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

A114 COLLECTED POEMS 1965 1965

a.First edition:

Collation: [A]8 B–2E8 2F4 2G8, 236 leaves.

pp.[i]–[ii] blank; p.[iii] COLLECTED POEMS | 1965; p.[iv] blank; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] publisher’s, copyright, publication and printer’s notices; pp.[vii] — [viii] FOREWORD; pp.[ix]–[xxii] CONTENTS; p.[1] I; p.[2] blank; pp.3–436 text, with pp.[31, 67, 87, 135, 151, 181, 199, 209, 237, 255, 277, 287, 311, 327, 353, 379, 403] being section headings and pp.[30, 32, 66, 68, 88, 134,136, 152, 180, 182, 200, 208, 210, 236, 238, 256, 278, 288, 312, 328, 354, 380, 404] being blank; pp.[437]–[438] blank; p.[439] INDEX TO FIRST LINES OF POEMS; p.[440] blank; pp.441–449[450] index.

Price: 42s. Number of copies: 5,135. Published 23 September 1965 in white dust-jacket printed in black and purplish ultramarine. The back flap of the jacket has an advertisement for ‘Mammon and the Black Goddess.’

Contents: Foreword – I: In the Wilderness – The Haunted House – Reproach – The Finding of Love – Rocky Acres – Outlaws – One Hard Look – A Frosty Night – Allie – Henry and Mary – Love Without Hope – What Did I Dream? – The Troll’s Nosegay – The Hills of May – Lost Love – Vain and Careless – The Pier-Glass – Apples and Water – Angry Samson – Down – II: In Procession – Warning to Children – Alice – Richard Roe and John Doe – I’d Die for You –Ancestors – The Coronation Murder – Children of Darkness – The Cool Web – Love in Barrenness – Song of Contrariety – The Presence – The Land of Whipperginny – In No Direction – The Castle – Return – The Bards – Nobody – The Progress – Full Moon – Vanity – Pure Death – Sick Love – It Was All Very Tidy – III: Thief – The Furious Voyage – Song: Lift-Boy – The Next Time – Ulysses – The Succubus – The Reader over My Shoulder – The Legs – Gardener – Front Door Soliloquy – In Broken Images – Trudge, Body! – The Christmas Robin – On Rising Early – Flying Crooked – Fragment of a Lost Poem – Brother – IV: The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – Sea Side – Wm. Brazier – Welsh Incident – Interruption – Hell – Leda – Synthetic Such – The Florist Rose – Lost Acres – At First Sight – Down, Wanton, Down! – A Former Attachment – Nature’s Lineaments – Time – The Philosopher – On Dwelling – Ogres and Pygmies – Single Fare – To Walk on Hills – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – Any Honest Housewife – Never Such Love – Certain Mercies – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – The Laureate – A Jealous Man – The Cloak – The Foreboding – With Her Lips Only – The Halls of Bedlam – Or to Perish Before Day – A Country Mansion – Lovers in Winter – Advocates – V: On Portents – The Terraced Valley – The Chink – The Ages of Oath – New Legends – Like Snow – End of Play – The Climate of Thought – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – No More Ghosts – VI: A Love Story – Dawn Bombardment – The Shot – The Thieves – Lollocks – To Sleep – Despite and Still – The Suicide in the Copse – Frightened Men – The Oath – Language of the Seasons – Mid-Winter Waking – The Beach – The Villagers and Death – The Door – Under the Pot – Through Nightmare – To Lucia at Birth – Death by Drums – She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep – Theseus and Ariadne – Penthesileia – The Death Room – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – To Be Called a Bear – VII: My Name and I – 1805 – The Persian Version – The Weather of Olympus – Apollo of the Physiologists – The Oldest Soldier – Grotesques i–vi – Beauty in Trouble – Sirocco at Deyá – From the Embassy – VIII: The White Goddess – The Song of Blodeuwedd – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Lament for Pasiphaë – Return of the Goddess – IX: Counting the Beats – The Young Cordwainer – Your Private Way – The Survivor – Questions in a Wood – Darien – The Portrait – Prometheus – The Straw – Cry Faugh! – Hercules at Nemea – Dialogue on the Headland – Liadan and Curithir – The Sea Horse – Cat-Goddesses – The Blue-Fly – A Lost Jewel – The Window Sill – Spoils – Rhea – X: The Face in the Mirror – Gratitude for a Nightmare – Friday Night – The Naked and the Nude – Woman and Tree – Forbidden Words – A Slice of Wedding Cake – A Plea to Boys and Girls – Nothing – Call It a Good Marriage – The Second-Fated – The Twin of Sleep – Around the Mountain – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – 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 – The Starred Coverlet – Patience – The Cure – Hag-Ridden – Turn of the Moon – The Secret Land – Seldom, Yet Now – XII: A Lost World: The Dangerous Gift – Twice of the Same Fever – Surgical Ward: Men – The Two Witches – The Quiet Glades of Eden – Joan and Darby – Song: Come, Enjoy Your Sunday! – XIII: Ruby and Amethyst – Recognition – Variables of Green – The Watch – Name Day – Uncalendared Love – The Meeting – Lack – Not at Home – Horizon – Golden Anchor – Lion Lover – Ibycus in Samos – Possessed – The Winged Heart – In Trance at a Distance – The Wreath – In Her Praise – A Restless Ghost – Between Moon and Moon – XIV: Beware, Madam! – The Cliff Edge – The Miller’s Man – Acrobats – Ouzo Unclouded – The Broken Girth – Inkidoo and the Queen of Babel – Three Songs for the Lute: I. Truth is Poor Physic – II. In Her Only Way – III. Hedges Freaked With Snow – The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele – The Unnamed Spell – XV: A Time of Waiting – Expect Nothing – No Letter – The Why of the Weather – In Time – Fire Walker – Deed of Gift – At Best, Poets – She is No Liar – A Last Poem – The Pearl – The Leap – Bank Account – Judgement of Paris – Man Does, Woman Is – The Ample Garden – To Myrto About Herself – The Three-Faced – Dazzle of Darkness – Myrrhina – Food of the Dead – Eurydice – To Beguile and Betray – I Will Write – XVI: Bird of Paradise – The Metaphor – Song: A Phoenix Flame – Secrecy – Joseph and Mary – An East Wind – Dance of Words – A Blind Arrow – The Oleaster – The Septuagenarian – Non Cogunt Astra – Song: Sword and Rose – Endless Pavement – In Disguise – A Measure of Casualness – In Time of Absence – The Green Castle – Not to Sleep – The Hearth – That Other World – The Beds of Grainne and Diarmuid – Consortium of Stones – The Black Goddess – XVII: Broken Neck – O – Woman of Greece – The Colours of Night – Between Trains – To the Teumessian Vixen – The Hung Wu Vase – La Mejicana – Lamia in Love – After the Flood – All I Tell You From My Heart – The Undead – Grace Notes – Good Night to the Old Gods – The Sweet-Shop Round the Corner – Double Bass – Descent into Hell – The Pardon – Point of No Return – XVIII: 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 AItesse – 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 – Index of First Lines.

Notes: Readers Union issued a photographic reprint in 1967. The copyright, as in A114a, is in the name of International Authors NV. Cassell issued a second impression December 1967, the copyright being in the name of Robert Graves.

A selection of poems from Collected Poems 1965 was published in Polish in 1968 by Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy.

b. First American edition (1966):

p. [i] COLLECTED POEMS 1966 | [publisher’s emblem]; p. [ii] blank; p. [iii] biographical note; p. [iv] blank; p. [v] title-page; p. [vi] edition, publisher’s copyright, LOC, rights reservation and printer’s notices; pp. vii-viii FOREWORD; pp. ix-xxi CONTENTS; p. [xxii] blank; p. [1] I; p. [2] blank; pp. 3-436 text; with pp. [29, 65, 85, 133, 149, 179, 197, 207, 235, 253, 277, 287, 311, 327, 353, 379, 403] being section headings and pp. [30, 64, 66, 86, 132, 134, 150, 178, 180, 198, 206, 208, 234, 236, 254, 276, 278, 288, 312, 328, 354, 380, 404] being blank; p. [437] INDEX TO FIRST LINES | OF POEMS; p. [438] blank; pp. 439-447 index; pp. [448] – [452] publisher’s advertisements; pp. [453] – [458] blank.

18.0 × 10.5 cm. Bulk: 2.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in black and pale yellow. Front cover: [flush left:] A517 [three lines, flush right:] $1.75 | Robert Graves | Collected Poems | A DOUBLEDAY [publisher’s emblem] ANCHOR ORIGINAL | [below:] [reproduction in colour of a painting by Robert Kipniss]; back: [three lines, flush left:] POETRY | Robert Graves | Collected Poems | [blurbs] | [two lines centered:] Cover painting by Robert Kipniss | Cover design by Norman Ives | [flush left:] [publisher’s emblem] A DOUBLEDAY ANCHOR ORIGINAL; spine: [down spine:] Robert Graves Collected Poems | [2 lines upright:] ANCHOR | A517

Price: $1.75. Number of copies: unknown. Published in 1966.

Contents: As A114a.

Notes: Inpressions: 2nd, 1966; 3rd, 1968, or later.

A114.1 THE ANGER OF ACHILLES AN EPIC FOR RADIO 1965

First edition:

Collation: 39 leaves, stapled three times.

[using a parallel numbering sequence:] p.[a] biographical sketches of Graves and Roberto Gerhard in English; p.[a] biographical sketches of Graves and Roberto Gerhard in French; p.[b] biographical sketch of Raymond Raikes in English; p.[b] biographical sketch of Raymond Raikes in French; p.[i] blank; p.[ii] title-page in French; p. [ii] title-page in English; p. [iii] DISTRIBUTION; p.[iii] CHARACTERS; pp. [1]2-33 text in French; pp.[1]2-33 text in English; 3 blank pages.

Price: Not for sale. Number of copies unknown. Published in the second half of 1965.

Notes: Text appears to have been reproduced from typewritten pages. Text is on facing pages in French and English. Graves agreed to undertake this adapttion for BBC radio in early January 1963. He worked on it for three weeks in February 1963. The programme was broadcast on 10 June 1965.

A115 SEVENTEEN POEMS MISSING FROM LOVE RESPELT 1966

First edition:

Collation: [1]–[3]8, 24 leaves.

2 pp. blank; p.[i] half-title; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] copyright, printer’s, distributor, series record and signature notices; p.v FOREWORD; p.[vi] blank; p.vii CONTENTS; p.[viii] blank; pp. 1–17 text, with only the odd-numbered pages being paged; pp.[18] – [22] blank. Page numbers are enclosed in square brackets.

25.4 × 16.4 cm. Bulk: 0.4/0.7 cm. White laid paper; no edges trimmed. White laid endpapers. Bound in paper boards with blue-grey wrapper jacket as cover. Back blank; front printed in black and red: ROBERT | GRAVES | SEVENTEEN | POEMS MISSING FROM | LOVE | RESPELT; spine printed in red, top to bottom: ROBERT GRAVES / SEVENTEEN POEMS

Price: 63s. Number of copies: 330, 300 numbered and signed. Published 6 June 1966.

Contents: Cock in Pullet’s Feathers – Dead Hand – Arrears of Moonlight – What Did You Say? – Lure of Murder – The Gorge – Ecstasy of Chaos – Stolen Jewel – The Eagre – The Snapped Thread – Fortunate Child – Loving True, Flying Blind –The Near Eclipse – Dancing Flame – Birth of Angels – Clothed in Silence – On Giving.

Notes: There is an orange illustration of a fragmenting sun at the foot of p.7 [=13] by Aemilia Laraçuen.

The contents of this edition were collected in A122, Collected Poems, 1965–1968.

Published and distributed by Bertram Rota, Ltd.

A116 TWO WISE CHILDREN [1966]

a. First edition:

Collation: [1]–[2]8,16 leaves.

p.[1] TWO WISE CHILDREN; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] dedication and publisher’s, LC card, copyright and printing notices; pp.[5]–[32] text and illustrations.

21.0 × 14.0 cm. Bulk: 0.3/0.9 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Dull yellow-green wove endpapers. Bound in green paper-covered boards printed in dark green; cloth spine stamped in gold, top to bottom: Robert Graves TWO WISE CHILDREN QUIST

Price: $2.75. Number of copies undisclosed. Published in November 1966 in cream dust-jacket printed in green, red, blue and black.

Notes: An unknown number of copies were bound in a reinforced institutional (library) binding of full green cloth with spine lettering as above, except in black. The dust-jacket is as above except the spine panel has affixed a gold circular label reading ‘LIBRARY EDITION’ and the price is changed to ‘$2.73 net’.

Graves’s original text is modified here to suit the American market. Some examples: ‘minister’s son’ vs ‘vicar’s son’; ‘New England’ vs ‘Cumberland’; ‘ten dollars’ vs ‘five pounds’.

A116b. First English edition ([1967]):

Title-page as A116a.

Remainder as A116a.

21.0 × 14.0 cm. Bulk: 0.3/0.9cm. Remainder as A116a, except spine: Quist

Price: 10s.6d. Number of copies undisclosed. Published in 1967 in cream dust-jacket printed as A116a.

A116c. Second American edition ([2014]):

[background in brown overall:] decorative black rectangular frame, broken at top left, enclosing all; within which in white: Classic | Stories | [in black:] Two Wise | Children | written by Robert Graves [device] illustrated by Venita Dean; [all to right of red balloon with black string dangling down: The | Child’s | World

Collation: [1-3] 4-24

p. [1] title-page; p. [2] publisher’s, acknowledgment, copyright; rights reservation, and printer’s notices; p. [3] illustration pp. 4-24 illustrations and text.

21.5 ×15.2 cm. Bulk: 0.2/0.7cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Reinforced library binding; paper-covered boards printed in brown, black, green, yellowish pink, pink, lavender and red.

Price: $19.95. Number of copies: undetermined. Published 1 August 2014.

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