B38.1 IDEAS AND PLACES [1953]

IDEAS | AND | PLACES | BY | CYRIL CONNOLLY | [six pointed star] |. . . et nous errions, nourris du vin des Palermes et | du biscuit de la route, moi presse’ de trouver le lieu | et la formule. | RIMBAUD | LONDON | WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON | LIMITED

Collation: [1]10 [2]- [18]8, 146 1eaves.

p.[i] IDEAS AND PLACES; p.[ii] To L. L; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publication, acknowledgements and printer’s notices; pp. [v]–vi CONTENTS; pp.[vii] viii–x INTRODUCTION; pp.[1] 2–280 text, with pp.[203, 220, 228, 238, 253, 271] being unnumbered; pp.[281] – [282] blank.

20.8 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 2.1/2.6 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in rusty orange cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [two decorative devices as rules] | IDEAS | AND | PLACES | [two decorative devices as rules] | CYRIL | CONNOLLY | WEIDENFELD | & NICOLSON

Price: 16s. Number of copies undetermined. Published 15 May 1953 in a grey dust-jacket printed in black and red. The text on the rear flap is headed ‘AN HORIZON ANTHOLOGY’.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is a reply to the questionnaire ‘The Cost of Letters’ (pp. 89–90). Reprinted from C329.1.

A second impression was published in September 1953 in a dust-jacket similar to the first, but with text on back flap headed ‘THE GOLDEN HORIZON’.

An American issue using the English sheets was published by Harper & Brothers on 30 September 1953 at $3.50.

See C329.1.