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Attune with Spring in Acadie

By: MacIntosh, Claire Harris

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1931

Seller ID: 013385

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Wedgwood blue cloth on boards with gilt lettering and lovely pastedown colour illustration of a blue jay and two chickadees on cover. Previous owner's name. Poetry and songs about birds, some with music included. List of Nova Scotia birds and their classifications. This book would make a wonderful gift. 106 pp.
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The Venture

By: Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1925

Seller ID: 001689

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige boards, orange cloth spine. No DJ. Believed first edition of this little book of lightly sentimental and romantic poetry. Light cover and edge soil. 39 poems on 44 pp.
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Selected Poems

By: MacNeice, Louis

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1940

Seller ID: 010726

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Blue paper boards. Price-clipped DJ. Twenty poems.
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Speshal Rikwes (Signed)

By: Mandiela, Ahdri Zhina

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Sister Vision; Black Women/Women of Color Press: 1985

Seller ID: 010619

ISBN: 0-920813-00-3

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

White paperback. Title is Jamaican translation of "Special Request". All poems are written in the same idiom. Inscribed and signed, "For all the times we seek to make changes. Forward ever. One love, Ahdri." No other writing, and no damage. 57 pp. plus glossary.
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Courcelette and Other Poems

By: Manning, James Harold

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., J. & A. McMillan, Ltd.: 1925

Seller ID: 013003

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth with pastedown title. Gift inscription in front. A heart-rending biographical note introduces the poetry. Manning was born and reared in Saint John, where he worked briefly in Public Works before leaving for university to study dentistry. When war broke out a year later, he entered active service, where he was injured at Vimy Ridge and invalided home. Back in the fray at Lens, he was first buried alive and then suffered the loss of his left hand, which forced him to give up dentistry. Returning to university - Acadia this time - he received his B.A. after one year. F...
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Reynard the Fox; Or, the Ghost Heath Run

By: Masefield, John

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1920

Seller ID: 009909

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

Green paper boards backed in green cloth. A few marginal notes in ink. Edges and endpapers foxed, but all text easily readable. 166 pp.
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Popular Studies of Nineteenth Century Poets

By: Mather, J. Marshall

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 004932

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original dark green cloth decorated in silver and black on boards. Fabric bookmark. Previous owner's name. No other writing and no damage. Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Byron, Hood, Tennyson, Browning. 184 pp.
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Chebucto and Other Poems

By: Matheson, D.M.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, NS, Self Published: 1919

Seller ID: 013124

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Light brown hardcover with 1" wide dampstain along right side of covers (front and back - does not affect the pages). Black printed title and art nouveau decoration on cover. Someone has printed "CHEBUCTO" in bubble letters with black ink fairly neatly on the spine. The author was the ex-principal at the Alexander McKay School in Halifax. In the Preface to this 2nd Edition dated August, 1919, he indicates that there are several new poems which have been added, including two inspired by the Halifax Explosion. 152 pp.
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Whispers from Within

By: Matthews, Norma Davis

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Campobello, N.B., Self-published: 1997

Seller ID: 011962

ISBN: 0-9683185-0-9

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Softcover book of 64 pp.
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The River St. John and Its Poets

By: Maxwell, L.M.B.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Self-published: 1947

Seller ID: 012602

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown softcover, staple bound. Enlarged to 19 poets by the addition of Hon. Jonathan Odell (M.D.), Jean E.U. Nealis, and the Bliss Sisters, and to 85 pp. from the original 63. Lillian Mary Beckwith Maxwell (1877-1956) is better known for her "Round New Brunswick Roads" volume of 1951 and her "Outline of the History of Central New Brunswick" in 1937, now scarce. This little book is clean and undamaged.
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Lays of Ancient Rome

By: McCaulay, Lord

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Co.:

Seller ID: 010732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Floral paper boards backed in grey cloth decorated in silver florals. Previous owner's name. Piece missing from surface of reverse cover. Glue repair to gutter of pp. 68-69. Still a beautiful little book. Horatius; The Battle of the Lake Regillus; Virginia; The Prophecy of Capys; Ivry; The Armada. 263 pp.
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Poems

By: McDonald, Mrs. Mary Noel

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Pudney, Hooker, & Russell, Printers: 1844

Seller ID: 011950

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Brown cloth on blindstamped boards. Minor abrasion to head and foot of spine and corner tips. This poet is credited with the popular Christmas selection, Sing We All Noel ! Following the death of her first husband, Pierre E.F. McDonald, she was married to Henry Meigs, a banker and first mayor of Bayonne, N.J. This book is in sound, clean condition, save for scribbles and previous owner's name on first two free endpapers. 208 pp.
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Ballads and Poems

By: Members of the Glasgow Ballad Club

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons: 1908

Seller ID: 007779

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Orignal tan cloth on boards. Library discard with envelope and stamps. Top edges gilt. Front and foot untrimmed. Wear to head of spine. The Glasgow Ballad Club was formed in 1876 for the production and friendly criticism of ballads and lyrical poems. A candidate for membership must produce samples of work and then be voted on by members. 279 pp.
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Mother Truth's Melodies. Common Sense for Children. A Kindergarten

By: Miller, Mrs. E.P.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Fairbanks & Palmer Publishing Co.: 1888

Seller ID: 013137

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Bright red hardcover with gilt and black titles and cover illustration. Spine is worn, frayed, sunned, and has a 3/4 inch tear at bottom of rear hinge. Slight folding to bottom corner at the hinge of pages 101-112, and cuts at bottoms of pages 225-230 (not affecting text). Patterned endpapers in cream and tan. Delightful rhymes for young children with hundreds of black and white illustrations. Includes all the classics such as Humpty Dumpty; Little Bo-Peep; Twinkle, Twinkle; Little Boy Blue; and Hi-Diddle Diddle. 352 pp.
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The Pond Shore and Beyond/Le Bord De L'Etang Et Au Dela

By: Mitcham, Allison

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Sackville, N.B., Brothers Publishing Ltd.: 1981

Seller ID: 010331

ISBN: 0-919497-01-2

Binding: Perfect Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Tan softcover. Translated by Gerald Bellefleur. Thoughtful poems appropriately illustrated. "Our woods are riding to New York today" speaks plainly of the calculated waste associated with one of our annual traditions. Approx. 38 pp.
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The New Poetry; An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Verse in English

By: Monroe, Harriet and Henderson, Alice Corbin

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., The Macmillan Comany: 1937

Seller ID: 005631

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original tan cloth backed in orange cloth on boards. Heavy book might need extra postage. 775 pp. including biographical notes on the poets. Previous owner's name and address.
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Moore's Fables for the Female Sex

By: Moore, (Edward)

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: London, Scratchard & Letterman, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme and H.D. Symonds: 1806

Seller ID: 011989

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Full brown leather on boards. Front cover joint cracked full length, secured by cords and glue. Gift note dated 1811. Marbled endpapers. 133 pp.
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Shades of Grey

By: Mullin, Marjorie M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Self-published: 1988

Seller ID: 009817

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Beige softcover in digital typescript contains poems by a number of authors as well as poems and essays by Marjorie Mullin. Approx. 60 pp. Cover lightly soiled. Previous owner's name.
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Entrance of the Celebrant

By: Musgrave, Susan

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Fuller D'Arch Smith, Ltd.: 1972

Seller ID: 010174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ has remains of price tag removal. Previous owner's name. This is Susan Musgrave's second volume of verse. 49 pp.
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Occasional Verse (Signed)

By: N.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Publishinig Company: 1967

Seller ID: 009798

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dark blue cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. Inscribed and signed "To Gus - with affection and respect. N." No additional writing and no damage. The author may have been a Saint John boy, Norwood Carter, a student at University of New Brunswick who lied about his age to get into the Navy during WW II. 36 pp.
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