[Rarebooks] FS: First American Edition of LYRICAL BALLADS including First U.S. Publication of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $4500 NET Postpaid in the U.S.

WORDSWORTH, William (COLERIDGE, Samuel T.). LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER 
POEMS: IN TWO VOLUMES. Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1802. First 
American Edition. Two volumes bound in one in contemporary calf recently 
rebacked. The First American Edition printed from the Second London 
Edition and including the first printing of Coleridge's "The Rime of the 
Ancient Mariner" in America. Shaw & Shoemaker, 3593. This copy sold at 
the George H. Conley sale, 12 January 1911, lot #1623. Armorial 
bookplate of William Richards Castle on the front pastedown and pencil 
signature on the front endpaper dated 1907 of American poet Alan Seeger 
who, as a member of the French Foreign Legion, was killed in action 4 
July 1916 on the Somme at the age of 28. Seeger's poem, "I Have a 
Rendevous with Death," was the most popular and widely-quoted American 
poem of World War I. In 1907 Seeger was a freshman at Harvard, and 
Castle's son was finishing his doctoral studies there. Also an early 
owner inscription on the front blank to Ann Wharton from "C. H. W." 
Wharton's name neatly excised on the blank margins of two text pages. 
Some staining on a few pages at the rear. Very Good or better and quite 
scarce.

Volume 1, page 96 misnumbered "78"; volume 2, page 96 misnumbered "57." 
(#014549)        $7,500

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