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List 35: Robert Graves & Laura Riding McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery 3a & 4a Haddington Place Edinburgh EH7 4AE +44(0)131 556 5897 [email protected] http://www.mcnaughtans.co.uk a b x @mcnbooks McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 35: Robert Graves & Laura Riding items 1-2: Laura Riding 5. Graves, Robert. Poems 1929. London: Printed and published at the Seizin Press, 1929. 1. Riding, Laura. Twenty Poems Less. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. FIRST EDITION, NO. 17 OF 225 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [iv], 33, [3]. Original green cloth, spine lettered in FIRST EDITION, NO. 105 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, gilt. Spine slightly faded, front flyleaf toned. £250 folio, pp. [iv], 33, [3]. Original quarter black morocco, photo- graphically-decorated paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. One or two spots to page edges. Spine ends slightly rubbed. £350 Higginson & Williams A33. 2. Riding, Laura. Four 6. Lye, Len. No Unposted Letters to Cath- Trouble. Deya, Ma- erina. Paris: Hours Press, jorca: The Seizin Press, [1930]. 1930. FIRST EDITION, NO. 120 OF 200 FIRST EDITION, NO. 99 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY small 4to, pp. [vi], 50, [4]. THE AUTHOR, folio, [vi], Original quarter black moroc- 27, [1]. Original quarter co, decorated paper boards (by white buckram, boards Len Lye), spine lettered in gilt. decorated in red, brown Spine just a touch rubbed at and textured gilt by Len head and tail. £300 Lye, spine lettered in gilt. Spine very slightly The second issue, with the tipped-in introductory note which was omit- soiled. £350 ted from the first 100 or so copies. 7. Riding, Laura. Though Gently. Deya, Majorca: The items 3-9: The Seizin Press Seizin Press, 1930. 3. Riding, Laura. Love as Love, Death as Death London: Printed and Published at the Seizin Press, 1928. FIRST EDITION, NO. 182 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, folio, pp. [iv], 29, [1]. Original quarter buckram, decorated paper boards by Len Lye, spine lettered in gilt. A few marks to FIRST EDITION, NO. 153 OF 175 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, cloth, outline sellotape stains to corners of endpapers. £300 8vo, pp. [viii], 64. Original white cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Damaged by a flood with substantial dampstaining and mould-marking throughout, loss to lower margin of first and 8. Graves, Robert. To Whom Else? Deya, Majorca: last few leaves. Binding soiled and showing faint marks from The Seizin Press, 1931. the damp. £50 FIRST EDITION, NO. 69 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Established initially as a private press at Graves & Riding’s home in folio, pp. [iv], 19, [1]. Original quarter cream cloth, boards Hammersmith with the help of Vyvyan Richards, then moved with decorated in blue, grey, and textured silver by Len Lye, spine them to Mallorca in 1930, the Seizin Press ultimately printed 7 titles in lettered in silver. A small rust-stain and slight damage to its ‘series’, then co-published several more through Constable, before its dissolution in 1937. head of a few leaves (from an old paper-clip). Spine darkened and a bit mottled, a touch of wear to fore-edge, gutters of endpapers showing a little damp-marking. £250 4. Stein, Gertrude. An Acquaintance with Descrip- tion. London: Printed and Higginson & Williams A37. published at The Seizin Press, 1929. 9. Riding, Laura. Laura and Francisca. Deya, Major- ca: The Seizin Press, 1931. FIRST EDITION, NO. 182 OF 225 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, FIRST EDITION, NO. 39 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [iv], 50, [2]. Original folio, pp. [vi], 22, [4]. Original quarter grey cloth, decorative white cloth, spine lettered in gilt. paper boards (by Len Lye), spine lettered in silver. Small A little light browning. Binding mark to cloth at foot, one endpaper with a small outline sello- slightly soiled. £850 tape stain to corner. £250 2 McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 35: Robert Graves & Laura Riding Items 10-12: Riding & Graves Items 13-86: Robert Graves 10. Riding, Laura & Robert Graves. A Survey of 13. Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier. London: The Modernist Poetry. London: William Heinemann Ltd, Poetry Bookshop, 1916. 1927. Second impression, 8vo, 32. Original buff paper wrappers, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 295, [1]. Original quarter black cloth, front printed in black, blue, and red. Foxed at beginning and red and white patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. end. Wrappers creased, spine partially defective and stained by Corners and edges a touch worn, a dampmark to corner of rear an old sellotape repair (since removed). £200 endpapers. Small ownership inscription and bookseller’s ticket to front endpapers, signed by Robert Graves on the half-title Higginson & Williams A1a. and dated 1978. £200 14. Graves, Robert. Fairies and Fusiliers. London: Higginson & Williams A28a. William Heinemann, 1917. 11. Riding, Laura & Rob- FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. x, 83, [1]. Original red cloth, spine let- ert Graves. A Pamphlet tered in gilt. Sunned (particularly spine), gilt darkened, spine Against Anthologies. Lon- ends bumped. £85 don: Jonathan Cape, 1928. Higginson & Williams A3a. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 192. Original orange cloth, spine The author’s third book, published in an edition of 1,000 copies. lettered in gilt, cream dust- jacket printed in black and Richard Hughes’s copy red. Dustjacket soiled and a bit rubbed, a couple of short edge- 15. Graves, Robert, ed.. The Owl. A Miscellany. No. 1. tears, some internal reinforce- May 1919. London: Martin Secker, 1919. ment with white tape at top edge and fold ends, a re-pricing FIRST EDITION, 4to, pp. 29, [3] + 10 plates. Original wrappers label partially removed from spine panel. Ownership inscrip- printed in black and pink. A little light spotting internally. tion to flyleaf, signed by Robert Graves on the title-page: ‘Rob- Wrappers somewhat soiled and a bit won, a small hole to front ert, 1978’. £120 wrapper through first two leaves (Contents and Foreword), with loss to three characters on contents leaf. Ownership in- Higginson & Williams A29a. scription of R.A.W. Hughes to contents leaf. £200 The copy of the poet and novelist Richard Arthur Warren Hughes 12. Riding, Laura & Robert Graves, eds.. Epilogue. (1900-1976), author of A High Wind in Jamaica. Hughes was a con- A Critical Summary. Volume I. [With:] Volume II. temporary of Graves at Oxford (with their 5-year age-difference a result [And:] Volume III. [And:] The World and Ourselves. of Graves’s war service) and together they co-edited the 1921 edition of London [and Deya, Majorca]: Constable & Co. [and The Oxford Poetry. Seizin Press]; vol. 4 Chatto & Windus, 1935-1938. 16. Graves, Robert, ed.. The Owl. A Miscellany. No. FIRST EDITIONS, 4 vols., pp. v, [i], 245, [1] + 5 plates; v, [i], 251, 1. May 1919. [With:] No. 2. October 1919. [And:] The [1]; v, [i], 257, [1] + 4 plates; xi, [i], 529, [1]. Original coloured Winter Owl. London: Martin Secker, 1919-1923. boards (buff, green, red) printed in black (vols. 1-3) and orig- inal brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt (vol. 4). Boards FIRST EDITIONS, 3 vols., 4to, pp. 29, [3] + 10 plates; 54, [2] + 12 sunned, a few marks, vol. 3 only affected by flooding with plates; 60 + 10 plates. Original wrappers (vol. 1) and boards lower half warped and wavy and showing a light tidemark (vols. 2 and 3) printed in black and pink (vols. 1 and 2) and throughout as a result. £400 black and blue (vol. 3). Foxed, particularly at beginning and ends of each vol. A little rubbed at extremities, a few short Higginson & Williams B22, B24, B25, B28. tears. £400 A note at the beginning of Riding’s ‘The World and Ourselves’ specifies All that was published of this short-lived literary periodical, under the that it ‘represents the fourth volume of the literary series Epilogue... I editorship of Robert Graves with the help of William Nicholson for the hope soon to be able to renew the original programme with Epilogue V’, Winter Owl. though this was not to be. 3 McNaughtan’s Bookshop & Gallery List 35: Robert Graves & Laura Riding signed 21. Graves, Robert. The Feather Bed. With a cover design by 17. Graves, Robert. Country Senti- William Nicholson. Richmond: ment. London: Martin Secker, 1920. Printed & Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. Original blue Press, 1923. and black patterned boards, printed paper label to spine, cream dustjacket printed FIRST EDITION, NO. 56 OF 250 COPIES in purple. Light spotting to page edges. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 4to, pp. 28. Dustjacket lightly soiled and spine panel Partially unopened in original pink darkened, a tear to rear joint fold with a boards backed in black paper, boards piece of spine panel also torn, slight wear to other extremities. printed in black. Boards darkened and rubbed, spine worn Signed by the author on the flyleaf and dated 1976. £400 with loss to covering paper. The limitation statement and author signature on a slip tipped in to front flyleaf. £350 Higginson & Williams A5a. Higginson & Williams A9; Woolmer 33. 18. Graves, Robert. The Pier-Glass. London: Martin Secker, [1921]. One of half a dozen Graves titles published by the Hogarth Press, with this among the few dozen books that Virginia and Leonard printed by FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 53, [11, ads] + frontispiece. Original hand at their home. yellow and black snakeskin pattern boards, printed paper label to spine. Foxing to first and last few leaves. Spine slightly 22. Graves, Robert. Mock darkened, joints and spine ends a little rubbed. £120 Beggar Hall.
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