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Toronto: NC Press, 1972. 112 pp. Signed by Milton Acorn on the front endpaper. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a slightly faded but uncreased spine; minor rubbing on the front cover; aside from the poet's signature, no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Bethuniverse; Poem on Life Insurance and Combat; I'll be a Statue to Myself; At Dawson Creek Hotel; It's the Last Stormtime; The Dolphin Knight; In Ottawa Streets; When the Ship of Villainy Went Down; To the Canadian Ruling Class; Ode to the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church; The Sleeping Giant; My Love's Been Bitten; The Schooner Blue Goose; The Man All Sprocketed with Shadows; War Bonnet; Gentle Goddess; and many more.. ISBN: 091960001X. Signed by Author. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. canadian author poet; canadian poetry award;. more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983. 221 pp. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on a slightly faded spine; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: In This Game There Needs to Be No Losers; The One-Eyed Seaman; Blackfish Poem; The Plunge; Of Martyrs; Restaurant Scene; The Trout Pond; Images for the Season; Poem with Fat Cats in the Background; Knowing I Live in a Dark Age; Here's to the Bottle; I'll Cast a Silver Bullet; The Second World War; If You're Stronghearted; What I Know of God Is This; First Wife Sonnet; Aurora Borealis; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0771000030. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. canadian author;. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1986. 269 pp. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the covers and spine; previous owner's name on the front endpaper; no other interior markings. Herein are the lyrics to songs too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Rule Britannia by James Thomson; Heart of Oak by David Garrick; The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore; The Wearing of the Green by Dion Boucicault; When Johnny Comes Marching Home - anonymous; Keep the Home Fires Burning by Lena Guilbert Ford; The White Cliffs of Dover by Nat Burton; The Wassail Song - anonymous; To Be a Pilgrim by John Bunyan; All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander; Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow by Sabine Baring-Gould; Greensleeves - anonymous; Song to Silvia by William Shakespeare; There is a Lady Sweet and Kind by Thomas Ford; O My Luve is like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns; Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns; Comin' thro' the Rye - anonymous; Bredon Hill by A. E. Housman; The English Rose by Basil Hood; Spanish Ladies - anonymous; Bonnie Dundee by Sir Walter Scott; A Policeman's Lot is not a Happy One by W. S. Gilbert; All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor by A. J. Mills, and many, many more.. ISBN: 0571151337. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. more information

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Toronto: Wolsak and Wynn, 1989. 78 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Stepping Stones; Circles; The New Physics; Tapestry; Single Parent; City Hall Wedding Room; Hum Combing; Syntactics; Guilty as Charged; Dog Knows; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0919897169. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo. canadian author poet;. more information

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United States: The Red Pagoda, 1984. 59 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Light wear on the corners with a paperclip mark at the upper edge of the front cover. Writing by: John J. Carey; Jane K. Lambert; Gloria H. Procsal; Tim Peeler; Emma J. Blanch; Yvonne M. Hardenbrook; Leon J. Breshears; Lorraine E. Harr; David Elliott; Jane Andrew; Lequita Watkins; and many, many more.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. japanese culture; japan; haiku;. more information

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London, Ontario: The Clean Snatch Jerk'n Press, 1973. Unpaginated. Staple-bound in card covers. Signed by Les Arnold on the half-title page. Light rubbing on the corners; aside from author's writing, no interior markings. Scans are available for all books.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. canadian poet author; ephemera;. more information

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Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1976. 240 pp. Edge and corner wear with some very minor creasing on a slightly faded spine; no interior markings. This volume contains selections from: The Circle Game; The Animals in that Country; The Journals of Susanna Moodie: Journal One; Journal Two; Journal Three; Procedures for Underground; Power Politics; and You Are Happy; along with two sections entitled: Songs of the Transformed; and Circle/Mud Poems. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Eventual Proteus; Journey to the Interior; Against Still Life; The Landlady; At the Tourist Centre in Boston; Speeches for Dr Frankenstein; The Reincarnation of Captain Cook; Disembarking at Quebec; Death of a Young Son by Drowning; Daguerrotype Taken in Old Age; Game after Supper; Dreams of the Animals; Younger Sister Going Swimming; You Fit Into Me; We Hear Nothing; Hesitations Outside the Door; Tricks with Mirrors; Pig Song; Siren Song; Eating Fire; and many many more. . ISBN: 0195402510. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. canadian author; governor general's award;. more information

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Boston: Atlantic Little Brown, 1968. 69 pp. Violet cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This collection contains: Provisions; The Animals in that Country; The Surveyors; A Foundling; Part of a Day; The Shadow Voice; Attitudes Towards the Mainland; Notes from Various Pasts; The Green Man; The Landlady; A Fortification; The Festival; At the Tourist Centre in Boston; A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum; The Totems; Elegy for the Giant Tortoises; The Gods Avoid Revealing Themselves; River; What Happened; and Roominghouse - Winter. Scans are available for all books.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Author's Second Book. canadian author; governor general's award;. more information

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Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1971. 58 pp. Released simultaneously with the hardcover. Light edge and corner wear with some creasing on the lower right of the front cover; no interior markings. Scans are available for all books. . ISBN: 0887840205. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. canadian author; governor general's award;. more information

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Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982. (xl) 477 pp. Blue cloth decorated in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name inside; no other interior markings. The dustjacket features Wicker Chair by David Milne. Herein are poems and poets too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: The Pleasant Life in Newfoundland by Robert Hayman; A Battle; The Dark Stag; and others by I. Valancy Crawford; The Log Jam by W. H. Drummond; Tantramar Revisited; The Herring Weir; and others by Charles G. D. Roberts; The City of the End of Things; Winter Evening; and others by Archibald Lampman; Indian Summer; The Winter Lakes; and others by Wilfred Campbell; Low Tide on Grand Pre; Lord of My Heart's Elation; and Morning in the Hills by Bliss Carman; At the Cedars; At Gull Lake: August 1810; and others by Duncan Campbell Scott; Ojistoh; and Marshlands by Pauline E. Johnson; In Flanders Fields by John McCrae; The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service; The Shark; The Truant; and others by E. J. Pratt; Quiet; Two Souls; and Pere Lalemant by Marjorie Pickthall; Anglosaxon Street; The Bear on the Delhi Road; and others by Earle Birney; Dazzle; and Cold by Dorothy Roberts; Quebec Farmhouse; The Entailed Farm; and One Last Word by John Glassco; The Cold Green Element; The Fertile Muck; Butterfly on a Rock; and others by Irving Layton; Imagine the South and others by George Woodcock; Icons; Old Women of Toronto; and others by Miriam Waddington; Garcia Lorca; Coming Suddenly to the Sea; and The Dead by Lous Dudek; Remains of an Indian Village; Wilderness Gothic; and others by Al Purdy; The Fights; Knowing I Live in a Dark Age; and others by Milton Acorn; In the Operating Room; The Bull Moose; and others by Alden Nowlan; A Kite is a Victim; You Have the Lovers; Heirloom; I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries; and The Killers that Run by Leonard Cohen; Death of a Young Son by Drowning; Marrying the Hangman; and others by Margaret Atwood; Manzini: Escape Artist; The Thing is Violent; and others by Gwendolyn MacEwen; Burning Hills; Breaking Green; and others by Michael Ondaatje; and many, many more, including work by: Joseph Stansbury; Standish O'Grady; Charles Sangster; Charles Mair; F. G. Scott; Kenneth Leslie; Raymond Knister; Ralph Gustafson; A. M. Klein; Dorothy Livesay; Malcolm Lowry; George Johnston; Patrick Anderson; Bertram Warr; Raymond Souster; Elizabeth Brewster; Eli Mandel; Rona Murray; James Reaney; Jay MacPherson; Patrick Lane; Daphne Marlatt; and many others.. ISBN: 0195403967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by David Milne;. 8vo. canadian author poet canadiana;. more information

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London: Galaxy Records, 1976. Unpaginated. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Madbrains Watkins and His Travelling Fair; Sam and the Parrafin Man; The Frogmarch; Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth; In Fear of the Butcher; In Defence of Hedgehogs; and more.. ISBN: 0950477400. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. opportunity knocks;. more information

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Hamilton, Ontario: Hamilton Haiku Workshop Press, 1985. 83 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Edge and corner wear; no interior markings. Writing by: Wayne Ray; Belle Avery; Shaunt Basmajian; Herb Batt; Catherine M. Buckaway; John J. Carey; Suzanne Duce; Chris Faiers; William Hart; Linda Hutton; Beth Jankola; Irving Kalushner; Don L. A. Keegan; Karen Kusch; Jean McDavid; Lenard D. Moore; Mary Partridge; J. B. Reynolds; Ronald Rice; Margaret Saunders; Jeff Seffinga; Dorothy Cameron Smith; Felicity Swart; George Swede; and Lorraine Vernon.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. japanese culture; japan; haiku;. more information

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Hamilton, Ontario: Hamilton Haiku Workshop Press, 1985. 83 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Light wear on the corners; no interior markings. Writing by: Wayne Ray; Belle Avery; Shaunt Basmajian; Herb Batt; Catherine M. Buckaway; John J. Carey; Suzanne Duce; Chris Faiers; William Hart; Linda Hutton; Beth Jankola; Irving Kalushner; Don L. A. Keegan; Karen Kusch; Jean McDavid; Lenard D. Moore; Mary Partridge; J. B. Reynolds; Ronald Rice; Margaret Saunders; Jeff Seffinga; Dorothy Cameron Smith; Felicity Swart; George Swede; and Lorraine Vernon.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. japanese culture; japan; haiku;. more information

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New York: New Directions, 1958. (xvii) 168 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Along with Three Drafts of a Preface by Baudelaire, this contains poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: The Blessing; Don Juan in Hell; The Punishment of Pride; The Dancing Serpent; Reversibility; Invitation to the Voyage; The Sadness of the Moon; The Seven Old Men; The Gaming Table; Parisian Dream; Litany to Satan; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 081120006X. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo. french poet; literature; collectible;. more information

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England: Private Printing, 1945. 55 pp. Staple-bound in card covers. Edge and corner wear with some minor discolouration on the covers. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: War and Peace; A New Year's Greeting; England - Our Heritage; The Clock; Dream of Dreams; The Youth of England; It All Depends on You; Full Private; Home Ahoy; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good-. 12mo. world war two 2 ii 2nd second; military; ephemera;. more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. Unpaginated. Signed by Earle Birney on the half-title page. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and an uncreased spine. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Once Upon a High Hill; The Mammoth Corridors; First Flight; Toronto March; Halifax; Newfoundland; If Only Someone Else Would Come; The Marriage; Pnome; Found Prose from the Leacock Centennial; Strine Authors Meet; Song for Sunsets; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0771014090. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. leacock humour humor medal award; canadian author;. more information

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St. Catherines, Ontario: Old Registry House, 1977. 53 pp. Inscribed on the half-title page to a previous owner by E. J. Blair. Black cloth with the title and a small pictorial stamped into the front panel; lettered in white on the spine; black endpapers. Illustrated with line drawings by G. P. Debenham. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name inside. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0969066201. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by G. P. Debenham;. 8vo. west indies; west indian; black magic; black studies;. more information

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Boston: Beacon Press, 1977. 71 pp. Personalised inscription by Robert Bly on the half-title page. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white drawings.. ISBN: 0807063797. Signed by Author. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. hindu; sufis; 15th century master kabir;. more information

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Tokyo and San Francisco: The Hokuseido Press - Heian International, 1982. (ix) Pages 977 - 1300. Light rubbing on the corners with a faint crease on the spine; previous owner's name inside - Canadian poet John J. Carey; no other interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. . ISBN: 089346161X. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Association Copy. japan; japanese art;. more information

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Tokyo and San Francisco: The Hokuseido Press - Heian International, 1982. (viii) Pages 641 - 976. Light rubbing on the corners with a faint crease on the spine; previous owner's name inside - Canadian poet John J. Carey; no other interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. . ISBN: 0893461601. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Association Copy. japan; japanese art;. more information

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New York: Dell Books, 1973. 108 pp. Dell Book 6956. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: General Custer versus the Titanic; San Francisco; The Pomegranate Circus; At the California Institute of Technology; Adrenalin Mother; A Postcard from Chinatown; Hollywood; The Rape of Ophelia; I Lie Here in a Strange Girl's Apartment; Indirect Popcorn; Milk for the Duck; The Horse That Had a Flat Tire; Kafka's Hat; Horse Race; The Garlic Meat Lady; and many more. Scans are available for all books. . First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. american counter culture; literature;. more information

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New York: Delta Books - Dell Publishing, 1968. 108 pp. Delta Book 6956. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine and some discolouration on the back cover; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: General Custer versus the Titanic; San Francisco; The Pomegranate Circus; At the California Institute of Technology; Adrenalin Mother; A Postcard from Chinatown; Hollywood; The Rape of Ophelia; I Lie Here in a Strange Girl's Apartment; Indirect Popcorn; Milk for the Duck; The Horse That Had a Flat Tire; Kafka's Hat; Horse Race; The Garlic Meat Lady; and many more. . Seventh Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. american counter culture; literature;. more information

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New York: Dell Books, 1973. 108 pp. Dell Book 6956. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: General Custer versus the Titanic; San Francisco; The Pomegranate Circus; At the California Institute of Technology; Adrenalin Mother; A Postcard from Chinatown; Hollywood; The Rape of Ophelia; I Lie Here in a Strange Girl's Apartment; Indirect Popcorn; Milk for the Duck; The Horse That Had a Flat Tire; Kafka's Hat; Horse Race; The Garlic Meat Lady; and many more. Scans are available for all books. . First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. american counter culture; literature;. more information

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New York: Delta Books - Dell Publishing, 1968. 108 pp. Delta Book 6956. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: General Custer versus the Titanic; San Francisco; The Pomegranate Circus; At the California Institute of Technology; Adrenalin Mother; A Postcard from Chinatown; Hollywood; The Rape of Ophelia; I Lie Here in a Strange Girl's Apartment; Indirect Popcorn; Milk for the Duck; The Horse That Had a Flat Tire; Kafka's Hat; Horse Race; The Garlic Meat Lady; and many more. Scans are available for all books. . Thirteenth Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. american counter culture; literature;. more information

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New York: Dodd Mead, 1936. 192 pp. Blue cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; sepia frontis. Light wear on the corners but faded on the spine; presentation plate on the front pastedown; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: 1905 - 1908; 1908 - 1911; Experiments; 1914; The South Seas; Other Poems; Grantchester; Appendix; and Rupert Brooke - A Biographical Note. Included herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: The Vision of the Archangels; The Song of the Pilgrim; The Wayfarers; I Said I Splendidly Loved You - It's Not True; Dust; Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia; The Goddess in the Wood; Choriambies; Tiare Tahiti; Waikiki; The Night Journey; Fafaia; The Dance; The True Beatitude; and many more.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. erotica; literature; antiquarian; collectible;. more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1946. 180 pp. First Thus - First Canadian Edtion. Navy blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine; silver facsimile signature on the front panel. Sepia frontis plate of Rupert Brooke. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; also some wear along the lower edge of the front board; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: 1905 - 1908: Day That I Have Loved; Sleeping Out: Full Moon; The Vision of the Archangels; The Song of the Pilgrims; The Wayfarers. 1908 - 1911: Success; Dust; Mummia; Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body; The One Before Last; Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia; Libido; Blue Evening; A Channel Passage. 1914: Peace; Safety; The Dead. The South Seas: Tiare Tahiti; The Great Lover; There's Wisdom in Women; One Day; Waikiki; Clouds. Other Poems: The Busy Heart; Unfortunate; The Chilterns; Beauty and Beauty; The Way That Lovers Use; and many many more. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. love; erotica eroticism; sensuality; collectible; antiquarian;. more information

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New York: Avon Books, 1950. Unpaginated. Avon Book 251. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the lower left of the back cover and an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by Fred A. Mayer.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Fred A. Mayer;. vintage paperback; collectible edition;. more information

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London: Penguin Books, 1938. 245 pp. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside; some pencil marks on the contents pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Iain Macnab. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Cavalier Tunes; The laboratory; Home Thoughts from Abroad; In a Gondola; A Grammarian's Funeral; Bishop Blougram's Apology; Pippa Passes; and many more. . First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Iain Macnab;. vintage paperback; collectible;. more information

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New York: Ecco - Harper Collins, 2002. 313 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine and an ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: red mercedes; the still trapeze; my friend the parking lot attendant; my first affair with an older woman; relentless as the tarantula; love poem to a stripper; trying to make it; nervous people; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0876856830. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. beat poetry; collectible;. more information

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New York: Ecco - Harper Collins, 2002. 256 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine and an ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Brave Bull; The Night They Took Whitey; The Japanese Wife; An Empire of Coins; I Wait in the White Rain; Horse on Fire; Death Wants More Death; One Night Stand; The Swans Walk My Brain; Cows in Art Class; A Rat Rises; Insomnia; Wrong Number; As I Lay Dying; The Mexican Girls; Eaten by Butterflies; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0876857322. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. beat poetry; collectible;. more information

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New York: Ecco - Harper Collins, 2002. 280 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine and an ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: talking to my mailbox; windy night; on being; promenade; space creatures; the lady poet; an old buddy; John Dillinger marches on; the miracle is the shortest time; macho man; dogs; Big John of Echo Park; out of the blue; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0876856377. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. beat poetry; collectible;. more information

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New York: Ecco - Harper Collins, 2002. 363 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine and an ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: God's man; field exercises; big night on the town; the mirror game; the smirking dark; life like a big tender glove; death in the modern age; too hot; the last song; the young poets; Belfast; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 157423028X. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. beat poetry; collectible;. more information

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New York: Ecco - Harper Collins, 1981. 281 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine and an ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: the lady in red; blue collar solitude; one for Sherwood Anderson; bad press; free coffee; black and white roach; true confession; suckerfish; virgins; message; the man at the piano; nightwork; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0876855257. Eleventh Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. beat poetry;. more information

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New York: Ecco - Harper Collins, 2002. 159 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine and an ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: the smoking car; the garbageman; girl in a miniskirt reading the bible; slim killers; the black poets; the painter; the passing of a dark gray moment; carnival; chilled green; american matador; tight pink dress; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0876851383. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. beat poetry; collectible;. more information

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London: George G. Harrap, 1930. 104 pp. First Thus. Actually undated. Green suede decorated with gilt on the front panel; gilt upper edge; beige endpapers. Light edge and corner wear with some fading on the front panel and spine; book plate on the first blank page. Colour frontis of Robert Burns; interior designs by Margaret Tarrant. Included herein are excerpts from poems too numerous to list, one excerpt for each day of the year. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Margaret Tarrant;. 12mo. robbie burns; scotland; scottish;. more information

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Sussex, England: The Book Guild, 1990. 271 pp. Signed by William Curran on a pasted-on label on the title page. Blue boards decorated in gilt on the spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the translator's signature, no interior markings; bumped on the upper edge of the front panel. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Tam O'Shanter; The Selkirk Grace; Bess and Her Spinning Wheel; To a Mouse; A Red Red Rose; The Cotter's Saturday Night; To a Mountain Daisy; Halloween; Scotch Drink; The Poet's Welcome to His Illegitimate Child; Highland Mary; Travelling Tinker's Song; The Book Worms; The Jolly Beggars; Auld Lang Syne; Tam Glen; and many more, translated from the original Scots dialect into English. Scans are available for all books. . ISBN: 0863324517. Signed by Translator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. scotland; scottish literature; robbie robert burns;. more information

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New York: The American News Company, 1890. (xx) 363 pp. First Thus - American News Complete Edition. Gold cloth decorated in gilt and black on the front panel and spine; decorated endpapers; gilt-edged all round; headband; illustrated with engravings. Light rubbing on the corners; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Pleasures of Hope; Martial Elegy - from the Greek of Tyrtaeus; Song of Hybrias the Cretan; Battle of the Baltic; The Battle Morn - a Troubadour Song for Waterloo; Gertrude of Wyoming; The Turkish Lady; The Brave Roland; The Wounded Hussar; The Power of Russia; Song of the Colonists Departing for New Zealand; To a Young Lady; On a Rural Beauty in Mull; Laudohn's Attack; The British Grenadiers; Trafalgar; Exile of Erin; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. literature;. more information

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New York: Dover Publications, 2001. 56 pp. First Thus - first appearance in this format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by John Tenniel. This collection contains: My Fairy; Punctuality; Melodies; Brother and Sister; Facts; Rules and Regulations; Horrors; Misunderstandings; As It Fell Upon a Day; Photography Extraordinary; Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour: The Palace of Humbug; How Doth; The Duchess's Lullaby; The Mouse's Tale; Father William; The Mad Hatter's Song; The Mock Turtle's Song; Alice's Recitation; Turtle Soup; Evidence Read at the Trial of the Knave of Hearts; Dedication; Jabberwocky; The Walrus and the Carpenter; Humpty Dumpty's Recitation; The White Knight's Ballad; A Sea Dirge; Hiawatha's Photographing; Melancholetta; Poeta Fit non Nascitur; My Fancy; A Bachanalian Ode; A Poem to Rachel Daniel; The Mad Gardener's Song; Peter and Paul; Matilda Jane; What Tottles Meant; The Little Man That Had a Little Gun; and The Pig Tale. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0486415821. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by John Tenniel;. 8vo. through the looking glass; alice's adventures in wonderland; syvie bruno;. more information

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New York: Ecco - Harper Collins, 2006. 232 pp. Quarter-bound in pale gray on pale gray boards; lettered in blue foil on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block. Dj art and interior illustrations by Leonard Cohen. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 006112558X. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. canadian author poet; collectible;. more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966. 76 pp. First Thus - first appearance in this format. Light edgewear with a faint crease on the upper right corner of the front cover and another faint crease on the spine; previous owner's name on the front endpaper; no other interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: The Song of the Hellenist; Pioneers; The Sparrows; When this American Woman; The Warrior Boats; Saint Catherine Street; Had We Nothing to Prove; Fragment of Baroque; Halloween Poem; On Certain Incredible Nights; Saviours; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Author's First Book. beautiful losers; favorite favourite game; flowers for hitler; let us compare mythologies; parasites of heaven; canadian author;. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1960. (vii) 150 pp. Green cloth decorated in gilt on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Poor Scholar; Dreamer of the New Hearth; Hired Scythesman; Branding Foals; Oisin Gormlai; Ishmael the Archer; Saint Brendan; A Connachtman; The Poor Girl's Mediation; Old Woman Selling Ducks; Tin Whistle Player; Saint Anne's Feast Day; Dermott Donn Macmorna; A Hundred Men Think I Am Theirs; I Went Out in the Evening; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. ireland; irish literature; yeats; gaels; gaelic; celts; celtic; eirinn; erin; eire; modern first; collectible; collectable;. more information

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. 100 pp. First U.S. Edition. Signed by Padraic Colum on the title page. Quarter-bound in brown cloth on brown boards; the front panel has a cream-coloured pasted-on label lettered in brown; lettered in gilt on the spine. Minor wear on the corners and at the head and foot of the spine; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; aside from the that, and the author's signature, no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: POEMS: COUNTRY LEGENDS: To a Poet; The Star; The Rune Master; The Poor Girl's Meditation; The Fair Hills of Eire. CREATURES AND THINGS SEEN: The Wild Ass; An Indian Showing Feats; The Hornet's Nest; Reminiscence. DRAMATIC LEGENDS: Swift's Pastoral; The Bird of Jesus; The Laments of Queen Gormlai; The Miracle of the Corn; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. ireland; irish literature; yeats; gaels; gaelic; celts; celtic; eirinn; erin; eire; modern first; collectible; collectable;. more information

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Montreal: Signal Editions - Vehicule Press, 1990. 102 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Wraparound cover art by J. W. Stewart. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Beneath the Silk Print of Bamboo; The First Sign of Transformation; In the Desert Air; The Eldest Daughter; Landscape with Moon and Shadow; Ice Fishing; The Surf on Guanabara Bay; Manaus; Porto Velho; Western Ireland; Equatorial Light; In African Moonlight; Texas; Private Fears; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 1550650084. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by J. W. Stewart;. 8vo. canadian author poet;. more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. 128 pp. Quarter-bound with brown cloth on decroated beige boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; beige endpapers. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. Wraparound dj art and interior line drawings by Gord Oglan. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: The Cannibal; Mary Anne; A Cablegram for Leonard Cohen; Nocturne for a Mexicali Motel; The Juggler; Cappelbaum's Friday Night; The Three Mouths of God; Canticle in Praise of Green Music; Xanadu with Tubas; Capilano Road; Balalaika Music for a Bourgeois Poet; A Letter to Bukowski; Epitaph for Stein; The Owl Behind the Door; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Gord Oglan;. 8vo. canadian author poet;. more information

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New York: Universal Library - Grosset and Dunlap, 1960. Unpaginated. Actually undated - circa 1960s. Universal Library UL-66. Light edge and corner wear with a small scuff mark on the lower left of the front cover and an uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: If you can't eat you got to; flotsam and jetsam; the Noster was a ship of swank; proud of his scientific attitude; harder perhaps than a newengland bed; as freedom is breakfastfood; love is the every only god; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. First Thus, Soft Cover. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. american poet;. more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1962. 73 pp. Quarter-bound in green cloth on blue boards; lettered in silver on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: for any ruffian of the sky; seeker of truth; plant Magic dust; fair ladies tall lovers; now is a ship; one winter afternoon; the trick of finding what you didn't lose; faithfully tinying at twilight voice; and many more. . ISBN: 0151813604. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. more information

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Berkeley, California: North Point Press, 1986. 56 pp. Gray cloth lettered in silver on the spine; red endpapers. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art by George Grosz, circa 1920.. ISBN: 0865472254. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by George Grosz;. 8vo. american literature; perry mason; sestinas; provencal poets;. more information

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Cleveland, Minnesota: Dark Closet - Straight Jacket Publications, 1994. 32 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Signed by Danya D'Arcy on the title page. Illustrated with line drawings by Margaret B. Simon. Very lightly rubbed on the corners; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Breathing Ashes; The Descent is Black; View from the Hospital Bed; Leaving; Navicular Subjugation; Red; Under the Deuce; Nonhuman Companion; and more. Scans are available for all books.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Margaret B. Simon;. 8vo. fantasy horror poetry; supernatural literature; ephemera;. more information

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Edmonton, Alberta: The University of Alberta Press, 2001. 70 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Jogie Road; The Nether World of 13 Maloney Street; Star Boys; Tropical Gunslinger; Radio; Down in the Country; Padagogy of the Oppressed; The Occupation; Bamboo; Bat and Ball; Dog Boy; Carnival and College; Tunapuna Walk; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0888643713. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. trinidad; black studies; canadian author poet;. more information

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Middlesex, England: Puffin Books, 1962. 158 pp. First Thus. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art and interior illustrations by Margery Gill. Included herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Precious Stones; The Bee's Song; Apple Fall; Two Deep Clear Eyes; Bunches of Grapes; Eeka Neeka; The Little Green Orchard; Nicholas Nye; Alas Alack; Poor Henry; Dame Hickory; Wild Are the Waves; and many more. Scans are available for all books.. First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Margery Gill;. more information

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