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By: Service, Robert
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1950
Edition: First Edition (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 009947
Condition: Very Good
Not often seen in these parts. Eight sections; Low Brow Lyrics, Dago Ditties, Garden Glees, Library Lays, Poems of Compassion, Ribald Rhymes, Vignettes in Verse, and Mortuary Muse. Book is clean and free of any marks. 207 pp. View more info
By: Service, Robert
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited: 1960
Seller ID: 011369
ISBN: 0-7700-0041-X
Condition: Near Fine
Blue cloth on boards. Contains only the six best-known books: Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Ballads of a Cheechako, The Spell of the Yukon, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Ballads of a Bohemian, and Bar-Room Ballads, which were written before 1940. The DJ contains an ad for two more recent selections, titled More Collected Verse and Later Collected Verse. 735 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. NOTE; We have Rhymes of a Roughneck listed separately. View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.:
Edition: Thirtieth Impression
Seller ID: 010736
Condition: Good
Brown flexible suede. Edges trimmed. Gift note. Previous owner's name. Cover re-glued to text block. Two leaves torn and folded near upper corner. 109 pp. View more info
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, ON, Mission Press: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 013071
Condition: Near Fine
Red cloth cover with bright gilt titles. Dustjacket was designed by Saint John artist, Ray Butler, and has miniscule tears at top of spine. There is an inscription "My love, blessing and best wishes. Hugh F.X. Sharkey, S.F.M." on the front free endpaper. Sometime later, the author inscribed it underneath for "Mrs. Sweetman" with a different pen. Ink correction adding the word "of" on page 8 in same hand as original inscription. This book of poetry was a retirement project for Father Sharkey, who was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. He was ordained as a priest i... View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1888
Edition: Third Edition Enlarged
Seller ID: 009578
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Tan cloth showing birds and branches on boards. Handy pocket size. Half-title top clipped. Previous owner's name. Translated by Sir Stephen E. DeVere, Bart., with notes. Titles in Latin, with text in English. 172 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1888
Seller ID: 011921
Condition: Good Plus
Tan cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date. Translated by James Macpherson. Introduction by George Eyre-Todd of 61 pp. Light wear to head and foot of spine. Front hinge cracked. 298 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, The Christopher Publishing House: 1940
Seller ID: 001611
Condition: Very Good
Original bright blue cloth on boards. No DJ. " St. Vincent's Novitiate" in ink script, and "Sisters of Charity-Novitiate" stamped twice. OW clean and sound. Sister Rita Agnes was connected with the Academy of the Assumption, Wellesley Hills MA. Devotional poetry. 62 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage and Company Limited: 1953
Edition: Reprint of second Edition
Seller ID: 010347
Condition: Good Plus
Red-orange cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Dated to 1948, with nothing since. Some clumps of penciled notes. 487 pp. View more info
By: Smith, Kay
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Charlottetown, P.E.I., Ragweed Press: 1987
Edition: First( No Additional Printings)
Seller ID: 012977
ISBN: 0-920304-54-0
Condition: Good to Very Good
Paperback of 100 pp. Approximately 70 short poems. Interior is clean. Cover lightly spotted and creased at lower corner. View more info
By: Smith, Kay
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: Charlottetown, PEI, Ragweed Press: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 013152
ISBN: 0-920304-54-0
Condition: Very Good Plus
White softcover with "Female Figures" painting on cover by Saint John artist, Miller Brittain. Previous owner's name. One of five books of poetry written by one of New Brunswick's favourite poets, who lived in Saint John and taught at the Vocational School. 100 pp. View more info
By: Smith, Norma E.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Nova Scotia, Assumed Self-published:
Seller ID: 003925
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original blue pictorial soft cover. Poetry by Norma E. Smith, apparently located in Nova Scotia. One poem said to have received the approbation of Charles G.D. Roberts, "I like this poem very much indeed." (The Road to Bedford), p. 60. 60 pp. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf: 1967
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 002234
Condition: Fine
Original bright red cloth on boards. The first of five volumes of the Borzoi Anthology of 17th-Century English Literature. John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, and Richard Crashaw are featured, with several selections from each. 294 pp. plus index of titles and first lines. View more info
By: Stewart, Jordan
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Self-published: 2007
Seller ID: 011593
ISBN: 978-0-9782979-0
Condition: Very Good
Softcover book of poetry. 70 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Humphrey - Milford/Oxford U. Press:
Seller ID: 003184
Condition: Very Good
Original beige decorative cloth card covers with black and gold illustration of a couple with a deer, and black lettering. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. This book belonged to Charlotte Foster, one of two daughters of the Honourable Walter Foster, Premier on New Brunswick from 1917 to 1923, and later Senator of Canada. 192 pages. View more info
By: Strong, Patience
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, John Miles: 1939
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 005150
Condition: Very Good
Original photo cover on paper boards, backed in green cloth. DJ price-clipped, with edge wear. Three tiny tears in DJ taped inside. Follows her book of the previous year, entitled Quiet Corner Reflections, in the same 58-page format with black-and-white photos. Prose-poems enlighten every page. View more info
By: Sykes, Frederick Henry (Ed.)
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage Company, Limited: 1895
Seller ID: 008901
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name in pencil. Two small page tears. No writing or underlining. Approx. 30 pp. of appendix, containing works of other popular poets of the period. 360 pp. in all. View more info
By: Sykes, Frederick Henry (Ph. D.)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage & Co. Limited: 1894
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002675
Condition: Good Plus
Original blindstamped blue cloth on boards. Facsimile letter front. Introduction, Text of Nine Poems, Commentary, Notes to Nine Poems, plus two Appendices. Cover soil, a few faint pencil marks, and general tanning. 315 pp. View more info
By: Sykes, Frederick Henry (Ph. D.)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, The W.J. Gage Company, Ltd.: 1896
Seller ID: 005835
Condition: Good Plus
Original blue-green cloth on boards. Intended as textbook, but very lightly marked with previous owner's name. Light edgewear. 403 pp. View more info
By: Symons, Arthur
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent: 1923
Edition: New Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Seller ID: 007019
Condition: Very Good
Original maroon cloth on boards. General characteristics, Characteristics of the poems, Appendix (Bibliography and Reprint of discarded prefaces to first editions), and Index to Poems.264 pp. View more info
By: Tanhauser, Si
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Laurelton, L.I., N.Y., George Flatow: 1933
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 003551
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original light blue cloth decorated and lettered in dark green on boards. Front endpaper missing. Minor wear to foot of backstrip. No writing. 46 poems on plant life on 55 pp. View more info