B20 THE YEAR’S POETRY [1934]

THE YEAR’S POETRY | A REPRESENTATIVE SELECTION | [large solid dot] | Compiled by | DENYS KILHAM ROBERTS | GERALD GOULD · JOHN LEHMANN | JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD | LONDON

Collation: [a]8 b–i8, 72 leaves.

p.[1] THE YEAR’S POETRY; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] printer’s and publication notices; pp.5–7 PREFACE; p.[8] blank; p.9–12 CONTENTS; p.[13] THE YEAR’S POETRY; p.[14] blank; pp. 15–144 text.

18.7 × 12.2 cm. Bulk: 1.1/1.5 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed; top edges stained red. White laid endpapers. Bound in tan cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in red: THE | YEAR’S | POETRY | [solid dot] | THE | BODLEY HEAD

Price: 6s. Number of copies unknown. Published 4 December 1934 in a tan dust-jacket printed in red.

Note: Contains ‘Midsummer Duet, 1934’ (pp. 139–144) by Laura Riding and Robert Graves; not reprinted by Graves, but in Riding’s Collected Poems; the ‘Second Voice’ is Graves.