B9 THE BEST POEMS OF 1924 [1925]
The | BEST POEMS | of 1924 | [publisher’s emblem] | Selected by | THOMAS MOULT | & decorated by | PHILIP HAGREEN | Jonathan Cape, Ltd., Thirty Bedford Square | LONDON
Collation: [A]8 B–I8, 72 leaves.
p.[i] THE BEST POEMS OF 1924 | [interwoven J and C]; p.[ii] cut of basket of flowers; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publication and printer’s notices; p.[v] To | THE MEMORY | of | ANATOLE FRANCE | and | JOSEPH CONRAD | Poets; p.[vi] blank; pp. vii–xii Contents; pp.xiii–xv INTRODUCTION; p.[xvi] blank; pp.1–127 text; pp.[128] blank.
18.8 × 12.6 cm. Bulk: 1.2/1.7 cm. White laid paper; top edges only trimmed; fore-edges unopened. White laid endpapers; inner sides printed with floral and vine design at each corner; first and fourth sides blank. Bound in boards covered in rough green paper printed in dark blue with design of splotches and spiderweb; spine has white label at top: The | BEST POEMS | of | 1924
Price: 6s. Number of copies undisclosed. Published in February 1925 in a cream dust-jacket printed in black and oxblood.
Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘Burrs and Brambles’ (pp.102–103).
There was an American issue of B9 in 1925 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, using the English sheets bound in patterned orange and white paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and with label at top of spine. The top edges are stained rust. Price: $2.00.
A photographic reproduction of B9 was issued in 1979 by Granger Book Co., Inc, Great Neck, New York, in their Granger Poetry Library series.