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Graves, Robert:. Mock Beggar Hall. With a Cover Design by William Nicholson,. London, Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, 1924.

Price: US$93.18 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Original hardcover binding with the desing of the bat by William Nicholson, 79 pages, rehinged, cloth repaired spine with gilt title, ex library with library number on spine, armorial bookplate of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, inside front cover, deleted library stamp on title and on one of the last pages, front- and endpages foxed, inside very good condition. Large format, early Hogarth Press title. Woolmer 46 - 299 copies sold according to the Sussex ledger by 18 January 1926. Very uncommon. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550

Seller: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, Germany

Robert GRAVES. Mock Beggar Hall: [poems and dramas]. With a cover design by William Nicholson. London: published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924.

Price: US$320.22 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Decorated boards (by William Nicholson, the author's father-in-law). Spine a little worn as usual (the backstrip cracked at its upper edge). 4pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. "King George still powder-grimed from Dettingen / Called in thick tones, 'My Lord, fetch ink and pen. / I'll write a threatening note in my own hand. / This Chinese Potentate must understand / That Britons have a quenchless fame to brag. / No insult shall defile our glorious flag. / Two Bristol ships at Hankow fetching tea, / Boarded and robbed at wharfside as they lay / Of a costly cargo! Ha, Sir! Let me boast, / My Fleet stands ready to bombard your coast . . .'"

Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom

Robert Graves. Mock Beggar Hall. Leonard & Virginia Woolf At The Hogarth Press, 1924.

Price: US$344.98 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1924. First Edition. 79 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Contains typed copies - tucked into title page - of rare poem written by Siegfried Sassoon and sent to author from the former's hospital bed. Severe cracking to front hinge and gutters. Binding is fragile, however pages remain attached. Rough-cut edges with uncut pages throughout. Light tanning and foxing throughout, more pronounced towards the start and end of the book. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and pastedown. Faint black markings throughout, text is unaffected. Boards have heavy edge wear with bottom right corner of front board missing. Spine strip is completely missing. Noticeable marks and scratches overall. Scuffing to edges and corners. Inserts have noticeable edge wear with creasing and chipping. Faint black markings with tearing to folds.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Graves, Robert. Mock Beggar Hall; With a cover design by William Nicholson. Hogarth Press, London, 1924.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Small quarto,(10 in. x 71/2 in.) boards, very good. Dorothy Rutter bookplate. Woolmer 46.

Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.