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Author: Jeffers, Robinson
Title: Give Your Heart to the Hawks and other poems
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Random House
Date Published: 1933
Description: Brown cloth stamped in gilt, jacket. First Trade Edition. Signed by Robinson Jeffers at front free endpaper and “Inscribed for our dear Albert Bender. Affectionately, Robinson Jeffers. Tor House, Carmel - October, 1933.“ Accompanying the dedication to Albert Bender is a manuscript excerpt from the poem, “...there is enough to see / In the dark lovely shoulders of hills, the cows and horses, the old gray rocks and the folk around us, / Without tapping strange dreams...“. Albert M. Bender (1866-1941) was an important patron of the arts in San Francisco. A founding member of the Book Club of California, Bender was instrumental in launching the career of Ansel Adams whose earliest works, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras and Taos Pueblo, he financed. This extraordinary association copy is additionally inscribed by Albert M. Bender to former California Assemblyman and Director of the Standard Oil Corporation of California, Oscar Sutro. Broomfield, A16a.

Jacket spine sunned, some small chips and tears around edges; head of volume spine shows some sunning, minuscule bumps at corners; very good in like jacket.