Poetry
Eight Swedish Poets
Bo Cavefors Bokforlag, 1969. Soft cover. 8vo (4.5" x 7.25"). Boc-Serien. Reprint, first published 1963. [n.p., Malmo?]. Paperback, 142 p.p. Includes poems by Gunnar Ekelof, Lars Forssell, Hjalmar Gullberg, Bjorn Hakanson, Par Lagerkvist, Erik Lindegren, Harry Martinson, and Edith Sodergran. B&W author photos. Light soiling to covers, bumping to spine..... More
Picturing and Poeting
London: Phaidon, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full paper backed boards. 374 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Spine slightly tilted, else fine. This book turns words into pictures, finds poetry in rubbish, and discovers the unlikely in the commonplace. Alan Fletcher stands ideas on their heads to present a kaleidoscope..... More
Northward Journal: A Quarterly of Northern Arts Nos. 14/15
Moonbeam, ON: Penumbra Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8.5" x 7.5" Oblong soft cover. 148 pp. B&W illustration. Crease to head of rear joint, else fine. Features the sketch portfolio of Dr. Frederick Banting and works on Banting by Group of Seven members AY Jackson and Arthur Lismer. More
The Age of Chaucer: A Guide to English Literature Volume I. With an Anthology of Medieval Poems
London: Cassell, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. The Belle Sauvage Library. Full blue cloth. 490 pp. Spine slightly shaken. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to extremities, some fading to spine, delamination to joints, 1.5" tear and creasing to head of rear cover. More
Etudes Sur La Vie et Les Oeuvres De Moliere. Revues et Mises En Ordre Par M. Paul Lacroix.
Paris: Laplace, Sanchez, et Cie, 1885. Hardcover. 12mo. Contemporary red leather spine over red buckram boards. Title in gilt on spine with floral motifs. Cream endpapers. All edges gilt. xiv, 464 p.p. Text in French. Sporadic dampstains to front board and bottom edge of rear board. Head of spine slightly..... More
The Jervis Bay Goes Down
New York: Random House, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. 24 pp. Sunning to top and tail edges of boards, light bruising to tail edge. Acid migration to endpapers. Front hinge started. Darkening to gutter at title page. Dust jacket is price..... More
Granite Ledges: Sonnets and Lyrics
Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc. Hardcover. 12mo (large). [[Copr. 1943]. 6] 7-62 p.p. plus [1]. Signed by the author on half-title. Jacket yellowed, with sunning to spine, edges and inner flaps. Small tears to jacket spine ends and tips. Very light rubbing to boards, edges. Slight bumping to top corners. Gentle..... More
New Hampshire Book, Being Specimens of the Literature of the Granite State
Nashville: Charles T. Gill, 1844. Hardcover. 8vo. 391 p.p. Cloth. Wear and bruising throughout boards. Bumping to extremities. Rubbing to corners. Rips and wear to spine label. Discolouration to endpapers. Bookplate from Hugh Mitchell to front endpapers. Overall, a very good copy of book. An early anthology of essays and..... More
The Flowering Plum and the Palace Lady
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, 276 p.p. Cloth. Illustration of a flowering tree by P"in, Lo on front of dust-jacket cover. Small tears to dust-jacket. End of spine slightly bumped. Interior clean, a very good copy of book. More
The Nattering Puppet
Frankford, Ontario: Self Published, 1988. Soft cover. 12mo (tall). SIGNED to title page. Original red card wraps, staple bound. 33 p.p. Very slight sunning to spine, else fine. A collection of poetry from Canadian poet Nan French. More
An Anthology of Chinese Verse: Han Wei Chin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. The Oxford Library of East Asian Literatures Series. Original jacket with blue cloth boards. ix, 197 p.p. Small chip to upper left corner of front jacket and spine head. Small damp stain to lower jacket spine. Rubbing to edges, extremities. Light..... More
Heart Songs: Verses for Christmas
Boston: The Gorham Press, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. green cloth, gilt titles. Blind publisher's device to rear board. 130 pp. Chafing to extremities, damp staining to front board, slight bruise to head of rear joint, white mark to top edge of rear board. Offsetting to endpapers. Very good..... More
My Michigan
Michigan: Presscraft Papers, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Hardcover. Roughly cut edges. No pagination. Illustrations throughout. Interior clean. More
These Things are Ours
Michigan: Presscraft Papers, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. No pagination. Illustrations throughout book. Interior clean. Gift tag from the author included, with bank spaces. Copy as new. More
Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 264 pp. Creasing to joints, light rubbing to extremities. More
Romanticism Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute
New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. Soft cover. Soft cover. ix, 133 pp. Rubbing to extremities, light staining to rear cover. More
Mimi Sasso: Amavi, Amo, Amabo. Poetry, Relfections & Confessions
Vaughn, Ontario: Dolce Book Publishing, 2006. Soft cover. 8vo. Paperback, 177pp. Illustrated. About fine. In this debut collection of poems, R. Galluci creates "a door through which others can walk into what previously seemed unobtainable realms, in the passage of a few short lines." More
Scarborough Fair
Toronto: Scarborough College, University of Toronto, 1974. First Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. 1973-1974. First Annual Edition, limited to 3,000 copies printed at The Coach House Press. 119pp. A small hole to margin of pp. 41, (text unaffected), light wear to spine and covers, o/w very good. An Anthology of Literature..... More
Collected Poems
Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1977. Soft cover. 8vo. Scottish. xiv, 208 p.p. No jacket. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Bruising along covers. Interior clean, a fine copy of book. More
Pietas from Vergil To Dryden
University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full burgundy cloth. x, 340 pp. Light rubbing to edges, small stain to fore edge of text block, else fine. Dust jacket sunned at spine. For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid..... More
Fabelen En Vertelsels. In Nederduitsche Verzen Gevolgd. Nieuwe Uitgave Met Platen.
Dordrect: J.De Vos En Comp, 1830. Hardcover. 18mo. Original boards, with printed paper label on spine. iv, 296 p.p., 6 p.p. index, [4] leaves of illustrations from the first edition by Dutch artist Jacobus Buys (1724-1801). Lacking front free endpaper. Moderate wear and rubbed boards, bumped and chipped edges, soiled..... More
Callimachus: Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments; Musaeus: Hero and Leander.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. Hardcover. 16mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 421. Orig. dark green cloth, xviii, 422pp, (8). About fine in an o/w very good and creased d/w. More
Callimachus: Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments; Musaeus: Hero and Leander.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Hardcover. 16mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 421. Orig. olive green cloth, xviii, 422pp, (8). Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, spine slightly tilted. Pencil ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket sunned to spine, some chafing to extremities. More
Idyls, or Pastoral Poems; To which is Annexed, A Letter to M. Fuesslin, on Landscape Painting
Edinburgh: Printed for W. Mudie and Arch. Constable, 1798. Hardcover. 18mo. Later edition, published posthumously. Scarce. Contemporary tree calf, gilt decorations to spine, black leather spine label with gilt title. xviii, 140 pp. [2] plate engravings. Some general edge wear, light cracking to joints. Light sporadic foxing. Gessner was a...... More