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Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: No. 98 of the signed edition. 72 p. 28 cm. Large brown illustrations and smaller b&w line drawings. Brown cloth hardcover. Ex library with call number and label on lower spine, labels and ink stamps on endpapers.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cloth. Small folio. 73pp. Grey pictorial dust jacket. Tan cardboard slipcase. R. Gordon Wasson bookplate. Copy #136 of 250 numbered copies signed by Graves and the illustrator James Metcalf. A very good copy with minor wear. The text is very good and clean. The jacket spine is browned and has several small pieces missing from its center. There is a small tape repair at the bottom of the spine. The slipcase is good with some light chipping and edgewear.
Seller: Robert Wendler Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$174.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Signed Edition (Signed by both Robert Graves and James Metcalf on limitation page). Number 142 of 250 copies. 36 wood engravings and 36 line drawings by James Metcalf. (viii) + 74pp. Dust jacket complete. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Very clean and tight. It is now generally recognised that the story told in the first four chapters of Genesis is only one of a group of Middle Eastern Creation legends, from which it differs in many particulars. But attention has hitherto been drawn' rather to the likenesses between Genesis and its Sumerian, Phoenician, Babylonian, Egyptian and Hittite counterparts, than to the differences. Robert Graves is the first to show that Genesis, a document of unexpectedly late composition, contains Western as well as Eastern elements; and further that such unmythical anomalies as the creation of trees and pasture before the heavenly bodies, and the formation of Eve, the `Mother of Mankind', from the rib of a man, are best explained as anecdotes based on a misreading of certain Canaanite icons, captured by the Hebrews when they overran Hebron. Mr. Graves suggests that these icons were intended to be read boustrophedon (`as an ox ploughs') and not always from the same direction, as the author of Genesis has assumed; and that they tell an altogether different story of a more primitive Creation myth current in Canaan. The argument is illustrated by a reconstruction of these icons, thirty-six in number, which have been engraved on wood in sub-Mycenean style by James Metcalf. These are shown twice, in different orders, to illustrate both the conventional Genesis story and the hypothetical version. Size: 4to
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Robert Graves. Adam's Rib. Trianon Pres, 1955.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Graves (Robert) Adam's Rib, signed limited edition, illustrated by James Metcalf, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly browned spine, slipcase, Trianon Press, 1955
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$284.15 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A signed work by Robert Graves in which he explores the Creation myth, a smart limited edition work with illustrated by James Metcalf. A signed limited edition, this copy numbered 126 of an 250. Signed by Graves and Metcalf to the limitation page.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An interesting study by Robert Graves on the first four chapters of Genesis, in which he looks at the creations myths and how they came from misreading of canaanite icons captures by Hebrews.Illustrated by James Metcalf with in-text illustrations and eighteen full-paged illustrations. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Light age-toning to the dust wrapper, mostly to the spine and head of the wraps. Minor edge wear, with a few neat tape repairs to the reverse. A few light spots to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$322.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. Large 8vo (19.5cm x 28cm). Original publisher's red cloth lettered gilt at the spine. pp 73. With wood engravings throughout by James Metcalf. Signed presentation from the books' designer Arnold Fawcus: 'For Audrey/ with love from/ Arnold/ Paris 1955.' Copy 'R' of 26 lettered copies signed by Robert Graves and James Metcalf. Fine in sound slightly browned VG plain slip-case.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom