The life and works of Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820). A memoir and complete text of his poems & prose including much never before printed

Boston: printed for the author by the Merrymount Press, 1935. Edition limited to 750 copies printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike, The Merrymount Press; 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 424, [2]; frontispiece portrait and 16 plates; original light brown cloth, printed paper label on spine; evidence of bookplate removed, else very good and sound. This copy with a lengthy presentation by Pleadwell to Margaret Millicent Hunt Heaton "who will find a kinship in this book ... and derive some moments of pleasure from a perusal of its pages," signed in full and dated Honolulu, Christmas, 1839. (Inventory #: 59254)