SECTION A: Books written, co-written or translated by Robert Graves

A110 ANN AT HIGHWOOD HALL [1964]

a. First edition:

Collation: [A]8 B–C8, 24 leaves.

p.[i] Ann at Highwood Hall; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright, publication and printer’s notices; p.[v] Contents; p.[vi] blank; p.[vii] To my grandchildren | Georgina and David Graves | with love; p.[viii] blank; pp.1–38[39] text, with pp.[2–3, 4, 6–7, 9–12, 15–16, 19–20, 22, 24, 26, 28–33, 35, 37] being unnumbered; p.[40] illustration.

21.6 × 16.2 cm. Bulk: 0.4/1.1 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in powder-blue cloth-simulated boards; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, bottom to top: CASSELL Ann at Highwood Hall ROBERT GRAVES

Price: 13s.6d. Number of copies: 5,000. Published 8 October 1964 in white dust-jacket printed in black, blue, green and orange-pink.

Contents: Ann at Highwood Hall – St Valentine’s Day – George II and the Chinese Emperor – I Have a Little Cough, Sir – The Sewing Basket – Joseph and Jesus –Caroline and Charles

Notes: On 25 July 2017 Seven Stories Press issued a reprint in hardcover with the Ardizzone illustrations. Price: $16.95. Seven Stories also issued an ‘Advance Uncorrected Proof’ with a pictorial front cover and Arzizzone illustrations in black.

A110b. American issue ([1966]):

Collation: [1]–[3]8, 24 leaves.

p.[1] Ann at Highwood Hall; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] LC card, copyright, rights reservation, printer’s and edition notices; p.[5] To my grandchildren | Georgina and David Graves | with love; p.[6] blank p.[7] Contents; p.[8] blank; pp.1–46[47] text, with pp.[10, 12, 14–15, 17–20, 23–24, 27–28, 30, 32, 34, 36–41, 43, 45] being unnumbered; p.48 biographical notes on Graves and Ardizzone.

23.4 × 15.4 cm. Bulk: 0.4/1.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Blue wove endpapers, sides white. Bound in yellow-green cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in black, top to bottom: Robert Graves ANN AT HIGHWOOD HALL Doubleday

Price: $2.95. Number of copies undetermined. Published in 1964 in white dust-jacket printed in black, blue, green and orange-pink.

Notes: This edition was printed in the U.S.

An unknown number of copies were issued in an institutional (library) binding of paper-covered boards pictorially printed on front cover and spine as the dust-jacket; back cover all in green and blank. Termed by the publisher as ‘Doubleday Prebound Edition.’

A111 MAMMON AND THE BLACK GODDESS [1965]

a. First edition:

Collation: [A]8 B–L8, 88 leaves.p.[i] MAMMON AND THE BLACK GODDESS; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright, publication, acknowledgement and printer’s notices; p.[v] table of contents; p.[vi] blank; p.[vii] Foreword; p.[viii] blank; pp.[1]–165 text, with pp.[1, 27, 53, 99, 115, 141] being section-headings and pp.[2, 26, 28, 52, 54, 100, 114, 116,140,142] being blank; pp.[166]–[168] blank.

21.4 × 13.9 cm. Bulk: 1.8/2.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in slick grey cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, bottom to top: [at bottom, upright:] CASSELL | [up spine:] Robert Graves [ornament] [inside double rule rectangular box:] MAMMON AND THE BLACK GODDESS [ornament]

Price: 21s. Number of copies: 3,000. Published 8 March 1965 in grey dust-jacket printed in black and sea-green.

Contents: Foreword – Mammon – Nine Hundred Iron Chariots – Three Oxford Lectures on Poetry (Some Instances of Poetic Vulgarity; Technique in Poetry; The Poet in a Valley of Dry Bones) – Real Women – Moral Principles in Translation – Intimations of the Black Goddess

Notes: Printed in Great Britain.

This book has been translated into Japanese and Russian.

A111b. American issue (1965):

Collation:[1] –[11]8, 88 leaves.

Remainder as A111a, except p.[iv] LC card, copyright, printing and edition notices.

20.8 × 13.8 cm. Bulk: 1.1/1.6 cm. White wove paper; top and bottom edges trimmed. Blue wove endpapers, inner sides white. Bound in black cloth with light blue quarter-cloth spine; front and back blank; spine stamped, top to bottom: [in blue:] ROBERT GRAVES [in black:] MAMMON AND THE BLACK GODDESS [in blue:] DOUBLEDAY

Price: $3.95. Number of copies: 4,000. Published 18 June 1965 in white dust-jacket printed in light blue and black. Jacket design by Tom Huestis.

Notes: Printed in the U.S.

A111b is also seen with white endpapers. Of two review copies examined, one had white endpapers, the other blue.

A112 MAJORCA OBSERVED [1965]

a. First edition:

[entire flush left:] MAJORCA OBSERVED | by Robert Graves | & Paul Hogarth [publisher’s emblem] | CASSELL – LONDON

Collation:[1]–[10]8, 80 leaves.

2 pp. blank; p.[1] [flush right:] MAJORCA OBSERVED; p.[2] frontispiece; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, copyright, designer’s and printer’s notices; p. [5] | flush left:] Contents; p.[6] illustration; pp.7–150 text, with pp.[55, 83, 91, 99, 109, 117, 125,133] being section-headings, pp.125], 31, [40] –[41], 42, 45, [50], 59, 73, 79, [94], [123], 128, [131] containing text and illustrations and pp.[10, 12, 15–16, 18–20, 24, 27–28, 30, 32, 35–38, 43–44, 46, 48, 52–54, 56, 63–64, 66, 69–70, 74, 76, 80–82, 84, 89–90, 92, 97–98, 100, 104, 106, 108, 110, 115–116, 118, 121, 124, 126, 132, 134, 136, 140, 143, 146, 148] being illustrations only; pp.[151]–[152] illustrations; pp.[153] –[158] blank.

Price: 36s. Number of copies: 4,935. Published 13 May 1965 in white dust-jacket printed in black and light orange-buff.

Contents: Why I Live in Majorca 1953 – Postscript, 1965 – A Dead Branch of the Tree of Israel – Trín-Trín-Trín – School Life in Majorca 1955 – Bulletin of the College of St Modesto of Bobbio – God Grant Your Honour Many Years – Thy Servant and God’s – Ditching in a Fishless Sea – George Sand in Majorca

Notes: Both A112a and A112b were printed in England. This book has been translated into Swedish.

LaForadada (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) published a photographic reprint in paper covers on 31 December 2004.

A112b. American issue ([1965]):

MAJORCA OBSERVED | by Robert Graves | & Paul Hogarth | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. | GARDEN CITY NEW YORK

Collation as A112a.

Remainder as A112a, except p.[6] publisher’s, copyright, designer’s and printing notices.

Size, bulk, paper, endpapers and binding as A112a, except spine has DOUBLEDAY for CASSELL.

Price: $10.00. Number of copies: 1,624. Published 17 September 1965 in dust-jacket as A112a.

A113 LOVE RESPELT [1965]

a. First edition:

Collation: [1]– [3]8, 24 leaves.

pp.[1]–[2] blank; p.[3] Of this book | there have been printed | 250 copies, numbered 1–250 | all signed by the author | This is No. [number written in] | [signature of Graves]; p.[4] blank; p.[5] [two lines flush left:] Love | Respelt | by | [flush left:] Robert Graves [rule]; p.[6] blank; p.[7] title-page; p.[8] publisher’s, copyright, publication and printer’s notices; p.[9] table of contents; p.[10] blank; pp.[11]–[42] text, with pp.[11, 14, 19, 34] having illustrations or designs as well as text; p.[43] design; p.[44] blank; p.[45] text; pp.[46]–[48] blank.

21.5 × 17.0 cm. Bulk: 0.4/1.1 cm. White laid paper; all edges trimmed. White laid endpapers. Bound in three-quarter grey pepper-and-salt cloth with slick black cloth spine; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold script, bottom to top: Cassell Love Respelt Robert Graves

Price: 50s. Number of copies: 250 plus 30 copies out of series. Published 16 July 1965 in white dust-jacket printed in black.

Contents: 1. The Red Shower – 2. Above the Edge of Doom – 3. Wild Cyclamen –4. Gift of Sight – 5. Batxóca – 6. The Snap-Comb Wilderness – 7. Change – 8. A Court of Love – 9. Black – 10. Between Hyssop and Axe –11. Gold and Malachite – 12. Ambience – 13. The Vow – 14. The Frog and the Golden Ball – 15. Those Who Came Short – 16. Whole Love – 17. This Holy Month – 18. The Blow – 19. The Impossible – 20. The Fetter – 21. Iron Palace – 22. True Joy – 23. Tomorrow’s Envy of Today – 24. The Hidden Garden – 25. The Wedding – 26. What Will Be, Is – 27. Son Altesse – 28. Everywhere Is Here – 29. Song: The Far Side of Your Moon – 30. Deliverance – 31. Conjunction – 32. Nothing Now Astonishes – 33. Postscript

Note: The printing throughout, except for pp.[3, 8], is a reproduction of Graves’s MSS.

The illuminations are by Aemilia Laraçuen.

The thirty out of series copies are bound in green cloth.

There is a reprint of 18 copies, lettered A-R, not for sale.

A113b. First American edition (1966):

Collation: [1]4 [2]12 [3]8, 24 leaves.

p.[i] LOVE RESPELT; p.[ii] portrait of Graves by Aemilia Laraçuen; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] LC card, copyright, printing and edition notices; p.[v] FOREWORD; p.[vi] blank; pp.vii–viii CONTENTS; p.[1] XVIII; p.[2] blank; pp.3–35 text; p.[36] blank; p.[37] flourish; pp.38–44 text; pp.[45]–[48] blank.

20.9 × 13.6 cm. Bulk: 0.5/1.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in grey-brown cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, top to bottom: ROBERT GRAVES [fleuron] [title within black rectangular box:] LOVE RESPELT [fleuron] DOUBLEDAY.

Price: $2.95. Number of copies: 4,000. Published 4 April 1966 in white dust-jacket printed in red, green, blue, grey and black. Jacket design by Norman Ives.

Contents: The Red Shower – Above the Edge of Doom – Wild Cyclamen – Gift of Sight – Batxóca – The Snap-Comb Wilderness – A Shift of Scene – Change – A Court of Love – Black – Between Hyssop and Axe – Son Altesse – Gold and Malachite – Ambience – The Vow – The Frog and the Golden Ball – Those Who Came Short – Whole Love – This Holy Month – The Impossible – The Fetter – Iron Palace – True Joy – Tomorrow’s Envy of Today – The Hidden Garden – The Wedding – Everywhere Is Here – What Will Be, Is – Song: The Far Side of Your Moon – Deliverance – Conjunction – Nothing Now Astonishes – Postscript – The Gorge – Arrears of Moonlight – The Tangled Thread – Lure of Murder – Fortunate Child – Loving True, Flying Blind – Dancing Flame.

Note: I have examined a copy with grey-brown wove endpapers, inner sides white. This may be a second impression. Page 44 bears the publisher’s printing code "H34", indicating the sheets were printed in the 34th week of 1966 (all other copies seen bear on p. 44 the printing code "H5", indicating the sheets were printed in the 5th week of 1966). The dust-jacket has the publisher's price change label affixed over the original printed price of $2.95. The price change label is printed in black on white paper: $3.95 | D & CO. INC.

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