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, who grew up in the East and migrated to Northern California in 1956 at the...
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...
New York: Linen and Fennell, 1841. First edition. BAL 14357 (Morris), 997 (Park Benjamin), 1166 (Robert Montgomery Bird), etc.; American Imprints 41-3619. ¶ An impressive anthology of American poetry that includes important early and first appearances by Emma Willard, Albert Pike, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Simms, ad infinitum - and...
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Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797. First edition. 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 Washington...
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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 / Jan 21/36."
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 people of the United States.
[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 /...
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: The Arion Press, 2007. First Arion Press edition, number 65 of 300 numbered copies. The 79th book of the Arion Press and an exemplary fine press edition of a classic American poem, with essays by Helen Vendler on the Waste Land and Marco Livingstone on Kitaj's painting, a....
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...
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...
(Cortland, N.Y.: The Bibliophile Press), [1935]. First edition, first issue. Crane A20. A fine copy of the first issue of Frost's poem "The Gold Hesperidee" which first appeared in 1921 in the magazine Farm and Fireside, but was never collected in Frost's published books. Apparently there were 500 copies of...
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" on the front free endpaper.
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...