B65.1 RISING EARLY [1964]

[all flush left:] RISING EARLY | Story poems and ballads of the 20th century | chosen and introduced by | CHARLES CAUSLEY | with drawings by Anne Netherwood | [publisher’s emblem] | BROCKHAMPTON PRESS

Collation: 64 leaves.

p. [1] RISING EARLY; p. [2] first stanza of Graves’s poem ‘On Rising Early’; p. [3] title-page; p. [4] list of other books by Causley, copyright, publisher’s printers, endpaper designer’s and illustration copyright notices; p. [5] dedication; p. [6] blank; pp. 7-8 Contents; pp. 9-11[12]; p. [13] blank; p. [14] illustration; pp. 15-121 text and illustrations [with pp. 16, 18, 20, 24, 33, 44-45, 69, 72, 87, 105,121] being unnumbered; pp. 122-123 [124] Acknowledgements; pp. 125-126 Index of First Lines; pp. 127-128 Index of Poets.

21.5 × 14.0 cm. Bulk: 1.1/2.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers, outer sides and pastedowns printed in purple in a design by Kristina Winberg of swirls, thread-like lines and irregular shapes; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in pale grey simulated cloth, back and front blank; spine stamped in gold: [from top to bottom:] RISING EARLY [rule] CHARLES CAUSLEY | [upright:] [publisher’s emblem]

Price: 16s. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1965 in a white wove dust-jacket printed in green, black, orange, and blue.

Note: Graves’s contribution is two previously published poems: ‘A Frosty Night’ (p.15) and ‘The Young Cordwainer’ (pp. 30-31). Here Graves has added a previously unpublished note on the origins of the latter poem.