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Hard cover, trade edition, 8vo, in green cloth with pictorial art in color, gilt titles to top board and spine. Ex-library with withdrawal sticker from Bowdoin College on ffep., hand-lettered sticker to foot of spine, and remains of withdrawal tag on rear pastedown. This anthology is composed of a number of earlier volumes of verse by the Canadian poet-laureate. Included are: From The Book of Myths (x) 124pp.; From The Green Book of The Bards, 137pp., Songs of the Sea Children, (xi), 182 pp.; Songs From A Northern Garden, 119 pp.; From The Book of Valentines, viii, 101pp. Condition: Very Good. Moderate toning to pages. Library stickers as noted (barely used though). **William Bliss Carman (1861-1929) Nova Scotia-born poet who spent many years perfecting his craft at universities from New Brunswick to Oxford, to Edinburgh and Harvard. This edition contains some of his more erotic works, inspired by his muse and patron, Mary Perry King, perhaps inviting investigation into their concept of "unitrinianism, "a strategy of mind-body-spirit harmonization aimed at undoing the physical, psychological, and spiritual damage caused by urban modernity." Bentley, "William Bliss Carmen" in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, online (2005). BAL refers only to the first printing of this omnibus edition No. 2674.
Ref: CANADA 8809
$50.00