Search Results: Poetry from Minotavros Books

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xvii, 218 pp. Spine sunned and creased, covers rubbed, creasing to upper corner of rear cover. Very light toning to interior.

Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 5" x 9" Full black cloth, silver titling. vi, 99 pp. Fine.

Oxonii: E. Typogrdapheo Clarendoniano. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo. Original jacket and blue cloth. xiv, 198 p.p. Text in Latin. Includes the satirical poems of Persius and Juvenalis, written at the end of the 1st and beginning of the 2nd centuries. Front inner flap clipped. Spine sunned. Covers rubbed with slight tears at jacket edges. Boards bright with only light scuffs. Spine tail gently bruised. Two previous price stamps on to front free endpaper, otherwise interior clean. A very good copy.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. 242 pp. Spine slightly tilted, rubbing to spine head, light bruising to spine head and corners. Light foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, small perforation to fore edge to front cover.

Guelph, ON: Alive Press Ltd, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to Irving Layton to dedications page. Orig. paper wrappers, staple bound. 39 pp. Covers age toned.

London: W.H. Broom, 1873. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair. 18mo. SIGNED with inscription to "Master Harry William Anderson, With love and best wishes from the author, signed "A.M., Newport, June 1880." Orig. blue cloth covers inside hand-sewn black cloth wrapper. Title hand lettered to reverse of a New Year's card with small colour vignette, previously stapled to front wrapper (staples have since all come loose). 61 pp., ads. Text block is largely loose and disbound, though apparently complete, including frontis illustration and adverts at end. Pencil notations featuring "Different names given to OUr Saviour and God" to verso of frontis. Albert Midlane (23 January 1825 - 27 February 1909) was a British poet who wrote several hundred hymns, most notably "There's a Friend for Little Children." A scarce signed volume of his work.

Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Blue paper boards. 102 pp. Dust jacket is lightly sunned to spine, a few light spots of soiling. Else fine. "Imagine the infant Christopher Columbus vaulting out of his cradle, striking his head on the world, and spawning his megalomaniacal wanderlust. Thus Robert Finley begins his exquisite prose poem...a fantasy of precise language and provocative imagery." Dava Sobel, from rear cover.

Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1971. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. A special publication of the Augustan Reprint Society. Introduction by John Loftis. Orig. tan card wrappers, sewn and glued. xvi, 280; 281-556, [33 pp. index and errata]. Some sunning, creasing, and light staining to spines, else fine.

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. SIGNED by Earle Birney to title page, who contributed the preface. Burgundy paper boards. 92 pp. Fine.

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo. Reprinted from corrected sheets of the Second Edition. Original jacket and publishers blue cloth. xvi, 375 p.p., [1]. Text in Latin and Greek. Selections from the Ancient Greek Tragedian Aeschylus. Small chip to head of front jacket cover, small tears at edges, and extremities of jacket. Covers sunned. Small sticker ghost to lower front cover. Previous price stamps to front free endpaper. Rubbing to boards. Bumping at head of front board. Slight bruising at spine-ends. Hand written notes laid-in. Interior clean. Bright. A very good copy.

New York: The Noonday Press. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st American Edition. xiii, 297 p.p. including biographical notes on the poets. Light wear. Tight boards, pages clean. In fine condition. This anthology series features poems by Ted Hughes, Paul Mauldoon, Seamus Heaney, and other acclaimed poets.

London: Cassell, 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. The Belle Sauvage Library. Full blue cloth. 490 pp. Spine slightly shaken. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to extremities, some fading to spine, delamination to joints, 1.5" tear and creasing to head of rear cover.

London: The Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Summer 1982. Soft cover. 94 pp., [2]. Staining to covers.

London: The Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust, 1984. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Summer 1984. Soft cover. 96 pp. A few bumps to covers and some slight discolouration to spine and edges, else fine.

Swedan: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine. 6.2" x 8" 367 p.p. Swedish. Illustrated endpapers. Sporatic staining to dust-jacket, very light. Boards clean. Small stain to end of pages. Otherwise, a near fine copy of book.

Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Estonian. Soft cover, 108 p.p. Five green and white full-page illustrations in-text. Some pages uncut. Hinges slightly cracked but binding is tight. Light edge wear. A collection of poetry from Estonian poet Ivar Ivask.

London: Luzac & Co, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bewick, T[homas]. Red buckram with original wrappers bound-in, unpaginated (about 200pp). Illustrated with 1 picture of the original manuscript text. Pages somewhat browned, otherwise near fine. Text on Arabic contemporary poets, in Arabic.

New York: The Noonday Press, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Fourth printing. Paperback, [6] 117pp. Covers slightly curled, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise near fine.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Anne Monkman. 12mo. Orig. red cloth, title on upper front board, 30pp. Illustrated. Light soiling and markings to cloth, o/w very good. The incomparable ditties were originally performed by Stanley Holloway and George Patton on the "English Music Hall" on the CBC in the 1930s.

Safford, AZ: Gila Review, 1986. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SIGNED and dated to title page. Soft cover, staple bound. 38 pp. Covers age toned, small bump to head of front cover, else about fine. Scarce.