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39 Below - The Anthology of Greater Edmonton Poetry

By: Shute, Allan; Fyfe, R.G.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Edmonton, AB, Tree Frog Publishing & Wotnot: 1973

Seller ID: 23109140

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

129 pages. Well worn. Some water damage. Prior owner's name atop front flyleaf. Contains works by dozens of writers including: Mick Burrs, Leona Gom, Barry Knight, Donna Lynn, A.F. Ogle, Jim Pasnak, Sid Stephen, Ivan Sundal, Thomas Whyte. Some yellowing at edges.
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The Riches of Life

By: Simkin, Alice MacRae

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Canada, Self-Published: 1963

Seller ID: 23102565

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

107 pages. "With the publishing of this volume, Mrs. Simkin's work doubtless will find its place in future anthologies of Canadian verse. Uncomplicated, notably without pessimism, hers is in shart contrast to much poetry of our time... It distils the essence of Maritime practicality and good cheer and blends it with the dauntless optimism so characteristic of those who have known the rigors of Western farm life and have loved and understood the prairie moods, even those that are harsh to the point of cruelty." - from Preface. Includes 105 poems. Illustrated in black and white. Unm...
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Landmarks

By: Skelton, Robin

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Oolichan Books: 1979

Seller ID: 231A5366

ISBN: 091946288X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

091946288X 91 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Minor coffee stain to lower fore-edge.
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The Crystal Theatre

By: Solway, David

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Publisher: 1971

Seller ID: 23100724

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

32 pages. From a limited printing of 500 copies. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy.
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The London Mercury, Vol. XXI, No. 122, December 1929

By: SQUIRE, J.C. (ed)

Price: $79.95

Publisher: London, London Mercury Ltd: 1929

Seller ID: 551H1937

ISBN: B008A6DI82

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

B008A6DI82 xx, 97-192 pages. Contents include: Poetry; Lord Mount Prospect; Proud-For-Nothing Giles; Via Condotti; The Poetry of Robert Bridges; Cezanne, Cubism and Modern Art; Mr. Rhodes's Sheridan; and more. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. Vendor's inkstamp upon front cover. A worthy vintage copy.
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Occident, Spring 1962

By: Stevens, Alexander M.; Editor

Price: $69.95

Publisher: USA, Associated Students of the University of California: 1962

Seller ID: 231H0901

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

59 page stapled booklet measuring 9" x 6". Prior owner's details atop title page. Includes poetry and prose by: Marc Norman, Adam David Miller, Michael Brailowe, Michel-Andres Strickman, Bruce Hawkins, Leon Weiner, Kenneth Butler, and fourteen others. Moderate wear. A sound copy.
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Sweet Nothings

By: Stinson, Don S. :

Price: $49.95

Publisher: British Columbia, Canada, Spee-Dee Printers.: 1984

Seller ID: 231A5249

ISBN: 0969101724

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0969101724 87 pages of concise thoughts and opinions about the various aspects which compose life. Illustrated covers with light wear at edges. Sound copy.
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In This Hawaiian Net

By: Stone, Lloyd

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Hawaii, Lloyd Stone and Max Keith: 1945

Seller ID: 231G3083

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

97 pages. Uniquely presented with dust jacket draped in fish net. Short stories and poems for those caught in the small net of Hawaiian Islands during WWII. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper. Average wear to book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket. Holding this wonderful book will quickly take you back in time to the Hawaii of 1945.
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Open Water

By: Stringer, Arthur

Price: $99.95

Publisher: London, John Lane Company: 1914

Seller ID: 751A4251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

132 pages. Minimal light pencil markings. Binding open at title page. Above-average wear. Bookplate and prior owner's name upon front free endpaper. Reading copy only.
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The Rhymes of G. A. Studdert Kennedy

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

Price: $99.95

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1940

Seller ID: 751H3235

ISBN: B000R12TOW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

B000R12TOW A collection of poetry first issued in 1927 as "The Unutterable Beauty." "Author was perhaps the most famous padre serving in the war of 1914-1918. Everything Studdert Kennedy (aka Woodbine Willie) 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." - Publisher's Note. Former library copy with usual markings, rebound in blue patterned buckram. A worthy reading copy.
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Rhymes of a Western Logger

By: Swanson, Robert E.

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Vancouver B.C., The Lumberman Printing Co. Ltd.: 1943

Seller ID: 71306154

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

56 pages plus fold-out drawing of "hay-wire bay" which features diagrams of a wide range of logging scenes of the day. A book of verse concerning the trials and tribulations, lives and ways of the loggers living and working in the Great Northwest of America. Contains: "The Loggers Sweetheart", "The Wise Donkey Puncher", "The Answer to a Hooker's Prayer", "The Dying Logger's Lament", A Logger's Dictionary, and much more. Moderate yellowing to edges of pages and some damage to upper corners of front cover. Average wear. Bookplate inside front cover.
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Rhymes of a Lumberjack (Lumber Jack) (Book 2 / Two)

By: Swanson, Robert E.

Price: $79.95

Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen, Limited: 1943

Seller ID: 75202698

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

58 pages. Verses concerning the trials and tribulations, lives and ways of the loggers living and working in the Great Northwest of America. Contents include: Wheelin' in the Logs; Paul Bunyan's Archives; The Rhyme of the Big Swede Logger; Seattle Red; The Worthy Bed Bug; The Boilermaker's Heaven; From Bulls to Cats; plus may more. Back cover in rough shape. Blank first leaf partially affixed to front cover. Covers separated from textblock. Contents show average signs of use but are in decent condition.
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Les Reflets Poemes

By: Tourly, Robert (Signed)

Price: $899.95

Publisher: Lausanne, Armand Lapie - Librarie Francaise: 1918

Seller ID: 231A7118

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

59 pages. Author's signature and inscription atop half-title page. Reflets de guerre et d'exil. Text in French. Above-average but not excessive wear. Top corner of front cover clipped. Some library markings.
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Remembering History (Essential Poets Series 10)

By: Tregebov, Rhea

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Montreal, Guernica Editions: 1982

Seller ID: 23102646

ISBN: 0919349153

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

0919349153 62 pages. Author's signature upon half-title page. The tenth volume in the Essential Poets series. Records events of the past and present, of here and everywhere. Author puts herself inside the history of women and remembers the details of actions which have subtly subjugated women. "There's something shattering about every one of the poems - like a karate blow that breaks a brick - clean and very strong..." - Mary Meigs. Prior owner's name blacked out upon half-title page. Average wear. Binding intact.
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Tu Fu - The Autobiography of a Chinese Poet, A.D. 712-770, Volume I (One)

By: Tu Fu; Ayscough, Florence (Translator)

Price: $99.95

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1929

Seller ID: 462G2757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

450 pages plus 5 pages of plans and sketch map. "Including an historical year record, a biographical index, and a topographical note, as well as maps, plans, and illustrations." - subtitle. Frontisplate of author/subject. Undated but we believe this copy to be circa 1929. Sturdily rebound in green buckram. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy.
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Human nature

By: Varney, Edwin

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., Intermedia Press: 1974

Seller ID: 23100262

ISBN: 0889560021

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

0889560021 51 pages. "A mature work which moves with ease through most of the forms of modern poetry including concrete, dada, and actual and into the realm of pure visual experience. It documents the ways that hand, eye, mind and heart work together to produce a coherent and brilliant picture of the world and the imagination." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Minor warp. Binding intact.
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Without Benefit of Words

By: Wall Ph.D., Kathleen

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Turnstone Press: 1991

Seller ID: 23106702

ISBN: 088801161X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

088801161X 73 pages. In fine condition but for gift inscription upon half-title page in black marker. A lovely linguistic tension runs through this, the author's first collection of poems. These are gentle, serious poems which draw on all the senses ot discover how the world is made, and how love and sorrow form the final record of experience.
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Across the Stillness

By: Walsh, Ann

Price: $49.95

Publisher: British Columbia, Beach Holme Publishers: 1992

Seller ID: 75103519

ISBN: 088878337X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

088878337X 41 pages. Captures the spirit of what is still very much a frontier. Depicts the richness of the Cariboo - its land, its people, and its life. Children's poetry. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy.
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Did I Miss Anything?: Selected Poems 1973-1993

By: Wayman, Tom

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Madeira Park, BC, Canada, Harbour Publishing: 1993

Seller ID: 23103534

ISBN: 1550170929

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1550170929 222 pages. Over the past twenty years Wayman's humour, wit and imagination have illuminated social issues from Vietnam to the 1983 BC General Strike, and economic concerns such as the work we do and its effects on us both on and off the job. His vibrant poems have also created hilarious and searching assessments of love, death and the state of our natural environment. For the first time, this volume makes available a selection of two decades of Wayman's widely read and frequently honoured poems, and a few new ones as well. Light wear. Unmarked. Tight and square. Nice copy.
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Money and rain: Tom Wayman live!

By: Wayman, Tom

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1975

Seller ID: 75104813

ISBN: 0770513107

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

0770513107 150 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Oblong. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear.
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