25 x 40 cm, signed "p.a. 71" in pencil in the lower left corner and on the verso also in pencil "Paul Alexander / Bolinas - 1971." ¶ A fine watercolor by artist Paul Alexander, an Easterner who migrated to Northern California in 1956 at the encouragement of fellow classmates.....

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 /.....

[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: 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: Bowles and Dearborn, 1827. First edition. BAL 4422; American Imprints 28656. Dana’s first book, preceded by several pamphlets. It includes one of his most celebrated poems, The Buccanner, a long verse narrative of the supernatural. Presentation inscription on the front blank for a school prize dated December 31, 1827.....

San Francisco: Centaur Press, (1950). First edition, one of 250 copies, signed by Duncan. A series of poems about poetry, women, and medieval times, very handsomely printed at the press run out of their home by Kermit Sheets and poet James Broughton.

London: Faber & Faber, 1930. First edition, number 56 of 350 numbered copies, signed by Eliot. Gallup A16b; NCBEL IV, 160. Eliot's translation from the French of the epic poem by Marie René Auguste Alexis Léger (who wrote under the pseudonym Saint-John Perse), which Eliot wrote is “of same importance.....

(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.....

(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.....

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: Published by James Eastburn, Literary Rooms, 1821. First edition. BAL 8512. ¶ A vision poem about the final day of retribution, read by James Hillhouse (1789-1841) at the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1812. This was an early work by the New York poet, predating.....