Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems

Cincinnati: Robinson and Jones, 1845.   8vo.  190 x 125 mm.  [7 ½ x 5 inches].  184 pp.  Illustrated with a lithographic portrait of the author by Rouse.  Original cloth; scuffed and soiled, with some fading of the color; tide marks and some foxing. First edition.  Attractive and early lithograph by Samuel Rowse from a daguerreotype by Hawkins of Cincinnati.  Lewis J. Cist was a successful banker, local historian, and poet, who published most of his works in the Western Monthly Magazine and in Cists' Weekly Advertiser from 1847 to 1853.  He was also a notable collector of autographs, the sale of which was organized by Bangs & Co., New York in five sessions in 1886 and 1887.  Sabin, Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 13156.  McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues,  p. 14 and index. .