THE QUILL AND THE CANDLE: POEMS OF BIRDLAND IN CANADA.
by Robb, Wallace Havelock
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1927. 55 pp, 8" H. Mottled grey paper-covered boards with dark blue lettering, dark blue and red decoration on front cover. 8 septia-tone full page illustrations, including frontispiece - three are from photographs by the author and five are from photographs of water-colours by Major Allan Brooks, D.S.O. Contents: "Listen!"; Song of Rossignol; Twang! Twang!; "Flutter Low"; I Live in Cazenovia; Meditation; Tremble Song, and Quaver Owl; The Great Untamed; The Cry of Wa-Wa; Whip-poor-will; Belleville the Beautiful; Autumn Birdsong; The Snowbirds of Christmas, and Little Snowflake; In a Berry Tree; Easter Flowers; Morningsong of Spring; Children Longing to Fly; The Great Blue Heron; I Wish I Were a Boy Again; In the Forest; The King of Fair Renown; The Forest Fire; Buried Poems of Birdland; Behold, O My Country; Morningsong; Lone Loon in the Gloaming. The second last picture plate has a very small tear (archivally taped), creases and dust soiling at fore-edge; light edge wear to boards - more at corners; one very small corner bump; small shallow bump at top edge of front board; light browning and some darkening to edges of text block; slight bump at top/bottom of spine.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Major Allan Brooks..
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30278
- Title
- THE QUILL AND THE CANDLE: POEMS OF BIRDLAND IN CANADA.
- Author
- Robb, Wallace Havelock
- Illustrator
- Major Allan Brooks.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Ryerson Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Canadian Poets, Canadian Poetry, Wallace Havelock Robb, Birds, Rossignol, Cazenovia, Owls, Whippoorwill, Belleville, Ontario, Birdsong, Great Blue Heron, Forests, Loons, Kingbird, Hermit Thrush, Short-Eared Owl, Least Sandpiper, Nature, early 20th Century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Canada - Natural History;
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Capricorn Books
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About the Seller
Capricorn Books
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Oakville, Ontario
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