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. The Owl A Miscellany Number 1 May 1919. Martin Secker, London, 1919.
Price: US$165.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Large quarto, 29 pages, (2 page bibliography), illustrations, good condition in original decorated paper covers, some wear to the corners and edges, edges of pages spotted, corner creasing of pages, . Contributors include Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, W H Davies and Max Beerbohm.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
. The Owl Number 2 October 1919. Martin Secker, London, 1919.
Price: US$165.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarto, 54 pages, (2 page bibliography), illustrations by William Nicholson, Rockwell Kent, John Nash and others, good condition in original decorated paper covered boards, wear to the corners, edges and top and bottom of spine with some loss of paper from the spine and corners, boards dust marked, text and illustrations in very good, clean condition. Contributors include Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Nichols, Edmund Blunden and others.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Robert Graves, ed.. The Owl: A Miscellany (October, 1919). Martin Secker, 1919.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bibliography. 56 pp. 9.75 x 12.25. B&W illustrations, colored renderings. Only three issues were published between 1919 and 1923. Editor-poet Robert Graves (he contributed as well) attracted talents such as Max Beerbohm, Walter de la Mare, Rockwell Kent, Vachel Lindsay and John Nash, to name but a few. Short stories, poems, artful drawings are all included in this rare "back issue." Covers are smoky purple with the owl in black-and-white front-and-center over the list of the contributors. Spine covering is almost completely peeled off with all edges rather banged up, bumped corners, slight warp to front cover. Pencilled marks inside front cover. Back few pages slightly indented towards top. Back cover reads "Athenian fowl with feathered legs / Stand emblem of our will / To hunt the rat that sucks the eggs / Of virtue, joy, and skill."
Seller: Griswold Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert (Hrsg.):. The Owl. A Miscellany. Nr. I, May 1919.. Martin Secker, London, 1919.
Price: US$274.53 + shipping
Description: 4°. Mit zehn ganzseitigen farbigen Illustrationen von Vincent Brooks. 29,(1) S. Illustr. Orig.-Karton. Es erschienen lediglich drei Hefte dieser Zeitschrift: Nr 1 im Mai 1919, Nr. 2 Oktober 1919 und Nr. 3 November 1923. - Mit Beiträgen von Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, Pamela Bianco, J.C. Squire, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, William Orpen, W.H. Davies, Nancy Nicholson, W.J. Turner, Max Beerbohm, Randolph Caldecott, Eric Kennington, George Belcher, John Galsworthy, Joseph Crawhall und L. Pearsall Smith. - Weitere Fotos finden Sie auf unserer Internetseite.- Einband berieben und an den Rändern etwas gebräunt; Ecken und Kanten berieben und bestoßen; Einbanddeckel lose und mit Randläsuren; Seiten etwas gebräunt und vereinzelt etwas braunfleckig.
Seller: terrahe.oswald, Gangkofen, Germany
Graves, Robert. The Owl. No. 2. A miscellany. Martin Secker, October, London, 1919.
Price: US$343.75 + shipping
Description: Slim folio, pp. [2], 3-54, [2]; 12 plates (some in color) by Rockwell Kent, William Nicholson, Derwent Wood, John Nash, and others; original pictorial boards; edges worn, rebacked and recased with new endpapers, modern bookplate; internally fine. Printed letterpress by Gerald T. Meynell. With a starry list of contributors, including both prose and poems from Maurice Baring, Max Beerbohm, Edmund Blunden, Walter De La Mere, John Freeman, Robert Graves, Vachel Lindsay, Siegfried Sassoon, H. M. Tomlinson, and others. Three issues only were published under the nominal editorship of Robert Graves: 2 appeared in 1919, and a last in 1923. "Published during an era when the best-remembered literary magazines were decidedly experimental and political in tone, Robert Graves's short-lived quarterly The Owl is notable for its purposeful conservatism. As the foreword to the first issue affirms, 'The Owl has no politics, leads no new movement and is not even the organ of any particular generation.' In keeping with this policy, Graves rejected more radical literary figures and featured an impressive group of established writers, including Thomas Hardy, W. H. Davies, John Galsworthy, and Walter de la Mare. As a traditional miscellany, The Owl also provided a forum for artists like Pamela Bianco, whose vibrantly colored drawings are featured in each issue, and for younger writers like John Crowe Ransom, Siegfried Sassoon, and Graves himself. It offers an important counterpoint to the more ideologically driven magazines favored by Eliot and Pound." -- Modernist Journals Project.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Various; Robert Graves. The Owl A Miscellany. Martin Secker, London, 1919.
Price: US$414.06 + shipping
Description: A scarce poetry periodical edited by Robert Graves, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. The second volume of only two ever published. With contributions by Baring, Beebohn, Bianco, Blunden, de la Mare, Freeman, Graves, Crisset, Kent, Lindsay, Lutyens, Nash, Nichols, R. Nicholson, W. Nicholson, Rickword, Sassoon, Shanks, Squire, Tomlinson, Turner and Wood. Illustrations by F. Vincent Brooks, a major British lithographic firm most widely known for reproducing the weekly caricatures published in Vanity Fair magazine. Robert von Ranke Graves (1895 - 1985) was an English poet, scholar, translator, writer of antiquity specialising in Classical Greece and Rome, and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Graves's poems - together 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, Goodbye to All That, and his pseudo-historical study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess - have never been out of print. In an illustrated paper covered binding. Externally, generally sound. Light wear to extremities and backstrip missing, previously reinforced with tape. With slight loss to paper and slight marks to boards. With evidence of past worming to boards and throughout. Front hinge strained. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places. Pages are bright but with occasional spotting and marks and slight foxing to endpapers. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Literary journal with extraordinary roster of contributors, including Max Beerbohm, Siegfried Sassoon, T. E. Lawrence, John Doyle, Enoch Soames, Robert Graves, John Crowe Ransome, John Masefield, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Rockwell Kent, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Lutyens, William Nicholson, etc. 4to. 32 by 25 cm. Mostly poetry, with also a mix of stories, dialogues, etc. and lovely plates, quite a few in color. All produced handsomely, and though short-lived, the confluence of talent marks these as an unique undertaking. Minor edge chips to wraps of the first volume. Chips along the joints and the spine of the second. Within, the leaves are age toned, with some scattered light foxing. Wraps for first issue, hardcover (paper pastedown) second two issues
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert [ed]. THE OWL A MISCELLANY. Martin Secker, London, 1919.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. Pictorial wrapper after design by William Nicholson. Illustrated. A few faint rubs to wrapper and pencil erasure at lower corner of rear wrapper, otherwise fine in cloth chemise and remnants of half-morocco case. An excellent copy of the first number of this literary and artistic miscellany printing work by younger poets and artists, and by their mentors of the preceding generation. This copy is one of the twenty-four special copies, either signed or with inserted signatures by the contributors: Thomas Hardy (signed with initials), Beerbohm, Nancy Nicholson, Graves, Davies, Belcher, Galsworthy, Bianco, Eric Kennington, Robert Nichols, Sassoon, Turner, Orpen, Masefield, L.P. Smith, Squire, and William Nicholson. The illustrations are generally in color. An important miscellany, redolent of its era and the tastes of the prime movers behind it. This deluxe, signed version is, of course, uncommon.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.