Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Robinson Jeffers. Tragedy Has Obligations. The Lime Kiln Press, 1973.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. Number 24 of only 200 copies, SIGNED by Will Everson and Allison Clough on page at back, Everson also signed and inscribed on ffep. Foxing to boards. Otherwise VG. Pages clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Jeffers, Robinson. Tragedy Has Obligations. Lime Kiln Press, Santa Cruz, 1973.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarter black leather and cream colored cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Small blueish smudge near the top of the front board, minor foxing to the back board. This is copy number 21 out of 200. Signed by William Everson and Allison Clough. Near fine. A beautiful example of this limited fine press book published in Santa Cruz, California.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 200 copies handset in Weiss Roman and Italic, printed in red and black on Tovil hand-made paper, and signed by William Everson and Allison Clough. Tipped in reproduction of the author's holograph. Quarter black morocco with gilt spine titling, natural linen sides. A fine copy with the prospectus loosely inserted. William Everson master printer at the Lime Kiln Press, a handpress for aspiring printers at The University of California, set this previously unpublished poem as the course project for 1972-73. The poem is a stern admonition to Hitler, written in 1943.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. A previously unpublished poem unearthed by Everson that is a "stern admonition to Aldolf Hitler written in 1943" (from the prospectus). Number 124 of 200 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON AND CLOUGH, who supplied the full-page woodcut preceding the poem. Folio, quarter black morocco leather and cloth over boards; gilt stamped spine titling. Binding by The Schuberth Bookbindery, printed on hand-made English Tovil paper using an 1830 Acorn handpress and Weiss Roman and Italic typeface. The collector Allen K. Mears notes that Clough's first name is misspelled on the colophon. Two states of the prospectus laid in: one on the same paper and with same typeset as the published edition and 2 copies of a smaller one regularly printed on a thinner tan paper. Book and prospectuses fine.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Small folio. Quarter calf and cloth by the Schuberth Bindery. Woodcut. Photographic facsimile. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First edition. Woodcut by Alison Clough. Commentary by William Everson. Copy #5 of two hundred numbered copies printed by hand on Tovil handmade paper in Weiss Roman and Italic types and signed by Everson and Clough. Examples of both the letterpress and the offset printed prospectuses are laid in.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$324.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Commentary by William Everson. Woodcut by Alison Clough. [Santa Cruz], Lime Kiln Press, 1973. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the commentator and the artist and bound in quarter black leather with natural cloth boards. Prospectus laid in. Fine condition. Signed
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copy no. 159/ 200. Contains poem by Jeffers and a original woodcut by Clough. Signed by William Everson, and the artist on colophon page. Publisher's advertisement sheet laid in. Bound in beige cloth with leather spine, 41 cm.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.