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Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Description: 12mo in sixes, pp. 132; somewhat browned throughout (but better than most American books of the period); a goodish copy in contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with morocco label; lower cover and corners rubbed, but sound. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on title and fly-title of William Lewis Gibson. First appearance of Southey in the USA, and perhaps the first publication of any of the major English romantics in the New World. This is a reprint of the Bristol edition of 1797: it includes a poetical address to Mary Wollstonecraft (as a preface to The Triumph of Woman), his series of sonnets on the Slave Trade, a poem 'To the Genius of Africa', 'Botany Bay Eclogues', and other lyric poems. Evans 36345.
Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, modern russet morocco, few tiny scratches, neat old library stamp at head of title and with signature of D. Southwick beneath it, few minor spots of foxing, lightly age browned, nice. The seven-page bookseller's catalogue at end is usually not preserved, but it is present and complete here. The previous year, Southey's Joan of Arc was printed in America; it was his first appearance in an American edition. This American printing of his Poems is only his second appearance in an American edition, and it is the very first collection of his poems to be printed in America. Evans 36345. The very rare first American edition. Because of the value of this item, extra postal insurance or registry fees may be requied.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
SOUTHEY, Robert. Poems. Manning & Loring, Boston, 1799.
Price: US$680.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New cloth spine and matching endsheets, but the book maintains its original boards. Previous owner's name (Jane Allen) and the date 1826 on the second front endpaper. Overall, a most acceptable copy of the first U.S. edition of this title by the noted British poet. Southey was the Poet Laureate for thirty years prior to his death in 1843. 132 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Southey, Robert. Poems. Manning & Loring for Joseph Nancrede, Boston, 1799.
Price: US$1562.50 + shipping
Description: First American edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], [9]-132; very nice Boston binding of full red calf, double gilt-rules on covers, smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 6 panels with urns and anacanthus leaves, green morocco label in one, gilt-decorated board edges, marbled endpapers; first free flyleaf excised; a few minor scuff marks, but a very good copy in a handsome 18th-century American binding. Presentation in an early hand on the title page: "Harriet Stickney, presented by my mother Miss Mary Stickney." Among the poems are a short poem to Mary Wollstonecraft, poems on the slave trade, and Botany-Bay Ecologues. The last 7 pages consist of ads and publisher's announcements. Evans 36345; NCBEL III, 255.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.