Riel, Louis "David

Poésies Religieuses Et Politiques

Montreal, Published by the Riel family, printed by l'Etendard, 1886. First edition. Stapled wraps. pp. 51. 11 1/2 x 18 cm. Stapled wraps chipped at top edge, tape repair to corner of cover. Frontispiece of Riel. Contents clean & unmarked. The last (unnumbered) page contains a printed statement from the Riel family stating (our English translation): 'We, members of the Riel family, declare and certify that this is a true copy of the documents written and composed by Louis 'David' Riel'. The certificate is dated January 12, 1886, shortly after Riel's execution for treason on November 16, 1885. Two longish poems are set out, composed in 1879 while Riel was in exile in Montana. As there was at that time some uncertainty as to their authenticity (the poems not having previously been published), the Riel family was persuaded to attest to Riel's authorship. See Peel 1532. Printed in Montreal by Imprimerie de 'L'Etendard'. .

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Book number: 088053

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Keywords: Manitoba; Louis Riel; Canadiana; Western Canadiana; Red River;

Riel, Louis "David

Poésies Religieuses Et Politiques

Montreal [St. Vital], Published by the Riel family, printed by l'Etendard, 1886. 1st edition. Stapled wraps. pp. 51. 11 1/2 x 18 cm. Stapled wraps chipped & somewhat sunned. Frontispiece of Riel. Contents clean & unmarked. Covers age-toned and chipped, as usual, with the rear cover detached. The last (unnumbered) page contains a printed statement from the Riel family stating (our English translation): 'We, members of the Riel family, declare and certify that this is a true copy of the documents written and composed by Louis 'David' Riel'. The certificate is dated January 12, 1886, shortly after Riel's execution for treason on November 16, 1885. Two longish poems are set out, composed in 1879 while Riel was in exile in Montana. As there was at that time some uncertainty as to their authenticity (the poems not having previously been published), the Riel family was persuaded to attest to Riel's authorship. See Peel #960. Printed in Montreal by Imprimerie de 'L'Etendard'. .

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Book number: 086439

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Manitoba; Louis Riel; Canadiana; Western Canadiana; Red River;

Roberts, Charles G. D.

The Vagrant of Time

Toronto, The Ryerson Press, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. pp. 46. 8vo. Light shelfwear, owner's name to ffep; very good. .

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Book number: 081661

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Robertson, Frank; Brian Gabriel (Illus.)

The Humble Bowl; and Other Prose Poems with Prose Commentaries by the Author

Canada, Self Published, 1979. First edition. Stapled Wraps. pp. 48. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Very good+. SIGNED by Frank Robertson with personalised gift inscription. Ill.: Brian Gabriel.

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Book number: 053696

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Keywords: Brian Gabriel

Robinson, Brian

Laytonic Love

Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated. 8vo. Red wraps. Good. SIGNED by Robinson. .

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Book number: 086651

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Robinson, Michael

Touching the Serpants Tail

Keene, Ontario, Martin House Pub, 1992. Paperback. pp. 77. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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Book number: 087296

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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

The House of Life; a Sonnet Sequence

Boston, H.M. Caldwell, 1903. Hardcover. pp. 108. 8vo. Bound in pale tan cloth with gilding. Contains line illustrations to each page. Light shelfwear and soiling, darkening to spine, 2 small incisions to each board, hinges tender but holding; good. .

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Book number: 087198

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Medieval revivalism; Pre-Raphaelite

Lamson, Roy and Hallett Smith [Editors]

The Golden Hind; an Anthology of Elizabethan Prose and Poetry

New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink name to ffep; good+ in good dustjacket showing sunning to spine and short closed tears to edges. .

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Book number: 057624

Catalogue: Poetry

Rutland, Enid Delgatty

The Cranberry Tree

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Turnstone Press, 1978. Stapled Wraps. pp. 48. 8vo. Light shelfwear, thumbed corners; very good. .

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Book number: 066331

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Safarik, Allan

Advertisements for Paradise

Lantzville, Oolichan Books, 1986. Paperback. pp. 63. 8vo. Author's signature and inscription to title page. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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Book number: 088303

Catalogue: Poetry

Sangster, Charles

The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, and Other Poems

Kingston, John Creighton & John Duff, 1856. 1st edition. Hardcover. 262 pp.Small 8vo,,Good.Brown cloth, blind-stamped covers are bumped, with some loss to head and foot of spine, gilt lettering on spine dulled, soiling or waterstaining and several small punctures to rear board (not penetrating completely). Front joint starting. Bottom edge of most pages shows a light brown dampstain. Endpapers have rather large, grayish discolourations (probably deterioration of the glue). Contents show light foxing throughout, and a few marginal pencil marks. Binding is tight and quite legible. A second copy, with quite worn boards, shaken, contents foxed, available at $45. Canadian poet's first book. .

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Book number: 9900019428

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Canadiana;Canadian Literature;CanLit;Canadian Poetry;19th century lit;;;;

Saunders, Thomas

Horizontal World

Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1951. Hardcover. pp. 41. 8vo.Very good+ in very good dustjacket showing showing short closed tears to edges. Signed by author on title page. .

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Book number: 053998

Catalogue: Poetry

Savage, Rocke

Prairie Trails; a Book of Verse

London, Arthur H. Stockwell, [ND]. Hardcover. pp. 122. Small 8vo. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. General shelfwear, rubbing, discolouring to binding, ink to fore-edge; very good. .

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Book number: 084071

Catalogue: Poetry

Sayers, Dorothy L.; Ralph E. Hone [Ed.]

Poetry of Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 1996. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 168. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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Book number: 091911

Catalogue: Poetry

SCOTT, Walter

Ballads and Lyrical Pieces [and Other Works]

Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co, 1815. Hardcover. 8vo. Originally bound in brown morocco leather with marbled endpapers. Three titles bound in one volume: (1) GLENFINLAS AND OTHER BALLADS, with a title page showing the publisher as John Sharpe, London, 1812. This title page is immediately followed by a second title page for BALLADS AND LYRICAL PIECES, showing the publisher as James Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh, 1812, Fourth Edition. Probably Ballantyne used the English sheets for this collection, the pagination for which is pp. [viii], 182. Then follows a second Ballantyne publication, THE VISION OF DON RODERICK AND OTHER POEMS, identified on the title page for this collection as the Second Edition, 1810; and the pagination for which is pp. [11], 164 (followed by three pages of publisher's ads). There are many pages of notes at the end of DON RODERICK, and the Miscellaneous Poems. The third title bound-in is THE FIELD OF WATERLOO; A POEM, also published by Ballantyne, and shown as the Second Edition, 1815. The pagination for this is pp. [187-193], 240 (i.e. 54 pages in total, including notes and a listing of Scott's works at the end). This compilation was originally bound in full morocco, with marbled foredges and endpapers. The boards are now detached (but present). The leather spine is absent. The contents are occasionally foxed, but generally clean and unmarked. The binding is still tight. Obviously, this volume is a candidate for re-backing, or re-binding, and has been priced accordingly. With six steel engravings, engraved from the designs of Rochard Westall, R.A. Ill.: steel engravings.

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Book number: 9900029724

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