MOORE, Clement C.. Poems. , 1844.

Price: US$7150.00 + shipping

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.. Poems.. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844, 1844.

Price: US$10984.93 + 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