Berry Bennett Melba (36 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. The Stone Mason of Tor House: The Life and Times of Robinson Jeffers Melba Bery Bennett, hardcover in dustjacket, 1st edition, illustrated. Published by Ward Ritchie Press, 1966. John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 ? January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement. Once influential and highly regarded, despite his stated 'inhumanism', Jeffers thought transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole. This led him to oppose US participation in WW2, a stand that was widely seen as misanthropic or nihilist, and destroyed his reputation. " jacket wear,tear and tape repair, inside minor marks and spots, clean and tight" BX44.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Clean unmarked copy, mild bump to two corners. Dust jacket worn at edges with chips and short edge tears, dj in a protective mylar sleeve. Illustrated with photographs, publications and bibliography, index, 264 pages. First full length biography of Jeffers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. B/W Photos (illustrator). green c w/white titles; in near fine slipcase; foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell; 225 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ, as issued. reprint 2007, several small spots of soiling across from each other at lower left of full title page near binding and opposite, no dust jacket as issued in a very good light wear slipcase, illustrated with black & white photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. #76 Of 330 Copies Printed By The Grabhorn Press For The Book Club Of California. Green Boards, Spine Printed In Gilt. Lightly Used, One Point Of Fraying At Lower Front Tip, But Spine Mostly Chipped Away Leaving Title On Spine, Some Pieces Laid In Loosely. Inscribed By Albert M. Bender To California Author And Bibliophile Melba Berry Bennett, And With Her Small Bookplate On Front Pastedown. (Not Signed By Anyone Else). Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. There is a tiny bent corner to the pasted down portrait label on the slipcase.; This is the definitive biography of Robinson Jeffers, an influential poet of narrative, free verse, and epic styles. Philosophically and politically controversial in some periods, he wrote from the perspective of "inhumanism" that emphasized the value and workings of nature as more significant than humankind. The Preface to this 2007 edition by Alexis A. Vardamis of The Tor House Foundation. Also reprints the original 1966 Preface by biographer Melba Berry Bennett. Forward by literary critic, bibliographer, and Jeffers scholar Lawrence Clark Powell. Ends with a biographical essay about Melba Berry Bennett. Written in 12 chapters and includes a checklist of Jeffers' publications. Contains occasional cut and plate monochrome photographs of Jeffers, his family, and places significant in his life. This edition reprints the original book design by fine printer Ward Richie. This large 8vo book is 10 1/4" x 8 1/2" and has 225 pp. Printed on fine paper. This as-new copy is clean, sharp-cornered, and in Fine condition, in an equally clean, sharp-cornered, Near Fine slipcase.; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 225 pages.

Hard Cover with Slipcase. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. Reprint. Green cloth hardcover with gray lettering to spine and front; no jacket; matching slipcase; 225 pages; b&w photos; reprint of the original 1966 publications. Book is in like-new condition. Slipcase is in very good plus condition with slight bumps and slight spotting. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Includes a bibliography of Jeffers' publications. The author wrote the earliest study of Jeffers in 1936 and knew the poet for over 30 years. 1/8" chip to edge of jacket spine crown; price clipped; else a fine jacket in a Brodart cover. Book is like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Ward Ritchie Press, U.S.A., 1966. No edition stated. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. 8vo - 6 1/2 x 9 1/2". 264pp. Near fine in a very good unclipped dust jackeet. The dust jacket is protected in a mylar sleeve. Minor rubbing and chipping to tips and edges of the dust jacket. The text is unmarked. The binding is solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Slipcase included. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 8vo. xvi + 264 pages with index and bibliography. 26 illustrations. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Black decorative clothbound in fine condition. No dustwrapper. O.P.

Hardcover. First Edition. Grabhorn Press, 1946, hardcover, edition of 200, boards with yellow dust jacket attached at the spine Very Good + (minor fading, 2 short closed tears), 34 pages, POETRY [ntsp]; E1581 B Poe.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First full-length biography of Jeffers by scholar and intimate friend of Jeffers, Melba Berry Bennett. Bound in black cloth with gilt title on spine and image of gilt stone structure on cover; two-color title page. Many illustrations. Book in very good condition with good condition paper cover (green, black & white). Inside pages very clean and bright. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. With Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. VG+++/VG--. Tight and attractive hardcover with dust jacket. Small checkmark on free front endpaper with light rubbing and wear to spine. Dust jacket has tape reinforcement inside the jacket on spine ends--quite unobtrusive with light wear to corners and spine ends. Light rubbing. Very attractive copy. First edition. 1966. Ward Ritchie press. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The only reprint of the first edition, originally printed in 1966 and designed by Ward Ritchie. This reprint was made possiible by The Tor House Foundation along with a generous contribution from Robinson Jeffer's children. Forest green cloth textured boards, stamped in silver and a matching forest green paper covered hard cardboard slipcase also stamped in silver with a central glued on cover photo of Jeffers. Both are in fine, as new condition. There is of yet no definitive biography of the controversial California poet, and the first printing of this has been out of print for many years. This is an intimate first hand portrait by Melba Berry who spent years in close contact with Jeffers. Contains a preface specific to this edition by Alex Vardamis, the President of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation and the original preface from the 1966 edition by Melba Berry Bennett. Illustrated in black and white with family photos from the Robinson Jeffers albums. Includes reprints of many of his poems. 225 pp.

Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. Fine in lightly chipped price-clipped dust jacket in mylar cover.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by 3 Photo Sections (illustrator). 1st Edition?. VERY GOOD Condition in Good Dust Jacket DJ (DJ HAS 2" CHIP BASE SPINE, SEVERAL 1" EDGETEARS ALONG top edge dj. Name ep "Bauman" ; Gold spine titles with 3x3" stone castle in gold to front cover. BLACK CLOTH HARD COVERS. Black titles on dark green paper dust jacket. ; 264pg pages; Literary California Poet. Rhymes like the incessant crashing of wave against tortured rock. Biography. STONE CASTLE ARCHITECTURE.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Top board edge has a 1/2 inch pressure dent--visible in photo. Appears to be a slipcased version with textured covers. Book interior fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. 264 pp. Front board inside spine crack. Light foxing on edges. DJ has silverfished edges, generall wear, in protectivve mylar cover.

xvi, 264p., b/w illus., slightly chipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition of this biography of the Californian poet and pioneer of inhumanism, or the belief in the self-centered nature of humankind. This belief led him to become an influential environmentalist and take other unpopular stances of the time, such as his opposition to WWII. Near fine copy in like jacket, beautifully preserved, with a touch of rubbing at head of spine. Forward by Lawrence Clark Powell. Original price of $10.00 intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Foreword by Lawerence Clark Powell. Near fine.

.- California. 1958. Welwood Murray. 4º menor. 10 p. Rústica editorial . . Idiomas - Inglés, . . .

Cloth. 8vo, 264 pp., b/w illus. Signed by author under non-personal inscription. Light tanning and dustsoiling to page edges, tape stains to rear fep where clipping (author obituary) has been taped in. Jacket rubbed, edgeworn, with several small chips and tears. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The first full-length biography of Robinson Jeffers by scholar and intimate friend, Melba Berry Bennett. Bound in full black cloth with gilt title on spine and gilt vignette of Tor House on cover. Two-color title page. Illustrated with photographs. Includes a bibliography of Jeffers' publications. Bright and fine in a fine, price-intact dust jacket with protective mylar cover. See photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition, First Printing. The edges of the dust jacket show wear. From the estate of Twin Cities collector, Grace Reiter, unmarked except for her signature and embossed nasme.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Stone Mason of Tor House. Signed letter included (loose). The Life and Times of Robinson Jeffers by Melba Berry Bennett. Forward Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition in dust jacket. Publisher: Ward Ritchie Pess, Los Angeles, 1966. Dust jacket is in very good plus condition, wear at the top of the spine and a few small spots of chipping. Flap price of $10.00. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean and bright. 264 pages including the bibliography. 6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches. Typed and signed loose letter and article about her death included. Inventory #23-070. Price: $100. Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xiv) (2) 173 (3) pages. First Edition. Limtited to 300 un-numbered copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Illustrated by 8 plates plus the frontispiece portrait from a photograph of Jeffers by Edward Weston. Foreword by Una Jeffers. Octavo. Quarter bound in green morocco in orange decorated boards. From the author's Introduction: "This book, then, is not an explantion of the influence of the sea on Jeffers and his work, but rather is a questioning study of this interesting and significant phase of his talent, and a compilation of all materials pertaining to the sea contained in his poetry." Prior owners' bookplate at front pastedown; spine slightly faded; some toning to endpapers; 2" stain to lower right upper board; Very good or better overall, and now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. Morocco quarter-bound on decorated paper boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press in May, 1936. Bound in quarter dark-green leather with patterned, papered sides; gilt lettering on spine. Internally clean and unmarked; some natural toning to endpapers. Foreword by Una Jeffers. Nine illustrated plates, including frontispiece portrait of Jeffers by Edward Weston. With original unprinted dustwrapper, which is chipped and cracked (very fragile, with hinge tissue holding it together on reverse); in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. xiv, 173, [2]. A study of Jeffers' work which focuses on his preoccupation with the sea and ''a compilation of all materials pertaining to the sea contained in his poetry,'' by Jeffers' ''secretary'' and biographer, Melba Berry Bennett (1901-1968).