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Powell, Lawrence Clark. Robinson Jeffers; the Man & His Work. Primavera Press, Los Angeles, 1934.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: A foreword by Robinson Jeffers; decorations by Rockwell Kent. xviii, 215p., b/w front. port., b/w text designs, original brown cloth with paper spine label. One of 750 copies. SIGNED presentation from the author on the front flyleaf.
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Important contemporary Jeffers bio and criticism. Includes a bibliography. One of 750 issued by the Wolfer Printing Co. LA. The decorations and chapter heading illustrations are by Rockwell Kent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Wayward Books, south dartmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: With a Foreword by Robinson Jeffers. 215 pp. Decorations by Rockwell Kent. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition; one of 750 copies. Corners bumped; light foxing to preliminaries; else a very good copy in a nice jacket with slight sunning to spine and a few tiny chips and short tears.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 750 copies, designed by Ward Ritchie. Presentation inscription, signed by the author. Foreword by Robinson Jeffers. Decorations by Rockwell Kent, including capitals and text illustrations. Frontis portrait of Jeffers is after a photograph by Edward Weston. xviii, [2], 215pp. Frontis portrait and 2 plates from photographs, 2 reproductions of title pages, map of the Carmel coast. Notes, bibliography, index. Brown cloth, printed paper spine label. Spine and edges of covers lightly faded, spine label soiled, two small repairs to inner front hinge, light offsetting to front endpapers. A very good copy.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Limited to 750 copies. INSCRIBED BY POWELL on front endpaper, "Inscribed for Virgil R.D. Kirkham/ with my cordial good wishes/ Lawrence Clark Powell / Los Angeles June 23, 1934." Large 8vo brown cloth boards with paper spine label; 215 pages, including index; illustrated with a few photographs and with decorated initials by Rockwell Kent. Designed by Ward Ritchie, who selected which initials Kent would provide decorations for without consulting Powell--who then had to rewrite his text to accommodate Kent's letters. Few minor edge bumps still fine in near fine, slightly rumpled dust jacket with only mild soiling and spine a little faded.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Powell, Lawrence Clark. Robinson Jeffers: The Man and His Work. Primavera Press, Los Angeles, 1934.
Price: US$925.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, large octavo in light brown cloth with white printed paper spine label, publisher's clipped dust-jacket, housed in custom hard red cloth slipcase with roan spine label lettered in gold. 215 pages, Index. Foreword by Robinson Jeffers. Decorations by Rockwell Kent. Designed and printed by Ward Ritchie. First edition, first issue, 1 of 750 published. A unique and highly collectible copy. Although not called for, this copy signed and inscribed by Robinson Jeffers at front Jeffers photograph (Carmel, 1935); signed and inscribed to Mel Smith by publisher Ward Ritchie at colophon; signed and inscribed by Primavera Press by Jake Zeitlin on title page; signed and inscribed to Mel Smith by author Lawrence Clark Powell on title page. Small book label from Lilienthal, San Francisco on rear paste-down. Unused "Bookfellows" label / bookmark laid-in. Also laid-in is the original Primavera Press prospectus for the book. A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket and fine slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.