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
[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
Auburn: Printed by U. F. Doubleday, 1821. First edition. 12mo, original calf, red leather spine label, gilt lettering, 254, [1] pages. Disappointed in 1803 in an editorship and having exhausted his resources in traveling to Philadelphia to take the prospective job, Ray “in a paroxysm of half despair and half..... 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
London: Printed for John Joseph Stockdale, 1807. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 13 pages + 2 pages of ads. A poem written to commemorate Pitt, who had died in 1806; this title was erroneously attributed to Canning. More
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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
Winchester, Va. J. Foster, Printer, 1816. First edition. Small 8vo, original sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, 219, [1] pages. An eccentric book-length poem from Elder Joseph Thomas (1791-1835), the wide-ranging charismatic North Carolina itinerant preacher known as the White Pilgrim for his habit of attiring himself in white apparel..... More
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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
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
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
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N. p. [but Rhode Island]: n. p., ca. 1836-1837]. First edition? Broadside, 11.5 x 7.13 inches (30 x 18 cm), printed in double columns. Perhaps one of the most popular American poems inspired by bookkeeping and social reform, from the Rhode Island country doctor and popular homespun temperance lecturer and..... 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
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
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
[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
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
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
