Robert Graves was an English novelist, critic, classicist, and poet who produced more than 140 works during his life. His translations and interpretations of the the Greek myths, as well as his World War One memoir Good-Bye to All That and work on mythology The White Goddess have been consistently in print. Graves wrote historical novels such as I, Claudius, King Jesus, The Golden Fleece, The Twelve Caesars, The Golden Ass, and Count Belisarius which were and have been extremely popular.
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London: The Poetry Bookshop 35, Devonshire Street, 1916 [but 1917]. First edition, second printing of Graves' first book. Author's First Book. Read More Item Details for Over the Brazier Add to Wish List
Item #59057
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London: Hogarth Press, [1941]. First edition. The New Hogarth Library. No. VI. Julian Symons’ Copy, in Dust Jacket. With the ownership signature of poet Julian Symons, editor of Twentieth Century Verse, later to turn to detective fiction and biography and international acclaim. Read More Item Details for Work in Hand Add to Wish List
Item #325558
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London: Cecil Palmer, 1923. The last issue of Graves’ irregular literary miscellany (two issues of The Owl were publsihed by Martin Secker in 1919) Contributors include Thomas Hardy, David Garnett, Max Beerbohm (an unpublished sonnet by Enoch Soames), Pamela Bianco, Siegfried Sassoon, William Nicholson (a caricature), and T. E. Lawrence..... Read More Item Details for The Winter Owl Add to Wish List
Item #308354
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[Marlborough, Wiltshire]: Marlborough College Press, 1962. First edition, one of 400 in full crimson pebbled morocco. SIGNED. Read More Item Details for The More Deserving Cases. Eighteen Old Poems For Reconsideration Add to Wish List
Item #264949
Price: $1,750
London: Martin Secker, 1919. Signed by Beerbohm, Graves, et. al. The first of only three numbers of this rare little magazine edited by Graves, with the signatures of the contributors, including Graves himself, Max Beerbohm, John Galsworthy, Siegried Sasson, John Masefield, Robert Nichols, W.H. Davies, and others. The first two..... Read More Item Details for The Owl. No. 1 May 1919 Add to Wish List
Item #11652
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London: William Heinemann, 1922. First British edition (preceded by the American Knopf edition) first issue. Neither Graves nor William Nicholson, the designer, liked this binding, so a significant number of the 1560 copies comprising the first printing were issued in decorated boards, with a label. Read More Item Details for On English Poetry. Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of This Art, from Evidence Mainly Subjective Add to Wish List
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