Padova: Coi Tipi della Minerva, 1836. First edition thus. 8vo, original pictorial tan wrappers, 31 pages. A poem published to celebrate a couple's wedding. More

Sendai, Japan: Kaneko Press, August, 1899. First edition. Unbound, 7 x 4.5 inches, [3] pages. From the Japanese mission field, the Pennsylvania-born William Edwin Hoy (1858-1927) here sends six stanzas of verse back to the Reformed Church in America, “O Lord! we hear out of the night / Far China’s..... 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

Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1854. First edition. 8vo, original embossed purple cloth, gilt stamping to the spine, 246 pages. Frontis portrait. A moderately popular New England poet, this collection intended perhaps quietly to settle some scores on her relationship with the late Edgar Allan Poe; Locke notes..... 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

Baltimore: John Murphy, Printer and Publisher; Puttsburg [sic]: George Quigley, 1846. First edition. 8vo, 19th century pebbled half mororro, marbled sides, 332, [4] pages. Frontis portrait, title page printed in red and blue. Six plates, plus presentation leaf printed in red ink. Collected verses from one of Delaware’s earliest poets..... 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

[Adrian, Michigan? n. p., 1922?]. First edition. 16mo, original printed wrappers, 54 pages. Various verses, a number dated from Adrian, Michigan, with many on the glorious role of the United States in the World War. The verses are dated as late as 1922, and include several topical pieces, viz. the..... More

Salem, Mass. [William Cook], January, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, stitched, [9]-16 pages as issued. Two plates (included in the pagination) of views of Broad Street in Salem, and of the District Schoolhouse in South Danvers, Mass. Another lively and striking example of the self-published and self-printed verses..... 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