Boston: James Munroe, 1858. First edition. BAL 3065. An introspective exploration of man and nature in an anonymously published free-verse poem by William Ellery Channing (1817-1901). Channing was a close friend of Henry David Thoreau. He assisted him in the construction of the legendary cabin at Walden Pond and later.....
New York & Washington: Neale Publishing, 1909-1912. First edition, limited issue, one of 250 copies signed by Bierce; this one out of series. BAL 1129; Krick, Neale Books, page 16. The famous collected works of Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), and the most ambitious and elaborate publishing project of Walter Neale's publishing.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Second edition, considerably rewritten. OCLC 20222941 records three copies (Harvard, La Salle and Brown). A three-act operetta by American author Owen Wister (1860-1938) on the follies of prohibition. Macmillan published the first edition in 1923, as it had been performed at the Tavern Club in.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, MDCCCLXIII [for 1843]. First edition in book form, preceded by an edition in parts. BAL 13632; Wright I, 1837; American Imprints 43-3398. The selected works of popular and respected Knickerbocker writer Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889), editor, poet, novelist and collaborator with Evert Duyckinck in founding the.....
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First edition. Wright I, 2276; Sabin 76442; American Imprints 26627. The selected writings of prominent member of the New York literati during the Knickerbocker era, Robert C. Sands (1799-1832), who, among other things, founded the Atlantic Magazine and edited the New York Review with.....
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1849. First edition. BAL 21765, binding A. The handsomely produced first collected poems of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), one of the great American poets of the 19th century. This edition includes all of his poetical work to date, organized by narrative poems based on American legends.....
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1954. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. ΒΆ A charming journal kept by Una Jeffers, the wife of poet Robinson Jeffers, recording her return trip - but the first time as an adult - to Ireland, where both her parents were born. Handsomely printed.....