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The Red Flower; Poems Written in War Time

By: Van Dyke, Henry

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Company, Limited: 1917

Seller ID: 011172

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Grey paper boards backed in black cloth. No writing. Very faint waterstain throughout, not affecting readability. Van Dyke was a noted minister and author who was appointed by President Hoover as Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913. In this capacity he assisted Americans all over Europe who flocked to Holland to escape the war. He is the author of "The Other Wise Man", a popular Christmas story, and the poem, "Time Is," which was read at the funeral for Princess Diana. Among his notable friends was Helen Keller. 52 pp.
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Poetry of the Year: Passages From the Poets. Descriptive of the Seasons

By: Various

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, E.H. Butler & Co.: 1867

Seller ID: 013179

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Dark green hardcover with gilt lettering and Art Nouveau decoration. All edges gilt. One inch tear in cloth at bottom front edge of spine. 1 1/2" tear in first four leaves at bottom of hinge (not affecting text). Five engravings - all but one tissue cover has been removed. Sixty-eight poems with seasonal themes by classic poets such as Hemans, Spenser, Milton, Cowper, Coleridge, Tennyson, Keats, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Thomson, etc. 128 pp.
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The Maritimer and Other Poems

By: Veazey, Emma

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Carillon Poetry Chap-Books/ Crucible Press: 1941

Seller ID: 011782

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Very Good

Brown softcover booklet of 24 pp. Titles of the poems are: The Maritimer; The Little Boats Go By; Sea Valour; St. Croix Island, 1940; Unto Us a Child is Born; Sunset Followed by Moonrise on the Waweg; In the Cool of the Evening; Rain after Drought; Easter; Our Fathers' Wells; The Little Friendly Lights of Home; Evening Grosbeaks; With Torch Alight; Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh; Gethsemane; In the Garden; Tim; Answer, Judge !; Canada to England; A Moonlight Night in Canada; True Empire Lies in This; They Shall Never Pass Away; and Wanton Harvest.
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Songs of Cy Warman

By: Warman, Cy

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McLeod & Allen: 1911

Seller ID: 011951

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards, lettered and decorated with lyre and olive branch design in gilt. Previous owner's name in light pencil. Warman (1859-1915) became known as "The Poet of the Rockies". Following a common school education in Illinois, he farmed until failing as a wheat broker. He went to Denver, where he was involved in the silver boom, became acquainted with steam railroading, and finally, became an editor. His second wife is credited with inspiring him to write "Sweet Marie," which was featured in the movie, Life With Father, in 1947, and appears in this book on p. 63. 17...
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For You and Me

By: Waterman, Nixon

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Davis and Bond: 1913

Seller ID: 002886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original paper boards with subtle, shaded colouring in orange, brown, and gilt (Look carefully; it's not grimy). 26 straightforward, positive, uncomplicated poems of inspiration. I recently discovered one of Waterman's poems on the internet, and have a copy of it hanging beside my desk. Previous owner's inscription dated 1920. 30 pp.
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Tennyson's Geraint and Enid and Other Poems

By: Wetherell, J. E. (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, W. J. Gage & Company: 1891

Seller ID: 005852

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original dark blue cloth on embossed boards. Tennyson's life. Geraint and Enid, The May Queen, New Year's Eve, Conclusion, Locksley Hall, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, Ulysses, St. Agnes' Eve, Sir Galahad, The Revenge, In the Children's Hospital, You Ask Me Why Tho' Ill at Ease, Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights, Love Thou Thy Land, Notes on all. Hinges cracked. Foxing freckles on endpapers. No writing. 181 pp.
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Trees; A Collection of Poems

By: White, Lois Jane

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Self-published: 1984

Seller ID: 004177

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green card covers, stapled. Inscribed and signed by author. 61 pp.
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

By: Whittier, John Greenleaf

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co.:

Seller ID: 004491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth lavishly decorated in gold on bevelled boards. Both hinges cracked and fragile. Floral endpapers. All edges gilt. 452 pp.
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The Early Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

By: Whittier, John Greenleaf

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1893

Seller ID: 010441

Binding: Full Leather on Flexible Board

Condition: Very Good

Green coarse-grained leather on flexible boards. No writing. Luxurious feel. Spine faded and lightly worn. 335 pp.
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The Veteran and Other Poems

By: Wigle, Rev. Hamilton

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1910

Seller ID: 006829

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original violet cloth on boards. Inscribed "To Mr. and Mrs. Brown on the occasion of their marriage. Halifax, Jan. 25/17. Hamilton Wigle." Laid in is the marriage certificate for Charles Cowley Brown of Greenwich and Emma M. Davis of Sherbrooke, witnessed by Elizabeth Leitek (?) of Halifax. At time of publication Reverend Wigle was pastor of Zion Methodist Church, Winnipeg. 88 pp.
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Three Women

By: Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Gay and Bird: 1905

Seller ID: 012030

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

White cloth on boards. Previous owners' names. One poem, Three Women, on 163 pp. Last leaf uncut and torn. Binding matches Maurine, listed separately.
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Maurine and Other Poems

By: Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Gay and Bird: 1905

Seller ID: 012031

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

White cloth on boards. Matches the binding of Three Women, listed separately. Maurine occupies 128 pp. 175 pp. in all. Missing first free endpaper.
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The Poems of Oscar Wilde; Ravenna, Poems, The Sphinx, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

By: Wilde, Oscar

Price: $225.00 USD

Publisher: Portland, ME, Thomas B. Mosher: 1903

Seller ID: 004046

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige paper boards with title in black. Paper backstrip re-attached, but otherwise sound and clean except for normal hand soil to cover. First edition. "Six hundred copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed." - Quoted from rear endpaper. Distributing the type means removing type from the galleys, separating the individual letters, and replacing them in their storage trays. This is ample proof that the run ended with 600 copies, and that any re-setting of type would constitute a second edition. Untrimmed edges. 297 pp.
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The Poets of the Nineteenth Century

By: Willmott, Rev. Robert Aris

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, E.H. Wells:

Seller ID: 004510

Binding: Full Leather on Flexible Board

Condition: Good

Original black leather lettered in gold on flexible boards. All edges gilt. Frontispiece torn two inches at gutter. Gutter strain at pp. 160-161. 560 pp.
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Good Fellowship

By: Woolard, Samuel Francis

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Wichita, Kansas, Goldsmith-Woolard: 1909

Seller ID: 000963

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original half-cloth on patterned paper boards, no DJ. Severe gutter strain at pp.32-33, repaired, OW good. Some cover edge wear. A collection of inspirational poems from popular authors. 63 pp.
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Poems of William Blake

By: Yeats, William Butler (Ed.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:

Seller ID: 013323

Binding: Flexible Faux Leather

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original dark brown faux leather on flexible boards with gilt titles and decoration. Prize inscription dated 1932. Front hinge starting. A few lines underlined in pencil. Halifax bookseller sticker inside rear cover. 278 pp. including Notes.
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Category: Poetry