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ROBINSON JEFFERS: THE MAN AND HIS WORK
by Powell, Lawrence Clark; foreword by Robinson Jeffers
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1934. First edition. Limited to 750 copies. INSCRIBED BY POWELL on front endpaper, "Inscribed for Virgil R.D. Kirkham/ with my cordial good wishes/ Lawrence Clark Powell / Los Angeles June 23, 1934." Large 8vo brown cloth boards with paper spine label; 215 pages, including index; illustrated with a few photographs and with decorated initials by Rockwell Kent. Designed by Ward Ritchie, who selected which initials Kent would provide decorations for without consulting Powell--who then had to rewrite his text to accommodate Kent's letters. Few minor edge bumps still fine in near fine, slightly rumpled dust jacket with only mild soiling and spine a little faded.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55507
- Title
- ROBINSON JEFFERS: THE MAN AND HIS WORK
- Author
- Powell, Lawrence Clark; foreword by Robinson Jeffers
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Primavera Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1934
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY;
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