Item 334683The Fountain and Other Poems.
Price: $200
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. First edition, BAL state B, with publisher's catalogue. Read More Item Details for The Fountain and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #334683
Price: $200
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. First edition, BAL state B, with publisher's catalogue. Read More Item Details for The Fountain and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #334683
Price: $350
May 21, 1877. Bryant offers his opinion on a potential edition of the poems of one Mr. Thompson, a Southerner: "If Mr. Thompson's poems had been published in his lifetime I think they would have been readily sold, in as much as he was well known, more particulalry at the..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("W C Bryant"), to Edward Oldham in North Carolina, regarding the sale of a book by Mr. Thompson Add to Wish List
Item #308793
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New York: March 10, 1859. Bryant writes to accept an invitation to an oration by American statesman Edward Everett sponsored by the Mercantile Library Association, at the Academy of Music in New York. Bryant has evidently misdated his letter, as the lecture was on March 9. (Four years later Everett..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("W.C. Bryant"), to Messrs Seevoss, Sherman, and Wickham, accepting an invitation "to be present at the delivery of Everett's Oration this evening..." Add to Wish List
Item #308792
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nd: April 3, 1843. Read More Item Details for ALS. To J.K. Tefft of Savannah. Accepting a dinner the following evening and thanking him for volumes containing the collections of the Georgia Historical Society of which he was the founder Add to Wish List
Item #307332
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Roslyn, NY: Wednesday Morning [n.y.]. Reading: "Mr. Bryant regrests that it is not in his power to accept Mr. Graham's polite invitation for Saturday Evening" Read More Item Details for Autograph Note Signed internally ("Mr. Bryant"), written in the third person to decline an invitation Add to Wish List
Item #307331
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New York: April 11, 1876. In part: "I have copies of my poems here but not the best editions. I had just written to General [John] Dix before I recieved your letter that I could send the Emperor, tomorrow a copy ... This was in answer to an intimation from..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("WC Bryant"), to Messrs Darling, Conswold & Co Add to Wish List
Item #307330
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1873. "Dear Sir, I send you what you have requested in your letter of the 12th of this month..." Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Wm.C. Bryant"), to W.F. Suydam, an admirer Add to Wish List
Item #307329
Price: $650
in recipient's hand dated March 30/60. Bryant writes to Gould about an article recommending Worcester's Dictionary in the Evening Post, which several people would like to see answered. In part: "As you are my Ajax of philology I send it to you, that if you think it worthwhile you can..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed, to Edward S.[herman] Gould Add to Wish List
Item #306305
Price: $450
Cummington: Sept 21, 1876. In praise of honey. "It seems to me that I ought to express ... thanks ... for the box of honey which I have received from you. It was excellent. I have tasted the famous honey of Narbonne in France, and the no less celebrated honey..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("W.C. Bryant"), to William Guilford. On honey Add to Wish List
Item #306304
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. First edition, first state with "veielo" on p. 213 and printed on wove paper. Includes Bryant's translation of the fifth book of The Odyssey. Read More Item Details for Thirty Poems Add to Wish List
Item #306135
Price: $275
New York & London: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. First edition, BAL state B (no priority), with additional publisher's catalogue at rear, and state B (no priority) of Contents leaf (folded to appear as p. 5). Read More Item Details for The Fountain and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #306133
Price: $400
New York: E[lam] Bliss, 1832. First edition. Bryant's third book, following the extremely rare self-published juvenalia Embargo (1808) and his slim first collection, Poems (1821). This edition contains works from the 1821 Poems — including "Thanatopsis" and "To a Waterfowl" — as well as newer poems. “Most of the following..... Read More Item Details for Poems Add to Wish List
Item #306127
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New York: The Evening Post Letterhead, Feb 21, 1870. Reading in part: "I thank you for a record of a good life which you were so kind as to send me in your last. It is much plesanter to hear that one of the Bryants has closed a long life..... Read More Item Details for ALS. To George H. Bryant Add to Wish List
Item #305858
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Roslyn: May 5th 1864. Read More Item Details for ALS. To J. T. Ketchum. About cider Add to Wish List
Item #305857
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nd. Read More Item Details for Proof of an article "Return of Rev. Dr. Bellows", with a hynm written for the occasion of his return from Europe by W.C. Bryant to the tune of "Old Hundred" Add to Wish List
Item #305855
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np: nd c. 1870s. Reading in part: "I return you the Album Cosmopolite with many thanks. Your collection of autographs is scarcely less extraordinary than your collection of drawings. It is the richest and most interesting I have ever seen." With, Cabinet Photograph of Bryant by Bogardus, noted "F. Shaw..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, Signed. "Dear Sir." Add to Wish List
Item #305854
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New York: July 18, 1833. Reading in part: "Sanford and Swords, Booksellers of this city published I think two or three years since, in American edition of Keble's 'Lyra Innocentium.' It is very likely ..." Read More Item Details for ALS. To G.H. Clark Add to Wish List
Item #305677
Price: $550
Monday June 23, 1845. In part: "I spoke this morning with a young man at your office who said that you would allow a small package of books to remain at your place until ... my return from Scotland and Ireland..." Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("W.C. Bryant"), to Mr. Putnam, his publisher, asking if a parcel of books can be left at his office until his return from Scotland and Ireland Add to Wish List
Item #305674
Price: $750
New York: D. Appleton, 1864. INSCRIBED to WCB'S NIECES. Inscribed on the flyleaf in the poet’s hand “For Mary and Olivia Fairchild with their Aunt Bryant’s love — March 16th, 1864” With a note from a Bryant descendant mentioning the family genealogy “Frances Fairchild (Mrs. W. C.) Bryant had four..... Read More Item Details for Thirty Poems Add to Wish List
Item #305649
Price: $2,250
Cambridge: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1821. First edition. PROBABLE PRESENTATION BINDING. "Bryants manuscript was edited anonymously for publication by [Richard Henry] Dana, [Sr.] and by E.T. Channing." (BAL p. 332). Among the eight poems which make their first collected appearances here are two of Bryant"s most famous, "Thanatopsis" (here..... Read More Item Details for Poems Add to Wish List
Item #237078
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New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. First edition, BAL state A, without publisher's catalogue. Read More Item Details for The Fountain and Other Poems Add to Wish List
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