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Author: Jeffers, Robinson
Title: Granite & Cypress
Place Published: Santa Cruz
Publisher:Lime Kiln Press / University of California at Santa Cruz
Date Published: 1975
Description: 33 leaves. 31.8x42.5 cm (12½x16¾“), full Naturgewebe (a coarse German cloth) lined with Uwa Japanese paper, spine open-laced with deerskin rawhide from California; with slipcase sculpted from Monterey Cypress wood with a window of granite from Jeffers‘s stoneyard. No. 67 of 100 copies printed at the Lime Kiln Press under the direction of William Everson.Signed by Everson at colophon. One of Everson‘s most cherished printings, with the striking natural wood slipcase and with the often lacking wooden base. The granite from the Tor House property inset into the slipcase is a powerful relic evocative of the text “which Jeffers wrote under the impact of stone, the transforming symbol of his creative emergence“. “Genius is fashioned in fire, and the spirit of Robinson Jeffers was no exception. It is generally acknowledged that his fierce iconoclasm was instilled by disillusionment with World War I; but the annealing force, the power that coalesced his energies and tempered them into true purposiveness, is not so well known. It has become increasingly clear, however, that the activity which effected this transformation was nothing other than his handling of stone, the direct physical labor involved in building Tor House and the fabled Hawk Tower which, like a sentinal in the sky, adjoins it.“ - Prospectus. Prospectus laid in with the additional broadside variant of the prospectus included and a publication party invitation (i.e. all 3 pieces of ephemera listed in Broomfield). The original styrofoam packaging material and original shipping box are also present. Broomfield A69.

Fine.