(San Mateo, Calif.: The Quercus Press), 1940. First edition, one of 250 copies, of which 200 were for sale. Broomfield A30. A fine rendering of two unusually mellow poems by Robinson Jeffers that were inspired by a family visit to Kelmscott Manor in 1929, as described in the excerpt from.....
Philadelphia: From the Press of Mathew Carey, 1791. Second complete edition published by Carey in Philadelphia, preceded by four complete editions published in Hartford and Boston and one by Carey, in 1787. BAL 20558; Evans 23841; ESTC W6501. One of the great poems of the American Revolution, the first part.....
Cambridge: The Riverside Press (for Houghton Mifflin), 1902. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies; this one is unnumbered and is designated "Publisher's Copy. / Not to be sold." BAL 18026. The first collected edition of the poetry of Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887), a fine production by the Riverside Press.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878-9. First combined edition of the two poems. BAL 1771; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 982 and 1797. An attractive edition of William Cullen Bryant's first and final poems, with fine Doresque wood-engraved illustrations by William J. Linton. This was a memorial edition published.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Third edition, expanded. BAL 6975; American Imprints 45-2974. A collection of 21 poems by Knickerbocker poet Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), with one previously unpublished poem.
New York: George Dearborn, 1836. Second edition, expanded. BAL 6971; American Imprints 37878. A collection of 20 poems by the important Knickerbocker poet Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), with three previously unpublished poems. An interesting association copy: from the library of fellow Knickerbocker James Lawson (1799-1880), an author, journalist, and a friend.....
New York: Published by E. Bliss, 1832. First edition. BAL 1603; American Imprints 11544. Bryant’s second substantial collection of verse, which reprints the eight pieces from Poems, 1821 (including minor revisions to “Thanatopsis”) and adds 82 poems. An interesting copy: laid in is a manuscript note, probably in the hand.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First edition. BAL 8757, second printing, State A (B?), binding D.
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(San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1915). First and only edition. OCLC 44411941 records two copies (NYPL & UVa). A five-stanza, 92-line poem on the opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in February 1915, which inspired numerous local San Francisco poets to commemorate the occasion. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923), politician.....