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GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985). Good-Bye to All That. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929.
8° (201 x 132mm). With a printed Cape prospectus laid-in. (Edges lightly soiled.) Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, original illustrated dust-jacket (jacket with a few small spots and minor wear).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. A VERY GOOD COPY of the unexpurgated text. Sassoon's reaction to Good-Bye to All That was immediate: at his outraged insistence, page 290 and 341-3 were replaced in all unissued copies -- the latter pages because they printed a verse letter from Sassoon to Graves without permission, the former because it describes, albeit without explicitly identifying her, Sassoon's mother's attempts to communicate with the spirit of her dead son, Siegfried's younger brother Hamo. In a letter to Sassoon dated 13 November 1929, Jonathan Cape wrote: 'after your call this afternoon I made arrangements for the cancel pages to be printed and to have them pasted into such copies [...] as have not already left our premises. I am glad to say that the number of copies which have gone out from here is only a very small percentage of the edition'. Higginson & Williams A32a.
8° (201 x 132mm). With a printed Cape prospectus laid-in. (Edges lightly soiled.) Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, original illustrated dust-jacket (jacket with a few small spots and minor wear).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. A VERY GOOD COPY of the unexpurgated text. Sassoon's reaction to Good-Bye to All That was immediate: at his outraged insistence, page 290 and 341-3 were replaced in all unissued copies -- the latter pages because they printed a verse letter from Sassoon to Graves without permission, the former because it describes, albeit without explicitly identifying her, Sassoon's mother's attempts to communicate with the spirit of her dead son, Siegfried's younger brother Hamo. In a letter to Sassoon dated 13 November 1929, Jonathan Cape wrote: 'after your call this afternoon I made arrangements for the cancel pages to be printed and to have them pasted into such copies [...] as have not already left our premises. I am glad to say that the number of copies which have gone out from here is only a very small percentage of the edition'. Higginson & Williams A32a.
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