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Cyril Dabydeen is an Indian-Canadian writer who was born in Guyana. He has won various awards and recognition for his work, including having been the poet laureate for Ottawa from 1984 to 1987. Goatsong is a collection of his poetry.
This volume is in very good condition. There is some discolouration to the cover, but the inside and text of the book is in excellent condition.

Raymond Souster (1921-2012) was a Canadian poet and lifelong resident of Toronto, which also served as one of the primary sources of inspiration for his free-verse poetry. Having served with the RCAF in the Second World War, the rest of his life was spent working at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, while simultaneously producing an impressive body of over one thousand poems and around fifty collections of poetry. He was associated with John Sutherland and the First Statement Group in Montreal, and would go on to provide support to up-and-coming Canadian poets through the establishment of Contact Press and Contact magazine with two other Canadian poets, Louis Dudeck and Irving Layton in the 1950s. His poems were particularly concerned with Toronto, and frequently he wrote about the contrast between nature and the city as well as some of the less discussed aspects of life in a big city.
Going the Distance was the first collection of poems that he published after he won the Toronto Book Award in… Read More

An account of the Chicago fire as told by two Washington Tribune journalists who witnessed it, James Washington Sheahan and George Putnam Upton.
As described in the preface, "This volume is devoted to a connected account of the great Chicago conflagration, with an incidental narrative of the destruction caused by the terrible forest fires in Wisconsin and Michigan, and a necessarily brief statement of the great fires of the world, which may serve for purposes of comparison. It is the account of witnesses of, and actors in the terrible scenes that closed with the destruction of a great city."
This volume is in good condition. There is some bumping to the corners, wear especially to the top and bottom of the spine, and some minor staining to the fabric on both the front and back covers.
There is a hand written note on the front fly leaf reading "Please except [sic] with the compliments of a friend" and a previous owners name written in pencil on the title page.
The front and back hinges are both… Read More

A charming little volume of Gulliver's Travels published by Oxford University Press as part of its The World's Classics series. Gulliver's Travels was number 20 in the series.
This copy is in Very Good condition. There is some wear to the dust jacket, especially at the corners, and there is a small puncture through the dust jacket and into the spine. There is also a small tear to the front hinge and slight cracking to the back hinge. Otherwise the book is in excellent condition.