Poetry

G.K. Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1974.. Unpaginated (approx. 27 pp.), 8 1/2" H, soft cover. Produced as a Christmas gift by G.K. Hall & Co., 1974. INSCRIBED BY JOHN ALDEN ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Frontispiece is reproduction of monograph poem by Marc Lescarbot, 1618. Reproduces three poems. , two from the seventeenth century in French on the subject of Champlain's explorations and one from the eighteenth century in English entitled Annapolis Royal. Interior - previous owners bookplate on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and t. i g h t with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - tiny crease at bottom corner of rear cover, slight crease at top of spine/rear cover. VG. more information

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Pavilion Press, Westport, Connecticut, (1963), No. 396 of a limited edition of 2000 copies.. 31 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON LIMITATION/COPYRIGHT PAGE. A narrative poem illustrated with b&w photographs. Very small shallow bump to top edge of boards, light edge wear, spine is cocked for half of its length. Dust. jacket has light edge wear, two tiny tears with creases at top of front panel, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, small tear at bottom of front hinge, slight darkening to spine, edges and flap-folds. VG-/VG-. more information

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Random House, New York, (1975).. 67 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "The thirty-six poems in (this book) are once again eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life. Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; poems of misplaced pat. riotism; songs of the street and songs of the heart..." Small bump to bottom front corner, minor edge wear to boards, tiny remainder dot at top of textblock near spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wear/rubbing. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tennessee, (1956), privately printed in an edition of 1500 copies, soley for distribution among friends.. 45 pp, small 4to (10 1/8" H), hard cover (white spine area with gold lettering on spine and front, gray boards), clear mylar dust jacket. Top edge gilt. American Keepsake No. 1. Contents: Introduction; Poetry - My Childhood's Home I See Again; M. atthew Gentry; The Bear Hunt. A Story - The Trailor Murder Case; Notes; A Postscript to the Story. (After production of the 1500 copies in this edition, the plates were destroyed.) Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. . E x t erior - very light wrinkling at bottom of hinges, very light yelowing to spine, minor edge wear to boards. VG+. more information

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HarperPerennial, (New York, 1991), Ist printing.. 82 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "Appleman offers witty and sharply pointed satires of Job, Jonah, and the Apostles, among other biblical figures. He speculates about such stories as Noah's Ark ('Wait a minute - termites?/We're going to save termites, in a. wooden boat?'). His poetry also shines upon the human ties that bind us to one another and to a world that is fully sufficient to our deepest needs and purposes. (This book) is a collection that has a serious, brave, and provocative thesis b. e h i n d every poem." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. VG+. more information

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Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1968, (1973 reprint).. 69 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "(Margaret Atwood's) poetry explores the real world and a haunting private universe. Both are seen by a young woman totally committed to the search for a viable human world, one capable of containing its opposites: of reco. nciling the individual's inner and outer worlds, the chaos and the longing for order, the isolation of lovers, the craving for life and the fact of death. The poems in this new collection are less subjective than Miss Atwood's earlier ones, and. t h e range of themes is wider, but they contain the same tension and give the same impression of a 'quiet Mata Hari...who pits herself against the ordered, too clean world like an arsonist'." Interior - soft crease at top corner of textblock, ot. h er wi se clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear/rubbing, light hinge creases, soft crease to top corner of covers and top edge of rear cover. Good sound reading copy.. more information

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Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1968, first edition.. 69 pp, trade paperback (8 1/2" H). The author's second book. "Her poetry explores the real world and a haunting private universe. Both are seen by a young woman totally committed to the search for a viable human world, one capable of containing i. ts opposites: of reconciling the individual's inner and outer worlds, the chaos and the longing for order, the isolation of lovers, the craving for life and the fact of death. The poems in this new collection are less subjective than Miss Atwood. ' s earlier ones, and the range of themes is wider, but they contain the same tension and give the same impression of a 'quiet Mata Hari....who pits herself against the ordered, too clean world like an arsonist'." Interior - very light browning to. p ag e s, two tiny dints on first two pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, two tiny dints and small crease on front cover, tiny dint/scuff on fore-edge of textblock, a few tiny scuffs on cover. s, lig ht browning at edges and on spine, two tiny corner creases. Good+. more information

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Macfarlane Walter & Ross, Toronto, (1997), new edition with memoir and foreword.. Unpaginated, small 4to (10 1/2" H), hard cover in mylar dust jacket (with text on flaps and rear panel). Color illustrations throughout. "This popular edition is a faithful reproduction of the original hand-set, hand-printed version of a treasured. Canadian classic. In her reading of Moodie's chronicles of pioneer life, Margaret Atwood found the haunting themes that obsess us still. Charles Pachter's vividly evocative images layer the poems with startling echoes and insights. Their work . i s accompanied here by a new introductory memoir by Pachter and a foreword by David Staines, who pays homage to Atwood, Pachter, and Moodie and their central places in Canadian art and literature." Dust jacket has light rubbing. F/VG+. more information

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Alembic Press, (Winchester, Hampshire, 1981), No. 150 of edition limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.. 35 pp, 8 1/4" H, sewen in wraps. NUMBERED AND SIGNED ON COPYRIGHT PAGE AND WITH ADDITIONAL INSCRIPTION "WITH ALL BEST WISHES FROM ROY B & DIANE AND SARAH - 21ST NOVEMBER /81". 2 small b&w illustrations by author. A collection of 17 poems on theme. s of country life - fishing, hunting, farming, etc. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light browning, minor soiling. VG. more information

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Gerald Duckworth, London, (1950), reprint.. 63 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H), hard cover (black lettering on spine and front board, black and dark green illustration on front board) - no dust jacket. B&w illustrations. A comic alphabet in rhyme. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise cle. an and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - browning to covers - slightly darker on spine, very small light red stain on front hinge, light soiling lines down rear board. G+. more information

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(Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.p., 1962), Ist edition.. 97 pp, large 8vo, HC in dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FREE FRONT ENDPAPER. "...a collection of works spanning thirty-eight years, could be described as Mr. Benson's journal. The chronological arrangement of the poems allows the reader to tr. ace the personal development of the author, and indeed, the development of the present age. The central theme of the book is composed of the joys, and sorrows of love, marriage, parenthood, and friendship. It weaves in and out of a broader ch. r o n i c le established by the works commemorating moments of history and the great learders of our times." Minor edgewear to boards. Dust jacket is complete but worn with small tears/chips, creases, rubbing, tape repairs on inside. VG/Fair. more information

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Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1927, first edition.. 67 pp, 7 3/4" H, hard cover (black cloth with title blocks pasted on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. B&w frontispiece photograph of author. A collection of poems by a Canadian author, including: Canoeing at Dusk; Autumn Fires; Thanksgivin. g in the Country; Armistice; Alexander Graham Bell; Hepaticas; Christmas Greetings; Ghost Ships; A Camper's Song; St. Patrick's Day; Sing a Song of Firelight; House o' Dreams; November Nights, etc. Very light browning to pages , light browning on. f ront endpapers, book cracked at pages 40/41, modersate browning to edges of textblock, slight bump and light wear at corners of boards, fraying at top of spine, wrinkling at bottom of spine, slight fading to edges of front board label, spine labe. l h as some loss at loer corners and is browned, foxing on boards. Good reading copy only.. more information

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McClelland & Stewart, (Toronto, 1991), Ist edition.. 123 pp, 8vo, soft cover, self-flaps. The author's last book of poetry, closing "with a long sequence of love poems - tender, playful, erotic - which joyfully review the past and contemplate eventual leave taking...(includes) a lively, personal intr. oduction by Al Purdy, in which he shares anecdotes about his friendship with Birney and insights into the man and his work." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and . u n c r e a sed. NF. more information

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Birlinn, (Edinburgh, 2001), Ist edition.. 531 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), soft cover. The poems are presented in Gaelic and English on facing pages. "...a colourful new anthology of over sixty poems from one of the most dynamic periods of Gaelic literature. Arranged chronologically and edited wi. th facing translations by Ronald Black, these poems, composed in a range of forms and styles, span the whole gamut of human experience, from politics, religion and war to love, sex and domestic life. Together they form a rich celebration of Gael. i c culture and provide a fascinating insight into the passions and preoccupations of the Highland people during a turbulent period in their history...features the work of over forty poets, and includes extensive notes and an introduction, which se. t th e poems firmly in their literary and historical contexts." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light rubbing, small crease at bottom corners of covers - slight migration into adjacent pages, spine flat and. u ncr ea sed. VG. more information

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Longmans, Green, London, 1932.. 178 pp, 7" H, hard cover (dark green cloth with gold lettering and banding on spine, gold decorations on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. One of the 'English Heritage Series'. A collection of prose and poetry by Edmund Blunden, one of Engl. and's WWI poets, here describing aspects of the English countryside and village life. Titles include: Expressions at the Market; The Fan Tod; The Hop Leaf, An Ancient Holiday (Cricket); The Winter Moth; Mists and Fogs; The Village Chimneys; An E. x - F ootballer; A Country Prayer, etc. Small label from bookstore on front pastedown, previous owner's name/date on free front endpaper, six pages with small light stain in margin, book slightly cracked at pages 128/129, minor soiling to top of te. xt bl oc k, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Very Good. more information

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Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1950, first edition.. 374 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Edmund Blunden's reputation as one of the most distinguished living poets, and as the author of that contemporary classic, 'Undertones of War', does not do full justice to his various gifts. His. work as a biographer and literary historian, as a traveller, a soldier, an interpreter of the English countryside and its institutions, must all be assessed in considering the large body of work he has written - over forty books in thirty years.. I n making this careful and comprehensive selection from Blunden, Kenneth Hopkins has examined all his published books, as well as his contributions to the books of others, and also many papers and essays contributed to 'The Times Literary Suppleme. n t' and other journals, British and foreign...." The selections are gathered under the headings: England; Literature; Cricket; War; Occasions; Contemporaries; Travel; Envoi. Concludes with a Check-list of Books by Edmund Blunden. Very light br. ow n ing to endpapers, Very small mark on fore-edge of pages up to page 23 - also in margin of page 23, faint soiling mark and faint watermark on fore-edge of textblock, very light wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling. , l ig ht b rowning, light soiling/rubbing, tiny scuff on front panel, one small closed tear, a few tiny chips. Very Good/Good+. more information

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Oxford University Press, London, 1944, 2nd printing.. 79 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), hard cover (white boards with black lettering on spine, blind stamped line decoration to boards) - no dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Contents: Introduction; The Battle of Maldon; Judith; The Fates and Gifts of Men. ; Gnomic Verses; Riddles - Moon and Sun, Bookworn; A Charm Against the Stitch; The Whale; The Dream of the Rood; The Song of Deor; The Wife's Plaint; The Husband's Message; The Wanderer; The Seafarer; The Ruin. Slight bump to bottom of spine, li. g h t rubbing to boards. VG. more information

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Netherlandic Press, Windsor, Ontario, 1993.. 90 pp, 8vo, soft cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. A collection of poems by Canadian poet, Diana Brebner, including a sequence, 'Eleven Paintings by Mary Pratt', 'Head of a Girl' (on the Vermeer painting by the same name), etc. Inter. ior - clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear, light rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Lachenal & Ritter,Paris, 1988.. 257 pp, folio (13" H), soft cover in clear plastic dust wrapper and plain publisher's slipcase. ISBN 2904388087 Pages unopened at top edge. B&w illustrations. French text only. Table des Matieres: Avertissement; Introduction; Remerciements; A . la Memoire de Jaques Vache; La Glace sans Tain; Saisons; Eclipses; En 80 Jours; Barrieres; Gants Blancs; Le Pagure Dit; Le Pagure Dit; La Fin de Tout; Annexes: Dedicace d'Andre Breton; Premiere publication; Declaration de Philippe Soupault; De memes. auteurs; Bibliographie; Table des inedits. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light soiling on covers and spine, very light rub mark across fore-edge of textblock, tiny chip at top of spine. Dust jacke. t has two light rub marks on rear panel. Slipcase has very light edge wear, sticker mark on one side panel. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Clarke, Irwin, Toronto, 1972, first edition.. 87 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0772005303 "Distinguished by its directness, sensitivity and compassion, Elizabeth Brewster's poetry has an almost universal appeal. The reader returns again and again for an apt phrase, a fr. esh perception, or the unique crystallization of a mood or impression. Many of the eighty-five poems in this collection centre around life on the Prairies and in the Maritimes, and deal with familiar scenes and experiences. Using the language o. f e veryday speech, Miss Brewster creates images that are striking in their simplicity: snowshoeing across clouds; words as pickaxes chopping at the block of silence. There is an element of personal courage and integrity in this work which gives i. t a s pecial quality." Light discoloration to top edges of boards near spine and also on the spine, large publishers review copy label with old price on free front endpaper. Dust jacket has light edge wear, very light edge wrinkling, one very sma. ll t ear , one tiny tear with crease, a few tiny scuffs on spine. VG-/VG. more information

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University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, (1982).. 151 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "This book is the first in Western literature to focus on the poetry of Li Yu and Feng Yen-ssu. It contains nearly one hundred translations of Chinese poems written during the brief and turb. ulent Southern T'ang Dynasty (907-960 A.D.). Bryant describes and evaluates the major contribution of Li Yu and Feng Yen-ssu to the evolution of the poetry form known as t'zu - a form which reflects the highly developed cultural milieu of the pe. r i o d...The tz'u and its many and varied origins are considered at length. Bryant discusses the improvisational quality which makes these poems different from the traditional shih style of the time. He also ephasizes the 'aural' quality of the p. oe ms w hich were originally composed to be sung to music. For this reason he includes a phonetic translation of each poem as it would have been pronounced at the time of its writing." Previous owners chop (stamp) on free front endpaper. dust ja. cke t h as very minor edge wrinkling. NF/NF. more information

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Fulcrum Press, (London, 1968), Ist trade edition.. 160 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Recognised at long last as a true link in the great tradition of English poetry Basil Bunting has been known and respected for years by the discerning. In 1938 Ezra Pound dedicated 'Guide t. o Kulchur' to Bunting and Zukofsky 'strugglers in the desert'. Younger American poets as different as Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg have repeatedly acknowledged him as the outstanding English poet of the last fifty years..." Previous owners. c h op (stamp) on free front endpaper, previous owner has tipped in two leaves opposite pages 132 & 152 with extra poems written by hand - copied from 1985 revised edition of this book, tiny light stain on fore-edge of trextblock, very tiny foxing . m ar ks on top of textblock, minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price clipped, has light edge wear/wrinkling, light rubbing/soiling on rear panel, mottled finish to laminate - rubbed off or was unevenly applied during manufacture. . G ood re ading copy.. more information

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Coteau, (Regina, SK, 1993).. 103 pp, 8vo, soft cover. LARGE INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR ON FREE FRONT ENDPAPER. "Hitler and Stalin stalk these poems. Mick Burrs examines the Fuehrer's love of King Kong. He probes Stalin's relationship with his washerwoman mother, who knew him as . her little 'ZoZo'. He confronts the kind of mind that can reduce individuals to political symbols or mere numbers. But tyrants are not only found in political office. He sees a direct connection between the rise of the modern dictator and the phe. onomenon of the multiple murderer. 'Every multiple murderer is a miniature tyrant,' Burrs writes; 'he only lacks an enormous arsenal, a loyal following, and a sacred cause'." Interior - clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear/rubbing, spi. n e i s flat and uncreased. VG+. more information

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Dover, New York, 1962.. 216 pp + publisher's catalog, 8vo (8 7/16" H), soft cover. Profusely illustrated with Busch's b&w cartoons. Bilingual text (English/German). "Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), endowed with an equipotent facility with sketch-pad and rhyming dictionary, c. reated during his career some of the most arresting sketches and drollest verses the world has ever seen. Few men since his time have shown the same ability to match simple yet penetrating pictures with rollicking, quotable verse. In his native . G e rmany he is still by all odds the best-loved creator of illustrated light verse....(Many of his pithy aphorisms have long since become folk sayings among the Germans.) The variety of tone and subject matter is wide: Busch is in turn malevolent,. j ov ial, sardonic, diabolical and even bloodthirsty as he castigates hypocrisy, stodginess, stupidity, egotism, drunkenness, and other human foibles....The English translations are both ingenious and faithful; in most cases they are the first Engl. ish tr anslations ever made. Those who do not read German may be certain that the original has been translated into English with its spiciness and sense intact. Both the German and the English appear side by side, so that readers of German may sa. vor Busc h's own delightful rhymes, while those who are learning German will find it an enjoyable way to gain familiarity with the langauge...." Interior - very light browning to pages, faint cigarette odor, otherwise clean and tight with no previo. us o wners hip marks. Exterior - browning to edges of textblock, browning to covers, very small ghost sticker mark on front cover, very small surface paper loss at bottom of spine and bottom corner of front cover. Good+. more information

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Musson, Toronto, 1914, first edition.. 163 pp, 8vo (8 13/16" H), hard cover (red cloth with gold lettering and decorations/black borders on spines and front boards) - no dust jacket. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Christmas gift inscription on free front endpaper, pages browning lightly,. a little weakness to inside front hinge, book slightly cracked at pages 48/48 & 64/65, small chip/tear at fore-edge of page 129/130 - archivally taped, light edge wear, faint partial small cup-ring mark on front board, wrinkling at top/bottom of. s p ine, slight fading to spine color, light browning to edges of textblock. Very Good. more information

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Richard B. Smith, Peterborough, New Hampshire, (1963).. 64 pp, 8vo, HC. The author's first published collection of poems, exploring such fundamental themes as human communications and the individual's search for identity in the modern world. Minor soiling to dj. VG+/VG. more information

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Hollym, (Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1998), 7th printing.. 128 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "It is hoped that the present volume gives some idea about modern Korean poetry in terms of subject matter, themes and modes of expression. The majority of the poems have been taken from among the most. widely read and best-loved poems..." Concludes with mini-biographies of the poets. Previous owners chop (stamp) at top corner of free front endpaper. Dust jacket ids price-clipped and has minor edge wear. VG+VG+. more information

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Ryerson Press, Toronto, (1965), Ist edition.. 152 pp, large 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "...a narrative and reflective poem in which the characters of the plot, a young soldier and his comrades, act out their human drama against the urgent and ever-present reality of the First World War. Their de. cisions, thoughts and emotions occur in all the horror and irony of battle. The lonely men reflect ultimately on what they have stood for as individual human beings, now that they 'walk the soldier's mile'." Pages browning very lightly, minor. e d g e wear to boards, slight wrinkling at top of spine, edges of textblock moderately foxed. Dust jacket has small chips/tears, ghost sticker mark at top of front cover, browning to spine/edges, moderate edgewear/rubbing/wrinkling. G+/Fair. more information

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Kingfisher, New York, (1996), Ist edition.. 72 pp, small 4to (10 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Patterned endpapers, magically (and spookily) illustrated throughout in full color by Justin Todd. "When the night is dark and the wind is howling, enter a room filled with mystery and wonde. r, with words and images to make you shiver: The Whispering Room. Inside you'll find the bones of an ancient royal ship, a frozen man who walks the streets, phantom fishermen, and a lurking bogeyman. Here even the most ordinary things seem fr. i g h t ening: streetlights, the flash of headlights against the wall, or an empty shool. Ranging from traditional verse to new works by contemporary poets, the poems in this eerie collection take readers beyond the comforts of their cozy homes to . sp ec tr al forests, deserted islands, and even to the Milky Way in search of spellbinding images." Dust jacket is price-clipped, light wrinkling at top of spine and flap-folds, light creases on top half of spine, minor rubbing. NF/VG. more information

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C. Blackett Robinson, Toronto, 1889, 2nd edition.. 119 pp, 12mo (7" H), hard cover (black cloth with gold lettering on front board) - no dust jacket. Top edge gilt. A collection of patriotic, nostalgic, historical - very 'Victorian' - poems. School prize bookplate on front pastedown, page 1 to 38. slightly pulled from binding, pages lightly browned, light edge rubbing, a few faint small finger marks and a few tiny shallow dints on front cover, light browning to fore-edge and bottom of textblock, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Goo. d +. more information

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McClelland & Steward, Toronto, (1970), reprint.. 128 pp, small 8vo, soft cover. ISBN 0771022050 Interior - light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, a few soft faint creases on covers, tiny dint on front hinge, very l. ight browning on rear cover, a few tiny scuffs on front cover. Very Good. more information

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McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2007.. 232 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), soft cover. ISBN 9780771022296 "Leonard Cohen is celebrated for his music, his lyrics, and his books, which have been read by generations of readers. The poems in (this book), his first new volume of poems in twenty years,. were written on Mt. Baldy and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. Beautifully designed, this dazzling collection is enhanced by playful and provocative drawings and decorations by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on th. e page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, often darkly humorous. Already an international sensation, the book contains all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen's artistry with language worldwide recognition." Interior - clean and t. ig ht with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - Slight bump at top of spine, minor corner wear. Very Good+. more information

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Anansi, (Concord, ON, 1996).. 178 pp, small 8vo, soft cover with self-flaps. "This collection of new and selected poems presents the best of Cooley's work: the meditations and memories, the games and the lyrics, the elegies and the dramatic monologues, and the poems of careful. ly wrought observation." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. VG+. more information

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Windrush, Gloucestershire, (1993), Ist edition.. 163 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN: 0900075236 B&w map, wood engravings. "This collection of poems has been selected by the singer and songwriter, Johnny Coppin, to celebrate the 'spirit of place' and evoke the atmosphere and. character of the area. (It) is a meandering journey from the source to the sea, featuring spectacular hills and quiet valleys, moorlands and forests, cathedral cities, historic towns and villages. John Betjeman, Mary Webb, A.E. Housman and Ivo. r G urney are some of the established poets chosen, but the anthology also has many contemporary writers such as R.S. Thomas, U.A. Fanthorpe, and Helen Dunmore who have found inspiration in the border counties..." Includes 'Index of First Lines', . 'I n de x of Poets', and 'Information on Albums and Settings'. Dust jacket has minor soiling, one tiny closed tear on rear panel. Fine/VG+. more information

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Harper & Row, New York, (1987), Ist edition.. 95 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "(Dana) is a writer of strong, rich experience, which spans the city slums where he was born and came of age to the fields and skies and town life of Iowa where he has lived and taught for the past thirty years...his . poems are often rooted in the harsh soil of his early memories...Tense to the point of being enigmatic, Dana is a poet whose voice one trusts: what he says he feels is validated by the precision and force of the saying itself..." Minor edgewear to. boards. Dust jacket has very minor edgewear/rubbing. VG+/VG+. more information

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Coach House Press, Toronto, (1984), Ist edition.. 39 pp, 8vo, soft cover. SIGNED AND DATED ON TITLE PAGE - "Frank Davey/Jan. 86". "Edward and Patricia are children of the sixties, who stumble through sex, marriage, generation gap, career, birth control, the counter-culture, domestic violence, the. sexual revolution, domestic bliss, and sex hilariously and tragically into our own time. (The author's) rollicking poetic fiction captures not only a period but two engaging people whose hopes and conflicts are still very much part of ours.". A u t h or's photo on back cover by Michael Ondaatje. Interior - clean and tight. Covers have small creases at corners, light/moderate edgewear, some scuffing with small areas of color loss, especially on front cover near spine and at corners, mi. n or s oi li ng. Scan available on request. G+. more information

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Price/Stern/Sloan, Lost Angeles, 1978.. Unpaginated (approx. 40 pp.), 6" H, stapled in wraps. These are REALLY bad poems. For example, 'To Stephen Foster' consists of a page full of 'DOODAH DOODAH'... Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewe. ar/scuffing. VG. more information

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Faber and Faber, London, (1989), 75th anniversary edition.. 111 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "...exquisitely suble colour illustrations and mysterious black and white vignettes by the young artist Louise Brierley..." "This seventy-fifth anniversary edition contains the complete and revised text (of the 1969. edition)." Minor edgewear to boards, otherwise the book is clean and tight with no previous ownership markings. Dust jacket has minor edgewear/rubbing/wrinkling, a few tiny dints to rear panel. VG+/VG. more information

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Gallimard, n.p., (1969).. 571 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H), soft cover. FRENCH TEXT. Interior - previous owners bookplate and chop (stamp) on first page, a few pages with very soft corner crease, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear/. wrinkling - moderate to heavy at top/bottom of spine, soft creases on spine, soft crease on rear cover, light rubbing. Good.. more information

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Goldenglow Publications, n.p., 1977, first edition.. 93 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover. B&w photographs, drawings. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. A collection of the author's poems and some reminiscences on life in rural Halton County, Ontario. Contents: Introduction; Country Wife; Children; Rural Lif. e; Farming; Travel; Women's Institute; Country Churches; Nature. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light browning and foxing marks - mainly on front cover and spine. Good+. more information

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Scolar Press, Menston, Yorkshire, 1973, facsimile of London, 1685 edition.. 495 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0854179380 "The purpose of the Scholar Press General Series is to issue in facsimile works which have contributed historically and, usually, imaginatively to the broad development of literatu. re in the English language. Major works, which may be familiar but whose impact is often veiled by the inaccuracies and obfuscations of later editions, are included in accurate facsimiles of authoritative or otherwise significant early texts...". P revious owners name/date on free front endpaper, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light edge wear to boards, one very small corner bump, very minor soiling on bottom of textblock. Dust jacket has very light edge wear, a few tiny tear. s w ith creases at top of spine - one other tiny closed tear. VG/VG. more information

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Chilmark, New York, 1974, first American edition.. 64 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0872850005 "With his two earlier volumes, 'Terry Street' and 'The Happier Life', Douglas Dunn has already secured for himself a firm and prominent place among the ranks of our younger poets. His . new volume, 'Love or Nothing', will consolidate and ehance it." Small sticker mark on free front endpaper, very light edge wear. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling at top of spine and flap-folds, minor rubbing. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Atheneum, New York, 1972, Ist edition.. 63 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1972. Cover art reproduces William Blake's 'Adam Naming the Beasts'. "The voice of these poems is clear and strong, rising as it does out of the earth to 'the celebrations of . the reeds,' living simply and daily among cat-tail, wren, peacock, children, women...These are poems of the real triumphs we seldom understand, the visions of dawn and dusk over the fields and cities where we live, poems that finally embrace even th. e emptiness 'tasting it bitten face'. The book also includes a group of superb reconstructions of Aztec poems..." Bequest bookplate on free front endpaper. Dust jacket has very light edge wear at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light brow. i n g to spine anf flap-folds, small closed tear at top of rear panel. VG+/VG. more information

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Panther, (St. Albans, Herts., 1973), reprint.. 124 pp, PB. An anthology of "the best space age poetry by new and established poets..." Short author biographies at rear. Interior - pages browning, a few small dog-ears, two page with tiny tears to fore edge - otherwise clean and tight with no p. revious ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, tiny dint to bottom of textblock, soft creasing to front cover, spine flat and uncreased. G+. more information

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Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1946, first edition.. 39 pp, 7 3/8" H, hard cover in dust jacket. A collection of poems by a Canadian author from Victoria, British Columbia, arranged in three parts. The first, devoted to the Second World War includes the title poem as well as Four Horsemen Ride; Jew . Baiting; Scorched Earth; Victory; etc., while the second, entitled 'Forest Music Lyrics' includes Winter, Autumn, Forest Fire; etc. The book concludes with a longer poem - Reindeer Saga. Light browning to endpapers, very light wrinkling at top/bot. tom of spine. Dust jacket has moderate edge wear/wrinkling, a few edge tears, light soiling and rubbing, two tiny closed tears on front hinge. Very Good/Good. more information

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New Directions, New York, 1986, first edition.. 123 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0811210103 "Relatively unknown in the West, (this book) is a fascinating, though often baffling, archaic collection of 186 'questions' about the origins of life and the meaning of a wide vari. ety of happenings startling and mundane, earthly and celestial. Because the poem has no single narrative thread, the most informed speculation posits group authorship by a number of roving Taoist scholars, each contributing riddles about the hist. o r y and legends of his own province as well as ironically posed inquiries into the nature of the universe. The enigmatic and sometimes Sphinxlike conundrums may have been originally intended for debate - to give the popular and prominent dialecti. ci an s of over 2,300 years ago a tool for honing their convoluted responses. But however the poem took on its present shape and content, it remains the single most comprehensive catalogue of ancient Chinese mythology and pre-Imperial legend in exi. ste nce . This translation....combines sound scholarship with an artful grace to produce the 186 questions in couplets that both tease and enchant. In addition to a historical introduction that clearly explains what is known and not known about th. e po em, Field provides extensive notes to help the English-speaking reader understand the basic Chinese myths alluded to in the questions." The poem is presented in Chinese 'li-shi' script opposite the English text. Previous owner's chop (stamp p. n hal f-ti tle page, tiny bump to top edge of both boards. Dust jacket is price clipped, minor rubbing. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934, Ist edition.. 60 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), hard cover (green cloth with black title blocks on spine and front cover, gold lettering) - no dust jacket. Interior - bequest bookplate on free front endpaper, pages browning very lightly, otherwise clean and tight w. ith no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light browning to edges of covers, textblock and on spine, tiny scuff on rear board. VG-. more information

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Jarrold, Norwich, 1985.. 64 pp, 9 5/8" H, soft cover. ISBN 0711701873 Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with photographs and reproductions. Contents: Introduction; Scotland's Farmer Poet; Robert Burns Country Map; The Burns Federation; Verses (including My Heart's . in the Highlands, A Man's a Man for a' That, Afton Water, The Bonny Banks of Ayr, The Banks o' Doon, Scots, Wha Hae, The Cotter's Saturday Night*, To a Mouse, Address to Edinburgh, The Highland Laddie, Tam o' Shanter*, etc.). * indicates selected v. erses only. Interior - very slightly cracked at contents page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - small minor crease on rear cover. Very Good. more information

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University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, (1988), 5th printing.. 150 pp, small 8vo PB. Illustrated by Sue Roniger. "(The author's) admirable introduction gives a clear and orthodox summary of Hesiod's life and times, reviews the Near Eastern parallels, and offers a brief analysis of Hesiod's poetic style...The . 'Theogany' and 'Works and Days' are both divided into short segments. Each of these segments is given a descriptive sub-title, and each is followed by short interpretive comments ...these notes should reduce the frustrations of teaching Hesiod in t. ranslation and invite students to appreciate the richness of detail in his poetry." Clean and tight, with no previous ownership marks - very minor yellowing to rear cover. VG+. more information

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Twayne, Boston, (1991), Ist printing.. 143 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "...draws on rare contemporary documents collected over the thirty years since the poetry renaissance's peak to recreate the atmosphere of San Francisco's North Beach during the movement's height and to offer. the first in-depth analysis and evaluation of its lasting contribution to American literature and culture. His starting point is 'Beatitude', the sole printed souvenir of the beat generation's attempt to operate collectively...distinguishes be. t w e e n the 'downbeat' style that characterizes the familiar work of Ginsberg and Kerouac, and the 'upbeat' writing of Whalen and Snyder, examines the works of previously overlooked women writers Lenore Kandel and Diane DiPrima, and highlights the. p ar ti ci pation of minorities such as David Rafael Wang. A brief introductory history of the San Francisco poetry renaissance's roots in earlier counterculture movements on the East and West coasts, together with the clarificatin of often-used (. and fr equ ent ly confounded) terms...will make this volume invaluable to anyone interested in indigenous American literature and the continuing resonance of the American transcendentalist tradition." Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust . jack et h as v ery light edgewear/wrinkling. VG+/VG. more information

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