Search Results: the ue a tale of upper by kirby william

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedVeryGood. Minor shelf wear

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

New. .

Paperback / softback. New.

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing, 1973. Paperback. New. 182 pages. 9.00x6.00 inches.

Mcclelland & Stewart, 1972. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex library- very good. 178 p. 16 cm. Cloth hardcover with blank impressing. Spine faded with slightly softened ends, corners lightly bumped. Library bookplate on front pastedown and stamp on front free endpaper. Kirby was considered the "spokesman, interpreter, and bulwark of the Tory and Loyalist ideal." In this poem he emulates Scott's "Marmion" in a nostalgic expression of an idealized Canadian future, one in which Upper Canada forever establishes its historic relation to the greatness of Great Britain. TPL 8731.

Niagara: Mail Office, 1859. 1st. Cloth. VG. 12mo. Red embossed cloth with gilt title on the recased spine. One front endpaper renewed o/w a vg copy. Long epic poem from the author of "the Golden Dog" about the settling of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists. 178 pages plus errata list.

Niagara: [Printed at the "Mail" Office], 1859., 1859. 16mo. pp. 178, [2]incl. errata. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked with most of spine mounted (some browning to title from news clipping mounted on previous blank). ownership entry of "James Elliott, Trafalgar, 1864". First Edition of Kirby’s first full-length work, a narrative poem on the settlement of Upper Canada by United Empire Loyalists. The work was completed in 1846 and submitted to Henry Rowsell of Toronto, who refused to publish what he viewed as an unprofitable book. Kirby eventually printed it at his own expense thirteen years later, with a dedication to Chief Justice Sir John Beverley Robinson, "in the hope that his humble tribute to the memory of the noble Patriarchs of Upper Canada, who, with this goodly land…have left us the still nobler inheritance of their patriotic and loyal example, may not be unacceptable to Canadian readers." (DCB, XIII, p. 552). Lande 1889. Morgan p. 213. Sabin… Read More