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
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
[Frankenhardt, Germany]: Edition Schwarze Seite, (2010). First edition. Only edition, and a very limited one at that. Number 15 of only 25 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Constitutes the first separate printing of Jeffers' poem which has alternately been titled "the unformed volcanic earth" [Broomfield A135, addendum]. Bilingual text with..... Item #56019 More
New York: Random House, 1956. First edition. Number 45 of 115 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST. Tall quarto (approximately 9 x 13") quarter gilt-stamped black cloth; vanilla paper-covered boards. Designed by Merle Armitage and printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon. (According to Ward Ritchie's own recollection, as cited in..... Item #55575 More
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1948. First French edition. Limited edition of 55 copies for sale plus 5 hors commerce. This paper edition is a gathering of 16-page signatures. The pale beige paper is watermarked but appears machine made. The text appears to be printed letterpress. The signatures are glued into..... Item #55924 More
Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1988. First edition. Previously unpublished early poetry edited from manuscripts by Brophy, with his notes at the end of the text. Copy 29 of 200 copies on Frankfurt paper, printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh and bound by Bela Blau. Fine to new without dust jacket, as..... Item #55669 More
Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1988. First edition. Previously unpublished early poetry edited from manuscripts by Brophy, with his notes at the end of the text. A copy of the Deluxe Edition printed on Gutenberg paper. #25/50. Printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh and bound by Bela Blau As issued, Mint/new. Letter..... Item #55670 More
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1962). First edition. Limited to 250 copies. Includes Jeffers' previously unpublished poem, "The Epic Stars." A farewell tribute to Jeffers, who died in January 1962, issued to commemorate the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco in..... Item #55959 More
(Santa Cruz): Lime Kiln Press, 1973. First edition. A previously unpublished poem unearthed by Everson that is a "stern admonition to Aldolf Hitler written in 1943" (from the prospectus). Number 124 of 200 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON AND CLOUGH, who supplied the full-page woodcut preceding the poem. Folio, quarter black..... Item #55594 More
[Aromas, CA]: Cayucos Books, 1973. First edition. Previously unpublished poetry. Limited to 250 numbered copies SIGNED BY EVERSON who provides Commentary and Notes. AN INTERESTING TWO-VOLUME SET composed of copies number 128 and 207. Number 128 with spine stamped in gilt, mylar jacket, and publisher's prospectus laid in with Robinson..... Item #56184 More
Aromas, CA: Cayucos Books, 1974. First edition. Number 283 of 285 SIGNED BY EVERSON, who edited and provided commentary, notes, and an afterword. Foreword by Peter Bartlett. Designed by Graham Mackintosh, printed in two colors by Noel Young. Bound in one-quarter leather boards. Measures 9.25" x 6". Near fine with..... Item #55871 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
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1958. First edition. One of 200 copies privately printed for Ted Lilienthal and Carroll Harris for presentation to the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, "In honor of the awarding of the 1958 Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets to Robinson Jeffers." Large format, 10 x 15..... Item #56167 More
San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press for Gelber, Lilienthal, 1934. First edition. Number 51 of 250 copies [Broomfield A17a].Bound in limp orange paper boards. Very good with old tape shadow to bottom front corner. Item #55948 More
New York: Random House, 1937. First edition, limited issue. Number 134 of 300 SIGNED COPIES. Title and cover decorations made from wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. 8vo quarter leather lettered in dark brown or black on spine; patterned paper boards. Tiny imperfection on colophon page otherwise fine in the original..... Item #55827 More
Los Angeles: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1979. First edition. ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES. First appearance of Jeffers' poem written two years after his wife Una’s death in 1950 [Broomfield A76]. Printed by Ward Ritchie at his Laguna Verde Press at the behest of the Jeffers’ sons, Donnan and Garth, as..... Item #55496 More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1928. First edition. Number 76 of 310 copies SIGNED BY BOTH JEFFERS AND ADAMS, with Jeffers signature at front and Adams at bottom of his frontis photograph of Jeffers. Introduction by B. H. Lehman; decorative initials by Valenti Angelo; printed by The Grabhorn Press..... Item #55932 More
San Francisco: Friends of the Earth, (1976). First edition. Number 91 of a stated 800 numbered copies of which 750 were offered for sale [Broomfield A70]. SIGNED BY BROWER & KAUFFMAN. Illustrated with 34 color plates, 3 of which are tipped in (2 at front, one at back), and 5..... Item #71723 More
San Francisco: James Linden, 1987. First edition thus: number 7 of only 100 numbered copies of this fine press limited edition portfolio which includes a broadside of Jeffers poem "Shine, Perishing, Republic" and four black-and-white photos each of which is archivally mounted and SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER [Broomfield A98]. This..... Item #56015 More
[San Francisco: James Linden / Peter Koch, 1986]. First edition, second printing per Broomfield [A87b] but certainly the first printing in this form. ONE OF ONLY 11 COPIES SIGNED BY KOCH. Issued from the same setting of type as the James Linden production which featured 4 mounted photographs by Michael..... Item #71855 More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1989. First edition. One of a designated 500 copies. Though not called for, this copy SIGNED BY WARD RITCHIE, the book’s designer, at the colophon. Introduction by Dave Oliphant. “The manuscript consists of a collection of songs gathered and copied by Una Jeffers [while..... Item #55665 More
(New York: Random House, 1929). First edition. First appearance of each of the twelve poems. One of 475 sets designed, illustrated and printed by Johnston. Poems printed on handmade paper and stitched into illustrated wrappers in various colors, laid in yellow, printed, paper chemise and housed in publisher's decorated paper..... Item #55508 More
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1978. First edition, a "limited" edition published exclusively for members of the "First edition Society," preceding the trade edition. Fine in full brown leather stamped in gold, with all page edges gilt and a ribbon place marker. Includes an introductory "special message" culled from a speech..... Item #16315 More
[London]: (The Red Hen Press, 1986). First edition. Number 19 of 200 copies SIGNED BY JONES and with an aquatint relief etching tipped in ALSO SIGNED BY JONES. Small 4to illustrated cloth boards; type handset in 18-pt Baskerville and printed on Rives mould-made paper. The "Ellor-gast" of the title was..... Item #55639 More