London: J. and D.A. Darling, 1851. First edition of this book length poem. Small 8vo. 160 pp. Illustrated, plates, extra engraved title page. Spine title: "The / Friar." Westwood & Satchell (listed anonymously), p. 15: "This is merely fun hiding in an angler's domino." Heckscher 83. Spine ends a little... More about The Anglican Friar and the Fish which He Took by Hook and By Crook: A Comic Legend, by a Novice,...

NP: np, nd [1861?]. First edition. Broadside poem, 5 1/2 x 4 inches, printed within an ornamental border, 44 lines written in 22 rhyming coupets: "The blessing of the God of Truth, the Southern Flag shall claim." Rudolph Confederate Broadside Verse 85. Moss Confederate Broadside Poems 62. Not in Parrish... More about The Flag [caption title

[British?]: np, nd [18th century]. Broadside verse printed on laid paper, 15 x 5 1/8 inches, 10 stanzas. At the head of the broadside is a small woodcut (2 1/2 x 1 7/8 inches) picturing a man and woman in 18th-century dress; below the text is a second small woodcut... More about THE JURY OF OLD WOMEN; / OR, / THE TRIAL OF A YOUNG GIRL'S CON- /SCIENCE.; [followed by 10 verses...

London: Hacon and Ricketts, [Vale Press], Printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1900. Two volumes. 8vo. [7 blank leaves], cxvi, [8 blank leaves]; [7 blank leaves], cxxv, [7 blank leaves]. Cream colored buckram with gilt stamped spine. One of 320 copies. Slightly soiled and darkened with some wear to spine ends... More about Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Lyric Poems and In Memoriam; Designed by C.S. Ricketts and...

Philadelphia, (PA): David McKay, (c1932). First edition with the Pogany illustrations. 4to. xvi, 182 pp. 12 full-page black-and-white plates. Inscribed by Pogany on the half title in 1941 to arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson "this far-eastern saga for those of Ultima Thule." Original silver-stamped black cloth (one small white paint smudge... More about The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation Mahabhinishkramana); Being the Life and Teaching of...

London: Ward & Downey, 1896. 1st ed. 12mo. 64pp. Author's first book. Inscribed by the author: "For John Foster Carr / Hilaire Belloc / 1900." Original green cloth, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Two newspaper clippings of Belloc poems affixed to rear endpapers, else a Fine copy. More about VERSES AND SONNETS

[San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Arts Festival Commission, 1964. First edition, 1/300 copies, issued as one in a portfolio of broadsides. Broadside,20 x 12 3/4 inches, printing the poem below a large illustration (15 x 10 3/8 inches) by Richard Cornell. This copy signed by both Brautigan and Cornell (Brautigan did not sign all copies). Fine. (#5279). More about September California

London: Smith, Elder, 1887. First edition. 12mo. viii, 268 pp. Publisher's ads. Engraved bookplate of Adolph Zukor, film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures, and red morocco bookplate of Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter. Original terra cotta cloth, gilt spine title. Front hinge just starting to crack, else a very good... More about Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day: To Wit, Bernard De Mandeville, Daniel...

The letters, dating from 1967 to 1972, request his college writing teacher's help in securing various fellowships & teaching positions. One note reads "[I] want like crazy to attend, largely because Dickey will be conducting the poetry workshop." In all, totalling approximately 800 words, with a manuscript addition of some... More about FOUR TLS (one incomplete

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., (c1917). First edition. 8vo. xvi, 307 pp. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication "Dear Marjorie: / Should I say / guts Morgen or / Good-Day? / Otto would say / Good Night! / Ever yours / Hal WB / October 1... More about Grenstone Poems, a Sequence

New York: Van Winkle and Wiley, 1817. One of three American editions issued in 1817, the earliest in the United States (first published the same year in London; other American editions were issued in New York and Philadelphia). First American edition (?). 12mo. (4), [9]-70 pp. American Imprints 40369. Interior... More about Manfred, a Dramatic Poem

8vo. Ink on light blue paper. Four pages, "Our Own Little Church on the first three pages, and an untitled 16-line poem on the fourth. First two lines: "Like a snow white dove it nestles, / In among the trees;" "But most I love this spot, when autumn / Storms... More about "Our Own Little Church" [manuscript caption title for a three-page, 56-line manuscript...

New York: Red Angel Press, 1977. First separate edition, 1/100 copies (this #30) signed by the author and the designer/illustrator. Folio. 23 pp. Frontispiece and in-text illustrations from line drawings. "An unusual split-page, tripartite format was developed for this edition that allows the reader to visually experience the simultaneousness expressed... More about The Owl King. (Design & illustrations by Ronald Keller