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Graves, Robert. Over The Brazier. London - The Poetry Bookshop, 1920.
Price: US$38.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Bound in the original pictorial boards that are a little rubbed marked; gift inscription on front paste-down. First published in 1916.
Seller: McManmon, B.D. ABA, ILAB, Preston, LANCS, United Kingdom
Robert Graves. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, 1920.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, third printing of this title overall. Corners and spine ends rubbed, grey paper a bit toned, front hinge starting.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Graves. Robert. Over The Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop 1920, 1920.
Price: US$44.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition with corrections and a new foreword. First printed in 1916. Contents are clean but boards sl. dusty but colour illustration, a hand-coloured woodcut in blue and red by C. Lovat Fraser on front cover, still bright. Neat name/date on paste down which also has a few small pieces of sticky label, presumably to hide a mark. Overall Very Good 1000 copies of this edition were printed (Higginson A1b)
Seller: CHRIS MARTIN MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, Pleasley, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert.. OVER THE BRAZIER.. The Poetry Bookshop (1920), London, 1920.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 32 pages. Blue cloth backstrip, gray boards, titles and pictorial design printed in dark blue. Boards are lightly tanned at edges;; some offset browning on free endpapers. Second edition with corrections and a new foreword. 061507C
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
GRAVES, Robert.. Over the Brazier.. The Poetry Bookshop, London., 1920.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Description: Third edition, with a new short Preface by the author. Octavo. 32 pages. Cloth-backed paper boards with a design by Claud Lovat Fraser on upper cover. Covers marked, rubbed and bruised at corners. Free endpapers tanned. Good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
GRAVES, Robert. Country Sentiment. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1920.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 12mo, textured blue cloth over boards, with paper label. Early collection of poetry.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert. OVER THE BRAZIER. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 32 pages in very good condition; edges and endpapers yellowed. Quarter bound with blue cloth over grey boards. Blue illustration and titles on the front cover. Spine is rubbed and a little worn, edges yellowed, Corners bumped. GOOD
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover, no jacket, illustration on front cover, first hardcover printing. Quite good with slight shelf wear and slight age toning to covers, offsetting to endpapers.
Seller: Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First hardcover edition, with new foreword, has offset to first and last free endpages and front and rear pastedowns, light bumps to spine ends and corners, and light soiling to boards, otherwise a solid VG copy in clear plastic jacket.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1920.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, grey boards and blue cloth lettered in black with a haunting cover illustration of marching soldiers; with a touch of soiling; offsetting to endpapers. Third printing, containing corrections and a new foreword by Graves. A handsome copy of an elusive work.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: True first, 1920 Harrap (preceding Brentano's) edition. Light green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Text block edges a bit dulled by age, minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Nicely preserved copy with only slight wear. 128 pp., illus. w/ 12 color plates, two-color plates, and illus. in text. Vintage gift inscription (dated 1926) in red pencil on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Poets included here include Hilaire Belloc, Rupert Brooke, G. K. Chesterton, Walter De La Mare, John Drinkwater, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, Alice Meynell, James Stephens, and W. B. Yeats. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
GRAVES, Robert.. OVER THE BRAZIER.. The Poetry Bookshop,, London,, 1920.
Price: US$254.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. First Hardback Edition. 8vo. pp 32. Original publisher's illustrated light grey boards over blue linen spine. Coloured design of ruins by Lovat Fraser on the front cover. Decent copy of the revised edition, with a short new foreword: '.several amendations to text, including the suppression of two small poems inexcusable even in an early work.' ( RG) Endpapers tanned o/w VG+ in slightly used vg minus jacket (sl edgeawer, slight marks and chipped --front panel of jacket in good order showing ruins (Lovat Fraser)
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert. Over the brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920.
Price: US$343.75 + shipping
Description: Second edition of the author's first book, slim 8vo, pp. 32; original cloth-backed pictorial boards in pictorial dust jacket by Claud Lovat Fraser; dust jacket spine and top upper cover edge toned, minor damage to upper cover not affecting text or image from previously removed label (?), short tear to rear jacket cover upper edge; some offsetting to endpapers, else interior fine. A very good copy. Contents the same as the first edition, but omitting "On Finding Myself a Soldier" and "A Renascence". Higginson & Williams A1b.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
ROBERT GRAVES.. Over the Brazier. Poems.. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920.
Price: US$381.61 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A new revised edition of the author's first book, and the first hardback issue (originally issued in wrappers four years earlier). Slim 8vo. 32pp. Cloth-backed decorated boards featuring a Menin Gate design by Claud Lovat Fraser. Top edge dusty. Endpapers browned. Head and tail of spine and corner tips bumped and a little rubbed. Covers very slightly marked and one binding string to the first gathering snapped. A very good copy in nicked, rubbed and marked, slightly creased, chipped and dusty dust wrapper which repeats the Lovat Fraser design, browned at the spine and at some edges and with the publisher's price sticker to the front panel. Twenty-four poems, divided into two parts: 'Poems Mostly Written at Charterhouse 1910-1914' and 'Poems Written Before La Bassée - 1915'. 1,000 copies were printed. Higginson A1b / Reilly pp 146-7. "When these poems, written between the ages of fourteen and twenty, first appeared, I was serving in France and had no leisure for getting the final proofs altogether as I wanted them. The same year, but too late, I decided on several alterations in the text, including the suppression of two small poems, inexcusable even as early work. These amendations appear in this new edition, but I have left the bulk of the book as it stood" - the author's Foreword to New Edition.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated at copyright: "First published September 1920". Dated MCMXX at title page. Large 8" x 10 1/4" gift book design. Rare illustrated edition. Spring green full-cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles, decorative bands, moderate shelf wear. Cover features flourishing gilt borders and patterns. Pages very good, clean. Green matte endpapers. Stylish antiquarian signatures inside cover: "Robert N. Whitford" at center, and "Nancy Schaefer" above this; page 17 w/some neatly pencilled intelligent notation following Harold Monro introduction. Bind good; hinges intact. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Harry Clarke featuring two dozen plates in color and two dozen in b&w w/monochromatic colored elements. Vignettes and partial-page imagery throughout. Clarke's brilliant imagery presents as art nouveau with some transitioning to art deco. Sharp very good first edition of this illustrated gem. Contributing poetry includes pieces from: H. H. Abbott, J. Redwood Anderson, Hilaire Belloc, E. J. Brady, Rupert Brooke, P. R. Chalmers, G. K. Chesterton, Mary E. Coleridge, Frances Cornford, W. H. Davies, Walter De la Mare, John Drinkwater, Helen Parry Eden, James E. Flecker, Rose Fyleman, W. W. Gibson, Robert Graves, Juann Grenfell, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, Teresa Hooley, Lionel Johnson, Margaret Mackenzie, John Masefield, Irene McLeod, Auce Meynell, Harold Monro, Sarojini Naidu, H. D. C. Pepler, Queenie Scott-Hopper, James Stephens, E. W. Tennant, E. Thomas, R. E. Vernede, L. D'O. Walters, Sir William Watson, Marion St. John Webb, W. By. Yeats, and, Francis Brett Young. Clarke (March 17, 1889-1931) was a famed Irish book illustrator and stained glass artist. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh. 128 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Harry Clarke Illustrates from Hilaire Belloc to William Butler Yeats Twelve superb color plates, Twelve tinted plates and twenty-two black and white Vignettes [CLARKE, Harry, illustrator]. [WALTERS, Lettice d'Oyly, compiler]. The Year's at the Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry Compiled by L. d'O. Walters and Illustrated by Harry Clarke. With an Introduction by Harold Monro. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.,1920. First UK trade edition. Quarto (10 7/16 x 8 inches; 265 x 203 mm.). [1-4], 5-127, [1] pp. Twelve full-page color plates, twelve full-page black and white plates, and twenty-two black and white vignettes. Publisher's light tan cloth over boards, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in black and red. Neat name and date (1922) on front paste-down. A fine copy. Contains poems by Hilaire Belloc, Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, Alice Meynell, Harold Monro, James Stephens, William Butler Yeats, and others. "Harraps commissioned the Year's at the Spring Anthology illustrations as a result of the great success of the Poe illustrations and promised Bodkin, who had felt there should have been colour in the Poe, that there would be twelve colour plates as well as twelve black and white.There are some haunting imagesâ"unearthly, soulful and beautiful among these illustrations. There is none of the dread, the fear, the agonized foreboding and horror of the Poe. Here, the dead are depicted hooded in watery crimson, like exotic submarine flowers in vertically wavering strands, or feathers melting into the carriage of the beautiful Queen of the Dead. Many of the illustrations are set on, beside or beneath the surface of the sea and feature stylized submarine flora and fauna; galleons recur frequently. The Japanese and generally Oriental influence, so prevalent in the work of decorative designers and illustrators of the day, is noticeable; two of the finest illustrationsâ"those to Lettice d'Oyly Walter's All is Spirit and Part of Me and Rupert Brooke's The Great Lover (âOut on the wind of Time, shining and streaming.') cut across the page in a dramatic whiplash. Some are whimsical, a few are a little weak. Thomas McGreevy thought St. Augustine and his band of monks, an illustration to Elroy Flecker's The Dying Patriot, âthe most perfect of all Mr. Clarke's drawings'. Harry's own features recur oftenâ"(e.g. in the illustration to H.H. Abbott's Black and White, where âthe cold white face' is his, peering out through the mist, hatted and coated on the kerb of the poplar-lined Mount Merrion Avenue; and as one of The Dead)" (Bowe, pp. 55-56). Bowe, p. 149, no. 4; Steenson. A Bibliographical Checklist of the work of Harry Clarke, A3.b.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated at copyright: "First published September 1920". Dated MCMXX at title page. Large 8" x 10 1/4" gift book design. Rare illustrated edition in original wrapper. Beige full cloth boards, black cover and spine titles, generally light shelf wear; 2" area at lower spine mended w/matching cloth adhesive. Cover and spine feature crisp red patterned decorative designs. Pages generally very good; moderate fox, toning at endpapers. Bind fine; hinges intact. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Harry Clarke featuring two dozen plates in color and two dozen in b&w w/monochromatic colored elements. Vignettes and partial-page imagery throughout. Clarke's brilliant imagery presents as art nouveau with some transitioning to art deco. Rare original tan pictorial wrapper, moderate edge wear, rub; some chip to front panel and lower spine area. Protected in new clear sleeve. Harry Clarke illustrated wrapper features titles at cover and spine. Front panel features enchanting maiden dispersing flower petals floating to floral border design; stylized bowl of fruit at back center also surrounded by same floral border. Near very good first edition of this illustrated gem in rare original wrapper. Contributing poetry includes pieces from: H. H. Abbott, J. Redwood Anderson, Hilaire Belloc, E. J. Brady, Rupert Brooke, P. R. Chalmers, G. K. Chesterton, Mary E. Coleridge, Frances Cornford, W. H. Davies, Walter De la Mare, John Drinkwater, Helen Parry Eden, James E. Flecker, Rose Fyleman, W. W. Gibson, Robert Graves, Juann Grenfell, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, Teresa Hooley, Lionel Johnson, Margaret Mackenzie, John Masefield, Irene McLeod, Auce Meynell, Harold Monro, Sarojini Naidu, H. D. C. Pepler, Queenie Scott-Hopper, James Stephens, E. W. Tennant, E. Thomas, R. E. Vernede, L. D'O. Walters, Sir William Watson, Marion St. John Webb, W. By. Yeats, and, Francis Brett Young. Clarke (March 17, 1889-1931) was a famed Irish book illustrator and stained glass artist. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh. 128 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
GRAVES, Robert. Over the Brazier. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Third printing. Thin octavo. 32pp. Endpapers a little toned, very good in good dustwrapper almost entirely split along the spine and with small nicks and tears. Signed by Graves at a much later date (1964). Uncommon signed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated at copyright: "First published September 1920". Dated MCMXX at title page. Large 8" x 10 1/4" gift book design. Rare illustrated edition in original wrapper. Beige full cloth boards, black cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, bump. Cover and spine feature crisp red patterned decorative designs. Pages generally near fine, clean. Antiquarian pictorial bookplate inside cover w/scrolled text: "Who can number the sands of the sea and the drops of rain and the days of eternity? Ex-Libris, Dororthy Violet Burch". Plate depicts owl-topped column in over bordered ocean scene, with hour glass and open book. Adjacent this bookplate are fifteen beautiful signatures of apparent women's university: "From V. C., Autumn Term, 1921". Bind good; hinges intact. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Harry Clarke featuring two dozen plates in color and two dozen in b&w w/monochromatic colored elements. Vignettes and partial-page imagery throughout. Clarke's brilliant imagery presents as art nouveau with some transitioning to art deco. Original tan pictorial wrapper, moderate shelf wear, spine chip, rub; protected in new clear sleeve. Harry Clarke illustrated wrapper features titles at cover and spine. Front panel features enchanting maiden dispersing flower petals floating to floral border design; stylized bowl of fruit at back center also surrounded by same floral border. Sharp very good first edition of this illustrated gem in rare original wrapper. Contributing poetry includes pieces from: H. H. Abbott, J. Redwood Anderson, Hilaire Belloc, E. J. Brady, Rupert Brooke, P. R. Chalmers, G. K. Chesterton, Mary E. Coleridge, Frances Cornford, W. H. Davies, Walter De la Mare, John Drinkwater, Helen Parry Eden, James E. Flecker, Rose Fyleman, W. W. Gibson, Robert Graves, Juann Grenfell, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, Teresa Hooley, Lionel Johnson, Margaret Mackenzie, John Masefield, Irene McLeod, Auce Meynell, Harold Monro, Sarojini Naidu, H. D. C. Pepler, Queenie Scott-Hopper, James Stephens, E. W. Tennant, E. Thomas, R. E. Vernede, L. D'O. Walters, Sir William Watson, Marion St. John Webb, W. By. Yeats, and, Francis Brett Young. Clarke (March 17, 1889-1931) was a famed Irish book illustrator and stained glass artist. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh. 128 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.