(Madison, Minn.): The American Writers against the Vietnam War / The Sixties Press, 1966. First edition. Expurgated due to lack of permission to include Cummings poems. This copy with formerly blacked-out portions on cover and several pages softened to gray so that while a tad messy they are nonetheless readable..... Item #72089 More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First edition, trade paperback issue. Edited by Seamus Cooney. Includes significant correspondence with Bukowski's editors, publishers and fellow writers. Contains many strong references to Jeffers and of Bukowski's admiration for him. Used as reading copy. Very good or better. Item #55672 More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First edition. Uncorrected proof in pale peach printed paperwraps. Includes the laudatory poem "Jeffers" which opens with "his blood-smeared horizons/ his hawks casting shadows of/ doom/ his stallions greater than/ men" (p.177) and lists Jeffers among other authors he holds in esteem in "nowhere"..... Item #55513 More
![Item #55583 FAMOUS RECIPES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE [cover title]: The American Association of Gourmets...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55583.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1582065523)
Del Monte, CA: Hotel Del Monte, (1936). First edition. Recipes compiled by Cerwin; illustrations by Whitman. Recipes includes "Poetic License" from Jeffers (onions baked in cream of mushroom soup); "Something to Remember" from Sherwood Anderson (cured ham simmered in milk); "Tortilla Flat" from Steinbeck (vinegar soaked beef in tomato sauce..... Item #55583 More
(Stanford: Stanford University Press), 1986 - 1988. First edition. High-quality copy of an advance typescript draft preceding publication of the book by two years, INSCRIBED BY EVERSON ON TITLE PAGE, "Specially inscribed for John Knight/ who helped mightily in [expediting] this project/ Bill Everson/ July 21, 1986/ Kingfisher Flat." Perfect-bound..... Item #72530 More
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1964. First edition. Poem written as a memorial tribute to Robinson Jeffers. One of 200 copies SIGNED BY ANTONINUS, of a total run of 205 [Bartlett & Campo A20]. Printed in two colors on Tovil hand-made paper and bound by Jane Grabhorn and Sally Hoyem in..... Item #55682 More
No-place: no-publisher, 1967. Mimeographed short paper likely used at a reading on Robinson Jeffers at the Intersection Creative Arts Center in San Francisco, California. Also in this packet are bios of Vaughan, Glenn-Charles Musagetes and Jean Ulmer Hochberg, the three people who presented "The Poetry of War & Peace by..... Item #55733 More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. First edition. Paperback original. Biography covering the people, issues, and events that helped to shape Jeffers and his work. From the collection Allen K. Mears with an INSCRIPTION FROM KARMAN tipped in, "For Allen --/gentleman, soldier,/ cherished friend./ With warmest best wishes,/ Jim Karman." 8vo..... Item #55759 More
![Item #56016 ROBINSON JEFFERS AND THE SOURCES OF HIS MUSE; [Miniature book]. Robinson Jeffers, by...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/56016.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585003508)
Monterey, Calif: Old Monterey Book Co., 1996. First edition. Miniature book measuring 2.5 x 2.25". Number 43 of 100 numbered copies, this one INSCRIBED BY O'BRIEN on leaf preceding half-title, "It is my pleasure/ to inscribe this/ book for/ Allen Mears/ Jean O'Brien." Bound and printed by Roger Hilleary and..... Item #56016 More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. First edition. Comprehensive bibliography illustrated with over 400 images of book covers, jackets, broadsides, etc., in grayscale in the book and in full color on CD in sleeve mounted inside back cover. "A marvelously comprehensive bibliography ... that reads like a detective novel..... Item #72441 More
Los Altos, CA: Hermes Publications, 1978. First edition. "Pocket guide" bibliography. Part of a series covering 6 authors per list on rear cover. Includes the publication price and number of copies printed for a number of the titles, identification points, and binding and dust jacket descriptions. 16mo beige, stapled paperwraps..... Item #55859 More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1936. First edition. Only 1,000 copies printed. INSCRIBED BY GILBERT, "To/ Florence and Dr. Vessie/ with deep appreciation/ Rudolph 1936." Near fine with few pages roughly opened; in good, somewhat soiled dust jacket tanned at spine with chipping on spine ends and corners and internal archival tape..... Item #55753 More
New York: Random House, 1933. First edition. A review copy. Number 50 of 487 numbered copies. Frontispiece of a bust of Jeffers tipped in. Original cloth with gilt stamped black leather spine label, with spine and top edge faded and bottom front corners slightly bumped, otherwise very good or better..... Item #55873 More
Tokyo: English Literary Society of Hosei University, 1966. First edition. Offprint from the English-language version of "Studies in English Literature, No. 9." Slender 8vo white paper self-wraps (cover serving as title page) with title, author and single line of Japanese text printed on cover and 2 typed labels pasted on--one..... Item #55739 More
(Laguna Beach, Ca: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1980). First edition. Hodgepodge of unbound PRINTER'S PAGE PROOFS for the exceedingly scarce publication that was issued in an edition of only "nearly fifty copies" and printed on an Albion hand press by Ritchie himself. The text of the book -- which is based..... Item #55845 More
2008. First edition. DIGITAL ART CARICATURE. The Jeffers caricature by artist John Sherffius used on the covers of the "Big Read" teacher's and reader's guides published in 2008 by the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. The digital print is 8.5 x 11" with image of a smiling Jeffers..... Item #55975 More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1995. First edition. Simultaneous paperback issue. INSCRIBED BY BROPHY, "for Allen Mears/ Whose bibliographic attention and/ collector's expertise keep us all on/ our toes -- and whose creative/ and well-focused curiosity is the/ delight of Jeffers scholars and aficionados./ We herald you/ Bob Brophy/ 8..... Item #55625 More
No-place: Tor House Press, 1989. First edition. Paperback original (no hardback issue). INSCRIBED BY ZALLER in the year of publication, "For Allen Mears/ with warm regards/ Robert Zaller" and with AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED by Zaller laid in. Includes poems by Everson, Milosz, James Tate, William Stafford, Adrienne Rich, Diane Wakoski..... Item #55610 More
![Item #56018 MESURES: 15 Juillet 1939; [Vol. 5, No. 3]. Robinson Jeffers](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/56018.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585768729)
Paris: F. Paillart, 1939. First edition. French-language anthology. Includes Jeffers' "Cawdor" as well as selections from Langston Hughes, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, John Dos Passos, Wallace Stevens, et al. Off-white paperwraps printed in black. 382 pages. Very good to near fine with scattered foxing, covers a little darkened, and lower..... Item #56018 More
Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1988. First edition. Selections from the newsletter including contributions by Brophy, Ward Ritchie, et al. INSCRIBED BY BROPHY on the front free endpaper in 1994 with long, personal inscription, "To Cesar and Bette," referring to Jeffers it would seem ("A poet, prophet, seer/ of the Big..... Item #55731 More
[Pacific Grove, CA]: (2005). First edition. Number 27 of a stated 75 numbered plaster bas relief sculptures of the couple in profile. Approximately 13 x 13 x 1"; with numbered, printed label on back along with embedded wire hook for hanging and two felt circles. Housed in original numbered white..... Item #55469 More
Los Angeles, CA: Grafton Publishing Co., 1912. First edition of Jeffers' first book. One of only 500 copes; issued without dust jacket. [Broomfield A1]. Small 8vo linen-backed brown paper boards; top edge gilt. Issued with printed spine labels to front and spine. This copy with facsimile label at spine, otherwise..... Item #55918 More
New York: Random House, 1946. First edition. SCARCE FIRST ISSUE with pages 99-100 intregal and line 21, which should read "least," missing. ASSOCIATION COPY with ownership signature of poet and author JOHN FREDERICK NIMS on front endpaper and with his penciled comments and notations. Nims was an editor at Poetry..... Item #55487 More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009 - 2015. First edition of each of the three volumes. VOLUME ONE (2009) covers 1890 to 1930 (700 copies printed); VOLUME TWO (2011) covers 1931 to 1939 (525 copies printed); and VOLUME THREE (2015) covers 1940 to 1962 (only 425 copies printed). A duplicate set..... Item #72753 More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, (1968). First edition. SIGNED by the editor, Ann N. Ridgeway. Foreword by Mark Van Doren, illustrated with photographs Leigh Wiener. 8vo quarter white cloth, olive green paper boards, olive paper printed spine label, endpapers and top edge olive. Fine in price-clipped but otherwise fine dust jacket..... Item #55579 More