Toronto: Hunter-Rose, 1908. First edition. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Inserted frontispiece & several illustrations in the text. Cloth quite rubbed, soiled, and worn, page edges browned; very good otherwise. A curious collection, including a lengthy (35 pages) autobiography, poems, and short prose pieces. The author describes how his family came to Quebec from England in 1829. Several poems are on Canadian subjects, such as "The Sugar Bush" and "The Pioneer of Ontario". WorldCat shows only one holding of this book - at the National Library of Scotland. The Nat... View More...
Courtenay, BC: Orphan Presz, 1981. First edition. A broadside, one sheet measuring 8.5 X 11 inches. Printed in black on cream stock. Decorative initial at beginning. A couple of small spots, but basically fine. A short poem about Olson and Creeley on a chicken farm in New Hampshire. A Last Stitch Broadside, No. 1 in a series. View More...
[Santa Barbara: Unicorn, 1967]. First edition. A poetry broadside, one sheet measuring 12 X 16 inches. A couple of creases in margins, but nearly fine. Printed in red & black. Issued as part of the Unicorn Folio Series One, Number One. 325 copies were printed. View More...
Original decorative self-wrappers. A 16-page booklet. Issued as Empty Belly #2, this is copy #190 of an edition of 200. Crease in front wrapper, some light edge wear, very good condition. Verse by John Stevens Wade, John Jacob, Harold Schneider, Lois Ellis, Charles Tidler, Barry Edgar Pilcher, Lyn Lifshin and Alan Altany. A scarce book. View More...
Madison, Wisconsin: Abbot Press, 1962. First edition. Two-tone cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Limited to 350 numbered copies, this is number 180. Faint edge wear, a nice bright copy. Inscribed and signed by the poet on the front fly leaf, "To Rona ....". Lorita Whitehead contributed to The Fiddlehead, and to The Atlantic Monthly. This book is uncommon. View More...
Vancouver: Slug Press, 1979. First edition. A broadside poem, one sheet measuring 9 x 12.5 inches. Limited to 50 numbered copies, signed by Yearsley. Fine condition. "This is the first in a series of occasional broadsides devoted to work by new writers". View More...
Salt Spring Island: (m)Other Tongue Press, 1998. First edition. Gray wrappers, designed and lettered in red. Brown end papers. Soft crease to front wrappers, small sticker mark on lower rear wrappers, upper corner bumped, a nice clean copy otherwise. 7 new poems. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Young. View More...
