188 LONGFELLOW-POE. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. The Waif: A Collection of Poems. [Quotation.] Fifth Edition. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co. 1846. 8vo. pp. xi, 144. It was a trick of the publisher to put 'Fifth Edition' on the title. Only one Edition was printed. Original enamelled boards. The Belfry of Bruges and other Poems. worth Longfellow. Cambridge: Published by John Owen. 151. Original paper covers, dated 1845. By Henry Wads1846. 8vo. pp. Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co. 1847. 8vo. pp. 163. Original paper boards. The Song of Hiawatha. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. MDCCCLV. 8vo. pp. 316. Original cloth boards. LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. A Year's Life. By James Russell Lowell [Quotation.] Boston: C. C. Little, & F. Brown. MDCCCXLI. 8vo. PP. viii, 182. Original paper boards. Melibœus Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, Edited with an introduction, notes, glossary, and copious index, by Homer Wilbur, A.M., Pastor of the first Church in Jaalam, and (prospective) member of many literary learned, and scientific societies, (for which see page v.) [Quotations.] Cambridge: Published by George Nichols. 1848. 8vo. pp. xxxii, 163. Autograph note inserted. Original cloth boards. Reader! Walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate. A Fable for Critics; or Better- I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike, an old fashioned title-page, such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents-A Glance at a few of our Literary Progenies (Mr. Malaprop's word) from the Tub of Diogenes; that is a series of jokes, by A Wonderful Quiz, who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, on the top of the tub. Set forth in October, the 21st day, in the year '48, by G. P. Putnam, Broadway. 8vo. pp. 78. Title in red and black ink. Original paper boards. MILLER, JOAQUIN CINCINNATUS HEINE. Pacific Poem By Joaquin Miller. London: Whittingham and Wilkins. 1871. 8vo. pp. xii, 107. Presentation copy with author's inscription. Original cloth boards. POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. By Edgar A. Poe. Baltimore: Hatch & Dunning. 1829. 8vo. pp. 71. POE-POEIANA. 189 There was an earlier unpublished edition in 1827, of which perhaps only two copies are known to exist; one is in the British Museum. This volume came to Mr. Locker through Mr. R. H. Stoddard, the American Poet. Stitched, edges uncut, in Brown Mor. case, with two leaves inserted from the American Review, New York, February, 1845. These leaves contain "The Raven," as it originally appeared in that journal. POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Poems by Edgar A. Poe. [Quotation.] Second Edition.] New York: Published by Elam Bliss. 1831. 12mo. pp. 124. Presentation inscription to Mr. John Neal, in the autograph of the author, on fly leaf. Poems by Richard Dana, 1827, and by W. Gilmore Simms, 1829, are bound with this Half Blue Calf. copy. The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket. Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American Brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827. With an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivers; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the British Schooner Jane Grey; the brief cruize of this latter vessel in the Antartic Ocean; her capture, and the massacre of her crew among a group of Islands in the eighty-fourth parallel of Southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still farther South to which that distressing calamity gave rise. New-York: Harper & Brothers, 82, Cliff St. 1838. 12mo. Pp. 201. Original black cloth boards. Tales by Edgar A. Poe. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 161, Broadway. 1845. 16mo. pp. 228. This volume formed Part II. of the publisher's Library of American Books. Two leaves from 'The American Review,' The first appearance in print of this poem. In Brown Mor. case, with " Al Aaraaf.” The Raven and other Poems. By Edgar A. Poe. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 161, Broadway. 1845. 16mo. pp. 91. This volume formed Part VIII. of the publisher's Library of American Books. Original paper cover. Eureka: A prose poem. By Edgar A. Poe. New York: Geo. P. Putnam, of late firm of "Wiley and Putnam," 155, Broadway. MDCCCXLVIII. 8vo. pp. 143. Original Cloth Boards, lettered "Eureka or the Universe." POEIANA. The Conchologist's Text-Book, embracing the arrangements of Lamarck and Linnæus, with a glossary of technical terms. By Captain Thomas Brown, Fellow of the Linnean Society, Member of the Wernerian, Kirwanian, and Phrenological Societies, and late President of the Royal 190 POEIANA-WHITMAN. Physical Society, &c., &c., &c. Illustrated by nineteen engravings on steel. Glasgow: Archibald Fullarton & Co. [etc.]. MDCCCXXXIII. 8vo. pp. 180. There is a literary interest in this volume as it is the book that Poe appropriated and issued as his own work: see next article. Original paper boards. POEIANA. The Conchologist's First Book; or, a System of Testaceous Malachology, arranged expressly for the use of Schools, in which the Animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the Shells, a great number of new species added, and the whole brought up as accurately as possible, to the present condition of the Science. By Edgar A. Poe. With illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells, presenting a correct type of each genus. Philadelphia: published for the author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, and for sale by the principal booksellers in the United States. 1839. 8vo. pp. 156. Illustrated with twelve plates, of which No. 10 is in duplicate. The Conchologist's First Book . . . By Edgar A. Poe. Second Edition. Philadelphia [etc.]. 1840. 8vo. pp. 166. Original black paper boards. SAXE, JOHN GODFREY. Pensées. [Colophon.] Albany, NY.: Foel Munsell. 1872. Sm. 4to. pp. 42. One of only two copies printed. Presented to Mr. Locker by the Author, whose autograph is upon the fly leaf. Autograph Letter from the Author relative to the presentation of this book, inserted. Bound in Forrell Leisure-Day Rhymes. By John Godfrey Saxe. James R. Osgood and Company [etc.]. 1875. 12mo. Pp. 268. There is a printed dedication of this volume to Mr. Locker. Boston: WHITMAN, WALTER. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: 1855. Demy 4to. pp. xii, 95. Pasted on centre of title is London: Wm. Horsell, 492, Oxford-Street. Facing Title is an engraved portrait of the Author. Inserted on fly leaf is a photograph with the poet's autograph. Certain contemporary newspaper extracts are also pasted in, as is usual in this issue. Presented to Mr. Locker by Mr. F. T. Palgrave, June 1868. Green cloth, stamped sides. [Quotation.] Two Rivulets Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India. Author's Edition. Camden, N. J. 1876. 8vo. pp. 350. Photograph portrait, with autograph of Author facing title. WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Legends of New England. [Quotation.] By John G. Whittier. Hartford. Published by Hanmer & Phelps. [etc.]. 1831. 8vo. Original paper boards. Poems, by John G. Whittier. [Quotation.] Philadelphia, Published by Joseph Healy. Boston: Weeks, Fordan & Co., New York: John S. Taylor. 1838. 12mo. pp. 180. The volume is dedicated to Henry B. Stanton, by whom this copy was presented to Rev. John Pierpont, a poet of some fame in America. Black Calf, stamped sides. Lays of my Home, and other Poems, by John G. Whittier. Boston: William D. Ticknor. Original white enamelled boards. |