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Author: Jeffers, Robinson
Title: Tamar and Other Poems
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Peter G. Boyle
Date Published: [1924]
Description: (8vo) gray cloth lettered in gilt. One of 500 copies printed at the author‘s own expense. First Edition.Signed by Robinson Jeffers at front free endpaper with the following inscription “For Charles Erskine Scott Wood, from Robinson Jeffers, an admirer of his work and of his epic personality“. Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a West Point graduate and a soldier in the Nez Perce War. He became a radical civil liberties attorney who defended both Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger in court, a watercolorist and an author. He is credited with transcribing Chief Joseph‘s famous speech which ended with the memorable lines “My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.“ Wood‘s “epic personality“ was admired not only by Jeffers but by Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, John Steinbeck, Ansel Adams, Eugene Debs, Clarence Darrow, and other cultural luminaries of the early to mid-20th Century. Tamar and Other Poems, printed at Jeffers‘ own expense, was the book that established his reputation as a poet of international standing. Broomfield, A3.

Some soiling and staining to cloth; mild toning to endpapers; near fine.