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Title: Flagons and Apples Author: Jeffers, John Robinson Place: Los Angeles Publisher: Grafton Date: 1912 Description: [4], 46 pp. 7¾x5¼, original cloth-backed brown boards, printed paper cover and spine label, top edge gilt. First Edition. 1 of 500 copies printed at the author's expense. Author's scarce first book, a collection of love poetry composed when Jeffers was lovesick for Una, his lifelong muse who at this point was still married to her first husband. Contains 33 poems, none of which has been reprinted since. Jeffers was 26 years old when he published this book at his own expense. 480 copies, abandoned by the repentant Jeffers at the printing house, were remaindered to Holmes Books in Oakland. Alberts 13. Lot Amendments Condition: Mild soiling and shelf wear, slight wear to spine label; first signature a bit sprung, faint offsetting to endpapers; about very good. Item number: 185447