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The Bright Particulars: Poems Selected and New (Signed)

By: Smith, Kay

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Charlottetown, PEI, Ragweed Press: 1987

Seller ID: 013152

ISBN: 0-920304-54-0

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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The Hill and Far Away

By: Smith, Norma E.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Nova Scotia, Assumed Self-published:

Seller ID: 003925

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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Seventeenth-Century English Poetry; Borzoi Anthology, Vol. I

By: Starkman, Miriam K. (Ed.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf: 1967

Seller ID: 002234

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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When We Were Young

By: Stewart, Jordan

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Self-published: 2007

Seller ID: 011593

ISBN: 978-0-9782979-0

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover book of poetry. 70 pp.
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Two Hundred Poems for Boys and Girls

By: Strang, Herbert (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Humphrey - Milford/Oxford U. Press:

Seller ID: 003184

Binding: Cloth Card Cover

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.
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Silver Linings

By: Strong, Patience

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Miles: 1939

Seller ID: 005150

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Select Poems of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Campbell, Longfellow

By: Sykes, Frederick Henry (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage Company, Limited: 1895

Seller ID: 008901

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Select Poems of Tennyson with Introduction and Notes

By: Sykes, Frederick Henry (Ph. D.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage & Co. Limited: 1894

Seller ID: 002675

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Select Poems; Goldsmith, Wordsworth, Scott, Keats, Shelley, Byron

By: Sykes, Frederick Henry (Ph. D.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The W.J. Gage Company, Ltd.: 1896

Seller ID: 005835

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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An Introduction to the Study of Browning

By: Symons, Arthur

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent: 1923

Seller ID: 007019

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Alexandra and Other Poems

By: Tayler, Rev. B. W. Rogers

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Schenectady, N.Y., Self-published: 1921

Seller ID: 008240

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Reverend Tayler wrote this book during his tenure as Rector of St. George's Episcopal Church, Schenectady, from 1905-1924. Inscribed to the Rev. T.G. Cracknell of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, Albany. No additonal writing and no damage. 315 pp.
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Wilderness of Ladies

By: Taylor, Eleanor Ross

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, McDowell, Obolensky: 1960

Seller ID: 012472

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Patterned paper on boards, backed in green cloth. Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Surprisingly lucid. 62 pp.
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Idylls of the King; And Other Poems

By: Tennyson, Alfred (Tennyson Alfred)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Rodgers Company:

Seller ID: 011005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1894). Light wear to head of spine. Handy pocket or purse size. 308 pp.
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Crossing the Bar; The Gem Series

By: Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., E.P. Dutton:

Seller ID: 002041

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original white faux cloth boards with decorated green paper overlay pastedown to outer edge Gilt lettering. Front free endpaper torn at hinge, ow very good interior. Covers show edge wear and finger soil. "1909" written on front free endpaper. Colourful frontispiece of sailboat. Only one or two lines on each highly-decorated page. 16 pp.
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In Memoriam; The Lover's Tale

By: Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Donohue Brothers:

Seller ID: 008568

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original red cloth decorated in silver on boards. Art deco ca 1910. Previous owner's name and bookplate. Text block tanned. 281 pp.
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The Poetical Works

By: Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Company Limited:

Seller ID: 013316

Binding: Padded Leather

Condition: Good Plus

Red padded leather over boards with gilt lettering and decoration. All edges gilt. 2" break in leather at bottom of front hinge. 1" spot of white paint at bottom of back cover. Previous owner's name. Scarce edition. 599 pp. including Index.
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The Seasons

By: Thomson, James

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, E.H. Butler & Co.: 1864

Seller ID: 009493

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Brown calf in 3/4 style with marbled calf boards. With a life of the author by Patrick Murdoch. Begun in 1726 and completed by 1730, The Seasons contains elements of animal rights thinking, leading me to recall Burns' "To a Mouse." Thomson is said to be Scotland's favourite poet before Burns came along. No writing. 332 pp. Modern bookplate. Still a strikingly original book with only minor wear to leather covers.
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If Men Lived On Earth

By: Thurston, Harry

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Gaspereau Press: 2000

Seller ID: 004931

ISBN: 1894031229

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original colour illustrated beige card cover with flaps. Poetry by and for a nature lover. The author has several titles in print, both poetry and prose, and all related to Atlantic Canada. 143 pp. plus acknowledgements.
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Collected Poems

By: Unger, Leonard

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Minneapolis, MN, Tabula Press: 1995

Seller ID: 002841

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original grey trade paperback bound by exposed gold thread. No. 49 of 60 copies. Inscribed "For Emily - with love - Leonard." Unger taught English at University of Minnesota for 47 years, where he was known as a fan and critic of T.S. Eliot and other writers. 35 poems, one to a page, plus colophon.
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From Day to Day with Whittier

By: Van Buren, Olive (Ed.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Barse & Hopkins: 1910

Seller ID: 008382

Binding: Flexible Suede Leather

Condition: Very Good

Original brown suede on flexible boards. Today's poem (March 2) is a hymn, beginning : "All moving spirit ! - freely forth at Thy command the strong wind goes...." 127 pp.
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