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    • Saint Abe and his Seven Wives. A Tale of Salt Lake City. Fourth edition
    • (Buchanan, Robert Williams)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $42.57
    • Publisher: London: Strahan & Co.    Date Published: 1872
    • Description: London: Strahan & Co., 1872; Fourth Edition; small ocatvo, ix, [1], 169, [1], [4] (ads) pp., frontis; original decorated blue cloth (hardcover), nominal spotting to covers, minimal rubbing to the edges, else overall very good; intended as a humorous narrative poem on Mormons and the problems of multiple wives, "His were the wildest set of gals that ever drove man silly, / Each full of freaks and fal-de-lals, as frisky as a filly.",. Volumes Included: 1
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    • Item Number: 717740
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    • Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and Other Poems; with a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect
    • Castillo, John
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $33.87
    • Publisher: Whitby: Hrone & Richardson    Date Published: 1843
    • Description: first edition thus; 199 pp., original boards & cloth backstrip, front hinge professionally reinforced, book plate to front paste down, covers worn, however overall good+. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: poetry sam   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 481526
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    • T' Fisher Folk of Filey Bay. Poems chiefly in the Yorkshire dialect. Second edition
    • W. H. Oxley
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $197.02
    • Publisher: London: Simpkin, Marshall    Date Published: 1888
    • Description: quarto, 46 pp., bound in contemporary quarter leather & cloth covered boards, spine & front joint worn, book plate to front paste down, else very good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: poetry sam57   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 548186
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    • Arthur Carryl. A novel
    • Laughton Osborn
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $15.00
    • Publisher: NY: D. Appleton    Date Published: 1841
    • Description: first edition; lvii, 357, 2 (ads) pp.; original yellow boards, lacking the spine covering, covers worn, front cover stained at bottom; now in need of rebacking at the least. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: american literature poetry sam6   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 520249
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    • Guesses at the Beautiful. Poems, by Richard Realf. With a Preface and Dedication by Charles De La Pryme, M. A., of Trinity College, Cambridge.
    • Realf, Richard.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $418.24
    • Publisher: Brighton/London: Robert Folthorp/ Longman and Co.,    Date Published: 1852
    • Description: first edition; 12mo, xxii, 141, [3] (blank), 8 (advertisement for Folthorp books); original cloth blocked in gold on front and blind on back, all edges gilt; library book plate and markings, the binding now a dirty pink with spine dark and a small chip at head; light general age toning to interior, good; the first published effort by the youthful darling of the Brighton literary circle that included Lady Byron; trying his hand unsuccessfully at sculpture, agricultural science and other pursuits Realf came to America then migrated to Kansas where he became a strong supporter of John Brown, his efforts were recognized by an appointment as Secretary of State for Brown's vague "Proposed Constitutional and Provisional Government" but he missed the incident at Harpers Ferry; ill health, chronic poverty, and a relentless ex-wife eventually drove the author to suicide in 1878.. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: British literature, poetry, SAM1   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 822786
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    • The Joy Bringer: Fifty three melodies of the One-in-Twain. February-March, MDCCCLXXXVI
    • Thomas Lake Harris
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $38.52
    • Publisher: Fountaingrove    Date Published: 1886
    • Description: 79 pp., original maroon cloth, covers faded at extremities, book plate removed from front paste down, else near very good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: poetry religion utopianism sam57   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 550087
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    • The Quest of the Sangraal. Chant the first
    • Hawker, R. S.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $294.11
    • Publisher: Exeter: Printed for the author    Date Published: 1864
    • Description: first edition; small quarto, [iv], 45 [1] (blank) pp., original blood-red boards, front cover detached but present, covers chipped and now lacking most of the spine covering; book plate. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: poetry holy grail religion sam   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 481522
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    • An answer at large, to a most hereticall, trayterous, and Papisticall Byll, in English verse, which was cast abrode in the streetes of Northamton ... 1570.
    • (Knell, Thomas, fl. 1560-1581)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $48.77
    • Publisher: (Northampton: Taylor and Son)    Date Published: 1881
    • Description: 23 pp.; light general age toning and light extraction roughness at spine, now in self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: anti-Catholic literature, humor, British poetry, SAM1   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 822875
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    • Befo' De War. Echoes in Negro Dialect.
    • Gordon, A. C., & Thomas Nelson Page.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $64.56
    • Publisher: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons,    Date Published: 1888
    • Description: first edition; small octavo, vi, [2], 131 pp.; mark from book plate removal and a few small library hand stamps in text, original cloth smudged and light general age toning to text, good+ only; poems in pseudo-Black dialect, the last a tribute to Irwin Russell (properly Russel) a fellow dialect writer "'Bout niggers an' 'coons, 'an possums An' ole times". Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American dialect humor, poetry, Black studies, stereotypes, SAM1   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 822799
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    • Strambotti e sonetti dell'Altissimo per cura di Rodolfo Renier.
    • Altissimo, Cristoforo (known as, d. ca. 1515). Renier, Rodolfo, ed.
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    • ISBN: 0543743799   Price: $90.83
    • Publisher: Torino: Societa Bibliofila,    Date Published: 1886
    • Description: first edition with the lengthy introduction by Renier, limited to 250 copies; small octavo, xlvii, 76, [2] pp., issued as Rarita bibliografiche e scritti inediti, 2; library book plates and minor markings, later full vellum soiled and bowed, else overall good and textually clean. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Italian literature, poetry, satire sam qmj   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 478637
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    • War with Priestcraft: or, the Free-Thinker's Iliad. A Burlesque Poem, In Three Canto's. Dedicated to the Celebrated Author of Christianity as Old as the Creation.
    • Diagoras. (pseudonym)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $353.96
    • Publisher: London: Printed for Jason Roberts,    Date Published: 1732
    • Description: first edition; small octavo, [4] (half title, title), iv, [ix]-xiv, 42, [8] (New Pamphlets, Lately Published.) as issued; general age toning with an age(?) stain that runs through early leaves but not dark and text entirely readable, a few leaves have a short tear in top margin, light extraction roughness at spine and half title becoming detached, still overall good+ in self wrappers; intended to ridicule Free-thinkers and Deists particularly Matthew Tindal; "In India I suppose it bred / In some ingenious Brachman's Head / For Maggots, - as from Stories clear, / Breed there in Brains, as well as here",. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Freethinkers, Freethought, Deists, satire, humor, British poetry, MW8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 657493
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    • La Franceide, ou Le mal francais, poeme burlesque de Jean-Baptiste Lalli (de Norcia). traduction, notes et notices, par le Dr L. Le Pilleur. (Curiosites venereologiques, I)
    • Lalli, Giovanni Battista. Le Pileur, Louis, trans.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $70.29
    • Publisher: Clermont (Oise) : Imprimerie de Daix freres,    Date Published: 1902
    • Description: one of 100 copies on ordinary paper; 4 (half title, title), xv, [1], 182, [1] pp., "ouvrage orne d'un portrait et de deux fac-similes" (2 plates and a tail piece); text browned and in later cloth, overall a good+ copy; the French disease is syphilis and the poem is translated from the Italian. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Italian poetry, humor, syphilis, sexually transmitted diseases, CTT QMJ   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 817752
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    • American Mercury. Nos. 1-28, 30-36. 38-44, 46-88, 90-95, 97
    • Mencken, H. L., ed.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $2,245.82
    • Publisher: NY etc:    Date Published: 1924
    • Description: Nos. 1-28, 30-36. 38-44, 46-88, 90-95, 97; original pictorial or decorated paper wrappers, some ownership markings, still good, price is for the lot. Volumes Included: 101
    • Subject: Mencken Americana Conservatism Humor Little Magazines Poetry Experimental Writing Criticism   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 211855
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    • Manual 1907-8. Subject: Spiritual Growth, Lessons on Practical Religion. No. 11 (with) Manual for Junior Classes. 1902-1903. Subject: The Acts of the Apostles.
    • Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $33.79
    • Publisher: Salt Lake City: General Board of the Y. M. M. I. A.,    Date Published: 1907
    • Description: two items in one later flexiable cloth binding; 114 pp. + [60] pp.; binding rubbed at extremities with previous owner's name on cover, minor penciling,. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Mormons   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 325799
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    • Broad Grins; comprising, with new additional Tales in Verse, those formerly publish'd under the title of My Night-gown and Slippers.
    • Colman, George, the younger.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $31.53
    • Publisher: London: Printed by J. M'Creery for T. Cadell and W. Davies,    Date Published: 1819
    • Description: London: Printed by J. M'Creery for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819; The Sventh Edition; 12mo, vii, [1], 128 pp., pictorial title, small illustrations in text; original boards soiled and worn, else overall good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: humor, humorous verse, poetry   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 477288
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    • The Clarion Ballads.
    • Blatchford, Robert.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $33.44
    • Publisher: London: Clarion Newspaper Company,    Date Published: 1896
    • Description: 12mo, 16 pp., small illustrations in text, issued as Clarion Pamphlet No. 14; library markings, front cover of paper wrappers chipped and back cover lacking, text age toned and margin flaked, later side stapling, complete but poor and fragile. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: poetry, humor   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 382045
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    • Chamber Music
    • Harper, Hank.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $24.75
    • Publisher: Hollywood: The Highland Press    Date Published: 1946
    • Description: 16mo, 29 pp., small illustrations in text; a poem in praise of the chamber pot; paperback, very good+. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: poetry, humor   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 508244
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    • The Passing of the Backhouse. An unpublished poem by James Whitcomb Riley
    • Riley, James Whitcomb, but believed to be by Robert Leonard Dodd
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $44.10
    • Publisher: NP: Privately Printed    Date Published: 1933
    • Description: [4] pp., one of many reprints of this humorous outhouse poem mistakenly or maliciously attributed to Riley; original paper wrappers, very good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: poetry humor   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 904909
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    • 31st General Hospital. from the South Pacific. Verses for My Friends in Remembrance, 1943-1945.
    • Douglas, Frederic H.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $146.37
    • Publisher: Denver: Smith-Brooks Printing Company    Date Published: 1948
    • Description: first edition, 150 copies printed; 61 pp.; paper wrappers darkening but else a very good+ copy in original metal ring binding; includes a few lines of light verse about each of Pappy's "one hundred chicks",. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: World War II, poetry, United States Army hospitals, humor, Women, nurses. GGG   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 523364
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    • Talks by George Thatcher, the Celebrated Minstrel. Containing his monologues, parodies, songs, sketches, poems, jokes, etc., etc.
    • George Thatcher
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $35.21
    • Publisher: Penn Publishing Company    Date Published: 1890
    • Description: 158, [2] pp., original paper wrappers, covers chipped & detached but present; fair only. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: humor entertainment sam   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 481587
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