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

A165 YESTERDAY ONLY AND OTHER POEMS [2000]:

First edition:

Collation: 9 leaves, unsigned, sewn at centre.

2 pp. blank; p. [1] YESTERDAY ONLY | AND | OTHER POEMS; p. [2] IN MEMORIAM | Janet and Martin Seymour-Smith | p. [3] title-page; p. [4] edition, publisher’s copyright and printer’s notices; p. 5 NOTE, p. [6] blank; pp. 7-32 text; pp. [33]- [34] blank.

21.5 × 13.6 cm. Bulk: 0.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in unprinted white paper covers.

Price: £7.50. Number of copies: undisclosed. Published September 2000 in tan paper dust-jacket with tiny variously coloured flecks; jacket printed in black and dark tan and glued at spine.

Contents: Two Fusiliers – I am the Star of Morning – Full Moon – The North Window – A History – The Presence – From an Upper Window – Return Fare – Saint – The Felloe’d Year – Recalling War – A Love Story – Despite and Still – Theseus and Ariadne – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – Nuns and Fish – The Last Day of Leave (1916) – Counting the Beats – The Devil at Berry Pomeroy – Dialogue on the Headland – Ouzo Unclouded – The Hearth – The Narrow Sea – SONG: Fig Tree in Leaf – What We Did Next – SONG: Yesterday Only – SONG: Olive Tree – A Dream of Frances Speedwell – The Moon’s Last Quarter – The Green Woods of Unrest – At the Gate – The Unpenned Poem

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