JEFFERS, ROBINSON. Cawdor and Other Poems. New York: Liveright, 1928. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, slight wear to ends of spine and fore-corners, spine dull, maroon half morocco folding case. FIRST TRADE EDITION, A FINE PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Jeffers on front free endpaper: "To James Rorty, Whose power and persistence first got my verses an audience -- whatever I may have done with it since. Sincerely, Robinson Jeffers. Tor House, Carmel, California, November, 1928" (publication month). The poet and critic James Rorty played an important role in Jeffers' achieving recognition as a poet. "...James Rorty brought [Tamar and Other Poems, 1924, Jeffers' third book] to the attention of Mark Van Doren. Enthusiastic reviews by Rorty, Van Doren, and others appeared. A demand sprang up; Jeffers returned the 450 unsold copies to the printer [in New York], who sold out the edition. Tamar is the first of the author's major works, and was instrumental in establishing him as one of the country's foremost poets" -- Alberts, pp. 19-20; Alberts 55 (for Cawdor).