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Californians
by Robinson Jeffers
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
First edition, first printing of his second book - the first commercially published, one of 1200 copies. Robinson's first effort, Flagons and Apples, was published at his expense in 1912. Here, the still burgeoning poet continues to find and hone his proverbial voice.
Original blue cloth, top edge gilt, spine ends lightly bumped, else Fine, the leaves largely unopened. In the fairly uncommon jacket - tiny chips along the edges, a couple of short closed tears, moderate dustiness, spine a bit darkened, rubbing along folds. Withal, a Very Good example of the simple yet elegant jacket. Housed in a quarter leather slipcase.
"…beyond the romanticization of rural California life, Jeffers provides a wider-ranging vision of the human future…resigned, prepared even, to accept the changes and confusion the future must bring…Jeffers foresees a radically altered future including space travel; he even predicts the human harnessing of the energy of the solar system.
As a chilling, cautionary note, he also writes of the eventual extinction of the human race. This side of such a fate, Jeffers would have man realize, as he writes in Dream of the Future, that human beings are only one small facet to a wondrously intact universe."
Ref: Man and God in the Works of Robinson Jeffers, Marlan Beilke
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Details
- Bookseller
- Anniroc Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6
- Title
- Californians
- Author
- Robinson Jeffers
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ROBINSON JEFFERS, CALIFORNIANS, POEMS, POETRY, AMERICA, AMERICAN, WHITMAN, FROST, LITERATURE, MONTEREY, NATURE
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Pasadena, California
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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