Abingdon, Md.: Printed by Daniel P. Ruff, 1806. First edition. Stoddard and Whitesell 802; American Bibliography 9820. ¶ A substantial and accomplished collection of poems by a young lady from Fair Park, Maryland, on numerous themes: elegies to lost loved ones and friends, epistles to the poet William Hayley, to.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First edition. BAL 20660, state A of the title-page. ¶ The first collection of poetry from H. T. Tuckerman (1813-1871), the prolific and popular American essayist and critic. Neat signature of "Thomas M. Brewer / Boston 1851" on the title-page.
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Litchfield, (CT): Printed by Collier and Buel, [1793]. First edition, state A. Stoddard & Whitesell 448; Wegelin 489; Evans 25104; BAL 4976 (Dunlap) & 5046 (Dwight). The first anthology of American poetry; a second volume was planned, but never published. Smith (1771-1798), a physician and author who died at 28.....
New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. First edition, number IV of 20 numbered copies, of a total edition of 165 copies, signed by Bishop on the colophon page. This copy is additionally inscribed on the half-title to American poet "S. Foster Damon / as always - / from Latimer /.....
Richmond: From the Franklin Press, W. W. Gray, Printer, 1819. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 1220; Wegelin 882; American Bibliography 47420; Sabin 7387. A patriotic poem about the responsibilities of citizens as they enjoy the benefits of American liberty, which is dedicated to the social and political welfare of the.....
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.....
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[Philadelphia: Public Ledger, 1857]. A handsome carrier's address celebrating the new extension of the Capitol Building in Washington, with commendatory verse on the edifice and the values it represents: "Our Nation's Capitol in all the pride / Of architecture, guards Potomacs tide / On yonder eminence it proudly stands /.....
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.....
(Los Angeles: Printed for Ernest Dawson by John Henry Nash, 1925.), First separate edition. Cowan, page 142. A poem celebrating the glories of Los Angeles, which Coolbrith laments in this poem, first published in 1895 in her Songs of the Golden Gate, was already suffering from the "price of civilization.".....
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition, trade issue, one of 500 copies. BAL 4070; Kraus, Copeland & Day, 20. Stephen Crane’s second book, a collection of 68 poems published in a fin de siècle nineties style, with the cover designed by illustrator Frederic C. Gordon.
Boston: Published by Perkins & Marvin, 1829. First edition. BAL 4424; American Imprints 38327. An early work by Richard Henry Dana, Senior, a poem about man's soul.
Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1827. First edition. BAL 4422; American Imprints 28656. Dana’s first book, preceded by several pamphlets. It includes celebrated poems, The Buccaneer, a long verse narrative of the supernatural. Presentation inscription on the front blank for a school prize dated December 31, 1827.
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[Portland, Maine:] Southworth Press, 1932. First edition, an off-print from the New England Quarterly Review, volume V, number 2, 1932. BAL vol. 2, page 453; Myerson D42 (New England Quarterly appearance); OCLC records five copies (Harvard [2], Virginia, Wisconsin and Oxford). Six hitherto unpublished poems by Emily Dickinson. These were.....
London: Printed for J. Mathews, 1791. First English edition. Noted under BAL 5041 and Wegelin 129. A long poem dedicated to Voltaire and written as a Calvinist orthodox response to what Dwight states in his dedication is the negative influence on religion of Voltaire, Hume and Priestley: “Reasoning is an.....
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Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, (1948). First edition. Gallup D619. The first Swedish translation of Four Quartets, a collaborative effort by three translators. Inscribed on the half-title by one of them, Thomas Warburton, and dated Nov. 26, 1948.
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, [1984]. First edition, number 21 of 226 copies signed by Everson, Killion and Wilson. Designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at The Press in Tuscany Alley. From the library of David and Valerie Belch. Original prospectus laid in.
(New York): New Directions, (1948). First edition. Bartlett & Campo A9. ¶ Everson’s first major collection of poetry, a selection from previous volumes, with one unpublished poem and new 3-page preface. Inscribed on the front free endpaper “For Dorothy Whitnah / with best wishes etc / Bill Everson.” Dorothy Whitnah.....
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.....
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(Berkeley: University of California General Library, 1960). First edition, one of 200 copies printed by Kenneth J. Carpenter as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, 1960. Bartlett & Campo A17. One of several early poems written by William Everson that remained unpublished until years.....
San Francisco: The Lantern Press, Gelber, Lilienthal, 1924. First edition, number 165 of 500 numbered copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 68. The third collection of poetry by Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987). The Lantern Press was the imprint of San Francisco booksellers Gelber, Lilienthal. Frederick Monhoff was an.....
London, 2020. First edition, one of 250 copies. A remarkable collection of seventy-five poems by the poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller Arthur Freeman. Twelve of the poems are unpublished with sixty-three from nine previously published collections, spanning seven decades. Freeman writes with wit and style, in a voice his own.....
Boston: D. Lothrop, (1883). First edition. BAL 6302, binding A. The rare first book by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), a collection of 12 poems for the illustrations of George F. Barnes. Freeman later became well known and celebrated for her popular local color stories about New England places and.....
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. First Arion Press edition, number 23 of 200 numbered copies, signed by Ginsberg. ¶ A handsome edition of Ginsberg's Kaddish, with two additional related poems and an introduction by Helen Vendler. Printed note from the publishers about the "somewhat unusual binding" laid in. ¶ From.....
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: 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.