B39.3 THE MERRY-GO-ROUND [1955]

THE | MERRY-GO-ROUND | A Collection of Rhymes and Poems | for Children | chosen by | JAMES REEVES | with illustrations by | JOHN MACKAY | [illustration of a merry-go-round in black and yellow] | WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD | MELBOURNE : : LONDON :: TORONTO

Collation: 196 leaves.

p. [i] THE | MERRY-GO-ROUND; p. [ii] blank; p. [3] title-page; p. [iv] publication and printer’s notices; p. v [explanation of the arrangement of the poems and division of the book into parts]; p. vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; p. [vii] I | YELLOW WHEELS | [illustration in black and yellow]; p. [viii] blank; pp. 1-84 text and illustrations; p. [85] II | GREY GOOSE AND GANDER | [illustration in red]; p. [86] blank; pp. 87-158 text and illustrations; p. [159] III | GREEN BROOM | [illustration in black]; p. [160] blank; p. 161-248 text and illustrations; p. [249] IV | STRAWBERRY FAIR |[illustration in green]; p. [250] blank; pp. 251-368 text and illustrations; pp. 369-383 INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES; p.[384] blank.

20.0 × 13.7 cm. Bulk: 2.1/2.5 cm. Cream wove paper; all edges trimmed; top edges stained red. Bound in blue cloth-simulated boards; back blank; front stamped in gold: The Merry-Go-Round | [image of a piper and woman in voluminous gown]; spine stamped in gold: The | Merry | Go- | Round | James | Reeves | [at foot:] Heinemann

Price: 12s. 6d. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1955 in white dust-jacket printed in red and black.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is eight poems, of which ‘The Pumpkin’ (p. 135) and ‘The Six Badgers’ (p. 141) are first published here.

Previous editions of this bibliography incorrectly cite A Golden Land, edited by James Reeves as first publication of the two poems.