An exceptional collection of printed, manuscript, and other material related to Fitz-Greene Halleck

Halleck (1790-1867) was one of the most popular American poets in the first half of the 19th century and the only American to be honored with a statue in Poet's Row in Central Park. Recent scholarship has contextualized Halleck as an early gay American poet, whose relationship with fellow poet and collaborator Joseph Rodman Drake formed the basis for Bayard Taylor's 1870 novel Joseph and his Friend cited by some as the first gay American novel. (See Hallock, The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.) Born in Guilford, Connecticut, Halleck moved to New York in 1811, and in 1813 formed an intimate relationship with Drake. In 1819 the men became literary stars when they published "The Croakers," a series of poems satirizing prominent New Yorkers; Halleck followed this up in 1819 with Fanny, a poem satirizing New York's nouveaux riches which went through several life-time editions; Alnwick Castle and other poems appeared in 1827, featuring many of the poems on which his reputation rests; and Young America, a satire on American materialism, appeared in 1865, two years before Halleck's death. The present collection includes the Bradley Martin copy of the scarce first edition of Fanny; a copy of Alnwick Castle inscribed to Fanny Kemble, in addition to three other titles inscribed by Halleck; the publisher's copy of the manuscript of Young America; several autographed letters signed of Halleck, as well as received correspondence from Taylor, Bryant, Longfellow, Kemble, Samuel Ward, and others; volumes from Halleck's library; scarce Halleckiana, and more. "Halleck's importance is at once perceived ... Before 'The Croakers' and 'Fanny,' there was no American verse that was not either pompously solemn or coarsely farcical: hence this new fountain, willfully casting forth its pure sparkling, capricious jets of song, was welcomer to the public than poetry can ever be again ... it must be remembered that Halleck was first read by a generation which had never before been refreshed by sentiment and humor and cleverness of allusion. The light abandon of his stanzas was as new as their racy local flavor." (Bayard Taylor in the North American review vol 115, Boston, 1877, pp 60ff) EDITIONS OF HALLECK'S WORKS 1. DRAKE, Joseph Rodman, & Fitz-Greene Halleck. The Croakers. New York: The Bradford Club, 1860. 4to. With 2 frontispiece portraits, additional engraved portrait of Halleck loosely inserted. viii, 191, [1] pp. Title page in red and black. Original green pebbled cloth. Number 123 of 150 subscriber's copies (of 250 copies total). BAL 6991. Provenance: W.L. Deaver (ownership signature); Arthur Kinch (bookplate); H. Bradley Martin (from the Collamore collection, pencil annotation to first blank). First complete edition of the satirical collection of poems on New York City political and social life that made Halleck and Drake famous. It was first published in The Evening Post and in book form in 1819 under the pseudonyms Croaker (Drake), Croaker Junior (Halleck) and Croaker & Co (for the poems on which they collaborated). This edition includes eleven poems collected here for the first time. Bradley Martin copy of Fanny 2. HALLECK, Fitz-Greene. Fanny. New York: C. Wiley & Co., 1819. 49 pp. Original drab printed wrappers. Scattered marginal foxing, wrappers a little foxed and browned with small chips to spine, but a fine copy of a very fragile item. BAL 6960. Provenance: H. Bradley Martin (bookplate). An unusually nice copy of the ephemeral first edition of Halleck's first work. The rare Fanny piracy, Blanck's copy 3. --. Fanny. New York: 1819 [i.e. 1821]. 8vo. 67 pp. Original embossed cloth. Extra-illustrated. Cloth worn, some staining internally, good. BAL 6960. Provenance: Jacob Blanck (bookplate). The rare pirated printing of 1821; in the entry for the true first of Fanny in BAL, Blanck notes: "A piracy, almost certainly of American manufacture, was issued under the date 1819 although it could not have been printed before publication of the second edition, 1821. The title-page is an attempted typographic facsimile ... the text ... is of the 1819 edition plus the added stanzas which were first published in the edition of 1821." BAL located only this copy, though OCLC now locates six. Inscribed, with an ANS 4. --. Fanny. Second edition. New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1821. 8vo. 67 pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers chipped and browned, marginal tears at front, foxing throughout, wrapper detached, loss to rear endpaper. BAL 6962. Second, expanded edition, with about 50 additional stanzas added by Halleck. Inscribed on the f.f.e.p.: "Miss Janet Eckford/from F.G. Halleck." Eckford would go on to marry Halleck's close friend, the zoologist James Ellsworth Dekay; more significantly, her sister, Sarah, was the wife of Joseph Rodman Drake, Halleck's cherished friend and collaborator on the "Croaker" poems, who died in 1820. (Their daughter was named Janet Halleck Drake.) An outstanding association. Laid into this copy also is a one page ANS of Dekay to Halleck, about a meeting. 5. --. Fanny: A Poem. London: T. Tickler & Co., 1837. 16mo. 52 pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers worn and stained. Not in BAL. First English edition, uncommon 6. --. Fanny, with other poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. 8vo. Engraved title page. 130, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered gilt. Some wear to extremities but very good. BAL 6972. Reprinted from the edition of 1821, with nine pieces here first collected. 7. --. Fanny: A Poem. New York: [printed for W.L. Andrews], 1866. Small folio. Frontispiece portrait. 84 pp. Title page in red and black. Contemporary half-morocco over marbled boards. Covers rubbed and scuffed, internally clean. BAL 6998. Provenance: John A. Spoor (bookplate) Limited to 70 copies, this one unnumbered, with notes written for this edition. Fanny first appeared in 1819. [no copies in trade, none at auction in fifty plus years] 8. HALLECK, F.G., compiler. Selections from the British Poets. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Harpers' Family Library No CXII-CXIII. 2 volumes. 12mo. Original printed linen over boards. Some minor soiling and wear to covers, otherwise near fine. BAL 6974. Scarce anthology compiled by Halleck for the Harpers' Family Library. Inscribed 9. HALLECK, F.G. Alnwick Castle, with other poems. New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1827. 8vo. Original drab printed wrappers, rebacked. Wrappers chipped and dust-soiled, internally clean. BAL 6965. First edition, INSCRIBED: "D.R. Winthrop Esq with the author's Compliments Fitz-Greene Halleck". Bradley Martin Copy 10. [Another copy]. New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1827. 8vo. Original drab printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine but a very well preserved copy in scarce original wrappers, housed in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. BAL 6965. Provenance: H. Bradley Martin (bookplate to chemise). First edition, the H. Bradley Martin copy. Inscribed to Fanny Kemble 11. --. Alnwick Castle, with other poems. New York: George Dearborn, 1836. 8vo. Publisher's full morocco decorated in gilt and blind, coated endpapers, a.e.g. Minor foxing, endpapers discolored, boards somewhat rubbed and scuffed, about very good. BAL 6971. Provenance: Clara & Irwin Strasburger (booklabel). Inscribed to the actress Fanny Kemble on the front free endpaper: "Mrs. F.A. Butler, with the compliments of her friend and humble servant Fitz-Greene Halleck 11th January 1836." Halleck met the British born actress when he was seated next to her at a dinner in 1833 (in her famous Journal she comments, "His expression was strongly sarcastic; I liked him very much, notwithstanding.") She married the plantation heir Pierce Mease Butler in 1834. Kemble's letter thanking Halleck for this copy was published in Potter's American Monthly in 1875, in an article entitled "Halleck and his Theatrical Friends.") One of the earliest presentation copies of this volume; BAL notes another at NYPL dated five days later. This expanded second edition included three previously uncollected poems, among them "Red Jacket," one of Halleck's most well regarded poems. 12. --. Alnwick Castle. New York: George Dearborn, 1836. 8vo. Original cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Some rubbing but very good. BAL 6971. Second edition, expanded. 13. --. The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck. New Edition. Clinton Hall, NY: Redfield, 1852. 8vo. 232, [8 ad] pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt. Scattered light foxing but an unusually fine copy. BAL 6982. A reprint from the 1847 edition, save the addition of "Extract from an Unpublished Poem." Inscribed 14. --. Young America: A Poem. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece. [i-ii], [11]-49 pp. Original pictorial boards printed in blue, rebacked. Light foxing, author inscription faded, very good. BAL 6996. First edition, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper: "[...] Church/from an old acquaintance/Fitz-Greene Halleck." With a correction in Halleck's hand 15. [Another copy]. Young America: A Poem. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece. [i-ii], [11]-49 pp. Original pictorial boards printed in blue. Chipping to spine, very good. BAL 6996. Provenance: Jacob Chester Chamberlain (bookplate). First edition. With a pencil correction on page 37 in Halleck's hand, altering the last word in the fourth line from bottom, from "heart" to "thought." [J. Grant Wilson, "Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck" p 581, mentions in the sale of Greene's library a copy of Young America with the alteration of a single word.] 16. [Another copy]. Young America: A Poem. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece. [i-ii], [11]-49 pp. Original pictorial boards printed in blue. Chipping to spine, staining to rear board, endpapers foxed. BAL 6996. First edition. 17. --. Alnwick Castle, with other Poems. New York: George Dearborn, 1836. 8vo. 98, [2] pp. Half-title. Engraved portrait laid in. Original leather over boards, blind embossed and elaborately decorated in gilt. Spine and corners rubbed, endpapers stained, but very good. BAL 6971. Second edition, expanded to include three newly collected pieces. With an ink inscription on title page in an unknown hand: "R. Ames/ from Mr. Halleck". First Illustrated 18. --. Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck ... Illustrated with Steel Engravings from Drawings by American Artists. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1847. 8vo. Additional engraved title, frontispiece, frontispiece portrait, and 4 engraved plates. 280 pp. Original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, with gilt vignette of Alnwick Castle centering upper and lower boards, a.e.g., decorative endpapers. Marginal foxing to some plates, but a bright, near-fine copy. BAL 6979. First illustrated edition of Halleck's works. Large paper copy, with ANS 19. Wilson, James Grant, editor. The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck, with extracts from those of Joseph Rodman Drake. New York: Appleton, 1869. Large 8vo. With 12 engraved plates, woodcut vignettes in text. xviii, [11]-389 pp. Publisher's royal blue pebble grained cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Small tear to dedication leaf, some wear to extremities, very good. BAL 7000. Number 55 of 150 large paper copies. With an Autograph Note Signed of Halleck to a Mr. William Baldwin, 5 lines, 8vo, Guilford, March 8, 1865, along with envelope, tipped in at front. The collection includes 22 poems collected or published for the first time. 20. Wilson, James Grant, editor. The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck, with extracts from those of Joseph Rodman Drake. New York: Appleton, 1869. 8vo. xiv, 389 pp + 8 page publisher's catalogue at back, prospectus for Life and Letters on yellow paper tipped-in at front. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Near fine. BAL 7000. Trade edition, with scarce prospectus for the companion volume of the Life and Letters tipped-at front. 21. Wilson, James Grant. The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck. New York: Appleton, 1869. 8vo. 607, [4 ad] pp. Original green cloth lettered stamped in gilt. Near fine. BAL 7001. First trade edition. MANUSCRIPT AND AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL Emerson, with Halleck's ownership signature 22. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 12mo. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt. Myerson A26.1.b, BAL 5231. A little wear to extremities, some spotting to boards. HALLECK'S COPY, inscribed to him from Samuel Ward ("S.W.") and dated New Year 1861, and with Halleck's ownership signature on the first blank. First edition. With gift-inscription by Halleck 23. The Book of Common Prayer.... Edinburgh: printed by Sir. D. Hunter Blair and M.S. Bruce, 1827. 18mo. Contemporary morocco gilt. Covers a little rubbed but an attractive copy. Provenance: Caroline B. Inman (gilt stamp to upper cover; presentation inscription). INSCRIBED: "Caroline H. Inman's / from her Godfather / Fitz-Greene Halleck". With an engraved portrait of Halleck inserted at front, opposite the inscription. Caroline Inman was the daughter of the American painter Henry Inman, whose 1828 portrait of Halleck (now at NYHS) is generally considered the best likeness of the poet. Manuscript of Young America 24. HALLECK, F.G. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Fitz-Greene Halleck"), "Young America," 381 lines on 14 pages, folio, n.d. [ca. 1864], a few corrections and revisions, later ink inscription to first leaf "Presented to the Metropolitan Society Fair by Robert Bonner", laid down to sheets and bound in full straight-grained morocco (rubbed and scuffed), occasional dust-soiling but well preserved. THE PUBLISHER'S COPY OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF HALLECK'S LATE LONG POEM, "Young America," which first appeared in the New York Ledger for January 23, 1864. At the head of the manuscript is a note in the hand of the Ledger's editor, Robert Bonner, presenting it to the Metropolitan Society. A handful of corrections appear in the text, which corresponds (with the exception of an inversion at the beginning of line 291) to the printed version. It had been several years since Halleck had published anything, and Adkins points to the substantial sum of $500 Halleck received for the poem in explanation for his resurfacing. Though the reviews from the likes of his friends Bryant and Dyckinck were mixed, the poem was generally well received, and it was issued as a single volume by Appleton in 1865. 25. --. Check signed ("Fitz-Greene Halleck"), completed in holograph, made out to himself ("FGH") in the amount of $40.32, August 16, 1852, drawn on Chemical Bank, perforated cancel at center. 26. --. Autograph letter signed ("Fitz G. Halleck"), 1 p, 4to, New York, February 6, 1818, to B.F. Butler, being a letter of introduction for his young friend and soon to be business partner Thomas Barker, nephew of Jacob Barker. An early Halleck letter dated a year before the appearance of the "Croaker" poems. Butler was then a law partner in the office of Martin Van Buren, and later as Albany district attorney would be play a role in a case regarding Jacob Barker, in which Halleck became entangled. (see following item) 27. --. Autograph Letter Signed ("Fitz-Green Halleck"), 1 p, 8vo, Guilford, CT, 30 May 1864, to a Miss Isabella James, enclosing some verses (not present) by request for her album. Halleck had published his last major poem, "Young America", in the New York Ledger earlier the same year. Paper toned, ink slightly fading, with original transmittal envelope. 28. --. Autograph letter signed ("Fitz-Greene Halleck"), 2 pp, 8vo, Guilford, February 25, 1865, to Samuel Ward, thanking him for sending his new book, and making light of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred Tennyson. In part: "A glance over it gladdens me with the sight of many of my old manuscript favorites, enshrined among your old letters [...] I am particularly delighted to find that the example of the leading poets, those "Cynthias of the Minute", on the other side of the Atlantic, has not prevented you from blending, with grave and grander themes, the gentle and the genial.... Hoping [the poems]... make their readers healthier and happier than they can ever become by the study of such themes ... as the unwedded mother in 'Aurora Leigh,' the unclothed lady in 'Peeping Tom of Coventry,' and the sentimental lady Paligimist [sic], and her peeping first husband in 'Enoch Arden'...." Samuel Ward (1814-1884), a New York lobbyist, financier, author, and friend to a wide circle of American writers, published Lyrical Recreations in 1865. 29. --. Autograph letter signed ("Fitz-Greene Halleck"), 1 p, 8vo, New York, Jan 28, 1847, to a Joseph Cogsmill, in part: "I regret that it is not in my power to gratify your friend ... with the autograph of Mr. Drake. I have long since parted with all his manuscripts at the regrets of his many admirers...." Laid into a copy of Drake, Joseph Rodman. The Culprit Fay and Other Poems. With 2 copper plate engravings. [10], 98, [1] pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth decorated in blind and gilt, housed in 3/4 morocco slipcase. Bookplate of Katharine de Berkeley Parsons. Fine. BAL 480. First edition of Drake's posthumously published work. 30.-- Photograph, a carte de visite mid-length portrait of Halleck late in life by Charles D. Fredericks & Co., New York, [ca. 1864]. Captioned in another hand ("Fitz Green Halleck"). 31. --. Autograph document signed ("Fitz G Halleck"), 3 pp, 4to, New York, August 24, 1821, a legal document written while Halleck was serving as a legal representative to Jacob Barker, whose business dealings were being questioned, signed also by Barker and others, old folds, tear from seal. RECEIVED CORRESPONDENCE Bayard Taylor ALS 32. TAYLOR, BAYARD. Autograph letter signed ("Bayard Taylor"), 2 pp, New York, February 5, 1864, to Fitz-Greene Halleck, tipped to another leaf. A fine, unpublished literary letter from Halleck's most vocal supporter from the generation which followed his, the poet and critic Bayard Taylor, praising Halleck's poem (the recently published "Young America.") In part: "I am delighted ... for this evidence that the inspiration whence poetry is created never forsakes its possessor. I should be miserable if I thought a day might come when my best voice should be silent but you and Bryant now teach your younger brethren that this need not necessarily be. Your autumn songs are as sweet as those of your spring. I have been especially interested in your last poem because you have partly forestalled me in a poem which I intended to write some day. I must accept the flattering coincidence of ideas as my compensation...." According to Halleck biographer John Hallock, Taylor modeled the central relationship at the center of Joseph and His Friend, his 1870 novel which is sometimes cited as the earliest American novel about homosexual love, on Halleck and Drake. 33. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph letter signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), 3 pp, 12mo, Cambridge, Mass, January 20, 1864, to Halleck, commenting favorably on a poem which is almost certainly "Young America," which would be published in the New York Ledger three days after the letter is dated. In part: "I have read with uncommon pleasure the beautiful poem you were kind enough to send me. It has all the force, elasticity and finesse which I always look for in your writings, and always find there [...] I thought of you the other evening, as I bowled along through Guilford, bringing home a wounded officer, and wondered which of the many lights I saw in windows, here and there, was shining on your book and face." An outstanding letter. 34. DUYCKINCK, EVERT A. Autograph Letter Signed, to Halleck, 4 pp, 8vo, New York, 20 February 1864. Duyckinck thanks Halleck for the verses (a section of "Young America" he had requested in an earlier letter), discussing the forthcoming auction of "the late Mr. Allen's library and curiosities" and an upcoming fair. "I heard a day or two ago, as you intimate, that the Fairies were upon you. Buy due rights these gentle beings should minister to you, according to their best reputation in poetry, with every kind assistance..." etc. Duyckinck would edit the memorial volume to Halleck in 1877, following the erection of monuments in Guilford and Central Park. 35. KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE "FANNY". Autograph Letter Signed ("F.A. Kemble"), 1 p, Clarendon, "Tuesday 10th" [1867], writing that she "shall be happy to add my name to the list of subscribers to Mr. Halleck's" memorial. 36. WARD, SAMUEL. Autograph Letter Signed ("Saml Ward"), 2 1/4 pp, 8vo, New York Hotel, 23 May 1865, to Halleck, bottom (blank?) 3/4 of integral leaf cut away. Wilson, p 405. The American author, lobbyist, and financier Ward (1814-1884) writes to Halleck thanking him for his praise, mentioning Ward's latest work ("I am having it set up in type so as to polish it off") and explaining various articles he is enclosing (not present), asking him to forward them on to Longfellow, and asking after the identity of "Seba Smith." For Halleck's praise of Ward's poems, see number 28. Ward was a friend and adviser to Longfellow, and contributed a revealing article, "Days with Longfellow" to the North American Review (ANB). 37. PICKERING, HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed ("H. Pickering"), to Halleck, 3 pp, 4to, Salem, Mass, 17 January 1825, seal tear at inner margin, some toning, old folds. The poet and editor Pickering (1781-1838) seeks permission from Halleck to print a large extract of his poem "Fanny" in an anthology of American poetry, asking that he intercede with Wiley, the publisher of "Fanny," who has consented only to allowing a short extract to be included. "It would be difficult, I think, for any reader to form a just estimate of your work from the small extract which he has [permitted] me...." HALLECKIANA Fanny parody 38. [Anonymous.] Frank; or, Who's the Croaker? New York: George S. Wharam, 1820. 8vo. 41 pp. Half-title. Modern cloth. Several leaves backed with muslin, small tears not affecting text, foxing and browning. Wegelin 1288; Shoemaker 1272; BAL III, pp 364-5; Sabin 25485. A rare anonymous parody of Fanny, published a year after its subject first appeared. O.W. Holmes' tribute to Halleck, signed 39. [HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.] In Memory of Fitz-Greene Halleck. Read at the dedication of his monument in Guilford, Connecticut, on July 8, 1869. [Caption title]. [Boston: 1869]. [4] pp, including blank second leaf. Full red morocco lettered in gilt on spine. Faint fingersoiling. BAL 8870. SIGNED by Holmes at the end of the poem. This separate printing precedes the printing of the poem in the Description of the Dedication... (New York, 1869). 40. COZZENS, FREDERIC S. Fitz-Greene Halleck. A Memorial. Read before the New York Historical Society, January 6, 1868. New York: 1868. 8vo. 2 engraved portraits. 32 pp. Original drab printed wrappers, rebacked. Some chipping and dust-soiling to wrappers, very good, in custom cloth slipcase. Provenance: George Gibbs (American ethnographer, ink signature to front wrapper). BAL III p 365. First edition. Inscribed by Halleck's biographer to Halleck's sister 41. BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Some Notices of the Life and Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck. Read before the New York Historical Society, on the 3d of February, 1869. New York: Evening Post Steam Presses, 1869. 8vo. Original drab printed wrappers. Some soiling to wrappers, some splits at spine folds, toned. BAL III p 365. One of only 50 copies of this rare pamphlet of Bryant's eulogy to Halleck, inscribed by Halleck's biographer, James Grant Wilson, to Halleck's beloved older sister, with whom the poet was living when he died: "To Miss Halleck, with the faithful regards of Jas Grant Wilson." With two ink corrections in text, likely in Wilson's hand, and a few pencil annotations in an unknown hand. 42. BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Letters of a Traveller. New York: Putnam, 1850. 12mo. Original cloth. Foxed. BAL 1642. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the f.f.e.p.: "Fitz-Green [sic] Halleck Esq With the respect of the publisher." Large Paper, Inscribed by J.G. Wilson 43. DUYCKINCK, EVERT A, ed. A Memorial of Fitz-Greene Halleck: A Description of the Dedication of the Monument Erected to His Memory at Guilford, Connecticut; and of the Proceedings Connected with the Unveiling of the Poet's Stature in the Central Park, New York. New York: printed for the committee by Amerman & Wilson, 1877. 4to. Engraved portrait and 2 plates. 72 pp. Original brown printed wrappers. Wrappers toned and chipped, lower wrapper starting, internally clean. BAL 2244 & BAL III p 365. Inscribed on the front wrapper by Halleck's biographer: "S. Whitney Phoenix Esq/with Jas Grant Wilson's compliments/June 1880." A large paper copy, with the three plates not included in the regular issue. Large Paper, in cloth 44. DUYCKINCK, EVERT A, ed. A Memorial of Fitz-Greene Halleck: A Description of the Dedication of the Monument Erected to His Memory at Guilford, Connecticut; and of the Proceedings Connected with the Unveiling of the Poet's Stature in the Central Park, New York. New York: printed for the committee by Amerman & Wilson, 1877. 4to. Engraved portrait and 2 plates. 72 pp. Original green cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. BAL 2244 & BAL III p 365. A large paper copy, with the three plates not included in the regular issue. 45. HOWS, JOHN A. (illustrator). In the Woods with Bryant, Longfellow, and Halleck. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1863. Small 4to. 2 engraved titles, printed title, contents leaf, and 28 leaves printed recto only. Original beveled cloth elaborately gilt, a.e.g. 46. DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN. "To Fitz-Greene Halleck, Esq," in "The New-York Mirror," Vol IX No 35, March 3, 1832, page 1, toned, disbound. A posthumously published tribute to Halleck by Drake. 47. WARD, SAMUEL. Lyrical Recreations. New York and London: D. Appleton; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1865. 8vo. 271 pp. Original cloth. Very good. First edition, inscribed by the author to Edwards Pierrepont, then Attorney General of the United States. Ward was the powerful lobbyist, financier, adventurer and author. He had a close friendship with Halleck. [See also nos. 22, 28, and 36 above] 48. FAIRFIELD, SUMNER L. Abaddon Spirit of Destruction and other poems. New York: Sleight and Robinson, 1830. 8vo. Original cloth backed green boards, printed paper label. A good copy. First edition. BAL 5592. First edition. The book is dedicated to Halleck. 49. [WALTER, WILLIAM BICKER.] Sukey. Boston: Cummins & Hilliard, 1821. 4to. 72 pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition of a worked inspired by Halleck's Fanny. 50. Engraved plate portrait of a seated Halleck by G. Parker after a photograph by Henry Inman.