Author Archives: rdavies

((photo of Service from Canadian Singers and Their Songs, McClelland & Stewart, 1919) (“My Madonna” handwritten poem, 1918, from above book) (rare signed book with buckskin-fringed cover, 1st ed. Ballads of a Cheechako, Briggs, 1909, purchased from Landahl’s Emporium Books & … Continue reading →

(Cover of 1919 Briggs book brought out after the war and after McCrae died; includes 29 more poems and a long reminiscence by Sir Andrew Macphail) (Photo of Lieut.-Colonel McCrae in Briggs ed. and a Canada stamp about him and … Continue reading →

(Musson, 1912, 1st ed. with later dj) (frontispiece photo in above book signed 3 mos. before she died with rare pen corrections by Johnson) (Forsyth, 1912, 2nd ed., leather cover) (inscription inside by author) (scarce first day issue envelope) (rare Arc … Continue reading →

(special ltd. ed. by Grosset & Dunlap of 1899 book, artist: Louis Rhead) (special ltd. ed. by Grosset & Dunlap of 1901 book) (Doran 1907 1st ed., uncredited artist) (1929? McClellan & Stewart ed. of 1902 book, uncredited artist) (1931 … Continue reading →

(above: left to right, top to bottom–the only Classics Illustrateds featuring a Canadian writer–covers both by Leonard B. Cole, September 1959 & July 1960; Wild Animals I Have Known, Morang–1898 (3rd impression), title page, Seton illustration of young Raggylug attacked by … Continue reading →

  left to right, top to bottom: cover of very rare signed Via Borealis, Tyrrell, 1906 with decorations by A.H. Howard, “Night Burial in the Forest”; Poems of Duncan Campbell Scott McClelland & Stewart, 1926; author signed photo frontispiece; In the … Continue reading →

(Among the Millet J.Durie & Son, 1888, incredibly rare signed Christmas inscription inside; photo-frontispiece in Poems Morang, 1900, autographed facsimile poem in same; rare copy of Happiness Ryerson, Christmas 1925; At the Long Sault Ryerson, 1943–cover design by Thoreau MacDonald; … Continue reading →

(signed card poem & envelope by Carman; cover of Low Tide on Grand Pre –by Bliss Carman & Richard Hovey, Lamson Wolffe, 3rd. ed. 1895; Songs from Vagabondia, Elkin Mathews, 2nd. ed. 1895–scarce 750 copies, endpapers poem by Carman; autograph poem … Continue reading →

(top to bottom, left to right: cover of rare Orion and Other Poems, 1880–generally considered to be the first significant collection of 19th century Canadian poetry, inscription inside; 1903 author-as-aesthete photo-frontispiece, Poems New Complete Edition: 1907, an inscribed poem inside same; wartime … Continue reading →

(left to right/top to bottom:  The Drummond Story–rare LP; Dr. W.H. Drummond’s Complete Poems; McClelland & Stewart, 1926, dust jacket by Thoreau MacDonald; photo of author from Canadian Singers and Their Songs, McClelland & Stewart, 1919; ltd. ed. page of The … Continue reading →