Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. First edition. Paperback original illustrated with photograph of Jeffers on front cover and photo of Big Sur on back (no hardback edition). One of 1,000 copies. Profusely illustrated with photographs. This copy, from the collection of Jeffers' scholar Allen K. Mears, with INSCRIPTION FROM KARMAN..... Item #55759 More
2008. First edition. 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 print is 8.5 x 11" with illustration showing a smiling Jeffers writing on a paper..... Item #55975 More
(Berkeley: Poetry Flash, 2005). First edition. Includes "More than Human Things," an extensive review by Eric Gudas of THE SELECTED POETRY OF ROBINSON JEFFERS (Stanford Univ. Pr., 2001). In an email exchange with collector Allen K. Mears, Gudas explains the delay in publication of his review: "[It's] the fault of..... Item #55436 More
1937. Two volumes. October 9 issue. Under the title "No Escape," this is the staff writer Louis Untermeyer’s review of Jeffers’ SUCH COUNSELS YOU GAVE TO ME. Untermeyer says, in part, "Jeffers says what he has said again and again. . . The pages are as emotional as they are..... Item #55720 More
(No-place: no-publisher), 1948. First edition thus. An April 6, 1948 Life Magazine photo shoot by N. R. Farbman. This is Lot No. 1 consisting of 9 sheets. (There were a number of other lots auctioned off in 2007.) These are photos by Farbman and photos of photos, each numbered by..... Item #55972 More
Long Beach: California State Univ, 1981. First edition, paperwraps, one of 1,500 copies (125 of which were specially bound in linen and included an original signed lithograph by Motherwell pulled for the book by Tyler Graphics). The 14 x 12 inch book is designed by Lilli Cristen, type set, in..... Item #55673 More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1995. First edition. In paperwraps. Presentation copy 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/..... Item #55625 More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1995. First edition. Casebound, in dust jacket. Presentation copy. Contains 10 essays, including those by Everson, Hunt, Soldofsky, Beers, Zaller, Brophy, Vardamis, Rothman, Glaser and a panel discussion. Well-crafted throughout and several are absolutely outstanding in that they serve to give a solid understanding of..... Item #55613 More
1996. First edition of each. The first volume contains "Jeffers Country Revisited, Beauty without Price," by Richard Kohlman Hughey and Boon Hughey and is INSCRIBED BY BROPHY at head of first page. The second has articles on: Salvador Dali; Jeffers' social life; a perspective on Jeffers' friends written by Garth..... Item #55931 More
Newark: University of Delaware Press, (1991). First edition. Critical essays devoted to Jeffers' poetry edited and with introduction by Zaller. Includes essays by Zaller, Tim Hunt, William Everson, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Brophy, et al. Three volumes: the first issue of the book with p.68 repeated in place of p.85; an..... Item #55701 More
New York: Random House, 1933. First edition. RARE PROOF OF THE EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION. Bibliographer Sydney Seymour Alberts' own copy, SIGNED BY JEFFERS AT THE FOOT OF "REMEMBERED VERSES" (p.xvi). There were only 15 numbered copies specially bound and signed by Jeffers and Albert in this very limited issue (10..... Item #55504 More
Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2015). First edition. Collects essays by Tangney, Tim Hunt, Robert Zaller, et al. Octavo tan paper boards stamped in green on spine; 304 pp., illustrated with 4 halftones, 1 map and 1 table. The first collection in twenty years of essays on Robinson Jeffers..... Item #55376 More
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. First edition. Casebound, in dust jacket. Presentation copy. A collection of essays about Jeffers written in honor of William H. Nolte. Among them are those by Hunt, Diggory, Falck, Murphy, etc. Has checklist of Nolte's publications on Jeffers, Menken plus other American writers..... Item #55626 More
(New York: Saturday Review Company, 1940). First edition. "Special Poetry Number," edited by Benet. Includes the FIRST APPEARANCE OF JEFFERS' POEM, "May - June 1940," later included in BE ANGRY AT THE SUN (1941). This issue of the magazine's yearly Poetry Number is devoted in main to the state of..... Item #55966 More
(No-place: no-publisher, 2015). First edition. Limited to 500 copies. 4.25 x 5.5" folded notecard with gold foil-embossed circular emblem featuring an image of Jeffers at center with Tor House behind him; inside blank. Beilke's colophon on back of notecard reads, "First Letter-press Printing, May, 2015/ Limited to 500 copies./ Foil-Embossing..... Item #55471 More
Charlottesville, VA: Univ. of Virginia Press, 1960. First edition. Checklist of Jeffers collection at University of Virginia library. Cloth spine and boards in original glassine dust jacket. Item #55724 More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1947. First edition. One of 750. Book Club keepsake No. XI. 12 volumes. Each with a poem with original commentary by the authors. Paperwraps. Includes Jeffers' "Natural Music" printed by Quercus Press. Also includes Yvor Winters, Genevieve Taggard, Muriel Rukeyser, Wallace Irwin, Gelett Burgess..... Item #55866 More
Paris: Mesures, 1939. First edition. Off-white paperwraps printed in black. 382 pages. Includes Jeffers' "Cawdor" as well as selections from Langston Hughes, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, John Dos Passos, Wallace Stevens, et al. Very good to near fine with touch of faint foxing, covers a little darkened, and lower spine..... Item #56018 More
1904-1926. Three volumes. Two issues of OUTWEST: October, 1904, Vol. XXI, No. 4, with Jeffers' poem, "Death Valley" [A-12, but mistakenly listed in Alberts as published in 1907]; and October 1905, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, with "The Stream" [A-11]. Both magazines are filled with period ads, including for automobiles, train..... Item #55738 More
Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1987. First edition. Contributions by Tyrus G. Harmsen, Linda Lyke, and Robert Brophy. Printed primarily in paper wraps, this in one of just a "few" copies hardbound in green-black leather with titling on the spine. This was a gift from Tyrus Harmsen, Librarian at Occidental College..... Item #55606 More
Aptos, Calif. Grace Hoper Press / Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, 1972. First edition. One of 150 copies (out of 250) for the joint meeting of the two clubs. Nine inch by 13 inch folio done in tribute to Lilienthal upon his death. Many essays refer generously to his relationship with..... Item #55597 More
Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1988. First edition. INSCRIBED BY BROPHY. The long, personal inscription from Brophy "To Cesar and Bette" is dated and signed by him June 5, 1994. Contains post-Alberts bibliographic information. Very good to fine as issued without dust jacket. Item #55731 More
No-place: Tor House Press, 1989. First edition. Paperwraps. Introduction by Zaller. Poems by William Everson, Reynolds (has phrase "Fragments of an Older Fury"), Hass, Milosz, Williamson, Tate, Stafford, Root, Hunt, Brugaletta, Rich, Wakoski, Dale, Hotchkiss, Zaller. Small paperwraps. As new. Item #55736 More
[Pacific Grove, CA]: (2005). First edition. Number 27 of 75 numbered plaster bas relief sculptures of the couple in profile. Numbered printed label on back along with embedded wire hook for hanging and two felt circles. In original numbered white cardboard box with gold-trimmed blue ribbon and printed label. We..... Item #55469 More
Los Angeles, CA: Grafton Publishing Co., 1912. First edition of Jeffers' first book, one of only 500 copes which he paid to have published himself, Of the 500 printed, Jeffers kept 20 and sold the other 480 to a second-hand bookstore (reported by Ward Ritchie to be Holmes Book Store)..... Item #55918 More