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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
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co.:
Seller ID: 004491
Original blue cloth lavishly decorated in gold on bevelled boards. Both hinges cracked and fragile. Floral endpapers. All edges gilt. 452 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1893
Seller ID: 010441
Green coarse-grained leather on flexible boards. No writing. Luxurious feel. Spine faded and lightly worn. 335 pp. View more info
Price: $70.00 USD
Publisher: Boston and London, Fields, Osgood and Co.: 1870
Seller ID: 011916
Brown embossed leather front and back on beveled boards. One-and-a-half inches missing from head of spine. All edges gilt. Combed endpapers. Illustrations by Harry Fenn. Ten poems on 92 pp. View more info
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1910
Seller ID: 006829
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Gay and Bird: 1905
Edition: First English Copyright Edition
Seller ID: 012030
White cloth on boards. Previous owners' names. One poem, Three Women, on 163 pp. Last leaf uncut and torn. Binding matches Maurine, listed separately. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, Gay and Bird: 1905
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 012031
White cloth on boards. Matches the binding of Three Women, listed separately. Maurine occupies 128 pp. 175 pp. in all. Missing first free endpaper. View more info
By: Wilde, Oscar
Price: $225.00 USD
Publisher: Portland, ME, Thomas B. Mosher: 1903
Edition: 600 Copies and the Type Distributed
Seller ID: 004046
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 co... View more info
By: Willmott, Rev. Robert Aris
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, E.H. Wells:
Seller ID: 004510
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Co., Inc.:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 012285
Copyright 1936 by Blue Ribbon Books, but appears to be a reprint of recent date. Price-clipped DJ. No writing or damage to book. Poetry and Versification, Rhythm, Rhyme, Stanzas, Divisions, French Forms, Technique, Rhyme, Monosyllables and Words Accented on the Last Syllable, Penultimates, Antepenultimates. 607 pp. Clean and odor-free. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Wichita, Kansas, Goldsmith-Woolard: 1909
Edition: 177th Thousand
Seller ID: 000963
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. View more info