Buy this book on-line ROBERT GRAVES : Fairies and Fusiliers. PoemsWilliam Heinemann, London, 1917
First edition, of which 1,000 copies were printed. 8vo. x, 84pp. Maroon cloth with slightly dulled gilt spine lettering. Cloth lightly faded at the backstrip, and with a little further fading to two margins of the rear board. Free endpapers browned. The top edge spotted and with some further quite light spotting throughout. Binding just a little tender as several gatherings. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper. The author's third book - forty-six poems with a printed dedication of The Royal Welch Fusiliers. A number of the poems celebrate Graves' great friendship with Siegfried Sassoon, who, following Graves' intervention with the military authorities, was hospitalised for shell shock at Craiglockhart the same year this collection was published. See Reilly p.146 / Higginson A3.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ROBERT GRAVES : Fairies and Fusiliers. Poems. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including fine bindings, rare books, livres rares, antiquarian books and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |