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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 Her...
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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+

ECHOES OF THE WAR. (CONTAINS: THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS; THE NEW WORD; BARBARA'S WEDDING; A WELL-REMEMBERED VOICE.)

By: Barrie, J.M.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1920

Seller ID: 19022

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good reading copy only.

188 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H) - dark green cloth with gold letteringon spine, blind stamp of Barrie's initials on front board. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Four plays by the author of 'Peter Pan' on the subject of war and its consequences. Previous owner's name/datre and small corner crease on front free endpaper, paper at inside rear hinge is split - joint still holding well, hinge crease on frontispiece which has a 2" tear and is now archivally taped, minor browning to endpapers, moderate edge wear - mainly at top/bottom of spine, two slight corner bumps, moderate browning to edges of...
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SERVICES WRENDERED.

By: Broome, Jack, Captain.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, William Kimber: 1974

Seller ID: 9363

ISBN: 0718303733

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

128 pp, 8 1/2" H. Profusely illustrated with cartoons in black, white, blue and red. "Records of World War II are incomplete without a tribute to the 'Fighting Services Title-Abbreviating Department', and the inspired minds therein which christened the Women's Royal Naval Service the WRENS. Surely the dedicated brood - such invaluable handmaidens to Britannia in her wave-ruling activities - owes something to such a delightful title. Captain Jack Broome also feels indebted to the Department for enabling him to call his gay, witty book of illustrated verses about these fledglings 'Se...
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PERSONAL NOTE.

By: Bruce, Charles.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1941

Seller ID: 27892

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8 pp, 7 7/8" H. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Esther Latimer with best regards Charles Bruce". A poem written after the death of Bruce's friend, Sam Robertson, Canadian Press War Correspondent, who was lost at sea through enemy action in 1941. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light wear on spine, minor edge wrinkling, browning to edges of covers, minor soiling.
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THE WOOD OF THE NIGHTINGALE.

By: Child, Philip.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press, Toronto: 1965

Seller ID: 7718

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

152 pp, 9 1/2" H. "(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 decisions, 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 edge wear to boards, slight wrinkling at top of spine, edges of textblock moderately foxed. Dust jacket has small ...
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FOR FREEDOM.

By: Creed, G.L., Squadron Leader, R.C.A.F. Foreword by Air Marshal W.A. Bishop.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada): 1942

Seller ID: 28463

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, 7 7/8" H. Wartime poems by Squadron Leader G.L. Creed, R.C.A.F. Contents: For Freedom; Britain Speaks; Call to America; Our Pledge; The Penguin's Prayer; The Little Folk of London; England Expects; To the Bird of the Single Wing; One Year of War; A Great American Speaks; Would You?; Wartime Christmas; A Christmas Greeting; To My Unknown Comrade; The Heroes of Thermopylae; Quislings - and Other Nahzee Birds; Farewell to H.M.C.S. Otter; Somebody's Son; An Easter Message; They Shall Not; Roll Out the Barrel; A Mother's Prayer; While Britain Stands; Welcome to a Good Neighbour; The U...
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ROUGH RHYMES OF A PADRE.

By: Kennedy, G.A. Studdert, M.C., C.F. "Woodbine Willie". Introduction by Llewellyn H. Gwynne.

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, Toronto, 1918, first Canadian edition.:

Seller ID: 22302

99 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover (red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. A collection of poems by a padre who served with the 46th and 24th Infantry Divisions of the B.E.F. during World War I. He earned th e nickname "Woodbine Willie" for dispensing the practical comfort of cigarettes along with his prayers for wounded and dying soldiers in France. Includes: The Sorrow of God; Prayer Before an Attack; Christmas; A Scrap of Paper; A Mother Un d e r s t a n d s ; English Land in France; His Mate; What are We Fighting for?, etc. Samll gree...
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THE NEW CRUSADERS AND OTHER POEMS.

By: King, Amabel. Inscribed.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1943

Seller ID: 22292

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

66 pp, 8vo (8 1/16" H) - green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Leslie Gordon Barnard. In memory of a very happy gathering when he was our guest speaker at the C.A.A. annual dinner, May 6th 1944, Toronto - Sincere regards, Amabel King". A collection of poems, gathered under the headings "War Poems" and "Peace Poems" with a decorated title page for each section by Wilson MacDonald. Light browning to edges of textblock, light fading to spine and at edges of boards, minor rubbing.
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SELECTED POEMS FROM THE PEN OF THE HONOURABLE MORRISON MANN MACBRIDE. VOLUME 1.

By: MacBride, Morrison Mann.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Brantford, Ontario, Ralph V. MacBride: 1938

Seller ID: 27978

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good-

149 pp, 8 3/4" H, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold lettering and decoration on front board. Two b&w photographs. Poems by a former mayor of Brantford, Ontario, who was a printer by trade and once the Minister of Labour for Ontario. Includes a 'Biographical Sketch' by his son, Ralph V. MacBride. Titles include, To the Folks: The printer man; The Crimes Beyond the Rhine: Who's to stay the hand of Hitler?; To-day and Then: In Flanders Fields the poppies grow; Christmas: Here's a wish for all good neighbours; Ireland: In Ireland now, a Spaniard rules; Saint Patrick's Day: It ...
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TECUMSEH, A DRAMA and CANADIAN POEMS.

By: Mair, Charles.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1901

Seller ID: 27815

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

276 pp, 7 11/16" H. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering/decoration on spine and front board. Tissue-covered b&w photographic frontispiece of author with facsimile signature, title page decorations by J.E. Laughlin, b&w portraits of Tecumseh and Brock. Contents: Part I. Tecumseh: A Drama; The Legend of Chileeli; A Ballad for Brave Women; The Last Bison; Missipowistic; The Iroquois at the Stake; Kanata; Vain Regrets; Open the Bay!; In Memory of Wm. A. Foster; Absence; The River of Pain; Cabot; Demos Tyrannus; The Recompense; Ruins; The Chain; Fulfilment. Part II. Dreamland; The Pines; A...
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BARBED WIRE BALLADS.

By: Melville, Tom (Scotty), Lieut.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Regina, School Aids and Text Book Publishing Co.: 1945

Seller ID: 29063

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good-

62 pp, 8" H. Green patterned endpapers, 2 b&w photographs, drawing. These ballads were written by an officer of the South Saskatchewan Regiment while in a German POW camp (Oflag VII/B) during WWII. Interior - two small splits in paper of front hinge, light browning to edges of endpapers, light browning to margins of pages, tiny crease and faint bump at top corner of pages, staples are rusty very small foxing mark on edge of pages 27 to 34. Exterior - edges of text block are browned, tiny scuff on top of text block, light to moderate edge wear on covers and spine, some small and tiny li...
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SEA DOGS AND MEN AT ARMS: A CANADIAN BOOK OF SONGS.

By: Middleton, Jesse Edgar. (Signed)

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1918, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21803

104 pp + "A Selection from the Catalogue of G.P. Putnam's Sons", small 8vo (7 13/16" H), hard cover (brick-coloured cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold lettering in an attractive gold border on front board). SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FREE FRONT ENDP APER. Tissue-covered colour frontispiece with permission slip tipped-in. A collection of 62 patriotic and military poems, including: H.M. Destroyer 'Broke'; A Soldier's Song; Arrived: H.M.S. 'Good Hope'; Off Heligoland; Off Ushant; Missi n g a t L l o yd's; A Wardroom Song; Trafalgar; Under The Black Eagle; The Zeppelin; Lord Kitch...
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THE BATTLE OF AUGHRIM. (ALSO INCLUDES: THE GOD WHO EATS CORN.)

By: Murphy, Richard.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1968.:

Seller ID: 11836

74 pp. 8vo (8 9/16" H), hard cover - no dust jacket. A poem about "The batttle of Aughrim (literally horse-ridge)...fought on the evening of Sunday, July 12, 1691, about seventeen miles southwest of Athlone, almost in the centre of Ireland. It was the last decisive battle in Irish history." This is followed by a poem set in Southern Rhodesia, "The God Who Eats Corn". Interior - soft crease down rear free endpaper and last page, small faint stain at bottom of page 67/68, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - tiny light stain at top of spine...
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MEN WHO MARCH AWAY: POEMS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

By: Parsons, I.M., edited with introduction by.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London, 1968, 4th impression.:

Seller ID: 18368

192 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Ex-library. "The first world war produced a far greater body of good poetry than any other war in which Britain has been engaged. Now, from a distance of fifty years, we can get both the war an d the poetry in perspective, accepting not only the ordeals and disillusionments suffered by soldier poets, but also the 'visions of glory' which fired some of them in 1914. Mr. Parsons has made a broad but rigorous selection of the poetry w h i c h r e sulted. His anthology contains work by the famous front-line poets - Owen Rosenberg, ...
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TEN SELECTED POEMS WITH NOTES.

By: Pratt, E.J.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan (St. Martin's Classics): 1947

Seller ID: 14212

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

149 pp, 12mo (6 7/8" H). Blue covers with black lettering on spine, black emblem on front board. Contents: Introduction; The Titanic; Dunkirk; The Cachalot; No. 6000; The Submarine; The Ice-Floes; The Old Eagle; Putting Winter to Bed; To Angelina, An Old Nurse; Brebeuf and his Brethren; Notes. Interior - dept. stamp on free front endpaper, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - area of light staining and some light rubbing on rear cover, minor edge wear.
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DUNKIRK.

By: Pratt, E.J. Signed.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1941, limited edtion reprint in first year of printing, No. 106 of 300.:

Seller ID: 10974

13 pp, 8vo, hard cover (dark blue cloth with gold title on front board) in dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. "Three hundred copies of this edition of 'Dunkirk' have been printed especially for Messrs. Johnston, Everson & Charlesworth, Christmas, 1941. This Copy is No. 106." E.J. Pratt's poem of the Dunkirk rescue. Pages browning lightly - a little more on endpapers, staples starting to rust, a few tiny faint on title-page, light wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear, light soiling/rubbing, light browning, a few small chips/tears, small hole on spine, irre...
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NO MAN'S LAND: A POSTWAR SKETCHBOOK OF THE WAR IN THE TRENCHES.

By: Pratt, George. Introduction by Marshall Arisman.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Northampton, MA, Tundra: 1992

Seller ID: 24086

ISBN: 187945064

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated, 12" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. The artist presents his interpretation of life in the trenches and battles of the First World War and introduces contemporary poems and quotations. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, small crease at top edge of front cover, tiny gouge near top of front hinge.
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I SING OF LIFE: SELECTED POEMS.

By: Roberts, Lloyd.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1937

Seller ID: 22295

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

99 pp, 7 13/16" H - green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board, gold emblem on front board. A collection of poems by the Canadian poet Lloyd Roberts, gathered under the headings: General; Mystical and Philosophical; Love; War; Children; Nature; Songs. Minor browning to pages, tiny light foxing marks on rear free endpaper, moderate browning to edges of textblock, heavy fading to spine colour, moderate fading on boards - more on front board, fading to edges, small light stains on bottom of textblock.
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THE CORDUROY PATCH.

By: Schaffer, Eddie.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Exposition Press: 1955

Seller ID: 12833

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

200 pp, 8vo (8 1/8" H). B&w photographic frontispiece. Printed/typed presentation slip tipped-in at title page, stating: Present By / Mr. Eddie Schaffer (no signature). "(T)he product of a remarkable man, Eddie Schaffer, ex-Marine and currently one of the more popular bus drivers in the city of St. Louis. Here is a volume of amusing, significant and vivid poems on a wide range of challenging subjects: the mixed pleasures and duties of parenthood; the magnified emotions and adventures of children; the bittersweet experiences of adolescence; the personal adventures of a big-city bus dr...
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Category: Military - Poetry & Plays