B39 NEW POEMS 1953 [1953]

New Poems | [swelled rule, at centre of which is a fancy circular device, inside which:] 1953 | A P.E.N. Anthology | Edited by | ROBERT CONQUEST | MICHAEL HAMBURGER | HOWARD SERGEANT | Introduction by | C.V. WEDGWOOD | PRESIDENT OF THE P.E.N. | [publisher’s emblem] | London | MICHAEL JOSEPH

Collation: [A]8 B–K8 L6, 86 leaves.

p.[1] NEW POEMS | [fancy circular device, inside which:] 1953; p.[2] publisher’s advertisement; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s and printer’s notices; pp.[5]–[12] Contents; pp. [13] 14–16 Introduction; pp.[17]–18 Foreword; p.[19] section heading; p.[20] blank; pp.21–160 text, with pp.[41, 59, 79, 103, 121, 141] being section headings and pp.[40, 42, 60, 80, 104, 122, 140, 142] being blank; pp. 161–172 The Contributors.

20.2 × 13.0 cm. Bulk: 1.0/1.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in white boards with red and black designs (11 × 6); black cloth spine stamped in silver: New | Poems | [swelled decorative rule] | 1953 | [swelled decorative rule] | a | P.E.N. | Anthology | [publisher’s emblem] | MICHAEL | JOSEPH

Price: 10s.6d. Number of copies: 3,000. Published 18 May 1953 in a yellow dust-jacket printed in red and black.

Notes: Graves’s contributions are ‘Dialogue on the Headland’ (pp. 25–26), The Straw’ (p. 26), The Foreboding’ (p. 27) and ‘The Survivor’ (pp. 27–28).

There is a variant issue in red cloth-simulated boards, stamped in black on the spine, as above; front and back blank. Seen in dust-jacket, as above. Possibly, this is a remainder binding.