The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

105. BROWN, AUDREY ALEXANDRA. A Dryad in Nanaimo. Toronto: The Macmillan
Company of Canada, 1931. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Spine and upper edge a bit darkened,
else fine, uncut. The poet’s first book, printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press in
Cambridge, England $35
106. BROWN, LESLEY MACDOUGALL. Narcissus and Other Poems. N.P., N.p., n.d. (1936).
First edition. 8vo, decorative wrappers. A touch of wear to yap-edged wrappers, else fine.
With a lengthy inscription to Mrs. Bullock and a pair of autograph letters signed by Brown
laid in. $50
107. BROWN, LESELY MACDOUGALL. The Enchanted Garden and Other Poems. N.P.,
N.p., 1937. First edition. 8vo, decorative wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by the poet to Mrs.
Bullock, and with a pair of autograph letters laid in. $50
108. BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT AND ROBERT. [Cover title]: Two Poems. London:
Chapman & Hall, 1854. First edition. Small 8vo, 15pp, printed wrappers. Slight toning
toward edges, bit of a bump to lower front corner, else fine. A small pamphlet, containing “A
Plea for the Ragged Schools of London” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “The Twins” by
Robert Browning. $450
109. [BROWNING, ROBERT]. GOSSE, EDMUND. Robert Browning Personalia. London: T.
Fisher Unwin, 1890. First edition. 12mo, full white vellum stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Bookplate,
covers heavily spotted, as often, and ever-so-slightly bowed. $40
110. BROWNING, ROBERT. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustrated by Arthur RACKHAM.
London: George G. Harrap, (1934). First edition thus. 8vo, original white limp vellum
stamped in gilt. Fine and bright in original glassine (missing its spine) and a somehwat soiled
slipcase. One of 410 numbered copies signed by Rackham in the limited issue. A charming
publication. $1,750
111. BUCHANAN, ROBERT. Selected Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. First edition.
8vo, blue cloth. A bit shaken, inner hinges open, covers lightly darkened and with some soil,
especially to rear, edges rubbed. $75
112. BURNET, DANA. Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1915). First edition. 8vo, red
cloth, t.e.g. Some offsetting to front endpapers from a clipping, neat ownership signautre of
Marie Leontine Graves (Bullock); her pencil lining and neat marginalia throughout. Near
fine. Author’s first book, a collection of war poetry. He later became well known as a
novelist and writer for the Broadway stage. $30
RARE CHAPBOOKS
113. (BURNS, ROBERT). [Series Title]: Poetry Original & Selected. Glasgow: Brash & Reid,
(1795-1798). First editions (thus). Four volumes, 12mos., engraved title page in each volume
(later states, without mottoes) and all individual title pages present, a.e.g., 19th-century full
polished brown calf by Ramage, gilt tooled spines with five raised bands, red and green
spine labels, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of John Gribbel in each volume; some occasional
spots to covers, otherwise a fine set. Rare complete set of Brash and Reid’s poetry
chapbooks, issued as penny pamphlets throughout the years of publication, and offered in
bound sets, each containing twenty-four of the pamphlets. There were an additonal three
chapbooks issued separately following the last of the bound sets. While as many as half of
the poems are uncredited to any author, the run is especially notable for including some
thirty poems of Robert Burns, including an early and popular printing of Burns’s “Tam O’
Shanter” (here in the second issue, with two Ls in “Alloway Kirk.”) In the Records of the
Glasgow Bibliographic Society, J.C. Ewing has noted that the Brash and Reid Chapbooks
“have long been valued rather on account of their rarity than of their contents. . . So long ago
as 1827 it was recorded in print that the work ‘is now extremely scarce.’” This set is from
the library of John Gribbel, the great Phildelphia collector of Burns and Burnsiana. Egerer
32a,b,c, & d. $3,500
114. BURT, NATHANIEL. Rooms in a House and Other Poems, 1931-1944. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly edge-worn dust
jacket. $30