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GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985). To Juan at the Winter Solstice. N.p.: Printed for the Author by Stuart G. Goad, n.d. [but dated at end December 22nd, 1944].
Bifolium (178 x 131 mm).
TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF ARGUABLY GRAVES’S FINEST AND RAREST POEM: “There is one story and one story only / That will prove worth your telling…” It was issued as a Christmas greeting, and only subsequently appeared in periodicals and collections. Two copies only are recorded in RLIN (NYPL and SUNY Buffalo); none appears in auction records. Higginson and Williams D20; William Reese, Robert Graves: A Centennial Exhibition at the Grolier Club (1995), no.47 (“one of the rarest of Graves ‘A’ items).
Bifolium (178 x 131 mm).
TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF ARGUABLY GRAVES’S FINEST AND RAREST POEM: “There is one story and one story only / That will prove worth your telling…” It was issued as a Christmas greeting, and only subsequently appeared in periodicals and collections. Two copies only are recorded in RLIN (NYPL and SUNY Buffalo); none appears in auction records. Higginson and Williams D20; William Reese, Robert Graves: A Centennial Exhibition at the Grolier Club (1995), no.47 (“one of the rarest of Graves ‘A’ items).