Boston: Carter, Hendee, 1832. First edition. American Imprints 10803. A mock-epic poem in 266 stanzas, modeled on the style of Byron's Don Juan and written under the guise of being an historical poem about a 12th century Irish king; it was actually a political allegory on the current state of.....

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.....

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.

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.....

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.

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.....

(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.....