THE WINTER OWL

Pp. 60, 10 plates (8 coloured or tinted), black & white pictorial head and tailpiece; med. 4to; pictorial papered boards, a trifle soiled and rubbed, edges worn; bookplate on upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset, scattered light foxing; Cecil Palmer, London, 1923. Higginson & Williams, p. 261, numbers C172-175; O'Brien B0017. *Inscribed and signed by Graves on the upper free endpaper. The third (and last) issue of Robert Graves's short-lived periodical, The Owl, which he co-edited with his then father-in-law, William Nicholson. This issue contains several contributions by Graves, including two poems under his own name; another poem (The Safe, or Erewhon Redivivus), and a caricature (Mr. Belloc) under the pseudonym 'John Doyle'; and Interchange of Selves ('An Indian actionless drama for three actors and a moving background'), under the pseudonym 'B. K. Mallik'. Other contributors include Thomas Hardy, David Garnett, Max Beerbohm, Pamela Bianco, Siegfried Sassoon, and T. E. Lawrence (Massacre, being a chapter from the history of the Arab Revolt). …