The Poems of Samuel Butler [Hudibras] by Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 / Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, ed - 1790

Dublin: The Inver Press, 1931. Limited. <p>Dublin: The Inver Press, 1931. An early and probably privately printed collection of twenty poems in a 32-page brochure stapled together with overprinted green light paper flapped cover, ink inscribed "Selma from Lyle. August 1934." on title page. Cover with creases and some rusting around the staples. Otherwise clean. Contact bookseller for more information. Limited. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall.</p>

Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing (of three), per BAL, with FO monogram on title page and foot of spine and S.T.K. for T.S.K. in caption p. 136. Small 8vo: vi,7-153pp. Original green publisher's C cloth (also issued in orange and purple cloth, no priority noted), spine and upper cover stamped in gilt, beveled edges, chocolate clay-coated end papers. A Fine, bright copy—superb. BAL 7253. Kozlay Collection, 58 (identifying this as the first issue). Johnson High Spots, p. 37 (also calling this the first issue). Collects new and previously published poems, including "To the Pliocene Skull" and "Her Letter," as well as Harte's tribute to Dickens, "Dickens in Camp" and two of his renowned Civil War Poems, "Reveille" and "How Are You, Sanitary?". Harte's breakthrough came was with the publication three years earlier of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and although his reputation today rests on the handful of stories he wrote for the Overland in the two and a half… Read More

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1923. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second book. 8vo. 106pp. Black vertical weave cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with a blind-stamped border. Portrait frontispiece of the author (from a sketch by Wyndham Lewis). A hint of fading to the backstrip, and just a touch of bruising to the spine ends. Half-title spotted, with a touch of further very light spotting to the title page and two blank rear flyleaves. Very good indeed, albeit lacking the most uncommon dust wrapper. Sixty-eight poems by the noted author, publisher and political activist..

237 pp. + Indice + 1 pl. h.t. 9x5,5 cm. G. Pickering, Londra, 1822.
--- Contemporary cloth-bound. Some fading is evident on spine, minor wear at corners. A small piece of paper is missing on first blank page. Very light foxing on frontispiece. Some spots on top edge. Steele-engraved portrait of the author on frontispiece and some engravings en-tête. Pages bright and clean. Uncut copy.

Dublin: The Inver Press, 1931. Limited. <p>Dublin: The Inver Press, 1931. An early and probably privately printed collection of twenty poems in a 32-page brochure stapled together with overprinted green light paper flapped cover, ink inscribed "Selma from Lyle. August 1934." on title page. Cover with creases and some rusting around the staples. Otherwise clean. Contact bookseller for more information. Limited. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall.</p>

Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing (of three), per BAL, with FO monogram on title page and foot of spine and S.T.K. for T.S.K. in caption p. 136. Small 8vo: vi,7-153pp. Original green publisher's C cloth (also issued in orange and purple cloth, no priority noted), spine and upper cover stamped in gilt, beveled edges, chocolate clay-coated end papers. A Fine, bright copy—superb. BAL 7253. Kozlay Collection, 58 (identifying this as the first issue). Johnson High Spots, p. 37 (also calling this the first issue). Collects new and previously published poems, including "To the Pliocene Skull" and "Her Letter," as well as Harte's tribute to Dickens, "Dickens in Camp" and two of his renowned Civil War Poems, "Reveille" and "How Are You, Sanitary?". Harte's breakthrough came was with the publication three years earlier of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and although his reputation today rests on the handful of stories he wrote for the Overland in the two and a half… Read More

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1923. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second book. 8vo. 106pp. Black vertical weave cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with a blind-stamped border. Portrait frontispiece of the author (from a sketch by Wyndham Lewis). A hint of fading to the backstrip, and just a touch of bruising to the spine ends. Half-title spotted, with a touch of further very light spotting to the title page and two blank rear flyleaves. Very good indeed, albeit lacking the most uncommon dust wrapper. Sixty-eight poems by the noted author, publisher and political activist..

237 pp. + Indice + 1 pl. h.t. 9x5,5 cm. G. Pickering, Londra, 1822.
--- Contemporary cloth-bound. Some fading is evident on spine, minor wear at corners. A small piece of paper is missing on first blank page. Very light foxing on frontispiece. Some spots on top edge. Steele-engraved portrait of the author on frontispiece and some engravings en-tête. Pages bright and clean. Uncut copy.