Moore, Clement C.. Poems. (including A Visit from Saint Nicholas). NY: Bartlett & Welford, 1844.

Price: US$2686.34 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: first edition but includes previously published material; small octavo, [i] (half title)-[xiv], [15]-216 pp, later half leather has top of spine covering broken off and lacks the front cover, general age toning to interior but paper not fragile, on an added leaf there are six lines of music in an unknown hand with the note The above is the Melody with the harmony referred to on pages 49 & 50 , the end of the poem A Trip to Saratoga; includes A Visit from Saint Nicholas on pages [124]-127 in its first appearance as a work formally recognized by the author as his own, it had previously appeared under his name in The New York Book of Poetry . in 1837 but this was more of an attribution and there is a minority view that Henry Livingston was the real author; BAL 14348. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.

Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

MOORE, Clement C.. Poems. , 1844.

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Description: MOORE, Clement C. Poems. [5], vi-xi, [3], [15]-216pp. 8vo. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844. First edition. Presentation copy. Early half morocco and marbled paper covered boards, worn at joints and head of spine, spine label renewed, staining on rear endpaper and pastedown. Provenance: Rev. Dr. Jarvis (author's presentation inscription on the half title). BAL 14348; Joel Silver, "Clement Clarke Moore and `A Visit from St. Nicholas'," AB Bookman's Weekly, Dec. 23-30, 1996, pp. 2153-2156. With presentation inscription "The Rev.d Dr. Jarvis with the respects of the Author" on the half-title. "A Visit from St. Nicholas" appears at pages [124]-127. This celebrated Christmas poem had been collected in book form in The New-York Book of Poetry (1837) but this marks its first appearance in a volume of Moore's own verse.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

Moore, Clement C.. POEMS / "A Visit from St. Nicholas". Bartlett and Welford, 1844.

Price: US$7453.00 + shipping

Description: POEMS, Bartlett and Welford, 1844, first edition, 216 pages, wear to fore edge corner tips, now tanned spine professionally reattached, title page and half-title page laid in and wanting same, else a good to very good copy rebound in full leather with raised spine and decorated compartments, with gold-gilt ruling and like decorations to the front and rear cover as well. The authors first book. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page. (Yes. Of course it contains the first book appearance of that poem!)

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

MOORE, CLEMENT C(LARKE).. POEMS.. Bartlett and Welford, New York, 1844.

Price: US$9000.00 + shipping

Description: A fine early twentieth-century binding SIGNED BY STIKEMAN. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Covers bordered in two gilt fillets. Spine in six panels with raised bands. Lettering and elaborate floral panel designs in gilt. Inner dentelles. Sewn-in blue silk page marker. A clean, crisp copy throughout. This first collected edition of Moore's poems, published at the request of his children, contains the first book appearance of his poem, "A Visit From St. Nicholas" ("Twas The Night Before Christmas") in a collection of his own work. This rare first edition is a PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Moore on the half-title page, "The Rev. Dr. Barry, with the respects of the author, Mar. 1846". Moore, a professor of Hebrew, wrote this poem in 1822 as a Christmas gift for his children. A house guest copied it in the fall of 1823, and later sent her copy to the editor of the Troy (NY) Sentinel, where it was first published anonymously, December 23, 1823. It first appeared between covers in the New Brunswick, (N.J.) Almanack for 1825 and was picked up by Readers and Anthologies such as "The New York Book of Poetry, 1837. The authorship was first disclosed in the Troy Budget, December 25, 1838. "The Santa Claus myth begins about 300 A.D. with St. Nicholas, a bishop in Asia Minor, who was generous to the poor-in all seasons. Santa Claus as we (and the world, for that matter) now know him is almost one hundred percent American. Not until St. Nicholas passed through the crucible of Doctor Clement Clarke Moore's mind and imagination did the patron saint of childhood ever ride in a sleigh, or have eight tiny reindeer with bells joyfully to convey him.on Christmas eve; nor was he dressed in furs, nor did he smoke a pipe, nor did he ever before get into homes of good little girls and boys by going down chimneys, nor did he ever have a little round belly".(See Grolier, "One Hundred Influencial American Books Before 1900, #52). Also note citations in BAL 14348 and Johnson, "High Spots of American Literature pp.59-60. 216pp. "A Visit." is found on pp.124-127. Size: Square Octavo

Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.

MOORE, Clement C.. Poems.. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844, 1844.

Price: US$10903.47 + shipping

Description: First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title, "To The Rev. John Bristed, with the kind regards of his old friend the author. July 1846". This was the first collection to include Moore's most famous poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas", more popularly known by its first line: "Twas the night before Christmas". Moore was deeply embedded in American Episcopalian religious circles - his father was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, and at the time of the inscription Moore was professor of Biblical learning at the General Theological Seminary in the city. Bristed (1779-1855) was born in England and moved to New York in 1806, was admitted to Episcopalian orders, and for most of his career was rector of St. Michael's Church in Bristol, Rhode Island. "A Visit from St. Nicholas" was first published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel on 23 December 1823. BAL 14348; Grolier American, 52. Octavo. Original black boards, neatly rebacked to style with paper label, edges uncut. Housed in black quarter morocco box. Later signature of Kenneth M. Dow to front pastedown. Wear at extremities, inner hinges neatly reinforced. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom