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Graves. Robert. Goliath and David. Chiswick Press, London, 1916.

Price: US$1875.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Edge of Spine is Worn and on the Last Few Pages at The Bottom There Has Been a Bleed Through of the Red Cover at the Bottom of the; 20pgs pages.

Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

GRAVES, Robert.. Goliath and David.. London: Chiswick Press, [1916], 1916.

Price: US$5847.96 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front wrapper, "H. H. Abbott, from Robert Graves, Bryn-y-pin, 1918". This is one of only 200 copies of the author's second book of verse, written while he was recovering from wounds received during the Battle of the Somme. The recipient was fellow poet Harold Abbott (1891-1976). This copy was inscribed shortly after Graves's marriage to Nancy Nicholson in January 1918. They honeymooned in Wales before moving into Bryn-y-pin, a farmhouse on a hill above the Kinmel Park army camp in Rhyl where Graves was stationed. Abbott was evidently friendly enough with the newlyweds to visit them in their North Wales lodgings. He and Graves shared a friend and supporter in Harold Monro, the founder and editor of Poetry Review and Poetry and Drama, who was also the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop, a meeting place for Georgian poets: it was presumably here that Graves and Abbott first met. Higginson & Williams A2. Octavo, 20 pp. Original stitched red wrappers, edges untrimmed. Spine sunned extending slightly to wrappers, edges creased and a little rubbed, edges and title page lightly foxed. A very good copy of a fragile publication.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

GRAVES, Robert. GOLIATH AND DAVID. Privately printed for the author at the Chiswick Press, 1916.

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Description: First edition. Original plain oversized red paper wrappers. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to fellow poet Harold Abbott on the inside front cover "H.H. Abbott, from Robert Graves, Bryn-y-pin, 1918" A very good copy indeed, toned to the spine but bright and crisp. One of only 200 copies of Graves's second book of verse, written whilst Graves was recovering from wounds received during the Battle of the Somme and published in December 1916; 118 copies were distributed by his friend Siegfried Sassoon by February 1917 with the remainder being held by the publisher for later use. Harold Henry Abbott was one of the poets who was launched by Harold Monro through his publishing house The Poetry Bookshop, and it is likely that Graves met him through Monro who was also publishing Graves in his series of anthologies, Georgian Poetry. Higginson

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom