London: S. Curtis for Rest Fenner (preliminaries in gathering [A]), [text printed in Bristol by John Evans & Co.], 1817. 8vo (222 x141 mm). Half-title and leaf of errata. Original boards, printed paper spine label, untrimmed; blue quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: William G. Freeman (bookplate); A. Edward Newton (bookplate); George.....
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Oblong folio (8½ x 13 inches). 391 pages on 195 leaves, each leaf containing two pages of the text. Xeroxed proof with printer's registration marks and incorporating an earlier editorial reader's occasional notes. Comb binding with drab wrappers. One short tear to front.....
Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon for the Fanfare Press, 1929. 4to (315 x 248 mm; 12 1/4 x 10 inches). 10 copper-engraved plates by Jones. Original quarter gilt-lettered cream cloth, green boards. Spine slightly soiled, light wear at extremities. LIMITED EDITION, number 265 of 480 total copies. Coleridge’s poem had haunted Jones.....
Amherst: Fall 1946. 8vo. 60 pages. Stapled in original pink printed wrappers. Edited by James Merrill and William Burford, this was the only issue of The Medusa, the literary journal they founded at Amherst College. This appeared only four years after Merrill's scarce privately printed first book, 'Jim's Book.' From.....
New York: Macmillan, 1951. 8vo. 180 pages. With errata slip laid-in before text of the poems. Original orange cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; dust jacket. First American 'edition' from sheets of the English second impression, the first issue, with integral title leaf. One of the rarest books in the Moore canon.....
Washington, D. C. Black Sun Press, 1950. Small square 8vo. [16] pages. Printed in blue ink. Five full-page illustrations by Cagli. Stapled as issued in original wrappers. Second edition of Olson's first book of poetry, the first trade edition after the limited edition of 1948. Issued as "Collectors Item No.....
New York: Academy of American Poets, 2004. 7 x 7 inches. Seven bifolia, comprising title/colophon and six poems, each with portrait of the poet facing a reproduction of their manuscript poem, with printed poem on translucent paper inserted. Laid loose as issued in glazed paper printed portfolio. First edition, one.....
Philadelphia: Joseph Healy, 1840. 12mo (14.7 x 9.6 cm). 44 pages. Original printed wrappers. An unauthorized reprint, but the first complete book appearance of "The Minstrel Girl," though most of the piece had appeared previously in 'The American Common-Place Book,' 1831. "Moll Pitcher" was first published anonymously in 1832 (see.....
