San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press for Gelber, Lilienthal, 1934. First edition. Number 97 of 250 copies (G-213). Tailpiece illustrated by Joseph Sinel, bound in limp orange paper boards. An unusually bright and fine copy. Item #55949 More
London: Hogarth Press, 1928. Hogarth Living Poets, First Series, No.4. One of 440 copies printed. In the 10-years after publication 181 copies were sold. More than 130 were pulped (Woolmer No. 167). As issued in blue-gray paper boards. Wove paper throughout. Very good copy of a fragile book with spine..... Item #55806 More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition, One of 1,200 in the first printing. Very good with some minor wear in faded dark purple boards with polished black vellum back strip and gilt lettering on back strip and covers, in price-clipped somewhat soiled dust jacket of mellow orange-red Marlowe..... Item #55810 More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition, One of 1,200 in the first printing. Mellow orange-red Marlowe laid paper. Bound in faded dark purple boards with polished black vellum back strip and gilt lettering on back strip and covers. The book is very clean inside and outside and altogether..... Item #55813 More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition, One of 1,200 in the first printing. Bound in faded dark purple boards with polished black vellum back strip and gilt lettering on back strip and covers. Charles Erskine Scott Wood's and Sara Bard Field's copy. Ownership markings by Wood and Field..... Item #55814 More
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
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
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
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
New York: Random House, 1935. First edition, trade issue. Association copy from the library of Jeffers' friend and bibliographer Sydney S. Alberts. Bound in smooth green cloth over boards with titling information on the cover and spine printed in gold. The book is near fine in very good to fine..... Item #55956 More
Pasadena: The Flame Press, 1930. First edition, first state or printing [Alberts A62; Broomfield A11a]. Printed by Ward Ritchie. Bound in original black paper covered flexible boards with errata slip tipped in, as called for, and printed on imported Italian deckle-edged Fabriano watermarked wove paper throughout. According to the Alberts'..... Item #55936 More
Pasadena: The Flame Press, 1930. Second edition, first printing [Alberts A63; Broomfield A11b]. Printed by Ward Ritchie. Number 89 of 110 copies. Bound in paper wrappers of dull robin's-egg blue watermarked deckle-edged Georgian laid paper; deckle-edged Fabriano watermarked wove paper throughout. Leaves are sewn into wrappers with white silk cord..... Item #55937 More
New York: Random House, 1937. First edition. "INSCRIBED FOR Elinor Pesoner (?) -- Robinson Jeffers. Tor House, Carmel -- July, 1958." Red cloth binding with gilt titling on cover and spine. Title vignette by Fritz Eichenberg. Printed from the type set by the Spiral Press. Fine in pictorial dust jacket..... Item #55826 More
New York: Random House, 1937. First edition, limited issue. Number 134 of 300 SIGNED COPIES. Designed and printed at the Spiral Press. Title and cover decorations made from wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Bound in quarter leather and patterned boards. Printed on hand-made Gelre paper. The book is in superb..... Item #55827 More
New York: Random House, 1937. First edition, limited issue. Number 33 of 300 copies SIGNED BY JEFFERS. Designed and printed at the Spiral Press. Title and cover decorations made from wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Bound in quarter leather and patterned boards. Printed on hand-made Gelre paper. The book is..... Item #55914 More
New York: Peter G. Boyle, 1924. First edition and the only edition under this title. One of 500. His third book. An extremely scarce Jeffers title, never reprinted under this title or format (contents reprinted by Boni & Liveright in 1925 as "Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems"). Bound in..... Item #55816 More
New York: Liveright, (1932). First edition. Lemon-yellow Riviera laid paper, watermarked, printed in black and maroon. Issued with black cloth spine and boards covered in light mellow Venetian-red Munsell cover paper. Wove paper throughout (A-71). The book is very fine and bright in a near fine to fine dust jacket..... Item #55824 More
New York: Liveright, 1932. First edition. Issued in stiff boards covered in light mellow Venetian-red Munsell cover paper. Wove paper throughout. The book is fine and bright with the barest wear in dust jacket of lemon-yellow Riviera laid paper, watermarked, printed in black and maroon, with minor darkening on edges..... Item #55927 More
New York: Liveright, 1932. First edition. Issued in stiff boards covered in light mellow Venetian-red Munsell cover paper. With lemon-yellow Riviera laid paper, watermarked, printed in black and maroon. WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED TO ALBERT BENDER, the Jeffers family friend, mentor and patron. The inscription reads "Inscribed for my dear..... Item #55928 More
San Mateo, Ca: Quercus Press, 1940. First edition. One of 200 from a total edition of 250. INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHERS, FRANCES & THEODORE LILIENTHAL, TO ILLUSTRATORS, VALENTI & MAXINE ANGELO. The scarcer variant green binding (also issued in deep umber); issued without dust jacket. Printed on Kelmscott handmade paper..... Item #55946 More
San Mateo, Ca: Quercus Press, 1940. First edition. One of 200 for sale of a full edition of 250. Deep umber binding (also noted in a scarcer green binding), as issued without dust jacket. Printed on Kelmscott handmade paper using the same Albion press employed by William Morris at his..... Item #55947 More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. First edition, cloth. One of only 302 cloth copies. Selected, edited and with introduction by Albert Gelpi. Designed and typeset by Jeff Clark at Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services in 11.5/13 Centaur, following Adrian Wilson's original design for The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers..... Item #55912 More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). First edition, third printing. "INSCRIBED for Ruth Thompson, in hope of seeing her again. Sincerely, Robinson Jeffers Buffalo -- March 11, 1941." During his tour to the East Coast. Very good, lacking dust jacket. Item #55803 More
(Boston: Perry Mason Company, 1904). First edition. Vol. 78, No. 23, with Jeffers' poem, "The Condor" on p.284 with woodcut illustration above. Jeffers' college literary magazine, "The Aurora," published three of his poems (1903/4) but this is his first appearance in a regularly published magazine. 11.25 x 16.25", 16 pages..... Item #55580 More
Passau, Germany: Andreas-Haller-Verlag, 1984. First edition. Selected poetry and prose translated to German by Hesse, who also provided the afterword ("nachwort"). Illustrated with photographs by Edward Weston, Leigh Wiener, Horace Lyon, Una Jeffers and Arnold Genthe, and with a facsimile of Jeffers' 1951 letter to Hesse. Very good in photo-illustrated..... Item #55743 More