The Works of Horace In English Verse. By Several Hands. Collected and Published by Mr. Duncombe with Notes Historical and Critical. Two Volumes by Horace; Edited and in part translated by William Duncombe, assisted by his son, John Duncombe - 1757

London: Edward Moxon, 1839 only 2 volumes of 4, original blind embossed cloth with gilt titled spines, light bumping to edges, vol 4 has splitting to the upper joint, both volumes have a tidy and faint name stamp to the title pages, "Walter Mantell" in an oval, (probably Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell), vol 3 small area discoloured to front hinge, as issued with pale yellow endpapers, untrimmed top edge, head of spines are slightly chipped with minimal loss, vol3; viii 314+2pp vol4; viii 361+3pp, First Collected Edition, and the first with Mary Shelley's notes. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Boston: Otis, Broaders & Co, 1839. Hardcover. Good -. 160 p.; 24 cm. Black (dark green?) cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Hill's Poems" and gilt-stamped center-medallion harp on both boards; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Includes Errata slip tipped in following Contents. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: A.E. Phillips. Dedicated to Ebenezer Bailey, Esq. of Boston. The author, George Hill (1796-1871) graduated from Yale in 1816 and taught mathematics for the Navy beginning in 1827. His experience in the Mediterranean with the Navy inspired his poem The Ruins of Athens, which was published anonymously in 1831. This is the first appearance of the other poems in this volume. Scarce. In Good- Condition: cover is soiled with several small ink spots; ends of spine and corners rubbed; ends of spine fraying; endpapers are discolored; foxing throughout; a few leaves are partially detached but volume is complete.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine copy, in jacket with minor wear to extremities, and a tiny scrape on front panel. Signed on the half title page..

Lexington, KY, 1965. Number 126 of 250 copies printed by Anne and Wayne Williams for the Anvil Press. Still, now considered the dean of Kentucky poets, has inscribed this copy: "For Bob Shepherd, who has helped to keep these verses alive and singing. James Still, Rowan County, February 19, 1968.. Inscribed By Author. Limited. Linen Cloth Hard Cover. Fine. Privately Printed.

London: London; printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible, against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet., 1713. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo; [24],170,[2]pp. In contemporary full leather (a little worn), double gilt fillet to board margins, five raised spine bands, gilt lettered labels to second and third compartments, hairline split to head and foot of front hinge (with hinge remaining firmly secure), opening and closing leaves stained by turn ins, old ink ownership name to head of title page, otherwise a clean copy with attractive woodcut headpieces and capitals. The title page declares this volume's price as 3s 6d., adding that two volumes of Boileau's non-posthumous works may be had for 12s. This example was bound up as a companion to these two volumes and though it bears a "vol.3"spine label, is nevertheless a separate work. Increasingly uncommon first edition; ESTC T143905, citing 4xUK and 11xUS locations

Argyll Publishing, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Printing. The Artist in his world presents a decade's work by Ian McCulloch in the medium of print. And in an unusual collaboration across artisitic boundaries Alasdair Gray has produced 8 poems written from August 2-5, 1998 on eight series of prints by the artist. A wonderful book and this copy is one of an unspecified but limited number signed in pencil by both the artist and the poet, at the front endpaper. Book and dustjacket both in superb condition, presents as a like-new copy.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 4to, 16pp (mimeographed), corner-stapled. A rare early issue of this seminal 1960s little magazine, entirely devoted to work by John Wieners. An unmarked copy (aside from stray doodle to front leaf), folder shadowing to front leaf (which has edge folds), a little marginal staining. (First two leaves are most worn.)

Smith, Elder, & Co. London. 1899. TWO VOLUMES. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.6 inches). Portrait frontis engravings showing Browning as a young man (dated 1835) opposite the title page of volume 1, and as an old man (1881) for volume 2. Finely bound in contemporary full burgundy calf bindings. Spines with raised bands, each with gilt ruling. Compartments with double ruled and decorated in gilt. Twin tan morocco labels, gilt. Boards with double ruled borders with floral decorations to the corners. Front boards both have circular gilt stamp of Saint Catherine's School, Bramley, Guildford, to the centre. Decorative blind floral borders to the inner boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. School prize labels, dated 1900, to the front pastedown endpapers in each volume. Some minor foxing to the frontispieces and the tissue guards opposite them. Blank white prelim pages are more heavily foxed but the text pages are clean throughout. A little minor rubbing to the extremities and some light fading to the boards but… Read More

New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 19 leaves, stapled front wrapper. A peak-period amalgam of banana-focused content from Joe Brainard. Unmarked copy, a bit of spotting, wear and staple rust.

Imprenta Nacional, Bogota, Colombia, 1916; First Edition; 8vo; 287 pages; printed wraps. Over 200 fables in verse demonstrating universal moral truths, offered for purposes of restoring honesty, responsibility, integrity, and charity to Colombian society,which distinguished Columbian national poet Rafel Jose Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo (1833-1912) viewed as being in a disreputable state at the time. All entries either authored or personally collected and translated into Spanish by the author and first published here after the discovery of the lost manuscript after his death. Very Good, binding tight, sound and square, text clean, crisp, bright, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind, pages unopened. Text in Spanish. Quite rare.