Impenetrability or The Proper Habit of English.

GRAVES (Robert).

Impenetrability or The Proper Habit of English.

Inscribed by the author

First edition. Small 8vo., original pale blue-green boards, lettered in black. London, Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1926.

£850.00

Inscribed by the author: “Mary, from Robert, with love”, with the pencilled ownership inscription of Mary Ellidge on the front pastedown.

Mary Ellidge had appeared with her new husband on Graves’ doorstep in Majorca one day, having heard that Laura Riding had a property to let. Graves had just begun to write the Claudius stories and Mary was employed to type them up for him. The relationship between Robert and Mary lasted for about two years and she later described this period as “… the happiest years of my life. I was 26 years when we met and he was 38”.

One of a thousand copies were printed, of which 400 were pulped. Woolmer 93. Browned at the edges as ever, otherwise an excellent copy.

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132917

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