Lot 177
GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985). Good-Bye To All That. London: Jonathan Cape, [1929]. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
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GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985). Good-Bye To All That. London: Jonathan Cape, [1929].
8vo. Pictorial portrait frontispiece, illustrations. Publisher's salmon cloth (a few faint stains, spine slightly leaned, spotting to fore-edge); original pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping, some minor soiling, spine panel browned, price-clipped).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, including passages on p.290 and pp.341-343 that were suppressed at Siegfried Sassoon's insistence in later issues. The unexpurgated text includes a description of Sassoon's mother's attempts to communicate with her dead son Hamo, and the text of a verse letter from Sassoon to Graves, published without his permission. Higginson & Williams A32a.
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