[Enield, Mass. John Howe, 1844]. First edition. 16mo, unbound pamphlet approx. 6 x 5 inches, 8 pages, unopened. "Come all you bold seamen, and lovers likewise, / Give ear to a ditty that's caused many sighs." Entertaining verses of the path-of-true-love variety; per Philip Gura's article, "Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in..... More

Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas, & Co., 1835. A later printing of this American stereotype edition. 8vo, original sheep, gilt lettering, 605 pages, printed in double columns. A popular edition that likely did its part in creating the strain of sentimental American Romanticism. Rough attempts to tear away an ownership signature at..... More

New-York: C. Shepard; Providence: Shepard, Tingley & Co., 1837. First edition. 12mo, original ribbon-embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering, 151, [1] pages. “What! must I always hear, nor e’er reply, / And shall John Bull for ever rend the sky? / Shall Owen, in a voice as thunder loud, / Shout..... More

London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1727 [1726]. First edition. 8vo, early 19th century half calf, marbled sides, black morocco label, gilt lettering, vi, 392 pages. “In those blest Days of Jubilee, / When Pious Charles set England free / From Canting, and Hypocrisy; / Most graciously, to all restoring /..... More

Chicago: Surrealist Editions, (1968). First edition. Original pictorial white wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 64 pages. Illus. Poetry from the Chicago surrealist and sometime collaborator with Paul Garon. More

Boston: Printed for the Author, J. Belcher, Printer, 1809. First edition. 12mo (6.88 x 4.13), original full sheep, black leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 169, [1] pages. “As the following Poems originated in sincere and ardent love of my country, and a desire to aid the cause of truth..... More

Albany: Printed by E. & E. Hosford, 1813. A later edition, the first complete edition having appeared in 1782. 12mo, removed, 112 pages, untrimmed. A mock epic on the American Revolution from the Hartford Wit John Trumbull (1750-1831), no doubt here republished due to anti-English sentiment fanned by the War..... More

[Ohio? n. p., n. d.]. First edition. 8vo, original printed tan-green wrappers, [ii] + 24 pages. Several of the poems are dated from the 1860s, and RPB catalogues its copy with a publication date of [186-?]; however, the pamphlet has the look of a later 19th century production. One poem..... More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867. First edition. Small 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, [vi], 103, [1] pages. Likely a publisher's presentation copy, with the ink inscription at the head of the title, "With Author's Compts." A collection largely made up of verse accounts of romantic tales--the Man with..... More