B46 LOVER MAN [1959]

[all but cut flush left:] Lover Man | by Alston Anderson | [cut of boy and girl holding hands] | Cassell ∙ London

Collation: [A]8 B–M8, 96 leaves.

p.[i] [flush left:] Lover Man; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright, edition and printer’s notices; p.[v] For Marshall, with thanks; p.[vi] blank; pp.vii–xi [flush left:] Foreword by | Robert Graves; p.[xii] [flush left:] Illustrations by | Denys and Judith Valentine; p.[xiii] [flush left:] Contents; p.[xiv] blank; pp.[1] 2–177[178] text, with pp. [5, 16, 17, 20, 28, 29, 46, 49, 56, 57, 65, 72, 73, 77, 89, 105, 115, 128, 140, 141, 170, 171, 178] being unnumbered.

20.2 × 12.5 cm. Bulk: 1.1/1.5 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers; outer sides black. Bound in black cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in white ANDERSON | [solid rectangular box, inside which, up spine, black showing through:] LOVER MAN | CASSELL

Price: 16s. Number of copies undetermined. Published 9 April 1959 in white dust-jacket printed in black, yellow, light blue and red.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the Foreword (pp.vii–xi).

Mason/1978 reports a Doubleday issue, which varies, aside from the imprint, by having a LC card and fiction disclaimer on p.[iv]; measures 20.7 × 14.0 cm. Bulk: 1.3/1.9 cm.; only top and bottom edges trimmed; and spine stamped in red, running down: LOVER MAN | Alston Anderson | Doubleday

This was published 20 August 1959.