A94 SELECTED POETRY AND PROSE [1961]

First edition:

Selected Poetry and Prose of | ROBERT GRAVES | Chosen, introduced and | annotated by | JAMES REEVES | [publisher’s emblem] | HUTCHINSON EDUCATIONAL

Collation: [A]16 B-F16 G-I8 , 120 leaves.

p. [1] HUTCHINSON ENGLISH TEXTS | Selected Poetry and Prose of | ROBERT GRAVES; p.[2] list of books in this series; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, publication, copyright and printer’s notices; p.[5] HANC OLGAM GRAVEM OLGAE MINIME GRAVI | D. D. ROBERTUS GRAVES; p.[6] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; pp.[7]–[10] Contents; pp.11–20 Robert Graves: His Life and Writings; p.[21] Selected Poetry and Prose of | ROBERT GRAVES; pp.[22] blank; pp.23–215 text, with pp.[76, 130, 184] being blank; p.[216] blank; p.[217] NOTES; p.[218] blank; pp.219–240 notes.

18.5 × 12.3 cm. Bulk: 1.5/1.8 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in bluish green imitation cloth-grained paper boards; back blank; front blind-stamped with publisher’s emblem; spine stamped in silver: Edited by | JAMES | REEVES | [decorative rule] | [top to bottom, near front:] Selected Poetry and Prose | [top to bottom, parallel with preceding line, near back:l of Robert Graves | [decorative rule] [publisher’s emblem interlocked with oval inside which is script HET]

Price: 9s.6d. Number of copies: 6,000. Published 15 May 1961 without dust-jacket.

Contents: Acknowledgements – Robert Graves: His Life and Writings – Pollux Boxes with King Amycus (Golden Fleece) – The Passage of the Bosphorus (The Golden Fleece) – A Gladiatorial Combat (I, Claudius) – Public Works by the Emperor Claudius (Claudius the God) – The Expedition Against Carthage (Count Belisarius) – Poems I: The Alice Jean – Diplomatic Relations – Welsh Incident – The Discovery of the Marquesas Islands (The Isles of Unwisdom) – The Execution of Charles I (Wife to Mr. Milton) – A Troopship Sails for the American Colonies, 1776 (Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth) – Poems II: The Haunted House – Retrospect: Jests of the Clock – The Pier-Glass – Outlaws – An English Wood – Rocky Acres – Lost Acres – In No Direction – The Next Time – The Legs – On Dwelling – The Cloak – The Beach – Vanity – Nature’s Lineaments – Old Papa Johnson (Occupation: Writer) – The Abominable Mr. Gunn (Catacrok) – War on the Western Front, 1915 (Goodbye to All That) – On Leave, 1916 (Goodbye to All That) – Poems III: Lost Love – Love without Hope – Love in Barrenness – At First Sight – Time – The Great-Grandmother – To Lucia at Birth – Under the Pot – John Skelton – The Twin of Sleep – The Cool Web – Gardener – Flying Crooked – My Name and I – Any Honest Housewife – The Laureate – A Plea to Boys and Girls – Brother and Sister (Antigua, Penny, Puce) – A Stamp Auction (Antigua, Penny, Puce) – Poems IV: 1805 – ‘The General Elliott’ – Nobody – Traveller’s Curse after Misdirection – To Bring the Dead to Life – The China Plate – Lollocks – Act V, Scene 5 – Brother – A Village Conflict – A History of Peace – Warning to Children – To Evoke Posterity – Notes