A141 ROBERT GRAVES POEMS 1980

First edition:

[all within red box rule; inside which a pale yellow ground; upon which printed in black and red:] ROBERT | GRAVES | POEMS | Selected and Introduced by | ELAINE KERRIGAN | Illustrated by | PAUL HOGARTH | The Limited Editions Club | New York ∙ 1980

Collation: [1]–[9]8 [10]4 [11]8, 184 leaves. pp.[i]–[ii] blank; p.[iii] Poems by Robert GRAVES; p.[iv] blank; p.[v] title-page;p.[vi] copyright notice; pp.vii–xiii Introduction; p.[xiv] blank; pp.xv–xvii Contents; p. [xviii] blank; pp.xix–xx The Artist’s Notes on the Illustrations–; p.[1] Poems by Robert GRAVES; p.[2] blank; pp.3–144 text, with two leaf colour plates on coated paper bound in between pp. 12/13, 28/29, 44/45, 60/61, 76/77, 92/93, 108/109, 124/125; p.[145] blank; p.[146] Two thousand copies of this edition of | Poems by Robert Graves | have been made for the members of | The Limited Editions Club | at The Stinehour Press in | Lunenburg Vermont | from the typographic plans of | Freeman Keith | [dot] | This is copy number | [number written in] | and it is here signed by | [signatures of Freeman Keith and Paul Hogarth]; pp.[147]–[148] blank.

25.3 × 17.0 cm. Bulk: 2.6/3.2. Heavy cream laid paper, unwatermarked; all edges trimmed and top gilt. Dark tan textured wove endpapers. Bound in three-quarter dark tan paper printed in type-ornament designs in red and black; spine dark brown buckram stamped in gold, top to bottom: ROBERT GRAVES ∙ POEMS

Price: Undetermined. Number of copies: 2,000. Published in 1980 in glassine dust-jacket and in a slipcase covered in paper as the binding with dark brown buckram on top and bottom ends.

Contents: Introduction – Seldom Yet Now – The Starred Coverlet – The Visitation – Spoils – The Sea Horse – Broken Neck – Black – Gold and Malachite – La Mejicana – Lamia in Love – The Black Goddess – Consortium of Stones – The Snap-Comb Wilderness – Change – The Pardon – Between Trains – In Disguise – A Measure of Casualness – An East Wind – The Three-Faced – The Ample Garden – Fire Walker – A Time of Waiting – The White Goddess – In Her Praise – The Wreath – Lion Lover – Golden Anchor – Name – Recognition – Ruby and Amethyst – The Falcon Woman – Good Night to the Old Gods – A Last Poem – At Best, Poets – She Is No Liar – Expect Nothing – Possessed – Turn of the Moon – Full Moon – Tomorrow’s Envy of Today – Song: The Far Side of Your Moon – What Will Be, Is – Nothing Now Astonishes – Between Moon and Moon – Song of Contrariety – The Presence – Pure Death – The Vow – Son Altesse – Whole Love – Gift of Sight – Batxóca – A Court of Love – The Door – I’d Die for You – A Jealous Man – It was All Very Tidy – The Beds of Grainne and Diarmuid – Secrecy – The Suicide in the Copse – Under the Olives – Darien – The Straw – The Winged Heart – Apple Island – Rhea – The Weather of Olympus – The Naked and the Nude – The Terraced Valley – Wild Cyclamen – The Oleaster – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – The Face in the Mirror – My Name and I – The Foreboding – The Cloak – Return – In No Direction – The Progress – Point of No Return – What Did I Dream? – Gratitude for a Nightmare – To Sleep – Reproach – The Pier-Glass – In Procession – The Castle – The Green Castle – Prometheus – The Twin of Sleep – The Succubus – Outlaws – A Lost Jewel – Lack – Nobody – The Thieves – Thief – Beware, Madam! – Those Who Came Short – All I Tell You from My Heart – To the Teumessian Vixen – I Will Write – Eurydice – To Beguile and Betray – Food of the Dead – Myrrhina – 3 Songs for the Lute: Truth is Poor Physic – In Her Only Way – Hedges Freaked with Snow – The Hearth – That Other World – In Time of Absence – Judgement of Paris – Joan and Darby – A Lost World – The Secret Land – The Cure – Woman and Tree.

Notes: The Introduction is dated “Mallorca, 1980.”

There were 25 unnumbered out- of-series copies for presentation, of which some were so marked with an embossed stamp on p. [146].