Moderate handling wear, internally tight and clean. Lebowitz, Rachel, and Zachariah Wells. A baby and a pig in search of a name for the former end up in the mountains "as they seek an audience with the Wizard and his baby-naming Mexican beaded lizard. Surrey, The Sono Nis Press: American-born poet's first book; 28 pgs.
Louthan's careful explication of some of Donne's most important and rewarding verse leads naturally into broader questions concerning the poetic philosophy represented there. Combining lucid interpretation of Donne's complex poems with a systematic study of his metrics and imagery, 'The Poetry of John Donne' provides an excellent introduction to this significant poet and thinker.
Translated by Robert Graves. New York, Exposition Press: Written pseudonymously by a woman who loves two men, "one mostly substance now [while] the other seems to be a wild and lovely dream. Chicago, Lawson and Gower: Author's first book of poetry after a number of chapbook publications. This copy signed by Mac, on title page. Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Cover illustration by Stephen Gerriets. Some rubbing, light edgewear, crinkled bottom left corner, short vertical handling creases to bottom portion of front cover.
A celebration in verse and song of the music of birds. This copy signed by Macintosh, on title page. No Place, privately published: One from a limited edition of two thousand copies. Marston, John edited by Reavley Gair.
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A new edition of the classic drama, seeking "to evaluate the play not merely as a literary text but as a drama for a particular company within a specific theatre. Sunned edges, a bent corner, some rust to staples, turned corner tips, light soil, handling wear. Somerset, and Laurence Housman editors. Housman, Thomas Hardy, G. Ricketts, Reginald Savage, T. Cambridge, The Powell Press: This is the scarce original publication of a collection of verse from a young Nova Scotian poet. Published posthumously, this is a collection of poems inspired in part by the author's visits to England and Scotland, and written during the years indicated.
Fredericton, Self-published printed by Unipress: A book of eighteen poems by a New Brunswick poet. Some edgewear, handling wear, previous owner's name to top right corner of title page, previous owner's inscription and small sticker to same. A collection of superior poems from an award-winning writer.
Michaels has signed this copy on title page. An internally tight, clean copy of a collectible title.
Toronto, House of Anansi Press: Mygatt was a lesbian writer, socialist, pacifist and suffragist who opposed the participation of the United States in World War 1, and wrote this anti-war play that takes place between June and December Introduction by David Starr Jordan. This is the second printing of the original edition, not one of those common-as-dirt and soulless print-on-demand abominations that clutter the Internet like the garbage they are.
Victoria, Frog Hollow Press: Armand Canal Paper in 'autumn leaves cream' Armand Canal Paper in 'autumn leaves cream Gilt decoration on green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, pages, white ribbon bookmark. It is comprehensive for Creeley's writings published up to the end of and selective for writings about him and for anthologies which include his work. In addition, it lists many manuscripts and audio-visual works. No dust jacket as issued. Nowlan's first collection of poetry.
Cover illustration by Robert Pope. A one-act play first presented in Stockholm on September 18, The play is "the only surviving manuscript from a series of eight one-act monologue plays that O'Neill planned in This copy from the library of the late Rick Burns, award-winning sculptor, painter and writer, and bears his signature on front free end paper. Toronto, Coach House Press: A collection of poems, divided into four sections, from one of Canada's most respected writers. This copy from the library of the late Rick Burns, noted New Brunswick sculptor and painter, and bears his signature on front end paper.
Fredericton, The New Brunswick Chapbooks:. A collection of poems, limited to copies. Sunned edges, light smudging. A title from the publisher's New Canadian Poets Series, this one featuring a Canadian feminist's verse and drawings chronicling "the movement of one woman's life between personal artistic solitude and fully engaged political action while she wrestles with the agony of cancer and argues for a generous feminist attitude.
Italian-language collection of three plays. Portugal Cove, Breakwater Books: First performed in at the Eastport Summer Festival. Light edgewear, a bit of sunning to pages, previous owner's signature to front end paper, light general wear. Parsons, McClain Printing Company: A collection of verse by a West Virginian mountaineer. Green cloth, 92 pages, frontispiece. A collection of the Nobel Prize winner's work. This copy boasts the publisher's wraparound band trumpeting Quasimodo's Nobel Prize win. Book in glassine wrapper.
Light edgewear, sunned spine, light general wear. The author presents "the correct setting of 'Paradise Lost' in its contemporary context, so that the modern reader can more fully appreciate the general conception of the poem and the ideas implicit in it. Toronto, University of Toronto Press: A collection of five papers "given at a conference of Milton scholars, held at the University of Western Ontario on the occasion of the tercentenary of Paradise Lost.
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Barker, Hugh MacCallum, and the editor. Small sticker University Bookroom to bottom right corner of front pastedown, previous owner's name to bottom edge of front end paper, in dust jacket w Edinburgh, The Ramsay Head Press:. Vancouver, Canadian-Cuban Friendship Committee: A collection of poetry in its original Spanish on the left page, with English translation on the right. Some edgewear, light soil to back cover, previous owner's name neatly across top edge of front cover.
A Maritime poet offers a series of poems thematically linked to the greatest game on the planet for those who live under rocks or just got back from the planet Yobo, that would be hockey. Printed on Mohawk Superfine Text. The cover is Grey Flannel, a wool-and-cotton paper from India - the inner cover is St. Lancaster, Wickersham Printing Co.: An uncommon and fragile title in which Robinson provides "a short, clear, and full statement of the traditions and real facts known of Shakspere's life -- with the leading traits of his own mental growth and the main outlines of his principal creations.
One of five hundred copies published by Fred Cogswell. The author "has provided an admirable and evocative introduction to the enjoyment and study of Pound's works. His Primer serves at once to trace Pound's literary and political position and to suggest how to approach the poet's rewarding if sometimes formidable art. Its chief concern is to examine what it is that gives the poetry, early and late, its peculiar and original force, its depth and complexity, and to suggest the passions and convictions from which the poetr Rusby, Evelyn Eve Lynne.
Price sticker to back cover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press:. Three essays "What the poet knows," "The true artificer," and "The career of the poem" originally published in under the title, 'Beyond Criticism. Rubbing, some handling wear, previous owner's name to inside front cover, moderate handling wear. Comes with promotional TLOR bookmark.
Only mild general wear; internally tight and clean. Unpaginated, cover illustration by Margaret Capper. Toronto, Proper Tales Press: Sophokles, and Anne Carson translated by. According to New Directions, Carson's translation is "a combined visual and textual experience," and gives the work "an entirely fresh language and presentation, making the fundamentally human issues of death and honor, family and morality as relevant as ever.
Light edgewear, previous owner's name across top edge of front cover does not interfere with text. Volume 56 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Introduction by Dudley Fitts. This copy signed by Starbuck, on first end paper. Rubbed covers, some smudging, moderate general wear. Santa Barbara, Capricorn Press: One of copies designed and printed by Noel Young. Cover by Graham Mackintosh. Issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Signed by Steele on first end paper. New York, Arno Press: The author "gives us essays on seventeenth-century poets who were affected in one way or another by Donne or Jonson or by both of them.
An entirely serviceable copy. Laid in is a small insert advertising other books. Scraped corners, bottom 1. Erin, The Porcupine's Quill: A book of poems dealing with "the court of Louis XIV, as seen through the persona of Madame de Montespan, one of his most influential mistresses.
Some rubbing, shallow impressions, light edgewear. Kingston, Loyal Colonies Press:. In addition to presenting a checklist of Odell's work, Vincent also offers "a picture of what Odell wrote about, how he wrote about it, and when he wrote it. No Place, The Graphic Limited: No Place, Privately Published:. A collection of ten poems. Wheeler" on inside front cover. Some sunning to edges, moderate edgewear, short tear to bottom spine, moderate general wear.
Cover design by R. One of copies. A collection of verse, proceeds from the sales of which were to be donated to the New Brunswick Cardiac Care Unit. Preface by David R. Inscribed "for Linda" and signed "Constance" on title page. Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester. A facsimile original size publication of a title suspected to have been first published in A bit of slant, gently bumped spine ends, previous owner's name in pencil to bottom of front end paper. In an attempt to get the profligate Restoration poet's work before a wider audience than he previously enjoyed, the editor offers what he considers the best of Rochester.
Concerning 'Sodom,' the play attributed to Rochester but denied by many as falsely attributed, Duncan calls it "a filthy and illiterate piece," and says that he has "laboured through this obscene doggerel and there cannot be the slightest doubt that Rochester is not the author. A collection of verse dripping with love for nature's beauty, and with understanding for humanity's struggles.
Signed by Wilton, very neatly, on title page. A collection of verse "influenced by French and Spanish surrealists, and Japanese and Chinese poets. A suggestion of edgewear. Unpaginated 28 , cover illustration by Morse Clary. Very Good to Fine Originally published as Vol. Very Good to Fine "An anthology of Canadian and American poetry, fiction, criticism, graphic art and photography," edited by Andrew Burgess. The Fiddlehead, January , No. Very Good The th issue of a magazine featuring a variety of literary fiction and poetry, with reviews and illustrations.
First Edition Seller ID: Very Good Amabile's first book of poetry. Very Good to Fine Poet's scarce first book. Very Good Governor-General's Award-winning poet's third book of poetry in addition to a history of Ontario, called, oddly enough, 'History of Ontario'. In Counter Point By: Very Good of copies; poet's third book; also contains poems from four guest writers: About Very Good Collects the work of a distinguished Canadian historian and poet.
Time and Mind in Wordsworth's Poetry By: Very Good The author "explores the significant ways in which the theme of time is manifested in the imagery and diction of Wordsworth's major poetry. Inscribed and signed by Barker, on title page Seller ID: Very Good to Fine In a collection of essays Barker "provides not only an insider's commentary on the tradition of People's Poetry in Canadian literature, but in addition a learned discussion of the various philosophies and religious perspectives, esoteric and orthodox, that gave rise to it.
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Beach, Joseph Warren Price: Good The author traces the romantic and philosophical nineteenth-century concept of nature "in a synthesis of views derived from science, religion and philosophy; and shows how, in poets like Wordsworth, Emerson and Meredith, the abstract idea supports and is colored by their love for the 'beauteous forms' of the material world and their mystical sense of man's oneness with the universal spirit, providing them with a kind of substitute for dogmatic religion. Gifts of the Year and Other Poems By: Good to Very Good 67 pages, frontispiece.
Reading Copy A classic in Canadian poetry. Birney, Earle editor Price: About Very Good "A selection of verse written by Canadians between the years and While You Were Out signed By: Black, Jack, and Cathie Thomson organizers Price: Prayers at a High Altar By: Boyle, Charles Frederick Price: Very Good 14 pages, tipped-on author photograph.
In Search of Eros By: Very Good A title from the Saltire Modern Poets series intended to introduce to a wider public the work of younger contemporary writers. A Voix Basse signed By: Very Good A collection of French-language poetry. Very Good An original-size facsimile edition of a work first published in , with reduced-size facsimile reproductions from the Wyburd Manuscript. Near Fine "An essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage.
Carson, Anne translator Price: The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller By: Very Good From the front flap: Very Good to Fine Poet's debut collection. John Toronto signed By: Colombo, John Robert Price: Very Good A found poem. Echoes of the Remnant signed print By: Very Good to Fine From the back cover: The Werewolf Miracles signed By: Signed by Author Seller ID: Very Good A collection of poems "all concerned, in one way or another, with miracles.
Eight Metaphysical Poets By: Dalglish, Jack editor Price: Very Good Originally published in Memory in Bone By: Very Good 1 of copies of a collection of poetry from a press "committed to publishing works by women. Inscribed, signed and dated by Etheridge Seller ID: Brave New Wave By: David, Jack editor Price: A Masque of Aesop By: Reading Copy in dust jacket The author's "first foray into the field of the masque.
Den Berg Op By: Selections From Canadian Poets By: Dewart, Edward Hartley Price: Very Good First published in , this book "was the first anthology of native Canadian poetry and was compiled, as Edward Hartley Dewart explained, in order to 'rescue from oblivion some of the floating pieces of Canadian authorship worthy of preservation in a more permanent form.
Di Giulio, Eleanor Price: Good Poems, many with religious themes. Gunner Schmidt at the Crossroads By: Seven Russian Poets By: Very Good A collection of Russian verse presented not as translations, "but rather as imitations of the originals, re-created in English.
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Seven 7 Mondays, Volume Three 3 By: Limited edition of copies Seller ID: Good A collection of poetry, photographs and short stories by 32 university students. Very Good A delightful collection of general goofiness. Very Good "The skill and commitment with which Paul Durcan tackles his themes--social protest and outrage at loveless relationships, at hypocrtical churchmen, at sectarian assassins; and a searingly personal account of the break-up of a marriage--make this the finest book to date from one of western Europe's most tireless and entertaining visionary poets.
Good Eisler's first book of poetry. Elliott, Brian, and Adrian Mitchell editors Price: Good Reading Copy This is "an anthology of colonial poems selected not on the 'beauties of literature' principle but for their historical importance -- because they are most characteristic and lively and give the most vivid and immediate impression of an historical past which we are only now in a position to view in an historical perspective.
Fair a collection of quotes, information and history relating to Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns; Foreword by Professor J. Farley-Hills, David editor Price: Good "This collection of critical extracts on the poetry of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, ranges from the earliest contemporary comments to the beginning of the twentieth century. Near Fine A limited edition of copies, of which this is Very Good Author's fourth book of poetry. Bullets And Cathedrals By: The Plastic Undergrowth By: Very Good poetry; cover illustration by Morse Clary; 27 pgs.
Good to Very Good From the front flap: Tunnel Bus to Detroit By: About Very Good 1 of copies. The Deserted Village in braille By: Grace, Susan Andrews Price: Very Good From the back cover: Gray, Alice Rowan Price: Very Good This may be either an inscribed-by-the-author copy, or a scarce-as-hen's-teeth unsigned copy. No Place Montreal , Privately printed: Very Good No date circa God's Geography signed By: Very Good "This book is the fourth in a series of works in poetry and prose entitled Time is the Metaphor.
Peeling Oranges in the Shade By: Very Good A Montreal poet "depicts the journey travelled between two occasions, the transfiguration of the travellers, time wasted and time well spent. Fortress of Chairs By: The People of the Dance By: About Very Good 63 pages. Very Good 63 pages. Henryson, Robert edited by David Murison Price: Very Good A collection of work from the 15th-century Scottish poet.
The City of Satisfactions signed By: Very Good Poet's third book. Very Good Bemoaning the fact that Hogg's drivel outweighs his good material, the editor presents what he calls "a reliable text of Hogg 's best poems," in the hope that it "will make possible a revaluation of his stature as a poet. A Hair's Breadth of Abandon By: Near Fine Holt's third book of poetry. Selected Poems signed By: Very Good A collection of poems from five of Hutchman's previously published six books. No Other Lodgings signed By: Very Good The th title in the Fiddlehead Poetry Book series, this one the first title by a multi-award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist.
Near Fine Paperback original. The Open Hand By: Kemick, Richard Kelly Price: Signed by Kemick, on copyright page Seller ID: Fine A triptych-style chapbook containing three poems. Very Good The back cover blurb informs us that this is "a historiographic prose-poem accentuated by a striking array of collages. Lebowitz, Rachel, and Zachariah Wells Price: Very Good A baby and a pig in search of a name for the former end up in the mountains "as they seek an audience with the Wizard and his baby-naming Mexican beaded lizard.
Very Good American-born poet's first book; 28 pgs. Good Translated by Robert Graves. To My Love By: Very Good Written pseudonymously by a woman who loves two men, "one mostly substance now [while] the other seems to be a wild and lovely dream. Fine Author's first book of poetry after a number of chapbook publications.
The Armies of the Moon signed By: Near Very Good Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Attune With Spring in Acadie By: Macintosh, Claire Harris Price: Reading Copy A celebration in verse and song of the music of birds.
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