Original beige soft cover with uncredited cover drawing of a homestead. A selection of poems by a Kings County farmer and carpenter who, in later years, became a Lay Preacher. The "pictures" are in words. No marks or serious damage, but minor cover soil and tiny snag at head of spine. Securely stapled. 64 pp. View More...
Original white softcover wth flaps. About 50 pp., although unpaginated. A variety of contemporary themes explored in non-rhymng verse. Slight cover soil. View More...
Original embossed cream coloured card covers with green and pink floral decoration, and blue and pink title in vine-like lettering. Binding is held together with faded red cord with tassels. Hand-soiled front cover is detached from spine 1/3 of the way up from the bottom. Cover and page edges have a decorative cut edge. The book consists of poetry by poets like Longfellow, Wordsworth, and Moore illustrated with floral lithographs. 15 pps. (unpaginated). View More...
Original fawn lizard skin with blindstamped border and title in gilt on flexible card. All edges gilt. Leather at bottom of spine is torn. Ca. 1910 based on Crowell's other volumes in exotic bindings. Lovers of the Rubaiyat will be delighted with this informative little book in wonderful condition. Contents include Biographical Preface; Epilogue to Fitzgerald by Tennyson; Omar Khayyam; Rubaiyat; Notes; Rubaiyat First Edition; Note by the Editor (W. Aldis Wright); Variations between the Second, Third, and Fourth Editions; Comparative Table of Stanzas in the Four Editions; Salaman and Absal ... View More...
Original bright green cloth bordered and decorated in gold on beveled boards. Inscribed "To the editor of the Brockville Monitor with the compts. of the author. John Fraser." Illustrated by four artists of the Society of Canadian Artists. No extraneous writing and no damage. All edges gilt. 87 pp. View More...
Blue-and-green wave-patterned cloth on boards. Hand soil to spine. Forty-three poems arranged in three parts. Unpaginated. Jacket design by Frank Newfeld. No writing or damage. View More...
1/4 white cloth over green paper boards, with black and white title label on front cover. Hand-soiled and fading. Minor wear to corners and edges. No. 173 of signed, limited edition. 96 pp. View More...
Original green cloth with art deco design in lighter green on boards. The work and lives of William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. Previous owner's name. 323 pp. including index. View More...
Bright red cloth lettered in gilt on boards. Lower cover corners faded. No writing. Cover title: Nova Scotia; Heffernan's Poems. Two poems by a friend, T.H. Bird. 218 pp. View More...
Original brown blindstamped cloth on boards. Edge and corner wear. Last free endpaper missing, and previous leaf punctured. With notes and a biographical sketch. 427 pp. View More...
Original brown boards. DJ nicked at top corner. First free endpaper excised of name at top. Signed by the author on first free endpaper. Mr. Holmes - poet, teacher, and critic - was Professor of English at Tufts University from 1934 on. 113 pp. plus biography. View More...
Original photo cover trade paperback. "For George MacBeth and for his kindness in 1968. Warm regards always, Dick Hugo"(Signed) on first free endpaper. There are 51 poems arranged under the following headings: Montana with Friends, Touring, Touring with Friends, and Montana. Hugo, born Richard Hogan, in Washington, served as a bombardier during WW II, after which he moved to Montana. He died of leukemia in 1982. 79 pp. View More...
Red 3/4 leather on combed boards. Vol. II only. Combed edges. 288 pp. 21 stories, from The Black Mousquetaire to The Lay of St. Medard. 288 pp. View More...
Tan card covers with black lettering and Art Deco floral decoration. Cover of "Naughty Poems" missing. Stapled binding. This is two books in one - 32 pp in each book. Most of the contributions are anonymous. Scarce. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. DJ heavily taped inside. Chronological Table, Odes and Addresses to Great People, Whims and Oddities, The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Comic Melodies, Verses from Tylney Hall, Laughter from Year to Year, Poems from Up the Rhine, Whimsicalities, Miscellaneous Uncollected Poems, Juvenilia, Appendix, Notes, Index of First Lines. 773 pp. View More...
