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Graves, Robert. On English Poetry. London; William Heinemann;, 1922.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Very good ex-library with dewey number on spine, a label on the front pastedown and a stamp on the front free endpaper and title page.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert. On English Poetry [First Issue] - Graves, Robert. William Heinemann, 1922.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First issue, first binding, in dustjacket. Text is clean and unmarked; binding is strong. Some pages creased at corner. Endpapers tanned. Jacket in poor condition, with portions missing. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.)
Seller: Big Star Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Robert Graves. On English Poetry. William Heinemann, 1922.
Price: US$21.68 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1922. No Edition Remarks. 149 pages. No dust jacket. Fully bound patterned leather. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing and corner bumping. Spine heavily worn. All surfaces heavily tanned.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition 8vo. Decorative brown and black with tipped in titles, minor abraded wear to prominent points, sound binding, toned eps, frontis missing, very good page condition
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Description: 8vo. xi, 149pp. In yellow and black decorated cloth designed by William Nicholson. Off setting to end papers as usual, but a very good copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Graves,Robert. On English Poetry. William Heinemann, London, 1922.
Price: US$92.36 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a Fine Copy of this Book in original cloth boards with paper title labels lettered in black to the spine and upper cover.Issued without Dust-Jacket.There are NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with No rolling or leaning to spine.Lovely clean text block internally and just a touch of offsetting to the blank front endpaper.Great copy for the collector as they really don't come any better than this in terms of condition.8vo 149pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1922]
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Description: First edition in second issue binding, 8vo., pp.149, decorative pale brown paper-covered boards stamped in black, with paper title labels to spine and front board; toning to rear free endpaper, foxing to fore-edges, superficial rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped but partial dust-jacket, which has 7cms loss to foot of spine, as well as 6 x 5 cms loss to rear lower margin, and chipping to extremities - front panel largely complete.
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.98 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue binding. 8vo., original black and brown pebble-patterned boards, printed paper label to spine and front cover. London, William Heinemann. Bookplate on front pastedown. Small split to head of front joint, paper label on spine slightly marked, some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a very bright, internally clean copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. xi, 13- 149 pp. Decorated boards in remnants of paper jacket. Light rubbing to book extremities. Internally clean. Boards designed by William Nicholson. This is the 2nd state of the binding. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Pp. xi, (1), 13-149. Yellow cloth decorated with a pebble motif and black lettering on front cover and spine. Front hinge starting. In the dust jacket that has splits along spine creases, light edge wear and a smallish chip at top edge. An early work in Graves' oeuvre, this following Country Sentiment (1920). Dedicated to T. E. Lawrence "of Arabia and All Soul's College . ." Scarce in dust jacket, which is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Please note: Reflections and glare in photography are a result of the photographer's shortcomings (mine!) and are not issues affecting the state of the dust jacket.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$179.59 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition of Robert Grave's interesting collection of essays 'On English Poetry'. The first edition of this work. This binding is the re-issued binding as both Robert Graves and the designed, William Nicholson, disliked the original yellow design. This edition is the first issue of the first edition according to the Higginson's Robert Graves bibliography. The issue points shared with the first issue are; 'that' instead of 'than that' on page thirty-three, line two from the chapter break, and 'have' instead of 'how' on page one-hundred and forty-five, line five. The binder's stub preceding the title-page also indicates that the half-title is a cancel, as called for in the first issue. 'On English Poetry' is a collection of sixty, sometimes controversial, essays on poetry. Included are 'The Nine Muses', 'The Gadding Vine', 'La Bella Dame Sans Merci', 'Limitations', 'The Classical and Romantic Ideas', 'On Writing Musically', 'Asking Advice', 'Poetry as Labour', and more. Robert Graves was an English poet, best known for his translation and interpretations of Greek Myths, and for his World War I memoir, 'Goodbye to All That'. In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally, smart. slight rubbing to the joints and to the head and tail of the spine. Very light bumping to the extremities. Internally, generally firmly bound, though slightly strained in one place. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 149. Original patterned boards with printed title labels to spine and front cover. Light rubbing to the edges, spine and external hinges. Bookplate to front paste-down endpape and neat signature and date to front free endpaper. A nice copy.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition, second issue binding, in paper boards [by William Nicholson]. Octavo. 149 pages. Sixty-one essays and an appendix, including: ''The Nine Muses'', ''The Parable of Mr. Poeta and Mr. Lector'', ''The Dead End and the Man of One Poem'', ''Spenser's Cuffs'', ''The Daffodils'', ''Vers Libre'', ''Moving Mountains'', ''The God Called Poetry'', ''Putty'', ''The Bowl Marked Dog'', ''An Awkward Fellow Called Ariphrades'', ''Ghosts in the Sheldonian'', ''The Laying-on of Hands'', ''The Necessity of Arrogance'' etc. The printed dedication reads: ''To T.E. Lawrence of Arabia and All Soul's College, Oxford, and To W.H.R. Rivers of the Solomon Islands and St. John's College, Cambridge, my gratitude for valuable critical help, and the dedication of this book.''Free endpapers partially tanned. Edges faintly spotted. Top part of spine slightly darkened. Very good indeed in the scarce dustwrapper which is extensively torn, defective at the spine and repaired on the reverse.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$272.25 + shipping
Description: 1st edition; 8vo, (208 x 139 mm), browning to prelims, blank prelim to title ? excised; publisher's yellow cloth, head and tail of spine bumped, spine and boards dust-soiled.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$295.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition, first state binding of On English Poetry. The original yellow design was not liked by the author and illustrator, William Nicholson, so many of the first issue 1560 copies were destroyed, making this a scarce copy. Published in July 1922, this issue was preceded by the US edition published in May. Original yellow boards with black on yellow patterning on the front board. Slight wear to the edges and spine. Previous owner's signature on the front free page. Two small tears on the title and dedication page. Closed tear on p 35.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition (preceded by the American Knopf edition) first issue. 1 vols. 8vo. Neither Graves nor William Nicholson, the designer, liked this binding, so a significant number of the 1560 copies comprising the first printing were issued in decorated boards, with a label. Higginson & Williams A7b Yellow cloth, decorated by William Nicholson. Very good First British edition (preceded by the American Knopf edition) first issue.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Graves. On English Poetry. London: William Heinemann, 1922.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Bright yellow cloth with decorative designs and lettering in black. Offsetting to endpapers. Nickel sized discoloration (darkening) on lower spine. Dust jacket missing nickel size piece at spine where discoloration occurs, and is a bit nicked at the spine ends, else VG, and duplicating the designs stamped on the book. DJ unclipped. Uncommon in dust jacket, and a very nice copy.
Seller: Ben Mazer Modern Firsts, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.