Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1845. First edition. BAL 12075; American Imprints 45-3949. ¶ An anthology of 50 poems from lessor celebrated poets - poetical waifs - compiled by Longfellow and introduced with his poem entitled "Proem." The interesting assortment of poets includes Jones Very, Harriet Martineau, Philip Freneau, Henry.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First American edition, first printing. BAL 12122. ¶ Longfellow's famous account of the story of Miles Standish, told in verse. Neat ownership signature of Mary S. Dwight, dated October 1858, on the title-page.
Philadelphia: Issued by John M. Wolff, Stationer, [n.d., but circa 1855-60]. An early broadside edition., and the first separately printed edition that identified Moore as the author. Marshall, The Night Before Christmas, A Descriptive Bibliiography, 25; noted under BAL 14346: "An undated broadside, printed in blue and red, was issued.....
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.....
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797. First edition. ESTC W29945; BAL 14558; Evans 32512; Stoddard & Whitesell 581. The first and only published part of an ambitious verse history of the American Revolution, dedicated to "the Citizen-Soldiers who fought, conquered, and retired, under the banners of.....
Richmond: Printed by Samuel Pleasants, 1798. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 610; Hill, American Plays, 194; Evans 34159; Sabin 51316. The first book by William Munford (1775-1825), a collection of verse, prose and one play. Munford was a native of Virginia and the son of Revolutionary War soldier and dramatist.....
(Deia, Mallorca: The New Seizin Press, 1985). First edition, one of 75 copies signed by Tomas Graves and Ralph Nelson.
No place, no publisher, 1853. First edition. The only published volume of poetry by Andrews Norton (1786-1853), man of letters and conservative theologian from Cambridge, Mass., a slender volume of 16 poems. It was privately printed posthumously by Norton's family, and this copy bears a family inscription. Presentation on the.....
Boston: Printed by Young and Etheridge, 1792. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 444; Evans 24643. An elaborate and lofty philosophical poem on the cultural advancement of man, modeled on the works of Alexander Pope and Mark Akenside. Handsomely printed with liberal use of ornaments - or "pretentious use" according to.....
Philadelphia: Published by Edward Earle; Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1810. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 924; American Imprints 21334; BAL volume 5, page 251 (Key). A substantial and varied collection of poetry and translations by John Shaw, a physician who traveled extensively before accepting a teaching position at the University.....
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.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1925. First edition, one of 600 copies designed and printed by John Henry Nash. ¶ An impressive selection from over 100 contemporary California poets, e.g.: George Sterling, Robinson Jeffers, Stephen Rose Benét, Ina Coolbrith, Yone Noguchi, Xavier Martinez, Sara Bard Field and Charles.....
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First edition. BAL 18767; Mattila A12. A selection of Sterling's best poetry to date. Inscribed by Sterling on the front free endpaper to his wife, Carrie: "Dear Carrie: / Just a / few unnatural [?] sonnets. / George. / San Francisco, July 5, 1916.".....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1920. Second edition, one of 350 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. Mattila A20; BAL 18791. This is first edition of Lilith as finely produced by Taylor & Taylor for the Book Club of California.
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1915. First edition, one of 525 copies. BAL 18762; Mattila A8. ¶ Sterling's famous ode that celebrated the opening of the exposition that celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal. Handsomely printed and bound in the manner of the Kelmscott Press by Taylor & Taylor.....
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.....
N.p.: n.p., n.d. [but San Francisco, 1926]. First edition, one of 150 copies. BAL 18827; Mattila A29. ¶ A narrative poem that H. L. Mencken rejected as "unfit" for his magazine subscribers because of its "lesbian" leanings. There was apparently some discussion of the Grabhorns printing it for Sterling, but.....
(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.....
(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.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1879. First edition. BAL 7873 (Hayne). ¶ The first collected edition of the poems of Frank O. Ticknor (1822-1874), a widely read Georgia poet and friend and contemporary of fellow Southern poet Paul Hayne, who praises Ticknor's poetry in the introduction. The editor was Kate Mason.....
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.....
New York, July 9, 1937. ¶ A fine portrait of the poet Witter Bynner (1881-1968), taken in early middle age by his friend, the writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. Bynner had a life-long interest in photography and was friends with many well-known photographers.
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888. First edition. The scarce collected poems by the Concord minister and author David Atwood Wasson (1823-1887), one of the most highly regarded of the Transcendentalist writers, whose poems had previously only appeared in periodicals. This posthumous collection - Wasson's first and only book - was.....
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1897. First Small, Maynard edition of the complete Leaves of Grass. BAL 21447; noted under Myerson B3. An interesting and uncommon edition of Leaves of Grass, which according to BAL contains the first appearance the 13 poems that comprise "Old Age Echoes" - though Myerson does not.....
Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836. First edition. BAL 21697; American Imprints 42466. An early narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891), based on the story of the legendary 17th century Indian warrior Mogg Hegon. Mogg Megone was first published in the spring of 1835 in two issues of The New.....