(New York: New Directions, circa 1950). The first edition as issued in New Directions "The New Classics" series. Inscription in ink on the front free endpaper: "From the books of / Robert McAlmon." The inscription is in the hand of Victoria McAlmon (1879-1969), the older sister of writer and publisher.....
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921. First edition. BAL 18797; Mattila A25. An early presentation copy: "For / Ida Brenda Gregg / these songs of California / and Dreamland, with / all good wishes. / George Sterling. / San Francisco, Dec. 6th, 1921." The earliest presentations copies noted in BAL.....
Gardiner, Maine: Printed for the Author, 1896. First edition, one of 312 copies privately printed. Edwin Arlington Robinson’s scarce first book, a collection of 43 poems written between 1889 and 1896. The manuscript was rejected by commercial publishers and Robinson resorted to self-publishing it in an edition of 312 copies.....
(San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press), 1921. First edition, privately printed, one of 120 copies signed by Sterling. Mattila A24; BAL 18795; Grabhorn Bibliography 32. A popular poem by San Francisco poet George Sterling (1869-1926), privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for the San Francisco patron-of-the-arts Albert Bender. Inscribed.....