Graves, Robert. POEMS 1929. The Seizin Press: London, 1929.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 x 5.5", green cloth, 33pp, extremities a bit rubbed, spine sunned, end papers toned else a nice, clean copy. LIMITED TO 225 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #20), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Seizin Three. One of the seven books published by Graves and Laura Riding at the Seizin Press.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
GRAVES, Robert.. Poems 1929.. The Seizin Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 34 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped in gold. First edition; No. 176 of 225 copies, signed by Robert Graves. Some light fading to spine and top edge as usual; otherwise a tight fresh copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 5 1/2" x 8 3/8", signed limitation leaf, followed by title page with simple design; 1-33 pp. + list of four Seizin titles (given below). Printed on a fine paper with anvil & hammer watermark. Olive green cloth, with titling gilt vertically on spine. No dustwrapper present. Spine shows very slight cocking, and has faded to a tan-green shade, as have front & back cover margins and edges; front & back paste-downs & free endpapers show age-related tanning. Small inperfection to binding cloth on lower area of front cover. Near fine. Scan shows a portion of the spine & the front cover. Purchased from Bill Targ's Chicago Argus Book Shop by Cleveland, Ohio-based book collector, C. T. Lonney (but without marks of his ownership). Contents: [titles of poems] [1] Between Dark And Dark; 2 In No Direction; 3 In Broken Images; 4 To The Galleys; 5 Warning To Children; 6 A Dismissal; 7 Guessing Black Or White; 8 Hector; 9 Against Kind; 10 Midway; 11 Green Cabbage Wit; 12 Castle; 13 Railway Carriage; 14 Back Door; 15 Front Door; 16 The Tow Path; 17 Repair Shop; 18 Landscape; 19 Sandhills; 20 Pavement; 21 Quayside; 22 Return Fare; 23 Single Fare; 24 It was All Very Tidy; 25 A Sheet Of Paper. [List of Seizin titles on last printed page:] Seizin One: Love As Love, Death As Death by Laura Riding. Seizin Two: An Acquaintance With Description by Gertrude Stein. Seizin Three: Poems 1929 by Robert Graves. Seizin Four: No Trouble by Len Lye.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.