Be Angry at the Sun

New York: Random House, 1941. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Very Good. 156pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] 1/4 beige cloth with marbled paper over boards. Publisher's red topstain. Deckled fore-edges. The spine and hinges are darkened, the underlying boards peeking through at the corners of the covers, and the front hinge is a trifle soft (the text block remains very sturdy). There is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper, and there is a bookseller's tiny ticket on the rear pastedown. An important work by Robinson Jeffers, published at the beginning of World War II, and reflecting a world in the middle of a death struggle. Twenty-seven poems, including a long narrative poem, "Mara," a masque, and a miscellany of verse.

One hundred copies of this signed edition have been printed on Strathmore Olde Laid Paper by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York. This copy is number 29. Signed by Robinson Jeffers on the colophon page. (Inventory #: 67202)