[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

Kalamazoo: Published by the Author, 1886. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering. The author's first book, a collection of humorous poems (with a few appended prose burlesques). This favorite son of Kalamazoo had attended the University of Michigan in 1885-86 (the rolls of the Michigan Alumnus would..... More

Boston: Printed for Sterne and Mann, 1818. First edition. Unbound and stitched as issued, approx. 7.13 x 4.5 inches, 28 pages. Unopened. Signed in type at the foot of the text, “End of the first number,” but no other known numbers were published. The lyrics to popular songs; the patriotic..... 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

Washington [Penna.]: Printed for Matthew Carey, Market-Street, Philadelphia, 1801. First Carey edition. 12mo, original calf, red leather spine label triple-ruled in gilt, gilt lettering, 289 pages. AAS suggests the book was printed by the early Washington, Penna., printer John Colerick; Colerick had earlier done the printing of Goldsmith’s Grecian History..... More

Tokyo, Japan: Christian Literature Society, 1917. First edition, an ex-library copy with their large perforated stamp on the title and the margin of a leaf of text. 16mo, original pictorial stiff wrappers, [6], 38, [1] pages. A fairly early example of Japonisme, a collection of Tanka in English (or short..... More

Waukegan, Illinois: The Gazette Publishing Co., (1916). First edition. 8vo, original pictorial gray jacket around stiff wrappers, [52] pages. Inserted portrait. Homely verses from a newspaper man, with much in the James Whitcomb Riley dialect--including a tribute to Riley himself. Irish, Modern American Muse, 3923. More