BE ANGRY AT THE SUN.
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
POETRY
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CALIFORNIANS.
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition of the poet's first commercially published book; only 1,200 copies printed [Broomfield A2]. Small 8vo blue cloth boards; gilt-stamped spine; front cover lettered in gilt with pictorial vignette stamped in blue, black, and gilt; top edge gilt. Angling-themed bookplate of Olindus F. Kendall on..... Item #55923 More
CAWDOR AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition, trade issue. Only 1900 copies per Alberts [Broomfield A9b]. INSCRIBED BY JEFFERS on front endpaper, "Inscribed for Clive M. Saiz./ Sincerely,/ Robinson Jeffers./ Tor House, Carmel, -- November, 1941." 8vo gilt-stamped quarter polished black cloth with purple paper boards; top edge black; 160..... Item #71977 More
CAWDOR AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition, trade issue. Only 1900 copies per Alberts [Broomfield A9b]. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter polished black cloth with purple paper boards; top edge black; 160 pp. Near fine with rust offset from old paperclip to front endpaper and half-title page (most evident on verso of..... Item #71978 More
CAWDOR.
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1929. First UK edition. Reportedly there were only 500 copies printed of which 270 were subsequently pulped [Broomfield A29c]. Issued as “Hogarth Living Poets, First Series, No.12.” 8vo orange paper boards with flat spine; issued without a dust jacket. A good..... Item #55807 More
DEAR JUDAS AND OTHER POEMS.
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
DEAR JUDAS AND OTHER POEMS.
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
DEAR JUDAS AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. One of 3,000 copies [Boormfield A10a], 8vo pale purple paper boards; gilt-stamped black cloth spine; 129 pages. Rear endpaper a bit darkened otherwise bright and fine in near fine dust jacket with only light wear. Item #55930 More
DESCENT TO THE DEAD: Poems Written in Ireland and Great Britain.
New York: Random House, 1931. First edition. ONE OF 50 SIGNED COPIES DESIGNATED FOR REVIEW, issued in addition to and, one would assume, prior to the 500 copies in the regular signed/limited issue (Broomfield A14[1]). Publisher's review slip laid in with projected publication date December 7, 1931. SIGNED BY JEFFERS..... Item #55820 More
DESCENT TO THE DEAD: Poems Written in Ireland and Great Britain.
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
FOR AN HOUR ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
(San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1941 [circa 1970]). First edition thus: issued as a New Year's greeting from Irving W. Robbins. Number 7 in "The Americana Series." 15 x 23" leaf folded twice to make four 7.5 x 11.5" pages, including covers; printed in black and red. Jeffers' poem originally appeared with..... Item #55573 More
GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWKS AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Random House, 1933. First edition. Jeffers first title to be published by Random House after Liveright folded [Broomfield A16a]. 8vo gilt-stamped brown cloth boards; 199 pages. Near fine with small spot on front board at gutter; in very good somewhat tanned dust jacket with few short tears. Item #55929 More
![Item #71916 II. THE REMEMBRANCE. TO E.G.K.; [Limited edition broadside poem]. Robinson Jeffers](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/71916.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661037183)
II. THE REMEMBRANCE. TO E.G.K.; [Limited edition broadside poem].
[Amador City: Marlin Beilke / Quintessence Press, 1986]. First edition, first appearance. According to Beilke, although this was the only poem she ended up having printed, it is the second of two (or more) given to him by Edith Greenan Kuster, hence it having been numbered "II" [Broomfield A89]. 8.5..... Item #71916 More
MEDEA -- FREELY ADAPTED FROM THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES.
New York: Samuel French, (1948). Acting edition. Later printing without ads on last page and rear cover [Broomfield A33c]. According to Tim Hunt (Jeffers, Collected Poetry, vol. 5), the play's ending in this acting edition differs slightly from that of the original book published by Random House in 1946. 5..... Item #55835 More
MEDEA -- FREELY ADAPTED FROM THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES.
New York: Random House, 1946. First edition, 2nd issue (word "least" present p.99). SIGNED on dedication page BY DAME JUDITH ANDERSON (Jeffers dedicated the book to her), who played the lead often. Black cloth-backed orange boards with gilt lettering. According to the Collected Letters Vol III, page 402, this edition..... Item #55836 More
NATURAL MUSIC: Number 12, Book Club of California Poetry Folios, December 1947.
([San Francisco] / San Mateo: Book Club of California / Quercus Press, 1947). First edition. First separate appearance of the poem. [Broomfield A34]. One of a stated 750 copies. Pulblished as part of the Club's keepsake series No. 11, which was sent monthly to members for free. Small quarto (6.5..... Item #72123 More
THE OCEAN'S TRIBUTE.
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
RETURN -- AN UNPUBLISHED POEM.
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
ROAN STALLION, TAMAR AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition, One of only 1,200 copies in the first printing [Broomfield A5a]. 8vo gilt-stamped purple paper boards with black cloth spine; top edge black; 253 pages. Very good or better with spine slightly dulled, upper corners lightly bumped, and faint abrasion to front..... Item #71877 More
ROAN STALLION, TAMAR AND OTHER POEMS.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition, One of only 1,200 copies in the first printing [Broomfield A5a]. 8vo gilt-stamped purple paper boards with black cloth spine; top edge black; 253 pages. Near fine in fair dust jacket with extensive chipping and internal tape repair. Scarce in any jacket..... Item #71878 More
ROBINSON JEFFERS DRAMEN.
Hamburg, West Germany: Rowohlt Verlag, 1960. First edition. Text in German. Foreword and translation by Eva Hesse. Selections from TOWER BEYOND TRAGEDY. THE CRETAN WOMEN, and HUNGERFIELD. This copy belonged to Frederick Ives Carpenter, noted Jeffers scholar and author, and contains his holograph notes on copyright page and elsewhere. Very..... Item #55725 More
SELECTED JEFFERS' POEMS: "Tor House," "The Shears," "Granddaughter," "The Bed by the Window," and "Carmel Point"; [5 Broadside Poems]
[Carmel-By-The-Sea: Tor House, 1979]. First edition. 5 of the 6 broadside poems distributed as keepsakes to Tor House visitors during the summer of 1979. Lacking "The House Dog's Grave" broadside and unprinted envelope [Broomfield A77a]. First issue on buff paper printed in dark green. Fine. Item #71917 More
THE SELECTED POETRY OF ROBINSON JEFFERS.
New York: Random House, 1938. First edition. 125 poems selected by Jeffers and Una, his wife. Includes first appearances of four poems. Large 8vo (6.5 x 9.5 inches) tan cloth boards, printed spine label; Edward Weston photograph of Jeffers preceding contents pages; 622pp including title and first-line indexes. Fine in..... Item #55829 More
THE SELECTED POETRY OF ROBINSON JEFFERS.
New York: Random House, (1938). First edition. Illustrated with an Edward Weston photographic portrait. AN INTERESTING COPY CONSTITUTING THE ONLY VERSION EXTANT OF A LETTER WRITTEN BY UNA JEFFERS ON ROBINSON'S BEHALF in answer to a letter from Elizabeth Bauer requesting he expound on the meaning and intent of his..... Item #55962 More
THE SELECTED POETRY OF ROBINSON JEFFERS.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. First edition. Edited by Tim Hunt. Update of the 1938 edition incorporating selections from his later volumes, poems left unpublished at his death, and prose pieces in which Jeffers reflects on his poetry. Large 8vo burgundy-backed black cloth boards; gilt-stamped spine; frontispiece photo of Jeffers..... Item #71642 More