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Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1916.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages; 1st edition, with impression state unknown. Lacking the original Lovat Fraser illustrated wraps. Text block soundly bound and generally clean. First leaf is the title page which has just mild spotting and toning. A small vintage Strawbridge & Clothier price sticker to the top edge of the final page. Light rubbing to edges. The only indication of priority in printing of the 1st and 2nd impressions was printed by the publisher along the top edge of the wraps. So this must be presumed a 2nd impression. First published work by Graves. A good candidate for a recasing in cloth. Text block nearly VG but lacking wrap so G only thus
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier.. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1916.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Description: Second impression, 8vo, 32. Original buff paper wrappers, front printed in black, blue, and red. Foxed at beginning and end. Wrappers creased, spine partially defective and stained by an old sellotape repair (since removed). Higginson & Williams A1a.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GRAVES, Robert.. Over the Brazier.. London The Poetry Bookshop, 1916.
Price: US$272.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, second impression; small 4to; publisher's illustrated buff wrappers, some spotting to contents as always, some minor wear to the overlapping wrappers, a little tanned but a superior copy. The author's extremely scarce first book issued in two identical impressions within the first edition distinguishable only by the overstamp 'SECOND IMPRESSION' on the front wrapper (as in the present example.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Robert Graves. Over the Brazier. Poetry Bookshop, E-169, 1916.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Softcover. 8vo. The Poetry Bookshop. 1916. 32 pgs. Second Printing. Issued in the original tan pictorial wrappers by Claud Lovat Fraser. Wrappers worn with creasing to wrappers (bumping to edges and corners, bottom of wrapper hinge torn). No ownership marks present. Foxing Present. Text is clean and free of marks. 26 poems, Graves's first foray into publishing. First published by the Poetry Bookshop, London, in 1913. Robert von Ranke Graves (also known as Robert Ranke Graves and most commonly Robert Graves) (24 July 1895 7 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, critic and classicist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Graves's poemstogether with his translations and innovative analysis and interpretations of the Greek myths; his memoir of his early life, including his role in the First World War, Good-Bye to All That; and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddesshave never been out of print. E-169; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
GRAVES, Robert.. Over the Brazier.. The Poetry Bookshop, London., 1916.
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Description: Second impression. Octavo. 32 pages. Wrappers. Twenty-six poems. Hand-coloured cover device by Claud Lovat Fraser. The author's first book. Identical to the first impression save for ''SECOND IMPRESSION'' printed at top of front cover.Foxing to first and last leaves, as is often the case. Covers creased at the yapp edges. Spine a bit darkened. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1916.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original printed wrappers with a colored woodcut by Claud Lovat Fraser. Front side yapped edge carefully re-inforced for an inch with archival tape. Still a very presentable copy.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
GRAVES Robert. Over the Brazier. , 1916.
Price: US$608.71 + shipping
Description: First edition, second impression. Small 4to., original pictorial wrappers, with design after Claude Lovat Fraser. London, The Poetry Bookshop. Apart from a small light ink stain on the lower cover, overlapping edges a little curled in, a fine copy. Graves' first book: this second impression (bearing the notice only on the front cover, and quite often scratched off by unscrupulous operators) was not distributed until 1917, according to Higginson, A1.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
GRAVES, Robert. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1916.
Price: US$611.92 + shipping
Description: The author's first book. Internally very good subject to moderate browning and dustiness and a few small stains to the title page (couple mirrored on inside front cover) . Binding firm. Cover is somewhat shelfworn and a little scuffed with a small stain; the Claud Fraser design on the front cover is reasonably bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert. Over The Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop 1916, London, 1916.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 32 pp., First edition, first impression of authors' first book. Publisher's printed card wrappers with a hand coloured design by Claud Lovat Fraser. Title with a MS bookplate, 'Ex Libris A.B' on the title page. Title & last two leaves with some foxing, the title being the worst, otherwise occasional light spotting, more so to the fore-edges. Some darkening to the wrappers and creased on the yap edges, small 1.5cm split to lower front hinge, otherwise Vg. In a later cloth case with the plates of Simon Nowell-Smith & Judith Adams Nowell-Smith. [Higginson & Williams A1; Hayward 330; Millard 140; Nowell-Smith Coll. 353; Reilly 146; Woolmer A15a] 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
GRAVES Robert 1895-1985. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1916.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG, 2nd ed 1916. In its original grey paper wraps with an image in black and blue ink with the title in black ink, corners scuffed slightly, tiny chips to L edge. Second Impression stamped to upper cover corner. Internally NO inscriptions, adverts to endpages, light spotting to title page, [5], 6-32 pp. Cover designed by C Lovat Fraser. An excellent copy of a rare book, untouched. Wonderful! 26 poems, Graves's first foray into publishing. First published by the Poetry Bookshop, London, in 1913. (Higginson A1. Reilly 146. Contemp Poets 438). Graves, Robert von Ranke, poet and novelist, whose wartime experiences—during the battle of the Somme in 1916 he was so badly wounded in the lung that he was left for dead and was later able to read his own obituary in The Times—had a major impact upon his poetry, especially when combined with the thoroughgoing criticism which he had received from Edward Marsh, the editor of successive volumes of Georgian Poetry. In 1916 an impressive first volume of Graves's poems appeared, entitled Over the Brazier. See ODNB.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
GRAVES, Robert.. Over the Brazier.. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916, 1916.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Graves's first book, published when he was serving as a subaltern in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the First World War, shortly after his first meeting with fellow poet and Fusilier Siegfried Sassoon. This first impression was published on 1 May 1916. There was a second impression in 1917, and a second edition in 1920. Very scarce in such nice condition. Higginson A1a. Octavo. Original wrappers, hand-coloured woodcut illustration by Claude Lovat Fraser to front wrapper, titles in black, adverts on inner wrappers. Tanning to spine, small chip to tail, edges a little creased, some ink flecks to upper outer corner of front wrapper, foxed within, still a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Robert Graves. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London UK, 1916.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Robert Graves first work contains twenty six poems bound in original paper backed format. Some scattered spotting within the text. Light water stains and chipping and small tears to the edges and margins. Priced marked on the front cover. Publishers advertisements on the verso of the covers.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
GRAVES, Robert. Over the Brazier. Poetry Bookshop, London, 1916.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cover illustration by Lovat Fraser. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916. First Edition. Fine, clean copy of the author's first book. The fragile wallet edges are intact.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert. Over the brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1916.
Price: US$1187.50 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, pp. 32; original tan pictorial wrappers by Claud Lovat Fraser, yapp edges; some shelf wear, spine foot chipped, top edge of upper cover has been trimmed without affecting text; a quite lovely copy in custom blue-green morocco-backed clamshell box. Higginson A1a.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
GRAVES, Robert.. Over the Brazier.. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916, 1916.
Price: US$1288.26 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Graves's first book, published when he was serving as a subaltern in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the First World War, shortly after his first meeting with fellow poet and Fusilier Siegfried Sassoon. This first impression was published on 1 May 1916. There was a second impression in 1917, and a second edition in 1920. Higginson A1a. Octavo. Original wrappers, hand-coloured woodcut illustration by Claude Lovat Fraser to front cover, titles in black, adverts on inner covers. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase, green morocco label to spine. Minor creasing and nicking around extremities, some faint foxing. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom