Sigurdson, Gus

Seven Books between Two Covers; the Complete Poetical Works of Gus Sigurdson

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Wheatfield Press, 1987. Hardcover. pp. 364. 8vo. Black & white photos and illustrations. Lightest shelfwear, errata sheet glued to rfep; very good+ in lightly shelfworn, very good dustjacket. SIGNED by author, with personalised inscription. .

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Book number: 047758

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poems; Rhymes; Pencilstub Stanzas; Canadian poet; Dreams & Driftwood; Roses for Stephanie; War verse

SIMS, George R.

Ballads of Babylon [Bound with] the Dagonet Ballads (Chiefly from the 'Referee')

London, J. P. Fuller, 1881. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 156, 128.Larger 12mo, Bound in 3/4 leather with five raised bands to spine, Rear hinge cracked, bds. bumped & worn at edges. Rear bd. soiled. Conts. a bit foxed, but clean & tight; else good cond. .

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Book number: 9900032072

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BritLit;Poet;;;;;;;

SKELTON, Robin

The Dark Window

London, Oxford University Press, 1962. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. viii, 96. Slim 8vo. Some page corners folded. Very light shelf wear to book. Front board a bit bowed. Small closed tear, and edge-rubbing to dust jacket. Else good in good+ jacket. Skelton (1925-1997) was born in Britain and emigrated to Canada in 1963. He was a co-founder of The Malahat Review. Author's fourth collection of poems, inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper. .

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Book number: 9900043337

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: ;;;;;;;;

SMITH, Douglas

Thaw

Winnipeg, Four Humours Press, 1977. 1st edition. pp. 35.8vo,,Stitched card covers a bit sunned; else vg/nf condition,Publisher's announcement laid-in loose. This edition consists of 429 copies. ISBN 0920090060. SIGNED by both the poet, Douglas Smith, and the engraver/artist, Suzane Gauthier. Ill.: wood engravings.

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Book number: 9900031573

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: CanLit;;;;;;;; wood engravings

Hobsbawn-Smith, Dee

Wildness Rushing in

Canada, Hagios Press, 2014. Paperback. pp. 95. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. SIGNED by author, with inscription. .

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Book number: 064111

Catalogue: Poetry

Sorestad, Glen

Jan Lake Poems

Madeira Park, B.C. Harbour Publishing, 1985. Reprint. Paperback. pp. 49. Slim 8vo. Negligible shelfwear, appears unread; near fine. .

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Book number: 062132

Catalogue: Poetry

Sorestad, Glen A.

Pear Seeds in My Mouth

Windsor, Sesame Press, 1977. Paperback. 8vo. Light general shelfwear; very good-. SIGNED by Glen Sorestad with personalised gift inscription to half-title. .

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Book number: 061989

Catalogue: Poetry

Souster, Raymond

The Colour of the Times, Ten Elephants on Yonge Street

Toronto, McGraw Hill Ryerson Limited, 1973. Hardcover. pp. 179. 8vo. Bound in grey cloth with silver lettering to spine. Light general shelfwear, bumping, faint stain to rear board; very good in fair dustjacket showing scratches, tears, discolouration, loss to spine. Ink author's signature to title page. .

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Book number: 068347

Catalogue: Poetry

SPARROW, John (ed.)

The Poems of Bishop Henry King

London, Nonesuch Press, 1925. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xxvii, 197,royal 8vo,Parchment paper covered boards,Bound in vellum-type parchment paper in an edition of 900 copies, of which this is #463. As was usual with this type of experimental binding by the Nonesuch Press, the boards have bowed, causing a small stress tear in the hinge near the head of the spine. The bottom corners have been gently bumped, and there is some general, quite light, soiling. Internally, the book if very clean and tight (and probably seldom opened and certainly unread). .

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Book number: 9900026477

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Fine bindings;Private press;Limited editions;;;;;;

Sparrow, Charles

Poems of Memory and Environment

Toronto, William Briggs, 1908. Author's Edition. Hardcover. pp. 32. Slim 8vo. Bound in forest-green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Light edgewear, some page edges a bit tattered from having been carelessly opened, contents bright and unmarked, binding sound; very good. Scarce; and the only book of poetry published by a Canadian author of several works of fiction including The Turning Point and Shadows of the Deep, all published by Briggs between 1903 & 1911. OCLC No. 70372867. Watters p. 187. .

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Book number: 069445

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poems; CanLit; Canadiana

Stati, P. Papini [Statius]; Phillimore, Ioannes S. (Ed.)

Silvae

Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano, ND. Hardcover. 8vo. Bound in terracotta cloth with black lettering and illustration to boards. Light general shelfwear, ink names to ffep; very good. .

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Book number: 038034

Catalogue: Poetry

Stein, Gertrude; Richard Kostelanetz

The Yale Gertrude Stein

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1980. Paperback. pp. 464. 8vo. General shelfwear, ink inscription to half title page; very good. .

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Book number: 083509

Catalogue: Poetry

Stephansson, Stephan G.; Kristjana Gunnars; trans

Stephan G. Stephansson [Stephan G. Stephanssonar]; Selected Prose and Poetry [Urval Ur Verkum]

Red Deer, Alberta, Red Deer College Press, 1988. Paperback. pp. 151. 8vo. Self wrap, black and white photographs. Light general shelfwear, paper identifying it as a complimentary review copy tipped in to ffep, light ink notations and marginalia present throughout; very good. Poems printed in Icelandic and English. .

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Book number: 068578

Catalogue: Poetry

SUCH, Peter (ed.)

Impulse

Toronto, Erindale College, 1971. Wraps. pp. 47.8vo,,The first issue of this canadian poetry journal - near fine cond,Containing efforts by Margaret Atwood's hubby Graeme Gibson, Miriam Waddington, Al Purdy, Matt Cohen and other receipients of the largesse of the Canada Council (read: the taxpayers of Canada). A government-subsidized poetry journal originally published out of Erindale College, Toronto. .

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Book number: 9900039313

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: CanLit;;;;;;;;

SUKNASKI, Andrew (poems) / drawings by William Johnson

Octomi

Saskatoon, SK, Thistledown Press, 1976. 1st edition. Wraps. pp. 39.Small 4to,,Stapled card covers sl. edge-worn; else very good condition, ISBN 0920066038. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900037737

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: CanLit;;;;;;;; black-&-white illustrations