A118 COLOPHON TO LOVE RESPELT 1967

Robert | GRAVES |[swelled rule] | COLOPHON | TO | LOVE | RESPELT PRIVATELY PRINTED | 1967

Collation: [1]4 [2] – [3]8, 20 leaves.

p.[1] title-page; p.[2] copyright, printer’s and distributor’s notices and copy number and signature of Graves; p. half-title; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] CONTENTS; p.[iv] blank; p.v FOREWORD; p.[vi] blank; pp.1–32text [page numbers are enclosed in square brackets].

25.4 × 16.5 cm. Bulk: 0.4/0.7 cm. White laid paper; no edges trimmed. White laid endpapers. Bound in paper boards with dark green wrapper jacket as cover. Back blank; front printed in black and red: ROBERT | GRAVES | COLOPHON | TO | LOVE | RESPELT; spine printed, top to bottom: ROBERT GRAVES | COLOPHON TO LOVE RESPELT

Price: 63s. Number of copies: 386 (350 numbered and signed). Published 10 July 1967.

Contents: Foreword – The P’eng that was a K’un – Like Owls – In Perspective – The Utter Rim – Unicorn and the White Doe – Bower Bird – Mist – The Word – Perfectionists – Prison Walls – A Dream of Hell – Our Self – Bites and Kisses – Sun-Face and Moon-Face – Freehold – The Necklace – A Bracelet – Blackening Sky – Blessed Sun – Lion Gentle – Song: The Palm Tree – Spite of Mirrors – Pride of Love – Hooded Flame – Injuries – Her Brief Withdrawal – The Crane – Strangeness.

Notes: These poems were later collected in A122 Poems 1965 – 1968. Published and distributed by Bertram Rota, Ltd. Printed at the Stellar Press by Bill Hummerstone.