B44 YOU COUL HEAR THE SNOW MELTING [1958]

piero heliczer | [row of 19 solid circular spots] | YOU COUL HEAR THE SNOW MELTING & | DRIPPING INTO THE DEERS MOUTH | [COUL] [DEERS]

Collation: 12 leaves, unsigned, stapled twice in the centre.

p.[1] blank; p.[2] letter from Graves, dated 7 March 1958; pp. [3]–[23] text; p.[24] blank, with photograph of Heliczer pasted in upper left corner.

15.9 ×15.7 cm. Bulk: 0.2 cm. Grey laid paper; top and bottom edges trimmed. Issued in yellow paper wrapper; across back: you coul hear the snow dripping | [on front, continuous:] and falling into the deers mouth; front has splotchy orange overprinting; inside of front cover is title-page, flush right; inside back cover: by piero heliczer | GIRL BODY | available through the dead language | [row of 13 solid circular spots] | title by siggy wessberg | photograph by harold chapman | press work by the dead language paris | dixhuit rue descartes

Price: undetermined. Number of copies undetermined. Published in 1958.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the letter (p.[2]).

In one copy examined, the photo of Heliczer on p. [24] was pasted at lower left corner.

B45 Note: Previous edtions of of this bibliography incorrectly cited A Golden Land, edited by James Reeves, London: Constable, 1958 as containing first publication of Graves’s poems, ‘The Six Badgers’ and ‘The Pumpkin’. These poems were first published in The Merry Go-Round, edited by James Reeves in 1955. See B39.3; B45 is cancelled.