[Austin, TX]: Privately printed by John S. Mayfield, 1928. First edition. One of only 96 copies of this very fragile item containing the first appearance of Jeffers' poem, "An Artist." Precedes its appearance in CAWDOR by three days. Includes half-tone frontis portrait of Jeffers; "Robinson Jeffers: The Man" by Benjamin..... Item #55971 More
New York: Random House, 1941. First edition. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering. Printed from type set by the Walpole Printing Office. Fine in dust jacket with minor edge-wear, slight darkening on spine and top of front cover, and a small crease. Item #55830 More
New York: Random House, 1941. First edition, limited issue. Number 34 of 100 SIGNED copies. Printed on Strathmore Olde Laid paper at Walpole Printing Office, Mt. Vernon, NY. Marbled paper over boards on the book and on the slipcase. The book is fine except for the barest wear on front..... Item #55831 More
New York: Random House, 1941. First edition. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering. Printed from type set by the Walpole Printing Office. The book is fine in dust jacket slightly toned on edges and spine. Item #55942 More
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition. One of 1,200 copies. A review copy with publisher's perforated stamp on title page - "ADVANCE COPY FOR REVIEW NOT FOR SALE." Jeffers's second book but first to be commercially published by a major publishing house. Bound in indigo-blue vellum cloth with gilt lettering..... Item #55815 More
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition of the author's first commercially published book, in an edition of 1,200. Bound in indigo-blue vellum cloth with gilt lettering on back strip and cover. Top edge gilt. Wove paper throughout. Title page of coated paper. The book itself is very good to fine..... Item #55923 More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. One of 1,900 copies. Bound in faded dark purple boards with polished black vellum back strip and gilt lettering on back strip and cover. Minor wear on corners and spine ends otherwise very good with small bookplate. Item #55798 More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition. Number 148 of 375 SIGNED copies (including 25 hors de commerce). Bound in fawn and red buckram cloth boards, lettered in gold on the back strip. Deckle-edged laid rag paper throughout, watermarked with publisher's device. All edges uncut. A fine copy in original..... Item #55804 More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition. "INSCRIBED for Clive M. Saig(?). Sincerely Robinson Jeffers. Tor House, Carmel -- November, 1941." One of 1,900. Bound in dark purple boards with polished black vellum back strip and gilt lettering on back strip and cover. Lacking dust jacket and front top corner..... Item #55805 More
London: Hogarth Press, 1929. Hogarth Living Poets, First Series, No.12. One of 520 copies using Liveright sheets.132 copies were sold and 270 were pulped (Woolmer No. 196). As issued in orange paper boards. Wove paper throughout. Very good or better text and both covers, but spine is darkened somewhat and..... Item #55807 More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. One of 1,900 copies. Bound in faded dark purple boards with polished black vellum back strip and gilt lettering on back strip and cover. The book is very good to fine with a paper-clip impression at top of front endpaper, in a dust..... Item #55926 More
(Boston: Perry Mason Company, 1904). First edition. Poem appears on p.284, Vol. 78, No. 23 with condor illustration above it. Though 3 of Jeffers' poems appeared in the Occidental College literary magazine, "The Aurora" (later called "The Occidental") from December 1903 to February 1904, this is Jeffers first appearance in..... Item #55580 More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1932. First edition, 2nd printing. "INSCRIBED for John Ciardi Sincerely Robinson Jeffers March 3, 1941." Also signed by Ciardi on both pastedowns. Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. He also contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed..... Item #55799 More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Number 310 of 350 SIGNED copies (plus 15 hors de commerce). Issued in stiff boards covered in black charcoal laid paper. Back strip and corners are of vellum, tinted ivory. Deckle-edged laid rag paper throughout, watermarked with publisher's device. Near fine in good..... Item #55800 More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Precedes the signed limited edition. One of 3,000 copies issued in stiff boards covered in purple paper and polished black cloth spine backstrip. Near fine with very minor rubbing at top of spine, in dust jacket with darkened spine and minor chipping on..... Item #55819 More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. One of 3,000, issued in stiff boards covered in dark faded purple paper and polished black vellum cloth backstrip. Wove paper throughout. The book is fine in a dust jacket of light green Dorrington laid paper printed in black and indigo blue, which..... Item #55930 More
New York: Random House, 1931. One of 50 review copies (in addition to the 500 in the main edition). Review slip laid in, book SIGNED by Jeffers. Issued in thin flexible boards covered with rusty burlap colored Tokugawa paper. The backstrip is of natural vellum. Mold-made deckle-edged Zerkall wove paper..... Item #55820 More
New York: Random House, 1931. First edition. Number 484 of 500 numbered copies SIGNED BY JEFFERS. Issued in thin flexible boards covered with rusty burlap colored Tokugawa paper. The backstrip is of natural vellum. Mold-made deckle-edged Zerkall wove paper. The book is near fine with a few small foxed spots..... Item #55935 More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. First edition and first issue of this poem in book form. One of 192 copies. This 2" x 2.75" miniature is printed on creme paper and bound in rust buckram cloth over boards. Paper label on cover within embossed black-dot decoration. Two miniature bookplates..... Item #55744 More
1990. Broadside. One of 10 printed especially for William G. Mills. Printed in black on very heavy beige stock. Measures 8.5" x 11" Item #55708 More
(San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1941 [circa 1969]). First edition thus. Number 7 in "The Americana Series." Single poem issued as a "New Year's Keepsake" from Irving W. Robbins, Jr. Single 15 x 23" leaf of handmade watermarked paper folded twice to make four 7.5 x 11.5" pages including covers; printed in..... Item #55573 More
San Francisco: (Poltroon Press, 1976). First edition, first separate appearance. Privately printed. One of only 75 copies published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the poet and fellow Carmelite's death by suicide. Originally published in 1927 as "Winter Sundown (in Memory of George Sterling)" in Overland Monthly and..... Item #55533 More
New York: Random House, 1933. First edition, limited issue. Number 146 of 200 (of which 185 were for sale) SIGNED BY JEFFERS. Tan calf leather and marbled paper boards, top edge gilt. The book is very good or better with a plain acetate jacket and housed in a (too-tight, fragile)..... Item #55823 More
New York: Random House, 1933. First edition. One of 2,750. "Give Your Heart to the Hawks" was going to be published by Liveright but they went bankrupt while the book was in galley proofs. Thus, the book was set by Liveright and printed by Random House. Printed on creme-colored paper..... Item #55929 More
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New York: Random House, 1933. First edition. One of 2,750 copies. INSCRIBED BY JEFFERS with 16 lines from "Hurt Hawks" plus includes 2 NOTES SIGNED BY UNA Jeffers. The lines were copied for Jerry Peltier and the notes are to him. Peltier was a minor poet and proprietor of a...... Item #55822 More