A129 POEMS1968–1970 [1970]

a. First edition:

ROBERT GRAVES | POEMS 1968–1970 | [publisher’s emblem] | CASSELL ∙ LONDON

Collation: [A] – [B]8 C–E8 F/F*2/8, 50 leaves.

p.[i] POEMS | 1968–1970; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation, ISBN and printer’s notices; p.v FOREWORD; p.[vi] blank; pp.vii–ix CONTENTS; p.[x] blank; p.[1] section head; p.[2] blank; pp.3–90 text, with pp.[17, 26, 45, 71] being unnumbered section headings and pp; [16, 44, 46, 72] being blank.

21.5 × 15.3 cm. Bulk: 0.9/1.5 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in dull yellow-green cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, bottom to top: Cassell Robert Graves POEMS 1968–1970

Price: 30s. Number of copies unknown. Published 12 October 1970 in white dust-jacket printed in green and black.

Contents: Foreword – XXIII: Song: Dream Warning – Song: Beyond Giving – Song: The Sigil – Song: Basket of Blossom – Song: Yesterday Only – Song: Twinned Heart – Song: Olive Tree – Song: Once More – Song: The Promise – Song: Victims of Calumny – Song: To a Rose – Song: The Clocks of Time – Song: Wherever We May Be – XXIV: Gold Cloud – Compact – Trial of Innocence – Love Gifts – Mankind and Ocean – Poisoned Day – Virgin Mirror – What Is Love? – Secret Theatre – How It Started – Brief Reunion – The Judges – Love and Night – Child with Veteran – Superstition – Purification – Powers Unconfessed – Pandora – Solomon’s Seal – To Put It Simply – In the Name of Virtue – To Tell and Be Told – The Theme of Death – At the Well – XXV: Logic – Robbers’ Den – The Accomplice – First Love – Through a Dark Wood – In the Vestry – When Love Is Not – The Reiteration – Semi-Detached – Iago – Against Witchcraft – Man of Evil – The Raft – Tolling Bell – The Hero – Blanket Charge – The Uncut Diamond – The Strayed Message – The Co-Walker – The Risk – Something to Say – Troublesome Fame – OCCASIONALIA: Research and Development: Classified – The Imminent Seventies – Carol of Patience – H – Invitation to Bristol – The Primrose Bed – Poem: A Reminder – The Strangling in Merrion Square – Song: The Sundial’s Lament – Antorcha y Corona, 1968: – Torch and Crown, 1968 – The Awakening – Armistice Day, 1918.

A129b. First American edition (1971):

Robert Graves | [flourish] | POEMS 1968–1970 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | Garden City, New York | 1971

Collation: 56 leaves, unsigned.

4 pp. blank; p.[i] POEMS | 1968–1970; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] LC card, copyright, rights reservation, printing and edition notices; p.v FOREWORD; p.[vi] blank; pp.vii–ix CONTENTS; p.[x] blank; p.[1] section head; p.[2] blank; pp.3–90 text, with pp.[17, 26, 45, 71] being section heads and pp.[16, 44, 46, 72] being blank; pp.[91]–[98] blank.20.8 × 13.7 cm. Bulk: 0.7/1.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers, inner sides slate blue. Bound in three-quarter dull grey-blue cloth with black cloth spine stamped in gold, top to bottom: ROBERT GRAVES POEMS 1968–1970 DOUBLEDAY

Price: $5.95. Number of copies: 4,500. Published 22 October 1971 in white pictorial dust-jacket printed in black, green and red.