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SCRIVENER, Number 13, 1988-89

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montreal, McGill University: 1988

Seller ID: 013785

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

"An anthology of Canadian and American poetry, fiction, criticism, graphic art and photography," edited by Andrew Burgess. This issue contains material from more than two dozen contributors, among them Joan Fern Shaw, Ken J. Harvey and Todd Swift. Interviews with Timothy Findley and Patrick Lane. 56 pages, illustrated. Light general wear.
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SCRIVENER, Number 13, 1988-89

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montreal, McGill University: 1988

Seller ID: 013786

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

SCRIVENER, Summer 1983

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montreal, McGill University: 1983

Seller ID: 013791

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Contains material from Lesley Choyce, George Elliott Clarke, M. Anne Mitton, Don Polson, Peter Van Toorn, and many others. Wanda Taylor interviews John Hirsch, the Artist Director at Stratford. Mitton has signed her story ("For Brian---/Anne"). 32 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear.
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The Fiddlehead, January 1983, No./Number 135

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fredericton, University of New Brunswick (UNB)/St. Thomas University (STU): 1983

Seller ID: 016107

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

The 135th issue of a magazine featuring a variety of literary fiction and poetry, with reviews and illustrations. This issue contains three poems by the incomparable Alden Nowlan. 146 pages. Light rubbing, thin scratches, impressions. Internally tight and clean.
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso

By: Alighieri, Dante (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier / George Routledge & Sons:

Seller ID: 018545

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The third part of Dante's 'Divine Comedy' (after 'Inferno' and Purgatorio'). Routledge is printed on the spine as publisher, as well as on the title page, but a strip of paper displaying the name of Montreal publisher Sadlier is pasted over Routledge's name. Quite an uncommon edition. 318 pages (including index). Bumped/moderately worn corners/spine ends, some slant, scuffed cloth w/a couple of thin scratches, previous owner's signature/date neatly in ink to front end paper. All in all, a nice little copy.
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Treason

By: Andrews, Shari

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Wild East Publications: 1990

Seller ID: 015674

ISBN: 0-9694147-1-4

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Poet's scarce first book. 26 pages, cover illustration by Joan Meade. Faint smudging to wraps, faint splashstain to top left corner of front cover (blending right in with the black of that area) light general wear. A nice copy.
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Sunblue

By: Avison, Margaret

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Hantsport, Lancelot Press: 1978

Seller ID: 013964

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Governor-General's Award-winning poet's third book of poetry (in addition to a history of Ontario, called, oddly enough, 'History of Ontario'). Can be difficult to turn up in both first edition and decent condition. 105 pages. Lightly scuffed covers, light general wear. A nice copy, internally tight and clean.
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In Counter Point

By: Baigent, Beryl

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Woodstock, Nethercott Press: 1976

Seller ID: 010652

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

#478 of 500 copies; poet's third book; also contains poems from four guest writers: Larry Cole, Kay Vincent, Bob Ruby, and Doug Richards; now a Canadian citizen, the author was born in North Wales, and won the 1982 June Fritch Memorial Award from the Canadian Authors Association; 40 pgs; this copy bears a small handwritten 478 in the top left corner of inside front cover, and is inscribed, signed and dated by author on title page; some scuffing to covers, slight discolouration at right edge of back cover;
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MIRAMICHI LIGHTNING, The Collected Poems of Alfred Bailey (signed)

By: Bailey, Alfred

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Fiddlehead Poetry Books: 1981

Seller ID: 016528

ISBN: 0-86492-006-7

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

Collects the work of a distinguished Canadian historian and poet. This copy inscribed and signed on reverse of score for "Miramichi Lightning" (inscription reads: "To John Blaney/with best wishes/and in appreciation/of your recent kindness/Alfred Bailey"). 187 pages (including biographical note), cover illustration by Alex McGibbon. Wear to corners, short tear to bottom left edge of front cover, a fair bit of rubbing, faint edge soil.
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Time and Mind in Wordsworth's Poetry

By: Baker, Jeffrey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Detroit, Wayne State University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 012391

ISBN: 0-8143-1655-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The author "explores the significant ways in which the theme of time is manifested in the imagery and diction of Wordsworth's major poetry." Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 212 pages (including Appendix, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index). Light general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/sunned spine, short edge tears, small triangular chip from top edge of back cover.
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Love. liebesgedichte. (signed)

By: Balch, Norval

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Halifax, AB collector publishing: 1993

Seller ID: 016859

ISBN: 1-895466-01-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Poetry presented in both German and English, translated from the former into the latter by Astrid Brunner. Red cloth w/tipped-on cover illustration, 93 pages, red ribbon bookmark, red cloth slipcase. A bit of scuffing/spotting. A nice, clean, internally tight copy. Uncommon signed.
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BEYOND BETHUNE: People's Poetry and Milton Acorn's Metaphor for the Canadian Fate (signed)

By: Barker, Terry

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Dewdney, Synaxis Press: 2006

Seller ID: 017796

ISBN: 0-919-67246-9

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

In a collection of essays Barker "provides not only an insider's commentary on the tradition of People's Poetry in Canadian literature, but in addition a learned discussion of the various philosophies and religious perspectives, esoteric and orthodox, that gave rise to it." Inscription reads: "For Dr. Michael Higgins,/with many thanks for the/encouragement to continue writing/that your favourable personal/review gave me./With very/good luck/Terry Barker/March 1, 2006." Erratum page (122) glued over original error page. 174 pages (including bibliography, index), illustrated. Light rubbing,...
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The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry

By: Beach, Joseph Warren

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1936

Seller ID: 014273

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

The author traces the romantic and philosophical nineteenth-century concept of nature "in a synthesis of views derived from science, religion and philosophy; and shows how, in poets like Wordsworth, Emerson and Meredith, the abstract idea supports and is colored by their love for the 'beauteous forms' of the material world and their mystical sense of man's oneness with the universal spirit, providing them with a kind of substitute for dogmatic religion." Green cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 618 pages (including Notes, Index). Bumped corners/spine ends, dusty/lightly tanned/lightl...
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IRISH BARDIC POETRY, Texts and translations, together with an introductory lecture

By: Bergin, Osborn (compiled and edited by David Greene and Fergus Kelly)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Dublin, The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies: 1984

Seller ID: 018613

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The lecture in the sub-title was delivered by Bergin in Dublin in 1912 to the National Literary Society. This contains the texts and translations of 66 early modern poems that Bergin edited, and which are generally considered the gold standard for such work. Foreword by D.A. Binchy. White cloth w/gilt spine lettering in brown backgrounds, 320 pages (including index to unpublished Irish poems, index of first lines), frontispiece. Smudging/moderate soil to cloth, bumped corners/spine ends, light general wear.
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Gifts of the Year and Other Poems

By: Bevan, Molly

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Toronto, MacMillan of Canada / National Museum of Man: 1927

Seller ID: pl.00005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

67 pages, frontispiece. Dust jacket has edgewear, tears, largish pieces missing along edges, folds chipped and worn, some staining to bottom edge, spine discoloured and missing a largish piece (not a good jacket at all, but not a book often found in a jacket of any kind). Naturally, it's now in a protective sleeve to prevent any further disintegration.
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DAVID and other Poems

By: Birney, Earle

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Toronto, The Ryerson Press: 1942

Seller ID: 014678

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Reading Copy

A classic in Canadian poetry. Cream boards w/brown lettering to front cover/spine, 40 pages. An ex-New Brunswick Legislative Library copy w/discard stamp and several of the usual library desecrations.
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20th CENTURY CANADIAN POETRY, An Anthology with introduction and notes

By: Birney, Earle (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1953

Seller ID: 016954

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: About Very Good

"A selection of verse written by Canadians between the years 1900 and 1950." Red cloth w/black spine lettering, 169 pages (including aids to study and enjoyment, biographical notes, index). Bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, tanned edges, previous owner's name/date to front end paper, in edgeworn dust jacket w/small triangular piece from top edge of front panel, chipping to edges/corners/spine ends, moderate general wear.
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While You Were Out (signed)

By: Bitney, Kate

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, Turnstone Press: 1980

Seller ID: 007450

ISBN: 0-88801-027-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Two collections ('The Anger of Ghosts' and 'Perhaps We Are Wounded') featuring a total of thirty-one poems. This copy inscribed to a previous owner ("Thecla--/Much love,/Kate."). Rubbing, impressions, crease to top left portion of back cover, moderate general wear.
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East End Writers & Artists

By: Black, Jack, and Cathie Thomson (organizers)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: No Place, East End Adult Education Centre:

Seller ID: 006608

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

No date. A collection of poetry, an occasional prose piece, and illustrations by art and writing classes of the Gear Adult Education Project. Uncommon. Unpaginated (30). Light soil, sticker shadow to top edge of inside front cover, light general wear.
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Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida

By: Borson, Roo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 2004

Seller ID: 014444

ISBN: 0-7710-1591-7

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: As New

1st printing w/complete number sequence. Borson's award-winning tenth book of poetry. 90 pages (including Notes and Acknowledgements). An unread copy.
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Prayers at a High Altar

By: Boyle, Charles Frederick

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, The Ryerson Press: 1942

Seller ID: 017523

Binding: Stapled Wraps

Condition: Very Good

14 pages, tipped-on author photograph. Some edgewear, minor soil, light general wear.
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In Search of Eros

By: Brewster, Elizabeth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto & Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin & Company: 1974

Seller ID: 014336

ISBN: 0 7720 0715 2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing w/complete number sequence. Poet's sixth book of poems. "With Compliments of the Author" card laid in. Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 88 pages. Foxed top edge, in rubbed dust jacket w/light edgewear, short edge tears.
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Elizabethan Poetry

By: Brown, John Russell, and Bernard Harris (editors)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: London, Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd.: 1960

Seller ID: 012278

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The second title (following 'Jacobean Theatre' and preceding 'Early Shakespeare') in the publisher's "Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies" series, this one boasting contributions from editor Harris, F.T. Prince, Franklin Dickey, D.G. Rees, Donald Davie, Muriel Bradbrook, Jean Robertson, R.W. Ingram, Frank Kermode, and Robin Skelton. Publisher's tipped-in slip to front end paper indicates that this copy intended for consideration of use as a student text or reference book. Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 224 pages (including Index), illustrated. Tanned/dusty edges, in price-clipped dust jacket w/su...
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Whispers (signed)

By: Brown, Paul Cameron (C.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Three Trees Press: 1977

Seller ID: 018280

ISBN: 0-88823-002-8

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Foreword by Joe Rosenblatt. 63 pages + 1 page of other titles published by Three Trees Press. Date to top of first end paper (possibly written there by Brown) rubbing, thin impressions/scratches, sticker remains to bottom of back cover. Internally tight and clean.
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Selected Poems

By: Bruce, George

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd/The Saltire Society: 1947

Seller ID: 007093

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A title from the Saltire Modern Poets series intended to introduce to a wider public the work of younger contemporary writers. 23 pages. Slightly sunned edges, price sticker to bottom of front cover.
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A Voix Basse (signed)

By: Cadet, Maurice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Trois-Rivieres & Luxembourg, Ecrits des Forges and Editions PHI: 2001

Seller ID: 016478

ISBN: 2-89046-621-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A collection of French-language poetry. This copy inscribed (to Denise N.) and signed by Cadet, on half-title. 88 pages. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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LAKE LYRICS and Other Poems

By: Campbell, William Wilfred

Price: $150.00

Publisher: St. John (Saint John), J. & A. McMillan: 1889

Seller ID: 018169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Campbell's second book of poetry. Campbell was one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group that also included Archibald Lampman, Charles G.D. Roberts, and Bliss Carman. Blue cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover, 160 pages. A nice copy w/moderate wear to corners/spine ends, dusty edges, light scuffing tro covers, tiny abrasion above lettering on front cover.
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POEMS, Together with POEMS FROM THE WYBURD MANUSCRIPT

By: Carew, Thomas

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Menston, Scolar Press: 1969

Seller ID: 013888

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

An original-size facsimile edition of a work first published in 1640, with reduced-size facsimile reproductions from the Wyburd Manuscript. Some corner wear, a bit of sunning to edges spine, previous owner's name in pencil to inside front cover.
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THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND, a fictional essay in 29 tangos

By: Carson, Anne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf Canada: 2001

Seller ID: 017601

ISBN: 0-375-40804-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

"An essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage." Brick boards w/maroon cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 147 pages (including notes). A hint of general wear, in dust jacket w/light wear to spine ends, scuff/rubbing to bottom right spine edge/bottom left corner of front panel.
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GRIEF LESSONS, Four Plays by Euripides

By: Carson, Anne (translator)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, New York Review Books / NYRB: 2006

Seller ID: 016649

ISBN: 1-59017-180-2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. Contains "Herakles," "Hekabe," "Hippolytos," and "Alkestis," four tragedies by Euripides translated by Carson, with introductions. Also contains two essays, "Tragedy: A Curious Art Form," and "Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra." Grey boards w/cranberry spine lettering, 312 pages. Bottom corners bumped, in lightly scuffed first state dust jacket w/bumped bottom corners. Dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve.
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The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller

By: Chernaik, Warren L.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New Haven & London, Yale University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 012259

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

From the front flap: "This unique reassessment of a major forerunner of the Augustan age provides a much-needed framework for understanding the transitional period between Jonson and Dryden." Mauve cloth w/silver spine lettering, 236 pages (including Index). Gently bumped corners/spine ends, previous owner's name in pencil to bottom edge of front free end paper, in lightly worn dust jacket w/a bit of spine sunning.
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Canada Post

By: Christie, Jason

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Montreal, Snare Books: 2006

Seller ID: 017670

ISBN: 0973943807

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Poet's debut collection. 103 pages. Moderate general wear.
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Echoes of the Remnant (signed print)

By: Coupar, Regina

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Truro, Gamaliel Publications: 2003

Seller ID: 016322

ISBN: 0-9695837-2-9

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

From the back cover: "...presents new metaphors which are helpful for discussing spirituality in the language of our time." This edition contains a signed original print by Coupar, bound in near the front. 120 pages, illustrated. A bit of slant, light general wear.
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The Werewolf Miracles (signed)

By: Crawford, Terry

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Oberon Press: 1976

Seller ID: 007338

ISBN: 0 88750 183 4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of poems "all concerned, in one way or another, with miracles." Dust jacket illustration by Herzl Kashersky. This copy signed by author on front free end paper. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 96 pages. Bumped corners, light general wear. Dust jacket w/several tiny edge tears, 3/8" tear to top edge of rear panel. Slightly sunned spine, small puncture to right edge of rear panel above gutter.
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Words

By: Creeley, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons/Scribner: 1967

Seller ID: 012225

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Brown cloth w/white spine lettering, 143 pages. Bumped spine ends, dusty edges, impressions of previous owner's erased pencil signature along bottom edge of front free end paper, moderate general wear, in dust jacket w/some edgewear, short edge tears.
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Three Plays and a Ballet

By: Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), edited by George Firmage

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Peter Owen: 1968

Seller ID: 018344

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Contains the plays "Him," "Anthropos: or the Future of Art," and "Santa Claus, a Morality," and the ballet "Tom," (based on 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'). Introduction bby Firmage. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 170 pages. Gently bumped corners/spine ends, odd little bump (3/8" long by 1/8" wide) on front pastedown (the suspicion here is that in the printing process some little thing got caught betwixt inside cover and pastedown, but hey, for all I know it could be a device planted by the totalitarian Chinese Communists to monitor Theatre of the Absurd readers), tanned edges, in price-clipped ...
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Eight Metaphysical Poets

By: Dalglish, Jack (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1967

Seller ID: 012265

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Originally published in 1961. For each of eight poets (Donne, Herbert, Carew, Crashaw, Vaughan, King, Marvell and Cowley), "there is a representative selection of his poems, a biographical sketch and a general critical account of his work, followed by notes of the poems themselves." Blue cloth, 184 pages (including Index of First Lines), frontispiece. Sunned top edge, gently bumped spine ends, previous owner's name along bottom edge of front end paper, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/short edge tears, slightly sunned spine.
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Memory in Bone

By: Dambroff, Susan

Price: $7.50

Publisher: San Francisco & Chicago, Black Oyster Press: 1984

Seller ID: 008944

ISBN: 0-9605966-2-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

1 of 500 copies of a collection of poetry from a press "committed to publishing works by women."; cover illustration by Peggeth Loeb; unpaginated; some corner wear, sticker shadow to back cover, two tiny/faint soil marks to back cover, crinkling to bottom corner, price impressions to top right corner of first end paper, mild general wear;
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...left in slow motion (signed)

By: David Etheridge

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick Chapbooks: 1981

Seller ID: 017641

ISBN: 0-920084-06-0

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

The first title in the New Brunswick Chapbooks series, this one a one-act play first performed in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in February 1978, then performed on CBC Radio a year later before ending up in printed form. 30 pages. Light general wear. Uncommon.
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DIVISIONS OF THE HEART, Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Memory and Place

By: Davies, Gwendolyn, Sandra Barry, Peter Sanger (editors)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Wolfville, Gaspereau Press: 2001

Seller ID: 018343

ISBN: 1-894031-31-8

Binding: Wraps w/French flaps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

A collection of 25 essays presented at a symposium held at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1998, to honour the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/short story writer. Contributors include Crystal Bacon, Marian Bannerman, Sandra Barry, Brian Bartlett, Neil Besner, Theodore Colson, Barbara Comins, Gwen Davies, Jeffery Donaldson, Patricia Dwyer, Lilian Falk, Andre Furlani, Gary Fountain, Glen Robert Gill, Lorrie Goldensohn, Michael Happy, Kathleen Johnson, Ross Leckie, Elizabeth McKim, Laura Jehn Menides, Sara Meyer, Roger Moore, Brian Robinson, Camille Roman, Peter ...
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A Masque of Aesop

By: Davies, Robertson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Clarke, Irwin & Co.: 1952

Seller ID: 014697

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

The author's "first foray into the field of the masque." Tan cloth, 47 pages. An ex-New Brunswick Legislative Library copy w/discard stamp, and the usual librarian tortures suffered by innocent books.
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Den Berg Op

By: de Ridder, Tony

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Zeist, Uitgave van J. Ploegsma: 1932

Seller ID: 016086

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Dutch-language poetry. Paper over boards, 46 pages, frontispiece (matches the gilt illustration on front cover). Foxing, edge/corner wear, light chipping to spine ends, previous owner's notation/date neatly to top right corner of front end paper, another equally neatly to top left corner of reverse of same. One of the writer's less-common titles. (C/BT)
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Miramichi

By: Di Giulio, Eleanor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Madras, Salesian Institute of Graphic Arts: 1970

Seller ID: 012973

Binding: Leatherette

Condition: Good

Poems, many with religious themes. 111 pages (including Index), illustrated. Moderate general wear.
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Gunner Schmidt at the Crossroads

By: Dietz, Robert

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Halifax, AB collector publishing: 1994

Seller ID: 016882

ISBN: 1-895466-04-0

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

The play based on Dietz's autobiography, 'Oath of Allegiance.' 156 pages, illustrated. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean. Uncommon
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Seven Russian Poets

By: Dobson, Rosemary, & David Campbell (imitations)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press/UQP: 1979

Seller ID: 014777

ISBN: 0 7022 1418 3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of Russian verse presented not as translations, "but rather as imitations of the originals, re-created in English." Poets include Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Olga Berggolts, Bella Akhmadulina, Natalia Gorbanevskaia and Yunna Morits. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 96 pages (including Index of first lines). Gift inscription to previous owner, light general wear, in lightly worn dust jacket.
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The Cape Breton Book of the Dead

By: Domanski, Don

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto, House of Anansi Press: 1975

Seller ID: 018183

ISBN: 0-88784-135-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Domanski's first book, being #34 in the publisher's series of poetry books. Domanski won the 2007 Governor General's Award for Poetry for his eighth book, with two earlier titles being nominated for the same award. Spruce cloth w/silver lettering to front cover, 59 pages + acknowledgements. Small soil mark to reverse of second end paper, quite mild wear to corners/spine ends, in rubbed dust jacket w/chipping, strips missing from top edges of front and rear panels, 1/4"-square chip to middle of spine, short edge tears.
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Seven (7) Mondays, Volume Three (3)

By: Douma, Laurel, Anna Greenwood, Shiralee Hudson, Mark Purdon (editors)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Jolicure, the Anchorage Press: 1997

Seller ID: 017634

ISBN: 1-895488-16-8

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

A collection of poetry, photographs and short stories by 32 university students. Unpaginated. Crease to bottom right corner of front cover, light scuffing, several pinholes to front cover and extending through first third of the book. Internally tight.
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Selected Poems

By: Duggan, Eileen (edited by Peter Whiteford)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Wellington, Victoria University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 018187

ISBN: 0-86473-265-1

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

This collection, published on the 100th anniversary of the New Zealand poet's birth, re-introduces her mainly out-of-print work to a new generation. Also contains a selection of her autobiographical and literary prose writings. 160 pages (including notes, select bibliography, index of titles and first lines).
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The Berlin Wall Caf (signed)

By: Durcan, Paul

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Belfast & Dover, The Blackstaff Press: 1986

Seller ID: 010395

ISBN: 0 85640 348 2

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

"The skill and commitment with which Paul Durcan tackles his themes--social protest and outrage at loveless relationships, at hypocrtical churchmen, at sectarian assassins; and a searingly personal account of the break-up of a marriage--make this the finest book to date from one of western Europe's most tireless and entertaining visionary poets."; this copy inscribed, dated and signed ("For xxxx & xxxx xxxx/Affection & Very/Best Wishes/--Paul Durcan/Saint John/14.3.88/'It was like a fire burning in me when He/talked to me.'"); uncommon signed or inscribed; cover illustration by Edward McGuire;...
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Inch Man

By: Eisler, Ken

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Vancouver, Pulp Press: 1974

Seller ID: pl.00007

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

Eisler's first book of poetry. 83 pages. Sticker shadow to front cover, yellowed pages, small brownish soil mark to first end paper.
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BARDS IN THE WILDERNESS, Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920

By: Elliott, Brian, and Adrian Mitchell (editors)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sydney, Thomas Nelson (Australia) Ltd.: 1970

Seller ID: 015156

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Reading Copy

This is "an anthology of colonial poems selected not on the 'beauties of literature' principle but for their historical importance -- because they are most characteristic and lively and give the most vivid and immediate impression of an historical past which we are only now in a position to view in an historical perspective." Hardcover in cream cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 280 pages (including notes on the poems, biographical notes, indices).
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BRITHERS A' (Brothers All), A Minute A Day With Burns, Poet, Lover and Prophet of Brotherhood

By: Esselmont, Peter (ed.)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Aberdeen, The Central Press (John Milne): 1933

Seller ID: 009521

Binding: Stapled Wraps

Condition: Fair

a collection of quotes, information and history relating to Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns; Foreword by Professor J.Y. Simpson; each volume 48 pgs. (144 total), copiously illustrated; all volumes w/edgewear, some soiling, dampstaining, some dog-earred corners, general wear; uncommon in this edition;
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ROCHESTER, The Critical Heritage

By: Farley-Hills, David (editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1972

Seller ID: 012358

ISBN: 0 7100 7157 4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

"This collection of critical extracts on the poetry of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, ranges from the earliest contemporary comments to the beginning of the twentieth century." Blue cloth, 275 pages (including Bibliography, Index). Bumped/lightly worn corners/pine ends, previous owner's name in pencil, in rubbed dust jacket w/moderate edgewear.
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Into Nests, Each Perfect As An Inner Ear!

By: Faulkner, Leigh

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Riverview, Owl's Head Press: 1985

Seller ID: 013795

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is #38. This copy signed by author, on half-title. Just a hint of wear to spine ends. Internally tight and clean.
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It Was Warm And Sunny When We Set Out

By: Finnigan, Joan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1970

Seller ID: 011870

ISBN: 0-7700-0313-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Author's fourth book of poetry. Yellow cloth, 96 pages. A hint of wear to corners/spine ends, mild board warp, Christmas gift inscription (on front end paper) to previous owner, in price-clipped dust jacket w/light soil, a bit of edgewear, moderate general wear.
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Bullets And Cathedrals

By: Fleet, Brenda

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Fredericton, Fiddlehead Poetry Books:

Seller ID: pl.00009

1 of 500 copies; 48 pgs.; apparent printer's error resulted in Contents Page being printed at rear of book, and three verses of final poem omitted, thus a page tipped-on at top of Contents Page provides the missing verses; this copy with a handwritten correction (author's hand) to the Dedication line; some sunning to spine area, light edgewear, bottom edge smudged at corner;
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The End of Innocence, Selected Poems of Gail Fox (signed)

By: Fox, Gail

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Oberon: 1988

Seller ID: 010095

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

issued simultaneously with the hardcover; edited by Tom Marshall, and containing poems from "Dangeous Season" (1969), "The Royal Collector of Dreams" (1970), "Flight of the Pterodactyl" (1973), "God's Odd Look" (1976), "In Search of Living Things" (1980), "Houses of God" (1983), and "The Deepening of the Colours" (1986); cover painting by the author; this copy signed, "With all best wishes/Gail Fox"; sunning to spine and rear cover, light wear; internally tight;
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Powers (signed)

By: Fried, Michael

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, the Review: 1973

Seller ID: 017421

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Modernist art critic/art historian Fried's first full-length collection of poems, published while he was associate professor of fine arts at Harvard (as of this writing, he is the J.R. Herbert Boone professor of humanities and art history at Johns Hopkins University). Inscription reads, "12.x.73/to Ken,/with love & admiration,/Michael". Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 60 pages. A bit of wear to corners/spine ends, sunning to top edge, covers moderately warped, in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/short edge tears, moderately sunned spine, small scrape to spine, a bit of chipping to corne...
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The Plastic Undergrowth

By: Frith, D.W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Surrey, Sono Nis Press: 1971

Seller ID: 010175

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

poetry; cover illustration by Morse Clary; 27 pgs.; impressions, smudging to white cover, previous owner's signature/date on inside front cover; internally tight;
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THE CHILDREN OF PAUL'S: the story of a theatre company, 1553-1608 (signed)

By: Gair, Reavley

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1982

Seller ID: 016885

ISBN: 0 521 24360 2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

From the front flap: "Between 1553 and 1608 St Paul's Cathedral housed one of the earliest London theatre companies, a commercially successful playhouse whose actors were drawn from the choirboys under the directior of their choir master. These were the Children of Paul's." This copy inscribed and signed by Gair, on title page. Chocolate cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 213 pages (including notes, select bibliography, index), illustrated. A bit of slant, light general wear, in price-clipped dust jacket w/a hint of edgewear, impressions/scratches, 1/4" tear to top right corner of front panel....
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Tunnel Bus to Detroit

By: Gasparini, Len

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Fredericton, Fiddlehead Poetry Books: 1971

Seller ID: 007451

ISBN: 0-919196-61-6

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

1 of 500 copies. Gasparini's second book, a collection of forty poems. Cover illustration by Anne Hale. 28 pages. This copy bears the signature of R. Hawkes (since both guys were published by Fiddlehead Poetry Books, this is presumed to be writer Robert Hawkes, but for all I know it could be his drug-addled cousin, Ringo). Lght soil, moderate general wear.
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Earth Charms Heard So Early (signed)

By: Gibbs, Robert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Fiddlehead Poetry Books: 1970

Seller ID: 010885

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

one from a limited edition of five hundred copies; this copy signed by Gibbs ("With best wishes/Robert Gibbs"); 64 pgs.; moderate edgewear, impressions, scuffing, abrasion to top right corner of title page (presumed removal of sticker);
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SPENSER NEWSLETTER, Spring/Summer 1989, Volume 20 Number 2

By: Gless, Darryl J. (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina: 1989

Seller ID: 014492

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Contains book reviews and notices, articles, and so on related to Spenser and his work. Pages 25 through 48. Light general wear.
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The Deserted Village (in braille)

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Toronto, Dominion Tactile Press: 1913

Seller ID: 013907

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

A scarce braille "New York Point" edition of Goldsmith's famous poem, from an obscure printer. Brown cover lettering on stapled brown wraps, unpaginated (21). Library sticker to inside front cover, library embossed seal (dated 1914) to top right corner of first page, library pocket to inside back cover (numbered-but-otherwise-blank slip of stiff paper inserted into pocket suggests that book may never have been taken from the library). Moderate edgewear, short edge tears, some scraping to spine, moderate general wear. Some pages have a bit of crinkling at fore-edge (a result of the printing pro...
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Water is the First World (inscribed & signed)

By: Grace, Susan Andrews

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Regina, Coteau Books: 1991

Seller ID: 012141

ISBN: 1-55050-018-X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

From the back cover: "A perceptive collection of quietly assertive poems about women's nurturing roles in the cycles of life, focusing on the birthing experience." This copy inscribed, signed and dated ("for Donna/so glad to meet you/Susan/May 96"). 112 pages (including Acknowledgements, brief author/cover photographer biographies, advertisements for other Coteau titles), cover photograph by Courtney Milne. Minor wear to corners, light rubbing, mild general wear.
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KENILWORTH and Other Poems

By: Gray, Alice Rowan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, Peerless Press:

Seller ID: 014524

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

This may be either an inscribed-by-the-author copy, or a scarce-as-hen's-teeth unsigned copy. Possibly the former because the reverse of the title page bears a longish inscription to a previous owner, is dated 1965, and signed Alice R. Wiley, which is close to Alice R. Gray and might have been the poet's married name; possibly the latter because seventy-five per cent of all the other copies I have been able to find have been signed and/or inscribed. Forty-four pages, frontispiece photograph, illustration of Caesar Tower, Kenilworth Castle.
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Poems

By: Greenshields, Edward B. (Black)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: No Place (Montreal), Privately printed:

Seller ID: 018009

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No date (circa 1910). A collection of 19 poems. According to the 'Dictionary of Canadian Biography,' Greenshields was a Canadian businessman and art critic, who wrote two books, 'The subjective view of landscape painting' and 'Landscape painting and modern Dutch artists, both of which promoted the Hague School and viewed Impressionism as having no staying power. This is his only book of poetry. Full leather, gilt spine lettering, raised bands, marbled end papers, unpaginated, printed on rectos only). Rubbing/scratches/moderate surface wear to covers, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, m...
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God's Geography (signed)

By: Gutteridge, Don

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ilderton, Brick Books/Coldstream: 1982

Seller ID: 016364

ISBN: 0-919626-18-1

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

"This book is the fourth in a series of works in poetry and prose entitled Time is the Metaphor." This copy inscribed, signed and dated by Gutteridge, on half-title. 111 pages. Light general wear.
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THE POETRY OF GRACE, Reformation Themes and Structures in English Seventeenth-Century Poetry

By: Halewood, William H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New Haven & London, Yale University Press:

Seller ID: 012253

ISBN: 0-300-01341-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

From the front flap: "The proposition argued in this book is that a grace mode developed in seventeenth-century poetry in response to the grace theology which dominated the mental life of the period and prevailed through all the varieties of Protestantism." Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 180 pages (including Appendix, Index). A bit of slant, previous owner's name in pencil to bottom edge of front end paper, in price-clipped and lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/a bit of sun-darkening to spine, 1/2" tear to bottom of front fold.
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Peeling Oranges in the Shade

By: Hannan, Jack

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Sutton West, The Paget Press: 1978

Seller ID: 008311

ISBN: 0 920348 06 8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A Montreal poet "depicts the journey travelled between two occasions, the transfiguration of the travellers, time wasted and time well spent." Introduction by Penelope Jahn. This copy inscribed/signed/dated on title page (To my friend, "the/Tampa Kid," Mr. xxxxx,/with thanks,/Jack Hannan/5/6/79). Mderate wear to corners/spine ends, mild bubbling to front cover fore-edge. Rubbed dust jacket w/light edgewear, thin impressions, some spine sunning.
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Fortress of Chairs

By: Harvor, Elisabeth

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Montreal, Signal Editions/Vehicule Press: 1992

Seller ID: 009457

ISBN: 1-55065-024-6

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

author's first book of poetry following two story collections, and winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; this copy warmly inscribed to an anonymous recipient ("To a dear/friend & chauffeur/& writer-in-arms,/xoxo/in friendship/Elisabeth/Harvor"); 87 pgs.; minor edgewear, impressions, pencil price impressions to top right corner of front end paper;
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The People of the Dance

By: Hawkes, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Guelph, Alive Press: 1975

Seller ID: 008113

ISBN: 0 919568 48 3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

63 pages. Sunning to spine and edges, crosscrack, moderate general wear.
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The People of the Dance

By: Hawkes, Robert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Guelph, Alive Press: 1975

Seller ID: 012306

ISBN: 0 919568 48 3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

63 pages. Small soil mark to backcover, light edgewear, previous owner's signature across top edge of inside front cover.
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The People of the Dance

By: Hawkes, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Guelph, Alive Press: 1985

Seller ID: 013216

ISBN: 0 919568 48 3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

63 pages. Light soil, moderate general wear.
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Selections From the Poems of Robert Henryson

By: Henryson, Robert (edited by David Murison)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Saltire Society: 1974

Seller ID: 006472

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of work from the 15th-century Scottish poet. Blue cloth w/silver spine lettering/silver device to front cover, 58 pages. Sunned spine, moderately bumped top corners, light general wear.
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The City of Satisfactions (signed)

By: Hoffman, Daniel

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press / OUP: 1963

Seller ID: 015519

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Poet's third book. This copy inscribed and signed on front end paper. Inscription reads "For Viv and Pete/--Why shouldn't you have/a signed book too?/Love from Danny/Christmas '69" (apparently the reason they shouldn't have a signed book, Danny, is because they won't keep it). A good acquisition for some couple named Viv and Pete, or someone named Viv who used to be with Pete, or someone named Pete who used to be with Viv, or someone named Viv who thinks she might like to be with a Pete, or someone named Pete who thinks he might meet someone named Viv and he could present this book as proof...
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JAMES HOGG, Selected Poems

By: Hogg, James (Douglas S. Mack, editor)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press / OUP: 1970

Seller ID: 007042

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bemoaning the fact that Hogg's drivel outweighs his good material, the editor presents what he calls "a reliable text of Hogg 's best poems," in the hope that it "will make possible a revaluation of his stature as a poet." Navy cloth, 183 pages (including select bibliography, commentary, glossary), frontispiece. Light edgewear, lightly tanned edges, splash-soil to top fore-edge, slight bleed of same to end papers. Much-rubbed dust jacket w/some edgewear, corner/spine end wear, impressions, thin scratches, sticker shadow to front flap.
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A Hair's Breadth of Abandon

By: Holt, Jason

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lakeville Corner, AB collector publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 016873

ISBN: 1-895456-15-6

Binding: Wraps w/French flaps

Condition: Near Fine

Holt's third book of poetry. Foreword by George Elliott Clarke. 70 pages + list of other in-print titles from the publisher. A hint of edgewear. Internally tight and clean.
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More Poems

By: Housman, A.E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1936

Seller ID: 005376

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: About Very Good

A collection put together by Laurence Housman after his brother's death. Preface by Laurence Housman, frontispiece illustration by Francis Todd. Gold-decoration on blue cloth, 73 pages, top edge gilt. Bumped corners, light tanning, minor scuffing to cloth, previous owner's name/address on front pastedown, off-setting to end papers. Dust jacket w/sun-darkened spine, chipping to spine ends/corners, other triangular chips/tears, some soil.
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WINNOWWING, a dithyrambic deconstruction

By: Hryciuk, Marshall

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Muskox Press: 1980

Seller ID: 008685

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Reissues a limited edition hardcover published by Greyn Forest Press. 19 pages. Only mild general wear.
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IDEALIZING VAIN FANTASY, A Fantasy Rock Opera, An Album of Songs and a Fairy Tale

By: Hughes, Charles R.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Port Coquitlam, Privately published: 1978

Seller ID: 015461

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

A play with song lyrics by Gloria Jean Hughes, poetry by Jack M. Heitz, and photography by Stephan Mirsky. Quite an uncommon item. 36 pages, illustrated by Charles R. Hughes, Jack M. Heitz and Reginald Guest. Moderately soiled covers, corner wear, moderate handling wear.
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Selected Poems (signed)

By: Hutchman, Laurence

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto & Tonawanda, Guernica Editions Inc.: 2007

Seller ID: 017065

ISBN: 1-55071-240-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A collection of poems from five of Hutchman's previously published six books. 135 pages. Signed by Hutchman, on title page. Promotional bookmark for this title laid in. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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THE POETIC THEORY OF PAUL VALERY, Inspiration and Technique

By: Ince, W.N.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Leicester University Press: 1961

Seller ID: 012439

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

From the front flap: "This study seeks to investigate and explain Paul Valery's well-known denunciations of inspiration and his advocacy of controlled composition." Blue cloth w/publisher's device in gilt to front cover, gilt spine lettering, 187 pages (including Index). Bumped corners/spine ends, off-setting to end papers, light tanning. Dust jacket now in protective mylar sleeve
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No Other Lodgings (signed)

By: Itani, Frances

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Fiddlehead Poetry Books: 1978

Seller ID: 017642

ISBN: 0-920110-21-5

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

The 249th title in the Fiddlehead Poetry Book series, this one the first title by a multi-award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist. Limited to 600 copies. 55 pages. Small soil mark to centre of front cover at top, small sticker/soil mark pull to top right corner of same, light surface wear. Internally clean.
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Poet Cop

By: Jewinski, Hans

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Pocket 80183/Simon & Schuster of Canada: 1975

Seller ID: 012307

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Paperback original. Poetry from "a policeman in a bad neighbourhood." 122 pages. A hint of general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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The Open Hand

By: Kearney, W.D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hartland, Hartland Publishers Ltd. (Carle A. Rigby and Roderick Cummings): 1981

Seller ID: 017472

ISBN: 0-9690891-3-9

Binding: Stapled Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

"An Epic Poem Dealing With The Early Settlement of Maine and New Brunswick, Founded on Tradition." First printed in 1864, and reprinted in 1926, before this "exact reproduction" of the latter. 58 pages. Light general wear.
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Ur-Moth (signed)

By: Kelly, Claire

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Victoria, Frog Hollow Press: 2014

Seller ID: 018358

ISBN: 978-1-926948-20

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Canadian poet's first poetry chapbook, which was followed by a pair of full-length collections in 2017 and 2019. This is #45 of a limited edition of 100 copies. 35 pages + colophon, illustrated. Thin corner crease to bottom right corner of front cover. Internally tight and clean.
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Pyrrhic (signed)

By: Kemick, Richard Kelly

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Anstruther Press: 2015

Seller ID: 018134

ISBN: 978-0-9938397-2

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Fine

A triptych-style chapbook containing three poems. One of only 100 copies printed. As one might expect with so few copies printed, this is somewhat uncommon.
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The Witch of the Inner Wood

By: Lane, M. Travis (edited by Shane Neilson)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fredericton, icehouse poetry / Goose Lane Editions: 2016

Seller ID: 018219

ISBN: 0864928998

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A collection of long poems from a winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the New Brunswick Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Bliss Carman Award. Introduction by editor Neilson. White patterned cloth w/silver foil lettering to spine, 377 pages, including afterword and editor's notes & acknowledgements, blue ribbon bookmark. A nice copy w/only light general wear.
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Chamber Music (inscribed & signed)

By: LeBaron, Anthony

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Kapuskasing, Penumbra Press: 1988

Seller ID: 012261

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

The back cover blurb informs us that this is "a historiographic prose-poem accentuated by a striking array of collages." Uh huh. Unpaginated (50). This copy inscribed/signed/dated ("David/AllaBess./Tony./16-12-88") on title page. Moderate handling wear, internally tight and clean.
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Anything But Hank! (signed)

By: Lebowitz, Rachel, and Zachariah Wells

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Emeryville, Biblioasis: 2008

Seller ID: 017594

ISBN: 1897231369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A baby and a pig in search of a name for the former end up in the mountains "as they seek an audience with the Wizard and his baby-naming Mexican beaded lizard." This copy inscribed by Lebowitz and Wells to some kid named Noah ("For Noah,/Happy Reading!") on title page. Bumped corner/spine ends, in lightly worn dust jacket.
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Cultus Coulee

By: Lillard, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Surrey, The Sono Nis Press: 1971

Seller ID: 010437

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

American-born poet's first book; 28 pgs.; smudging to white wraps, previous owner's name/date on inside front cover;
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PHARSALIA, Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

By: Lucan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1961

Seller ID: 014704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Translated by Robert Graves. Light brown cloth w/gilt lettering, 215 pages. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name/place/date, in moderately worn dust jacket.
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To My Love

By: Lyons, Jennie

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Exposition Press: 1951

Seller ID: 005361

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Written pseudonymously by a woman who loves two men, "one mostly substance now [while] the other seems to be a wild and lovely dream." This volume addresses her "other love." Gold-stamped on green cloth, 62 pages. Some slant, wear to spine ends/corners. Dust jacket w/edgewear, short tears, some chipping, 1.5" tear to left spine edge, some sunning to spine/rear panel.
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THE THISTLE and Other Rimes (signed)

By: M'Tavish

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Chicago, Lawson and Gower: 1941

Seller ID: 006301

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of verse which originally appeared in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Daily Tribune. This copy signed at top of front free end paper ("Compliments of/M'Tavish"). A 5" x 3.25" publisher's advertisement for the book laid in. 64 pages. Smudging to covers, dusty/tanned edges, moderate edgewear, glue showing through pastedowns, impression of previous owner's erased pencil signature to front free end paper.
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Nail Builders Plan For Strength and Growth

By: Mac, Kathy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Lockeport, Roseway Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 014169

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Fine

Author's first book of poetry after a number of chapbook publications. Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, and winner of the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award for best poetry title. This copy signed by Mac, on title page. 96 pages (including Acknowledgements). An unread copy.
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The Armies of the Moon (signed)

By: MacEwen, Gwendolyn

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1972

Seller ID: 012236

ISBN: 0-7705-0869-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Very Good

Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Cover illustration by Stephen Gerriets. This copy signed ("Best wishes/Gwendolyn MacEwen" beneath her list of other books published). Some rubbing, light edgewear, crinkled bottom left corner, short vertical handling creases to bottom portion of front cover. Internally tight and clean. Very scarce signed.
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Attune With Spring in Acadie (signed)

By: Macintosh, Claire Harris

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York & London, G.P. Putnam's Sons/Putnam: 1931

Seller ID: 014699

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

A celebration in verse and song of the music of birds. Introduction by F. Schuyler Mathews. This copy signed by Macintosh, on title page. Blue cloth w/gilt lettering, tipped-on illustration to front cover, 106 pages, illustrated w/eight colour plates. An ex-Legislative Library of New Brunswick copy, w/discard stamp and most of the usual librarian-inflicted flaws, one plate partially detached.
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Maudlin Orphans (signed)

By: Mackey, Leonard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: No Place, privately published: 1980

Seller ID: 014274

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

One from a limited edition of two thousand copies. Signed ("Leonard Mackey, at Dalhousie, 9/8/80") on title page. Unpaginated. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Antonio's Revenge

By: Marston, John (edited by Reavley Gair)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Manchester & Baltimore, Manchester University Press & The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1978

Seller ID: 014056

ISBN: 0 7190 1501 4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The ISBN number given above is that of the UK; the US ISBN for this title is 0 8018 2012 X. A new edition of the classic drama, seeking "to evaluate the play not merely as a literary text but as a drama for a particular company within a specific theatre." Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 158 pages (plus Appendices). Dust jacket w/light edgewear, 1/2" tear to bottom left corner of rear panel.
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Poems

By: Matheson, D.M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Halifax, Privately Published:

Seller ID: 017059

Binding: Stapled Wraps

Condition: Good

No date (circa 1919). A collection of poems from a former principal of Alexander McKay School in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Unpaginated. Sunned edges, a bent corner, some rust to staples, turned corner tips, light soil, handling wear.
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THE VENTURE, An Annual of Art and Literature (signed)

By: Maugham, W. Somerset, and Laurence Housman (editors)

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, John Baillie's / Pear Tree Press: 1903

Seller ID: 017859

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Contains the first English language appearance of Maugham's "Marriages Are Made In Heaven," as well as prose/poetry contributions and illustrations by a variety of writers and artists, including A.E. Housman, Thomas Hardy, G.K. Chesterton, John Masefield, Havelock Ellis, Charles S. Ricketts, Reginald Savage, T. Sturge Moore, Lucien Pissarro, Bernard Sleigh, E. Gordon Craig, Louise Glazier, Elinor Monsell, Paul Woodroffe, Sydney Lee and others. Pictorial paper over boards, linen spine, pictorial end papers, woodcut frontispiece byt Charles Hazelwood Shannon. Darkening to board edges, bumped/w...
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Poems

By: McCara, Hugh A.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Powell Press: 1903

Seller ID: 014682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

This is the scarce original publication of a collection of verse from a young Nova Scotian poet. Brown cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover, 156 pages, frontispiece. An ex-Legislative Library of New Brunswick copy, w/discard stamp and a variety of librarian tortures.
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Memories 1923-1930

By: McLennan, Mary Louise (edited by Janet Cumming McLennan)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Stratford, Privately Published: 1941

Seller ID: 014698

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: About Very Good

Published posthumously, this is a collection of poems inspired in part by the author's visits to England and Scotland, and written during the years indicated. McLennan (1879-1938) wrote two other books, 'Children's Artist Friends' (1931), and 'History of the North Easthope Pioneers from Perthshire, Scotland' (1937). This copy with brief TLS slip taped to front end paper, reading, "One copy of 'Memories' by Mary Louise McLennan for the Department of Education, Fredericton, New Brunswick to be kept as a record especially because of the preface. No copies for sale." Beneath the typescript the...
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LILACS and Other Poems

By: McNair, Marguerite

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Self-published (printed by Unipress): 1968

Seller ID: 016987

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

A book of eighteen poems by a New Brunswick poet. 24 pages. Some edgewear, handling wear, previous owner's name to top right corner of title page, previous owner's inscription and small sticker to same. Uncommon.
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Skin Divers

By: Michaels, Anne

Price: $34.50

Publisher: London, Bloomsbury: 1999

Seller ID: 013755

ISBN: 0-7475-4453-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A collection of superior poems from an award-winning writer. Michaels has signed this copy on title page. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 68 pages (including Acknowledgements), ribbon bookmark. A bumped corner, w/mild general wear to dust jacket, which is now in a protective mylar sleeve. An internally tight, clean copy of a collectible title.
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The Wake of Silence (signed)

By: Mills, Lee

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oromocto, The Women's Institute of Oromocto, New Brunswick: 1967

Seller ID: 018272

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

An uncommon collection of verse by a New Brunswick poet. 43 pages. Light general wear.
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The Metaphysical Mode From Donne to Cowley

By: Miner, Earl

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 012330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Brown cloth, 291 pages (including Appendix, Major Editions Used and Consulted, Index). Previous owner's name on front end paper, light general wear, in price-clipped dust jacket w/moderate edgewear, short edge tears.
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TARTUFFE, or The Hypocrite

By: Moliere

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Poeschel & Trepte/Limited Editions Club: 1930

Seller ID: 009166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

a special edition of Moliere's classic play, published for members of the Limited Editions Club, translated by Curtis Hidden Page, introduced by Brander Matthews, and containing lithograph illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag; limited to 1500 numbered/artist-signed copies, of which this is #1456; cream paper over boards w/embossed Moliere cameo/lettering to front cover, cloth backstrip, 118 pgs.; scraped corners/spine ends, moderate general wear; plain paper dj w/sunned spine, top 2" of spine torn off, small triangular piece from top right corner of front panel, small triangular tear to left edg...
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The Impstone

By: Musgrave, Susan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1976

Seller ID: 008996

ISBN: 0-7710-6654-6

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

author's fourth collection of poetry, developed in "themes drawn from witchcraft and Celtic and North American Indian mythology."); this copy inscribed and signed ("To Bonnie/best wishes,/Susan Musgrave") on title page; 112 pgs., cover illustration by Jane Martin; previous owner's bookplate to inside front cover, front end-paper excised, moderate handling wear;
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WATCHFIRES, A Play in Four Acts

By: Mygatt, Tracy D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Privately Published (printed by Modern Art Printing Co.): 1917

Seller ID: 017345

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

Mygatt was a lesbian writer, socialist, pacifist and suffragist who opposed the participation of the United States in World War 1, and wrote this anti-war play that takes place between June and December 1916. Introduction by David Starr Jordan. This is the second printing of the original edition, not one of those common-as-dirt and soulless print-on-demand abominations that clutter the Internet like the garbage they are. 50 pages. Slant, chips/tears to edges, previous owner's signature to title page. Uncommon.
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The Beaten-Down Elegies (signed)

By: Neilson, Shane

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Victoria, Frog Hollow Press: 2003

Seller ID: 017419

ISBN: 0-9732776-2-9

Binding: Wraps

Condition: As New

#99 of 125 signed and numbered copies. Poet's first collection. "Set in the rural Maritimes, Neilson has written a series of poems about a childhood locked in the dysfunctional embrace of isolation and terror." 44 pages, hand-coloured title page/cover illustration. "Letterpressed on Zerkall Ingres, a German mould-made paper, and wrapped in Khadi Handmade Cotton Rag in 'terracotta' over an inner cover of handmade St. Armand Canal Paper in 'autumn leaves cream'" and "bound in a long stitch variation using Irish flax thread."
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The Beaten-Down Elegies (signed)

By: Neilson, Shane

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Victoria, Frog Hollow Press: 2003

Seller ID: 017420

ISBN: 0-9732776-2-9

Binding: Wraps

Condition: As New

#100 of 125 signed and numbered copies. Poet's first collection. "Set in the rural Maritimes, Neilson has written a series of poems about a childhood locked in the dysfunctional embrace of isolation and terror." 44 pages, hand-coloured title page/cover illustration. "Letterpressed on Zerkall Ingres, a German mould-made paper, and wrapped in Khadi Handmade Cotton Rag in 'terracotta' over an inner cover of handmade St. Armand Canal Paper in 'autumn leaves cream'" and "bound in a long stitch variation using Irish flax thread."
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Kniha lesu, vod a strani

By: Neumann, Stanislav K.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Praha, Klub Ctenaro/Odeon: 1972

Seller ID: 015764

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Czech-language poetry. Gilt decoration on green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 138 pages, white ribbon bookmark. Sunned (legible) spine, sunned edges, lightly worn corners/spine ends, book plate to front end paper, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with sun-darkened (legible) spine. Uncommon. (C/BT)
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Secular Love

By: Ondaatje, Michael

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Toronto, Coach House Press: 1984

Seller ID: 013751

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

A collection of poems, divided into four sections, from one of Canada's most respected writers. This copy from the library of the late Rick Burns, noted New Brunswick sculptor and painter, and bears his signature on front end paper. 126 pages. Edgewear, handling wear, impressions/thin scratches, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Anonymous Mesdemoiselles

By: Pacey, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fredericton, The New Brunswick Chapbooks:

Seller ID: 014530

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

The 18th title in the New Brunswick Chapbooks series edited by Nancy Bauer. A collection of poems, limited to 250 copies. 24 pages, cover by John Green. Sunned edges, light smudging.
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MASCHERE NUDE, 1.) La Morsa, 2.) Lumie di Sicilia, 3.) Il Dovere del Medico

By: Pirandello, Luigi

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore: 1953

Seller ID: 016090

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Italian-language collection of three plays. Cream boards w/gilt backdrop to cream lettering on front cover/spine, 119 pages plus advertisements for other Mondadori titles. Previous owner's embossed seal faintly to title page, tanning to cheap paper, in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/edge tears, chipping, previous owner's tape repair to inside top spine. (C/BT)
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A Rope Against the Sun

By: Pittman, Al

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Portugal Cove, Breakwater Books: 1974

Seller ID: 014505

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

First performed in 1970 at the Eastport Summer Festival. 69 pages, cover illustration by Gerry Squires. Light edgewear, a bit of sunning to pages, previous owner's signature to front end paper, light general wear.
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Crossing the Water

By: Plath, Sylvia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1975

Seller ID: 018494

ISBN: 0 571 10861 X

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A collection of poems, most published in 1960 and 1961 before being released in hardcover in 1971. 64 pages. Some rubbing, thin scratches, spotting to covers, previous owner's signature to top of half-title. Internally tight and clean.
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Sing, O Mountaineer!

By: Price, Walter Willard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Parsons, McClain Printing Company: 1963

Seller ID: 016046

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A collection of verse by a West Virginian mountaineer. Green cloth, 92 pages, frontispiece. Light wear. (C/BT)
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Il falso e vero verde IL FALSO E VERO VERDE, con un discorso sulla poesia

By: Quasimodo, Salvatore

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore: 1960

Seller ID: 015997

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Text in Italian. A collection of the Nobel Prize winner's work. This copy boasts the publisher's wraparound band trumpeting Quasimodo's 1959 Nobel Prize win. Book in glassine wrapper. 94 pages. Light edgewear, sunned spine, light general wear. (C/BT)
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Fools & Angels (signed)

By: Ransford, Tessa

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, The Ramsay Head Press:

Seller ID: 006583

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Aollection of poetry from an Indian-born/Scottish-educated woman considered "one of the most perceptive poets resident in Scotland." Front free end paper bears inscription by author to previous owner. Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 56 pages, dust jacket and interior illustrations by Ian Appleton. Slight warp to boards, some soil to bottom edge, sticker shadow to top edge of front pastedown, in rubbed dust jacket w/edgewear all around, impressions, corner/spine end flaking, general wear.
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Images of Glass

By: Rempel, Sandra Nelson

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Fiddlehead Poetry Books: 1979

Seller ID: 008552

ISBN: 0 920110 47 4

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

one of an edition of five hundred copies; scarce; cover illustration by Betty Nelson Wehle; 67 pgs.; light soil and moderate general wear;
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THREE CUBAN POETS, "In the Turmoil of the People"

By: Retamar, Roberto Fernandez, Manuel Navarro Luna, and Nicolas Guillen (translated by Roger Prentice)

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Vancouver, Canadian-Cuban Friendship Committee: 1967

Seller ID: 015361

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

A collection of poetry in its original Spanish on the left page, with English translation on the right. 44 pages. Some edgewear, light soil to back cover, previous owner's name neatly across top edge of front cover.
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Nimrod, Spring/Summer, Vol. 37 No. 2, the O! Canada issue

By: Ringold, Francine, (ed.),

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Tulsa, Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa: 1994

Seller ID: 009502

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: As New

Honours Canadian writers, and features stories and poetry by George Amabile, Douglas Barbour, Joe Blades, Roo Borson, David Carpenter, George Elliott Clarke, Olga Costopoulos, Lorna Crozier, Glen Downie, Timothy Findley, Gary Geddes, Steven Heighton, Greg Hollingshead, Lewis Horne, Janette Turner Hospital, Helen Humphreys, Henry Israeli, Janice Keefer, Gil McElroy, Dim Maltman, A.F. Moritz, Daniel Moses, Susan Musgrave, Suzanne Owens, Maia Penfold, Janis Rappoport, Aaron Schneider, Robin Skelton, Ron Smith, David Solway, Arlene Stamp, Rosemary Sullivan, Merna Summers, J.A. Wainwright, Barbara ...
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Tracery & Interplay (signed)

By: Robinson, Matt

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Victoria, Frog Hollow Press: 2004

Seller ID: 013389

ISBN: 0-9732776-6-1

Binding: Wraps

Condition: As New

#27 of 100 signed and numbered copies. A Maritime poet offers a series of poems thematically linked to the greatest game on the planet (for those who live under rocks or just got back from the planet Yobo, that would be hockey). Unpaginated (28). Printed on Mohawk Superfine Text. The cover is Grey Flannel, a wool-and-cotton paper from India - the inner cover is St. Armand's Charcoal, a handmade cotton paper from Quebec - and the flyleaf is Thai Mango Leaf.
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Tracery & Interplay (signed)

By: Robinson, Matt

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Victoria, Frog Hollow Press: 2004

Seller ID: 016127

ISBN: 0-9732776-6-1

Binding: Wraps

Condition: As New

#29 of 100 signed and numbered copies. A Maritime poet offers a series of poems thematically linked to the greatest game on the planet (for those who live under rocks or just got back from the planet Yobo, that would be hockey). Unpaginated (28). Printed on Mohawk Superfine Text. The cover is Grey Flannel, a wool-and-cotton paper from India - the inner cover is St. Armand's Charcoal, a handmade cotton paper from Quebec - and the flyleaf is Thai Mango Leaf.
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SHAKSPERE (Shakespeare), The Man and His Mind

By: Robinson, W. Clarke

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lancaster, Wickersham Printing Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 017768

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

An uncommon and fragile title in which Robinson provides "a short, clear, and full statement of the traditions and real facts known of Shakspere's life -- with the leading traits of his own mental growth and the main outlines of his principal creations." 142 pages (including conjectured dates and order of Shakspere's plays; sources; index to plays). Corner tips torn off at top and bottom right of front cover, previous owner's name/date faintly in ink to top of same, chipping to spine ends, light cover soil, light internal soil.
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Trips--Without LSD

By: Rosberg, Rose

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Fredericton, Fiddlehead Poetry Books: 1969

Seller ID: 013969

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

One of five hundred copies published by Fred Cogswell. 56 pages. Light general wear.
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Schoolday Impressions (signed)

By: Rusby, Evelyn (Eve Lynne)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Burlington, Self-published: 1927

Seller ID: 007741

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

A collection of verse by a then-young Ontario poet, categorically arranged ("Patriotic Poems," "Poems of Nature," "Personal Poems," "Poems of Action," "Miscellaneous," "Poems of Observation," and "Songs"). This copy inscribed and signed ("To/Rev. G.O. Lightbourn/with the compliments/of/Evelyn Rusby/'Eve Lynne.'"). Cord-tied wraps, gilt lettering/vertical rule, 48 pages frontispiece, edgewear, moderate soil to front cover, faint dampstaining to corners throughout. Quite uncommon.
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Selected Poems

By: Scott, Alexander

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd/The Saltire Society: 1950

Seller ID: 007094

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A title from the Saltire Modern Poets series intended to introduce to a wider public the work of younger contemporary writers. 24 pages, including glossary. Price sticker to back cover.
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The Law of Return (inscribed/signed)

By: Shenfeld, Karen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Guernica Editions: 1999

Seller ID: 012932

ISBN: 1-55071-092-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Poet's first book. This copy inscribed and signed ("To xxxxx &/xxxx/Thanks for all/your support/+/wonderful dinners/Karen"). Comes with promotional TLOR bookmark. 58 pages (including Acknowledgements) cover painting by Michael Gerry. Only mild general wear; internally tight and clean.
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Convincing Americans

By: Smith, Jim

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Proper Tales Press: 1986

Seller ID: 009835

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

One of 750 copies. Eccentricities in poetry and prose, some amusing, all, ummm, unusual. 56 pages. Light general wear.
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POET, May 1972, Vol. 13 No. 5

By: Srinivas, Krishna (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 1972

Seller ID: 014389

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

This issue's guest editor is Frances Brown Price, and the issue contains material from numerous poets, among them Robert Gibbs, Fred Cogswell, William Bauer, Don Gutteridge, Derk Wynand, Alfred Goldsworth Bailey, Joseph Sherman, Brian Bartlett, Pat Lowther, Douglas Barbour, Joy Kogawa, Kent Thompson, Robert Cockburn, and many more. 80 pages. Light edgewear, previous owner's name across top edge of front cover (does not interfere with text). Uncommon.
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Bone Thoughts (signed)

By: Starbuck, George

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Haven & London, Yale University Press: 1960

Seller ID: 015204

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

Poet's first collection. Volume 56 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Introduction by Dudley Fitts. This copy signed by Starbuck, on first end paper. 58 pages + 2-page list of other Yale Series of Younger Poets titles, cover illustration by Robert Birmelin. Rubbed covers, some smudging, moderate general wear.
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The Dance of the Minotaur (signed)

By: Steele, Leighton (Tony)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Capricorn Press: 1970

Seller ID: 004843

ISBN: 0-912264-13-6

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

One of 425 copies designed and printed by Noel Young. Cover by Graham Mackintosh. Issued simultaneously with the hardcover. The usual corner/spine end bumping/gentle creasing found with this title, faint sticker shadow to back cover.
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The Dance of the Minotaur (signed)

By: Steele, Leighton (Tony)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Capricorn Press: 1970

Seller ID: 012186

ISBN: 0-912264-13-6

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

One of 425 copies designed and printed by Noel Young. Cover by Graham Mackintosh. Issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Signed by Steele on first end paper. The usual minor corner/spine end bumping found with this title, faint sticker shadow to back cover. An unread copy.
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The Heirs of Donne and Jonson

By: Summers, Joseph H.

Price: $14.50

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1970

Seller ID: 012239

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

The author "gives us essays on seventeenth-century poets who were affected in one way or another by Donne or Jonson or by both of them." Mauve cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 198 pages (including Notes, Index). Mild slant, gently bumped spine ends, light tanning, in price-clipped dust jacket w/mild chipping to corners/spine ends, a couple of 1/2" edge tears, light spine sunning, crinkled top edge of front panel, light general wear. An entirely serviceable copy.
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Toys Of Death

By: Thompson, Don

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Surrey, The Sono Nis Press: 1970

Seller ID: pl.00022

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

28 pages, cover illustration by Morse Clary. Smudged covers, light edgewear, top corners bent, rubbing, previous owner's signature/date on inside front cover.
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Down Under It All

By: Tomlinson, Randy

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Surrey, Sono Nis Press: 1971

Seller ID: 010181

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

poetry; cover illustration by Morse Clary; 27 pgs.; rubbing, impressions, strong smudging to white cover, previous owner's name/date on inside front cover; internally tight;
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THE BALLAD OF THE DEATH OF BISHOP HENRY, The oldest manuscript in the Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society

By: Vento, Urpo (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Helsinki, Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura: 1999

Seller ID: 018274

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A facsimile (with English translation following) edition "about Saint Henry, the first bishop of Turku, who was born in England, and also about Eric the Knight, the King of Sweden -- in the year 1150." Unpaginated (16). Light general wear.
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THE BATTLE and other poems (inscribed & signed)

By: Vincelli, Dominic (contributions by Elizabeth Ramaglia Vincelli and Paul Ouellete)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 1974

Seller ID: 018179

ISBN: 533-00660-0

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Vincelli wrote most of the poems in this slender tome, but so far as I can determine, none of them are quoted by anyone, anywhere, at any time, ever, although some are fairly amusing. Red cloth, 60 pages. Mild wear to corners, edges, spine ends, in rubbed, lightly worn dust jacket w/impressions, light wear to corners/spine ends, small chip from top left corner of front cover.
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Poems from Out of the Past (signed)

By: Walsh, William J.S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: No Place, The Graphic Limited: 1969

Seller ID: 017332

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

An uncommon collection of verse by a New Brunswick poet, concerning such subjects as Restigouche County, the Canadian National Railway, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Dominion Day, and much else. Inscribed and signed ("To/Vernon and Mrs. Graham/From/Bill Walsh/6/69") at top of half-title. Light edgewear, 1/2" vertical mark to left edge of front cover.
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Bardachd Albannach O Leabhar Deadhan Lios-Moir / Scottish Verse from The Book of the Dean of Lismore

By: Watson, William J. (edited by)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Air fhoillseachadh le Comunn Litreachas Gaidhlig Na H-Alba / Published by the Scottish Academic Press for The Scottish Gaelic Texts Society: 1978

Seller ID: 018614

ISBN: 0707302366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Volume One in the Scottish Gaelic Texts series, containing work from a title first published in the 16th century, that featured poetry by both Irish and Scottish writers. The work is presented in both Scottish Gaelic and English. This edition concentrates primarily on the Scottish material. Gilt spine lettering, 327 pages (including notes, appendix, glossarial index, index of persons etc., index of places, list of members). Index of first lines and index of authors at beginning. Gently bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, three horizontal wrinkles to back cover (printing flaw). A fair...
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Fleeting Fancies (signed)

By: Wheeler, Hester W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: No Place, Privately Published:

Seller ID: 008233

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A collection of ten poems. 12 pages. Signed ("With kind regards/Hester W. Wheeler") on inside front cover. Some sunning to edges, moderate edgewear, short tear to bottom spine, moderate general wear.
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Negotiations With The Universe

By: Whitehouse, Ian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Surrey, The Sono Nis Press: 1971

Seller ID: pl.00023

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

28 pages. Cover design by R. Conroy. Smudging to covers, light edgwear, impressions, previous owner's signature/date on inside front cover.
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A Pallet of Grass

By: Whittaker-Soulikias, Constance

Price: $6.00

Publisher: No Place, Privately Published:

Seller ID: 015528

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

One of 500 copies. A collection of verse, proceeds from the sales of which were to be donated to the New Brunswick Cardiac Care Unit. Preface by David R. Marr, M.D. Inscribed ("for Linda") and signed ("Constance") on title page. 140 pages, front and back cover illustrations by Fred Ross. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Poems on Several Occasions

By: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Menston, Scolar Press: 1971

Seller ID: 012272

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A facsimile original size publication of a title suspected to have been first published in 1680. Blue cloth w/gilt publisher's device to front cover, gilt spine lettering, 136 pages. A bit of slant, gently bumped spine ends, previous owner's name in pencil to bottom of front end paper.
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Selected Lyrics and Satires of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

By: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (edited by Ronald Duncan)

Price: $11.50

Publisher: London, Forge Press: 1948

Seller ID: 012313

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

In an attempt to get the profligate Restoration poet's work before a wider audience than he previously enjoyed, the editor offers what he considers the best of Rochester. (Concerning 'Sodom,' the play attributed to Rochester but denied by many as falsely attributed, Duncan calls it "a filthy and illiterate piece," and says that he has "laboured through this obscene doggerel and there cannot be the slightest doubt that Rochester is not the author. It was impossible for him to write three lines without spilling his wit or displaying his competence as a literary craftsman."); cream cloth, 143 pag...
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With the Beauty of That Hour (signed)

By: Wilton, Margaret Harvey

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Privately Published: 1950

Seller ID: 014677

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

A collection of verse dripping with love for nature's beauty, and with understanding for humanity's struggles. Foreword by Geo. C. Pidgeon. Signed by Wilton, very neatly, on title page. 24 pages. An ex-library copy (w/small sticker to bottom left corner of front cover, small library stamp to inside front cover, library blindstamps to bottom right corner of title page and page eleven, small library stamp to inside front cover), short edge tears.
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After The Image

By: Wright, Jonathan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Riverview, Owl's Head Press: 1986

Seller ID: 013805

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is #22. A collection of verse "influenced by French and Spanish surrealists, and Japanese and Chinese poets." Signed by Wright, on half-title. 51 pages, cover illustration by Bernard Deniger. A suggestion of edgewear.
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Parallax

By: Yates, J. Michael

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Surrey, The Sono Nis Press: 1971

Seller ID: pl.00025

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

Unpaginated (28), cover illustration by Morse Clary. Previous owner's signature/date on inside front cover, smudging to covers, light edgewear, rubbing.
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Category: Plays & Poetry