Los Angeles: Los Angeles City College Press, 1951. First edition. With reference on first page to William Everson as "janitor . . . awarded a Guggenheim . . ." Two-color pamphlet. Very fine. Item #55757 More
Pasadena: San Pasqual Press, 1940. Second edition, revised from the limited edition published in 1934. 1,000 copies. This one SIGNED BY POWELL on front endpaper. Illustrated with photographs and folding facsimile of letter from Jeffers to Jake Zeitlin. Powell's preface to this edition (pp.vii-[x]) laid in (vs tipped in), otherwise..... Item #55764 More
Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1983. First edition thus: Copy number "1" of 265 copies with a new foreword and SIGNED BY GARTH JEFFERS. Originally published in 1929. In addition to the new foreword, this edition adds 17 black-and-white photographs from the Jeffers' family collection selected by Lee M. Jeffers..... Item #55750 More
Amador City, Ca: Quintessence Publications, 1980. First edition. Number 170 of 300. Included with this item are an announcement card for the 1980 exhibit of The Phoebe & Hans Barkan Collection of Robinson Jeffers, the funeral keepsake "To Remember Blanche," that contains her last poem "Not-Mind," in an edition of..... Item #55915 More
San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, 1936. First edition. Printed at The Grabhorn Press in May 1936 [G-253]. One of 300 copies. Foreword by Una Jeffers. Frontispiece photograph of Jeffers by Edward Weston. Illustrated with black-and-white photos of Jeffers, his family and environs, as well as facsimile manuscript page of "Ocean" from..... Item #55752 More
No-place: Ward Ritchie Press, (1966). First edition. The first full-length biography of Robinson Jeffers. By his close friend, Bennett, who had access to letters and documents not otherwise available. Foreword by Powell. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Includes bibliography and index. 8vo gilt-stamped black cloth. Named one of the seven best..... Item #55381 More
Pittsburgh: University of Press, 1958. In the series "Critical Essays in English and American Literature." Author’s photo and bio laid in. Fine in paperwraps. Item #55723 More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2015 [2016]. First edition. Presentation and association copy. One of 450 copies. 8.5 x 11 inches. Approximately 280 pages of text plus 80 pages of black-and-white images (repeated in color on CD, which is included). This copy is INSCRIBED BY BROOMFIELD, "For Al Mears..... Item #55974 More
Los Altos, CA: Hermes Publications, 1978. First edition. Paperwraps. Gives initial sale prices on many books and number of copies printed for many items, including some very scarce and limited items. Also provides information on points, being eccentricities in type, textual content, color and design of dust jackets and covers..... Item #55859 More
Hamden, Conn. Archon Books / Shoe String Press, 1981. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55734 More
Hamden, Conn. Archon Books/Shoe String Press, 1981. First edition. With the bookplate of collector Allen K. Mears, else fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55735 More
Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, 1973. First edition. INSCRIBED BY BROPHY to Jeffers scholar, author and publisher, Marlan Beilke, with his bookplate. Near fine with only barest wear to book and dust jacket. Item #55748 More
Archon Books/Shoe String Press, 1976. First edition thus: updated from the original 1973 edition with additions and corrections. Full-page Autograph Letter Signed from Brophy to the collector and Jeffers scholar, Allen K. Mears, and with Mears’ bookplate on front endpaper. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55749 More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. First edition. Frontispiece photo of Jeffers. Includes a Jeffers chronology. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55740 More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. First edition. Limited to 475 copies. INSCRIBED BY ZALLER on tipped in leaf, "For Allen Mears / in the fellowship of Jeffers / Warmest regards / Robert Zaller." Typed letter signed by Zaller on Drexel University letterhead and dated January 24, 2012, laid in. Includes..... Item #55446 More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1936. First edition. One of 1,000 copies on Flemish Laid paper. INSCRIBED BY GILBERT, "To/ Florence and Dr. Veshé (?)/ with deep appreciation/ Rudolph 1936." Very good to fine in dust jacket with chipping on spine ends and corners and small pieces of tape on verso of..... 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
Katowicach, Poland: Uniwersytetu Slqskeigo, 1990. First edition. In paperwraps. One of 288 copies. Presentation gift to Allen Mears, INSCRIBED BY SLAWEK, "To Mr. Allen K. Mears / a friend in stones and trees / from the place to which / I am attached / Tadeusz Slawek / Cieszyn, August 13..... Item #55609 More
Tokyo, Japan: English Literary Society of Hosei University, 1966. "Studies in English Literature, No. 9." Self-wrappers, paper, typed labels affixed to front cover. English text, Japanese sub-title. Either a very limited edition or an off-print of another publication. Either way, a scarce item. Item #55739 More
Laguna Beach, Ca: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1977. First edition, very limited issue, one of about 50 copies. Printed by Ritchie on an Albion hand press. The book measures 6 x 9.5" and is printed in green, brown, and black on cream-colored paper. Title page vignette by Leo Wyatt. Bound in..... Item #55841 More
Laguna Beach, Ca: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1977. First edition. Proof sheets of this limited edition book of which, "About 50 copies were printed in September, 1977." Full color. Two sets of proofs: (1) WR 10; 30 pages, lacks pages 27-28. Undersized Cockerell wrapper, green-woodblock printed cover label, unstitched. Very good..... Item #55842 More
(Laguna Beach, Ca: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1980). First edition. A hodge-podge of unbound PRINTER'S PROOFS. Handmade leaves subtly differing in color, weight and texture and with some variations in intensity of ink. Most likely preceding the "nearly fifty copies" (from the colophon) printed on an Albion hand press by Ward..... Item #55845 More
Athens: The Georgia Review, 1978. Article reprinted from Vol. XXXII No. 2 issue as a gift from the author to the collector, Allen K. Mears. In original mailing envelope with TYPED LETTER SIGNED from Nolte to Mears. Sent after a show on Jeffers at Virginia Wesleyan University produced by Mears..... Item #55732 More
(San Francisco: June Oppen Degnan, 1962). First edition. March 1962 Vol I, No 11. Edited by Degnan. Printed in England at the press of Villiers Publications. Paperback. 1st edition. Measures 6 x 9 inches, printed and illustrated in black. Wrapper is printed in black, white, and green on yellow stock..... Item #55721 More
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition. The first appearance of Jeffers' poem, "Preface," in the December 1926 issue. The poem was later expanded to "Prelude," which was collected in THE WOMEN AT POINT SUR. [Note: in his Jeffers' bibliography, S. S. Alberts mistakenly says of "Prelude" that "The..... Item #55765 More