Roan Stallion Tamar and Other Poems

by Robinson Jeffers

$300 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

New York: Boni & Liverwright, 1925. 8vo, viii, 253 pp. Quarter black cloth and mottled purple boards, gilt decoration and lettering to upper cover and lettering to backstrip. Lacking dust jacket. § First edition. An important early title, his second full-scale book of poetry. Roan Stallion combined narrative, drama, violence, Freud, Nietzsche, religion, mysticism, and subtle, rolling rhythms in a way that stirred and invigorated the embodied mind of the

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