VERY RARE Edition THE WHITE GODDESS by Robert Graves

  
VERY RARE Edition Faber & Faber THE WHITEGODDESS by Robert Graves. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1948. Rare edition of Robert Graves' classic work'The White Goddess' with dust jacket. Near Very Good condition in a good dust jacket with some losses to the dust-jacket on the bottom spine and small tears - otherwise intact [see photographs].

Currently in a plastic acid free slipcover to protect it. Editions of this famous book in the original dustjacket are rare - for those that know the value here is in the dustjacket - where it is considered 90% of the value of rare published books - since most of these jackets were discarded after purchasing. This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion, and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and an intensely personal document in which Graves explores the sources of his own inspiration and, as he believed, all true poetry.

It was a major influence on the thinking of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, with the latter identifying to some extent with the goddess figure herself.