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SECTION B: Books and other publications with contributions by Robert Graves

B28 THE WORLD AND OURSELVES [1938]

THE WORLD | AND OURSELVES | Laura Riding | [epigraph of 9 ll.] | 1938 | CHATTO & WINDUS | LONDON

Collation: [A]6 B–2K8 2L/L*2/8, 272 leaves.

p.[i] THE WORLD AND OURSELVES; p.[ii] note; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, printing and rights reservation notices; pp.v–viii Contents; pp.ix–xi Foreword; p.[xii] blank; pp.[1]-529 text, with pp.[1, 45, 131, 221, 369] being section headings and pp.[2, 46, 130, 132, 222, 368, 370] being blank; p.[530] blank; p.[531] printer’s notice; p.[532] blank.

21.8 × 13.7 cm. Bulk: 3.8/4.4 cm. White laid paper; top and fore-edges trimmed; top edge stained maroon. White wove endpapers. Bound in maroon cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: THE | WORLD AND | OURSELVES | [swirl] | Laura Riding | CHATTO | AND WINDUS

Price: 15s. Number of copies undetermined. Published in November 1938 in cream dust-jacket printed in maroon.

Note: Graves’s contribution is a letter (pp.120-126).

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