Graves, Robert. The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey. Ernest Benn, London, 1927.

Price: US$12.81 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Size: 12mo. 139 pp. Rear hinge cracked. Spine faded. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges browned. Covers marked and worn. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; England; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 37259.

Seller: Dreadnought Books, Bristol, United Kingdom

Graves, Robert. The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey. Ernest Benn, 1927.

Price: US$12.81 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1927 edition. Poor dust jacket, with scuffs, marks, nicks, wear, tanning and fading. Some bumps/wear/marks/fading/discolouration to hard board. Foxing to text blocks and some page edges. Text very good and legible.

Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom

Graves, Robert.. The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey.. Ernest Benn, London, 1927.

Price: US$19.21 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 139 pages, original spare spine label tipped-in, neat previous owner's initials on the fly-leaf, spine slightly faded, spine label darkened with small slight water-stain, otherwise in very good condition. Size: 19.5 x 12.5 cm.

Seller: John Roberts, A.B.A., Bristol, United Kingdom

Graves, Robert. The English Ballad. London: Ernest Benn, 1927., 1927.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: G/-. Red cloth, paper label on spine. Boards faded and water spotted, rubbed at extremities, chip and fraying at head of spine. Pages are browned, binding and hinges sound. From the library of Henry Bosley Woolf, lexicographer and former editor-in-chief of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, whose bookplate and signature appear on front endpaper. A quote from the author's autobiography, "Good-Bye to All That", is penned in Woolfe's hand at the bottom of the Table of Contents, and two pages of the introduction have some underlining, presumably Woolf's. Nice association copy.

Seller: The BookChase, Wiscasset, ME, U.S.A.

Graves, Robert. The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey. Ernest Benn, London, 1927., 1927.

Price: US$25.62 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 139pp, owner's initials on corner of endpaper, foxing on page edges, text clean and tight, red cloth, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper spine rubbed and browned, partly cracked down one spine edge (now protected)

Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom

Graves, Robert. The English Ballad: A Critical Survey. Ernest Benn, London,, 1927.

Price: US$33.08 + shipping

Description: First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 139pp. Corners bumped. Diffusely spotted preliminaries. Bound in red cloth, back and front; white label on spine (now browned). Cloth faded on backstrip and mottled on boards. Some foxing to edges, otherwise a very neat clean copy. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Published in January 1927.

Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia

Graves, Robert. The English ballad: a short critical survey. Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1927.

Price: US$37.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, small 8vo, pp. 139; original red cloth, printed spine label; spine toned, small hole in cloth at spine head; learned contemporary pencil annotations and notes throughout, including on front and rear endpapers; a very good copy, albeit lacking dust jacket. Higginson & Williams A20a.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Robert Graves. The English Ballad. Ernest Benn, 1927.

Price: US$40.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition without jacket on red cloth with signature inside cover will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable

Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom

Graves, Robert. The English ballad: a short critical survey. Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1927.

Price: US$43.75 + shipping

Description: First edition, small 8vo, pp. 139; original red cloth, printed spine label; spine toned, else a fine copy, albeit lacking dust jacket. Higginson & Williams A20a.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Graves, Robert. THE ENGLISH BALLAD: A Short Critical Survey. Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1927.

Price: US$62.86 + shipping

Description: Pp. 140(last blank); cr. 8vo; red cloth, printed paper title page on spine, boards a trifle marked, spine faded and label slightly soiled, tiny chip at foot of spine; the free endpapers faintly offset, scattered light foxing; Ernest Benn Ltd., London, 1927. First edition. Higginson A20a. *Lacking the dust wrapper. From the library of David Levine, Sydney, whose book label is on the upper pastedown. The earlier inked ownership inscription of author and typographic designer Ruari McLean (dated Hammersmith, Dec. 1938), is written parallel to the fore-edge of the upper free endpaper.

Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Robert Graves. The English Ballad a Short Critical Survey. Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1927.

Price: US$83.26 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927. First edition of this book by Robert Graves, 139 pages in bright condition, neat former owners name on front endpaper, spare label at rear. Outer boards are a little faded on top edge and some very light water staining to spine barely noticeable very small bump to one corner, dustwrapper is rubbed and worn on edges a little darkened on spine and some water staining on spine. Though not perfect a pleasing copy of a collectable book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Boards. Good Plus/Good. 7 ¾ x 5 Inches. Hardcover.

Seller: Peter Sheridan Books Bought and Sold, West Molesey, Surrey, United Kingdom

GRAVES Robert. The English Ballad. , 1927.

Price: US$103.75 + shipping

Description: First edition. 8vo., original red cloth, printed paper label to spine. London, Ernest Benn Ltd. Booksellers ticket to front pastedown, some spotting to fore edge, extending occasionally to margins, without the dust jacket. With three rather charming pieces of pencilled marginalia: the ballads Wally, Wally and The Children in the Woods have been transcribed in musical notation on staves; The Compleat History of Bob of Lyn with an annotation noting the association to a hymn.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

GRAVES, Robert.. The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey.. London: Ernest Benn,, 1927.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: 139 pp. Ownership signature of American ballad scholar Bertrand H. Bronson on the front free endpaper, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with one short tear, and light toning to spine.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

GRAVES, Robert. The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey. Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1927.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. About fine in about very good dustwrapper with a small chip at the foot, some tiny tears, and a little spine-tanning. An attractive copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Graves, Robert. THE ENGLISH BALLAD a Short Critical Survey. Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1927.

Price: US$185.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo. 139pp. Bound in red cloth, paper spine label lettered in black. Very light occasional foxing to the first few leaves. In printed dust jacket with small stain rear panel.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.