Poetry from Kilmaree Books

First Canadian edition of the collected poems of the American poet Edgar Guest. Blue cloth boards with gilt design and titles on spine. Corners of boards are bumped and rubbed and spine has lightly crushed head and tail; a few small marks elsewhere on boards. Pencil annotations on front and rear pastedowns; pages otherwise clean; corners creased/folded on a small number… Read more about this item

Black leather board with gilt titles on front and spine. Marbled endpapers. Gilt-edged pages. Portrait of Longfellow as frontispiece. Boards mildly rubbed; spine faded. Pen inscription aftre front free endpaper. Pages clean. Binding firm.

Green leather boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Decorative endpapers. Pages gilt-edged. Portrait of Browning as frontispiece. Undated; probably published in first decade of 20th century. Boards rubbed on edges, especially at head and foot of spine. Owner's name on half-title page and pencil price mark on front free endpaper. Foxing on a few pages at front and end… Read more about this item

Blue leather boards with glit titles and design on front and spine. Pages gilt-edged on top. Portrait of Sir Walter Scott as frontispiece. Boards mildly rubbed; head and foot of spine lightly crushed. Owner's name on front free endpaper. Mild spotting on a few preliminary pages; pages otherwise clean. Binding firm.

Small paperback booklet containing a selection of poems by Shakespeare, Browning, Tennyson and others. Undated but apparently published in 1928. Covers soiled and rubbed; with a couple of creases. Pencil marks on inside front cover. Some pages with finger marks. Final page detached from binding.