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,...

[New York? np, 1829?]. Single sheet, 56 x 22 cm., printed on both sides. Three poems, printed in three columns each, plus several paragraphs of Christian advice. Beside the printed title of the first poem, "Dreadful Catastrophe" is a vignette of a sailing ship (a lightly printed image), decorative border... More about DREADFUL / CATASTROPHE / OF THE EXPLOSION OF THE SHIP AT N. YORK JUNE 4TH / 1829, WHEN 100 MEN...

NP: np, January, 1864. First edition (?). Broadside poem, 7 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches, printed within a black border, 26 lines railing against the Confederate congress's abrogation of substitute contracts: "In former days, a Contract was a test, A pledge respected and a right at rest ... The State... More about For the Times [caption title

Columbus [OH]: Gazette Printing House, 1890. 6 3/4 by 4 3/4 in. (viii) - 82pp. Illustrated with three original photos tipped in on sheets with captions. Blue cloth with Ye Periwig Picnic stamped in gilt on front cover. Compilation of stories and poetry by members of the club with photo... More about THE PERIWIG PICNIC, by Several Periwigs; Introduction by Harry Loy

NP: np, 1810-1830? Broadside. 23 x 23 cm. Illustrated with two relief cuts in the upper corners. Verse in eleven stanzas and two columns, separated by a decorative line. Not in American Imprints. OCLC lists a copy at AAS. The young man dreams he seduces the object of his desire... More about THE YOUNG MAN'S DREAM

(London): Faber and Faber, (1940). 8vo. 125 pp. Original printed purple wrappers (soiled, spine worn, front wrapper nearly detached). A good copy. First English edition, a proof copy of this wartime publication. A publisher's complimentary slip giving the publication date and price is laid in. Bloomfield and Mendelson A22b (not... More about ANOTHER TIME: POEMS

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...