Bates Mary, Signed (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Katherine U. Bates (illustrator). Inscribed and signed by author on title-page: "For my Dear Friends, Steve and Laurie Mary Jean Roberts 12/17/94". ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 50 pages; Signed by Author.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. pp [7] + 164 Signed by the authors on the title page A bright crisp copy with very slight marking to cover and 3cm slit (no loss) at lower edge of spine Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Authors.

LATE VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[16]; 1-2; 9-68. With three leaves removed near the beginning, and two from the back. Containing a great panoply of decorative monograms, crests and printed signatures and addresses belonging to the English gentry, cut from letters or envelopes and pasted into the initial alphabetical section of the book. The paginated section consists largely of newspaper cuttings of amusing stories and anecdotes, and towards the back similar cuttings of popular poetry. Most but not all of the book is filled, and there is a good stock of unpasted material loose. Rear free endpaper has been cut away, but is still present, loose at rear with an article on nursing and a black doll face pasted to it. Brown cloth boards with 'Newspaper Cuttings' stamped in a calligraphic front to the front cover. Signed and dated August 24th 1892 by Mary Bates to the front free endpaper. The only other date found in the book, towards the back, is July 29th 1903. Only light wear externally, but the hinges internally are heavily split and very fragile. Some expected browning associated with glue and newsprint. Fair. Signed.

First edition of this mixed-genre Canadian literary magazine. Octavo, original blue pictorial wrappers, illustrated. Signed and dated by Leonard Cohen on the table of contents, "Leonard Cohen 2002." Scarce early Cohen appearance from 1958 when he was 24 years old. Four of his poems are included, some of which do not appear elsewhere: 'Before the Story;' 'Poem for Marc Chagall;' 'Gift;' and 'Bait.' Also present are works by teacher and poet Louis Dudek who was the first influential teacher of Cohen at McGill University in Montreal, who encouraged Cohen to be a poet. In very good condition. Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist who gained acclaim for his introspective and melancholic music, creating memorable works like the timeless 'Hallelujah' and his first book 'Let Us Compare Mythologies.'.