signed by Beryl Graves
and Dunstan Ward


London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2003. Edited by Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward.

These rare items are three of a small number of copies of the Penguin paperback edition that the Poet's widow, Beryl Graves, signed in 2003 with her co-editor, Dunstan Ward, for eventual sale for the benefit of the Robert Graves Society.

Book Condition: as new, except covers very slightly rubbed and creased from travel to Mallorca and Paris for signing by the editors.

Robert Graves described poetry as his ruling passion and for him love was "the main theme and origin of true poems". He created a mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Combining realism and magic, his poems are considered among the finest of the twentieth century. In this Penguin edition Graves's poems appear without critical commentary in an attempt to represent, in its purest form, the achievement of his 70 productive years.

Sold on behalf of the Robert Graves Society, which will receive 100% of the sale price to help with the printing costs of the latest issue (July 2007) of its journal, Gravesiana.