Reno, Nevada: The Black Rock Press, 1968. First edition, one of 180 copies, signed by Everson on the front blank. Bartlett & Campo A30. Seven previously unpublished poems by William Everson, originally written in 1947 and printed by Kenneth and Patricia Carpenter of the Black Rock Press in a edition.....
Boston: David R. Godine, in Association with Dartmouth College Library, (1977). First edition. Joseph Blumenthal's survey of the American printed book from 1640 through the latter part of the 20th century. Among those in the later period that Blumenthal writes about are several prominent presses and printers from California, including.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. First edition. BAL 9413, edition A. ¶ Howe’s third book, and her first published play. Inscribed on the half-title “To his friend F. G. Halleck / the author’s Brother / S[amuel] W[ard]. / 30 May 57.” Halleck was the popular American poet Fitz-Greene Halleck, one.....
New York: Linen and Fennell, 1841. First edition. BAL 14357 (Morris), 997 (Park Benjamin), 1166 (Robert Montgomery Bird), etc.; American Imprints 41-3619. An important anthology of American poetry that includes early and first appearances by Emma Willard, Albert Pike, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Simms, ad infinitum - and the first.....
London: Printed for F. Fayram and W. Meadows, 1731. First edition. ESTC T166155 (six locations, two in North America). ¶ A grammar of the Portuguese language for English speakers and writers, with interesting American provenance: On the front paste-down is the bookplate of William Hickling and on the front free.....