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Woman Reading in Bath : Poems. First American Edition in dustjacket

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974,:

Seller ID: 57429

SZUMIGALSKI, Anne. Woman Reading in Bath : Poems. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Pp. 88. 8vo, blue cloth. silver andblue titles to spine. A collection of poems by the Canadian author. Faint wear to spine ends, a few pencilled notations to the margins, else vg in lightly rubbed dj. 35.00
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Dogstones : Selected and New Poems. First Edition

By: SZUMIGALSKI, Anne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fifth House, Saskatoon, 1986, ISBN:0920079237:

Seller ID: 61044

SZUMIGALSKI, Anne. Dogstones : Selected and New Poems. Saskatoon, SK: FifthHouse, 1986. First Edition. Pp. 151. Small 8vo, red card covers, white tit les to front and spine. "A practical intelligence and devilish imagination have contributed to the popularityt of this poet's work. But the singularlyidentifying mark of Anne Szumigalski's poetry over the years has been the rolling, lolling play of sound. She breaks down words and ideas, cavorts intheir multiple parts, savouring the sound of every sylable, and then rolls them all back into a whole. The new poems in 'Dogstones' pursue the phil...
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Game of Angels. First Printing, signed.

By: SZUMIGALSKI, Anne.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1980, ISBN:0888010443:

Seller ID: 106163

SZUMIGALSKI, Anne. A Game of Angels. Poems. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1980. First Printing. Pp. (8),9-48,(4).8vo, illustrated black and white card covers with blue and white lettering to front cover, black lettering to white spine.

Includes the following poems: "A House with a Tower", "Constance Said", "Daisy Filman", "Sitting Under Death's Rich Shade", "Patrick Valentine", "The Name of Our City", "About My War", "You Have a Switchblade", "The Portrait of E", "The Weather", "Childermas", "Grey-Eyed Frances", 'Fishhawks", "Dahlias", "The Elephant Dream", "A Game of Angels", "Angels...
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Risks. A poem. First Printing.

By: SZUMIGALSKI, Anne. WESTERGARD, Jim.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: RDC Press, Red Deer, 1983, ISBN:0889950237:

Seller ID: 106161

SZUMIGALSKI, Anne. Risks. A Poem by Anne Szumigalski. Illustrations by Jim Westergard. (Red Deer, AB): RDC Press, 1983. First Printing. Pp. (8),7-45,(9). Illustrated in black and white. 8vo, illustrated red and white card covers with pink lettering to front cover and pink and black lettering to spine. "An exuberant play on words, a serious poem that reflects on life and the craft of poetry -- 'Risks' is these and more. It is the story of L -- poet, critic, lover. His poignantly comic love affair with the creations of his own imagination, with the beguiling Crystal, with his own words, and ...
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Queen Mary : A Drama. 1st Cdn

By: TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord

Price: $50.00

Publisher: James Campbell & Son, 1875,:

Seller ID: 733

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Queen Mary : A Drama. Toronto: James Campbell & Son, 1875. First Canadian Edition. Pp. 201. 8vo, blue pressed cloth, gilt lettering and illustration to front, decorative trim, bevelled edges, gilt lettering to spine. Reset and printed in Canada by Hunter, Rose and Co. Printers, Toronto. Some foxing to outer leaves, spine ends frayed, light edge wear, corners bumped, previous owner's name pencilled to flyleaf, dated 1875, else very good. From the library of Robie Tufts, N.S. ornithologist, with his name on front blank, dated November 1934. 50.00
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Confabulations : Poems for Malcolm Lowry. First Edition, paperback.

By: THESEN, Sharon. LOWRY, Malcolm).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oolichan Books, Lantzville, BC, 1984, ISBN:0889820724:

Seller ID: 105625

(LOWRY, Malcolm). THESEN, Sharon. Confabulations : Poems for Malcolm Lowry.Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 1984. First Printing. Pp. (14),15-41,(3). 8vo, illustrated black card covers, red and white lettering to front cover,white lettering to spine.

A long poem based on the life and works of the troubled English-born novelist, by Thesen, born in Saskatchewan in 1946, who was raised in B.C.

Very good. 15.00
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Only So Far

By: THOMPSON, Hilary Fiddlehead Poetry Books

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, Fredericton, 1982, ISBN:0864920121:

Seller ID: 13401

THOMPSON, Hilary. Only So Far. (Fredericton) : Fiddlehead Poetry Books, (1982). First Edition. Pp (8),9-51,(5). 8vo, grey photo-illustrated card covers, blue lettering to spine. "Hilary Thompson lives on the South Mountain ofthe Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia and teaches at Acadia University." - r ear cover. An unnumbered member of Fiddlehead Poetry Book series. Arranged in two parts: Ghost Walking. " In the Beginning", "Hoy", "Phaedrus (for 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance')", "Glasgow Street-Door", "The Haunting", "Stargazing"...
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Hard Explanations

By: THOMPSON, Kent New Brunswick Chapbooks 03

Price: $35.00

Publisher: 1968,:

Seller ID: 100843

THOMPSON, Kent. Hard Explanations. Fredericton, N.B. : New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1968. First Edition. Pp (4),1-30,(2). 8vo, card covers. "A NEW Brunswick Chapbook, Volume three". Laugher p.564. Kent Elgin Thompson (b. February3, 1936 in Waukegan, Illinois). Limited to 250 copies. Cover drawing by Br uno Bobak. The poems : "Hard Explanations", "12 O'Clock Noon & Midnight", "All Fall Down", "A Bit of a Tale", "Let Me Tell You About Faith & Illusion", "A Game of Tennis", "Poem by a Private Pool", "Secretary", "Pompously, F...
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Band of My Ancestors

By: THOMPSON, Kent New Brunswick Chapbooks 20

Price: $30.00

Publisher: 1975,:

Seller ID: 30033

THOMPSON, Kent. A Band of My Ancestors. Fredericton, New Brunswick : The New Brunswick Chapbooks, (1975). First Edition. Pp (4),1-27,(3). 8vo, card covers. "The New Brunswick Chapbooks Number Twenty". Laugher p.564. Kent Elgin Thompson (b. February 3, 1936 in Waukegan, Illinois). Limited to 250 copies. Portrait cover drawing by Bruno Bobak. Very good. 30.00
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Silver Light. First Edition, Signed.

By: THOMSON, Theresa E. Ryerson Poetry Chap-Book No.159 THOMSON, Don W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1955,:

Seller ID: 24239

THOMSON, Theresa E. and Don W. THOMSON Silver Light. Toronto : The Ryerson Press, (1955). First Edition. The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books No.159. Pp [1]-13. 8vo, paper covered boards. Limited to 350 copies Very good. Inscribed by authors. 30.00
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Out of the Storm. First Edition

By: THORPE, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 1984,: 1984

Seller ID: 2471

ISBN: 0920806627

THORPE, Michael. Out of the Storm. (Moonbeam, Ontario) : Penumbra Press, 1984. First Edition. Pp (6),7-57,(7). With 2 b&w photos in the text, one of a Danish bog-man and one of Thorpe. 8vo [140 x 222 mm], grey card covers, lettered in black and blue.

No. 10 in the Penumbra Press Poetry Series.

A Child's War;
Six Museum Poems;
Open-Air Museum;
'Tak for Alt';
On the Slopes of Dalsnibba;
Wishful Fall;
Dorchester Cape, N.B.;
November Rite;
Perennial Mattress;
Lights of Darkling December;
Marsh Cr...
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By the Niger and other poems.First Ediiton, Signed

By: THORPE, Michael

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Fortune Press, London, 1969,: 1969

Seller ID: 506

THORPE, Michael. By the Niger and other poems. London : The Fortune Press, (1969). First Ediiton. Pp (14),11-91,(1). 8vo [125 x 193 mm], blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine.

Laugher p.566.

One of five-hundred copies, Thorpe's first collection.

I.

Nigeria :
By the Niger at Jebba : 1962;
Day at Badagry;
The Toddy Tapster;
Lizard;
An Under-developed People;
Etude in Negritude;
Scratch the Surface, and ...
Snap from an Unfinished Drama;
In Memory of Major Christopher Okigbo;
Epitaph...
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Bagdad Is Everywhere : Poems 1984-1991. First Edition, Signed.

By: THORPE, Michael

Price: $25.00

Publisher: TSAR, Toronto , 1991, ISBN:0920661203: 1991

Seller ID: 46331

ISBN: 0920661203

THORPE, Michael. Bagdad Is Everywhere : Poems 1984-1991. Toronto : TSAR, 1991. First Edition. Pp (10),1-53,(1). 8vo [145 x 221 mm], art-illustrated tan card covers, lettered in green.

I.
Ruskin's Pine;
Here;
Maple and Boy;
The Rock Maple's End;
Monday in Pioneer's Rest;
Barn-Wall Bills, 1884;
Storm;
"Gull in a Storm";
In Perspective;
Venus and the Moon;
The Space Between the Stars;
Presence and Process;
Stranded Keepsake;
Brave New Lovers;
Misgiving;
Washroom Sketches;
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Loves and other poems. First Edition

By: THORPE, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: TSAR, Toronto , 1997, ISBN:0920661645:

Seller ID: 53577

THORPE, Michael. Loves and other poems. Toronto : TSAR, 1997. First Edition. Pp (10),3-68,(4). 8vo [145 x 220 mm], art-illustrated light green card covers, lettered in black. "Loves is his eighth poetry collection and the second from TSAR [...]" from the rear. Contents : I. Loves, I-XXII. II. Trapped Light, a Sequence. III. Eight Poems for Thomas Hardy. IV. Ordinary Men. V. Art, Politics, Other Loves : Landfall 1492; Mock Execution of a French Résistant (1944); Two Poems for Milan Kundera; Austrian Sabbath; Reading KingLear at Miami International Airport; Thoughts while Invigilating a...
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Loves and other poems. First Edition, Signed.

By: THORPE, Michael

Price: $25.00

Publisher: TSAR, Toronto , 1997, ISBN:0920661645:

Seller ID: 37165

Unpleasant Subject : Sketches Around Hitler : Poems. First Edition, paperback

By: THORPE, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: TSAR, Toronto , 2001, ISBN:092066198x:

Seller ID: 116233

THORPE, Michael. The Unpleasant Subject : Sketches Around Hitler : Poems. (Toronto) : TSAR, (2001). First Edition. Pp (8),[1]-72. 8vo [145 x 221 mm], art-illustrated tan card covers, lettered in black & white, with black lettering to tan spine. Michael Thorpe (b. 1932, Norfolk, England). "Based on comparative, almost compulsive reading and deep reflection, this long seriesof poems is an attempt to comprehend the great dark evil that was Hitlerze it. Eschewmg factual embellishment and emotional excess, Thorpe's precise and controlled poetry confronts the man Hitler and his time that altered...
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Choice of Clough's Verse. First Edition, Paperback.

By: THORPE, Michael). CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Faber and Faber, London, 1969, ISBN:0571086861:

Seller ID: 7454

(THORPE, Michael). CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh. A Choice of Clough's Verse, Seledted with an introduction by Michael Thorpe. London : Faber and Faber, (1969).First Edition, Paperback. Pp (6),7-165,(3). 8vo (123 x 184 mm), art-illust rated white card covers, with black lettering to white & orange spine. Arthur Hugh Clough (b. January 1, 1819, Liverpool, England - d. November 13, 1861, Florence, Italy) Edited by this Mount Allison scholar (b. 1932, Norfolk, England). "'He will be ranked with Matthew Arnold, as having found a voice for this self-questioning age - a voice of greater range and richness...
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Broken Vessel : Thirty-five Days in the Desert. First Edition

By: THURSTON, Harry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Gaspereau Press, Kentville, NS, 2007, ISBN:155447034x: 2007

Seller ID: 74238

ISBN: 155447034X

THURSTON, Harry. Broken Vessel : Thirty-five Days in the Desert. (Kentville, NS, Canada) : Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers, 2007. First Printing. Pp. (48). Unpaginated. 8vo (128 x 202 mm), printed cream card covers with French flaps, with black lettering to spine.

Harry Kenneth Thurston (b. March 3, 1950, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia).

The prolific Nova Scotia poet's collection of poems inspired by his stay in the Eastern Sahara in the early part of 2000.

"In January 2000, I travelled to the Egyptian oasis of Dakhleh – the “Inner” oasis – in th...
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If Men Lived on Earth. First Edition.

By: THURSTON, Harry

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Gaspereau Press, Wolfville, 2000, ISBN:1894031229: 2000

Seller ID: 34639

ISBN: 1894031229

THURSTON, Harry. If Men Lived on Earth. Wolfville, Nova Scotia : Gaspereau Press, (2000). First Printing. Pp. (10),11-[143],(9). 8vo (141 x 228 mm), art-illustrated tan card covers, French flaps, olive and black lettering to front cover & spine.

Harry Kenneth Thurston (b. March 3, 1950, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia)..

A book of poetry.

"After a fifteen-year hiatus, 'If Men Lived on Earth' heralds the returns of Atlantic Canada's premier nature writer to his first love -- poetry. Mining the image-rich mythologies and landscapes of his Maritime home, Thurston de...
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Broken Vessel : Thirty-five Days in the Desert. First Edition, Signed.

By: THURSTON, Harry

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Gaspereau Press, Kentville, NS, 2007, ISBN:155447034x: 2007

Seller ID: 115107

ISBN: 155447034X

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Keyword:LITERATURE FIRST CANADA CANADIAN LITERARY VERSE POETS POETRY