[New York? 1831?]. Broadsheet, 18 x 9.5 inches. Moderate foxing and soiling, dampstaining to one edge. Roughly cut along each side. A rare broadsheet of American verse, containing several ballads that recount tales of religious faith, both good and bad, and of tragic death. The verso contains two songs that..... More

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 624pp. Illustrated. Original brown cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Minor wear, corners lightly bumped. Small bookplate on front pastedown; contemporary ownership inscription on title page with slight offsetting to frontispiece. Small closed tear on p. 263, otherwise fresh and clean internally. First..... More

Hutchinson, Ks. 1910. [20]pp. Narrow octavo. Original orange printed card covers, stapled. Some light wear and soiling, intentional holes punched in spine edge. Small ink stamp on versos of title page and final leaf. Internally clean. Short volume of poetry published in a small town in central Kansas. The author..... 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

Harmony, Mn. 1907. 46pp. 12mo. Original green printed wrappers. Minor fading, small ink stamp on rear cover and inside of front cover. Internally clean. "The reason why I undertook / To write this little book, / Is, because I've found so many / unpleasant things sealed / That must be..... 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

Tacoma: 1906. [8] leaves, printed rectos only. Original black wrappers, printed in gold, string-tied. Light wear and chipping to wrappers at spine edge. Small ink stamp on front flyleaf and final blank. Internally clean. With original mailing envelope. An odd production, printing eight "song poems" each of which with a...... More

Chicago: 1926. Six octavo leaves, typed on recto only. Old folds, some light wear and soiling. Three leaves signed, some dated, other notations. Six manuscript pieces from early in the career of Chicago poet and author Francesca Falk Miller (1888-1969), comprised of five poems and one letter bearing a verse..... More

Hudson, Mi. 1898. 40pp. Original red printed wrappers; front cover detached. Spine and covers chipped, contemporary library ink stamps on front cover and title page. Internally clean, though a bit fragile, several leaves loosening. Poetry published in the tiny town of Hudson, Michigan, near the Ohio border. One poem, "At..... More

Pea Ridge, Ar. The author, 1906. 66pp. 12mo. Original orange printed wrappers. Minor soiling. Small ink stamp on verso of title page and final leaf. Internally clean, partially unopened. A collection of eight musings, primarily written in verse, much of it with a slightly religious angle. Pea Ridge is located..... More

[Raleigh?]: 1911. 23pp. Square 12mo. Original black cloth. Minor wear to covers, text block detached. Minor soiling, small ink stamp to final blank and verso of title page. A rare little volume published by author and English instructor Harry Houston Peckham, possibly in North Carolina during his time teaching there..... More

[New Orleans]: Geo. Muller, 1908. 73pp. 12mo. Original brown printed wrappers. Light wear and chipping to edges of covers. Internally clean. A book of verse by wide-ranging poet Frederick Emanuel Rau of New Orleans. Rau clearly considers himself an observer of the people, and he devotes these pages to poems..... More

Rochester: 1862. 132pp. 12mo. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Corners bumped, moderate wear to corners and spine ends, cloth lightly soiled. Minor scattered foxing. Poetry written by a woman in Rochester, much of it with a Civil War theme. Among these is a poem entitled "The..... More