B72.3 OUT ON A LIMB [1969]

OUT ON A LIMB | selected poems by | DAVID SUTTON | Rapp & Whiting London

Collation: [1]–[3]8, 24 leaves.

p.[1] OUT ON A LIMB; p.[2] [set left:] For Gillian; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] acknowledgements, copyright, publisher’s, printer’s and rights reservation notices; pp.[5]–[6] FOREWORD; pp.[7]–[47] text; p.[48] blank.

21.5 × 13.8 cm. Bulk: 0.5/.09 cm. White wove paper, all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in light blue simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, top to bottom: [six-ended cross ornament] out on a limb david sutton rapp + whiting

Price: 25s. Number of copies undetermined. Published 24 July 1969 in white dust-jacket printed in purplish blue and black.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the Foreword on pp.[5] – [6]. There was a simultaneous paperback issue of this book priced 12s. 6d. One hundred copies of the hardcover issue were furnished with a leaf tipped in between the front endpaper and p. [1] reading: Of | this edition | one hundred | copies have been | numbered and signed | by the Author | This is No: | [number written in] | [signed David Sutton]

This book was previously listed in the second edition of this bibliography as B72.1