A134 POEMS 1970–1972 [1972]

a. First edition:

ROBERT GRAVES | POEMS 1970–1972 | [publisher’s emblem] | CASSELL ∙ LONDON

Collation: [A]8 B–F8, 48 leaves.

p.[i] POEMS | 1970–1972; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation, publication, ISBN and printer’s notices; pp.v–vi FOREWORD; pp.vii–ix CONTENTS; p.[x] blank; p.[1] section head; p.[2] blank; pp.3–85 text, with p.[47] being section head and p.[48] being blank; p.[86] blank.

21.6 × 15.1 cm. Bulk: 0.8/1.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in ultramarine cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, bottom to top: Cassell Robert Graves POEMS 1970–1972

Price: £1.90. Number of copies unknown. Published 23 October 1972 in white dust-jacket printed in red and blue.

Contents: XXVI: The Hoopoe Tells us How – The Wand – Five Quinque – Arrow on the Vane – Gorgon Mask – To be Poets – With a Gift of Rings – Casse-Noisette – The Garden – The Green-Sailed Vessel – Dreaming Children – The Prohibition – Serpent’s Tail – Until We Both ... – The Rose – Testament – The Crab Tree – Three Locked Hoops – Cliff and Wave – Her Beauty – Always – Desert Fringe – The Title of Poet – Depth of Love – Breakfast Table – The Half-Finished Letter – The Hazel Grove – Pity – Silent Visit – Coronet of Moonlight – Song: To Become Each Other – Heaven – Growing Pains – Friday Night – The Pact – Poor Others – A Toast to Death – The Young Sibyl – Records – The Flowering Aloe – Circus Ring – Ageless Reason – As When the Mystic – Unposted Letter (1963) – XXVII: Birth of a Goddess – Beatrice and Dante – The Dilemma – The Gentleman – The Wall – Women and Masks (translation) – Tilth – The Last Fistful – The Traditionalist – The Prepared Statement – St Antony of Padua – Broken Compact – A Dream of Frances Speedwell – The Encounter – Age Gap – Nightmare of Senility – Research and Development: Classified – Fools – Those Blind from Birth – The Gateway – Advice from a Mother – A Reduced Sentence – Absent Crusader – Complaint and Reply – My Ghost – Song: Reconciliation – Knobs and Levers – The Virus – Druid Love – Problems of Gender – Jus Primae Noctis – Confess, Marpessa – Dream Recalled on Waking – Work Drafts – Colophon.

Note: Evidence confirms that A134a was published before A133a. The dates of publication listed here are correct.

A134b. First American edition (1973):

Robert Graves | [flourish] | POEMS 1970–1972 | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. | GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK | 1973

Collation: [1] –[4]12, 48 leaves.

p.[i] POEMS | 1970–1972; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] LC card, copyright, rights reservation, printing and edition notices; pp.v–vi FOREWORD; pp.vii–x CONTENTS; p.[xi] as p.[i]; p[xii] blank; p.[1] section head; p.[2] blank; pp.3–83 text, with pp.[35, 65] being section heads and pp.[36, 66] being blank; p.[84] blank.

20.7 × 13.7 cm. Bulk: 0.7/1.2 cm. White wove paper; top and bottom edges trimmed. White wove endpapers; inner sides gold. Bound in three-quarter black cloth with brown-mustard spine stamped in gold, top to bottom: ROBERT GRAVES POEMS 1970–1972 DOUBLEDAY

Price: $5.95. Number of copies: 4,500. Published 5 January 1973 in white dust-jacket printed in gold and black.

Contents: XXVI: The Hoopoe Tells Us How – The Wand – Five Quinque – Arrow on the Vane – Gorgon Mask – To be Poets – With a Gift of Rings – Casse-Noisette – The Garden – The Green-Sailed Vessel – Dreaming Children – The Prohibition – Serpent’s Tail – Until We Both ... – The Rose – Testament – The Crab-Tree – Three Locked Hoops – Cliff and Wave – Her Beauty – The Title of Poet – Gift of Sleep – Depth of Love – Breakfast Table – The Half-Finished Letter – The Hazel Grove – Silent Visit – Coronet of Moonlight – Song: To Become Each Other – Heaven – Growing Pains – XXVII: The Pact – Poor Others – A Toast to Death – The Young Sibyl – Records – The Flowering Aloe – Circus Ring – Ageless Reason – As When the Mystic – Birth of a Goddess – Beatrice and Dante – The Dilemma – The Gentleman – The Wall – Women and Masks (translation) – Tilth – The Last Fistful – The Traditionalist – The Prepared Statement – St. Antony of Padua – Broken Compact – A Dream of Frances Speedwell – The Encounter – Age Gap – Nightmare of Senility – Research and Development: Classified – Fools – XXVIII: Those Blind from Birth – The Gateway – Advice from a Mother – A Reduced Sentence – Absent Crusader – Complaint and Reply – My Ghost – Song: Reconciliation – Knobs and Levers – The Virus – Druid Love – Problemsof Gender – Jus Primae Noctis – Confess, Marpessa – Dream Recalled on Waking – Work Drafts.

Note: An issue in two volumes was projected and announced, but was never published.