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3 VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARDS - 1. CAT. 2. DOG. 3. CHILDREN CAROLLING. WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPES.

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Seller ID: 30511

Binding: In Envelopes

Condition: Very Good+

3 unused, single sheet cards (i.e. not folded cards), c1920/30s, each with its original, unused envelope. No manufacturer's markings. 1. Red-ribboned cat - card size 5 1/8" H x 4 1/8" W - with verse: "I wish you / A MERRIE CHRISTMAS / and then the BEST OF YEARS / As full of satisfaction - / As this pussy cat appears!". 2. Tail-wagging dog - card size 5 1/8" H x 4 1/8" W - with verse: "It's just on the tip / of my tongue, to say, / I wish you / A MERRY CHRISTMAS DAY". 3. Children carolling with dog - card size 4 1/2" H x 3 7/16" W - with verse: "A MERRY CHRISTMAS, / LITTLE FRIEND / Did you th...
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VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARD "MAY THE PEACE OF ALLAH". DECORATED ENVELOPE.

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Seller ID: 30510

Binding: In Envelope

Condition: Very Good

Single sheet card (i.e. not a folded card), c1920/30s, with unusual verse. "Christmas Greetings / I pray the prayer the Easterners do, / May the Peace of Allah abide with you / Wherever you stay, wherever you go, / May the beautiful palms of Allah grow; / Through the days of labor and nights of rest, / May the love of sweet Allah make you blest, / So I touch my heart as the Easterners do, / May the Peace of Allah abide with you." Colorful illustration at top of card has a gilt sky, the star over Bethlehem the three kings & their camels with holly below. The card has not been used - no signa...
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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

Edition: Fourth Printing

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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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

Edition: First Edition

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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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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ANGLO-SAXON POETRY. AN ESSAY WITH SPECIMEN TRANSLATIONS IN VERSE.

By: Bone, Gavin.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1944

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 16811

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

79 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). White boards with black lettering on spine, blind stamped line decoration to boards). 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, light rubbing to boards.
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MAX AND MORITZ, WITH MANY MORE MISCHIEF-MAKERS MORE OR LESS HUMAN AND APPROXIMATELY ANIMAL.

By: Busch, Wilhelm. Edited and annotated by H. Arthur Klein. Translated by H. Arthur Klein and others.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Dover, New York, 1962.:

Seller ID: 20702

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 n a t i v e G e rmany he is still by all odds the best-loved creator of illustrated light verse....(Many of h...
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JANUARY GARDEN / BEHIND DARK SPACES / A WIDER ARC. THREE INSCRIBED BOOKS + LETTERS AND ADDITIONAL PAPERS.

By: Cane, Melville. (Melville Henry Cane, 1879-1980.)

Price: $675.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace:

Edition: First Editions.

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 30393

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

A collection of three first edition hard covers in dust jackets, each inscribed by the author, plus additional material. Melville Henry Cane, 1879-1980, was a graduate of Columbia University and partner in the law firm Ernst, Fox & Cane in New York, where he was legal counsel to Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Ayn Rand, William, Saroyan, Thomas Wolfe and others. He was also a poet, producing several volumes of verse, writing "Making a Poem" in 1953 and winning the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement in 1971. The books: 1. January Garden, 1926, 70 pp, 8 1/2" H, black cloth spine with ...
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BLISS CARMAN AND THE LITERARY CURRENTS AND INFLUENCES OF HIS TIME.

By: Cappon, James.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson: 1930

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9387

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

340 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H) - maroon boards with gold lettering on spine/front cover. Contents: Beginnings; Behind The Arras; Songs From Vagabondia; Memorial Verse, Elegies and Ballads; The Third Vagabondia Volume; The Pipes of Pan; The Sappho Lyrics; The Prose Essays; Later Poems; Shifting Currents; The Tradition of Emerson and Whitman in American Literature; New Systems of Verse - Whitman and Claudel. Interior - pages browning, gift inscription on front free endpaper, moderate browning in page 172/3 from laid-in Christmas gift label. Exterior - minor edgewear, light wear and wrinkling at top/b...
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MILLAY IN GREENWICH VILLAGE.

By: Cheney, Anne.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, Alabama, 1975.:

Seller ID: 20234

160 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0817371613 B&w illustrations. "It was Millay who captured in verse the freedom, spontaneity, quick wit, and beauty of the pre-1920s as no other poet did. She was a living symbol of the 'new woman' who could live, think, and love as freely as they chose. (This) is a psychological portrait of Millay in her finest years, the ones after she had freed herself of the repression of her childhood and youth and before she accepted th e b o n d s o f a stifling marriage. The four most important influences on Millay's life and art - Floyd De...
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DONALD MORRISON, THE CANADIAN OUTLAW; A TALE OF THE SCOTTISH PIONEERS.

By: Dhu, Oscar.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Page-Sangster: 1965

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 21847

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

118 pp, small 8vo (7 13/16" H). B&w illustrations. Errata page at front. Facsimile reprint of the 1892 edition. The story (written in verse) of Donald Morrison, the Megantic outlaw, who was imprisoned for what was widely believed by the local community to be an act of self-defense. Interior - previous owner's name on first page, light waviness to top of a few inside pages at gutter, soft crease on last few pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other owner ship marks. Exterior - three very small soft bumps to edge of rear cover, very soft crease down rear cover.
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HOWDY HONEY HOWDY.

By: Dunbar, Paul Laurence.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead: 1905

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated, 8 3/4" H. Caramel-coloured cloth boards with gilt lettering, black, white & red decoration to front board and spine. B&w photographic pastedown on front board.Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. B&w photographs of black people and scenes of the South. All pages of text & illustration have decorative borders and each poem is preceded by its own 'title page' with decoration. Contents: Howdy, Honey, Howdy; Encouragement; De Way T'ings Come; The Delinquent; Accountability; Protest; Possum; Foolin' Wid De Seasons; Angelina; A Death Song; A Christmas Folksong; Faith; Hope; A Love Let...
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COLLECTED POEMS.

By: Durrell, Lawrence.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1960

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

288 pp, 8vo (8 1/16" H). "It is primarily as a lyrical poet and a poet of places that (Durrell) is acknowledged to excel, but now that he has assembled in (this book) 'all that the author wishes to preseve' it will be found that the range of feeling and ideas, of wit and experience, and also of style, is remarkable. The poems have been arranged by the author himself, not in chronological order but according to their various kinds. Mr. Durrell is a romantic poet in an age of didactic and sectarian poetry; and by temperament and choice Mediterranean rather than Nordic. All those who have acq...
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A FLOATING LIFE: THE ADVENTURES OF LI PO. AN HISTORICAL NOVEL.

By: Elegant, Simon. (Li Po.)

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Hopewell, New Jersey, Ecco Press: 1997

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 22693

ISBN: 0880015594

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

312 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "History and legend brilliantly combine in Simon Elegant's bawdy 'autobiographical' account of China's famed rabble-rousing versemaker Li Po. (A) magnificent portrayal of a critical time in China's history and the life of a literary legend. Nearly thirteen hundred years after the fact, Simon Elegant's scrupulously researched novel captures the essence of the eccentric bard of spontaneous verse in fullest splendor and bravado." Minor wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling.
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HELL-RAISERS OF HISTORY.

By: Emmons, Earl H.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Mount Vernon, New York, Peter Pauper Press: 1948

Seller ID: 19916

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

92 pp, including colophon, 8vo (8 11/16" H) - patterned paper-covered boards with title block on spine in slipcase with pictorial title label on front (no dust jacket - as issued). B&w illustrations. A collection of humorous verse. Contents: Jupiter - He Had Women on His Mind; Ulysses - His Heart Was True to Helen; Samson - He Just Didn't Like Philistines; David - Magnificent Sinner; Lancelot - Chivalry Should Begin at Home; Villon - Victim of Necessity; Bluebeard - Neatness Is Next to Godliness; Henry VIII - Monarch of Marital Marathon; Cyrano - Fortune's Fabulous Phoney; D'Artagnan - Gas...
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THE PITY OF WAR. EXPLAINING WORLD WAR I.

By: Ferguson, Niall.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Basic Books, New York, 1999, book club edition.:

Seller ID: 23882

563 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, tables, graphs. "More than four million Americans were mobilized in 1917-18, of whom more than 100,000 were killed - double the number who died in Vietnam. This was the fir st, bloody step on the road to globalism which would characterize our foreign policy for the rest of the twentieth century. Even American literature was transformed by the impact of the war on writers like Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Internat i o n a l l y , more than any other event, the First World War made the twentieth century what it was: It t...
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Image for THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 1. EARLY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: PREHISTORIC, ROMAN, AND EARLY MEDIEVAL.)

THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 1. EARLY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: PREHISTORIC, ROMAN, AND EARLY MEDIEVAL.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Jacquetta Hawkes, Peter Salway, Barry Cunliffe, Sheppard Frere, Janet Huskinson, Roger Ling, Richard Bailey, Mildred Budny, Michael Alexander, Martin Biddle, Isabel Henderson, Richard Gem, Christopher Page, R. Allen Brown, Cherry Lavell

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for The Folio Society: 1995

Seller ID: 29877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

289 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction / Prehistoric Britain: Stone Age to Iron Age / Roman Britain: The Cultural and Social Setting; Studies in the Individual Arts (Architecture; Verulamium: Social and Artistic Development; The Visual Arts and Crafts; Lullingstone Villa) / Early Medieval Britain: The Cultural and Social Setting; Studies in the Individual Arts (The Visual Arts and Crafts; Old English Literature; Winchester: The Rise of an Early Capital; The Arts of Late Celtic ...
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE VERSE: HAN WEI CHIN AND THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DYNASTIES.

By: Frodsham, J.D., translated and annotated by. With Ch'eng Hsi.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press, London, 1967, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21085

198 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "The eight centuries that lie between the founding of the Han (206 B.C.) and the fall of the Sui (618 A.D.) are of considerable importance in the history of Chinese verse. It was during these ye ars that the lyric and the ballad took roots, grew and blossomed before coming to fruition during the T'ang. Many of the greatest Chinese poets, among them Ts'ao Chih, Juan Chi, T'ao Yuan-ming, Hsieh Ling-yun, Pao Chao and Yu Hsin shone ou t d u r i n g this era among a galaxy of brilliant writers. Yet very little of the verse of the time has h...
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DIVISIONS ON A GROUND: ESSAYS ON CANADIAN CULTURE.

By: Frye, Northrop. Edited, with preface, by James Polk.

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Anansi, Toronto, 1982, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21923

199 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0887840930 "Perhaps the most influential critical thinker of our century, Northrop Frye has long commented upon the cultural life of his own country. (This book) continues Frye's extraordinary enquiry into Canada's literature, universities, social assumptions and national character. In thirteen essays and addresses, Frye covers a broad range of subject matter, from future shock to the meaning of Canada's history; from student politics to the idea of the university; from regional verse to Marshall McLuhan and the age of television. Pr...
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CAP AND BELLS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LIGHT VERSE BY CANADIAN POETS.

By: Gravin, John W., chosen by. Foreword by Lorne Pierce. (Jean Blewett, Arthur Bourinot, Isabella Valancy Crawford, R.E. Guy, Katherine Hale, Frances Harrison, Wilson MacDonald, Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, Tom MacInnes, Joseph Easton McDougall, et al.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1936, first edition.:

Seller ID: 20684

105 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover (red cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold title block and image on front board) - no dust jacket. Colourful patterned endpapers. A collection of Canadian poetry, gathered under the headings: We Have With Us; Fan cies About This and That; Frontier and Country; Mainly Historical Research; Tours and Detours. With Foreword and Biographical Index. Previous owner's name on one preliminary page, light browning to pages, corner crease on page 21/22, ligh t c i g a r e t te odor, light browning to edges of textlock, light fading to top/bottom of book and spine, ...
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Keyword: Verse