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Author: Jeffers, Robinson
Title: Tamar and Other Poems
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Peter G. Boyle
Date Published: [1924]
Description:

(8vo) gray cloth lettered in gilt. One of 500 copies printed. First Edition.

Signed by Robinson Jeffers on front free endpaper with inscription from his poem The Cycle (printed on p. 122 in this volume), ”...the great sails / Of autumn pelicans, the gray sea-going gulls, / Alone will streak the enormous opal, the earth have peace like the / broad water, our blood‘s / Unrest hve doubled to Asia and be peopling / Europe again, or dropping colonies at the morning star: what moody / traveller / Wanders back here... / Inscribed for my friend Dora Hagemeyer. Most cordially, Robinson Jeffers. Tor House, Carmel.” Additional pencilled ownership signature of Dora Hagemeyer on front free endpaper. This collection is generally considered to be Jeffers‘ first major work and it is the last work that he had to self-publish. Alberts 17. Label of Carmel bookstore The Seven Arts on rear pastedown.

Slight bumps at ends of slightly leaning spine and at corners, cloth soiled, gilt lettering fading; endpapers toned, heavy foxing and toning throughout, remnant horizontal strip of a tipped leaf to verso of rear free endpaper; good.