Lot 149
GRAVES (Robert)
Over the brazier
Auction: 24 November 2001 at 11:00 GMT
Description
1st edition, 1st impression, orignial brwon wrappers, printed in black, with coloured woodcut by Claude Lovat Fraser, untrimmed, over lapping edges of the wrappers a little creased and ragged, lower corner of lower wrapper creased, inevitable spotting to which the pulpy wove paper is particularly vulnerable, 8vo., London: the poetry Bookshop, 1916
Over the brazier...1st edition, 2nd impression, original brown wrappers, printed in black, with coloured woodcut by Claude Lovat Fraser, untrimmed, overlapping edges of the wrappers slightly nicked, 8vo., London:the Poetry Bookshop, 1916
Note: Both issues of Grave's first book which include some of the poet's most significant war poems. Higginson & Williams A!
Over the brazier...2nd edition, publisher's quarter blue cloth, paper boards, Claude Lovat Fraser's woodcut printed in blue on the upper cover, slight offsetting to the endpapers, 8vo., London, the Poetry Bookshop, 1920
Note: The poet made several alterations to the text of the 1st edition, including the supression of two small poems and the addition of others (3)