A106 COLLECTED SHORT STORIES 1964
a. First edition:
Robert Graves | [swelled rule] | COLLECTED | SHORT | STORIES | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. | GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK | 1964
Collation: [1]12 2–712 [8] –[14]12, 168 leaves.
p.[i] COLLECTED SHORT STORIES; p.[ii] blank; pp.[iii]–iv list of books by Graves; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] acknowledgement, LC card, copyright, rights reservation, printing and edition notices; pp.[vii]–viii CONTENTS; pp.[ix]–x [flush left:] INTRODUCTION; p.[xi] COLLECTED SHORT STORIES; p.[xii] blank; pp.[1] –323 text, with pp.[1, 133, 175] being section headings, pp.[2, 132, 134, 176] being blank and pp.13, 25, 37, 43, 48, 54, 58, 63, 68, 71, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 119, 135, 141, 154, 177,183, 189, 202, 208, 221, 226, 250, 265, 286, 302] being unnumbered; p.[324] blank.
20.7 × 13.6 cm. Bulk: 2.4/2.9 cm. White wove paper; top and bottom edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in grey cloth; front and back blank; spine printed, top to bottom: [near front:] ROBERT | [near back, parallel to preceding line:] GRAVES | [in blue, near front:] COLLECTED | [near back, parallel to preceding line:] SHORT STORIES | [upright:] DOUBLEDAY
Price: $4.95. Number of copies: 7,000 (in two printings). Published 17 April 1964 in white dust-jacket printed in grey, black, blue and chartreuse. The jacket is printed on uncoated paper. Dust-jacket design by Miriam Woods.
Contents: Introduction – ENGLISH STORIES: The Shout – Old Papa Johnson – Treacle Tart – The Full Length – Earth to Earth – Period Piece – Week-End at Cwm Tatws [in contents: Cwn] – He Went Out to Buy a Rhine – Kill Them! Kill Them! – The French Thing – A Man May Not Marry His ... – An Appointment for Candlemas – The Abominable Mr Gunn – Harold Vesey at the Gates of Hell –Christmas Truce – You Win, Houdini! – ROMAN STORIES: Epics Are Out of Fashion – The Apartment House – The Myconian – MAJORCAN STORIES: They say ... They Say – 6 Valiant Bulls 6 – A Bicycle in Majorca – The Five Godfathers –Evidence of Affluence – God Grant Your Honour Many Years – The Viscountess and the Short-Haired Girl – A Toast to Ava Gardner – The Lost Chinese – She Landed Yesterday – The Whitaker Negroes
Notes: The second impression, is identical to the first except it lacks the first edition notice on p. [vi]. Printed in the U.S.
This collection has been translated into Dutch, French, Japanese, Polish and Romanian.
The photo of Graves on the dust-jacket is by Tom Blau.
A106b. English issue ([1965]):
Robert Graves | [swelled rule] | COLLECTED | SHORT | STORIES | [publisher’s emblem] | CASSELL ∙ LONDON
Collation: [1] –[9]16 [10]8 [11]16, 168 leaves.
p.[i] COLLECTED SHORT STORIES | [blurb (14 ll.)]; p.[ii] blank; pp.[iii] –[iv] list of books by Graves; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] acknowledgement, copyright, rights reservation, publication and printer’s notices; remainder as A106a.
19.5 × 13.2 cm. Bulk: 2.4/3.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in medium blue cloth-simulated boards; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [heavy rule] | [light rule] | Collected | Short Stories | ROBERT | GRAVES | [light rule] | [heavy rule] | CASSELL
Price: 25s. Number of copies: 3,000. Published 18 November 1965 in white dust-jacket printed in slate blue, drab gold and black. Dust-jacket design by Leo Vernon.
Notes: Impressions: 2nd, November 1965 (2,000 copies); 3rd, March 1966 (2,000 copies); 4th, August 1971 (number of copies unknown).
‘The Apartment House’ of A106a is here called ‘The Tenement: A Vision of Imperial Rome’.
Printed in Great Britain.
A106c. Second English edition ([1968]):
ROBERT GRAVES | Collected Short Stories | [publisher’s emblem] | PENGUIN BOOKS
Collation: [1]12212 3–610 7–812 9–1210 13–1412, 152 leaves.
p.[1] PENGUIN BOOKS | 2881 | COLLECTED SHORT STORIES | OF ROBERT GRAVES and biographical note; p.[2] blank; p. [3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, publication, acknowledgement, printer’s and sales limitation notices; pp.[5] – [6] CONTENTS; p.[7] INTRODUCTION; p.[8] blank; p.[9] section title; p.[10] blank; pp.[11]12–300 text; with pp.[31, 42, 47, 57, 61, 65, 69, 72, 80, 84, 89, 94, 99, 116, 131, 136, 148, 167, 169, 174, 179, 191, 196, 208, 212, 234, 248, 268, 282] unnumbered and pp.[128, 130,132,168] blank; pp.[301]–[304] publisher’s advertisements.
18.0 × 11.3 cm. Bulk: 1.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in black, orange and green.
Price: 30p. Number of copies unknown. Published in October 1968.
Notes: Impressions: 2nd, January 1971; 3rd, 1978; 4th, 1979; 5th, 1984 (copies: 10,000); 6th, 1985 (copies: 4,000); 7th, 1987. There were at least two further impressions. Covers vary.
The 2nd and 3rd impressions were issued in the United States by Viking.
In the 3rd impression the title was changed to The Shout and Other Stories with consequent changes in the contents of pp.[1]–[3]. It would appear that in the United Kingdom the front cover was changed to a colour photograph of Alan Bates shouting and a colour photograph of Bates and Susannah York was added to the back cover, while in the United States the cover has an illustration of Bates shouting in grey, black and orange by Neil Stuart; the claim: NOW A STUNNING FILM is on the front cover on both sides of the Atlantic. With the 5th impression the title was changed back to Collected Short Stories and the size changed to 19.8 × 12.9 cm.; bulk 1.7cm., and the John Aldridge painting of Graves from the National Portrait Gallery was used on the cover.