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Eager Footsteps. First Edition in dustjacket.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Musson Book Company Ltd., Toronto , 1924,:

Seller ID: 7583

WILSON, Anne Elizabeth. Eager Footsteps. Toronto : The Musson Book Company Ltd., (1924). First Canadian Edition. Pp. 47. Small 8vo, floral cloth covered boards, black cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. Watters p.213, Rhodenizer p. 935. A book of verse, love lyrics and philosphical verses.. Anne Elizabeth Wilson (b. November 28, 1901, Frankfort, Kentucky - d. October 17, 1946, Toronto) , Canadian writer and literary editor. Spine faded and outer hinges splitting, some browning to the boards, else very good in edgeworn dustjacket. 20.00
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Songs of Manhood. First Edition

By: WOOD, Frederick Barnes

Price: $75.00

Publisher: George Routledge & Sons Limited,, London, 1908,:

Seller ID: 54768

WOOD, Frederick Barnes. Songs of Manhood. London : George Routledge & Sons Limited, 1908. First Edition. Pp. 152. Small 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering and border to front, gilt lettering to spine, a.e.g.A collection of poems by this Windsor, NS author, (b. 1855), who later moved to St. John's in the 1890s, where he opened "Woods West End Candy and Fruit Store" which, in its heyday was described as "the most patronized and most popular restaurant in St. John's."O'Dea 1420, Laugher p. 609. Not in Rhodenizer. "Pref. written in Newfoundland. Some poems have Newfoundland sett...
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Notes on Visitations : Poems 1936-1975. First Edition in dustjacket

By: WOODCOCK, George Anansi 33

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Anansi , Toronto, 1975, ISBN:0887841341:

Seller ID: 16173

WOODCOCK, George. Notes on Visitations : Poems 1936-1975. Toronto : Anansi,(1975). First Printing. Pp. (7),i-x,(1),1-101,(1). 8vo, black cloth with s ilver lettering to spine. Anansi Poetry Series HAP33. "Well-known as a critic, biographer and man of letters, George Woodcock is also a distinguished poet, as this fine retrospective collection shows. 'Notes on Visitations' spans forty years, from poems written in the England of the 1930's to more recent work expressing Woodcock's complex response to Canada, to change and nostalgia, to universal myths and modern politics, to time, death and l...
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Mountain Road

By: WOODCOCK, George Fiddlehead Poetry Books No.296

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Fiddlehead poetry books, 1980, ISBN:0920110983:

Seller ID: 14893

WOODCOCK, George. The Mountain Road. (Fredericton : Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1980). Pp (4),5-70,(2). 8vo, illustrated white trade paperback.

Fiddlehead Poetry Book No.296. Limited to 500 copies.

Includes the following poems: "Dedicatory Sestina: Souvenir of Menton", "Kestrel", "Dog and Hare", "Species of Birds", "The Disappearance", "On a Cat's Portrait", "Lapwing", "Deer", "Eagle", "Small-hour Vigil", "November Day on Hoew Sound", "The Skeena", "The Outlaw Exonerated", "What Did Merlin Say?", "The Wolves Depart", "Black Flag", "Souvenir of Cambodia", "Kreutzer Sonata",...
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Men. First Edition.

By: WOODS, Elizabeth Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 270)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, Fredericton, 1979, ISBN:0920110495:

Seller ID: 101807

WOODS, Elizabeth. Men. (Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1979). First Printing. Pp. (4),5-96. 8vo, illustrated white card covers. Fiddlehead Poetry Books, number 270. Includes the following poems: I. Introduction: "I am the woman as a young man", "Where I come from", "What I want is", "At 4 a.m.", "The difference between", "Gospel Song", "Listen to the Dogs", "Out of Place", "Over-run by rodents", "Poems", "The secular nun", "That year,", "There is a certain something equal", "What ...
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The Girl in the Brook. First Edition, Signed

By: WRIGHT, Wayne.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Breakwater: 1980

Seller ID: 116557

ISBN: 0919948901

WRIGHT, Wayne. The Girl in the Brook. [St. John's] : Breakwater, (1980). First Edition. Pp (64). Unpaginated. 8vo (135 x 202 mm), yellow card covers, with black lettering to front & rear cover, with blank spine, with small b&w photo of Wright on the rear cover.

No. 4 in the Canada's Atlantic Poets series.

Limited to 1000 copies.

Laugher p.615.

Michael Wayne Wright (b. October 29, 1947).

Poet, sculptor, artist, cartoonist, &c, (b. October 29, 1947), from Bedeque, Prince Edward Island . .

Poems:
"When...
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The Girl in the Brook. First Edition

By: WRIGHT, Wayne. Canada's Atlantic Poets 04.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Breakwater, St. John's, 1980, ISBN:0919948901: 1980

Seller ID: 1923

ISBN: 0919948901

Locus. First Edition.

By: WYNAND, Derk. Fiddlehead Poetry Books

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, Fredericton, 1971, ISBN:0919196535:

Seller ID: 101803

WYNAND, Derk. Locus. (Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1971). First Printing. Pp. (4),5-40. 8vo, illustrated stapled black card covers with white lettering to front.

A volume in the Fiddlehead Poetry Books series.

The German-born Canadian's first collection of verse. Includes the following poems: "Writers' Colony", "Poem for Michaux", "Conversion", "Claustrophobia", "Heat", "Thirst", "Names", "Poaching", "Symbiosis", "Shipwrecking", "Nightscape", "Manscape with Clouds", "Street Scene", "June", "Departure", "Slope","Four A.M.", "Man, Woman, and Boat", "Elegy", "19c ...
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Great Bear Lake Meditations. Second Printing Paperback.

By: YATES, J. Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oberon Press, 1971, ISBN:0887500293:

Seller ID: 106149

YATES, J. Michael. The Great Bear Lake Meditations. [Ottawa] : (Oberon Press, 1971). Second Printing. Pp. (108). Unpaginated. Illustrated in black and white. 8vo, printed white card covers with black lettering to front cover and spine, French flaps.

"'A man comes north to become an animal, to turn the whole day toward food and a place to sleep warm.' So Michael Yates speaks of his encounter with the Canadian Arctic. The north makes itself felt first on the body, then on the mind. The city, one's own neighbourhood, own house, one corner of one room, used to feed and shelter a man. T...
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Completely Collapsible Portable Man : Selected Shorter Lyrics. First Edition.

By: YATES, J. Michael.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Mosaic Books, Oakville, ON, 1984, ISBN:0920110541:

Seller ID: 106152

YATES, J. Michael. The Completely Collapsible Portable Man : Selected Shorter Lyrics. Oakville: Mosaic Press, (1984). First Printing. Pp. (6),7-128, 8vo, illustrated grey card covers with white lettering to spine.

Includes selections from "Spiral of Mirrors" (27 poems), "Hunt In An Unmapped Interior" (29 poems), 20 poems from "Nothing Speaks", "For the Blue Moraines", and"The Snow Leopard"; and a selection of prose poems from "The Great Bear Lake Meditations", "Parallax", and "Insel: The Queen Charlotte Islands Meditations".

Very good. 15.00
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Something About Silence. First Edition.

By: YEO, Marg

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1979,:

Seller ID: 34549

YEO, Marg. Something About Silence. (Fredericton, NB): Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1979. Pp 63. 8vo, card covers. Vg. 20.00
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Common-or-Garden Gods.

By: YOUNG, Ian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Catalyst, Scarborough, ON, 1976,:

Seller ID: 21672

YOUNG, Ian. Common-or-Garden Gods. (Scarborough : Catalyst, 1976). 8vo, card covers. Very good. 10.00
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Mid-River. First Paperback Edition.

By: ZIEROTH, Dale Anansi House of Poetry, HAP39

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Anansi, Toronto, 1981, ISBN:0887840841:

Seller ID: 38943

ZIEROTH, Dale. Mid-River. Toronto: Anansi, (1981). First Printing. Pp. (6),7-71,(1). 8vo, illustrated grey card covers with pink lettering to front cover and spine. Anansi House of Poetry series, HAP39.

"In 'Mid-River', Zieroth's second collection, the poet comes to terms with the small British Columbia community he has chosen as his home, with his job working in Kootenay and Banff National Parks, with his friends, family and memories. In 'Mid-River', Zieroth has created a powerful personal myth of the Western wilderness." -from the rear cover.

Includes the following po...
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Clearing. Poems from a Journey. First Edition in dustjacket.

By: ZIEROTH, Dale. Anansi House of Poetry HAP29).

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Anansi, Toronto, 1973, ISBN:0887841309:

Seller ID: 105989

ZIEROTH, Dale. Clearing : Poems from a Journey. Toronto: Anansi, (1973). First Printing. Pp. (8),1-71,(3). 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Anansi House of Poetry Series, HAP29. "At 27, with this first complete collection, Dale Zieroth establishes himself as one of Canada's most distinguished young poets. Born and raised on the prairies, he has written of hisancestorsand his roots, of his life and alienation in the big cities -- an d, most recently, of his return to the West where he explores an intimate relationship with the land, his history, and the people in his life. Sta...
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Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences. First Edition

By: ZWICKY, Jan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Gaspereau Press, Kentville, NS, 2005, ISBN:1554470013: 2005

Seller ID: 96714

ISBN: 1554470013

ZWICKY, Jan. Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences. (Kentville, Nova Scotia) : Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers, (2005). First Printing. Pp. (12),13-73,(7). 8vo, black card covers (with silver lettering to spine) in purple paper dust jacket, with cream wrap-around band to rear panel.

Jan Zwicky (b. May 10, 1955, Calgary, Alberta, Canada).

The renowned Canadian poet's sixth collection of verse.

"'Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences' is a vital addition to a remarkable body of work. The songs in this collection are miniature odes, lyric ap...
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Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences. First Edition, signed.

By: ZWICKY, Jan

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Gaspereau Press, Kentville, NS, 2005, ISBN:1554470013:

Seller ID: 97820

ZWICKY, Jan. Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences. (Kentville, NovaScotia) : Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers, (2005). First Printing. Pp. (12),13-73,(7). 8vo, black card covers (with silver lettering to spine)in purple paper dust jacket, with cream wrap-around band to rear panel. Ja n Zwicky (b. May 10, 1955, Calgary, Alberta, Canada). The renowned Canadianpoet's sixth collection of verse. "'Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Si lences' is a vital addition to a remarkable body of work. The songs in thiscollection are miniature odes, lyric apostrophes to household fixtures, hu m...
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Keyword:LITERATURE FIRST CANADA CANADIAN LITERARY VERSE POETS POETRY