CHARLIE COMPANY WHAT VIETNAM DID TO US.
New York: Morrow, 1983. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket.
War Literature
THE STATE OF NATURE.
New York: The Vanguard Press, [ 1946]. Cloth. Edges and endsheets tanned, clipping offset to pages 96-97, else very good in modestly used, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket with slivers of loss to front panel top edge, mild fraying at spine ends, and a dust-smudged rear panel. The perishable blue ink.....
DELILAH.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [ 1941]. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled, spine nicked in two places, otherwise good or better. First edition, advance review issue. "Life aboard a destroyer on a Philippine station just before World War I." - Hanna.
THE DARK HORSE A STORY OF THE YOUNGER CHIPPENDALES.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Gilt green cloth. Spine gilding a bit dull, but a very good copy in lightly worn pictorial dust jacket with a few shallow chips at the crown of the spine, a short closed tear, and some modest soiling. First edition. Inscribed by the.....
THE LONG WEEK-END A SOCIAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN 1918 - 1939.
London: Faber and Faber, [1950]. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Second impression, printed photo-offset from the 1940 first edition, but with a long "Note to the Second Edition" by the authors. Endsheets a trifle foxed, but a very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket.
BUT IT STILL GOES ON AN ACCUMULATION.
London: Cape, [ 1930]. Gilt cloth. First edition, first state of leaf 157/8. Top edge slightly dusty, otherwise fine in very good dust jacket with nicks at corners and a bit of darkening to spine panel.
BUT IT STILL GOES ON AN ACCUMULATION.
London: Jonathan Cape, [ 1930]. Bright green cloth, lettered in gilt. First edition, the less common second state, with leaf 157/8 a cancel, without reference to THE CHILD SHE BARE. Spine faintly sunned, boards a bit smudged and some foxmarks along top- edge, but a very good copy, without dust.....
COLLECTED POEMS (1914 - 1947).
London: Cassell and Co., [ 1948]. Gilt cloth. First edition (2962 copies printed). Ownership signature and small annotation of James Jones, else a very good copy in price-clipped dust jacket with a few creases and shallow chipping at crown of spine.
COLLECTED POEMS (1914 - 1947).
London: Cassell and Co., [ 1948]. Gilt cloth. First edition (2962 copies printed). Ownership signature of Howard Moss, else a very good copy in spine-darkened dust jacket with a few creases and shallow chips.
COLLECTED SHORT STORIES.
London: Cassell, [1965]. Gilt cloth textured boards. First British edition, preceded by the New York Doubleday edition. Very near fine in dust jacket.
COUNTRY SENTIMENT.
New York: Knopf, 1920. 12mo. Secondary binding of navy pebbled cloth, with wraparound paper label. First U.S. edition, published the same month as the London edition. With the ownership inscription of New Directions publisher James Laughlin. Top edge dusty, paper label faded at the spine, else a near fine copy.....
FAIRIES AND FUSILIERS.
London: Heinemann, [1917]. Reddish-brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Cloth somewhat hand-soiled, spine darkened, two bookplates (see below), a few smudges, but a good copy, without dust jacket. First edition, first binding, of Graves' most substantive trade collection of war poems, dedicated to the Royal Welch Fusiliers. With the bookplate and.....
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT.
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1957]. Gilt black cloth. Photographs. About fine in near very good dust jacket, the latter with some small chips, and a quarter-size coffee spot and faint doodle on the rear panel. First British printing of the second edition, with a new prologue and epilogue...
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT.
London: Folio Society, 1981. Decorated cloth. Frontis, maps and photographs. Lower fore-corner of one leaf of photos misfolded, mistrimmed and misprinted in production, otherwise about fine in slipcase with minor cracks to end joints of rear panel. First edition in this format, with the photographs and an Introduction by Raleigh.....
IN BROKEN IMAGES SELECTED LETTERS ... 1914 - 1946.
London: Hutchinson, [1982]. Large octavo. Cloth-textured boards. Edited by Paul O'Prey. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some tanning along the top edges of the inner flaps.
LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS.
London: Jonathan Cape, [ 1927]. Mustard yellow gilt cloth. First edition, first binding. Doughty flyer tipped in, prior to index. Externally a fine, bright copy, marred by slight dampstains at toe of fore- edge, top edge, and extreme upper edge of front endsheet. All of the contemporary presentation copies from.....
LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS.
London: Jonathan Cape, [ 1927]. Gilt medium brown cloth. Portrait. Illustrations edited by Eric Kennington, with maps by Herry Perry. First edition, in the probable second, and most common binding. Cloth a bit marked and lightly soiled; a good, sound copy.
LETTERS TO KEN (1917 - 1961) FROM ROBERT GRAVES;
[Cathedral City, CA]: Brunswick Press, 1997. Gilt lettered burgundy publisher's faux- leather. Frontis and photo. Fine, without dust jacket as issued. Revised edition, limited issue. Edited with commentary by Harvey Sarner. One of 50 numbered copies specially bound. An earlier printing included four letters from Laura Riding without appropriate permissions.....
OVER THE BRAZIER.
London & New York: St. James / St. Martin's, [1975]. Cloth. Photo-offset facsimile of the British Library copy of Graves's first book. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. Published in the Poetry Reprint Series.
SERGEANT LAMB OF THE NINTH.
London: Methuen, [1940]. Cloth. Frontis. First edition. Edges a trace dusty, otherwise an unusually nice copy in a very near fine example of the pictorial John Aldridge dust jacket.
TREASURE BOX.
[London: Printed for the Author at the Chiswick Press, December 1919]. Small octavo. Sewn unlettered blue wrappers (not stapled, as the bibliographers assert). Two small pictorial vignettes. Wrappers neatly split along spine, otherwise about fine. First edition of Graves's fourth book, printed in an edition of two hundred copies for.....
WELCHMAN'S HOSE.
London: The Fleuron, 1925. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Textblock tanned at edges, crown of spine a bit frayed with small nick a bit further down, sticker removal mark in upper corner of front board; just a good, sound copy. First edition. One of 525 copies printed. Decorations.....
TO RETURN TO ALL THAT AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1930]. Plum cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Portrait frontis. Year of publication gift inscription on free endsheet otherwise very good, without dust jacket. First edition of RG's father's autobiography. including a chapter turned over to RG, incorporating poems and some war letters.
THE LOST JULY AND OTHER POEMS.
London: The Fortune Press, [ 1946]. Cloth. First edition. About fine in dust jacket.
SAIGON.
Boston: Little, Brown, [ 1982]. Pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy, from page proofs. One corner bumped, else about fine.