Good-bye to All That. An Autobiography

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1929.

First Edition in the second issue. with the Siegfried Sassoon poem excised on pages 341-343 and replaced with asterisks, and the Erratum slip between pages 398-399. Publisher's salmon red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Half-title with heavy off-setting from old Press clipping tucked in. Eight plates (one double-spread) including the portrait frontispiece of Graves as a young man. Much of the book reveal Graves's experience of the First World War, in which he served as a lieutenant, then captain, in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, alongside Sassoon. 'Good-Bye to All That' provides a detailed description of trench warfare, including the tragic incompetence of the Battle of Loos, including the use of gas, and the bitter fighting in the first phase of the Somme Offensive. [Higginson A32b]