Descent to the dead, poems written in Ireland and Great Britain. / Robinson Jeffers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962.

Contributor:

Hoffmann, A. G. (A. George), book designer.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

University of Pennsylvania. Library (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 29 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 28 cm

Edition:

[Limited edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, inc., [1931]

Contents:

Shane O'Neill's cairn

Ossian's grave

The low sky

The broadstone

The giant's ring

In the hill at Newgrange

Antrim

No resurrection

Delusion of saints

Iona: the graves of the kings

Shooting season

Ghosts in England

Inscription for a gravestone

Shakespeare's grave

The dead to Clemenceau: November 1929

Subjected earth.

Notes:

With half-title.

Title page printed in brown and black; ornamental initials in brown.

"This is the first edition ... it consists of 500 copies designed by A. G. Hoffmann. Printed on Zerkall paper by Printype Inc., in the month of October, 1931."

Later included in "Give your heart to the hawks" (1933) and "Selected Poetry" (1938).

Parchment spine with brown paper boards. Brown endpapers.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 15 signed by Robinson Jeffers.

Culture Class Collection copy has embossed stamp of University of Pennsylvania Library.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is no. 200 signed by Robinson Jeffers.

OCLC:

757407