Item #55594 TRAGEDY HAS OBLIGATIONS. Robinson Jeffers, Allison Clough, afterword, William Everson.
TRAGEDY HAS OBLIGATIONS.
TRAGEDY HAS OBLIGATIONS.
TRAGEDY HAS OBLIGATIONS.

TRAGEDY HAS OBLIGATIONS.

(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 A previously unpublished poem unearthed by Everson that is a "stern admonition to Aldolf Hitler written in 1943" (from the prospectus).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 morocco leather and cloth over boards; gilt stamped spine titling. Binding by The Schuberth Bookbindery, printed on hand-made English Tovil paper using an 1830 Acorn handpress and Weiss Roman and Italic typeface. The collector Allen K. Mears notes that Clough's first name is misspelled on the colophon. Two states of the prospectus laid in: one on the same paper and with same typeset as the published edition and 2 copies of a smaller one regularly printed on a thinner tan paper. Book and prospectuses fine.
Item #55594

Price: $300.00