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JEFFERS, Robinson. Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years. The Ward Ritchie Press, 1949.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 200 copies printed. pp. 12. Tall, narrow 8vo. Spine dulled, light wear to exterior, a number inked to first page, else a very clean, sound copy.
Seller: tinyBook, Bath, United Kingdom
Jeffers, Robinson. Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years. Ward Ritchie Press, California, 1949.
Price: US$83.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 200 copies printed, October 1949. This book was set in Bembo types, by Caroline Anderson and Albert Yarrish. Design by Ward Ritchie. Previous owner's book plate and inscrption on first end paper, spine toned, minor wear.
Seller: Book Grove, RMABA, Glenwood Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: One of the Fifty Books of the Year and as one of the Western Books by the Rounce and Coffin Club. Tall, narrow octavo. [4], 12, [2] pp. Title-page with design of type ornaments and pink, bars, decorative initial letter in black and pink, decorative running-titles and colophon. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by Caroline Anderson and Albert Yarrish. Decorative paper boards Spine slightly toned. A very good copy. One of 200 copies. First separate edition of this interesting essay on poetry by Jeffers which originally appeared in The Times Magazine. This is one of the poet's few public statements about his own art. Ritchie Bibliography, p. 100.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Jeffers, Robinson. Poetry, Gongorism and A Thousand Years. Ward Ritchie Press, 1949.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first publication of an essay on his poetry originally appearing in the New York Times, a handsome book from the Ward Ritchie Press in 1949. A fine copy in publishers decorative boards ( cloth spine ). An uncommon Jeffers item, particularly in such attractive condition. One of only 200 copies printed by Ward Ritchie. Printed in October 1949 by Caroline Anderson and Albert Yarrish on a design by Ward Ritchie.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.