Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 303

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JEFFERS, JOHN ROBINSON. Flagons and Apples. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 cloth backed brown boards, printed paper label to spine and front board, two shallow, faint abrasions to front cover; bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, endpapers lightly age-toned; custom 1/4 morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing Company, 1912

Additional Details

first edition of the author's first book, later gift inscription: "Dear Harry Mielke: This is pretty awful, but written so long ago that I don't feel responsible for it. If I live long enough, I might become equally light-hearted about more recent books. Cordially, Robinson Jeffers. Tor House, Carmel, California. October 11, 1944."