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.....
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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.....
Paris: Printed at the English Press and Sold by Barrois and R. Thomson, 1793. BAL 877. An important edition of Barlow’s famous poem, with a prefatory note by him discussing the earlier editions, an appendix to the introduction, revisions to the text, and the joint appearance of this poem with.....
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.....
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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 /.....
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Los Angeles: Printed for Ernest Dawson by John Henry Nash, 1925. First separate edition. Cowan, page 142. A poem celebrating Los Angeles first published in Coolbrith's Songs of the Golden Gate (1895), here handsomely reprinted by John Henry Nash in two columns divided by triple green lines and adorned with.....
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 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.....
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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.....
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: 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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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.....
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.....
(Reno, Nevada): The Black Rock Press, (1965). First edition, one of 80 numbered copies. The first book of the Black Rock Press and the first book of poetry by playwright George Herman, a collection of six amusing poems on sparrows. The Black Rock Press was founded by Kenneth and Patricia.....
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.....
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.....
Cambridge and Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1893. First edition. Kramer, Stone & Kimball, 5. Hamlin Garland's poetic descriptions of American rural life, following closely his critically acclaimed realistic prose sketches on the same subject, Main Traveled Roads (1891) and Prairie Folks (1893). ¶ Pencil signature of "Freida Behr, Xmas 1899".....
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.....
Wrentham (Mass.): Printed and sold by the Author, 1801. First edition. American Bibliography 641. An anthology of English and American verse and prose, which includes Phillip Freneau's "The Indian Student; or the Force of Nature" and John Maxcy's "Charge Delivered by the President to the Graduates of Rhode-Island College." 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.....