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By: Sykes, Frederick Henry (Ph. D.)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, The W.J. Gage Company, Ltd.: 1896
Seller ID: 005835
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
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
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
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Schenectady, N.Y., Self-published: 1921
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 008240
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. View more info
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: New York, McDowell, Obolensky: 1960
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 012472
Patterned paper on boards, backed in green cloth. Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Surprisingly lucid. 62 pp. View more info
By: Tennyson, Alfred (Tennyson Alfred)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, Rodgers Company:
Seller ID: 011005
Green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1894). Light wear to head of spine. Handy pocket or purse size. 308 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., E.P. Dutton:
Seller ID: 002041
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Chicago, Donohue Brothers:
Seller ID: 008568
Original red cloth decorated in silver on boards. Art deco ca 1910. Previous owner's name and bookplate. Text block tanned. 281 pp. View more info
By: Thomson, James
Price: $45.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, E.H. Butler & Co.: 1864
Seller ID: 009493
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. View more info
By: Thurston, Harry
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Gaspereau Press: 2000
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004931
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. View more info
By: Unger, Leonard
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN, Tabula Press: 1995
Edition: No. 49 of 60 Copies
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 002841
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. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Barse & Hopkins: 1910
Seller ID: 008382
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. View more info
By: Van Dyke, Henry
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Company, Limited: 1917
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 011172
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 th... View more info
By: Various
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, Charles J. Peterson: 1885
Seller ID: 002883
Original blue cloth with urn and pearl motif on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1884) in exquisite script. Ten appealing full-page engravings of young women and girls, most with tissue guards. Note discrepancy in titles between cover and title page. Long tear in title taped on verso. Corners worn and gutters strained, but no separation or serious damage. Patterned endpapers, All edges gilt. 68 pp. View more info
By: Veazey, Emma
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Carillon Poetry Chap-Books/ Crucible Press: 1941
Seller ID: 011782
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 Cana... View more info
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1883
Edition: First
Seller ID: 009680
Light salmon illustrated cloth on boards. Hundreds of poems related to the sea. 407 pp. Previous owner's name and light wear to head and foot of spine. Many illustrations. View more info
By: Warman, Cy
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McLeod & Allen: 1911
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 011951
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 w... View more info
By: Waterman, Nixon
Price: $65.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Davis and Bond: 1913
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002886
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, W. J. Gage & Company: 1891
Seller ID: 005852
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. View more info
By: White, Lois Jane
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Self-published: 1984
Seller ID: 004177
Original green card covers, stapled. Inscribed and signed by author. 61 pp. View more info