Jeffers, Robinson, illustrated by Karin Wikstrom, Roan Stallion, number 60 of 155 copies, this being one of the deluxe edition limited to 60 copies (of a total of 155 copies) in full leather binding, that comes with the extra signed woodcut and the text booklet in wraps. Housed n a clamshell-style box of archival boards covered in a rough, dark green Japanese cotton, and lined with rag-content papers in gray and blue, Signed by the artist on the colophon. Book, binding pages, extra woodcut and text book are all in very good condition. The box has some light shelf-wear. Provenance: deaccessione... View More...
The years 1921 to 1927 were the most productive of Robinson Jeffers's career. During this period, he wrote not only many of his most well-known lyric poems but also Tamar, The Tower Beyond Tragedy, Roan Stallion, and The Women at Point Sur-the long poems that first established his reputation as a major American poet. Including an introduction, chronology, and critical afterword, the Point Alma Venus manuscripts presented here gather Jeffers's four unfinished but substantial preliminary attempts at what became The Women at Point Sur, which Jeffers believed was the "most inclusive, and poeticall... View More...
