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JEFFERS, Robinson.. Stars.. Pasadena: Flame Press,, 1930.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 3 pp. Covers lightly rumpled, else very good plus in sewn wrappers. One of 110 numbered copies printed by Harry Ward Ritchie. The first edition but for 15 copies was destroyed due to typographic errors. Alberts 63. Broomfield A11b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Jeffers, Robinson. Stars. The Flame Press, 1930.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First edition, second edition. A beautiful copy, appears to be unread. This is Copy #2 of an edition of 110 copies printed by Ward Ritchie. This copy has Ward Ritchie's bookplates. An amazing copy in wonderful shape.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Jeffers, Robinson. Stars. The Flame Press [Printed by Harry Ward Ritchie], [Pasadena], 1930.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 80 copies printed, advance (unbound) state, without the separately printed errata sheet. Text printed on rectos only, on a single sheet of paper watermarked P Miliani Fabriano. [8] pp. 1 vols. 16mo. VARIANT STATE OF 'STARS'. An unrecorded variant state, stitched and unbound. Famously, only a very small number of copies of the first edition escaped into the wild (Alberts says 6, but perhaps as many as 15) before the printing was scrapped and a corrected second edition was issued in an edition of 110 copies. Pagination as follows: pp. [i/ii, iii/iv (2 blank preliminary leaves, wove paper)], [1/2, 3/4(unopened folded leaves on hand-made paper)] [5 - 8 (unopened folded leaves on hand-made paper)] (consisting of eight unnumbered leaves: title page/ blank verso, first page of poem/ blank verso, second page of poem (headed 'II')/ blank verso, colophon leaf (stating ". Eighty copies printed." / blank verso), [v/vi, vii/viii (2 blank final leaves)]. The text is printed on rectos only upon a single folded sheet, here untrimmed and unopened, with two blank leaves of wove paper before and after the printed text, sewn with white thread and with binder's mull present; lacking the errata slip noted by bibliographer. Bloomfield cites a single (variant) advance state of this publication, measuring 4 3/4 by 7 inches and with fewer preliminary pages, in the bibliographer's personal collection. Harvard reports a proof copy with errata sheet (Houghton Library GEN *57-1363 ); UNC reports two copies, one of which is unbound. Alberts 62; Bloomfield A11 Stitched. A near fine, untrimmed copy Text printed on rectos only, on a single sheet of paper watermarked P Miliani Fabriano. [8] pp. 1 vols. 16mo First edition, one of 80 copies printed, advance (unbound) state, without the separately printed errata sheet.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. RARE. Although the colophon states 80 copies, this is ONE OF ONLY APPROXIMATELY 15 COPIES bound by Ward Ritchie before the remaining sheets were destroyed due to spelling errors [Broomfield A11a] Original black paper-covered flexible boards with star-motif white label printed in black on front; 8 pages (unnumbered save the "II" at head of second page of poem); errata slip correcting one spelling error tipped in at rear, as called for. THIS COPY WITH extra uncut cover label and errata slip printed together on single 5 x 4" sheet of P_Miliani Fabriano watermark paper laid in. PROVENANCE: typed letter signed by Burton Weiss to Allen Mears on printed letterhead of Serendipity Books along with photocopy of 2-page letter from Ward Ritchie to bookseller Thomas Goldwasser, who was then employed by Serendipity Books (with penciled note from Weiss to Mears at top). Near fine with light rubbing to edges which, as Ritchie noted in his letter to Goldwasser, most likely occurred during the binding process. TOGETHER WITH the scare second edition printed by Ritchie to correct the spelling errors made in the first edition [Broomfield A11b]. Number 87 of 110 numbered copies bound in small 8vo string-tied, light-blue paperwraps. Fine with only a touch of mild creasing to paper covers.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.