Lawrence Clark Powell.
An introduction to Robinson Jeffers. Thesis for the Doctorate of the University presented at the Faculty of Letters of Dijon.
Dijon: Imprimerie Bernigaud & Privat, 1932.
Powell’s first significant publication was his doctoral thesis at the University of Dijon on the California poet Robinson Jeffers. He went to France, in part, to do this work as universities in the United States were reluctant to allow Ph.D. candidates to research living writers. In later years, he would remind friends and associates that this book was published in the same shop in Dijon where Joyce and Hemingway had some of their work printed.
Lawrence Clark Powell.
Robinson Jeffers: the man and his work; a foreword by Robinson Jeffers, decorations by Rockwell Kent.
Los Angeles: The Primavera Press, 1934.
This revised edition of the author’s doctoral thesis, originally published as An introduction to Robinson Jeffers, was designed by Ward Ritchie and published by Jake Zeitlin. The handsome production included decorative initials by the well-known American illustrator Rockwell Kent and a foreword by Jeffers, the subject of the work.
Lawrence Clark Powell.
Books west southwest: essays on writers, their books, and their land.
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1957.
Powell wrote of this collection of essays, "The subject is the land in which I have spent my entire life, sometimes seen through the eyes of other writers in their books, then again seen with my own direct vision, seeking always to let reading enrich experience and experience confirm reading."
Lawrence Clark Powell.
Books in my baggage: adventures in reading and collecting.
London: Constable, 1960.
Powell divided these essays into two major sections entitled "First Person Bibliographical" and "Bookman in Britain." But whether at home in Los Angeles or as "a southwesterner in Scotland," the author’s focus was always and everywhere on books. "This is a book about books, about collecting and reading and living with books, at home and abroad, of love for a single volume and lust for eighty thousand . . . . All my life I have traveled with books in my baggage, gone with books at my side, and now in my fifties, I regard them as necessary as food and air."
Lawrence Clark Powell.
The little package: pages on literature and landscape from a traveling bookman’s life.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1964.
"The little package" refers to the book and the many ways it can inform and expand a reader’s life, a subject about which Powell wrote for much of his career. "I have gone everywhere with books in my baggage or in memory alone, and although these pages from my life at home and abroad were written for a variety of occasions and publications, their constant theme is of the rewards that come to the reading traveler, the traveling reader, of the riches that fill and overflow the heart and mind when one lives on a balanced diet of life, literature, and landscape."
Lawrence Clark Powell.
California classics: the creative literature of the Golden State.
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1971.
Powell combined biography and criticism to create this literary chronicle of California, seen against the varied landscape of seacoast, valleys, mountains, deserts, and the cities. First serialized in Westways, the author’s personal preferences for 31 works range from Herbert E. Bolton’s Anza’s California expeditions to Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, my lovely. In the preface, Powell noted that "active work on this book began in 1967, although I have been preparing for it all my reading life which began about 1912."
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