B43 NEW POEMS 1957 [1957]

New Poems | [swelled rule with fancy circular device in centre, inside which:] 1957 | Edited by | KATHLEEN NOTT | C. DAY LEWIS | THOMAS BLACKBURN | [publisher’s emblem] | London | MICHAEL JOSEPH

Collation: [A]8 B–H816, 70 leaves.

p.[1] NEW POEMS | [fancy circular device, inside which:] 1957; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, printer’s, papermaker’s and binder’s notices; pp.[5]–[7] Contents; p. [8] blank; pp.[9]–10 Introduction; p.[11] The Poems; p. [12] blank; pp. 13–132 text; pp.[133] 134–140 The Contributors.

20.1 × 13.0 cm. Bulk: 1.0/1.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in boards covered with paper in 5½ × 3 floral design; yellow cloth spine stamped in black: New | Poems | [swelled decorative rule] | 1957 | [swelled decorative rule] | a P.E.N. | Anthology | [publisher’s emblem] | MICHAEL | JOSEPH

Price: 15s. Number of copies: 2,000. Published 21 October 1957 in a medium blue dust-jacket printed in dark blue.

Note: Graves’s contribution is The Coral Pool’ (p.56).