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Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston, Pilot Publishing Cany: 1896
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 008799
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 info
By: Cook, Eliza
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co.: 1845
Edition: Fourth Edition, Revised
Seller ID: 007927
Original brown leather decorated in gilt on boards. Previous owner's name. Spine joints abraded. The poet (1818-1889) was an English writer who began with poetry and blossomed into editing a weekly journal. Perhaps her best-loved poem was The Old Arm-Chair, a symbol of her affection for her mother. All edges gilt. 276 pp. View more info
By: Cook, Gregory M.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Lawrencetown Beach, N.S., Pottersfield Press: 2003
Seller ID: 012913
Portrait cover paperback. No writing or damage. A rambling record of the life of a New Brunswick poet by one his closer friends. 367 pp. Heavy book might need extra postage. View more info
By: Cook, Marc
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard: 1883
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012024
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 info
By: Cooper, Allan
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Fredericton, N. B., Broken Jaw Press: 1998
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 011533
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 info
By: Cooper, Allan
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Gaspereau Press:
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 011570
White softcover book of poems by a member of the popular blues trio, Isaac, Blewett. and Cooper. 126 pp. View more info
By: Crabbe, George
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, University Tutorial Press, Ltd.: 1950
Seller ID: 010735
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 info
By: Crawford, Terry
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., The Athenaeum: 1971
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 009815
A variety of subjects illumine these 59 short poems. 94 pp. Previous owner's name. View more info
By: Creed, G.L.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Toronto, Dent: 1942
Edition: Second Edtion
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 000917
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 info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace and Company: 1995
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 010429
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 info
By: Daly, T.A.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Catholic Standard and Times Pub. Co.: 1911
Edition: Eighth Edition
Seller ID: 005728
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 info
By: Daly, T.A.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay, Publisher: 1916
Edition: Twelfth Edition
Seller ID: 009600
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 info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Cambridge, England, Riverside Press: 1875
Seller ID: 011213
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 info
By: Dawson, W.J.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Fleming H. Revell Co.: 1906
Edition: New and Revised Edition
Seller ID: 012393
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 info
By: Devine, Fred
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., The Saint John Globe Publishing Company Limited: 1914
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004624
Original green cloth with gold lettering on boards. 28 poems on 62 pp. No information found on the poet. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Calgary, J.W. Dick: 1946
Edition: First Impression
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Publisher
Seller ID: 000677
Original pictorial soft cardboard cover (SEE SCAN) . Inscribed, "Calgary, Alberta, Oct. 23/46 to R.D. Colquette, CBC Neighbourly News Program, with complements(sic). J.W. Dick (publisher), 433-4th Ave. West, Calgary, Alberta." 63 pp. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, H.L. Kilner & Co.: 1892
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 007637
Original green cloth on boards. Felt pen note on copyright page below Connelly's name, "Relative of Honoria Conway." Donnelly (1838-1917) was a prominent Roman Catholic writer. This book has stamps of St. Joseph's Convent, West Saint John, but is clean and sound. 108 pp. View more info
By: Drummond, William Henry (M.D.)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1899
Edition: Seventh Impression
Seller ID: 004950
Original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold on boards. The cleanest copy I've seen of this perennial favourite by one of Canada's most famous Irish emigres. Written in a French-Canadian dialect, with Introduction in French by Louis Frechette. Original owner's signature and address in ink, dated Xmas 1899, as well as the last previous one. No other writing and no damage. 137 pp. View more info
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1904
Edition: Fourth Printing
Seller ID: 012394
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 Min... View more info
By: Eaton, Evelyn
Price: $60.00
Publisher: London, Selwyn & Blount, Ltd.: 1923
Edition: First Printed...1923
Seller ID: 004653
Original grey paper boards with pastedown title and spine title, backed in light grey cloth. The author (1902-1983) is castigated by a book reviewer of Quietly My Captain Waits (1940) for not knowing what she was writing about (naval lore) , which has nothing to do with this little book of shortish rhymes. I could find no reference to this book except its title and author credit - her first. This book looks like new, calling its 1923 "publication" into questio... View more info
