A153 LOVE POEMS [1990]:

First edition:

ROBERT GRAVES | [2 lines in open letters, printed in red:] LOVE | POEMS | Selected and introduced by | SUE BRADBURY | [in red:] [tendril-and-leaf design] | LONDON | The Folio Society | 1990

Collation: [1]-[8]4, 32 leaves.

p. [1] – [2] blank; p. [3] LOVE POEMS; p. [4] blank; p. [5] title-page; p. [6] copyright, publisher’s printer’s, binder’s and typographer’s notices; pp. 7-8 CONTENTS; pp. 9-14 INTRODUCTION; p. [15] LOVE POEMS; p. [16] blank; pp. 17-63 text; p. [64] blank.

24.2 × 15.7 cm. Bulk: 0.5/ 1.0 cm. White wove paper; top edges only trimmed and gilt. Grey laid endpapers. Grey paper-covered boards with dark red cloth spine; front and back covers printed in dark red and blue in a diamond and circle pattern; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] POEMS BY ROBERT GRAVES

Price: undetermined. Number of copies: undetermined. Published in 1990 in a transparent plastic dust-jacket.

Contents: One Hard Look – Love Without Hope – The Troll’s Nosegay – Lost Love – Vanity – Pure Death – Sick Love – Ulysses – Never Such Love – A Former Attachment – The Terraced Valley – A Love Story – The Thieves – Mid-Winter Waking – The Door – She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep – Beauty in Trouble – Counting the Beats – Dialogue on the Headland – The Face in the Mirror – A Slice of Wedding Cake – Symptoms of Love – Fragment – The Visitation – Under the Olives – The Secret Land – A Lost World – Not at Home – Seldom Yet Now – The Winged Heart – The Leap – The Three-Faced – Endless Pavement – The Green Castle – The Hung Wu Vase – Ambience – Whole Love – Iron Palace – What Will Be, Is – Song: The Far Side of Your Moon – Arrears of Moonlight – Loving True, Flying Blind – On Giving – In Perspective – The Bower-Bird – Spite of Mirrors – Strangeness – The Perfectionists – Song: Sullen Moods – Song: Just Friends – To Be In Love – Fact of the Act – The Yet Unsayable – The Narrow Sea – Song: Olive Tree – Song: Wherever We May Be – With a Gift of Rings – Love Gifts – The Half-Finished Letter – The Green-Sailed Vessel –Beatrice and Dante – The Moon’s Last Quarter – The Crystal – Envoi – Three Words Only