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Centennial Tales and Selected Poems

By: Kirkconnell, Watson

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Acadia University: 1965

Seller ID: 004552

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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Rest, Perturbed Spirit; The Haunting Story of a Canadian Poet

By: Kirkconnell, Watson

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Windsor, N.S., Lancelot Press: 1974

Seller ID: 012175

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover account of the life of Cecil Francis Lloyd 1884-1938.
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Songs of the Submarine

By: Klaxon (John Graham Bower)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, McBride, Nast, & Co.: 1917

Seller ID: 008933

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Poems and Songs from 'Gloryland'

By: Klein, Cornelis

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Hampstead, N.B., Self-published:

Seller ID: 006040

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original yellow illustrated softcover. Inscribed and signed by the author, dated 23-09-'85. Poems with a religious theme. 50 pp.
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All There Is Of Love

By: Kolber, Sandra

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1969

Seller ID: 009057

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige paper boards. DJ has two small repaired tears at foot. The writer's second book. Mrs. Kolber had some success as a film producer. With her husband, Senator Leo Kolber, she was one of Montreal's outstanding philanthropists. Signed and inscribed to friends in Saint John. 99 pp.
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Our Singing Strength; An Outline of American Poetry 1620-1930

By: Kreymborg, Alfred

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Coward-McCann, Inc.: 1929

Seller ID: 006652

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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Poetical Works of Charles Lamb; Elegantly Illustrated

By: Lamb, Charles

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, E.H. Butler: 1858

Seller ID: 001905

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Poems of New Brunswick and Other Verses

By: Lambert, Edith Whitney

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N. B., New Brunswick Bicentennial Commission: 1984

Seller ID: 009811

ISBN: 0-96-91890-0-1

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by the author. In three parts: Poems of Prayer and Praise, Poems of World War II, and Miscellaneous Poetry. 50 pp.
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Treble

By: Lau, Evelyn

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, Polestar/Raincoast Books: 2005

Seller ID: 010602

ISBN: 1-55192-789-6

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Violet paperback with floral cover. Understandable free verse from an early-accomplished writer. A very clean copy. 120 pp.
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Chirps of an English Sparrow

By: Lawson, William

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Modern Printing Co.:

Seller ID: 009507

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Good

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.
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Fightery Dick and Other Poems; A Book of Free Ballads

By: Lehmer, Derrick Norman

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1936

Seller ID: 009933

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Later Poems and Songs of James Linen

By: Linen, James

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, W. J. Widdleton: 1873

Seller ID: 011949

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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The Spanish Ballads / Chronicle of the Cid

By: Lockhart, J.G./ Southey, Robert

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co.: 1823

Seller ID: 012774

Binding: 3/4 Leather on Marbled Board

Condition: Very Good

Lovely blue 3/4 leather on marbled boards. "The intention of this publication is to furnish the English reader with some notion of that old Spanish minstrelsy, which has been preserved in the different Cancioneros and Romanceros of the sixteenth century."- B. The Spanish Ballads were translated by J.G. Lockhart, and Chronicle of the Cid by Robert Southey. 466 pp. Negligible shelf wear.
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Feathers and Shells; A Book of Poetry (Signed)

By: Lockwood, Brennan and Brennan

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Woodstock, N.B., Henley Publishing Limited: 2000

Seller ID: 003578

ISBN: 0-920209-60-2

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original silver paperback decorated and lettered in black. Poetry by three women of the area. 147 pp.
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The Legend Beautiful

By: Longfellow, H.W.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: London, Ernest Nister:

Seller ID: 001076

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Poetical Works of Longfellow

By: Longfellow, H.W.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1916

Seller ID: 010256

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

Tree calf binding on dentilled boards. Five raised spine bands. Marbled endpapers and edges. Front cover shows crest of Orme Boys' School, Newcastle-under-Lyme in gilt. Prize bookplate dated July, 1918. Front joint shows normal wear. Rear joint split 2 inches at top due to finger pull. 886 pp.
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Evangeline - A Tale of Acadie

By: Longfellow, Henry W.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Yarmouth and Sydney, NS, R.H. Davis & Company, Limited: 1929

Seller ID: 013205

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original beige card covers with tan embossed "grain" and dark brown lettering and decoration. Date and inscription inside front cover. Some edgewear. Includes the classic poem as well as a synopsis of the events leading to the Acadian Expulsion in 1755. This book would make an excellent addition to an "Evangeline" collection. 113 pp., including 4-page guide to "The Evangeline Highway" (Nova Scotia Highway No. 1).
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The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

By: Lowell, James Russell

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons, Limited: 1899

Seller ID: 009942

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Miscellaneous Verse, Readings, Recitatins, Songs and Hymns; Enlarged Edition

By: Lund, C.E.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, T.H.Best Printing Company: 1926

Seller ID: 001259

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Fair

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.
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The Traveller's Companion

By: M'Intosh, Duncan

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Liverpool, Author or Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd.: 1924

Seller ID: 005287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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