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By: Longfellow, H.W.
Price: $55.00 USD
Publisher: London, Ernest Nister:
Seller ID: 001076
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. View more info
By: Longfellow, H.W.
Price: $65.00 USD
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1916
Seller ID: 010256
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Yarmouth and Sydney, NS, R.H. Davis & Company, Limited: 1929
Seller ID: 013205
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). View more info
By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Price: $18.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap:
Seller ID: 010488
Condition: Good to Very Good
Grey cloth on boards. DJ has missing sections front and back. No writing. 300 pp. View more info
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons, Limited: 1899
Seller ID: 009942
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. View more info
By: Lund, C.E.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, T.H.Best Printing Company: 1926
Edition: Enlarged Edition
Seller ID: 001259
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. View more info
By: M'Intosh, Duncan
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Liverpool, Author or Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd.: 1924
Seller ID: 005287
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Darlings Island, N.B., Self-published: 2002
Edition: First
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 005176
ISBN: 0973046406
Condition: Very Good
Original trade paperback photo cover on grey stock. Poetry and photographs by the author. Proceeds to go to Hestia House, a shelter for women in Saint John. 68 pp. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Co., Limited: 1913
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 006671
Condition: Very Good
Original dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold on boards. Previous owner's name and address in pencil, with no other marks and no damage. Colour and b/w drawings. 91 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Pine Tree Publishing Co.: 1933
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 008262
Condition: Very Good
Original black cloth on boards. DJ has several tears. Book is clean except for inscription and signature of author. Seven poems in French-Canadian dialect. MacDonald is said to have been more popular than Pauline Johnson or Robert Service in the 1920's. He was an excellent promoter and stage performer. He is honoured by a museum near Selkirk in Haldimand County, Ontario. 46 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1925
Edition: First (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 001689
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. View more info
By: MacNeice, Louis
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1940
Edition: Second Impression
Seller ID: 010726
Condition: Good Plus
Blue paper boards. Price-clipped DJ. Twenty poems. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Sister Vision; Black Women/Women of Color Press: 1985
Edition: "First Volume" Stated
Seller ID: 010619
ISBN: 0-920813-00-3
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. View more info
Price: $60.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., J. & A. McMillan, Ltd.: 1925
Seller ID: 013003
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... View more info
By: Masefield, John
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1920
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 009909
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1892
Seller ID: 004932
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. View more info
By: Matheson, D.M.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Halifax, NS, Self Published: 1919
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 013124
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Campobello, N.B., Self-published: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011962
ISBN: 0-9683185-0-9
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Softcover book of 64 pp. View more info
By: Maude (Amelia Clotilda Jennings)
Price: $300.00 USD
Publisher: Halifax, N.S., Elbridge Gerry Fuller: 1854
Seller ID: 011516
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Brown cloth on boards embossed front and back. 37 poems by a native Haligonian, who grew up in "Linden Hall" near Fort Needham. Dedicated to Lady Seymour, wife of the Naval Commander-in-Chief, Sir George Francis Seymour. Jennings apparently moved to Montreal in 1875, where she died, unmarried, in 1895.- Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 152 pp. Slight wear to foot of spine and one corner tip. No names or other writing. View more info
By: Maxwell, L.M.B.
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Self-published: 1947
Edition: Second Printing - Enlarged
Seller ID: 012602
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. View more info