B33 HA! HA! AMONG THE TRUMPETS [1945]

HA! HA! AMONG THE | TRUMPETS | Poems in Transit | by | ALUN LEWIS | Foreword by | ROBERT GRAVES | London | George Allen & Unwin Ltd

Collation: [1]–[5]8, 40 leaves.

2 pp. blank; p.[1] HA! HA! AMONG THE TRUMPETS Poems in Transit; p.[2] publisher’s advertisements; [frontispiece, back blank]; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication and rights notices, epigraph (3 ll.), edition notice (Edition limited to 50 copies of which | this is No. [number written in]), war economy and printer’s notices; pp.[5]–[6] Contents; pp.[7]-[12] Foreword; pp.13–75 text; p.[76] publisher’s notice.

18.4 × 12.4 cm. Bulk: 0.7/1.0 cm. Heavy white wove paper; top edges trimmed and gilt; fore-edge trimmed; watermarked with a shell with a lion and: HANDMADE. Bound in dark blue cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, bottom to top: Ha! Ha! among the Trumpets ALUN LEWIS; at bottom of spine, upright: G | A & | U; the book is fitted with a dark blue ribbon bookmark.

Price: 10s.6d. Number of copies: 50. Published 19 July 1945.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the foreword (pp.[7] –[12]). An ordinary edition of this book (5,000 copies) was published at the same time, price 5s. A second impression of the ordinary edition was published in 1946.

There was an American issue (using the English sheets) of the ordinary edition published by The Macmillan Company, New York, on 19 October 1945 at $1.75.