Search Results: Fire and Other Poems by D H Lawrence

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Title page illustration by Valenti Angelo. [San Francisco]: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1940. First edition, limited to 300 copies. Lawrence wrote nearly 800 poems, this book contains nine of them. They are mostly longer poems dating from late in his life during his residence in New Mexico and previously unpublished. Jeffers thought that "Fire," "Change of Life," "Reach Over" and "Eagle in New Mexico" were the best ones. Octavo. Full linen binding with a gilt-stamped spine label. A near fine copy.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1940. Limited. hardcover. fine/very good(+). Foreword by Robinson Jeffers & a Note on the Poems by Frieda Lawrence. Thin 8vo, linen, uncut, d.w. (San Francisco): Grabhorn Press, 1940. Limited First Edition.<br/> <br/> One of 300 copies, printed at the Grabhorn Press.<br/> <br/>

Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus, with a foreword by Robinson Jeffers and a note on the poems by Frieda Lawrence. One of 300 copies printed on handmade uncut paper. The first appearance of all but two of these poems. The book has the tipped-in, unobtrusive bookplate of collector Irving W. Robbins, Jr., honorary curator of rare books at Stanford University. And it has more: Not only is this copy signed by Robert and Edwin Grabhorn on the first blank, it is also handsomely inscribed by Robinson Jeffers after his foreword: "For Frank Shuabacher, Jr., Sincerely Robinson Jeffers, Tor House, Carmel, September 26, 1940." Which makes it in all likelihood a unique copy; doubtful if many or any of the other 299 copies reached Jeffers hands for a signature. Lawrence and Jeffers were good friends, visited each other, and, to a great extent, shared a worldview that reached out to and accepted the natural world though Jeffers took it further with his… Read More