Robert Graves

A first edition of Robert Graves' autobiography Goodbye to All That.

• Robert Graves (English).
• London: Jonathan Cape, 1929.
• Octavo.
• Photographic frontispiece portrait, 7 plates and maps including one double-page.
• First edition, first issue, with reference to spiritualism on page 290 and un-authorised transcription of poem by Siegfried Sassoon on pages 341-343.
• Publisher's light red cloth, in the original dust-jacket.

The rare first issue of the first edition of Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves, complete with the Siegfried Sassoon poem he published without the author's permission, much to Sassoon's dismay. Sassoon took umbrage at much of the content of the first edition of Good-Bye to All That, and alongside fellow poet Edmund Blunden wrote extensive marginal notes in Blunden's copy contradicting Robert Graves' original text; that annotated copy now resides in the New York Public Library.