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The Selected Poems of Po Chu-I, Po Chu-I. Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999. First separate edition. Illustrated stiff wraps. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 201pp. In fine, unmarked condition. The quintessential Chinese poet, translated by David Hinton, recipient of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Generally acclaimed as one of China's greatest poets, Po Chü-I (772-846 C.E.) practiced a poetry… Read more

The Complete Poems and Plays 1909-1950, Eliot, T.S. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 392 pp. with index of titles and index of first lines. Green cloth boards with black labels front and spine silver titles; light green top edge. Tape marks to free endpapers and otherwise contents are clean and… Read more

Anthem for Doomed Youth: Poets of the Great War, Lyn Macdonald. Published by The Folio Society, 2000. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 270pp. Green cloth with black photographic image, gilt spine titles. Printed on green pages with back and green illustrations; photographic endpapers. In fine, unread condition; lacks slipcase. This is a collection of verse written during World War One,… Read more

The Spice-Box of Earth, Cohen, Leonard. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd, Toronto, 1961. First paperback edition, printed simultaneous with first hardcover edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 99pp. with Illustrations by Frank Newfeld. Card covers with French flaps, front cut-out with facial portrait of Leonard Cohen backed on olive green wrapper, red patterned end papers. Contents are in… Read more

Poetic Plush, Douglas, Gilean. Published by The Story Book Press, Dallas, Texas, 1953. First Edition. Small 8vo up to 9½" tall. 40pp. Red cloth boards with black titles front; red card covers with flaps, silver titles. Tiny separation of white paper to top inner hinge and otherwise volume is in fine condition and appears unread. Light fading and dusting… Read more

A Poet's Bible: Rediscovering the Voices of the Original Text, David Rosenberg. Published by Hyperion, 1991. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 410pp. Quarter black cloth over ivory boards, gilt titles. Volume is in fine, unmarked condition with crease to free front endpaper. Dustjacket has a closed tear front tail edge and top edge ruffling. A highly praised retelling… Read more

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918, Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1971. New edition. Navy blue boards with gilt titles front and spine. 12mo up to 7½" tall. 1166pp. with index of first lines. Volume is In fine condition with outer edge dust soiling; unclipped dustjacket has very light shelf wear.

Browning's Dramatic Monologues, Browning Robert, Byatt A.S. Published by The Folio Society, London, 1992. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xxxi., 310pp. with frontispiece and in text illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith. Quarter red cloth over decorative cloth boards, illustrations in mauve. Light rub to foredge front board and otherwise contents are in fine condition; housed in slipcase with… Read more

The Complete Works of Robert Browning and Mrs. E. B. Browning (Two Matching Sets 1898/1900)The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Browning, Robert. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell For the Society of English and French Literature, New York, 1898. Edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 12 volumes with extensive notes, the translations and prose works. Number… Read more

The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Browning, Robert. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell For the Society of English and French Literature, New York, 1898. Edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 12 volumes with extensive notes, the translations and prose works. Number 684 of a Limited Edition of 1000. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Frontispiece illustrations with… Read more

Releasing The Spirit, Mona Fertig. Published by Colophon Books, Vancouver, B.C.,1982. Limited Signed First Edition with hand-colored vignette to title page also by Fertig. No. 245 of 325 copies. Printed at the Pie Tree Press as Colophon Chap Book Two. 22pp. + colophon. String-bound paper wraps with Fabriano Roma and water marked covers. In mint condition. Mona Fertig is a… Read more

The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton Embellished with many Engravings from Paintings and Drawings, Walton, Isaac and Charles Cotton. Published by Methuen & Co., London, 1903. New Edition. The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books. A facsimile of the second edition published by John Major in 1824. 16mo up to 6½" tall. 416 pp. with… Read more

Bread and Roses by Dorothy Corrigan Sproule. Published by Woodward Press, Montreal 1937. First Edition. Inscribed, signed and dated (Montreal Sept 14 1937) by author versus title page. 12mo up to 7½" tall. 48 pp. Grey cloth with gilt titles and decoration front. Light rubbing to edges and moderate rubbing to spine tail and head; inked name stamp to paste… Read more

Blue Homespun, Frank Oliver Call. Published by Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1924. Signed and dated in pencil to free endpaper: Frank Oliver Call, Feb 28, 1925. 12mo up to 7½" tall. 43 pp. with black and white illustrations by Orson S. Wheeler. Blue tweed cloth boards with gilt titles front. Boards have very light edge rubbing with a tiny loss of… Read more

The Witches' Brew, Pratt, E. J. Published by MacMillan, Toronto, 1926 First Canadian edition. Grey brown boards with black cloth spine; decorative title label front and spine. 12mo up to 7½" tall. 32 pp; frontispiece illustration; and vignette illustrations by John Austen. Black inked signature and ink stamp to free endpaper and otherwise contents are fine. Spine label is chipped;… Read more

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems, William Edmondstoune Aytoun. Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1877. Twenty-Sixth Edition. 8vo, pp. viii, 359, [1]. Red pebble-grain morocco boards with gilt titles and florets to banded spine; gilt ruled borders, florets and titles front; bevelled edges with inside dentelle edging; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; black… Read more

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, Service, Robert W. Published by William Briggs, Toronto, 1916. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 203 pp. Yapped bound soft tan suede; all edges gilt; gilt titles front and spine with black embossed border front and back. Dedicated to "The Memory of My Brother Lieutenant Albert Service Canadian Infantry Killed In Action,… Read more

Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters, Anton Chekov, (translated by Constance Garnett); Illustrated by Lajos Szalay; Introduction by John Gielgud. Published by Easton Press, 1978, Norwalk, CT, 1979. Collector's edition; The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. 4to up to 12" tall. 152pp. Full brown leather with raised bands; gilt front and spine titles and decoration; all… Read more

Three Plays of Henrik Isben. An Enemy of The People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, Henrik Isben. Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, 1979. Introduction by John Gassner; translations revised by William Archer. 4to up to 12" tall; 379 pp. with illustrations by Fredrik Matheson. Blue/Grey full leather with 4 raised spine bands; gilt spine titles and gilt decorations to front… Read more

Gita Govinda Portfolios No 2 and 3, Chandra, Moti; Khandalavala, Karl; Gorakshkar, Sadashiv; (eds). Published Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1970. Folios up to 15" tall. Card folded portfolios with ribbon ties. Each portfolio contains four pages of descriptive text by Moti Chandler and six tipped in colored plates. Text is in English with lyric excerpts for each plate provided… Read more