Original decorated paper boards backed in yellow cloth. A P.E.N.(Poets, Essayists, Novelists) Anthology. DJ lightly rubbed at head. 132 pp of poems, plus bios of poets. View More...
Original green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. The Enchanted Island, Sherwood, Tales of the Mermaid Tavern, New Poems, and many others. Top edges gilt. Untrimmed front and foot. 451 pp. View More...
Original grey cloth over boards with black lettering. Some handsoil to covers. The author was a Catholic priest and a native of St. George, NB. This book of mainly religious poetry is inscribed to his "family circle". Scarce. 189 pp. View More...
White softcover book of 46 pp. Most of the early poems communicate from unlikely places. Thus he sought an audience outside his surroundings. View More...
Original grey tweedy cloth backed in green cloth on boards. Faultless. Assistant editor, Graham Adams. Eight-and-a-half pages of titles, the poems, notes, index of first lines, index of titles, sources, and bibliography. 672 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Maroon cloth on boards. Previous owner's name (Maude Palmer) and date (Easter Sunday, April 14th/95). David Palmer (1789-1866) farmed the 1000 acres left to him by his father, Daniel Palmer, and mother, Sarah (Whittemore) Palmer (1758-1829) who had emigrated from Massachusetts to Grand Lake in 1786 and settled at Douglas Harbour. The book is a gathering of the most innocent expressions of Christian love toward family and friends I have seen, following the featured longer poem titled, New Brunswick. Faded spine and ding to edge of rear cover. A gummed bookmark was left in place too long, and ha... View More...
Brown cloth on boards. Tiny nick in DJ at top of rear fold. Gift note. No other writing. I found this book to be stimulating both intellectually and emotionally. It gave me keys to analyzing the writing as well as support for pursuing peace by avoiding war. 192 pp. View More...
Original dark blue cloth over boards with titles and stunning Art Nouveau floral decoration in gilt and black. All edges gilt. Spine somewhat darkened, but cover is still bright. Top and bottom of spine worn. All pages have red line borders. Drawings (page decorations) of Greek people's heads on front and back pages. 349 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards, lettered in gilt. Forty-six poems decorated by 28 full-color drawings by Edmund Dulac, protected by tissue guards. Previous owner's name and gift note. No other writing. The drawings are printed one side only. Unpaginated. Approx 240 pp. Light wear to head and foot of spine and corner tips. Large, heavy book will need extra postage. This book is on consignment - no discounts apply. View More...
Reddish-brown softcover backed in black cloth. Edited by Mark Pattison. Previous owner's name. A response, in the form of poetry, to Lord Bolingbroke. 122 pp. View More...
Maroon pigskin leather on flexible board. Pp. 159-160 trimmed and re-attached. Previous owner, Miss F. MacDonald, is the same previous owner as our listings 011078 and 011079, which we bought in t he same lot. News clipping, "Six Thrones Tumbled" glued onto first free endpaper. Small tears at both ends of spine. Adelaide Procter (1825-1864) was the daughter of a poet, Bryan Waller Procter and his wife, Anne Skepper. Miss Procter worked on behalf of the homeless and downtrodden. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. 352 pp. View More...
Original 3/4 light brown calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and decoration on spine. One decorated wide raised band on spine between the title and author's name. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Introduction by Charles Dickens. Ca. 1889. Small gouge to page edges of pg. 127-132 (not affecting text). Bottom corners of pg. 231 through to the end of the book are waterstained (not affecting text). 247 pp. View More...
Original dark green cloth on blindstamped boards. Hinges cracked but well-attached. Other titles credited to this author are One Quiet Day, Chronicles of a Canadian Family, and The Lyre. 288 pp. plus Table of Contents. View More...
Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering, no DJ. Both hinges severely cracked but not separated. Many paste-ins and a few underlines. Might be Ex-Lib. due to inked Dewey number on Contents page. Sad condition, but not easy to find. 325 pp. plus "Press Notices" re his poetry. Born 1839, and died 1929, Raymond was known in the U.S. for his poetry and essays on aesthetics in art. Wrote The Aztec God and Other Dramas. View More...
Original dark green cloth on boards. A slim volume of 22 poems and two essays by a native of Grand Manan who relocated to Saint John, N.B. Inscribed "To Andy and Tiny with affection and sincere good wishes, Willard Richardson." He served as Maritime Provinces Correspondent for the Toronto Daily Star. Light waterstain to rear DJ. View More...
Green stapled card cover booklet of 37 pp. Correction of "while" changed to "wild" in second line of Signs, on p. 32. No other marks or damage. View More...
Original brown cloth on boards. Eldest son of Charles G.D. Roberts, this writer is known chiefly as a poet. This volume includes only a little poetry, the majority of it being prose commetary on a number of family-related matters. Basil King was a friend and fellow writer. 147 pp. View More...
