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ROBERT GRAVES : Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography. (WITH SIGNED SLIP)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1929

First edition, first state, retaining one passage and one poem which so infuriated Siegfried Sassoon that a second state expurgating these elements was immediately issued. Tipped to the title page in a slip of paper bearing the author's inked signature. 8vo. 446pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece and seven photographs, maps and reproductions. Top edge dust soiled and very lightly spotted. A little damp marking to the base of the upper board, and a small area of further damp marking to the fore edge, just impacting the margin of half a dozen text leaves. Binding cracked at the title page but still perfectly sound. A little occasional marginal soiling and a narrow strip of light partial toning to the free endpapers. Some bruising to the backstrip ends. A good, bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Len Lye, somewhat dust soiled and darkened, with some creasing, nicking and a little edge loss, now addressed by some professional restoration. Graves' celebrated Great War memoir, this unexpurgated edition exceedingly uncommon (Higginson, A32, notes that less than one hundred copies exist probably an underestimation - and that it might perhaps be deemed a prepublication state rather than a true first edition, yet it remains the keystone for any serious Graves or Great War collection).. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

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