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Roxbury, Bosston, Mass: April 1, 1910. German Immigrant Dialect Poem. After his service in the Civi War, Charles Follens Adams (1842 -1918) began writing humorous verse for magazines and periodicals. His “Leedle Yawcob Strauss” was written in 1876, and first published in book form in LEEDLE YAWCOB STRAUSS, AND OTHER.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript, signed (“Chas. Follen Adams”) and dated (“April 1, 1910”) of 8 lines from his poem “Leedle Yawcob Strauss” Add to Wish List

Item #247636

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4 Patchin Place, [New York]: May 16, 1946. “the enclosed is what I happen to believe …”. “the enclosed is what I happen to believe. If your friend, the South American poetess, still wishes to 'interview' me after she has read and understood it — fine and dandy; provided she'll.....  Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“Cummings”), to Howard Rothschild Add to Wish List

Item #262933

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N.p: n.d. [probably ca. 1895]. Author of “Ben Bolt”, New Jersey Congressman, and Enemy of Poe. Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902) was a proilific author of poems, ballads, and novels; he also server two terms in the U.S. Congress as a Representative from New Jersey; but his fame as a writer.....  Read More Item Details for De nuper sub D. Carolo Repertis insulis, simulatque incolarum moribus...Enchiridion. Add to Wish List

Item #247634

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N.p. [Providence, RI?]: n.d.[before 1868]. “Old Grimes” - A Manuscript. Written anonymously by a 20-year-old Brown University student, A.G. Greene (1802-1868), and first published in a student newspaper in 1823, “Old Grimes” quickly became part of the popular folklore of the nation, and, when set to music, one of the.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fair copy, of his poem “Old Grimes” Add to Wish List

Item #247627

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New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, nd [c. 1890]. Part of the Putnam Knickerbocker Nugget series. SARA ROOSEVELT'S SIGNED COPIES. From the library of Sara Delano Roosevelt, the mother of FDR, with her signature and date of 1891 on top right of both title-pages. Mrs. Roosevelt was a strong-willed.....  Read More Item Details for Essays of Elia Add to Wish List

Item #248002

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Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Company (Parts 1-20) then: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, [1880]. "Sold exclusively by subscription, and will be completed in Thirty Parts, at Fifty Cents each, payable on delivery." 30 PARTS, OWNED BY AMERICAN ARTIST JAMES D. SMILLIE. With protective board labelled Return to.....  Read More Item Details for The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Add to Wish List

Item #303302

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[New York: Peter Hooten for a class at the Center of the Book Arts, November 1984]. First edition, consisting of 5 numbered copies, signed by Merrill; this being numbered "O", and docketed in ms., “Printer's proof”. Although only 5 numbered copies were issued, Hagstrom notes that “at least two printer’s.....  Read More Item Details for Rendezvous Add to Wish List

Item #301192

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[Brooklyn: ca. 1912]. ‘Hail Brothers of the printing ink!’. An unpublished manuscript of poems by the nineteenth century Scottish-American printer and poet, Colin Grant Mackenzie (1832-1913), whose long career as a journeyman pressman brought him into association with Harper Brothers, J.F. Trow, Houghton, the University Press, and other important 19th.....  Read More Item Details for "Random Rhymes in Manuscript and Reprint" Add to Wish List

Item #307715

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New York: [Printed by Horace F. Temple, West Chester, Pa.], [1917]. Copy No. 3 of 200 printed. Important Association Copy. Very scarce and early Stein pamphlet, published in the June, 1917 issue of Vanity Fair, and reprinted separately here in an edition of 200 copies. This copy has an important.....  Read More Item Details for Have they attacked Mary. He giggled. (A Political caricature), by .. Add to Wish List

Item #40760

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Chicago: Privately Printed, 1931. First edition, No. 411 of 1000 copies. The author's second book, printed by the Lakeside Press under the direction of William A. Kittredge (1891-1945) in an edition of 1,000 copies - some copies are numbered, many are not, and a few have been seen both numbered.....  Read More Item Details for Essentials. Definitions and Aphorisms Add to Wish List

Item #35020

Price: $900

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, [1968]. First Edition. First Book, Review Copy. Read More Item Details for Once. Poems Add to Wish List

Item #214148