Grey soft cover decorated with birds and flowers. Lower corner tip creased. Previous owner's name. More than 130 poems selected from various Canadian readers. 181 pp. View More...
Dark green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Bound-in B/W plates of paintings by Guercino, Graf Harrach, H. Hofmann, and others.94 pp, several uncut. View More...
Maroon cloth on beveled boards. Five poems were completed before her illness, the balance being completed between May and the following March, the last just 10 days before her death at the age of 18 years, seven months. There are signs of watermarks throughout, but all pages are easily readable. 111 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards, lettered and illustrated in gilt. 20 detailed monochrome drawings by the famous Scottish painter, Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901), installed as Queen's Limner in 1866 and knighted the following year. Top cover abraded along joint and corner tips worn through. All edges gilt. Bookplate carelessly removed. Previous owner's name and date in pencil (1875). NOTE: The initial "J" in the artist's name resembles a modern "F", which led me to confuse him with his second son, F. Noel Paton, who served as director of Commercial Intelligence to the Government of India. 69 p... View More...
Original olive cloth with gilt lettering and black and silver Art Deco decoration. Flower patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's name. Spine is badly faded. Wear to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Back cover is wrinkled at bottom corner. Print is only on right hand side of pages (left pages blank). There are two sections to the book: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which has drawings on every page, and several black and white plates by Dore: and a section in the back called "Favorite Poems" which is an unillustrated anthology of various poets' work. Heavy book. 84 pp... View More...
Original tan corduroy on lightly beveled boards. Conway, 1853-1927, was a journalist in New York who moved to Boston to write for the Pilot, and become its editor eventually. This volume of her poems is dedicated to her sister, Helena. No writing or damage, but several small stamps of St. Vincent's High School Library. Poems on recto pages only, verso being blank. 64 pp. View More...
Born in Providence to a clergyman father, Cook grew up, lived, and died at 29 in Utica. His lifelong aim was to be a journalist. He published various essays, but his love was poetry. After contracting tuberculosis in 1879 he spent 17 months in the Adirondacs, to no avail. 225 pp. View More...
Color cover detail from "Parnassus" by Raphael. The lead singer and slide guitarist of Isaac, Blewett. and Cooper shares his first full collection of poems after a hiatus of 11 years. Laid in are brief notes and a local news clipping. 85 pp. plus catalog. No damage. View More...
Green cloth on boards. No marks or damage. Introduction and Notes by Arthur Sale. Frontispiece is the title page of the 1783 first edition. 41 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards, no DJ. Inscribed and signed by author: "To Ralph Yates from an ex-S.R.C.-er and the author. George L. Creed. Nov., 1956." 60 pp. of verse by Squadron Leader Creed, with foreword by Air Marshal W.A.(Billy) Bishop. Clean and sound. View More...
Red paper backed in black cloth on boards. An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry Based on Biblical Texts. 279 pp. Heavy book might need extra postage. View More...
Original dark green cloth on boards. Top edges gilt. No writing or damage. A book of poems by a Catholic newspaperman who was heavily influenced by Italian immigrants in his native Philadelphia. Clever, light-hearted poems written in simple dialect. I got a kick out of these closing lines from "Content" : "I wouldn't be a millionaire fur seven hundred dollars!" 172 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Trio of musical instruments in gilt. 85 poems in Italian-American dialect dedicated To My Wife and Children. The author's parents established the first Catholic bookstore in Philadelphia. Two years of college bore little fruit, but after working as a grocery clerk Daly got into newspaper work, which gave him the exposure he needed to succeed. Strained gutter between 64-65 glued. Several small spots on cover. 172 pp. View More...
Brown cloth on boards showing little girl with four birds in gilt. Poems and short meditations by the author. With Scripture references. 243 pp. Light wear and bent corner. View More...
Maroon cloth on boards, bordered and decorated in gilt. Wordsworth and Tennyson are featured in seven chapters each, and Robert Browning in six. 404 pp. View More...
Green cloth cover and spine decorated in florals on boards. Negligible wear to both tips of spine. Every page decorated by Margaret Armstrong. Published 1896, 1899, 1903, and 1904 by Dodd,Mead. First Canadian Edition. Seldom does a book give me such a warm feeling of home as this one. It flows "iambicly" with varying numbers of feet, just to keep it moving. Authentic-feeling Southern dialect of an earlier day still paints a picture for me. Authentic photos by Miner. No writing. If only I could hear Paul Robeson sing Li'l' Gal ! 123 pp. View More...
