B18 TO RETURN TO ALL THAT [1930]
TO RETURN TO ALL THAT | AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY | BY | ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES | LITT.D. DUBLIN, F.R.S.L. | [publisher’s emblem] | London ⸱ Jonathan Cape ⸱ Toronto
Collation: [A]8 B–Y8, 176 leaves.
p.[1] TO RETURN TO ALL THAT; p.[2] blank; [plate, back blank]; p.[3] title-page; p. [4] publication, publisher’s and printer’s notices; p.5 CONTENTS; p. [6] blank; p.7 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS and acknowledgements; p.[8] blank; p.[9] TO RETURN TO ALL THAT; p.[10] blank; pp.11-343 text; p.[344] blank; p.[345] BIBLIOGRAPHY; p.[346] blank; pp.347-350 bibliography; pp.[351]-[352] blank.
20.1 × 13.4 cm. Bulk: 2.3/2.8 cm. White wove paper; top and fore-edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in maroon cloth; front blank; back blind-stamped with publisher’s emblem; spine stamped in gold: TO RETURN | TO | ALL THAT | [decorative floral divider] | ALFRED | PERCEVAL | GRAVES | JONATHAN CAPE
Price: 7s.6d. Number of copies undetermined. Published 14 July 1930 in white dust-jacket printed in black.
Notes: Graves’s contributions are ‘The Hushu Bird’ (p.320), ‘The Montrose Quagga’ (pp.320–321), ‘Zacchaeus Zerites’ (p.321) and the war letters (pp. 322-331) printed in the Spectator in 1915 (C34).
The plate opposite the title-page is a photographic portrait of Alfred Perceval Graves, shown seated reading a book; this image is repeated on front panel of the dust-jacket.
There was a second impression, August 1930 and a third impression November 1930.
There was an Irish issue of B18 using the English sheets published by Talbot Press Limited, Dublin and Jonathan Cape.
TO RETURN TO ALL THAT | AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY | BY | ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES | LITT.D. DUBLIN, F.R.S.L. | DUBLIN | THE TALBOT PRESS LIMITED | JONATHAN CAPE | LONDON
The book is bound in coarse-weave blue and white cloth; back blank; front has an inset rectangular white paper label printed in blue: [all within a single rule box:] ‘TO RETURN TO | ALL THAT’ | ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES; spine has an inset rectangular white paper label printed in blue: [all within a single rule box:] ‘TO | RETURN | TO | ALL | THAT’ | GRAVES
Price: 7s. 6d. Published 15 July 1930, according to Talbot Press advertisement in Irish Independent, 14 July 1930, p. 5.
In the Irish issue, the plate opposite the title-page is a painting by Mrs. Honora Jackson (née Butson) of Alfred Perceval Graves in an academic gown.