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

B76.2 EL OLIVO OLIVE TREE [1976]

[cover serving as title-page:] [single rule rectangular frame enclosing all, except last line:] EL OLIVO | OLIVE TREE | [single rule rectangle within which:] black-and-white photograph of Robert Graves and Ramón Farrán | Poemas de | Robert Graves | y música de | Ramón Farrán | farrán∙música | 200 ptas.

Collation: 16 leaves stapled twice at centre.

p. [1] introductory statement by Graves and index; pp. 2-31 musical scores and lyrics; p. 32 text of Graves’s poems in Spanish; inner back cover text of Graves’s poems in English.

30.3 × 23.3 cm. Bulk: 0.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed.

Price: 200 pesetas. Number of copies: unknown. Published in 1976.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is an introductory statement on p. [1] and the poems ‘A Lost World’, ‘All I Tell You From My Heart’, ‘Olive Tree’, ‘Seven Fresh Years’, ‘The Far Side of Your Moon’, ‘The Green-Sailed Vessel’, ‘The Promise’, and ‘Three Words Only’ set to music by Ramón Farrán.

The text is in English and Spanish. A Hungarian edition with text in Hungarian and English was published as ‘’Olajfa (Olive Tree)’ by Edito Musica, Budapest in 1981.Olive Tree

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