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Kur Te Mos Duhemi Me, Poezi / Quand on Ne Sera Plus Aime , Poemes

By: Bega, Natasha

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Tirana, Publisher Not Stated, Printed By Industrial Press (Coventry) Ltd.: 1996

Seller ID: 751A1005

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

57 pages. Appears to be a book of poetry written in both French and Albanian (?). Nice colour plates. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.
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I Need You - for Every Need There is an Answer

By: Bernhardt, Clara

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Not Stated: 1983

Seller ID: 23106549

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

76 pages. Copyright date 1983. Top 1.25" of title page clipped. Gift greetings upon verso of title page. Marginal notes on page 76. Average wear with some soiling to front cover which features smiling picture of author. This is author's fifth collection of poetry. For 30 years she wrote two weekly columns for the Cambridge (Ontario) Times. Of necessity all her work was done from a wheel chair due to a devastating attack of polio at age 11. She was born in Preston, Ontario in 1911.
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th last photo uv th human soul

By: bissett, bill

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., Talonbooks: 1993

Seller ID: 23101269

ISBN: 088922322X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

088922322X 142 pages. "... this is a veree politikul book... often ecstatik..." osten chenko. (from back cover) Clean, bright and unmarked with only the lightest of wear. Attractive glossy illustrated covers. Excellent copy.
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China Clay

By: Blakemore, Trevor

Price: $79.95

Publisher: Cambridge, England, W. Heffer & Sons Ltd.: 1922

Seller ID: 751A4474

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Unpaginated. Approximately 3/8" thick. Contains short poems on Chinese topics, accompanied by handsome black and white illustrations. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy.
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Touch; selected poems 1960-1970

By: Bowering, George

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, McClelland and Stewart: 1971

Seller ID: 751A7182

ISBN: 0771015968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

0771015968 128 pages. "...Virile, evocative, concerned, original: a pure delight to hear or read." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Pencil notes upon half-title page. Solid working copy.
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My Sentimental Journey: Poems and Essays

By: Boyd, Allan

Price: $49.95

Publisher: USA, The Dockery Press: 1974

Seller ID: 751A4309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

61 pages. Light wear. Discard stamp upon front free endpaper else clean and unmarked. A quality copy.
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West Coast Seen (formerly Titled West Coast 68)

By: Brown, Jim; Phillips, David: Editors

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. Canada, Talon Books: 1969

Seller ID: 23108627

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

212 pages. "This magazine first made public the tremendous energy possible by a new wave of writers whose response to life in language is not provincial or limited by borders. This wave has not fallen back into the Pacific but moves across the land now. Hear 28 responses (writers)." - from the introduction. Includes works by: Belford, Brown, Carlson, Coupey, Frith, Jungic, Lawrence, McKinnon, Robinson, Schroeder, Siebum, Tan Trey, Martina and Mayne, to name a few. Unmarked but for handwritten correction to publisher's address. Moderate wear. Glossy illustrated covers.
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History & Rhymes of Our Boys in the Great War

By: Buck Private O'Neil

Price: $49.95

Publisher: USA, Privately Published: 1926

Seller ID: 517H3444

ISBN: B005F05CTY

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

B005F05CTY 63 pages. Several black and white reproductions of photos, including portrait of General Pershing. In addition the the rhymes, a substantial portion of history is provided about: The Fismes Sector, The Argonne, and The Projected Attack on Metz. Chipping to covers. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.
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The Outlaw and Other Poems

By: Buck, Alanson L.

Price: $79.95

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1913

Seller ID: 751H3002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

161 pages. Thirty-eight poems with title such as: A Manitoulin Spring, United Canada, Morning on Lake Mindemoya, With Wolfe at Quebec, Stick to the Farm, and many more. Informative handwritten biographical information slip about the author affixed to dedication page. Photo portrait of author. Unmarked. Moderate wear to forest green cloth-covered boards adorned with bright gilt lettering. A sound vintage copy. Bibliographic reference: Watters [2nd Edn] p.28.
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Moons and mirrors: Poems

By: Bullock, Michael

Price: $59.95

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, Canada, Rainbird Press: 1994

Seller ID: 23100999

ISBN: 0969050437

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

0969050437 Author's inscription and signature atop half-title page. A group of poems written after a conversation with a friend about the moon. Conjures up the eternal, inviolate metaphysical side of the moon that nothing (not even invading astronauts) can damage or destroy, that is beyond the reach of any crass technologial incursion. Faint traces of wear. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy in bright glossy covers.
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The Hogg poems and Drawings

By: Callaghan, Barry

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Don Mills, ON, General Pub. Co: 1978

Seller ID: 23108579

ISBN: 0773600663

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

0773600663 143 pages. "Not all visions are unique but Barry Callaghan has broken from a dream that is both unique and marvelous. Thank God he got back alive to tell us!... The book will burn your fingers. The occasion of its publication is one of those all too rare events - the sounding of a new and authentic voice." - Timothy Findlay. Usual library markings. Average wear. Includes numerous wonderful colour plates of author's art.
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Images On Water

By: Cathers, Ken

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Lantzville, BC, Canada, Oolichan Books: 1976

Seller ID: 23102460

ISBN: 088982004X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

088982004X 48 pages. One of 750 copies from first printing. Poetry by a British Columbia author. Titles include: "petroglyphs, nanaimo, b.c." and "west coast poems (I-VII)". Covers yellowed with some soiling. Some yellowing to contents. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact.
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Rhymes of the Miner: An Anthology of Canadian Mining Verse

By: Chicanot, E[ugene] L[ouis]: Editor

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Canada, Federal Publications Limited: 1937

Seller ID: 751H4568

ISBN: B016TRIJWI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

B016TRIJWI [8], 9-222 pages. Occasional black and white illustrations. Undated but appears to be circa 1937. A collection of approximately 180 Canadian mining verses compiled, in part, because "a good deal of verse associated with the industry's remoter past was in danger of becoming permanently lost." - Foreword. Includes works by Robert Service, J.C. Murray, Alpine MacGregor, and many others, brief biographies for fourteen of whom are included at back. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's illustrated brown buckram-covered boards. Front hinge starting. Narrow opening in bi...
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The radiant inventory: Poems

By: Christopher Dewdney

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1988

Seller ID: 23102648

ISBN: 0771026994

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0771026994 107 pages. "Chrisopher Dewdney is a poet, one of the most remarkable working in Canada now. His verse is written out of a sense of wonderment... Dewdney is unique." - Robert Fulford. Light wear and soiling. Prior owner's name atop half-title page else unmarked. Nice copy in laminated covers.
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87 North

By: Coffey, Michael

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., Coffee House Press: 1999

Seller ID: 23107444

ISBN: 1566890853

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1566890853 105 pages. One of 2,500 copies from the first printing. Author is managing editor of Publishers Weekly. "...exhibits the ferocity of his range: polemics worthy of Pope; quick delights that ignite in wit; ad dazzling, luminous poems that mix the language and geography of upstate New York with history, faith, autobiography, and poetic inheritance." - Susan Wheeler. Light rubbing to glossy covers. Two inch crease to upper corner of front cover. Unmarked.
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The energy of slaves

By: Cohen, Leonard

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1974

Seller ID: 23100725

ISBN: 0771022034

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

0771022034 127 pages. Contents clean and unmarked. Covers show some moisture staining near spine. Small piece clipped from lower cover of front cover and first leaf. Average wear overall. Binding intact.
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Time-Wasters - A Potpourri of Crazy Rhymers for All Reasons and Seasons

By: Coventry, Rene

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Self-Published (Van Coillie, Dries): 1980

Seller ID: 23106724

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

53 pages. Average soiling and wear to yellow card covers. Sticker remnant at top left corner of front cover and '"25" written at top right corner. Illustrated throughout with 'little ditty' sketches, presumably by author, who states on page 53 "...I'm sure you realized all along that I have just been pulling your leg!!!!" Title include: Different Drum, Time Slips By, WATCHOUT - Anything Goes, The Golf Champion, and many more. Circa 1980?
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Moving on

By: Curteis, Eileen

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Victoria, BC, Canada, Ekstasis Editions: 1997

Seller ID: 23102647

ISBN: 1896860133

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

1896860133 95 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. "This cycle of compressed lyrics traces the journey of the soul through brokenness and pain to regeneration. These are tangy, surprising mini-parables for our time, moving out of silence into living speech. They display the cryptic humour and metaphoric energy of a contemporary Emily Dickinson." - Susan McCaslin. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy.
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The Prospector and Other Poems

By: Dagger, Gordon (Signed)

Price: $199.95

Publisher: New York, U.S.A., The Polygon Press: 1942

Seller ID: 751C5954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

61 pages. "Art in conflict - it has always been because it is misunderstood by so many who fail to grasp its meaning - much to be regretted - by no mean for by being rejected the urge for expression in the soul of the true artist often grows deeper with defeat" - from forward. A collection of 27 poems. Signed and inscribed by author across from title page. Average wear. Binding sound. Bookplate and two pen markings atop front free endpaper.
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Down Time

By: Derksen, Jeff

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, Talonbooks: 1990

Seller ID: 23102174

ISBN: 0889222789

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0889222789 91 pages. "A collection of six works of variously demonstrating movement in poetry... The poems are emotionally precise but set in such a kinetic situation that one can't help but read on... a wonderful book." - Lyn Hejinian. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Slight curl to front cover. Very nice copy.
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