Mexico City: Imprenta del Ciudadano Alejandro Valdes, 1833. Broadside, approximately 12.25 x 8.5 inches. Two small wormholes at left margin. Light dust soiling and toning. Scarce devotional poem, attributed to Luis Abadiano, for the veneration of depictions of the Señor de Santa Teresa and Maria Santisima de los Dolores. This..... More

Santa Rosa, Ca. 1890. 76,56pp. Front cover detached, rear cover lacking; cover chipped, soiled. Ink stamp on title page. Outer leaves lightly chipped, text lightly toned. A curious volume of epic poetry, "Dictated by Conscience." The Book of Washington contains seven pieces of verse, only one of which relates to..... More

Boston: Munroe y Francis, 1827. 288pp. Original calf; rebacked with spine laid down. Some light foxing and soiling, light dampstaining to last few leaves. Some notes and annotations, particularly to endleaves. The first American printing of any of Cadalso's works. This edition was created specifically for American students, "con notas..... More

[Newport, R.I. 1893-1896]. Three pamphlets, varying sizes as described below. Generally nice condition, and all internally clean. A collection of three scarce pamphlet-style carrier's addresses issued in Newport, Rhode Island in the last decade of the 19th century. None of the three appear in OCLC searches. The details of each..... More

[Providence: General Advertiser, late 1869]. Letterpress broadside, printed in two columns, 18 x 11.5 inches. Old folds, minor foxing and creasing. An exceedingly-rare Rhode Island carrier's address whose authorship is attributed to noted transcendental poet and spiritualist Sarah Helen Whitman. The text celebrates the wealth and scenery of Providence, and..... More

Mexico: Imprenta de Doña Maria Fenandez de Jauregui, 1815. [xii],40,[3]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine and edges of boards gilt tooled; contemporary marbled endpapers. Minor wear and rubbing to spine and boards; scattered foxing and occasional light soiling internally. Scarce concatenation of epic, allegorical, political, and religious poetry concerning..... More

Indianapolis: McCormick & Co., 1892. 47pp. plus frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Original cream printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, contents clean. Institutional ink and perforation stamp on title page. Poetry written by this Indiana author while at Heidelberg University in Germany. Cuppy went on to be an author and editor, working at..... More

Grand Rapids: 1910. [16]pp. Original green wrappers, cover gilt, string-tied. Minor wear to wrappers, small ink stamp on rear cover; small ink stamp on verso of title page. Internally clean. Unrecorded work comprised of four poems interspersed with Bible quotations. All four pieces are, unsurprisingly, religious in nature. We find..... More

Little Rock: 1908. [18]pp. plus three plates. Original printed cream wrappers, string tied; covers detached. Covers chipped, minor soiling. Ink stamp on verso of title page. Internally clean. Commemorative volume published on the occasion of the author's coronation as The Poet Laureate of Freemasonry, handsomely printed and illustrated. The work..... More

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Press of E.B. Yordy, 1889. 79pp. 12mo. Original yellow wrappers, printed in red. Moderate chipping and wear to spine. Ink stamp on title page, otherwise internally clean. An epic poem of unrequited and star-crossed love set in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, together with several shorter pieces by..... More

[Seattle]: 1909. 98pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers, string-tied at gutter. Minor wear and soiling to wraps. Some leaves uncut; light toning at edges of text block. Signed by author on title page. First publication by Gertrude Ethel Mallette, comprising a group of children's poems and stories involving princesses, knights, fairies..... More

Lincoln: 1906. 68pp. plus frontispiece and errata. 12mo. Original grey printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Small ink stamp on verso of first leaf. Internally clean. Temperance poetry written by a doctor in Nebraska. In one piece, titled "Our Bondage: Written on Nebraska's Senate Refusing the County Option Bill," he..... More

[Mexico: ca. 1825]. Small broadside, approximately 8x6 inches. Light, even tanning and mild dust soiling. Minor loss at upper right corner, not affecting text. Untrimmed. Attractive, illustrated verse broadside that praises the Virgin of Guadalupe for delivering independence to the Mexican people. Printed within a woodcut border on the sheet..... More