SECTION A: Books written, co-written or translated by Robert Graves

A158 COMPLETE SHORT STORIES [(1995)]:

First edition:

Collation: [1]-[9]16 [10]10 [11]16, 170 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | Complete Short Stories; p. [ii] list of titles in Carcanet’s Robert Graves Programme; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] edition, copyright, rights reservation, publisher’s, BL cataloguing, Arts Council assistance and printer’s notices; pp. [v] – vi Contents; pp. [vii] – viii Preface; pp. [1] – 326 text, with pp. [3, 5, 7, 23, 28, 36, 38, 55, 67, 70, 75, 79, 82, 86, 90, 94, 98, 101, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 147, 150, 154, 157, 161, 164, 167, 169, 173, 177, 183, 192, 201, 207, 218, 235, 246, 261, 271, 280, 294, 307, 310, 314, 324] being unnumbered; pp. [327] – 328 Notes; pp. [329] – 331 Sources; p. [332] blank.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 2.4/3.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed in pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves [in three lines:] COMPLETE SHORT | STORIES | Edited by Lucia Graves | [upright:] CARCANET | ALYSCAMPS

Price: £25.00. Number of copies: undisclosed. Published 28 September 1995 in a white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale green, green and blue. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

Contents: Preface – Honey and Flowers – My New-Bug’s Exam – Thames-side Reverie – The Shout – Avocado Pears – Old Papa Johnson – Interview With a Dead Man – Está en su Casa – Bins K to T – School Life in Majorca 1955 – Bulletin of the College of St Modesto of Bobbio – Treacle Tart – Week-end at Cwm Tatws – The Full Length – God Grant Your Honour Many Years – 6 Valiant Bulls 6 – Flesh-coloured Net Tights – Thy Servant and God’s – A Man May Not Marry His … – An Appointment for Candlemas – The Five Godfathers – The White House of ‘The Great Southern Ghost Story’ – Epics Are Out of Fashion – Earth to Earth – They Say…They Say – The Abominable Mr Gunn – The Whitaker Negroes – Trín-Trín-Trín – Cambridge Upstairs – ‘Ha, Ha! Chort-led Nig-ger – Ditching in a Fishless Sea – Period Piece – He Went Out to Buy a Rhine – Kill Them! Kill Them! – Harold Vesey at the Gates of Hell – Life of the Poet Gnaeus Robertulus Gravesa – Ever Had a Guinea Worm? – A Bicycle in Majorca – Evidence of Affluence – The French Thing – A Toast to Ava Gardner – The Viscountess and the Short-haired Girl – She Landed Yesterday – The Lost Chinese – You Win, Houdini! – The Tenement: A Vision of Imperial Rome – The Myconian – Christmas Truce – No, Mac, It Just Wouldn’t Work – Miss Briton’s Lady-Companion – My First Amorous Adventure – Notes – Sources.

Notes: St. Martin’s Press, New York published an American ‘impression’ of A158 on 16 December 1996 at $39.95. It was printed and bound in the UK. The book has a St. Martin’s press title-page and on the dust-jacket’s spine panel St. Martins Press replaces Carcanet / Alychamps. The jacket does not bear a printed price.

Copies of this book were sold in the United States through Paul & Company, Publishers Consortium, Inc. These copies are identical to those sold in the UK except that the dust-jacket does not bear a printed price. Copies were first offered in February 1999 at $45.00.

On 5 June 2008 Penguin Books, in their Modern Classics series, published an impression of A158 in paper covers, priced £12.99.

This book has been translated into Spanish.

A159 COMPLETE POEMS VOLUME 1 [(1995)]:

First edition:

Collation: [1]-[14]16, 288 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | COMPLETE POEMS | Volume I; p. [ii] list of titles in Carcanet’s Robert Graves Programme; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] edition, publisher’s, copyright, BL cataloguing, Arts Council of England assistance and printer’s notices; pp. [v] – xi CONTENTS; p. [xii] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; pp. [xiii] – xv INTRODUCTION; p. [xvi] blank; pp. [1-2] 3-324 text, with pp. [2, 24, 34, 64, 72, 116, 136, 138, 186, 200, 248, 286, 304 306] being blank and pp. [1, 23, 33 63, 71, 115, 137, 185, 199, 247, 285, 305] being unnumbered; pp. [325] – 421 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND TEXTUAL NOTES; p. [422] blank; pp. 423- 430 INDEX OF TITLES; pp. [431] – [432] blank.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 3.1/ 3.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed in pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves [in three lines:] COMPLETE POEMS Volume 1 | Edited by | Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward | [upright:] CARCANET | ALYSCAMPS

Price: £25.00. Number of copies: undisclosed. Published 23 November 1995 in white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale pink, pink and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

Contents: OVER THE BRAZIER: The Poet in the Nursery – Star-Talk – The Dying Knight and the Fauns – Willaree – The Face of the Heavens – Jolly Yellow Moon – Youth and Folly – Ghost Music – In Spite [Free Verse] – In the Wilderness – Oh, and Oh! – Cherry-Time – On Finding Myself a Soldier – The Shadow of Death – A Renascence – The Morning Before the Battle - Limbo – The Trenches – Nursery Memories: I. The First Funeral, II. The Adventure, III. I Hate the Moon – Big Words – It’s a Queer Time – 1915 – Over the Brazier – GOLIATH AND DAVID: The Bough of Nonsense – Goliath and David – A Pinch of Salt – Babylon – Careers – The Lady Visitor in the Pauper Ward – The Last Post – A Dead Boche – Escape – Not Dead – From FAIRIES AND FUSILIERS: To an Ungentle Critic – The Legion – To Lucasta on Going to the Wars–for the Fourth Time – Two Fusiliers – To R.N. [To Robert Nichols] – Dead Cow Farm – Mr. Philosopher – The Cruel Moon – Finland – The Caterpillar – Sorley’s Weather – The Cottage – When I’m Killed – Familiar Letter to Siegfried Sassoon [Letter to S.S. from Mametz Wood] – Faun – The Spoilsport – The Shivering Beggar – Jonah – John Skelton – I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? – Double Red Daisies – I’d Love to Be a Fairy’s Child – The Next War – Strong Beer – Marigolds – Love and Black Magic – Smoke-Rings – A Child’s Nightmare – A Boy in Church – Corporal Stare – ‘The Assault Heroic’ – From TREASURE BOX: Morning Phoenix – Catherine Drury – The Treasure Box – The Kiss – Lost Love – Fox’s Dingle – Mirror, Mirror! – COUNTRY SENTIMENT: A Frosty Night – A Song for Two Children – Dicky – The Three Drinkers – The Boy Out of Church – After the Play [The Forbidden Play] – One Hard Look – True Jenny – The Voice of Beauty Drowned – The God Called Poetry – Rocky Acres – Advice to Lovers – Nebuchadnezzar’s Fall – Give Us Rain – Allie – Loving Henry – Brittle Bones – Apples and Water – Manticor in Arabia – Outlaws – Baloo Loo for Jenny – Hawk and Buckle – The Alice Jean – The Cupboard – The Beacon – Pot and Kettle – The Haunted House [Ghost Raddled] – Neglectful Edward – The Well-Dressed Children – Thunder at Night – Wild Strawberries [To E.M. –A Ballad of Nursery Rhyme] – Jane – Vain and Careless – Nine o’clock – The Picture Book – The Promised Lullaby – Haunted – Retrospect: The Jests of the Clock – Here They Lie – Tom Taylor – Country at War – Sospan Fach – The Leveller – Hate Not, Fear Not – A Rhyme of Friends – A First Review – From THE PIER-GLASS: The Stake – The Troll’s Nosegay – The Pier-Glass – The Finding of Love – Reproach – The Magical Picture – Distant Smoke – Raising the Stone – The Gnat – The Patchwork Bonnet – Kit Logan and Lady Helen – Down – Saul of Tarsus – Storm: At the Farm Window – Black Horse Lane – Return – Incubus – The Hills of May – The Coronation Murder– WHIPPERGINNY: The Bedpost – A Lover Since Childhood – Song of Contrariety – Love in Barrenness [The Ridge-Top] – Song in Winter – Unicorn and the White Doe – Song: Sullen Moods – Angry Sampson [A False Report] – Children of Darkness – Richard Roe and John Doe – The Dialecticians [The Philosophers] – The Land of Whipperginny – ‘The General Eliott’ – A Fight to the Death – Mermaid, Dragon, Fiend [Old Wives’ Tales] – Christmas Eve – The Snake and the Bull – The Red Ribbon Dream – In Procession – Henry and Mary – An English Wood – What Did I Dream? [The Dream] – Interlude: On Preserving a Poetical Formula – Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist – A History of Peace – The Rock Below – An Idyll of Old Age – The Lord Chamberlain Tells of a Famous Meeting – The Sewing Basket – Against Clock and Compasses – The Avengers – The Poet’s Birth – The Technique of Perfection – The Sibyl – A Crusader – A New Portrait of Judith Bethulia – A Reversal – The Martyred Decadents: A Sympathetic Satire – Epigrams: On Christopher Marlowe – A Village Feud [A Village Conflict] – Dedicatory – To R. Graves, Senior – ‘A Vehicle, to Wit, a Bicycle’ – Motto to a Book of Emblems – The Bowl and Rim – A Forced Music – The Turn of a Page – The Manifestation in the Temple – To Any Saint – A Dewdrop – A Valentine – THE FEATHER BED: The Witches’ Cauldron [Prologue] – The Feather Bed – I Am the Star of Morning [Epilogue] – MOCK BEGGAR HALL: Diplomatic Relations [George II and the Chinese Emperor] – Hemlock – Full Moon – Myrrhina – Twin Souls – The North Window – Attercop: The All-Wise Spider – Antinomies – Northward from Oxford – Witches – Antigonus: An Eclogue – Essay on Continuity – Knowledge of God – Mock Beggar Hall: A Progression – The Rainbow and the Sceptic – WELCHMAN’S HOSE: Alice – Burrs and Brambles – From Our Ghostly Enemy – Death of the Farmer [The Figure-Head] – Ovid in Defeat – Diversions: To an Editor – The Kingfisher’s Return – Love Without Hope – Traveller’s Curse After Misdirection – Till Kettle – The College Debate – Sergeant-Major Money – A Letter from Wales – The Presence – The Clipped Stater – The Poetic State – Vanity [Essay on Knowledge] – At the Games – MARMOSITE’S MISCELLANY: To M. in India – The Marmosite’s Miscellany – The Moment of Weakness – From POEMS (1914-26): The Country Dance – The Rose and the Lily – An Occasion – A Dedication of Three Hats – Ancestors – The Corner Knot – Virgil the Sorcerer – Pygmalion to Galatea – In Committee – A Letter to a Friend – In Single Syllables [This Is Noon] – The Time of Day – Blonde or Dark? – Boots and Bed – The Taint – Dumplings’ Address to Gourmets – Sorrow – The Nape of the Neck – A Visit to Stratford – Pure Death – The Cool Web – Bibliographical and Textual Notes – Index of Titles

Note: 2nd impression (with corrections), 1999.

A160 COMPLETE POEMS VOLUME 2 [1997]:

First edition:

Collation: [1]-[11]16 [12]8[13]16, 200 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | COMPLETE POEMS | Volume II; p. [ii] list of titles in Carcanet’s Robert Graves Programme; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] edition, publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation, BL cataloguing, Arts Council of England assistance and printer’s notices; pp. [v] – xii CONTENTS; p. [xiii] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; p. [xiv] blank; pp. [xv] – xviii INTRODUCTION; pp. [1-2] 3- 256 text, with pp. [1, 11, 33, 45, 51, 65, 77, 123, 129, 141, 159, 177, 199, 219, 227, 235, 249, 257] being unnumbered and pp. [2, 12, 32, 34, 44, 46, 52, 64, 66, 78, 122, 124, 128, 130, 142, 160, 176, 178, 198, 200, 226, 228, 234, 236, 248, 250] being blank; pp. [257] – 369 BIOGRAPHICAL AND TEXTUAL NOTES; p. [370] blank; pp. [371] – [379] INDEX OF TITLES; p. [380] –[382] blank.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 2.6/ 3.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed in pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves [in three lines:] COMPLETE POEMS Volume 2 | Edited by | Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward | [upright:] CARCANET

Price: £30.00. Number of copies: undetermined. Published February 1997 in white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale purple, purple and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

Contents: Acknowledgements- Introduction – From POEMS (1914-27) (1927): The Progress – Hell- The Furious Voyage [The Dead Ship; Ship Master] – O Jorrocks, I Have Promised – Lost Acres – Gardener [The Awkward Gardener] – To a Change of Didacticism – The Philatelist-Royal – Song: To Be Less Philosophical – From POEMS 1929 (1929): Sick Love [Between Dark and Dark; O Love in Me] In No Direction – In Broken Images – Thief – [To the Galleys] – Warning to Children – Dismissal – Guessing Black or White – Hector – Against Kind – Midway – Cabbage Patch [Green Cabbage Wit] – The Castle – Welsh Incident [Railway Carriage] – Back Door – Front Door Soliloquy [Front Door] – Anagrammagic [The Tow-Path] – Vision in the Repair-Shop [Repair Shop] – Natures Lineaments [Landscape] – Sea Side [Sandhills] – Wm. Brazier [Pavement] – A Former Attachment [Quayside] – Return Fare – Single Fare – It Was All Very Tidy – A Sheet of Paper – From TEN POEMS MORE (1930): The Reader Over My Shoulder – History of the Word – Interruption – Survival of Love – New Legends [The Age of Certainty] – Saint [The Beast] – Tap Room [Cracking the Nut Against the Hammer] – The Terraced Valley – Oak, Poplar, Pine – Song: Lift-Boy [Tail Piece: A Song to Make You and Me Laugh] – From POEMS 1926-1930 (1931): Brother – Bay Of Naples – Flying Crooked – Reassurance to the Satyr – Synthetic Such – Dragons – The Next Time – TO WHOM ELSE?: Largess to the Poor – The Felloe’d Year – Time – On Rising Early – On Dwelling – On Necessity – The Foolish Senses – Devilishly Provoked [Devilishly Disturbed] – The Legs – Ogres and Pygmies – To Whom Else? – As it Were Poems, i, ii, iii – On Portents – From POEMS 1930-1933: The bards [Lust in Song] – Ulysses – Down, Wanton, Down! – The Philosopher [The Cell] – The Succubus – Nobody – Danegeld – Trudge, Body! – Music at Night – Without Pause – The Clock Man [The Clock Men] – The Commons of Sleep – What Times Are These? – From COLLECTED POEMS (1938): The Christmas Robin [Wanderings of Christmas] – Certain Mercies – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – Callow Captain – The Stranger – The Smoky House – Variables of Green [Green Loving] – The Goblet – Fiend, Dragon, Mermaid – Fragment of a Lost Poem – Galatea and Pygmalion – The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – Lunch-Hour Blues – Hotel Bed at Lugano [Hotel Bed] – Progressive Housing – Leda – The Florist Rose – Being Tall – At First Sight – Recalling War - X – Parent to Children – To Challenge Delight – To Walk on Hills – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – Any Honest Housewife [The Poets] – Defeat of the Rebels – The Grudge – Never Such Lover – The Halfpenny – The Fallen Signpost – The China Plate – Idle Hands – The Laureate – A Jealous Man – The Cloak – The Halls Of Bedlam – Or to Perish Before Day – A Country Mansion – The Eremites – Advocates – Self-Praise – The Challenge – To the Sovereign Muse – The Ages of Oath – Like Snow – The Climate of Thought – End of Play – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – No More Ghosts – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – From NO MORE GHOSTS (1940): The Glutton [The Beast] – A Love Story – The Thieves – Tom Sleep – From WORK IN HAND (1942): Dawn Bombardment – The Worms of History – A Withering Herb – The Shot – Dream of a Climber – Lollocks – Despite and Still – The Suicide in the Copse – Frightened Men – A Stranger at the Party – The Oath – Language of the Seasons – Mid-Winter Waking – The Rock at the Corner- From POEMS 1938-1945 (1945): The Beach – The Villages and Death – The Door – Under the Pot – Through Nightmare – To Lucia at Birth – Death by Drums – She Tell Her Love While Half Asleep – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Theseus and Ariadne – Lament for Pasiphaë – The Twelve Days of Christmas – Cold Weather Proverb – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – The Persian Version – The Weather of Olympus – Apollo of the Physiologists – The Oldest Soldier – Grotesques, i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi – The Eugenist – 1805 – At the Savoy Chapel – From COLLECTED POEMS (1914-1947) (1948): To Poets Under Pisces – June – The Last Day of Leave – To Be Called a Bear [To Be Named a Bear] – A Civil Servant – Gulls and Men – The Allansford Pursuit – Amergin’s Charm [The Alphabet Calendar of Amergin] – The Sirens’ Welcome to Cronos – Dichetal do Chennaib – The Battle of the Trees – The Song of Blodeuwedd – Intercession in Late October – The Tetragrammation – Nuns and Fish – The Destroyer – Return to the Goddess – From POEMS AND SATIRES 1951 (1951): The White Goddess – The Chink – Counting the Beats – The Jackals’ Address to Isis – The Death Room – The Young Cordwainer – Your Private Way – My Name and I – Conversation Piece – The Ghost and the Clock – Advice on May Day – For the Rain It Raineth Every Day – Questions in a Wood – The Portrait – Darien – The Survivor – Prometheus – Queen-Mother to New Queen – Secession of the Drones – Damocles – Homage to Texas – The Dilemma – General Bloodstock’s Lament for England – ‘¡Wellcome, to the Caves of Atrá!’ – To A Poet in Trouble – From POEMS 1953 (1953): Lovers in Winter – Esau and Judith – The Mark – With the Gift of a Ring – Liadan and Curithir – The Sea Horse – The Devil at Berry Pomeroy – Reproach to Julia – Dethronement – Cat-Goddesses – The Blue-Fly – Rhea – The Hero – Marginal Warning – The Encounter – I’m Through with You For Ever – With Her Lips Only – The Blotted Copy-Book – The Sacred Mission – From the Embassy – Sirocco at Deyá – From COLLECTED POEMS 1955 (1955): Penthesileia – Poets’ Corner – Coronation Address – Beauty in Trouble – A Lost Jewel – The Window Sill – Spoils – From THE CROWNING PRIVILEGE: (1955): The Clearing – The Three Pebbles – Possibility [The Question] – End of the World – To a Pebble in My Shoe – The Tenants – My Moral Forces – Interview – From 5 PENS IN HAND (1958): The Face in the Mirror – Forbidden Words – Song for New Year’s Eve – Alexander and Queen Janet [A Ballad of Alexander and Queen Janet] – The Coral Pool – Gratitude for a Nightmare – Friday Night – The Naked and the Nude – Woman and Tree – Destruction of Evidence – The Second-Fated – A Slice of Wedding Cake [Bitter Thoughts on Receiving a Slice of Cordelia’s Wedding Cake] – A Plea to Boys and Girls – A Bouquet from a Fellow Roseman – Yes – The Outsider – From STEPS (1958): The Enlisted Man – Mike and Mandy [Caroline and Charles] – Nothing – Call it a Good Marriage – Read Me, Please! – The Twin of Sleep – Around the Mountain – Bibliographical and textual Notes – Index of Titles.

A161 LETTERS TO KEN (1997):

a. First edition:

p. [a] Letters To Ken | (From 1917 – 1961) | photograph of envelopes; p. [b] frontispiece, photograph of Wilfrid Kenyon Tufnell Barrett; p. [c] title-page; p. [d] publisher’s, printer’s, LOC cataloging, and edition notices; pp. i – iii Introduction; pp. iv –v What Do we know About | Kenyon Barrett?; p. [vi] blank; pp. 1-53 text; p. 54 Sources of Information about RG

22.6 × 15.2 cm. Bulk: 0.5/ 0.9 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Outer free front endpaper: [photograph of letters in Graves’s handwriting] | [remainder, flush right:] This is number [line] [number in black ink written in above line] | of a limited edition of 200 copies; inner free front endpaper and back endpapers blank. Bound in simulated maroon leather; back blank; front stamped in gold: Letters To Ken | (From 1917 1961) | written by | Robert Graves and Laura Riding; spine stamped in gold: [from top to bottom:] Letters To Ken Sarner Brunswick Press

The inner front cover has ISBN number and bar code.

Price: $50.00. Number of copies 200. Published June 1997. Issued without dust-jacket.

Notes: The text consists of transcriptions of thirty-seven letters from Graves to Barrett and four letters from Laura Riding to Barrett.

As the publisher did not have permission to publish the four letters from Laura Riding, legal action by the Estate of Laura (Riding) Jackson resulted in the destruction of all unsold copies of this book and an effort by the publisher to recall all outstanding copies. According to the publisher, ten or fewer copies are extant. The publisher sent out a recall notice to purchasers and recipients of the book on 30 October 1997.

b. Second impression, revised.

Collation: 32 leaves.

p. [a] (1917 – 1961) | [photograph of envelopes]; p. [b] frontispiece, photograph of Wilfrid Kenyon Tufnell Barrett; p. [c] title-page; p. [d] publisher’s, LOC cataloging, copyright, edition and printer’s notices; pp. i – iii Introduction; pp. iv –v What Do we know About | Kenyon Barrett?; p. [vi] [photograph of letters from Graves to Barrett]; pp. 1-53 text; p. 54 A Final Note and Sources of Information about RG

22.8 × 15.2 cm. Bulk: 0.5/ 0.9 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Outer free front endpaper: [photograph of letters in Graves’s handwriting] | [remainder, flush right:] This is number [line] [number in black ink written in above line] | of a limited edition of 50 copies | [initials of publisher]; inner free front endpaper and back endpapers blank. Bound in simulated maroon leather; back blank; front stamped in gold: Letters To Ken | (1917 1961) |From | Robert Graves; spine stamped in gold: [from top to bottom:] Letters To Ken Sarner Brunswick Press

Price: $50.00. Number of copies 50. Published December 1997. Issued without dust-jacket.

Notes: The text consists of transcriptions of thirty-seven letters from Graves to Barrett. The four letters from Riding to Barrett in A161a are absent here.

Two hundered copies of A160b were bound in pale tan cloth, stamped in gold on the spine, as above. Such copies are termed on the free front endpaper as ‘Limited edition of 200 copies’ and on the verso of the title-page as ‘First Trade Edition.’ Published December 1997. Issued without dust-jacket. Price: $25.00.

A162 SERGEANT LAMB OF THE NINTH and PROCEED, SERGEANT LAMB [1999]:

First combined edition:

Collation: [1]-[16]16, 256 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth | Proceed, Sergeant Lamb; p. [ii] titles in Carcanet’s Robert Graves Programme; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] publication, copyright; rights reservation, BL cataloguing, sponsorship and printer’s notices; pp. [v]-xvii Introduction; p. [xviii] blank; pp. 1-270 text of Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth; pp. [271]-494 text of Proceed, Sergeant Lamb

21.5 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 3.4/4.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed in pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves | THE SERGEANT LAMB NOVELS | Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth & Proceed, Sergeant Lamb | Edited by Caroline Zilboorg | [upright, at foot:] CARCANET

Price: £35.00. Number of copies: undisclosed. Published September 1999 in laid white dust-jacket printed in pale green, green and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

Note: First combined edition.

A163 COLLECTED [COMPLETE] POEMS VOLUME 3 [1999]:

First edition:

Collation: 304 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | COMPLETE POEMS | Volume III; p. [ii] list of titles in Carcanet’s Robert Graves Programme; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] edition, publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation, BL cataloguing, Arts Council of England assistance and printer’s notices; pp. [v] – xxii CONTENTS; pp. [xxiii] – xxiv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; pp. [xxv] – xxviii INTRODUCTION; pp. [1-2] 3- 420 text, with pp. [1, 11, 15, 33, 37, 41, 6, 91, 97, 117, 123, 131, 147, 151, 169, 189, 193, 219, 239, 263, 273, 285, 297, 381] being unnumbered and pp. [2, 12, 16, 34, 36, 38, 42, 60, 62, 92, 96, 98, 116, 118, 124, 132, 46, 148, 152, 170, 190, 192, 220, 238, 240, 262, 264, 274, 286, 298, 382] being blank; pp. [421] – 562 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND TEXTUAL NOTES; pp. [563]- 579 INDEX OF TITLES; p. [580] blank.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 4.1/4.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed in pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves [in three lines:] COMPLETE POEMS Volume 3 | Edited by | Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward | [upright:] CARCANET

Price: £30.00. Number of copies: undisclosed. Published November 1999 in white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale blue, blue and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

Contents: Acknowledgements – Introduction – From FOOD FOR CENTAURS: Twice the Same Fever – Established Lovers – The Quiet Glades of Eden – Heroes in Their Prime – Catkind – Two Children [The Young Goddess] – Here Live Your Life Out! – Joan and Darby – Superman on the Riviera – The Picture Nail – Old World Dialogue – The Were-Man – The Person from Porlock – From THE PENNY FIDDLE: The Penny Fiddle – Robinson Crusoe – The Six Badgers – Jock o’Binnorie – From MORE POEMS (1961): Lyceia – Symptoms of Love – The Sharp Ridge – Under the Olives – The Visitation – Fragment – Apple Island – The Falcon Woman – Troughs of Sea – The Laugh – The Death Grapple – The Starred Coverlet – The Intrusion – Patience – The Cure – Hag-Ridden – Turn of the Moon – The Secret Land – Seldom Yet Now – To Myrto of Myrtles – Anchises to Aphrodite – A Lost World – The Dangerous Gift – Surgical Ward: Men – Nightfall at Twenty Thousand Feet – The Simpleton – Two Rhymes About Fate and Money – The Two Witches – Burn It! – Song: Come, Enjoy Your Sunday! – From COLLECTED POEMS 1961: Ruby and Amethyst – From THE MORE DESERVING CASES: The Miller’s Man – July 24th – Safe Receipt of a Censored Letter – From NEW POEMS 1962: [Privacy] – Recognition – The Watch – Name Day – Uncalendared Love – The Meeting – Lack – Not at Home – Horizon – Golden Anchor – Lion Lover – Ibycus in Samos – Possessed – The Winged Heart – In Trance at a Distance – The Wreath – In Her Praise – The Alabaster Throne – A Restless Ghost – Between Moon and Moon – Beware, Madam! – The Cliff Edge – Acrobats – Ouzo Unclouded – The Broken Girth – Inkidoo and the Queen of Babel – Three Songs for the Lute: I. Truth is Poor Physic, II. In Her Only Way, III. Hedges Freaked with Snow – The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele – The Unnamed Spell – From MAN DOES, WOMAN IS: A Time of Waiting - Expect Nothing - No Letter – The Why of the Weather – In Time – Fire Walker – Deed of Gift – At Best, Poets - She Is No Liar – A Last Poem – The Pearl – The Leap – Bank Account – Judgement of Paris – Man Does, Woman Is – The Ample Garden – To Myrto about Herself – The Three-Faced – Dazzle of Darkness – Myrrhina – Food of the Dead – Eurydice – To Beguile and Betray – I Will Write – Bird of Paradise – The Metaphor – Song: A Phoenix Flame [Morning Phoenix] – Secrecy – Joseph and Mary – An East Wind – Dance of Words – A Blind Arrow – The Oleaster – The Septuagenarian – Non Cogunt Astra – Song: Sword and Rose – Endless Pavement – In Disguise – A Measure of Casualness – In Time of Absence – The Green Castle – Not to Sleep – The Hearth – That Other World – The Beds of Grainne and Diarmuid – Rain of Brimstone – Consortium of Stones – The Black Goddess – Broken Neck – O – Woman of Greece – The Colours of Night – Between Trains – To the Teumessian Vixen – The Hung Wu Vase – La Mejicana – Lamia in Love – After the Flood – A Late Arrival – Song: With No Return – All I Tell You From My Heart – The Undead – From ANN AT HIGHWOOD HALL: Ann at Highwood Hall – St Valentine’s Day – I Have a Little Cough, Sir – Joseph and Jesus – LOVE RESPELT: The Red Shower – Above the Edge of Doom – Wild Cyclamen – Gift of Sight – Batxóca – The Snap-Comb Wilderness – Change – A Court of Love – Black – Between Hyssop and Axe – Gold and Malachite – Ambience – The Vow – The Frog and the Golden Ball – Those Who Came Short – Whole Love – This Holy Month – The Blow – The Impossible – The Fetter – Iron Palace – True Joy – Tomorrow’s Envy of Today – The Hidden Garden – The Wedding – What Will Be, Is – Son Altesse – Everywhere Is Here – Song: The Far Side of Your Moon – Deliverance – Conjunction – Nothing Now Astonishes – I’d Die for You [Postscript] – From COLLECTED POEMS 1965: Grace Notes – Good Night to the Old Gods – The Sweet-Shop Round the Corner – Double Bass – Descent into Hell – The Pardon – Point of No Return – A Shift of Scene – From SEVENTEEN POEMS MISSING FROM ‘LOVE RESPELT’: Cock in Pullet’s Feathers – Dead Hand – Arrears of Moonlight – What Did You Say? – Lure of Murder – The Gorge – Ecstasy of Chaos – Stolen Jewel – The Eagre – The Snapped Thread [The Tangled Thread] – Fortunate Child – Loving True, Flying Blind – The Near Eclipse – Dancing Flame – Birth of Angels – On Giving – From COLOPHON TO ‘LOVE RESPELT’: The P’eng that was a K’un – Like Owls – In Perspective – The Utter Rim – 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 – From THE POOR BOY WHO FOLLOWED HIS STAR: Hide and Seek – The Hero – At Seventy-Two – From POEMS 1965-1968: Song: How Can I Care? – Song: Though Once True Lovers – Song: Cherries or Lilies – Song: Crown of Stars – Song: Fig Tree in Leaf – Song; Dew-drop and Diamond – Song: Just Friends – Song: Of Course – Song: Three Rings for Her – Sincèrement – Dans un Seul Lit – Is Now the Time? – Twins – Sail and Oar – Gooseflesh Abbey – The Home-Coming – With the Gift of a Lion’s Claw – Wigs and Beards – Personal Packaging, Inc. – Work Room – The Ark – All Except Hannibal – The Beggar Maid and King Cophetua – For Ever – Jugum Improbum – De Arte Poetica – Sit Mihi Terra Levis – Astymelusa – Tousled Pillow – To Be In Love – Fact of the Act – To Ogmian Hercules – Arrow Shots – She to Him – Within Reason – The Yet Unsayable – None the Wiser – The Narrow Sea – The Olive-Yard – BEYOND GIVING: Song: To a Rose – Song: Dream Warning – Song: Beyond Giving – Trial of Innocence – Poisoned Day – Superstition [Leave-Taking] – In the Name of Virtue – What We Did Next – Compact – Song: New Year Kisses – Song: The Clocks of Time – Gold Cloud - Song: Basket of Blossom – Song: Wherever We May Be – What Is Love? – Song: The Promise – Song: Yesterday Only – Semi-Detached – Iago – Against Witchcraft – Troublesome Fame – Tolling Bell – Blanket Charge – The Strayed Message – Song: The Sundial’s Lament – Poem: A Reminder – Antorcha y Corona, 1968; Torch and Crown, 1968 – Armistice Day, 1918 – The Motes – From POEMS ABOUT LOVE: If and When – From POEMS 1968-1970: Song: The Sigil – Song: Twinned Heart – Song: Olive Tree – Song: Once More – Song: Victims of Calumny – Love Gifts – Mankind and Ocean – Virgin Mirror – Secret Theatre – How it Started – Brief Reunion – The Judges – Love and Night – Child with Veteran – Purification – Powers Unconfessed – Pandora – Solomon’s Seal – To Put it Simply – To Tell and Be Told – The Theme of Death – At the Well – Logic – Robbers’ Den – The Accomplice – First Love – Through a Dark Wood – In the Vestry – When Love Is Not – The Reiteration – Man of Evil – The Raft – The Uncut Diamond – My Ghost [The Co-Walker] – The Risk – Something to Say – Research and Development: Classified – The Imminent Seventies – Carol of Patience – H – Invitation to Bristol – The Primrose Bed – The Strangling in Merrion Square – The Awakening – From THE GREEN-SAILED VESSEL: The Hoopoe Tells Us How [Dedicatory] – 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 Miracle – The Rose – Testament – The Crab-Tree – Three Locked Hoops – Cliff and Wave – Those Blind from Birth – Fools – The Gateway – Advice from a Mother – A Reduced Sentence – The Gentleman – Complaint and Reply – Song: Reconciliation – Knobs and Levers – The Virus – Druid Loves – Problems of Gender – Confess, Marpessa – Jus Primae Noctis – Work Drafts – From POEMS 1970-1972: Her Beauty – Always – Desert Fringe – Death 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) – Birth of a Goddess – Beatrice and Dante – The Dilemma – The Wall – Women and Masks (translation) – Tilth – The Last Fistful – The Traditionalist – The Prepared Statement – St Anthony of Padua – Broken Compact – A Dream of Frances Speedwell – The Encounter – Age Gap – Nightmare of Senility – Absent Crusader – Dream Recalled on Waking – Colophon – From TIMELESS MEETING: The Promised Ballad – The Impossible Day – The Poet’s Curse – Seven Years [Where Is The Truth?] – Love as Lovelessness – The Scared Child – All Must End – Touch My Shut Lips – The Moon’s Last Quarter – True Evil –When and Why – The Window Pane – Pride of Progeny – That Was the Night – Song: The Queen of Time – Should I Care? – Timeless Meeting – Envoi – AT THE GATE: Ours Is No Wedlock – The Discarded Love Poem – Earlier Lovers – Fast Bound Together - £. S. d. – Three Words Only – True Magic – The Tower of Love – The Love Letter – Song: Seven Fresh Years – As a Less Than Robber – Singleness in Love – Love Charms – At the gate – The Moon’s Tear – Song: From Otherwise or Nowhere – Name – Two Discipliners – The Ugly Secret – Three Years Waiting – From COLLECTED POEMS 1975: The Crystal – A Charm for Sound Sleeping – The New Eternity – History of the Fall – Elsewhere – What Can We Not Ask? – Two Crucial Generations – To Come of Age – September Landscape – Crucibles of Love – Woman Poet and Man Poet – The Field-Postcard – If No Cuckoo Sings – Mountain Lovers – Three Times In Love – The Sentence – Spring 1974 – Advent of Summer – The Unpenned Poem – The Green Woods of Unrest – UNCOLLECTED POEMS: Juvenilia: 1910-1914: A Pot of White Heather – The Mountain Side at Evening – The Will o’ the Wisp – The King’s Son – The Miser of Shenham Heath – Rondeau – ʼAm and Advance: A Cockney Study – Peeping Tom – The Ballad of the White Monster – The Future – Alcaics Addressed to My Study Fauna – The Cyclone – The Ape God – Lament in December – Merlin and the Child – A Day in February – The Wasp – Five Rhymes: My Hazel-Twig - After the Rain – Envy – The King’s Highway – The Glorious Harshness of the Parrot’s Voice – Two Moods – The Briar Burners – The Tyranny of Books – The Exhaust-Pipe – The Organ Grinder – 1918-1927: The Two Brothers – Peace – Bazentin, 1916 – The Dancing Green – The Personal Touch – Song: The Ring and Chain – The Oxford English School – The Stepmother and the Princess – Cynics and Romantics – Records for Wonder – Old Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire – Misgivings, on Reading a Popular ‘Outline of Science’ – The Toads – A History – Four Children – The Bargain – In the Beginning Was a Word – The Bait – An Independent – [The Untidy Man] – 1934-1939: Midsummer Duet – Majorcan Letter, 1935 – Assumption Day – The Moon Ends in Nightmare – 1952-1959: The Housing Project – Advice to Colonel Valentine – Hippopotamus’s Address to the Freudians – Twin to Twin – Considine – The Juggler – The Young Witch – Birth pf a great Man – To Magdalena Mulet, Margita Mora & Lucia Graves – The Pumpkin – Max Beerbohm at Rapallo – The Grandfather’s Complaint – Song: A Beach in Spain – Bathunts at Bathurst – To a Caricaturist, Who Got Me Wrong – In Jorrock’s Warehouse – A Fever – Augeias and I – Is It Peace? – Fingers in the Nesting Box – Barabbas’s Summer List – Stable Door – Flight Report – School Hymn for St Trinian’s – 1960-1974: A Piebald’s Tale – The Intruders – Teiresias – Song: The Smile of Eve – [Verse Composed over the Telephone] –[Fir and Yew] – Song: Gardens Close at Dusk – Matador Gored – Confiteor Ut Fas – New Moon Through Glass – Dynamite Barbee – When a Necklace Breaks – A Queen – If Love becomes a Game – Queen Silver and King Gold – Learn That By Heart – Song: One in Many – A Late Daffodil for the Prince of Gwynedd – 1999 – Angry Gardener – Song: Weather – Fiery Orchard – Defeat of Time – Six Blankets – The Note – The Hedgepig – When He Sat Writing – Four Poems from DEYA: A PORTFOLIO: [Ours has no bearing on quotidian love] – [Love makes poor sense in either speech or letters] – [is there another man?] – [Confess, sweetheart, confess] – The Noose – The Moral Law – Bodies Entranced – Who Must It Be? – This is the Season – Unco – UNPUBLISHED AND POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED POEMS: JUVENILIA: 1910-1914: The First Poem – Nightmare – The Dragon-Fly – Boy-Morality – The Coracle – 1915-1919: The Last Drop – Trench Life – Through the Periscope – Machine Gun Fire: Cambrin – The Fusilier – O – To My Unborn Son – Return – The Savage Story of Cardonette – Died of Wounds – Six Poems from ‘The Patchwork Flag’ (1918): Foreword – Letter to S.S. from Bryn-y-pin – Night March – Poetic Injustice – The Survivor Comes Home – The Pudding – Mother’s Song in Winter – To Jean and John – 1920s-1930s: From an Upper Window – Drink and Fever – Vestry – The End – The Sand-Glass – This What-I-Mean – The Fingerhold – Then What? – Historical Particulars – Address to Self – Prosperity of Poets – 1940s-1950s: Diotima Dead – The Hearth – In the Lion House – An Appeal – A Ghost from Arakan – 1960s-1970s: Robin and Marian – Never Yet – Tanka – House on Fire – The Lilac Frock – Departure – North Side – A – Song: John Truelove – Requirements for a Poem – The Atom – The Cupid – Olives in March – The Undying Worm – Song: Though Time Conceals Much – Always and for Ever – ACROSS THE GULF: The Snapped Rope – The Goldsmiths – Adam in Hell – The Cards Are Wild – Unless – The Poised Pen – [Fragment] – How Is It a Man Dies? – Green Flash – Peisinoë – Across the Gulf – To His Temperate Mistress – Foot-Holder-Royal – The Pressure Gauge – Bibliographical and Textual Notes – Index of Titles

Note: The title-page is erroneously printed ‘COLLECTED POEMS’. It should read ‘COMPLETE POEMS’.

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