* Rare Fine Copy * Robert Graves On English Poetry First Edition 1922

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Author : Robert Graves      Title: On English Poetry First UK Edition 1st Impression Published By William Heinemann London 1922………(see pictures) Condition Of book: This is a Fine Copy of this Book in original cloth boards with paper title labels lettered in black to the spine and upper cover.Issued without Dust-Jacket.There are NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with No rolling or leaning to spine.Lovely clean text block internally and just a touch of offsetting to the blank front endpaper.Great copy for the collector as they really don’t come any better than this in terms of condition.8vo 149pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1922] ” Robert Graves was born in 1895 in London and served in World War I. Goodbye to All That: an Autobiography (1929), was published at age thirty three, and gave a gritty portrait of his experiences in the trenches. Graves edited out much of the stark reality of the book when he revised it in 1957. Although his most popular works, I, Claudius (1934) and its sequel, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (1935) were produced for television by the BBC in 1976.He was also famous as a poet,and produced more than 50 volumes of poetry.He lived most of his life in Majorca, Spain, and died after a protracted illness in 1985 ”