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[POETRY]. BUTLER, William Howard Allen. Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. BAL 2228. – D’ARCY, H. Antoine. The Face upon the Floor and Other Ballads. Brooklyn: William G. Hewitt, 1912. Original printed wrappers. – DRAKE, Joseph Rodman. The Culprit Fay and Other Poems. New York: George Dearborn, 1835. Blue morocco gilt. Provenance: Frank Hogan (bookplate, his sale Parke-Pernet, 23 January 1945, lot 135). BAL 4825. – HAY, John. Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle. Boston; James R. Osgood, 1871. Original printed wrappers. BAL 7739; MJHS 39. – HEMANS, Felicia. The League of the Alps, the Siege of Valencia, the Vespers of Palermo, and Other Poems. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1826. Original boards, uncut. – KILMER, Joyce. Trees and Other Poems. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1914]. MJHS 49. – MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. A Few Figs from Thistles. New York: Frank Shay, 1920. Original printed wrappers. – MILLER, Alice Duer. The White Cliffs. New York: Coward-McCann Inc., [1940]. Original printed dust-jacket. – Another copy of the Nineteenth impression. Contemporary half morocco. – RYAN, John Barry. Verses by Barry Vail. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931. Inscribed by Ryan. – SEEGER, Alan. Poems. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916. Original printed dust-jacket (not called for in BAL). BAL 17443. – SERVICE, Robert W. Songs of a Sourdough. Toronto: William Briggs, 1907. MJHS 104. – SILL, Edward Rowland. The Venus of Milo and Other Poems. Berkeley, CA: [Bacon & Company], 1883. Original printed wrappers. BAL 18013. – THORPE, Rosa Hartwick. “Curfew must not Ring To-Night”. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1883. – Together 14 volumes, all first editions, 8vo and 12mo, original publisher’s bindings except where noted; cloth slipcases.