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Meet These People (Signed)

By: Arkell, Reginald

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins: 1928

Seller ID: 010677

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bright orange cloth backed in green on boards. Signed by Arkell on DJ and "From one Arkell to another Arkell" on first free endpaper, with "London, England, and Thursday, July 9, 1931" in both places. Dedicated to Jack Hobbs. Caricatures and poems related to prominent persons of the day. Back of DJ lists reviews from eight papers. DJ worn at corners and edges, but still intact overall. 151 pp.
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Poems

By: Arnold, Matthew

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, W.P. Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell: 1911

Seller ID: 012073

Binding: Flexible Suede

Condition: Very Good

Green suede fading to brown along spine. Colored endpapers by J. Blair. Previous owner's faint name stamp. Color frontispiece. 120 pp.
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Selected Poems of Lord Byron

By: Arnold, Matthew (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1893

Seller ID: 011004

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Wraparound cover in green cloth on boards, showing pine cones. Biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. Preface by Matthew Arnold. The poems are arranged in four parts: Personal, Lyrical, and Elegiac; Descriptive and Narrative; Dramatic; and Satiric. 279 pp.
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Poesie Acadienne contemporaine/Acadian Poetry Now

By: Arsenault, Guy et al

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Moncton, N.B., Editions Perce-Neige: 1985

Seller ID: 012333

ISBN: 2-920221-11-0

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Editor, Henri-Dominique Paratte. Current poetry by 14 Acadian writers. 233 pp. Bilingual (French-English). Signed inscription on first free endpaper.
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The Orators; An English Study

By: Auden, W.H.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber, Limited: 1934

Seller ID: 011339

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

Black cloth on boards. Three tiny worm holes in inner margin of cover and first 20 pp. Book I, The Initiates. Address for a Prize Day. Argument. Statement. Letter to a Wound. Book II, Journal of an Airman. Book III, Six Odes. 111 pp. Slight odor.
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April Song and Wellesley Memories

By: Bartlett, Mary Russel

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Author: 1929

Seller ID: 002939

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original blue cloth with delicate gilt lettering on boards. Laid in is a printed copy of the author's poem. "Advent", which is inscribed : "Merry Christmas ! Mary Russell Bartlett" (signed). A collection of short poems, many of which were published in Boston area or other publications previously. 111 pp. Previous owner's name in very faint pencil.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson and His Manuscripts

By: Bates, Esther Willard

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Waterville, Maine, Colby College Library: 1944

Seller ID: 002404

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Original green paper boards with white spine. Portrait DJ foxed. Inner jacket of glassine. Inscribed and signed by author: "For Margaret Adams Clement from Esther Willard Bates 1913-1945" on front free endpaper. The author worked with Robinson from 1913-1945 as his typist. Part of his work was done at the artists' retreat, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire. 32 untrimmed pp. plus ad for Colby College monographs.
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Milton's Lycidas Sonnets, Etc.

By: Bell, W.(Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1917

Seller ID: 000395

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Original highly decorative blind-stamped leaf/menorah motif in red cloth on boards, no DJ. Ten poems, 19 sonnets, plus Introduction, Notes, and Indes. 182 pp. plus Introduction. Cover soil and slight corner wear demotes it to Good.
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Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics; Book Second

By: Bell. W. (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co. Limited: 1929

Seller ID: 001483

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Original blind-stamped red cloth on boards. No DJ. Pencil underlining throughout and endpapers noted, OW clean. Previous owner's name and address. Volume II, covering the period 1616 to 1700. 313 pp. No other copies found.
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Carl Sandburg; Selected Poems

By: Berman, Paul

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., American Poets Project, Library of America: 2006

Seller ID: 008519

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Original blue paper on boards. Priceclipped, otherwise as new. A long introduction seems to use Whitman and other well-known writers to defend Sandburg from those upset by his reference to Chicago as "Hog Butcher for the World." 154 pp.
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The Better Land; Poems By Horatius Bonar and Others

By: Bonar, Horatius

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: London, Henry J. Drane:

Seller ID: 006475

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original blue cloth with flowers on boards. Meditations on Heaven. This form of meditations mixed with art has been called "Brights" or "Brilliants", combining outstanding colour drawings with famous writings, either poetry or prose. First free endpaper is missing, and there is a short gift note. Some strained gutters have been carefully glued to prevent separation. Circa 1895. Rev. Bonar, (1808-1889) was a prominent minister in Scotland, eventually being elected Moderator of Assembly. 32 pp.
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Selected Poems 1915-1935

By: Bourinot, Arthur S.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1935

Seller ID: 012160

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bright orange cloth on boards. No writing or damage. 42 poems and 21 sonnets. 90 pp.
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Without Rhyme or Reason

By: Bowes, Blanche M.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, New Brunswick, Self-published: 1943

Seller ID: 005639

Binding: Flexible Boards

Condition: Good

Original beige flexible boards lettered in red and black. Book handmade and signed by the author, Blanche May Bowes, born in Saint John in 1894, and died in Petersham, MA, in 1979. Original poems and art work, with text typed from carbon. The poems are directed to various persons - Elsie (Sister who was blind, apparently); An elderly man who smoked a pipe; To Great-Grandmother's Feather Tick; My Aunt Cassandra; My sister Frank and her good spouse Joe; and Sister Glad. The last is titled Christmas Eve at Sandy Point: Holy Trinity, with illustration signed G.B. Included with the book is a ...
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Prayers at a High Altar; A Book of War Poems

By: Boyle, Charles Frederick

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1942

Seller ID: 009757

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Good to Very Good

Author's photo pastedown on beige card. Half-inch tear to cover top. Third volume from this New Brunswick poet. Inscribed, with a typed letter to another area poet, signed and laid in. Letter was typed at Queen(s) Hotel, Fredericton. One poem, A Toast, begins "I give you War - it is a goodly thing." I sense irony, yet I am not sure. 14 pp. of poems of more than passing interest.
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Is That You This Is Me

By: Bradbury, Elspeth

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Fiddlehead Poetry Books: 1982

Seller ID: 002832

ISBN: 0-86492-028-8

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original pink trade paperback with white title on red banner. Signed by both author and artist. Laid-in are two clippings of photos of the late John Hooper, carver of the "wooden people" on display at Market Square in Saint John, New Brunswick. Each poem illustrated by line drawing. Approx. 48 pp.
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The Moon on My Left

By: Brahms, Caryl

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz, Ltd.: 1930

Seller ID: 008891

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Top edges gilt. An attractive binding of poetry for children. Gift note in ink. Patterned endpapers. 84 pp.
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No Language is Neutral

By: Brand, Dionne

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Coach House Press: 1990

Seller ID: 010605

ISBN: 0-88910-395-X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Beige, colour illustrated paperback. 3-line gift note. "By tracing her memory and by carving her black lesbian identity to poetic language, Dionne Brand opens up for us faces and places and emotions." - back cover. 51 pp.
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Homespun

By: Brown, Ida Ladd

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Francestown, NH, The Golden Quill Press: 1959

Seller ID: 003570

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth with gilt spinning wheel, backed in red leather on boards. No damage. No writing. Approx. 90 short poems on 77 pp.
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Last Poems, with a Memorial

By: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, James Miller: 1862

Seller ID: 011913

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Brown cloth on boards, embossed front and back. Light waterstain to frontispiece. 242 pp.
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Pauline; Paracelsus; Strafford; Sordello; Pippa Passes; King Victor and King Charles

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin and Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 005277

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original olive green cloth on boards. Vol. I of The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning in Six Volumes. Riverside Edition. Top edges gilt. Some gutter strain, but no separation. No writing. Laid in are two announcements of regular meetings of the Browning Society in Cambridge in 1893 and 1896, as well as a Programme of the Boston Browning Society for 1900-1901. 412 pp. plus a Revised Text of Pauline consisting of 25 pp. (Revised in 1865).
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Category: Poetry