Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1904. Hardcover. 54 p.; 20 cm. Original brown paper over boards; printed paper spine label and cover label, the latter in red and black. Title page printed in red and black; title vignette (printer's emblem?). Gift inscription from the author and his wife..... More
Portland, Me. Thomas Bird Mosher, 1917. Hardcover. vi, [2], 51, [3] p.; 18 cm. Green paper spine with dark green spine title; green-and-white patterned paper over boards. This is one of a limited edition of 450 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper in Oct. 1917. Printer's emblem on title..... More
London: At the Office of the Bookman's Journal, 1923. Hardcover. 36, [4] p.: color illustrations; 25 cm. Blue cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; grey paper over boards. Lacking dust jacket. This is one of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Printed at the Curwen Press. Contains 15 poems with..... More
New York: Clark & Austin, 1847. Hardcover. 155, [1] p.; 15 cm. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped decoration on both boards and spine. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Josephine Kimball. First published in 1810, The Lady of the Lake was set in Scotland and told..... More
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1851. Hardcover. Volume 3 only. 4, 348 p., 2 leaves of plates (frontispiece and added engraved title page), 10 unpaginated pages of music; 17 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled..... More
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1815. Paperback. First edition with half title and advertisements. Written "for the purpose of assisting the Waterloo Subscription." Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and John Murray, London. 56, 4, [2] p.;..... More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912. Pyle, Howard. Hardcover. [8], 52, [2] p., color frontispiece: woodcut headpiece and tailpiece; 23 cm. Black cloth with color pastedown on front board within orange border. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: John Carvar. Don C. Seitz (1862-1935) was an American..... More
Portland, Me. Thomas Bird Mosher, 1899. Paperback. [18], 369-399, [15] p., 16 cm. Blue-grey paper wrappers printed in black and red; sewn. Some pages are unopened. The Bibelot was published by Thomas Mosher from 1895 to 1914. This issue contains Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by..... More
Iowa City, Iowa: Walter Edwin Peck, 1926. Paperback. 7, [1] p.; 23 cm. Grey wrappers printed in black; stapled. This is no. 48 of a limited edition of 100 copies. "Text from the first publication in the Philological Quarterly, April, 1926." Walter Edwin Peck was the author of Shelley, His..... More
Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 1846. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. 338 p., frontispiece, added engraved title page, 5 leaves of engraved plates; 19 cm. Contemporary red morocco with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; gilt-tooled title in second compartment "Sigourney's Poems"; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt-rolled border on each..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1892. Hardcover. 109, [3] p., frontispiece portrait of the author; 17 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Top page edges gilt. Emblem of the Riverside Press on title page. American poet Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887) was a professor..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1976. Hardcover. 320 p.; 24 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. An anthology, arranged chronologically, of Edith Sitwell's prose and poetry. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good+ Condition: closed 2-cm. tear from lower edge..... More
Lowell, Mass. New Moon Publishing Co., 1890. Paperback. [2], 32, [2] p.: illustrated advertisements; 25 cm. Light brown wrapper with dark brown wrapper title and illustration. "For Old and Young" -- on front wrapper. Advertisement for Hood's sarsaparilla on outside of back wrapper. Advertisements on first 2 and final unpaginated..... More
London, Eng. George Allen, 1895. Crane, Walter. Paperback. Edited by Thomas J. Wise; Part VI with eight full-page and other illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press on handmade "Unbleached Arnold" paper. [4], 421-527, [5], vii-viii p.: added engraved title page, 7 additional leaves of..... More
London, Eng. George Allen, 1896. Crane, Walter. Paperback. Edited by Thomas J. Wise; Part VIII with four full-page and other illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press on handmade "Unbleached Arnold" paper. [4], 1045-1119, [1] p.: 4 leaves of plates, and many in-text illustrations; 28..... More
Boston, Mass. John H. Eastburn, 1830. 22, [2] p.; 22 cm. Disbound. Lacking wrapper. The author, Charles Sprague (1791-1875), was a Boston bank teller and poet. This 30-stanza poem was written for the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the city of Boston. Early Amer. Imprints, 3568. In Very Good-..... More
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2001. Paperback. First Printing. viii, 190, [2] p.; 23 cm. Paperback; cover design by Valerie Brewster. A Lannan Literary Selection. Anne Stanford (1916-1987) was an American poet who spent her entire life in California. She received the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Di Castagnola..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1892. Smith, Jessie Willcox. Hardcover. 136 p.: frontispiece by Jessie Willcox Smith, many in-text illustrations; 26 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt- and black-stamped spine and cover titles and illustrations. Brown floral endpapers. Illustrated by Lavinia Ebbinghausen, Jessie Willcox Smith, Jessie McDermott, J. Augustus Beck, and..... More
Exeter, N.H. William B. Morrill, 1883. Pamphlet. 22 p.; 22 cm. Brown wrapper printed in black. "Centennial of Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, June 21, 1883." Wrapper title: Dr. Stebbins's Oration, Mr. Hale's Poem, June 21, 1883. The poem celebrating the private school's first hundred years is by Edward Hale..... More
New York: Macmillan Co., 1962. Paperback. First printing. xxxiv, [2], 467 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. Contains selections from both the fiction and the poetry of Irish author James Stephens (1880-1950). Includes an index to first lines and titles of poems. In Very Good- Condition: cover is rubbed and lightly soiled;..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002. Hardcover. 69 p.; 22 cm. Cover in two shades of blue with gilt spine title and author's initials on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The 13th collection of poems by American poet Gerald Stern (b. 1925). Book and dust..... More
Chicago: Merrill Publishing Co., 1937. Trimmer, George. Paperback. [12] p.: color illustrations; 33 cm. Stapled; color illustrated covers. "3427" -- on cover. Selections from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses are exuberantly illustrated by George Trimmer. Contents: Time to Rise -- Whole Duty of Children -- At the..... More
Allentown, Pa. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1956. Hardcover. cvi, 286, [2] p.; 23 cm. Off-white cloth with red spine and cover titles, and red cover illustration. Title page has decorative red border. Decorated inital letters in red. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: "T. C. Tatman." Thomas Cooper Tatman..... More
London: Dranes, 1923. Paperback. 64 p.; 16 cm. Light grey wrappers with French flaps; printed in black; spine and wrapper titles, the latter within decorative border. Very scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: corners are lightly creased; clean and bright. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. Hardcover. 208 p.: 118 illustrations (50 in color); 29 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and emblem on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes biographical notes on the poets, and indices of poems, poets, and artists. Book and dust jacket are in..... More