[Salem, Mass.? n. p., 1868]. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, [7] pages. Title-page vignette of a booted elephant draped with a blanket reading "Only $600,000" and bearing aloft a banner with the strange device, "Old Aqueduct." An obscure (but amusing) satirical political work, aimed against the sale of the Salem... More about Programme for the Aqueduct Meeting, at Mechanic Hall, Saturday Evening, January 4, 1868 and Other...

[Boston]: A. W. Lovering, (1874). First edition. 12mo, original printed blue wrappers, 29 pages. "To fall into a hole of snakes, / 'Mong briery and bewildering brakes, / Should be preferred to askin aid / Where daily's done so foul a trade." One of Clark's verse satires, this on the... More about State Street: A Satire

Paris: P. Mongie aîné, 1812. First edition. 8vo, removed (lacks wrappers), 78 pages. An anonymous satire on French literary figures (including some dramatic figures) in Alexandrines, owing an obvious debt to the Dunciad. Includes the half-title. Unattributed in Brunet and all the expected places. CCFr notes three copies at BNF..... More about La Sottisiade, ou le Siége de l'Institut, Poème Epi-Satiri-Burlesque en Six Chants

Newcastle: Hernaman & Perring, Journal-Office, Pilgrim Street, [1832]. Broadside, 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. A satirical verse attack in four stanzas on William Ord, Jr., known as "Orator Ord," who had been stumping for his leftist Whig father (forced to run as a candidate for Parliament for South Northumberland after his... More about Latherum Dum, Latherum De, or Words to that Effect. Vide Tyne Mercury Report of young Mister...

Printed at Dublin. London: Reprinted [by William Bowyer] and sold by A. Moor, 1729. First collected edition. 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt rules, red morocco label, gilt lettering, [6], 217, [1] pages. “Tear out the Tale, and wipe your A---, / I know you love to act a Farce.” Satirical Dublin... More about The Intelligencer

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 about M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos

[New York]: Press of Gutenberg, Faust & Schoffer, 1889. First edition. Original printed stiff red wrappers, 9.63 x 6.88 inches, [9] pages. Frontis, illustrations from comical stock cuts. A wonderful and uncommon jeu d’esprit celebrating an Edison patent legal victory, executed as a pastiche of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”..... More about E . . . . n Triumphant! An Inspirational Rhapsody in Seven Cantos. Translated from the Johnsonese...