Plays & Poetry from Augustine Funnell Books

Self-Published, 1946. Book. Good. Side-stapled wraps. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Contains a variety of poems and brief biographies of 16 poets, among them Adam Alan, Alfred GoldsworthyBailey, William Bliss Carman, Margaret Gill Currie, James Hannay, Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, Charles G.D. Roberts, and others. Some of the biographies include photographs of the… Read more about this item

Pleasant Valley: Bruckings Publishing House Book. Illus. by Barrington. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No date (circa 1976). Jamaican-born poet's first collection. Introductory comment by Lebert Bethune. Navy cloth w/flaxen lettering to front cover/spine, 50 pages. Light wear to corners/spine ends, scuffed/lightly soiled cloth, in much-rubbed dust jacket w/moderate… Read more about this item

Saint John: Barnes and Company, 1860. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Born in Scotland in 1823, Murdock migrated to Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1854, where he became manager of the Partridge Island gasworks. He contributed material to the Saint John Morning News from 1865, and a second book, 'Discursory Ruminations: A… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1987. Book. Illus. by Mendelson Joe (dust jacket painting). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of poems from two distinct periods in Souster's life, the first 70 written in 1946 and 1947, "at the time of the poet's marriage and never before published," and the rest written in 1986… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1927. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. Small octavo. From the front flap, which credits this one as being "an invaluable and reliable aid to an intelligent understanding of the life and work of one of the most gifted and original geniuses that ever lived." Red cloth w/black cover/spine lettering, 183… Read more about this item

New York & Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co. Book. Illus. by Gustave Dore, Birket Foster, others. About Very Good. Hardcover. Early reprint.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No date (circa 1885). Paper illustration (colour) tipped onto white cloth of front cover, circular design/lettering to cloth of left edge, unpaginated (48). Scraped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, moderate edgewear,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. From the editor's preface to the 1847 edition: "The present volume contains six books of the Iliad/The previous edition comprised merely the portion that is usually read at our classical schools in this quarter, as preparatory to a collegiate course; and along with this was given… Read more about this item

Sackville: Self-Published (printed by Tribune Press), 1947. Book. About Very Good. Side-stapled wraps. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Contains a variety of poems and brief biographies of 19 poets, among them Adam Alan, Alfred Bailey, Bliss Carman, Margaret Gill Currie, James Hannay, Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, Charles G.D. Roberts, and others. Some of the biographies include photographs of… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap (G&D), 1908. Book. Illus. by Harrison Fisher (decorations by Theodore B. Hapgood). Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. Large octavo. A collection of poems by apparently lovestruck victims of hormonal activity, with 19 truly lovely paintings by Fisher. Contains "The Message" (Thomas Heywood), "An Invitation" (Theo?phile Gautier), "Disdain" (Elizabethan Francis Davison), "Da Capo"… Read more about this item

Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2007. Book. New. French flaps. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Small octavo. Contains Cooper's first book of poetry ('Blood-Lines,' published in 1979), with a collection of poems in response (written 25 years later), created in the same place as the original collection. 48 pages..

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1906. Book. Illus. by Howard Chandler Christy (decorations by Earl Stetson Crawford). Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large octavo. Beautifully illustrated selections from a variety of poets and playwrights exaggerating the beauty and charms of attractive young women in the eyes of naive young men (whose views might well be tempered by eight or 10 years of the connubial… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1910. Book. Illus. by Harrison Fisher (decorations by Theodore B. Hapgood). Fair to Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A selection of poems from a variety of writers, among them Robert Herrrick, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ben Jonson, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hood, and others. Grey boards w/tipped-on colour illustration,… Read more about this item

London : George Newnes Limited Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. No date (circa 1902). A collection of 48 hand-coloured portraits of the most famous actors and actresses of their day, including William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes," Sarah Bernhardt in "Iseyl," Lewis Waller in "The Three Musketeers," Maud Jeffries and… Read more about this item

Toronto: Privately Published (printed by Harmony Printing), 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. An unnumbered copy from the Millennium edition, limited to 1,000 copies. "An ancient kingdom -- Kiev! -- one thousand years ago -- its Volodymyr the Great made a crucial choice between an animistic religion, whose belief could not… Read more about this item

Sackville: Harrier Editions, 1997. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of 10 prose poems in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies, of which this is #6. Signed by McKinley beneath her name on title page, and inscribed at top of copyright page. 49… Read more about this item

Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1979. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Thompson's second book of poetry, published posthumously, and now quite difficult to find in first edition. 48 pages. Some edgewear, gift inscription to previous owner, small stains internally, moderate general wear..

Toronto & Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of more than 100 poems from a Canadian literary icon. Black cloth w/silver spine lettering, 119 pages. Bumped corners, light wear, in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/sunned spine, light chipping to corners/spine ends, short… Read more about this item

Toronto & Vancouver: Clarke Irwin, 1973. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The first paperback edition of a prize-winning collection published in hardcover in 1967, and winner of that year's Governor General's Award for Poetry in English. Inscription reads "For my friend/George--/Alden Nowlan" (so if your name is George,… Read more about this item

Cork: Guy and Company Limited, 1894. Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small quarto. Contains about 300 poems/ballads by more than 135 writers, "with biographical notices, notes, etc." First Series. Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 360 pages, illustrated. An ex-library copy w/a few of the usual librarian-inflicted desecrations, some bubbling to cloth (probably water-related), edgewear,… Read more about this item

Fredericton: The Mortuary Press, 1968. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ferrari's uncommon first book of poetry ("A Bundle of Scurrilous Verse Scribbled in the Back of a Hearse"), with a foreword by Al Pittman. Typescript, 56 pages. General handling wear..