Westminster: Roxburghe Press, (188?). First Edition (?). 8vo, pp,158,126, frontispiece portraits of Lady Cook and Sir Francis Cook, original publisher's red cloth stamped in black, some pages brittle and toned, Intermittent browning, a good copy. It is unclear if more of these essays were published. The NUC locates 6 copies..... More
Westminster: Roxburghe Press, (188?). Later Edition (?). 8vo, pp,158,126, frontispiece portraits of Lady Cook and Sir Francis Cook, original publisher's red cloth stamped in black, little bumped, some pages toned, a very good copy bright copy, much better than most. The front perliminary material includes listings for volumes I- -..... More
London: T.T. and J. Tegg, 1833. Fifth edition, corrected. Small 8vo, pp. 168. AEG, Uncut in original cloth with leather label, contemporary name on blank, some toning to the frontispiece, otherwise a nice clean tight copy. See BAL 3109. Child offers views of matrimony and child rearing as well as..... More
[London:]: John Murray, 1843. First Edition. 12mo. pp. 129. Frontis. Orig. dull blue cloth, blocked in blind, faded spine lettered in gilt. Not in Wolff. From wikipeia: "Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake (17 November 1809 – 2 October 1893), born Elizabeth Rigby, was a British author, art critic and art historian, and..... More
Boston: Little and Brown, 1840. Second edn. 12mo, pp, 199, 278. Bound in blind stamped cloth, (rubbed at the extremities of the spines), a good clean set. Frontis portrait. Issued with some additions and corrections. Includes letters to John Adams touching on education and rights of women. Covers the important..... More
NY: Harpers, 1890. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 341 + adv. Green cloth stamped in gold, red white and blue. Illustrated with drawings and etchings, (including one of shooters on a train aiming at a herd of buffalo). Musical notation for the bugle throughout. 1892 ownership signature on front blank. Not..... More
Boston: Jordan, Swift & Wiley, 1845. First Edition. 12mo, pp. xx, 214. Bound in leather backed boards, end papers soiled, some light toning to the title page and intermittant toning, edges and boards rubbed, a very good copy. Sabin 49192. A scarce anthology from the important Lowell Offering periodical. The..... More
London: British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1841. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 597, Lacks the adv. leaf. Bound in later library buckram, ex-library with black mark in upper left blank portion of the title page, library bookplate, etc on rear e.p. Actually a very good clean tight copy. Rare..... More
Lowell: Powers & Bagley. Boston: Saxton & Peirce and Jordan &co. (1841). First Edition. Volume 2, # 1 - 12. pp.380. Bound without the title pages and wraps, with the titlepage from the first issue bound in, some foxed and stained. Bound in leather backedboards (the spine leather is very..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard, (1908). Third Edition. 12mo, pp. 217. Enlarged, with a total of 148 poems. Frontis portrait. Uncut. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt. Cover illustration stamped "MLP". TEG. Contemporary ownership signature on the e.p., of lit (?) Souvenir June 14, 1908, o/w VG. The author's first book..... More
NY: Appleton, 1908. Louis Fancher. Second printing. 8vo, pp. 123. Little soiled printed boards, with 4 art-deco plates by Louis Fancher. A marvelously wicked courtesy book, dripping with sarcasm: "At a very large dinner, the lady beside you is almost certain to be one who entertains generously and as such..... More
NY: Stokes, 1938. First Edition. 8vo, pp 352. A fine copy in little nicked and worn dj (lacks a 1/2 inch square at the lower right of the frornt cover, little rubbed at the extremities of the spine, along the bottom edge of the cover), not price clipped. Generally very..... More
Westminster: Roxburghe Press, (188?). First Edition (?). 8vo, pp,158,126, frontispiece portraits of Lady Cook and Sir Francis Cook, original publisher's red cloth stamped in black, some pages brittle and toned, Intermittent browning, a good copy. It is unclear if more of these essays were published. The NUC locates 6 copies..... More
Minneapolis MN: Coffee House Press, 1986. Advance proof. 8vo, pp. 110.Spiral bound printed wraps, press release laid in. Frontis by the author. Paper wraps. A nice copy. More
Little Brow. 30 lines, signed X. K. Kennedy. Kennedy writes kind words about Voyages and discusses the magazine he is starting to put ot. from Wikipedia: "X. J. Kennedy is an American poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and author of children's literature and textbooks on English literature and poetry. He was..... More
Meredith apologies for not answering a letter sooner: "I seem to answer letters for pleasure only in May and june ---the rest is hassle, joyous by and large, but hassle ..." from Wikipedia: William Morris Meredith, Jr. (1919 – 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate..... More
Booth writes about how they were not able to connect at a reading but he hopes to meet soon. Booth was born in 1925 in Hanover, New Hampshire. He attended Dartmouth College, where he studied with Robert Frost; he received his B.A. in 1947. He subsequently received an M.A. from..... More
on 8-1-2 x 11 in. sheet - inscribed "For Bill C [laire] from Bill Stafford" William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist, was appointed the twentieth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970. Stafford was born..... More
Berkeley, CA: Black Oak Books, 1990. First Edition. Broadside, 13 x 10", designed and printed in black and green at Okeanos Press. Illust. by Patricia Curtan. On stiff paper, very good. Freedman A78. First separate publication. More
[Monterey, KY]: Larkspur Press, 1991. First Edition. Sewn in wraps with paper label. Of an edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 900 trade copies. Tender poems by the author of Nathan Coulter and Memory of Old Jack. More
Versaillles (KY): Adela Press, 1996. First Edition. 8vo, (pp. 12). 1/400 copies, printed on Natur Text paper, sewn into Gainsborough wraps, and numbered. Design, composition and presswork by Alan Cornett at Larkspur Press. Fine. A poem, here first printed. More
Boston: C. C. Roberts, 1870. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 71. Bound in original cloth that is bright and clean, stamped in blind and gilt. Later bookplate on the end paper, contemporary ownership (Namie M Bond) on the blank. A fine copy. Scarce. Olympia Brown's sermon: "Land of Fellowship" covers 3..... More
[Milwaukee: by the author], 1911. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 115. Gray cloth, illustrated with photos, a very fine copy. Krichmar 4542. Rare. OP. On the front blank end paper, Brown's holograph describes how this book came to be written: "in 1911 the legislature of Wis submiited the Womam's suffrage amendment..... More
NY: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. 8vo, pp xvi, 226 pp. Illustrated, primarily from photographs. Name on end paper. two small stickers removed from red endpaper. Bound in blue cloth binding; yellow top stain. Price clipped, Red dust jacket. A very good tight copy. More
NY: Putnams, 1894. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 236. Very good, tight brown cloth, frotn endpaper partially adhering to the pastedown, inner corner of the blank chipped off and crudely repaired, lower blank corner of the title page chipped off and crudely repaired. "Questions of the day, except fpr the repaires..... More
