CAWDOR de Jeffers, Robinson - 1929

Práce, Praha, 1979. First edition thus. Hardcover. Josef Liesler. 174pp. Quarto [30 cm] Black cloth over boards with gilt and blind stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good. The covers are a bit warped, and the edges of the spine and covers are lightly rubbed and bumped. The half title page is partially detached. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with intermittent small closed and open tears in the edges, and a small stain on the front panel. Preface by Kamil Bednar. Illustrated by Josef Liesler. A Czech language edition of Cawdor. This work adjusts the Hippolytus-Phaedra theme to fit the Big Sur coast.

Verse. (London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press: 1929) Hogarth Living Poets No. 12. Decorated boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 160. A cancelled ex-Institute library copy; the library’s binder reinforced the backstrip with cloth which has been partly removed to reveal the original title and the library’s number which was added by hand; additional library brown paper endpapers, front and rear, with label, stamps etc. including label on rear board; some damage to backstrip where external hinges split; internally a clean tight very good copy and most suitable for re-binding.

The Hogarth Press, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 1929. No edition remarks. 159 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

New York: Liveright, 1928. First Edition. First printing, trade issue. Quarter black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 160 pp. A very good copy, the black top stain clean, spine gilt a bit dull, gentle wear; the fair to good dust jacket is price-clipped, worn at all edges, the front flap separated, with a portion of the spine missing (in a protective mylar cover).

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. Neat underscoring and marginal notations in pencil, with more extensive pencilled notes on the rear endpapers, otherwise fine in a moderately rubbed and lightly soiled dust jacket with a chip at the base of the spine and a bit of edge wear.. 8vo, 160pp; cloth-backed boards. One of 1900 copies in the edition. Alberts 55.

Carolyn and James Robertson [1983], 0000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. tall 4to [6],127,[1]pp+ Reissue of Jeffers' 1928 narrative poem, with an af terword and notes by James D. Houston and 4 woodblock illustrations by Mark Livingston. First volume in the series: California Writers of the Land. On e of 240 numbered copies (of which 225 were for sale), printed by James Rob ertson at the Yolla Bolly Press, bound by Hans Schuberth; signed by Houston , Livingston and both James and Carolyn Robertson on limitation page. VG- i n half maroon morocco over dark gray cloth, gilt-stamped spine, upper cover stamped blind, brown endpapers, deckled bottom edges. With publisher's mat erial (including prospectus), enclosed in publisher's gray heavy stock card board slipcase. (small bump & gouge to right corner of spine tip; slight bu mp to top right corner of slipcase).4 woodcut illus / plates.

Carolyn and James Robertson. A beautiful clean crisp hardcover copy in near fine condition. No DJ as issued. No. 99/240 limited edition copies signed by James D. Houston (afterword) and Mark Livingston (illustrator). . Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1983.

Carolyn and James Robertson [1983], 0000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. tall 4to [6],127,[1]pp+ Reissue of Jeffers' 1928 narrative poem, with an af terword and notes by James D. Houston and 4 woodblock illustrations by Mark Livingston. First volume in the series: California Writers of the Land. On e of 240 numbered copies (of which 225 were for sale), printed by James Rob ertson at the Yolla Bolly Press, bound by Hans Schuberth; signed by Houston , Livingston and both James and Carolyn Robertson on limitation page. VG- i n half maroon morocco over dark gray cloth, gilt-stamped spine, upper cover stamped blind, brown endpapers, deckled bottom edges. With publisher's mat erial (including prospectus), enclosed in publisher's gray heavy stock card board slipcase.(severe bump to spine top of book & slipcase; short tear to slipcase).4 woodcut illus / plates.

[Covelo, California]: Yolla Bolly Press, 1983. Edition limited to 240 copies signed by Houston and Livingston (this, no. 69); folio, pp. [6], 127, [1]; woodcut illustrations by Mark Livingston, afterword by James D. Houston; near fine in leather-backed cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine, stamped in blind on upper cover, publisher's slipcase, publisher's announcement laid in. The first in Yolla Bolly's California Writers Series.

[Covelo]: Yolla Bolly Press, (1983).. First edition.. Folio. 127 pp w/notes. Fine in cloth-covered boards with leather spine. Near fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Jeffers’ poem illustrated with woodblock prints by Mark Livingston. Afterword by James D. Houston. One of 225 (of 240) numbered copies SIGNED by Livingston and Houston. Press compliments slip laid in.