Poetry from Hardy Books

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1901. First Edition. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. Unpaginated (9). Printed for members of the Sierra Club by the Stanley-Taylor Company of San Francisco. Small bookseller's stamp (Chessler Books) on inside of rear cover. String-bound wrappers. 5 1/4" x 8". A poem written upon the death of Professor Josph LeConte of the University… Read more about this item

Carmel: Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, 1993. First Edition. Spiral bound wrappers. Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 58 (10) pp. Illustrated by Kelly Steele, who SIGNED his name in ink on the title page. Index. Names of contributors. Spiral-bound illustrated wrappers. 5 1/2" x 9" (Oblong). An extensive collection of recipes for food served at the annual May Garden… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. Fine/Near Fine. (xiv) (1) 125 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Brother Antoninus in ink to fellow poet Robert Dawson on the half-title: " for Robert Dawson from Brother Antoninus with the presence of the poet in the man: good! / Oct 23, 1967 / Kentfield Priory". Illustrated… Read more about this item

Boston: G. K. Hall & Co, 1990. First Edition. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (xi) 278 pp. SIGNED in ink by James Karman on the title page. Frontispiece portrait of Jeffers from his Time magazine cover. Cloth-backed cloth. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Inroduction by James Karman. A collection of critical essays on each of Jeffers' books of poetry and… Read more about this item

Boston: The Gorham Press, 1908. First Edition. Very Good Plus/4-mil clear mylar envelope. 44 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by INA COOLBRITH in ink on the title page: "To my dear girl Josie Zeller from her friend Ina Coolbrith / Dec. 1907". Illustrated from original illustrations by Maynard Dixon, including the front cover, two paintings and several drawings. Also illustrated… Read more about this item

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1914. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (xi) 80 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author Davis in ink on the front free endpaper: "To Guy C. Earl, In loving remembrance of the afternoon on Angel island, John F. Davis." Signed bookplate on front pastedown: Graham of Montrose. Illustrated, including frontispiece from William Keith… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine. (xv) 390 (1) pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink by Gary Snyder on the title page to Arizona conservationist and Snyder collector David Oakey: "(Symbols) For David Oakey Met in Tucson 27.iv.95 best wishes! Gary Snyder". Oakey's signature on title page. Illustrated dust jacket. Index. Author biography. Cloth-backed boards. 5… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine. (8) 115 pp. Dust Jacket. Cloth-backed boards. 6" x 9 1/4". The first collections of poems by Jeffers since the 1948 publication of the controversial "The Double Axe and Other Poems." Fifteen new poems and a one-act play. Includes "Ocean", "The Old Stone Mason" and "To Death". A… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1933. First Edition, Limited. Half leather over marbled boards. Near Fine. 199 pp. This edition limited to 200 copies, of which 185 were for sale and 15 were for presentation, This copy is #23, SIGNED in ink by Robinson Jeffers on the limitation page. Half leather over marbled boards with a gilt band. T.E.G.… Read more about this item

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition, Limited. Cloth backed Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. 160 pp. #131 of a limited edition of 375 copies of which 350 were for sale. SIGNED by Robinson Jeffers in ink on the limitation page. Custom slipcase. Cloth-backed cloth. 6" x 9". Neat prior owner's signature and date on front free endpaper. Alberts #54.… Read more about this item

New York: Liveright, Inc, 1932. First Edition (Limited). Fine/Near Fine Slipcase. 147 pp. #88 of a limited edition of 200 numbered copies of which 185 were for sale. SIGNED by Robinson Jeffers in ink on the limitation page. Blue cloth; gilt titling. Blue board slipcase.Many pages unopened. 6" x 9 1/2". About this book, Jeffers wrote, "It is… Read more about this item

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Custom Clear Mylar. 168 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by George Sterling twice in ink as a presentation copy to his friend, Tom Gregory. On a front free endpaper: "Dear Tom: Happy be all you remember! Sad be all you forget! I am yours to the end of the trail, and… Read more about this item

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. 168 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by George Sterling in ink as a presentation copy to Sterling's sister on a front free endpaper: "For my darling sister Madelaine with my best love, George. / San Francisco, Oct. 18th, 1916". Green cloth. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4". Some… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. (xxviii) 168 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Cloth with paper spine label. A posthumous collection of works by Ernest Walsh. With a biographical memoir by Scottish poet and artist Edith Moorhead, who became Walsh's patron. An American born in Detroit,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1914. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. 141 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED twice by George Sterling. The first is an inscription in ink on a front free endpaper: "Dear Charlie: These verses, written within sound of the Pacific, I (?) on you amid the sounds and shadows of our Babylon. See page 74!… Read more about this item

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 119 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED in ink twice by George Sterling. The inscription on a front free endpaper is: "Dear Jack: Here's one more book - and I don't promise to quit even now! / Ever your friend, George / Dec. 8th, 1921". on a page opposite… Read more about this item

Aromas, California: Cayucos Books, 1973. First Trade Edition. Boards. Very Good Plus/Fine. (xxix) 200 (1) pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by William Everson in ink to the late bookseller and publisher Robert Hawley, on the front free endpaper, "To Bob Hawley / as fine a friend as they come! / Bill Everson / June 19, 1974". Preface, Introduction, Afterword and Notes… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Charles Boden, 1935. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine/4-mil clear mylar envelope. Un-numbered (9). SIGNED in ink by author Henry Woods, S.J.. Edition limited to 200 un-numbered copies printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, for Charles Boden. Foreword by author. Blue wrappers. 9 1/2" x 6 1/4". Handset Franciscan types. Presentation card laid in. ("Mar. 19… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. (vi) 37 pp. Dust Jacket. Frontispiece portrait of George Sterling, from unpublished photograph by Arnold Genthe. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2". Cloth. A posthumous collection of previously unpublished poems. Poet/Playwright George Sterling (1869-1926) was a resident member of early Carmel's bohemian group and a friend of Jack… Read more about this item

South Brunswick & New York: Poetry Society of America, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 63 pp. Dust jacket. Illustrated, including frontispice portrait of George Sterling from photograph, with facsimile signature. Foreword, including Sterling biographical material by Charles Angoff (1902-1972), managing editor of Americna Mercury magazine and professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Octavo. Green cloth. Significant… Read more about this item