B7 THE BEST POEMS OF 1923 [1924]

The | BEST POEMS | of 1923 | [publisher’s emblem] | Selected | by THOMAS MOULT & | Decorated by | PHILIP HAGREEN | Jonathan Cape, Eleven Gower Street | LONDON

Collation: [A]8B–I8, 72 leaves.

4 pp. as pastedown and free endpapers, second and third sides printed with three designs of three leaves each, top and bottom, first and fourth sides blank; p. [1] THE BEST POEMS OF 1923; p. [2] design of two nymphs dancing; p.[3] title-page; p. [4] publication and printer’s notices; p.[5] To | THE MEMORY | of | MAURICE HEWLETT | and | HERBERT TRENCH; p.[6] blank; pp.7–12

Contents; pp.13–14 INTRODUCTION; p.[15] THE BEST POEMS OF 1923 | [cut of fat baby in grass]; p.[16] blank; pp.l7–135 text; pp.[136]–[137] blank; pp.[138]–[139] insides of free and pastedown endpapers, as front; p.[140] blank and pasted down.

18.6 × 12.5 cm. Bulk: 1.1/1.5 cm. White laid paper; top edges only trimmed; fore-edges unopened. Bound in royal blue cloth-textured paper with 22 × 14 rows of circular gold designs overall; spine has white label at top: The | BEST POEMS | of | 1923

Price: 6s. Number of copies undisclosed. Published in February 1924 in cream wove dust-jacket printed in black and red.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is Twin Souls’ (pp.68–69).

An American issue of B7 using the English sheets was published by Harcourt Brace and Company, New York in 1924.

A photographic reproduction of this book was issued in 1979 by Granger Book Co., Inc, Great Neck, New York, in their Granger Poetry Library series.