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Toronto: Contact Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. 1st. Softcover. Signed by Author; White dustjacket lightly soiled with some chipping to head of spine, some damage to front panel of DJ, pale blue card covers of book shows light wear, some foxing of page edges. ; Inscribed by author on front fly. This book was acquired from the daughter of the woman to whom it was warmly inscribed. She told me how the poet was a family friend (her father also served in the RCAF during WWII). A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages; This was Purdy's 6th book and considered to be one of his finest. "Alfred Purdy came into attention in Canadian poetry in the post-war period, though like Souster, Irving Layton and others, he had been in the armed forces (RCAF) during the war and had begun writing earlier. In the Air Force he published privately a small book (he now wishes to forget), 'The Enchanted Echo' (1944).… Leer más

London: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. Later Printing. Hardcover. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, with short tears on top edge. Gift inscription on FFEP, price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Text appears unmarked; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 736 pages; This was originally published in 1912, appears here in a single volume .

Self Published. Very Good+. N.D.. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Card covers show light shelf wear. Top fore corner a little bumped; A bright, solid book. Yellow card covers with drawing by Diana Mulloy, artwork by Mulloy throughout ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 36 pages .

New York: D. Appleton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First US Edition. Hardcover. 182 pages; Green cloth covered boards with gilt printing and decoration, corners bumped, previous owner's name on FFEP. Untrimmed fore and bottom edges. This is a study of a few of the authors beloved tomes. .

New York: Clarkson N. Potter. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to extremities. Dust jacket is price-clipped, light water staining on upper front, short tear top edge. Top page corners appear bumped. ; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar ; Woodcuts; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 25 pages; An illustrated edition featuring the jazz-era folk song "Frankie and Johnny". This book was originally published towards the end of the 1920's, but the bawdy woodcuts were considered too risque for the times. John Held Jr's twenty three woodcuts (one for each verse) are shown in this volume. .

Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0887482430 . Signed by Author; Signed by the author on the title page, inscribed by the author on the half-title page. A NF volume in a NF DJ. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.5 inches; 123 pages .

Toronto: Kids Can Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0921103352 . DJ shows very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Full colour illustrations by Ted Harrison ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages; Artist Ted Harrison striking artwork complements Robert Service's haunting poetry about the Yukon gold rush. .

Toronto: Kids Can Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. 1st Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 0921103352 . DJ shows light shelf wear. Light damage to dust jacket upper right corner ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ; Colour Illustrations; 12.0 X 9.0 X 0.4 inches; 32 pages; "The poem about the shooting of the fictitious Dan McGrew was written soon after the gold rush in Dawson City was over; it is an unrelenting story of the greed, jealousy, loneliness and betrayal that were characteristic of the Gold Rush era, and how Dan McGrew became the hated target of a half-crazed miner. While the action of the poem is intense and demanding, the painterly illustrations by Harrison are overwhelmingly powerful; they seem to take on a life of their own, drawing readers' attentions away from the text and toward the surrealistic interpretation of events. With ice-cold blues and violets, accented by vibrant reds and yellows, Harrison creates a… Leer más

Cambridge MA: Riverside Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles and design. dampstain surrounding hinge front and back - doesn't extend to text ; A bright solid, book - signed by author on blank page ; 27 pages; Laighton, younger brother to New England writer Celia Thaxter, grew up on the islands off the coast of New Hampshire. These writings are paeans to those same islands .

Victoria, BC: Diggon's Presses. Very Good+. 1954. Paperback. Light edge wear and soil to yellow card covers ; This stapled wraps chap book was 'prepared especially for the International Sourdough Re-union in Vancouver, August 16-18, 1954. ; 14 pages; Fleming describes himself as 'a sometime parson in the Klondike'. .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0374267790 . As new; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Laid in is a newspaper review of the book. ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches; 81 pages; "In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful." .

Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Editor; Slight wear only ; A tight solid book. Signed in pencil on blank page facing half title by Earle Birney, famed western Canadian poet and novelist ; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 193 pages; Some Early Greek lyrics, freely translated and adapted by Thompson. "For what I say, my naughty way/All the boys must love me./Every ditty is so witty/Nobody stands above me. Anacreon of Teos, 563-478 B.C. From papyrus rolls, copied and recycled through the centuries, hundreds of short extracts written by Greek poets in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. survive. This lovely collection, translated into English by a leading classicist, presents a selection of ca. 100 poems by 17 authors with useful historical introductions." .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1949. Later Printing. Hardcover. Gift notation on front free endpaper, book only lightly worn, dustjacket chipped, discolored with short tears ; Dustjacket in clear protector, unclipped, hinges intact. A tight solid book. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 169 pages .

Vancouver BC: Education Services Ltd.. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ is soiled, torn with chipping and large areas missing head and tail of DJ spine.; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 84 pages; Poems about Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area. .

Victoria, BC: Sono Nis Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0919462103 . DJ and boards show some shelf wear, DJ appears to be discoloured by the sun, shows light wear ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 100 pages; This is the hardcover edition. .

London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First British Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show light shelf wear. Gift inscription on half-title page. FFEP has been removed. Mild foxing; A tight solid book. Pages appear to be laid paper, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 78 pages .

New York: Charles Scribners Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1903. Reprint. Hardcover. Boards show shelf wear, sun-faded on spine. Previous owner's names on FFEP and back pastedown. Back hinge started but still strong. A ding top of front board ; A tight solid book. Top edge gilt, front and bottom edges deckled ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 202 pages .

Toronto: William Briggs. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Inner hinges cracked but still solid, green cloth covered boards show some wear at extremities, light soil. Previous owner's embossed seal on FFEP. ; Gilt design front and spine ; 284 pages .

London: Aurum Press Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 1854100149 . Light wear to extremities, a little sticker damage on front free end paper. ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book.; B&W and Colour Illustrations; 9.80 X 7.60 X 0.90 inches; 192 pages; A lovely illustrated book of Yeat's poetry with some commentary by Kiely. .