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Good-bye to all that: an autobiography
by Graves, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition, second issue with a passage on p. 290 and Siegfried Sassoon's poem on pp. 341-3 expurgated; 8vo, pp. 448; photographic portrait frontispiece, 8 leaves of plates, mostly maps; original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; jacket spine considerably toned, head perished affecting text, tear along upper jacket cover joint, shelf wear, boards rather bowed; a mostly very good copy in fair only dust jacket. Order blank for the publisher's periodical "Now and Then" laid in. Higginson & Williams A32a, suggesting that fewer than 100 copies of the first state exist.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44929
- Title
- Good-bye to all that: an autobiography
- Author
- Graves, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- World War I , English , ,
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