Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The expurgated second state of the first edition, issued in the same month as the first state. 8vo. 446pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece and seven photographs, maps and reproductions. Errata slip tipped between pp.398-9, as required. Top edge dust soiled and with just a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. A small area of discolouration to the foot of the spine where the dust wrapper is defective. Free endpapers lightly toned and spotted. A tiny bump to the tip of one corner. A very good copy in good non-price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Len Lye, quite toned at the spine panel, a little dust soiled, and with a sliver of loss from the head of the spine, just a little more from the base, and with several tiny closed edge-tears. This second state removes a passage of text from p.290 (replaced simply with three asterisks) text Siegfried Sassoon objected to so vehemently that he and Graves barely spoke for many years and also a poem by Sassoon (the most terrible of his war poems), which was originally reproduced on pp.341-43 and is once again replaced simply with a series of asterisks. Graves' celebrated Great War memoir. Higginson A32b..