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Author: Jeffers, Robinson
Title: Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems [with] prospectus for the first edition
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Boni & Liveright
Date Published: 1925 [but 1926]
Description: Includes:
Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems. Cloth-backed boards, cover stamped in gilt with stallion vignette in blind. Second printing.
Prospectus. 12 pp. Saddle-stitched wrappers. Includes an autobiographical note by the poet.
With the scarce prospectus for the first edition. Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems is signed by Robinson Jeffers at front free endpaper and “inscribed for my friend Albert M. Bender“. Dated Carmel, May, 1926, the inscription includes the following manuscript excerpt from Jeffers‘ poem Point Pinos and Point Lobos (found on p. 241), “the men wisdom made Gods had nothing / So wise to tell me nor so sweet as the alternation of white sunlight and brown night, / The beautiful succession of the breeding springs, the enormous rhythm of the stars deaths / And fierce renewals.“ 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. Additionally inscribed by Albert M. Bender to “his dear friend of a life-time“ Charles K. Field. Charles K. Field (1873-1948) was a California journalist and poet who was editor of Sunset Magazine from 1914-1920.

Spine lettering flaked off, some rubbing at extremities; very good or better.