A74 ADAM’S RIB [1955]

a. First edition:

[in brown:] ADAM’S RIB and other anomalous elements in | the Hebrew Creation Myth | a new view by | ROBERT GRAVES | with wood engravings by James Metcalf | TRIANON PRESS

Collation: [1]4 [2]8 [3] 10 [4] –[5]8 [6]4, 42 leaves.

p.[i] ADAM’S RIB; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] statement of edition, printer’s, designer’s and publisher’s notices; p.[iv] blank; p. [v] title-page; p.[vi] publisher’s, distributor’s and printing notices; p.[vii] CONTENTS; p.[viii] blank; pp. 1–19 ARGUMENT; p.[20] blank; p.[21] THE GENESIS VERSION; p.[22] blank; pp. 23–35 text; p.[36] blank; p.[37] THE HEBRON ICONS; pp.38–72 [73] text and illustrations, text on even-numbered pages, illustrations facing on unnumbered pages, that part of the book being printed in brown; pp.[74]–[76] blank.

27.4 × 19.0 cm. Bulk: 1.1/1.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in brick red cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, top to bottom: ADAM’S RIB by Robert Graves TRIANON

Price: 31s.6d. Number of copies: 1,750. Published 22 July 1955 in grey dust-jacket printed in black.

A74b. Limited issue ([1955]):

Title-page as A74a.

Collation as A74a.

Remainder as A74a, except p.[ii]: This is Number [letter or number written in] of the Signed Edition | [signature of Graves] | [signature of Metcalf].

Size, paper and binding as A74a.

Price: 52s.6d. Number of copies: 250 numbered; 26 lettered A–Z (hors commerce). Published as A74a, but in a grey unprinted slip-box.

A74c. First American edition ([1958]):

[in brown:] ADAM’S RIB | and other anomalous elements in | the Hebrew Creation Myth | a new view by | ROBERT GRAVES | with wood engravings by James Metcalf | NEW YORK ∙ THOMAS YOSELOFF

Collation: [1]6 [2] – [6]8, 46 leaves

2pp. blank, front pastedown endpaper; 2 pp. blank, front free endpaper; p.[i] – [ii] as A74a; p.[iii] designer’s and illustrator’s notices; p.[iv] blank; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] copyright, edition, publisher’s, LC card and publication notices; pp.[vii]–[76] as A74a; 2 pp.blank, rear free endpaper; 2 pp. blank, rear pastedown endpaper.

27.3 × 19.0 cm. Bulk: 0.7/1.2 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in medium red cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, down spine: ADAM’S RIB by Robert Graves [to front:] THOMAS [to back, parallel to previous:] YOSELOFF

Price: $6.00. Number of copies: 2,000. Published in September 1958 in grey dust-jacket printed in black. The book and dust-jacket were printed in the U.S.

Notes: 1,000 English sheets of A74a, bearing the Yoseloff imprint, were distributed by Yoseloff at the same price.

There was a Yoseloff limited issue of 100 copies, signed by Graves and Matcalf. The book and dust-jacket were printed in Great Britain; price: $7.50.