Various; Robert Graves — The Owl a Miscellany

London, Martin Secker, 1919. First edition. Hardback. A scarce poetry periodical edited by Robert Graves, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. The second volume of only two ever published. With contributions by Baring, Beebohn, Bianco, Blunden, de la Mare, Freeman, Graves, Crisset, Kent, Lindsay, Lutyens, Nash, Nichols, R. Nicholson, W. Nicholson, Rickword, Sassoon, Shanks, Squire, Tomlinson, Turner and Wood. Illustrations by F. Vincent Brooks, a major British lithographic firm most widely known for reproducing the weekly caricatures published in Vanity Fair magazine. Robert von Ranke Graves (1895 - 1985) was an English poet, scholar, translator, writer of antiquity specialising in Classical Greece and Rome, and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Graves's poems - together with his translations and innovative analysis and interpretations of the Greek myths, his memoir of his early life, including his role in the First World War, Goodbye to All That, and his pseudo-historical study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess - have never been out of print. In an illustrated paper covered binding. Externally, generally sound. Light wear to extremities and backstrip missing, previously reinforced with tape. With slight loss to paper and slight marks to boards. With evidence of past worming to boards and throughout. Front hinge strained. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places. Pages are bright but with occasional spotting and marks and slight foxing to endpapers. Good Only . Ill.: Various. Good Only .