Description

Hardcover, large octavo in light brown cloth with white printed paper spine label, publisher’s clipped dust-jacket, housed in custom hard red cloth slipcase with roan spine label lettered in gold. 215 pages, Index. Foreword by Robinson Jeffers. Decorations by Rockwell Kent. Designed and printed by Ward Ritchie. First edition, first issue, 1 of 750 published. A unique and highly collectible copy. Although not called for, this copy signed and inscribed by Robinson Jeffers at front Jeffers photograph (Carmel, 1935); signed and inscribed to Mel Smith by publisher Ward Ritchie at colophon; signed and inscribed by Primavera Press by Jake Zeitlin on title page; signed and inscribed to Mel Smith by author Lawrence Clark Powell on title page. Small book label from Lilienthal, San Francisco on rear paste-down. Unused “Bookfellows” label / bookmark laid-in. Also laid-in is the original Primavera Press prospectus for the book. A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket and fine slipcase.