The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

sunned. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Jeffers, designed and printed at the Spiral
Press. The title page and cover engravings are by Fritz Eichenberg. $500
450. JEFFERS, ROBINSON. Be Angry at the Sun. New York: Random House, (1941). First
edition. 8vo, cloth-backed decorative boards. Jean Hersholt bookplate; small bit of damage
to the upper edges of a few central pages, where something was once affixed with a paper
clip, spine a bit darkened, else fine in broken slipcase. One of 100 numbered copies signed
by Jeffers. The bookplate has been signed by Jean Hersholt. $750
451. JEFFERS, ROBINSON. Medea, Freely Adapted from the Medea of Euripides. New York:
Random House, (1946). First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Fine in a lightly sunned dust
jacket. First issue, with the word “least” absent from p. 99. $150
452. JEFFERS, ROBINSON. The Double Axe. New York: Random House, (1948). First edition.
8vo, blue cloth. Fine in a sunned dust jacket with a hint of edge-wear. $100
453. JEFFERS, ROBINSON. Hungerfield. New York: Random House, (1954). First edition. 8vo,
half cloth and boards. Fine in a lightly sunned and lightly soiled dust jacket with a few tiny
nicks and chips. $100
454. JEFFERS, ROBINSON. Themes in My Poems. San Francisco: The Book Club of
California, 1956. First edition. 4to, cloth-backed decorative boards. Fine in the original
unprinted brown dust jacket, sunned. One of 350 copies printed and with decorative
woodcuts by Mallette Dean. A handsome publication. $500
455. JEFFERS, ROBINSON. The Beginning and the End. New York: Random House, (1963).
First edition. 8vo, black cloth. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. $35
456. [JENYNS, SOAME]. Miscellaneous Pieces, In Two Volumes. . . . London: R. and J.
Dodsley, 1761. First volume only, 187pp, 8vo, contemporary calf with wear to edges, first
leaves foxed. Anonymous publication, containing poems, translations, and essays including,
“The Art of Dancing,” “An Essay on Virtue,” and “On the Immortality of the Soul.” $150
457. JOHNSON, GEOFFREY. The Heart of Things. London: Williams & Norgate, (1951). First
edition. Small 8vo, cloth. Tips a trifle bumped, else fine in a used dust jacket, slightly soiled.
Inscribed by Johnson to Mrs. Bullock. $35
458. JOHNSON, JOSEPHINE W. Year’s End. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. First edition.
8vo, brown cloth. Sun fading to spine and toward edges, else about fine. $30
459. JOHNSTON, PAUL (Compiler & Illustrator). The Poetry Quartos. Twelve Brochures, each
containing a new poem by an American poet. . . (New York): Random House, 1929. First
edition. 12 volumes, uniform 8vos, printed wrappers, sewn. Bookplates neatly affixed to the
inner wrapper of each volume; fine in original printed paper chemise, lightly soiled and with
one chip and one short tear, and original paper-covered slipcase, lightly edgeworn and
mended with tape. Limited to 475 copies. The poets who contributed poems to the
publication were: Genevieve Taggard, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, Louis Untermeyer, Alfred Kreymborg, “H.D.,” Elinor Wylie, Theodore Dreiser,
William Rose Benet, Conrad Aiken, and Witter Bynner. $300
460. JONES, DAVID. The Fatigue c.A.V.C. DCCLXXXIV TANTVS LABOR NON SIT CASSVS
(Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press), 1965. First edition. 8vo, wrappers As new. One of 298
numbered copies in the edition, entirely hors commerce, prepared in celebration of Jones’s
seventieth birthday. With the original prospectus laid in. $300
461. JORDAN, BARBARA LESLIE. Comfort the Dreamer. Fredonia, New York: The
Arkwright Press, (1955). First edition. 8vo, cloth. Faint darkening toward edges, else fine in
a very lightly rubbed dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed: “For Marie Bullock, in the
fellowship of poetry and with gratitude for all poets everywhere. Barbara Leslie Jordan,
August 21, 1955 East Hampton, N.Y.” $25