Grey boards backed in cream cloth. Five small edge tears to jacket. Previous owner's name. 33 pp. Kavanagh worked on the family farm until the age of 27, so he knew his way around the barn. The Great Hunger is his best-known work. In a 2000 survey of favorite poets, Kavanagh placed second only to Yeats, but ahead of Burns. View More...
Original maroon cloth in 3/4 style on boards. A columnist for the Hamilton Spectator favours the reader with a broad selection of his efforts at poetry. Laid in are two newspaper clippings which have stained the two pages of "A Bastard Popery," a politically incorrect poem in which he manages religious slurs against two different groups ! No writing and no damage. 240 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. DJ shows damage to upper corners. 766 entries were received for this poetry contest from across Canada. It was sponsored by IODE. "Compliments of the Seven Seas Chapter, IODE" on first free endpaper. 94 pp. View More...
Original brown leather-like cloth, intricately blindstamped and decorated in black and lettered in gilt. A pristine copy, with no writing or damage. An epic in praise of Joseph, in ten cantos. 64 pp. View More...
Black cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Translations by the editor. Kinsella seems to contrast this book with an earlier one by MacDonagh and Robinson, which he implies was not "serious". This one certainly is, with selections from the Sixth through the Twentieth Centuries, with translations from the Irish as well as the English tongues. Index of first lines. Index of authors. 423 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Original black cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ edge-worn and strip missing from back. Many pieces from Kirkconnell and others as well. 530 pp. View More...
Original purple cloth on boards. Published for the Funds of the Union Jack Club Extension stated on title page. Eleven poems on ships and battles. Foxing to endpapers. 48 pp. Previous owner's name. View More...
Original reddish-brown cloth on boards, backed in grey cloth. DJ missing lower portion (See photo). A few pencil underlines and marginal marks. 643 pp. including index. View More...
Original blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt lettering on bevelled boards. One strained gutter glued. Light general age-toning. All edges gilt. Some of the sonnet titles are in quotation marks, which one bookseller takes to be evidence that they were written by Lamb's sister, Mary, even though not credited to her. 117 pp. View More...
Brown stapled softcover of 118 pp. Dedicated to his daughter, Lottie E, wife of Reverend Walter Small. Either Lottie or her husband, or both "elected to stay in China when called out in the rebellion."Date of publication is estimated at 1935, with the author's being in his 80's. Text block is clean and complete, but the covers have lost most of their oversize edges. View More...
Maroon cloth on boards. Clipped DJ has small bits missing head and foot. A variety of stories in ballad form. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for 1936. 138 pp. View More...
Maroon cloth on boards, embossed front and back. Previous owners' names and scribbles on first free endpaper. Poems written between 1865 and 1873. Twenty-nine poems, twenty-one songs, and sixteen epigraphs and epigrams. 111 pp. The poet was born in Scotland in 1808. He emigrated to the United States, where he developed a large bookbinding business. He moved to California for a time, but returned to New York City where he had lived previously. View More...
Original beige celluloid-like material decorated in red and blue. No DJ. Four full-page colour plates by Arthur A. Dixon. 40 pp. Last page states "Printed in Bavaria." Minor spine and edge foxing, OW very good. View More...
Red leather on flexible boards. All edges gilt. Gift note Christmas 1905. One of the cleanest books of the period that we have seen. 512 pp. with index. View More...
Original red cloth on boards, no DJ. Severe gutter break(repaired) between pp. 46-47, ow clean and very good. Too good and too rare to discard! 126 pp. NOTE: Hymns have lyrics only. View More...
Original purple cloth on boards. The author was Chief Steward of S.S. Metagama of the Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd. The Preface indicates that these words were intended as a "source of comfort to all who may peruse them." One might wonder how effective these words were in light of the fact that this ship was in collision with the Baron Vernon on May 26, 1923, and with the Clara Camus on June 19, 1924 ! 342 pp. View More...
