The Long Week-end. A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939. by GRAVES Robert & Alan HODGE - 1940

New York: W.W. Norton. Good with no dust jacket. 1963. PB(Trade). 0393002179 . Cover Slightly Worn and Used; 0-393-00217-9. .

London: Folio Society, 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. With an introduction by Juliet Gardiner. In illustrated brown cloth boards. Tight binding and clean text. With black and white plates and frontispiece of Petticoat Lane market. Black slip case is in excellent condition, with only minor shelf wear. If shipping outside the UK, please contact us for shipping costs.

London: Readers Union/Faber & Faber, 1941. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In red cloth with silver lettering, spine faded. Corners bumped, Loose hinges. Owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Rest of text is clean and readable. No dust jacket.

W. W. Norton & Company. Fine. 1963. 1st Printing. Paperback. No defects, book is As New, appears unread. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . First Norton Library printing, stated. . Norton Library Series. Trade PB. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 472 pages. G6 .

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Second impression, printed photo-offset from the 1940 edition because the type had to be melted during the second world war, which prevented them from making corrections or adding footnotes - as noted in a long "Note to the Second Edition" by the authors. Endsheets a trifle foxed but a very good copy, nonetheless, in a lightly worn dust jacket.

(London: The Folio Society, 2009). Large 8vo in maroon slipcase; pictorial boards, lettered in white on spine; pp. xviii + (ii) + 412, incl. index; plates, incl. monochrome and colour photographs. Near-fine condition. "In June 1940 ... [the] straggling remains of the defeated British Expeditionary Force in France had limped back across the Channel, leaving their dead, their wounded and those taken prisoner, as well as most of their weapons and equipment, behind on the beaches of Dunkirk. ... It was at this moment that the British writer and poet, Robert Graves, with the help of another poet and historian, Alan Hodge, set out to encapsulate for their fellow countrymen and women the years that had passed since Britain was last at war with Germany. The Long Weekend, with its suggestion of leisure, of breathing space, of years out, is bookended by war. It starts with the Armistice: it ends with Hitler's failure to accept the British ultimatum to withdraw German troops from Poland, and the… Read More

Folio Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2009. Reprint. Hardcover. In maroon slipcase. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked.; 0 pages .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 1963. New Edition. Softcover. 0393002179 . Very Good+ in wrappers. Remainder mark. ; 7.50 X 5 X 0.90 inches .

London: Published by The Folio Society, 2009. Royal 8vo. pp.xviii + 412 with black & white and colour photographs. pictorial hardcover boards in plain slipcase. A fine copy.