Philadelphia: Published by James Crissy, 1822. First edition. 12mo, original drab boards, printed orange paper label, 252 pages, untrimmed. Engraved title page. An attractive copy, bright and in the publisher’s original boards, of an early collection from industrious clergyman-poet; amid the expected religious themes one finds topical verses on the..... More

Providence: Marshall, Brown and Company, 1834. First edition. 8vo, original rose diaper grain cloth, gilt lettering, 48 pages. A Phi Beta Kappa poem, delivered in Rhode Island. Neat contemporary gift inscription (to the lovely lilac endpapers), "E. C. Sigourney from the attached & devoted Self." More

New York: (The Bradford Club), 1860. First edition thus, one of 100 (of 250) copies. Large 8vo, contemporary green half morocco (perhaps the Club binding), marbled sides, gilt spine, viii, 191, [1] pages. Double frontispiece portraits. With a specimen sheet (folded to make four leaves) laid in. The limited edition..... More

Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co., 1836. First edition. 12mo, original green cloth, gilt lettered leather spine label, 153, [1] pages. Many of these examples of youthful verses written while the author was a student at West Point (including an anecdote of a classmate with a dislocated jaw), where he graduated..... More

Chicago: S. S. Boyden, Publisher, 1868. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 200, [3] pages. Verses from a resident of Bostwick Lake, Michigan (outside Grand Rapids), with much occasional verse (Independence Day celebrations, an address to the Progressive Lyceum), as well as the lengthy narrative title poem recounting..... More

Gotham [New York]: Published by Gas, Green & Ginger, Shinglesign Square, [1847]. First edition. Original printed yellow wrappers, 7.5 x 4.5 inches, 24 pages. “This, but a sample of the game / Of humbug, play’s by those who came / From English urinated scum— / Debauch’d by brandy, beer, and..... More

Des Moines: Mills & Company, Publishers, 1865. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 216 pages. “What means, I ask, a Bloomer-dress convention? / An effort to shake off a foreign yoke; / And certainly a laudable intention; / With foreign sympathies our necks are well-nigh broke.” Verses on..... More

[Salem, Mass. Published by J. Chapman & C.W. Palfray, 1868 or 1869]. First edition. Single sheet French folded to make a title leaf and 7 numbered pages, unopened. A carrier's address covering the usual range of local japes, political events, the fame of local ice, etc. No doubt printed in..... More

Cincinnati: Morgan & Overend, Printers, 1848. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped ribbon embossed red cloth, gilt stamping, 168 pages. Mezzotint frontis portrait engraved by C. A. Jewett from a Daguerreotype by E. C. Hawkins. A handsome collection of verses from an attorney and Covington, Kentucky veteran of the recent war..... More

Northampton: A. R. Merrifield, 1842. A later edition of this evergreen chapbook and tract verses. Original printed pictorial yellow wrappers, 4.13 x 2.63, [8] pages (numbered [3]-10). Woodcut illustrations. "Once more I quit my wint'ry bower. . . ." An oft-republished set of verses on the piety of a simple..... 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

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

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