Oak Knoll

Privately printed in an edition of 250 copies, of which this is one of 50 deluxe copies on Gutenberg paper. This copy has the following ink holograph notation on the colophon: "Publishers Presentation / Copy / for his friend, / author / Matha Sattler." Sattler, a Los Angeles collector, writer and bibliographer, was a friend to many of the authors who published under the Black Sparrow imprint. A fine copy.

A collection of previously unpublished early poems by Robinson Jeffers, probably written shortly before and after his first book Flagons and Apples (1912). It was printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh in Centaur and Arrighi types with Castellar initials and bound by Bela Blau. Previously unpublished, the poems in this edition are from the Robinson Jeffers Collection, Special Collections Library, California State University, Long Beach. The poems are from Jeffers's early years, probably written shortly before and after Flagons and Apples(1912).