Robinson Jeffers: The Man and His Work (Loren Eiseley's copy)
LA: The Primavera Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy: Loren Eiseley's copy, with his signature at the top of the front free endpaper. One of 750 copies of this limited edition. Also laid in is a departmental book order card that Eiseley has filled out to purchase another title, J.A. Stewart's Plato's Doctrine of Ideas; on the verso of the card Eiseley has written out in pencil a quotation by the philosopher George Santayana: "A creature without memory cannot discover the past; one without expectation cannot conceive a future." A neat glimpse of Eiseley's work and interests. Robinson Jeffers: The Man and His Work is an early critical and celebratory volume on the important poet during the peak of his popularity. With a foreword by Jeffers and illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Frontispiece portrait of Jeffers by Edward Weston. Lawrence Clark Powell was a prolific author and significant librarian, critic, and bibliographer at UCLA and the University of Arizona. He wrote his dissertation on Jeffers. Large octavo in burnt umber cloth with a paper title label on spine near fine with a little rubbing to a few corners and toning the sides of the outer text block face. Lacking the dust jacket. A neat intersection between giants of environmental and cosmic writing, Loren Eiseley often referred to as the most "poetic" of science writers. Near fine. Item #2037
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