New York: Chas. Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., n.d. [but 1865]. Small broadside lithographed song sheet (20.5x12.5cm), top third adorned with an oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln mourned by a Union soldier. A fresh and Fine example. A popular song sheet disseminated in the wake of Lincoln's assassination by..... More

Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, No. 147 Market-Street. Brown & Merritt Printers, 24, Church-alley, 1809 [but 1821]. Small quarto (13cm.); slightly later straight-grained gilt-tooled brown morocco, marbled endpapers; 16pp.; engraved frontispiece and seven leaves of plates (collated complete). Dark tide mark affecting textblock as well as plates, stock uniformly toned due..... More

Sacramento, CA: Ellen Rosser / Ellen's Old Alchemical Press, 1976. First Edition. Contents loose as issued, comprised of a title page, table of contents, and twenty-four (24) poetry broadsides (ca. 28x22cm) (collated complete), housed in original pale green mailing envelope (33x23.5cm). Envelope a bit worn and wrinkled, tiny crease at..... More

Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, Jun., 1802. First American Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine; viii,[13]-154,[2]pp. (collated complete despite error in pagination, with final leaf of publisher's ads bound in rear). Leather scuffed at margins, front joint starting to crack, spine gilt dulled, endpapers rather ragged and significantly filled with..... More

New York: Helga M. Rogers, [1947]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xxiv,295pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Jacket rather dust-soiled with moderate chipping and wear to margins, top textblock edge also very dust-soiled, though contents remain clean and sound. Contemporary price rubberstamp to front free endpaper..... More

Boston: Stereotyped by J. Reed, 1830. Early Printing. Two volumes in one; 12mo (16cm.); full contemporary brown morocco, gilt spine; 108; 108pp.; engraved frontispieces at head of each volume, nine leaves of plates. Leather a bit dried and rubbed at margins, shallow loss at spine crown, brief cracking to front..... More

London: Published by Eugenia Stanhope / Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774. First Edition, Second Issue with corrected "qui auroit" (Vol. I, p. 55, line 16). Two volumes; quartos (29.5cm.); 19th-century calf over marbled paper-covered boards, black gilt-lettered spine labels; vii,[1],568; [2],606,[2]pp. (lacking half title pages, otherwise collated complete..... More

New York: Naomi Spector, 1992. First Edition, Limited Issue of 100 hand-numbered copies signed by Naomi Spector, this being #81. Small quarto; printed string-tied wraps; [12]ll., printed recto only. In original navy blue paper envelope. Tear to envelope flap, else fine. Companion artist book to "Some Ryman Words" published in..... More

Dallas: Somesuch Press, 2001. Limited Edition, numbered 99 of 350 copies and signed by designer W. Thomas Taylor (as "Tom Taylor") and publisher Stanley Marcus on colophon. Octavo; [15]pp. Publisher's map-decorated paper with silver lettering and red cloth spine. Boards are clean and sharp. Binding is sound and pages unmarked..... More