Little Neck, L.I, [NY]: np, Dec. 28th [1889?]. Broadside. 19 x 13 cm. Poem in 29 stanzas, printed in two columns, separated by a rule, signed in type by Bloodgood H. Cutter. Mark Twain wrote this of Cutter "He is 50 years old, and small for his age. He dresses..... More
Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1943. First edition. 1 of 480 copies. 8vo. 72pp. Plates. Original cloth-backed illustrated tan boards, paper spine label. Very good. More
Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1941. First edition. 1 of 250 copies. 8vo. 41pp. Original cloth-backed blue boards (somewhat faded), paper spine label (edges chipped without loss). Very good. More
New York: Partridge & Brittan, 1854. First edition. 12mo. 144 pp. Original blind stamped brown cloth, with gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Mostly historical verse, including a short poem on [Andrew] Jackson. The bulk of the book (100 pages) is the long verse drama "Arnold," on Benedict Arnold. With..... More
Accompanied by five autograph letters from Payne to Zantzinger, signed 27 October 1849 – 4 May 1851. Washington, DC, 1851. The poem is written on a sheet of stationery, 8 x 6 1/2 inches embossed at the edges, and mounted on a larger sheet (9 x 8 3/4 inches); a...... More
Madison, (IN): Printed by Arion & Lodge, 1831. First edition thus of this "corrected" edition (first published Boston, 1823). 12mo. 24 pp [although bound with a signature miscollated it is complete]. American religious poetry, with questions remaining over the author's identity; at least three different John Pecks have earned attribution..... More
Verona, (Italy): Limited Editions Club (Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega), 1965. First edition with the Salvadori illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) signed by the illustrator and the printer Giovanni Mardersteig. 4to. xiii, (1) 369, (1) pp. Black-and-white illustrations from line drawings. With the LEC Monthly Letter tipped to a rear..... More
Philadelphia,(PA): Published by John Conrad & Co., James Maxwell, printer, 1816. 15cm. Frontis. of Brian Borhoime. 126pp. Original beige paper spine with blue paper boards. Paper spine eroded, slight tear to frontis on lower interior edge, else very good. A variant printing from this publisher in this year, the other..... More
Boston, [MA]: Published by Bradford and Read. T. B. Wait & Co. Printers, 1812. 8vo. [3] - 36 pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. The rear wrapper advertises titles the publishers have for sale at 58 Cornhill, opposite the old State-House in Boston. Some scattered foxing, else very good. WEGELIN: 1093..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition. Small 8vo. 86 pp. The South Carolina author's first book, 1/225 copies signed by the author. Navy cloth-backed decorated boards, paper labels, printed dust jacket (several tiny chips, a little light staining to fore-edge). Very good copy. More
Boston, (MA): Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1801. First edition. 12mo. viii, [9]-155 pp. Original drab paper boards and tan paper spine. Soiling and cracking to paper spine, paper chipping from boards, text clean. A good, somewhat tender copy. STODDARD and WHITESELL 702. WEGELIN 1157. More
Philadelphia, [PA]: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. Second edition (?) 12mo. 20.5 cm. [4], 55pp. Single page of extracts from the printed text, dated 1877 and 1885, tipped in opposite title page. Brown pebbled cloth with title embossed in gold around three interlocking circles on front cover; 1/2 in..... More
NY: Dutton, 1945. First edition, a dedication copy (?), signed "Emma Reece" on the front endpaper in the year of publication (the book was dedicated to the author's parents, Juan and Emma Reece). 8vo. 93 pp. Tan cloth; portions of dust jacket affixed to rear endpapers. More
New York: Edward Walker, 1846. First ed. 12mo. (12), 153 pp. Engraved frontis. and extra engraved title page. Narrative poetry concerning the Tuscarora Indians in North Carolina; also includes a section of historical poetry about Texas. Thornton 11699. Orig. gilt-stamped brown cloth (spine ends a little chipped, corners bumped). Persistent..... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1897. First edition, 1/500 copies. 12mo. 121 pp. Original green and red decorated tan cloth (designed by T.B. Hapgood; thoroughly rubbed); foxed, end leaves heavily, a good copy. Includes "Luke Havergall" and "Richard Cory." More
Philada., Pa. A. W. Auner's Printing Office, Eleventh & Market, nd [1865?]. Broadsheet. 24 x 15 cm. Small vignette of an eagle and flag beneath the caption title and author. Text only, followed by a rule, then "Root & Cady, Music Publishers, No. 95 Clark Street, Chicago." All enclosed in..... More
(Columbia, SC: The State Co.), 1908. First edition, the author's second regularly published book, a volume of his poetry. 8vo. 47 pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper "Miss Mary Black / With Birthday Greetings / from Archibald Rutledge, Jr. / Oct. 26, 1909"; Rutledge's namesake son was..... More
Columbia, SC: R. L. Bryan Co., (c1966). Rev. ed. Thick 8vo. 635 pp. Portrait frontis. Signed by the author on the half-title. Owner's name on pastedown, else very good. Gilt-stamped green cloth, illus. dust jacket. (#8108). More
(Spartanburg, SC: Williams Printing Co.), c1938. First edition. 8vo. 39 pp. Settings of the sonnets include Rutledge's familiar parts of South Carolina. Signed by the author on the title page. Harmon/Cupka 44. Owner's inscription on front endpaper, else very good. Original decorated brown suede, stapled. (#6760). More
[Knoxville?, TN: ca.1868]. Broadside. 21 x 14cm. Six six-line stanzas. Some stains and two small holes, one affecting two words. Short break at one fold. See BAL 17099, for two sheet music printings, ca. 1866. A famous poem in perhaps the first or only separate non-music printing. OCLC lists only..... More
New York: Rinehart & Co., (c1958). First edition. 8vo. 80 pp. Very good. Patterned boards, printed matching dust jacket. (9584). More
Winter Park, FL: Angel Alley Press, (c1929). 12mo. (22) pp. Title page vignette. Original decorated stiff red wrappers (faded, edges a little worn), stapled. Very good. First edition, 1/500 copies, this one signed by the author. A collection of poems with Florida themes; a leaflet printing two Scollard poems about..... More
Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co., for Archibald Constable, Edinburgh and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1815. Fourth edition. 21 cm. (8), [1]-443 (1) pp. Illustrated with 6 engravings from Richard Westall. Full contemporary green straight-grain morocco. Covers panelled and decorated with gilt tooling, spine richly gilt..... More
Cambridge, England: Limited Editions Club, 1967. First edition with the Parker illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) signed by the illustrator. Narrow 4to. 297, (1) pp. Chapter head-pieces and in-text illustrations from wood engravings. LEC Monthly Letter tipped to rear endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Brown quarter-leather and..... More
London: Reeves & Turner, 1886. Second edition, with the notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Thick 8vo. 2 volumes: xcvii, (3), 572; xiv, (2), 580, (14, publisher’s catalogue) pp. Frontispiece to each volume. Noted lawyer Clarence Darrow's copy, with his signature in both volumes, bookplate in volume one, and library stamp..... More
