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.

(Lime Kiln Press) Jeffers (Robinson).. Tragedy Has Obligations. [A poem: with a woodcut frontispiece by Allison Clough and an afterword by William Everson.]. Folio, [15]pp. (including tipped in plate), The Lime Kiln Press, The University of California at Santa Cruz Library, 1973., 1973.

Price: US$226.00 + 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printer at the Lime Kiln Press, a handpress for aspiring printers at The University of California, set this previously unpublished poem as the course project for 1972-73.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

Jeffers, Robinson, William Everson, afterword, Allison Clough, illustrator.. TRAGEDY HAS OBLIGATIONS. Lime Kiln Press, (Santa Cruz), 1973.

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 A previously unpublished poem unearthed by Everson that is a "stern admonition to Aldolf Hitler written in 1943" (from the prospectus).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.

Jeffers, Robinson. William Everson. Illustrated by Clough, Alison.. Tragedy Has Obligations.. Lime Kiln Press/University of California Santa Cruz Library, Santa Cruz, 1973.

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.