The Selected Poetry

N. Y.: Random House, (1938). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper with the two last lines from the poem "Shiva" followed by "Inscribed for my friend Albert M. Bender - Robinson Jeffers, Tor House, Carmel, California, November, 1938" On the front endsheet, Bender has inscribed the book "to his friend Alfred Sutro, all good wishes, 1938". With Bender's and Sutro's elegant bookplates. Albert Bender was a prominent Bay Area benefactor. Alfred Sutro was a popular British playwright. One short, half-inch closed tear at the top of the back panel of the dust jacket, which is faintly toned, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. One short, half-inch closed tear at the top of the back panel of the dust jacket, which is faintly toned, otherwise a fine copy.