B19 THE SECOND OMNIBUS BOOK [1930]

THE | SECOND | OMNIBUS BOOK | Containing three full-length Novels, | as well as Short Stories, Plays, | Parodies and Poems | by | J.B. PRIESTLY | W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM | MAURICE BARING | ROBERT GRAVES | EDNA FERBER | J.C. SQUIRE | CHRISTOPHER BUSH | and | AUGUSTUS CARP | Edited by | RUPERT HART-DAVIS | [publisher’s emblem] | LONDON | WILLIAM HEINEMANN LIMITED

Collation: [A]6 B–T8 U4 W–Z16 , 538 leaves.

pp.[i]–[ii] blank; p.[iii] THE SECOND OMNIBUS BOOK; p.[iv] publisher’s advertisement; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] reprinting, publication and printer’s notices; p.[vii] EDITOR’S NOTE; p.[viii] blank; pp.[ix]–[x] CONTENTS; pp.[xi]–[xii] half-title for Priestly contribution; pp.1–292[293] Priestly text; pp.[294]–[296] blank; 2 pp., Maugham half-title; pp.115–147[148] Maugham text; p.[156] blank; 2 pp., Baring half-title; pp.1–8, 49–59160], 149–155[156] Baring text; pp.[1]–[2] Ferber half-title; p.3–34 Ferber text; 2pp., Squire half-title; pp.77–82, 86–88, 100 Squire text; 2 pp., Carp half-title; pp.1–274 Carp text; 2 pp., Graves half-title; pp.1–10 Graves text; 2 pp. Bush half-title; pp.1–312 Bush text.

18.7 × 12.5 cm. Bulk: 3.7/4.1 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed with map showing contributions as locations; first and fourth sides blank. Bound in dark olive cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: THE SECOND | OMNIBUS | BOOK | [star] | [two vertical parallel rules joined top and bottom] | [star] | HEINEMANN

Price: 8s.6d. Number of copies unknown. Published in August 1930 in a cream dust-jacket printed in black, yellow and magenta.

Note: Graves’s contributions consist of ten poems, six reprinted from Poems 1914–1927 (A24), and four new: ‘To the Reader Over My Shoulder’, ‘The Beast’, ‘The Terraced Valley’ and ‘Tail Piece: A Song to Make You and Me Laugh’.