A96 THE MORE DESERVING CASES 1962

First edition:

THE MORE | DESERVING CASES | Eighteen Old Poems | for | Reconsideration | by | ROBERT GRAVES | Marlborough College Press | 1962

Collation: [1]–[5]4, 20 leaves.

pp.[1]–[2] blank; p.[3] THE MORE DESERVING CASES; p.[4] portrait of Graves; p.[5] title-page; p.[6] blank; p.[7] FOREWORD; p.[8] blank; p.[9] CONTENTS; p.[10] blank; p.[11] – [37] text; p.[38] colophon and signature of Graves; pp.[39] – [40] blank.

24.7 × 15.2 cm. Bulk: 0.3/1.0 cm. Heavy white wove paper; all edges trimmed; top edges gilt. Wove endpapers with watered design; inner sides blank. Bound in red morocco; back and spine blank; front stamped in gold: THE MORE | DESERVING CASES | ROBERT GRAVES

Price: Leather-bound, 40s.; cloth-bound, 25s. Number of copies: 750, of which 400 were bound in full morocco leather and 350 in blue buckram. Published 1 February 1962 without dust-jacket.

Contents: Foreword – 1. Sullen Moods 1922 – 2. The Dialecticians 1922 – 3. A Village Feud 1923 – 4. The Clipped Stater 1923 – 5. Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist 1923 – 6. The Corner Knot 1924 – 7. Death of the Farmer 1924 – 8. Virgil the Sorcerer 1924 – 9. Pygmalion to Galatea 1925 – 10. Diplomatic Relations 1925 –11. The Philatelist Royal 1929 – 12. To be Less Philosophical 1931 – 13. Variables of Green 1931 – 14. Devilishly Provoked 1933 – 15. The Miller’s Man 1934 – 16. July 24th 1942 – 17. Safe Receipt of a Censored Letter 1942 – 18. The Blotted Copy-Book 1952

Notes: Copies bound in blue buckram have white wove endpapers without design and the top edges are not gilt; number of copies: 350; signed by Graves. The sheets for both the original issue and the blue buckram issue became mixed during the binding process, or

perhaps were bound at random in either cloth or leather. Copies 73 and 684 are in cloth and copies 195 and 496 are leather-bound.

The portrait of Graves is by H.A. Freeth.

The Folcroft Press issued photographic reprints 1969 and 1977 and Norwood Editions issued a photographic reprint in 1978.