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Chinese Life Rhythms - Second Edition

By: Dewey, Carol McCurdy

Price: $69.95

Publisher: South Suberb, Tientsin, China, The Student Work Department, Tientsin Hui Wen Academy: 1935

Seller ID: 23108713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

52 pages of poetry including black and white sketches. Circa 1935. "This volume of verse has grown out of a deep human sympathy with life as lived each day in and around the small walled city of Changli (North China) and neighboring districts. Each poem imparts an experience of the writer, who has resided in North China for twelve years. As we read her poems they live for us, who know and love China." - from the foreward. Blue patterned cloth-covered boards show moderate wear and sunning at spine. Pages unmarked and moderately yellowed. Gilt title upon front board.
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Voice of the Salmon River - Poetry of the Sayward Valley 1941 to 1950

By: Dickson, Ruth (Signed)

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Canada, Self Published: 1998

Seller ID: 231G1799

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

57 pages. Black and white illustrations. Signed by author upon title page otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Nice Vancouver Island poetry. A quality copy.
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The Devil You Say - and Other Poems By Langford Dixon

By: Dixon, Langford

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Toronto, Langmar Studio: 1965

Seller ID: 23102649

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unpaginated. "His morality encompasses everything from aggressive criticism of corruption and hypocrisy to praise of new nations and of beautiful women." - Timothy Dunn in The Peace Bulletin. Recital handout laid in. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy.
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Scrip of Joy

By: Elder, Kathleen Butler

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Kaslo, BC, Self-Published: 1980

Seller ID: 23100297

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated. A lovely collection of illustrated poetry. Author was born in Kaslo, B.C. on Kootenay Lake. She is a lover of birds, wild flowers, and other wonders of the natural world. This love she expresses through her poetry. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy.
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This purple-misted isle: Manx poems

By: Faragher, Kathleen

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Ramsey, Isle of Man, The Ramsey Courier Ltd: 1957

Seller ID: 231H2075

ISBN: B0007K2LUK

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

B0007K2LUK Neatly signed, without inscription, by author beneath her photo on page 3. 51 pages including 32 poems. Several black and white vignettes in text. Prior owner carefully secured clear plastic to blue covers with tape which has yellowed. Corresponding discolouration to first and last leaves. Binding intact. Name and address handwritten atop title page. News clipping taped to page 48 includes poem which appears on page 49. A worthy vintage copy.
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Silt of iron,

By: Fiamengo, Marya

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Montreal, Ingluvin Publications: 1971

Seller ID: 751C9010

ISBN: 0919522998

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

0919522998 60 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. Few library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy copy.
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Sourdough and Gold Dust

By: Fleming, Everett S. (Signed)

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., International Sourdough Reunion: 1954

Seller ID: 231G3540

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

16 pages. Prepared especially for the International Sourdough Re-Union, Vancouver, B.C., August 16-18, 1954. Generically inscribed and signed by author beneath his photo upon verso of title page. Includes the following works: The Old Time Sourdough - A Toast; No Scalp McFarlane (a tale of the trail of '98 - a true story); Day Dreaming; A Sourdough's Dream; The Golden North; My Old Sourdough; A Heart of Gold; Saanich Gold - The Daffodils. Moderate wear. A sound and pleasing vintage copy.
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Roots and Wings

By: Ford, Ruth R. (ruthrford)

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Alberta, Ideas in Ink: 1992

Seller ID: 751A0073

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

40 pages of down to earth poetry. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.
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American Poetry Anthology, Vol. VII

By: Frost, John, Editor

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Santa Cruz, CA, American Poetry Association: 1988

Seller ID: 23108782

ISBN: 0881470570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

0881470570 480 pages including index. " A real and memorable tribute to the universal need to express love, fear, loss, sensual and spiritual joy, the inevitability of death, and the poignant, metaphysical quests of this generation's poets. Who can say which of them will rise to the challenge of greatness?" - From the Introduction. Light wear. Unmarked.
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Popcorn for Breakfast

By: Furney, Gerry

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Canada, Trafford Publishing: 2010

Seller ID: 231G1945

ISBN: 1426924364

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

1426924364 224 pages. Signed and generically inscribed by author upon title page. Black and white illustrations. "A book of poems inspired by my experiences growing up in Cork, Ireland, spending two great years in London, England and emigrating to Port McNeill, British Columbia, where I have lived since 1956." - from page ix. Author was the prominent Mayor of Port McNeill on Vancouver Island. Moderate wear. Some curling to front cover. A sound copy. Poetry made worthwhile - for those of us not normally drawn to it - by the author's humourous reflections mixed with the wisdom of...
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Twentieth Century Poetry and Poetics

By: Geddes, Gary [Editor]; Bruce, Phyllis [Editor]

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 23108601

ISBN: 0195404882

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0195404882 727 pages. Includes bibliography and index. Enlarged to include Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, P.K. Page, Elizabeth Bishop, Michael Ondaatje, and Phyllis Webb, as well as new poems and poetics by some of the original contributors. Considered the single most important teaching anthology published in Canada. Infrequent markings to text. Light wear. Some curl to front cover. Glossy colour-illustrated covers.
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A Paean for Love

By: Giles, Harry

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Primorg: 1985

Seller ID: 751A1246

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

112 pages. Author's first published book of poetry. Average wear. Unmarked.
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Along the Road to Hazelton

By: Glynn-Ward, Hilda

Price: $89.95

Publisher: London, The Mitre Press: 1945

Seller ID: 318C7766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

56 pages. Undated - appears to be pre-1950. Contents: Poems of British Columbia; Indian Poems; Various Ballads and Ditties. Usual library markings. Average wear. A sound copy.
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Heaven's Door - Poems By Gregory Grace

By: Grace, Gregory

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Fredericton, NB, Canada, Fiddlehead Poetry Books: 1976

Seller ID: 23100496

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

76 pages. Author's previous book, entitled 'The Money of the Sunlight' was published in 1971. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding solid.
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She who : a graphic book of poems with 54 images of women

By: Grahn, Judy

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Oakland, CA, Diana Press: 1977

Seller ID: 231H3698

ISBN: 0884470156

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

0884470156 92 pages. Designed by Wendy Cadden and Karen Sjoholm. Primarily illustrated in black and white plus several color pages. "These poems, intended for reading out load, have cumulative power. Images of women in a range of forms - portraits, wildly imaginative fables, ironic parables, incantatory invocation - have a formal, ritual quality. My feeling when I read the final lines was as if a new Genesis, a strong myth of women, had begun." - back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Short opening between front cover and top of spine. A worthy copy of this treasured work.
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Bits and Pieces - Poems

By: Gray, Barbara

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Cannon Beach, OR, Ecola Trading Company: 1992

Seller ID: 23100261

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

100 pages. "Intertwine words and music and you have poetry. My father, Edward Howard Baxter, was a master of words and his clarinet. This blending influenced my love of writing music and poetry. Recently I was invited to read some of my poems to a small group of friends. This book, to my surprise, is the result of their encouragement." - from Preface. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy.
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Paul Bunyan - and Other Poems

By: Griffin, Harold

Price: $59.95

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. Canada, The Commonwealth Fund: 1977

Seller ID: 23107659

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

53 pages. Author's third selection of poems. Dust jacket features amazing photo of loggers standing amongst enormous trees. Book in near fine condition but for blue child's squiggle upon front endpaper and the fact that the binding is open at the back flyleaf. Author's signature upon half-title page.
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A minor operation

By: Hall, Phil

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Toronto, ON, Canada, Blewointmentpress: 1983

Seller ID: 23107417

ISBN: 0889710937

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0889710937 53 pages. "These are posthumorous poems written in 1983. In December 1982 I got a vasectomy. Much of what's here responds directly or indirectly to that." - Author. Includes some line drawings.
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THE BRIGHT SIDE O' THINGS By HARVEY HAMLYN 1927

By: HARVEY HAMLYN

Price: $79.95

Publisher: New York, GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY: 1927

Seller ID: 751H3588

ISBN: B0078EOF48

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

B0078EOF48 95 pages. Index of authors. A compilation of uplifting poems from the late 1920s by many American poets. Title label upon faux leather front board. Prior owner's details, dated 1928, atop front free endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.
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The School Bag

By: Heaney, Seamus; Hughes, Ted

Price: $59.95

Publisher: London, United Kingdom, Faber and Faber Ltd: 1997

Seller ID: 751A6887

ISBN: 0571177514

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0571177514 590 pages. An anthology of poetry. "Exciting, surprisingly broad in its taste... pulls readers through like a novel." - Sunday Times. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.
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Category: Poetry