The Recluse (Cook)/First Editions of George Sterling
A Check-list of the
First Editions of George Sterling
THE TESTIMONY OF THE SUNS AND OTHER POEMS.
W. E. Wood, San Francisco, 1903. Edition 650.
THE TESTIMONY OF THE SUNS AND OTHER POEMS.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1904. Second edition 2000. Mostly burned in 1906 fire. Minor changes in text. Second edition scarcest. About 200 sold before fire.
THE TESTIMONY OF THE SUNS AND OTHER POEMS.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1907. Third Edition 1000. Sundry changes in text.
THE TRIUMPH OF BOHEMIA: A Masque.
Privately printed by the Bohemian Club, San Francisco, 1907. Edition 1500.
A WINE OF WIZARDRY AND OTHER POEMS.
A. M. Roberston, San Francisco, 1909. Edition 2000.
THE HOUSE OF ORCHIDS AND OTHER POEMS.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1911. Edition 2000.
BEYOND THE BREAKERS AND OTHER POEMS.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1914. Edition 2000.
ODE ON THE OPENING OF THE
PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.
A. M. Roberston, San Francisco, 1915 Edition 525.
YOSEMITE. An Ode.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1916. Edition 2000.
THE EVANESCENT CITY.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1916. Edition 4000.
THE CAGED EAGLE AND OTHER POEMS.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1916. Edition 2000.
THIRTY-FIVE SONNETS.
The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1917. Edition 300. Contains sonnet not heretofore published.
THE BINDING OF THE BEAST AND OTHER POEMS.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1917. Edition 1000.
EVERYMAN.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1917 Two hundred printed. A translation from the Everyman of Hugo von Hoffmannstahl. Contains several misprints in this first issue. One error, Christ says “Up the tree”, instead of “upon the tree.”
EVERYMAN.
Same edition, with mistakes corrected. Several thousand printed. Second issue.
LILITH. A Dramatic Poem.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1919. Edition 300; numbered and autographed.
LILITH. A Dramatic Poem.
The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1920. Edition 350; numbered.
ROSAMUND. A Dramatic Poem.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1920. Edition 500; numbered and autographed.
TO A GIRL DANCING. An Ode.
Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, San Francisco, 1921. Edition 120.
SAILS AND MIRAGE.
A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1921. Edition 2000.
SELECTED POEMS.
Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928. Edition 750. Contains poem not heretofore published.
TRUTH. A Dramatic Poem.
The Bookfellows, Chicago, 1923. Edition 285; numbered and autographed.
- “POETICA EROTICA” has several poems not printed elsewhere.
- LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCE—Book Club of California. Memoir by Sterling.
- EBONY AND CRYSTAL, by Clark Ashton Smith—1922. Preface by Sterling.
- LAKE ISLE OF INNISFRU, by Yeats,—facsimile, privately printed by John Henry Nash, San Francisco—1924. Comment by Sterling in two pages.
- CONTINENT’S END, an authology of California verse—Book Club of California—1925. Preface by Sterling.