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Granite and Cypress

Item date(s): 1975

Robinson Jeffers - (poems by)
William Everson - (bookartist)

Pages: 29 leaves plus 4 blanks.
Size: 390 x 480mm
Binding: Standing slipcase made of granite and cypress, Japanese bound using cypress wood.
Language: English
Edition: #92/100

Sub-type: Private press

Place publication: Santa Cruz, CA
Publisher: Lime Kiln Press, University of California

Additional notes:
Printed under the direction of William Everson at the University of California. 33 leaves. Full Naturgewebe (course German cloth) lined with Uwa Japanese paper, spine open-laced with deerskin rawhide from California. Slipcase sculpted from Monteray Cypress wood with a window of granite from Jeffer's stoneyard. Signed by Everson and inscribed to Abe and Kitt Lerner on the colophon page by Everson.

Only right-hand pages printed, and verso printed as offset from the tympan

Illustrated on page 4 of Dressing the Text: The Fine Press Artists' Book, 1995.

Included in the special exhibition at the Library of Congress on 19th April, 2013 for CODEX Mexico.

Exhibition notes:
Bookseller description: Oblong elephant portfolio. A single poem by Jeffers of 33 leaves "rubbings from the rock poems gathered from his stonemason years when submission to the spirit focused his imagination & gave massive permanance to his verse. The title page woodcut is by William Prochnow. Types used are Goudy Newstyle and Castellar initials. The paper is Hayle an English handmade. The slipcase is of Monterey Cypress; its window of granite from Jeffers' own stoneyard. A magnificent work of book arts that combines form and function.

Ref: GB/3247