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Plum Poems

By: Feld, Ross

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., The Jargon Society: 1972

Seller ID: 003096

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Original white softcover wth flaps. About 50 pp., although unpaginated. A variety of contemporary themes explored in non-rhymng verse. Slight cover soil.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By: Fitzgerald, Edward

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leopold B. Hill:

Seller ID: 013182

Binding: Full Leather on Flexible Board

Condition: Very Good

Pebbled maroon leather on boards with gilt titles. Gift insciption. Some foxing and page darkening. Lovely tipped-in colour plates. A wonderful addition to any Rubaiyat collection. 64 pp. including Notes.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By: Fitzgerald, Edward

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, NY, Illustrated Editions Company:

Seller ID: 013458

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige quarter cloth over navy cloth on boards. Gilt titles with red and gilt decoration. Pictorial red and green dustjacket is torn and missing several pieces along top edge and another small piece at bottom of spine. Gift inscription dated Christmas, 1940. Endpapers tanned. This edition contains both the first version and the fifth version of the famous Persian love poem. The first version features lovely line drawings on every right page. Unpaginated (about 3/4" thick).
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the Salaman and Absal of Jami

By: Fitzgerald, Edward (Trans.)

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Thomas Y. Crowell & Company:

Seller ID: 002742

Binding: Flexible Leather

Condition: Very Good

Original fawn lizard skin with blindstamped border and title in gilt on flexible card. All edges gilt. No names, marks, or damage other than minor backstrip abrasion. 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 ...
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Passaic, a Group of Poems Touching That River: With Other Musings

By: Flaccus (Thomas Ward, M.D.)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Wiley and Putnam: 1842

Seller ID: 008086

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original glossy white cloth on boards. Gilt spine title. Cover soil, edge and joint wear. Previous owner's name. Endpapers tanned. Interior clean, complete, and readable. Quite scarce. The author was a physician with a hobby. For a devastating review of this book, look up Edgar Allan Poe's take on it. The Great Descender is a tribute to Sam Patch, who jumped the 75-foot falls in Passaic River in 1827, and lost his life in a 125-foot jump at Genesee Falls in 1829. 292 pp.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

By: Forman, H. Buxton (Ed.)

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1914

Seller ID: 010257

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Smooth green calf on dentilled boards. Five raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers. Prize bookplate dated 27 June, 1924. School crest in gilt on cover (Schola Novi Castelli Nunquam Non Nova) and printed on bookplate. Small tear head of spine due to finger pull. Occasional, very light foxing. 491 pp.
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Shaped By This Land

By: Forrestall, Tom and Nowlan, Alden

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N. B., Brunswick Press: 1974

Seller ID: 013047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Beige cloth on boards. Edgeworn dustjacket. A productive partnership between two Maritimes men results in this earthy volume of pictured poetry. 135 pp.
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Reflections

By: Foster, Harriet W.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Thomas Y. Crowell: 1895

Seller ID: 004051

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green cloth with gold lettering on boards. We found no information on Foster outside this book of poetry and prose. Topics are friendship and religion. Inscription in ink with date (1903) in pencil. Faint cup ring on cover. 43 pp.
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A Tale of the Sea and Other Poems

By: Fraser, J. (Cousin Sandy)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, Dawson Brothers: 1870

Seller ID: 004635

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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Canadian Poems of the Great War

By: Garvin, John W. (Ed.)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1918

Seller ID: 011912

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Maroon cloth on boards. Decoration and titles in gilt. 220 poems by 17 poets. 256 pp. Previous owner's name.
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Invitation to Poetry; An Anthology for Junior Students

By: Gill, J.L. And Newell, L.H.

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmllan Company of Canada Ltd.: 1956

Seller ID: 002538

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original pinwheel design on orange cloth on boards. Very clean and sound. 273 pp.
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

By: Godley, A.E. (Ed.)

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne, Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press: 1910

Seller ID: 013189

Binding: Padded Suede on Boards

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original dark blue padded suede on boards with gilt titles and black and gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Minor rubbing at edges and top of spine. This book was given as a school prize at King's Collegiate School in Windsor, N.S. in 1912, according to the label in the front. The school logo is also embossed in gold inside the cover on the lovely endpaper. This would make a wonderful gift for a poetry lover. 751 pp. including index of first lines.
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Gedichte Von Goethe

By: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Berlin, G. Grote'sche Berlagsbuchhandlung: 1873

Seller ID: 012155

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

3/4 brown calf on marbeled boards. Previous owner's name. Scuffing to spine and front edge. 524 pp.
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The Deserted Village

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Barse and Hopkins:

Seller ID: 012463

Binding: Flexible Leather

Condition: Very Good

Delicate full green leather, lettered in gilt. Dedicated to Joshua Reynolds. Deckled edges. Light wear to spine. 25 pp.
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Rivers Among Rocks

By: Gustafson, Ralph

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited: 1960

Seller ID: 012627

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Island and Other Poems

By: Hale, Katherine

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto and Oshawa, Mundy-Goodfellow Printing Co. Ltd.: 1934

Seller ID: 013311

Binding: 1/4 Cloth on Paper Boards

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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Rhythmic Reveries Round the Year (Signed)

By: Hamilton, Margaret M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Brunswick Press Ltd.: 1956

Seller ID: 003882

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original pale grey card covers printed in black. 45 pp. of poetry.
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Seven Great American Poets

By: Hart, Beatrice

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Silver, Burdett, & Company: 1901

Seller ID: 007022

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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Selected Poems 1965-1975

By: Heaney, Seamus

Price: $225.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1980

Seller ID: 003819

ISBN: 0-571-11644-2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Three library stamps from University of New Brunswick; cover labels and card pocket removed. Very clean, with no writing or other damage. Although his heart is still in Derry, this poet has become an international figure, especially since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Selections from Death of a Naturalist, Door into the Dark, Wintering Out, A Northern Hoard, North, and Singing School. Scarce. 136 pp.
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Poems, 1965-1975; Death of a Naturalist, Door Into the Dark, Wintering Out, North

By: Heaney, Seamus

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: 1980

Seller ID: 009588

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Green paper boards. Library stamps top and bottom edges and copyright page. Card pocket removed. Minor wear to head and foot of spine. Label removal scar on front cover.No writing. Text clean and unmarked. 228 pp.
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Category: Poetry