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8vo, pp. 448. Original salmon boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Boards a little marked, endpapers a trifle browned, but a very good copy in a very good, unclipped dustwrapper, browned at spine, chipping with slight loss to head of spine, and one or two very small closed tears. Photographic frontispiece of author by Albert Cracknell, seven illustrations through text. Illustrated dustwrapper by Len Lye. First edition, first issue, with the Sassoon poem on pp. 341-3 present. Viscount Esher's copy, with his bookplate. Sassoon's poem is missing from later copies; complaints and the threat of legal action from the poet resulted in its removal.

Good-Bye to All That is an autobiographical work by Robert Graves which captures the cataclysmic events of World War I and its impact on his life.