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SECTION B: Books and other publications with contributions by Robert Graves

B70.2 PROMISE OF GREATNESS [1968]

PROMISE | OF GREATNESS | [decorative rule] |THE WAR OF 1914-1918 | Edited by George A. Panichas | Foreword by Sir Herbert Read | THE JOHN DAY COMPANY | NEW YORK

Collation: 304 leaves.

pp. [i-ii] blank; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] copyright, rights reservation, LC card and printer’s notices; p. [v] vi-vii Foreword; p. [viii] blank; pp. [ix]-x Acknowledgements; pp. [xi]-xiv Contents; pp. [xv]-xxxvi; pp. [1]-[3] 4-572 text, map (p. 2) and section headings, with pp. [1-3, 12, 21, 23, 38, 53, 66, 85, 97, 114, 131, 133, 155, 167, 182, 202, 217, 226, 239, 250, 259, 271, 273, 285, 295, 307, 321, 332, 344, 358, 363, 377, 399, 417, 425, 438, 452, 464, 477, 488, 503, 516, 528, 541, 557, 559], and with pp. [20, 22, 132, 272, 378, 478, 556, 558] blank.

22.7 × 15.1 cm. Bulk: 4.0/4.6 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Dark goldenrod wove endpapers. Bound in Army green cloth; back blank; front stamped in gold: PROMISE | OF GREATNESS | [decorative rule] |THE WAR OF 1914-1918; spine: Promise of | Greatness | [decorative rule] |THE WAR OF | 1914-1918 | Edited by | George A. | Panichas | John Day

Price: $12.00. Number of copies undetermined. Published 11 November 1968 in a white dust-jacket printed in dark olive, black, red and cream.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘The Kaiser’s War: A British Point of View’ (pp. [3] 4-11).

There was English issue of the American edition published by Cassell in 1968.

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