{"product_id":"to-return-to-all-that-alfred-perceval-graves-1st-edition","title":"To Return to All That, Alfred Perceval Graves — 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003ePublication\u003c\/b\u003e: London, Jonathan Cape, 1930\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eFormatting\u003c\/b\u003e: 8vo, pp. 350.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCondition Report\u003c\/b\u003e: Very Good. The original red cloth binding remains remarkably firm, square, and structurally sound, exhibiting only a touch of expected age-toning to the top edge and faint softening to the spine ends. Internally, the text block is highly commendable; the pages are bright, crisp, and entirely free from foxing or extraneous marks, suggesting careful and respectful previous handling. The original paper dust jacket survives in a highly presentable state, displaying some natural age-darkening to the spine panel and mild rubbing along the extremities, yet it remains fundamentally complete without any major tears or loss, comfortably justifying the overall grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCatalogue Note\u003c\/b\u003e: A true first edition, first impression of this literary autobiography. The volume is complete with its frontispiece portrait and subsequent photographic plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003eThis title was famously penned by Alfred Perceval Graves as a direct riposte to his son Robert Graves's controversial and immensely successful memoir, \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"151\"\u003eGood-Bye to All That\u003c\/i\u003e, which had been published the previous year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003eWhile standard, \"naked\" copies of this work appear with relative frequency on the secondary market, examples retaining their original, fragile paper dust jackets are distinctly scarce. The survival of this jacket, particularly notable for boldly advertising Robert Graves's competing work on the lower panel, makes this a highly desirable acquisition for collectors of the Graves family and early twentieth-century literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003ePenned by the renowned Anglo-Irish poet, folklorist, and author of \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"74\"\u003eFather O'Flynn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"90\"\u003eTo Return to All That\u003c\/i\u003e serves as Alfred Perceval Graves's spirited autobiographical response to his son Robert Graves's seminal work, \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"223\"\u003eGood-Bye to All That\u003c\/i\u003e. Feeling that his son's cynical portrayal of his Edwardian upbringing and family life had done them a disservice, the elder Graves offers a compelling, contrasting view of his own rich life, his active involvement in the Irish literary revival, and the cultural landscape of the era. This memoir remains both a fascinating familial counter-narrative and a valuable historical document of a bygone age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55735963484499,"sku":"6836","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20261102_110339.jpg?v=1793796802","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/to-return-to-all-that-alfred-perceval-graves-1st-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}