Good Bye That, Signed (4 results)

Condition: Good. 1970. First Edition. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Gold and green paper covered boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Flat signed by author to Tom Rosenthal on half title page. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pencil markings to half title page. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear.

Condition: Very Good. Second impression. Hardback. Octavo. 446pp. Original red cloth with gilt spine titles. Light wear to covers with slight fading to spine, otherwise very good indeed. No jacket. Losely inserted section of airmail envelope with signed presentation from the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Third impression, issued in November 1929, the same month as the first state and the subsequent second (expurgated) state. This copy signed by the author on the dedication leaf and dated the year after publication. 8vo. 446pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece and seven photographs, maps and reproductions. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a tiny trace of light narrow browning to the free endpapers. A single tiny nick to the cloth at the head of the backstrip. Former owner name and date (1943) neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and with a tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly marked, soiled, tanned at the spine panel, and split into three parts at the natural folds with some careful subsequent restoration to rejoin them, leaving seven small areas of loss to the spine panel. Laid-in are three type-written sheets, the first of which details the full unexpurgated text that was found on p.290 of the first state edition, an inclusion which so incensed Sassoon that he and Graves barely spoke for many years. The other two sheets comprise the full text Sassoon's 'verse letter' to Graves ('the most terrible of his war poems') which originally appeared on pp.341-343 and was also excised from all subsequent states. Signed copies of Graves' celebrated (and sometimes vilified) Great War memoir are scarce indeed. See Higginson A32. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing, second-state. Published by Jonathan Cape, London, in 1929. SIGNED. This is a very good copy. This is the expurgated second-state, without the Siegfried Sassoon poem. The supplied dust wrapper, designed by Len Lye and with the authors photograph by Alfred Cracknell, is generally clean but with mild handling marks. There is slight rubbing to the edges and a slight spot of soiling to the rear panel. It has been neatly price clipped, but retains the 10s. 6d. net price. The ex-Libris label pasted to the front end-paper is that of Michael Bernard Thorold, a member of the Scots Guard and peerage. The boards have a little light chipping to the top and tail of the spine and slight fading, but remain tight and sharp at the corners. The authors signature is present on the full title page in blue ink, and dated to 1979, fifty years after the publication date. Overall, this is a very good copy of a fine, but controversial work. It was my bitter leave-taking of England," he wrote in a prologue to the revised second edition of 1957, "where I had recently broken a good many conventions".