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The Hundred Old Names

By: Helwig, David

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Oberon Pr: 1988

Seller ID: 751A2684

ISBN: 0887507190

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

0887507190 83 pages. "David Helwig visited China last year and this book is the result: pungent, perceptive, illuminating." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. Binding tight. A sound copy.
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The Mirrored Clubs of Hell: Poems

By: Henry, Gerrit

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Arcade Pub: 1991

Seller ID: 23106744

ISBN: 1559701005

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

1559701005 112 pages. Henry's poems are of the here and now, of people and places we all know or can readily imagine. Which is not to say they are mundane, for flashes of brilliant insight or harsh self-deprecation run through the work, constantly tilting the vision just enough off center to make us take a second, more thoughtful look, or listen more carefully. 4 inch crease to top of front cover. Moderate to average wear. Unmarked inside.
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Interlude of Love

By: Henry, Julianne (Signed)

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Red Deer, AB, Red Deer College Press, Canada: 1977

Seller ID: 23107917

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated. Author's signature and greetings inside front cover. High quality textured cover and pages. Small chip at base of cover fold.
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Martin Fierro - Edicion Critica De Angel J. Battistessa - Premio Ricardo Rohas

By: Hernandez, Jose

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Argentina, Editiones Peuser: 1958

Seller ID: 743G0543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

329 pages. Leather binding. Text in Spanish. Gilt lettering and decoration upon front board. Tight and square. Clean and bright with negligible wear. Gift greetings upon verso of first blank leaf, otherwise unmarked. A superb copy.
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Epic of Sheik Bedreddin and Other Poems (English and Turkish Edition)

By: Hiket, Nazem

Price: $59.95

Publisher: New York, Persea Books: 1977

Seller ID: 75103291

ISBN: 0892550244

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

0892550244 141 pages. Works by the first modern Turkish poet, recognized worldwide as one of the great international poets of the twentieth century. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. Solid copy in brown illustrated card covers.
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Human Landscapes (Persea Series of Poetry in Translation) (English and Turkish Edition)

By: Hikmet, Nazim

Price: $59.95

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Persea Books: 1982

Seller ID: 75103292

ISBN: 0892550686

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0892550686 294 pages including glossary. Translation of: Memleketimden insan manzaralari. Prior owner's name and date atop half-title page else clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Binding solid. Nice copy.
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The Life of Mr Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

By: Hobbes, Thomas

Price: $129.95

Publisher: UK, The Rota: 1979

Seller ID: 24604892

ISBN: 0904617130

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

0904617130 Approximately 34 pages. "Written By Himself in a Latine Poem and now Translated into English." - from front cover. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy.
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A Little Canadian Art Gem - Original Poems and Illustrations

By: Hodgson, Norah Maud (Signed)

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Toronto, Self-Published: 1968

Seller ID: 231G0462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

27 pages. Signed by author/artist upon title page. Dedicated to all children from grade 3 to 8. Charming colour illustrations. Moderate wear to dust jacket now nicely preserved in glossy Brodart cover. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. A nice copy of this charming title.
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Poetry 2000: Turning strategy into action : prose poems (Bulldust series of older poets)

By: Hoffman, Avron

Price: $54.95

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, Canada, Buildust Press: 1996

Seller ID: 23108598

ISBN: 0968014801

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

0968014801 208 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon half-title page. "Finally a book of poems that tackles the harsh realities of today's financial milieu." "Poetry 2000 is to reengineering, what reengineering is to bovine flatulence." - from back cover. Author lives in Vancouver B.C. where he works at the University of British Columbia library and is a shop steward for CUPE. Book appears to have been the victim of a major coffee spill which wash ed up upon front cover and early pages. Moderate wear and unmarked otherwise. Binding sound.
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Vignettes of Vancouver

By: Hood, Robert Allison

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., Education Services: 1954

Seller ID: 715H5021

ISBN: B0000EEN2N

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

B0000EEN2N Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. 84 pages. 21 x 14.5cm. Black and white illustrations in text. A compilation of the author's verses relating to Vancouver, B.C. which are presented in four sections: The Sailor, The Indian, Denizens of the Sanctuary in Stanley Park, and Features of Charm and Scenes That Charm. Brief annotation about the author on page 33 otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now protected in mylar. A worthy vintage signed copy of this charming and nostallgic Vancouver memento. Hale 1460.
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No Visual Scars

By: Hryniuk, Angela

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Polestar Book Publishers: 1993

Seller ID: 75102837

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

79 pages. "A responsively irritable record of how it is to live bodily life now that the old maps don't tell us the truth. Hryniuk writes with intelligence and conscience. Her book has startling insights to offer." - Brian Fawcett. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.
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Rhymes of a Nomad

By: Jarrett, Fred G. (Signed)

Price: $399.95

Publisher: Unstated, Self-Published: 1950

Seller ID: 23100407

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

A most unique 29 page volume of poetry including such titles as: Old Folks Alone; The Nomad (which appears beneath the book's only illustration, that of a middle aged couple); The Isle of Dreams; The Immigrant's Return; Satisfied; The Prospector; and many others. Author's signature inside front cover. Several handwritten corrections to contents may be those of the author. Several poems have different poems pasted on top of them. Thus, this volume may in fact be a draft copy. Pasted inside the back cover is a most amusing work entitled "A Close Call" - an Australian Idyl, which des...
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Ramblings in Rhyme

By: Jones, Selwyn B.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Self-Published (Van Coillie, Dries): 1988

Seller ID: 231A5259

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Undated. Publisher not stated. Ink stamp inside front cover else unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid copy.
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Kvidlingar

By: Julius, Kristjan N.

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Winnipeg, Canada, Publisher Unknown: 1920

Seller ID: 231A7668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

182 pages. A collection of poetry. Text in Icelandic. Tissue-protected frontis of author. Clean and umarked with average wear. Binding open at page 178. Gilt lettering and adornment upon maroon front board.
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Poetry Squibbles & Dreams

By: K, Jorge

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Montreal, Self-Published: 1993

Seller ID: 23102605

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

103 pages. From first printing of 300 copies. Poetry intermixed with unique 'squibble' drawings. Unmarked but for phone number upon copyright page. Crease down front cover. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Nice copy.
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The Cloud Messenger

By: Kalidasa

Price: $49.95

Publisher: USA, Ann Arbor: 1964

Seller ID: 75102953

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

87 pages. Translated from the Sanskrit Meghaduta by Franklin and Eleanor Edgerton. In this work, Kalidasa reaches the height of his powers of expression. Reading copy only. Many water stains. Binding intact.
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More Rough Rhymes of a Padre

By: Kennedy, G.A. Studdert (Woodbine Willie)

Price: $295.00

Publisher: London/New York/Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton: 1919

Seller ID: 231A6175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

89 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1919. Pertinent poetic verses neatly hand-written upon verso of dedication page. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling to red cloth-covered boards. Small opening at top of front hinge. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Printed in Great Britain.
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Rough Rhymes of a Padre

By: Kennedy, G.A. Studdert (Woodbine Willie)

Price: $199.95

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1918

Seller ID: 231G3385

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

94 pages. "Some of these poems were printed at my request and gained great popularity amongst all ranks in the B.E.F. I feel sure that through these homely verses many a man has come to realise for the first time some deep truth of the Sorrow of God in this world's greatest agony. The author has had experience in all parts of this battle as a chaplain and knows and loves the men for whom he writes." - Llewellyn H. Gwynne, Deputy Chaplain General, France, 1918. Dedicated to the officers and men of the 46th and 24th Infantry Divisions. Proceeds of this volume went to St. Dunstan's H...
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The Unutterable Beauty

By: Kennedy, G.A. Studdert (Woodbine Willie)

Price: $69.95

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1943

Seller ID: 231G3633

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

180 pages. "The author, otherwise known as 'Woodbine Willie' was perhaps the most famous Padre who served in the first world war... Everything he did and wrote bore the marks of a great man, passionate in his tenderness for suffering and striving humanity, fierce in his hatred of hypocrisy and cant." - from Publisher's Note. Small vintage bookseller's label inside front cover. This copy formerly owned by a Chaplain whose personal details are handwritten upon front free endpaper. Above-average wear and fading/sunning to beige cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. A worthy vintage ...
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If Only Time Stood Still - A Collection of Poems, Aphorisms, Essays and Short Stories

By: Kessler, Henry A. (Signed)

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Four Winds Publishing: 1989

Seller ID: 231G3056

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

73 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. A nice copy.
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