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The Pier-Glass.
by GRAVES, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Martin Secker,, [1921]. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Margaret Pearce with very best wishes from Robert Graves, Boar's Hill 1921". This inscription captures a brief but significant period of Graves's life: while residing at Boar's Hill, he met T. E. Lawrence, lived with his first wife Nancy Nicholson, and neighboured fellow war poets Edmund Blunden and Robert Nichols. Graves wrote this early poetry collection while convalescing from shell shock and living in a cottage (now called "Dingle Cottage") in the garden of John Masefield at Boar's Hill, just outside of Oxford, while a student. He stayed there from late 1919 until June 1921. His other neighbours included Robert Bridges and Gilbert Murray. The print run comprised 500 copies, which are scarce found inscribed. Octavo. Original buff snakeskin-patterned boards, carefully rebacked to style. Portrait frontispiece after Ben Nicholson. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Wear to corners, title page browned by tissue guard, occasional foxing of leaves. A very good copy. Higginson A6.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 118174
- Title
- The Pier-Glass.
- Author
- GRAVES, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Martin Secker,
- Date Published
- [1921]
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Rebacked
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- Octavo
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- Leaves
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- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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