B79 AS I WALKED DOWN NEW GRUB STREET [1982]
As I Walked Down | New Grub Street | [ornament] | Memories of a Writing Life | by | WALTER ALLEN | [publisher’s emblem] | Heinemann: London
Collation: [1]–[9]l6, 144 leaves.
p.[i] As I Walked Down New Grub Street; p.[ii] list of other books by Allen; p. [iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright, Arts Council, ISBN and printing notices; p.[v] to Peggy; p.[vi]; blank; pp.1–271 text; p.[272] blank; pp.273–276 [277] Index; pp. [278]–[282] blank.
21.5 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 2.1/2.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, top to bottom: As I | Walked | Down | New | Grub | Street | [ornament] | WALTER | ALLEN | [publisher’s emblem] | Heinemann
Price: £8.95. Number of copies undetermined. Published early in 1982 in white dust-jacket printed in blue and pale orange.
Notes: Graves’s contribution is the portion of a letter on p.223.
Although the copyright statement states the publication date as 1981 the book was not published until 1982.
An American issue, printed and bound in England, was published by the University of Chicago Press.