B82 WINGED BY THEIR OWN NEED 1988

[one line in red:] Winged by Their Own Need | [drawing of a crane in flight] | Poems by the Winners and Jurors | of the Robert Graves Prize | for Best Hungarian Poem of the Year 1970-1986 | Edited by Miklós Vajda | Illustrations by Michael Kane | THE NEW SEIZIN PRESS ⸳ DEIÀ ⸳ MALLORCA ⸳ 1988

Collation: 42 leaves.

p. [i] blank (as pastedown); p. [ii] drawing of standing crane; p. [iii] drawing of a group of three cranes; p. [iv] blank; p. [1] drawing of a crane in flight; p. [2] blank; p. [3] WINGED BY THEIR OWN NEED | drawing of a crane in flight; p. [4] blank; p.[5] title-page; p. [6] copyright; pp. 7-8 Contents; p. [9] Introduction; p. [10] blank; p. 11-16 Robert Graves and his Hungarian Prize; p. [17] The Jurors | p. [18] blank; pp. 19-30 text and illustrations; p. [31] The Prizewinners; p. [32] blank; pp. 33-76 text and illustrations; pp. [77]-[78] blank; p. [79] Colophon; p. [80] drawing of a crane in flight; pp. [81]-[82] blank; p. [83] drawing of a crane in flight; p. [84] blank (as pastedown).

23.8 × 16.7 cm. Bulk: 1.1/1.8 cm. Johannot mouldmade paper, watermarked Johannot ∞; top edges only trimmed. Bound without endpapers in boards covered grey-blue Fabriano Roma laid paper watermarked with the image of the she-wolf suckling the twins Romulus and Remus, below which ‘ROMA’. The paper covers the entire binding save for about 0.5 cm. of the edge of the front cover where red paper shows through; back: blank; spine: [in silver from top to bottom:] WINGED BY THEIR OWN NEED The Robert Graves Hungarian Poetry Prize 1970-86; front: [in silver, reproducing Graves’s manuscript of the poem:] – Requirements for a Poem – | Terse, Magyar, proud, all on its own, | Competing with itself alone, | Guiltless of greed | And winged by its own need. | Robert Graves | Budapest | May 8 | – 1988 –

Price: 14,000 pesetas/ £70.00/ US $105. Three hundred copies were printed. Those numbered 1-200 were for sale and were signed by the artist (Michael Kane), binder (Carmen García-Gutiérrez) and the printer (Tomás Graves). Copies I-C (roman numerals) were reserved for the artist, editor, poets, translators and others involved in the production of the book.

Issued without dust-jacket in cardboard slipcase, about three quarters of which is covered in grey-blue Fabriano Roma laid paper, as covers.

Note: Graves’s contribution is his poem ‘Requirements for a Poem’ (p. 14).