Price: £500
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1936
Stock Number: 76734
Riding (Laura) & Robert Graves (Editors and Contributors)
Epilogue: A Critical Summary.
Autumn 1935 & Summer 1936 [2 Vols.]
Description: FIRST EDITIONS, the first volume with 5 monochrome plates (4 works by John Aldridge and a Ward Hutchinson photograph), a few faint spots at either end of textblocks, pp. vi, 245, [1]; vi, 252, crown 8vo, original buff and green boards, each with a repeated vignette (by John Aldridge?) to upper board, the second volume faded to backstrip and borders, a few faint waterspots to backstrips, one corner gently knocked, edges and endpapers slightly spotted, each volume with ownership stamp of James Laughlin IV to flyleaf (see below), very goodPublication Details: Deya, Majorca and London: The Seizin Press and Constable, 1935- 1936
Notes: The copies of poet and publisher, James Laughlin IV, whose New Directions imprint published work by many of Graves and Riding's contemporaries. These book-format issues of 'Epilogue' are heavy in the work of Riding in particular: as well as five and four poems by her respectively, she also contributes diverse prose pieces - including in collaboration with her own pseudonym, Madeleine Vara. Other contributors include Katherine Burdekin (a.k.a. Murray Constantine), Len Lye, T.S. Matthews, John Aldridge, et al....more
Bibliography: (Wexler A27 & A32; Higginson & Williams B22 & B24)
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