERT | GRAVES | CASSELL. The price is £1.75 and it was published in August 1973 in white dust-jacket printed in green, yellow and black.

A71b. First American edition (1955):

[entire flush left:] HOMER’S | DAUGHTER | by Robert Graves | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 1955

Collation: [1] –[9]16, 144 leaves.

p.[i] HOMER’S | DAUGHTER; p.[ii] blank; p.[1] list of novels by Graves; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] copyright, printer’s, designer’s and edition notices; p.[5] To Selwyn Jepson, of course; p.[6] blank; pp.[7]8–9 HISTORICAL NOTE; p. [10] blank; pp.[11]–12 CONTENTS; p.[13] HOMER’S | DAUGHTER; p. [14] blank; pp.[15]16–283 text, with pp.[27, 34, 48, 71, 89, 104, 119, 137, 154, 168, 186, 199, 214, 231, 246, 267] being unnumbered; pp.[284] –[286] blank.

20.8 × 13.9 cm. Bulk: 2.3/2.8 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in black cloth; back blank; front stamped in orange at middle near spine with figure of Greek warrior and horse; spine stamped in orange, top to bottom: by Robert Graves [in second row, toward back:] HOMER’S [in centre: figure of Greek warrior and horse] DAUGHTER [in second row, toward front:] DOUBLEDAY

Price: $3.95. Number of copies: 12,500 (in three printings). Published 24 February 1955 in white dust-jacket printed in red, brown, yellow, green, blue, grey and black.

Note: Academy Chicago issued a photographic reprint in hardcover and paperback in 1982; it omits pp.[i]-[ii] so that the arabic pagination is continuous. There were second and third impressions in paper covers in 1982 and 1998.

A71c. Second American edition (1966):

[2 ll. flush left:] HOMER’S | DAUGHTER | [flush right:] ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem] PYRAMID BOOKS ∙ NEW YORK

Collation: 128 leaves, glued at spine.

p.[1] blurbs; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] dedication and publisher’s, printing, copyright, LC card and publisher’s notices; p.[5] CONTENTS; p.[6] blank; pp.7–9 HISTORICAL NOTE; p.[10] blank; pp.11–254 text, with p.[22] being blank; pp. [255] – [256] publisher’s advertisements.

18.0 × 10.8 cm. Bulk: 1.6 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed and stained orange. Bound in white paper covers printed in gold, black, light purple and brown.

Price: $0.85. Number of copies undetermined. Published 15 March 1966. This is Pyramid book S1331.

A71d. Second English edition (2012):

[all flush left:] ROBERT GRAVES | Homer’s Daughter | [publisher’s emblem] | PENGUIN BOOKS

Collation: 88 leaves, glued at the spine.

p. [i] PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS | Homer’s Daughter | biographical sketch of Graves; p. [ii] blank; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] publisher’s, edition, copyright, edition, printer’s ISBN and paper sourcing notices; p. [1] [with in a single rule rectangular box with decorative ends:] HOMER’S DAUGHTER; p. [2] To Selwyn Jepson, of course; pp. [3]4-9 PROLOGUE; p. [10] blank; pp. [11]12- 158 text, with pp. [15, 23, 36, 46, 55, 64, 74, 84, 92, 102, 110, 119, 129, 137, 149] being unnumbered; p. [159] blank; pp. [160]-172 publisher’s advertisements.

19.7 × 12.9 cm. Bulk: 1.0 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.