Category: Poetry

The Hill and Far Away

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Nova Scotia, Assumed Self-published

Seller ID: 003925

Original blue pictorial soft cover. Poetry by Norma E. Smith, apparently located in Nova Scotia. One poem said to have received the approbation of Charles G.D. Roberts, "I like this poem very much indeed." (The Road to Bedford), p. 60. 60 pp.
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Seventeenth-Century English Poetry; Borzoi Anthology, Vol. I

By: Starkman, Miriam K. (Ed.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf : 1967

Seller ID: 002234

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original bright red cloth on boards. The first of five volumes of the Borzoi Anthology of 17th-Century English Literature. John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, and Richard Crashaw are featured, with several selections from each. 294 pp. plus index of titles and first lines.
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When We Were Young

By: Stewart, Jordan

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Self-published : 2007

Seller ID: 011593

ISBN: 978097829790

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover book of poetry. 70 pp.
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Two Hundred Poems for Boys and Girls

By: Strang, Herbert (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Humphrey - Milford/Oxford U. Press

Seller ID: 003184

Binding: Cloth Card Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige decorative cloth card covers with black and gold illustration of a couple with a deer, and black lettering. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. This book belonged to Charlotte Foster, one of two daughters of the Honourable Walter Foster, Premier on New Brunswick from 1917 to 1923, and later Senator of Canada. 192 pages.
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Select Poems of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Campbell, Longfellow

By: Sykes, Frederick Henry (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage Company, Limited : 1895

Seller ID: 008901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name in pencil. Two small page tears. No writing or underlining. Approx. 30 pp. of appendix, containing works of other popular poets of the period. 360 pp. in all.
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Select Poems; Goldsmith, Wordsworth, Scott, Keats, Shelley, Byron

By: Sykes, Frederick Henry (Ph. D.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The W.J. Gage Company, Ltd. : 1896

Seller ID: 013785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus

Original blue-green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Edgewear. One plate separated.
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An Introduction to the Study of Browning

By: Symons, Arthur

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent : 1923

Seller ID: 007019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth on boards. General characteristics, Characteristics of the poems, Appendix (Bibliography and Reprint of discarded prefaces to first editions), and Index to Poems.264 pp.
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Alexandra and Other Poems

By: Tayler, Rev. B. W. Rogers

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Schenectady, N.Y., Self-published : 1921

Seller ID: 008240

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Reverend Tayler wrote this book during his tenure as Rector of St. George's Episcopal Church, Schenectady, from 1905-1924. Inscribed to the Rev. T.G. Cracknell of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, Albany. No additonal writing and no damage. 315 pp.
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Wilderness of Ladies

By: Taylor, Eleanor Ross

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, McDowell, Obolensky : 1960

Seller ID: 012472

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Patterned paper on boards, backed in green cloth. Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Surprisingly lucid. 62 pp.
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The Seasons

By: Thomson, James

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, E.H. Butler & Co. : 1864

Seller ID: 009493

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Brown calf in 3/4 style with marbled calf boards. With a life of the author by Patrick Murdoch. Begun in 1726 and completed by 1730, The Seasons contains elements of animal rights thinking, leading me to recall Burns' "To a Mouse." Thomson is said to be Scotland's favourite poet before Burns came along. No writing. 332 pp. Modern bookplate. Still a strikingly original book with only minor wear to leather covers.
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If Men Lived On Earth

By: Thurston, Harry

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Gaspereau Press : 2000

Seller ID: 004931

ISBN-13: 9781894031226

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original colour illustrated beige card cover with flaps. Poetry by and for a nature lover. The author has several titles in print, both poetry and prose, and all related to Atlantic Canada. 143 pp. plus acknowledgements.
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Collected Poems

By: Unger, Leonard

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Minneapolis, MN, Tabula Press : 1995

Seller ID: 002841

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original grey trade paperback bound by exposed gold thread. No. 49 of 60 copies. Inscribed "For Emily - with love - Leonard." Unger taught English at University of Minnesota for 47 years, where he was known as a fan and critic of T.S. Eliot and other writers. 35 poems, one to a page, plus colophon.
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From Day to Day with Whittier

By: Van Buren, Olive (Ed.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Barse & Hopkins : 1910

Seller ID: 008382

Binding: Flexible Suede Leather

Condition: Very Good

Original brown suede on flexible boards. Today's poem (March 2) is a hymn, beginning : "All moving spirit ! - freely forth at Thy command the strong wind goes...." 127 pp.
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The Red Flower; Poems Written in War Time

By: Van Dyke, Henry

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Company, Limited : 1917

Seller ID: 011172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Grey paper boards backed in black cloth. No writing. Very faint waterstain throughout, not affecting readability. Van Dyke was a noted minister and author who was appointed by President Hoover as Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913. In this capacity he assisted Americans all over Europe who flocked to Holland to escape the war. He is the author of "The Other Wise Man", a popular Christmas story, and the poem, "Time Is," which was read at the funeral for Princess Diana. Among his notable friends was Helen Keller. 52 pp.
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The Maritimer and Other Poems

By: Veazey, Emma

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Carillon Poetry Chap-Books/ Crucible Press : 1941

Seller ID: 011782

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Very Good

Brown softcover booklet of 24 pp. Titles of the poems are: The Maritimer; The Little Boats Go By; Sea Valour; St. Croix Island, 1940; Unto Us a Child is Born; Sunset Followed by Moonrise on the Waweg; In the Cool of the Evening; Rain after Drought; Easter; Our Fathers' Wells; The Little Friendly Lights of Home; Evening Grosbeaks; With Torch Alight; Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh; Gethsemane; In the Garden; Tim; Answer, Judge !; Canada to England; A Moonlight Night in Canada; True Empire Lies in This; They Shall Never Pass Away; and Wanton Harvest.
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Songs of Cy Warman

By: Warman, Cy

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McLeod & Allen : 1911

Seller ID: 011951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards, lettered and decorated with lyre and olive branch design in gilt. Previous owner's name in light pencil. Warman (1859-1915) became known as "The Poet of the Rockies". Following a common school education in Illinois, he farmed until failing as a wheat broker. He went to Denver, where he was involved in the silver boom, became acquainted with steam railroading, and finally, became an editor. His second wife is credited with inspiring him to write "Sweet Marie," which was featured in the movie, Life With Father, in 1947, and appears in this book on p. 63. 177 pp.
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For You and Me

By: Waterman, Nixon

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Davis and Bond : 1913

Seller ID: 002886

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original paper boards with subtle, shaded colouring in orange, brown, and gilt (Look carefully; it's not grimy). 26 straightforward, positive, uncomplicated poems of inspiration. I recently discovered one of Waterman's poems on the internet, and have a copy of it hanging beside my desk. Previous owner's inscription dated 1920. 30 pp.
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Tennyson's Geraint and Enid and Other Poems

By: Wetherell, J. E. (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, W. J. Gage & Company : 1891

Seller ID: 005852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original dark blue cloth on embossed boards. Tennyson's life. Geraint and Enid, The May Queen, New Year's Eve, Conclusion, Locksley Hall, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, Ulysses, St. Agnes' Eve, Sir Galahad, The Revenge, In the Children's Hospital, You Ask Me Why Tho' Ill at Ease, Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights, Love Thou Thy Land, Notes on all. Hinges cracked. Foxing freckles on endpapers. No writing. 181 pp.
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

By: Whittier, John Greenleaf

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co.

Seller ID: 004491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth lavishly decorated in gold on bevelled boards. Both hinges cracked and fragile. Floral endpapers. All edges gilt. 452 pp.
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The Veteran and Other Poems

By: Wigle, Rev. Hamilton

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs : 1910

Seller ID: 006829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original violet cloth on boards. Inscribed "To Mr. and Mrs. Brown on the occasion of their marriage. Halifax, Jan. 25/17. Hamilton Wigle." Laid in is the marriage certificate for Charles Cowley Brown of Greenwich and Emma M. Davis of Sherbrooke, witnessed by Elizabeth Leitek (?) of Halifax. At time of publication Reverend Wigle was pastor of Zion Methodist Church, Winnipeg. 88 pp.
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Category: Poetry