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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE: WITH A MEMOIR. RIVIERE & SON BINDING.

By: (Brooke, Rupert.) Memoir by E. Marsh.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson: 1926

Seller ID: 30487

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good-

clix (Memoir), 160 pp, 7 1/8" H. Riviere & Son binding (stamped on verso of free front endpaper) - blue leather spine/corners, marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.Two tissue-covered b&w portraits. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) is best known for his war sonnets, particularly "The Soldier". Previous owner's small bookplate on front free endpaper; small chip at bottom edge of half-title page; small light foxing mark on page lxxix, tiny foxing mark on one other page and a small light line mark on another; brown...
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Image for THE ONLY TRUE MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES. AN EXACT REPRODUCTION OF THE TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION PUBLISHED AND COPYRIGHTED IN BOSTON IN THE YEAR 1833 BY MUNROE & FRANCIS.

THE ONLY TRUE MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES. AN EXACT REPRODUCTION OF THE TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION PUBLISHED AND COPYRIGHTED IN BOSTON IN THE YEAR 1833 BY MUNROE & FRANCIS.

By: (Mother Goose). Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale. Edited by Harriet Blackstone C. Butler.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard: 1905

Seller ID: 30551

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 100 pp, 24mo (5 3/4" H). Yellow paper-covered boards, reproducing the illustration from the original 1833 edition (as does the dust jacket), cream-coloured cloth spine. B&w illustrations, black borders to pages. Signed "Harriet Blackstone C. Butler" at the bottom of the Introduction and with a quotation in the same hand on the front free endpaper, dated 1929. This facsimile of the 1833 "Mother Goose" begins with a "History of the Goose Family", which claims an American origin for the collection of nursery rhymes. Light browning to endpapers, slight toning to pages, slight variation to c...
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Image for ROBIN HOOD: A COLLECTION OF ALL THE ANCIENT POEMS, SONGS, AND BALLADS, NOW EXTANT, RELATIVE TO THAT CELEBRATED ENGLISH OUTLAW; TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED HISTORICAL ANECDOTES OF HIS LIFE.

ROBIN HOOD: A COLLECTION OF ALL THE ANCIENT POEMS, SONGS, AND BALLADS, NOW EXTANT, RELATIVE TO THAT CELEBRATED ENGLISH OUTLAW; TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED HISTORICAL ANECDOTES OF HIS LIFE.

By: (Ritson, Joseph)

Price: $375.00 USD

Publisher: (London), Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown / and T. Boys: 1820

Seller ID: 30473

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good+

x, lxxiv, 240 pp, 16mo (6 1/2" H). Full green textured leather with darker green stamped borders on front/rear boards. Spine has elaborate blind stamped decoration, gilt banding & date, brown leather title label with gilt lettering. All edges red. Plain brown endpapers, b&w vignette on title page, genealogical chart, small b&w tail pieces. Oval purple stamp on verso of title page "Alexander Gardyne 1883". Mr. Rtison's work, originally published in a small two volume edition in 1795, is here reprinted for the first time in one volume, retaining "only a portion of Mr. Ritson's notes. The rest...
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MOTHER GOOSE. SEVENTY-SEVEN VERSES WITH PICTURES BY TASHA TUDOR.

By: (Tudor, Tasha, illustrator.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1945

Seller ID: 29682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

87 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on front board. Pictorial endpaper, beautifully illustrated throughout with Tasha Tudor's charming colour and b&w drawings. Contents include: Bye, baby, bunting; Ding, dong, bell; Georgey Porgey, pudding and pie; Heigh, diddle, diddle; Hickory, dickery, dock; Hot Cross Buns!; Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall; Jack and Jill went up the hill; Jack Spratt could eat no fat; Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home; Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, London bridge is broken down; March winds and April showers; Mary, Mary, ...
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SELECTED POEMS.

By: Aiken, Conrad.

Price: $175.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1929

Seller ID: 29581

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

361 pp, 8 1/2" H. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering/decorative banding, patterned paper-covered boards. *Lacking the publisher's slipcase.* No. 3 of 210 copies, numbered and signed by Conrad Aiken on the limitation page. Aiken was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 'Selected Poems' in 1930. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Adrianne / on the way to / Hollywood / from / Philip Merivale / March : 1932". Philip Merivale was born in India, began his acting and screenwriting career in England, later moving to Los Angeles. This book is from the library of the actor Raymond...
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PERSON & PLACE: A CANADIAN GARLAND.

By: Alden, John, foreword by. (Inscribed by John Alden.) (L'Ange, Pierre Motin, Marc Lescarbot, Roger Viets.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: G.K. Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1974.:

Seller ID: 12556

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 tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - tiny crease at bottom corner of rear cover, slight cr...
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FIRST FLIGHT: THE STORY OF ORVILLE AND WILBUR WRIGHT AT KITTY HAWK, NORTH CAROLINA. SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION.

By: Andrews, John Williams. Signed. Introduction by William A. Ong.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Pavilion Press, Westport, Connecticut, (1963), No. 396 of a limited edition of 2000 copies.:

Seller ID: 11002

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-
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POETRY AND PROSE OF A. LINCOLN.

By: Angle, Paul M. and Miers, Earl Schenck, edited, with introduction by. (Abraham Lincoln.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tennessee, (1956), privately printed in an edition of 1500 copies, soley for distribution among friends.:

Seller ID: 10653

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; Matthew 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. Exterior - very light wrinkling at bottom of hinges, very light yelowing to spine, minor edge wear to boa...
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TWENTY-SIX CLASSICAL SONGS BY VARIOUS COMPOSERS. NOVELLO'S SCHOOL SONGS, BOOK 240.

By: Arne, Michael; Arne, Thomas Augustine; Bach, J.S.; Bennett, W. Sterndale; Handel, G.F.; Haydn, J.; Lully; Mendelssohn; Purcell, Henry; Schubert, Franz, Composers. Words by William Shakespeare, Rev. Dr. Troutbeck, Goethe, Heine, W.G. Rothery, et al.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Novello: 1936

Seller ID: 30387

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

100 pp, 10" H. Words and music for the following songs: The Lass with the Delicate Air; When daisies pied; Where the bee sucks; Come, let us all this day; My heart, ever faithful; May-dew; Angels, ever bright and fair; Art thou troubled?; How beautiful are the feet; Where'er you walk; The Mermaid's Song; The Sailor's Song; Lonely Woods; Lord, at all times; O for the wings of a dove; On Wings of Song; The First Violet; Nymphs and Shepherds; The Knotting Song; Hark! hark! the Lark!; Rose among the Heather; The Erl-King; The Fishermaiden; The Trout; To Music; Whither. Interior - light toning to...
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BARBED LYRES: CANADIAN VENOMOUS VERSE.

By: Atwood, Margaret, foreword. (Tom Denholm, Glen Stone, Denis Woollings, Brian Davis, Gerry MacIntosh, Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, Hoard Engel, Tomson Highway, Dennis Lee, Robert Priest, al Purdy, Charles Pachter, Mavor Moore, Don Harron, et al.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1990

Seller ID: 30244

ISBN: 1550132520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

112 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations by political cartoonist Aislin. "(W)inning entries and special celebrity submissions from a nationwide contest for satircal verse (judged by) author Margaret Atwood, columnist Allan Fotheringham and songwriter Nancy White. Over 100 of the best entries are featured. Also included are poems submitted by invitation from: Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, Howard Engel, Don Harron, Tomson Highway, Dennis Lee, Mavor Moore, Susan Musgrave, Eric Nichol, Charles Pachter, Robert Priest, Al Purdy, Erika Ritter, Robin Skelton, et al." A 1/2" dia raised area under the ...
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THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY.

By: Atwood, Margaret.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 18468

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

69 pp, 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 its 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 M...
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THE FABER BOOK OF WAR POETRY.

By: Baker, Kenneth, ed. (Wilfred Owen, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy Parker, A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Joy Corfield, Herman Melville, et al.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1996

Seller ID: 16641

ISBN: 0571174531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

598 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "Where previous war anthologies have confined themselves to particular periods or ideological outlooks, Kenneth Baker's takes a catholic view and benefits from a wider exploration of material, classical and modern, English and foreign-language. He has given preference to poems with a strong documentary or psychological realism, and the entire book is divided into sections dealing with such matters as 'The Patriotic Imperative', 'Recruitment', 'Weapons', 'Leadership', 'Civilian Victims', 'Conscientious Objection', 'Views of Death', and 'Gallantry and Heroism'. ...
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THE FABER BOOK OF WAR POETRY.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1996

Seller ID: 29093

ISBN: 0571174531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

RIVER OF LIFE.

By: Ballard, Joy Mackinnon.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Self-published: 1983

Seller ID: 29586

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good -

72 pp, 8 1/2" H. Signed on back of title page: "Joy M. Ballard". "This collection of verses expressing some of my thoughts and feelings, is presented in the hope that it may be of help to someone, by bringing back memories, evoking a smile, lifting a spirit, stimulating positive thinking, or renewing a faith." "Joy Mackinnon Ballard was born in Toronto on April 23, 1922. She was educated at Brank-some Hall School in Toronto, received her B.A. degree from Victoria College, University of Toronto and her M.D. degree from the University of Toronto Medical School." Mother and doctor, "(s)he was...
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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK. IN AID OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF YORK HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

By: Barrie, J.M.; Kipling, Rudyard; Young, Francis Brett; Chesterton, G.K.; Uncle Dick (B.J. Lamb); Blackwood, Algernon; Struther, Jan; Tourtel, Mary; Bagnold, Enid; Davies, W.H; Hilton, James; Mackenzie, Compton; Asquith, Herbert; de la Mare, Walter; et al.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1935

Seller ID: 30663

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

224 pp, 10" H. No date, but c1935. White cloth with blue lettering/decoration & silver crown and capital 'E' on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth, and illustrations by Sylvia Salisbury (2), A.H. Watson, Herbert Foxwell, Frank Salisbury and H.M. Talintyre. B&w illustrations by Paul Bloomfield, Mary Tourtel, Bip Pares, A.B. Payne (cartoons), Herbert Foxwell, H.M. Talintyre, Laurian Jon...
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A COUNTRYMAN'S VERSE.

By: Beddington, Roy. Signed and inscribed by author.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Alembic Press, (Winchester, Hampshire, 1981), No. 150 of edition limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.:

Seller ID: 12557

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
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A MORAL ALPHABET. IN WORDS FROM ONE TO SEVEN SYLLABLES.

By: Belloc, H. (Hilaire).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth: 1950

Seller ID: 12675

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

63 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H) - black lettering on spine and front board, black and dark green illustration on front board. B&w illustrations. A comic alphabet in rhyme. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean 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.
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CAUTIONARY TALES AND OTHER VERSES.

By: Belloc, Hilaire.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 1997

Seller ID: 29642

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160 pp, 9" H. Olive green cloth printed with a design by Posy Simmonds in red, yellow, black & white, yellow endpapers, bright red slipcase. Eight full-page colour illustrations (including frontispiece) plus numerous b&w drawings. Contents: Cautionary Tales for Children; New Cautionary Tales; The Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts for Worse Children; More Peers; A Moral Alphabet; Ladies and Gentlemen; The Modern Traveller. Light wear at top of spine, very light wear at corners, very minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Slipcase has minor rubbing/soiling on one side panel.
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GIFTS OF THE YEAR AND OTHER POEMS.

By: Bevan, Molly.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1927

Seller ID: 22294

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good reading copy only.

67 pp, 7 3/4" H - black cloth with title blocks pasted on spine and front board. B&w frontispiece photograph of author. A collection of poems by a Canadian author, including: Canoeing at Dusk; Autumn Fires; Thanksgiving 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 front endpapers, book cracked at pages 40/41, moderate browning to edges of textblock, slight bump and light wear at corners of boards...
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LAST MAKINGS.

By: Birney, Earle. (Introduction by Al Purdy.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, (Toronto, 1991), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 5971

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 fl a t a n d u n c r e a sed. NF
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