Literature
GRAVES, Robert.
Mock Beggar Hall. With a cover design by William Nicholson.
The Hogarth Press, London, 1924. First edition. Large 4to. Original grey boards with design printed in black. Some spotting, mainly to endpapers and preliminaries, minor rubbing along edges and to back cover, some fissures to upper part of spine repaired, still an attractive copy of a fragile book.
The number of printed copies is unknown but the Sussex ledger shows 299 copies sold by 18 January 1926. Graves did not meet the Woolfs until 1925 and after two volumes of his poetry had already been published by their press, Mock Beggar Hall, and The Feather Bed in 1923. When they finally met, Virginia Woolf recorded in her diary, "Figure a bolt eyed, blue shirted shockheaded hatless man in a blue overcaot standing goggling at the door at 4:30, on Friday." Her verdict, "I don't think he'll write great poetry: but what will you?" Woolmer 46; Higginson & Williams A10.
Price: £ 530
US Dollar Price: $ 800
Stock Number: 41821