Lot 204

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985). The Green-Sailed Vessel. Poems, London, "Privately Printed", 1971, large 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With 8 other books. (9)

Estimate: £100 - £150
Hammer price: £140
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985).  The Green-Sailed Vessel. Poems. London: "Privately Printed" at Bertram Rota, 1971. Large 8vo (259 x 175mm). Half title. Original mustard cloth, pink dust-jacket lettered in blue and red (some very light fading to dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 45 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Higginson and Williams A130. With 8 other books including Léon Werth's Bonnard (Paris, [1923], original wrappers), James Stephens' Collected Poems (London, 1926, original vellum-backed paper boards, ONE OF 500 "LARGE PAPER" COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR) and Jacques-Émile Blanche's Propos de Peintre. De Gaugin a la Revue Nègre. Troisième Série: Gauguin, Monet, Sargent, Helleu, Van Gogh, La Peinture Anglaise Moderne, Dada, la Revue Nègre (Paris, 1928, contemporary half tan morocco, partly unopened and uncut, resulting in irregularly-shaped pages, original upper wrapper bound-in (section of head of spine detached), FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 13 OF 40 COPIES "SUR HOLLANDE VAN GELDER". RARE.). Provenance: from the Collection of the late Leslie Waddington (1934-2015) and thence by descent. (9)

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