Philadelphia, [PA]: Key & Biddle, 23 Minor Street, 1836. Period 3/4 red leather and marbled boards (rubbed), all page edges speckled. 16.5 cm. xi, [12-13] 14, 304pp. BAL 17693. "An extended version of the 1834 edition. Reprint save for: "Parting of the Missionary's Bride," "Plymouth Rock," "The Charter Oak," "The..... More
NY: Edward Kearny, 1848. First edition. 12mo. 299 pp. Frontispiece portrait, extra engraved title page (name torn from upper margin). Sabin 82461. A book length poem based on the author's THE HISTORY OF BLACK HAWK (Milwaukee, 1846). Original gilt-stamped cloth (faded), gilt title on spine; foxed, else a very good..... More
NY: Edward Kearny, 1848. First edition. 12mo. 299 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Black Hawk, extra engraved title page. A book-length poem based on the author's "The History of Black Hawk" (Milwaukee, 1846). General John Wool's copy, with his ownership signature on the front endpaper; Wool (1784-1869) served as an officer..... More
Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1893. First edition, Munsell's Historical Series No. 20. Small 4to. 12, 359 pp. Frontispiece view from a wood engraving. Gephart 6221. One leaf tape-repaired in upper margin, else a very good untrimmed copy. Original black cloth, gilt spine title. (#5756). More
London: Printed for private circulation only, 1913. 8vo. 11pp. Original pale green printed wrappers. Very good. First edition. 1 of 20 copies printed for Thomas J. Wise. Laid in is a typed note, signed by bookseller Philip Duschnes 19 December 1946, about the shipment of this pamphlet. WISE 150 TODD..... More
London: F.S. Ellis, 1870. 8vo. 23pp. Original subdued orange wrappers (soiled). Very good, mostly unopened copy (half-title torn where poorly opened). First edition. WISE 52. More
Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, for Cadell and Davies, 1800. Second edition. 17 cm. (4), [5]-31, (1), [1]-89, (3), [1]-34 pp. Two woodcut plates, plus head- and tail-piece woodcut vignettes. Full contemporary green straight-grained morocco (spine darkened), single gilt filet on covers and flat spine, gilt title on spine, gilt..... More
New York: The Alcestis Press, 1936. First edition, 1/165 copies signed by the author. 8vo. 56 pp. Fine unopened copy. Original printed green wrappers. Housed in a custom navy cloth clamshell box, with gilt spine title. (#5228). More
Mobile, (AL): S. H. Goetzel & Co., 1863. First edition. 8vo. 125 pp. A book length poem. With the book label of John Dalton Shaffer (1858-1927), state senator and owner of Ardoyne Plantation (site of part of the filming of "Twelve Years a Slave") in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Parrish &..... More
Mobile, (AL): S. H. Goetzel & Co., 1863. First edition. 8vo. 125 pp. A book length poem. Parrish & Willingham 6313. Confederate Belles-Lettres 29. Text evenly browned, as usual, a very good copy. Original printed tan stiff wrappers (rubbed, spine mostly eroded). (10158). More
London: Printed for private distribution; Printed by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bread Street Hill, September 1889. 8vo. 19 pp. Printed blue boards, spine chipped, printed black type on front board. Limited edition of 25 copies. Published for Thomas Wise. Partington states that there were 28 copies. More
Boston, [MA]: Published by Carter & Hendee, Corner of Washington and School streets, 1829. First edition. 20 cm. viii, [13]-158pp., plus leaf of publisher's advertisements. Yellow paper spine with rose-colored printed paper label and drab boards. Some chipping of spine especially around joints, loss of paper cover on lower part..... More
Paris: Paulin, Libraire-Editeur Rue de Seine, 33, 1843. First edition. 12mo. 17 cm. 318pp. Extra illus. with a portrait of author and illustrations of fables. Tabbed in the back is a poem from a newspaper "Epitre de M. Viennet" by A. M. Villemain. Some pencil notation. Quarter red leather with..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. 8vo; 58 pp. First edition. African-American poet's first book. Very good in bright internally-repaired dust jacket (not visible in Brodart cover), with slight wear to spine ends and extremities. More
New Haven, (CT): Yale U. Press, 1942. First edition of the author's first book, in the "Yale Series of Younger Poets" series. Tall 8vo. 58 pp. Very good. Tan cloth, printed dust jacket (shallow chip at head of spine extending along upper edge of rear panel). (#3744). More
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[Boston? 1852]. First edition. 27 cm. 3 pp. (folded leaflet). Black bordered. Slight chipping, old folds weak with some separation. BAL 15676. Inscribed in ink "to the Hon. Rufus Choate with the sincere regards of T.W. Parsons." Dated at the end in type, Nov. 1, 1852. A poem in 28..... More
(Concord, NH): The New Hampshire Troubadour (Rumford Press), 1946. Vol. XVI, no. 8, November, 1946 (this issue only). 12mo. 31, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, frontispiece portrait of Frost. Includes the first publication of the Frost poems "Our Getaway" (later retitled "Why Wait for Science") and "An A No. 1..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. First edition in this format, “Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series.” BAL21693. Small 8vo (19 cm). 205, (8, publisher’s ads) pp. Frontispiece of Whitman’s Camden, N.J., house. Original gilt-stamped, decorated green cloth (rubbed, front hinge cracking). Owner’s name, a good solid copy. More
[Newburyport, MA]: Printed at the Newburyport Herald Office, 1859. Broadside. 32 x 20 cm. Text in two columns beneath title. Two poems (called original hymns), one by Mrs. E. P. Grosvenor with first line: "Sacred to science, wisdom, truth," the other by J. G. Whittier with first line: "The South-land..... More
London: Printed on St. George's Day. for George Thomason, at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1660. First edition. 4to. 20 pp. Poetic tribute to General Monck. Wild (1609-1679), a Puritan divine and poet, celebrated the Restoration in a long series of poems; this one became "enormously popular"..... More
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Limited edition of 600 copies, printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper, and the type distributed. Printed paper boards, slightly edge darkened, in the scarce original dust jacket which has some chipping, loss to head of jacket, closed tear, spine darkened. A very good copy..... More
London: Rupert Hart Davis, Soho Square, 1959. First edition. 4to. 39 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine in light green dust jacket printed in red and black, darkened along spine and edges with some wear to corners and spine ends. Signed by author on title page. More
