CALIFORNIANS. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 1-217 [218: blank] [219-226: ads] [227-228: blank], publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in black, gold and blind, top edge gilt, other edges rough trimmed. First edition. 1200 copies printed. The first commercially published book by California's premier and most controversial twentieth-century poet. "His second book, CALIFORNIANS, contains transitional nature poetry, with both Southern California and Big Sur settings. Healed of his lovesickness, Jeffers turned to the splendors of the natural world and wrote objective narratives, often on tragic themes. The form and the diction of his verse remained traditional, and the influence of Milton, Wordsworth, and Shelley is omnipresent" (Powell, California Classics, pp. 211-212). Alberts 15. Mild ghosting from jacket flaps on endpapers, a clean, bright, nearly fine copy. (#176565).
Price: $450.00
"Published October, 1916" on copyright page.