New York: Farlag Amerika, 1919. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed blue cloth, [96] pages. An early collection of Yiddish poetry from the Ukrainian-American author Gross (1896-1956). Small early Rochester, N.Y. Hebrew Library stamp on the title page and front free endpaper. Fishstein Collection 476. More

Chicago: Wm. A. Chatterton and Company, 1879. First edition. 12mo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 120 pages. Illus. "Oh! Aesculapian Oracle, in thee / There dwells such self-complacency, / That with thine actions and thy talk of blood, / Feeds gaping Gossip with most dainty food" ("To a Fashionable Beer-Drinking..... More

Lowell: n. p., Jan. 20, 1860. First edition. Single sheet printed recto only, 9.5 x 5.75 inches, printed in two columns on cheap wove paper. "Heard ye that wail of fearful woe, / Loud bursting on the air! / Listen! Oh listen, to those groans / And shrieks of wild..... More

San Francisco: Frank S. Thayer, (1924). First edition. Small 8vo, original printed stiff brown wrappers, [2], 48, [2] pages printed on yellow and pink paper. Frontis portrait. Newspaper verses from the bard of the San Francisco Bulletin. With a brief essay on the merits of sentimental poetry, taking as his..... More

(Manasquan, N. J.): Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books, (1996). First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, saddle stitched, 64 pages. Illus. Thanatopsis in Jersey, poems from Dwyer Jones. More

W. Praze [Prague]: Josefy owdowele Fetterlow z Wildenbrunn, 1822. First edition. 12mo, 19th century marbled boards and cloth spine (reinforced at an early point with paper), 116, [4] pages. A collection of verse from Kamaryt (1797-1833), who as one of the emerging circle of young Czech nationalist poets is perhaps..... More

Hartford: Printed by Lincoln and Gleason, 1806. First edition. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering. Lee attempts to bring the story of Job to a wider audience and by doing so divert them from the perils of the Romantics; he notes in his Preface that..... More

London: Morgan and Scott, 1907. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt lettering. Printed in Dublin, and evidently McCurry's first book, a collection of formal verses in such forms as the triolet, the rondeau, the sonnet, etc. More

Newcastle: Hernaman & Perring, Journal-Office, Pilgrim Street, [1832]. Broadside, 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. A satirical verse attack in four stanzas on William Ord, Jr., known as "Orator Ord," who had been stumping for his leftist Whig father (forced to run as a candidate for Parliament for South Northumberland after his..... More

Carlisle [Penna.]: From the Press of A. Louden (Whitehall), 1805. First edition. 12mo (6.88 x 4.38 inches), contemporary calf, leather spine label, gilt lettering, 220 pages. “When she [Miss Oliver] was solicited to make a collection for publication, not being a ready writer herself, she dictated them to another person..... More

New York: Craighead and Allen, Printers, 1835. First edition. 12mo, original blue cloth spine, marbled boards, 132 pages. "Where bleach thy bones, my faithful cat, / Alas! I do not know; I only know that thou has gone / Where all at last must go." Though Rev. Phelps' blank-verse religious..... More

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1704. First edition. 8vo, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, black morocco spine label, gilt lettering, [6], 616, [8] pages. Engraved frontispiece. “A Stranger to the looser Joys of Love, / My Thoughts alone the Warmth of Friendship prove.” A miscellany including the..... More

Dallas: Northouse & Northouse, 1988. First edition, this copy letter U of a series of 26 lettered copies of an edition of 126. Eight broadsides plus title leaf, each approx. 19 x 13.5 inches. Illus. Each poem signed by the author. Original wood and plastic and plexiglass box/frame. A handsome..... More