B30 WORK IN HAND [1942]

WORK IN HAND | ALAN HODGE | NORMAN CAMERON | ROBERT GRAVES | The New Hogarth Library | Vol. VI | THE HOGARTH PRESS | 37 MECKLENBURGH SQUARE | LONDON, W.C.1.

Collation: [A]8 B–D8, 32 leaves.

p.[1] ALAN HODGE, NORMAN CAMERON, ROBERT | GRAVES: WORK IN HAND; p. [2] list of books by the three authors, publication and distribution notices; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] AUTHORS’ NOTE and printer’s notice; p.5 contents page for Hodge; p.[6] blank; pp.7–25 text of Hodge; p.[26] blank; p.27 contents page for Cameron; p.128] blank; pp.29–41 text of Cameron; p.[42] blank; p.[43] contents page for Graves; p.[44] blank; pp.45–64 text of Graves.

18.1 × 11.9 cm. Bulk: 0.5/0.8 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in sea-green cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in red, bottom to top: HODGE, CAMERON, GRAVES [star] Work in Hand

Price: 2s.6d. Number of copies undetermined. Published 26 March 1942 in sand-orange dust-jacket printed in blue-green.

Notes: The Graves contents are: A Love Story – Dawn Bombardment – The Worms of History – The Beast – A Withering Herb – The Shot – Dream of a Climber – The Thieves – Lollocks – To Sleep – Despite and Still – The Suicide in the Copse – Frightened Men – A Stranger at the Party – The Oath – Language of the Seasons – Mid-Winter Waking – The Rock at the Corner.

Copies of B30 are seen with a square white price-label printed in black affixed to the front flap reading: “3/6 NET”. There was a second impression of B30 published in October 1942. The second impression is bound as the first. It was issued a pale green dust-jacket printed in blue-green. Price: 3s.6d.