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

New York: Published by S. Colman, 1840. Third edition (see below). 8vo, publisher’s gilt- and blind-stamped pebbled green sheep, 284 pages, a.e.g. Frontis, engraved title page, illus. An important and attractive early anthology of American verse edited by the book auctioneer Keese, with illustrations from American painter John G. Chapman..... 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

Wooster, Ohio: G. S. Schmutz Print, 1902. First edition. Original gilt-printed blue stiff wrappers, scant 6 x 4.5 inches, [12] pages. Evidently the only published book from this Wooster sweet swinger, Elizabeth A. Lusk (1825-10/13/1902), who notes at the foot of the text here, “I have manuscript music to the..... More

Kingston, Jamaica: New Dawn Press, 1945. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, [4], [iv], 213, [1] pages. Original printed dust jacket. A presentation copy, with an ink inscription signed by McFarlane and dates 21 April 1950 on the front free endpaper. A relatively early collection of essays and addresses (ranging..... More

N.p., ca. 1895]. 17 pages on 17 leaves, generally 13 x 8 inches (though a few trimmed short, say to six or seven inches long), fastened in one corner with a brad, oages numbered a, 1-16. Two mounted cancellanda slips. Eschatological verse of one view of the prophetic arrival of..... More

Hudson, Mich. News Power Presses, 1898. First edition. 8vo, original printed red wrappers, 40 pages. A varied collection, O'Harrow notes that he has here published a few of his songs in order to secure the copyright and "concluded to throw in some of my short compositions." Subjects range from patriotism..... More

Clinton, (Ohio): Printed by Smith & M’Ardle, at the Office of “The Ohio Register,”, 1815. First Ohio edition. 12mo, original tree calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 170, 38, [8] pages. A crude but ambitious pioneer press production of these American epics, evidently published by subscription. (See Hill, History of..... More

New Castle, Ind. Pleas Bros.; Indianapolis: Bowen, Stewart & Co.; Richmond, Ind.: Nicholson & Bro. (1871). First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, 154, [4] pages. The first of several collections of verse from the Indiana native Parker (1833-1911), a long-time resident of New Castle, Indiana. Includes a number of pieces..... More

Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1856. First edition. 8vo, original printed tan wrappers, 30 pages. On the Pilgrims. Read at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the society; this poem also appeared in Semi-centennial celebration of the New England Society, in the City of New York, December, 1855 (New York 1856). More

Dordrecht, 1812—, 1817. 8vo, contemporary half sheep, marbled sides, various gatherings of autograph verses bound together and paginated in ink, [2], 200, [4] pages. With an additional ink note on the title page beneath the device, “(i.e. F. Grim my most dearly beloved and regretted brother. J.W.G.),” with the signature..... More