A93 MORE POEMS 1961 [1961]

First edition:

ROBERT GRAVES | MORE POEMS | 1961 | [publisher’s emblem] CASSELL ∙ LONDON

Collation: [A]4 B–D8, 28 leaves.

pp.[i]–[ii] blank; p.[iii] MORE POEMS | 1961; p.[iv] blank; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] publisher’s, copyright, publication and printer’s notices; p.[vii] FOREWORD; p.[viii] blank; pp.[ix] – [x] CONTENTS; p.[1] XI; p.[2] blank; pp.3–26 text; p.[27] XII; p.[28] blank; pp.29–45text; p.[46] blank.

21.6 × 15.0 cm. Bulk: 0.5/1.1 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in maroon cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, bottom to top: Cassell Robert Graves MORE POEMS 1961

Price: 10s.6d. Number of copies: 3,913. Published 11 May 1961 in white dust-jacket printed in black and brick-cherry.

Contents: Foreword – XI: Lyceia – Symptoms of Love – The Sharp Ridge – Under the Olives – The Visitation – Fragment – Apple Island – The Falcon Woman – Troughs of Sea – The Laugh – The Death Grapple – In Single Syllables – The Starred Coverlet – The Intrusion – Patience – The Cure – Hag-Ridden – Turn of the Moon – The Secret Land – Seldom Yet Now – To Myrto of Myrtles – Anchises to Aphrodite – XII: Two Children – A Lost World – The Dangerous Gift – Twice of the Same Fever – Surgical Ward: Men – Nightfall at Twenty Thousand Feet – The Simpleton – The Were-Man – Two Rhymes about Fate and Money – The Two Witches – The Person from Porlock – Established Lovers – The Quiet Glades of Eden – Here Live Your Life Out! – Burn It! – Joan and Darby – Song: Come, Enjoy Your Sunday!