Across the Gulf
by GRAVES, ROBERT
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair-good
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Mallorca: The New Seizin Press, 1992. First. . Cloth Board. Very Good/Fair-good. First edition limited to 175 copies of which this is no. 36. Decorative blue, white and black boards in glassine dust jacket. Boards in very good condition, text block near fine, glassine jacket has some wear and small close tears, crumpling to top of back cover. Otherwise glassine jacket in fair condition. Hand-set and printed in 18 point Bembo on hand-made paper. From the colophon: "These poems, written by Robert Graves when he was in his seventies, were selected from his unpublished work by Beryl Graves. The text was prepared for publication by Beryl Graves, Lucia Graves, and Dunstad Ward; it was hand-set and printed by Tomás Graves and bound by Carmen García-Gutierrez." Signed by Beryl, Lucie, Tomás Graves as well as Ward and Garcia-Gutierrez.
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- Ripping Yarns
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60556
- Title
- Across the Gulf
- Author
- GRAVES, ROBERT
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Board
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair-good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The New Seizin Press
- Place of Publication
- Mallorca
- Date Published
- 1992
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