Parsons Richard Augustus (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Slight edge wear, corners bent. In edge worn DJ, with several closed tears. Now protected in a mylar jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 pages.

Illus by Paul Parsons. (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo, red and blue boards First Edition. Illus by Paul Parsons. Near Fine in VG DJ/ with 2 small sticker marks on endpaper. Near Fine in VG DJ/ with 2 small sticker marks on endpaper.

, Parsons, Richard Augustus, 1893-1981. Interludes. Don Mills, Ontario: The Ontario Publishing Company Limited, 1970, xii, 81pp., good dust-jacket but spine faded, very good small blue cloth, some light foxing on top foredge. SIGNED with place and date on front endpaper: R. A. Parsons / St. John's Newfoundland / February 1974. Parsons (Canadian) was a lawyer in Newfoundland and a poet. Includes poems about a husky, storm damage, reverie, where have all the schooners gone, the Trespasser, Christmas, Alexander the Great (9 poems).

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. (literature, poetry, poems).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Dust jacket in good condition with moderate wear, small tears, chips and rubbing present. Pictures available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Excellent. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In Excellent Condition. With Protective Transparent Book Cover. Bookstore Sticker "Dicks" Half Way Under Front Dust Jacket Flap. May Have Minor Wear To Dust Jackets Corner And Edges. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Vintage 1967 - Canadian Book Of Poetry - 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Newfoundland Arts Centre, 1963. Signed by Author on blank page, with date + place. 127 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Author's address written on half-title page. Jacket has edge wear, long and short tears, creasing, soiling. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Signed Poetry::1900-1975 Nautical::Fiction 7255.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. B/W Photograph (frontispiece) (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED : `._._. and other poems '. 94 pages providing the author's view (he is a lawyer) of the settlement history of Newfoundland. Two of the `other' poems - for flavour - are entitled: `Again the Loon', and `To Rusty' - a neighborhood dog. Cond : Boards are yellow with black lettering. D.J. graphic shows a Newfoundland outport - likely in the 1950s. D.J. has wear at points. Volume has light general soiling. Binding tight, colours bright. No names, no marks. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 17) : " As from a preexistence or from whence We know not of, we suddenly sense Or recognize events which we feel sure Occurred, but not when or where before. So I ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.

1st edition. "In this little volume Dr Parsons has distilled the essence of his keen insight into the everyday world around us.Adrift as we seem to be in an apparently irreversible tide of North American "culture", we are grateful to R.A.Parsons who has done so much to preserve those characteristics of Newfoundland and Newfoundlanders which form part of a precious heritage". (J.K.Tracey). Pp.94, inscribed by the author and presentation message to front free endpaper. Yellow cloth, dustwrapper rubbed with edge tears but is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. R. Shepherd (DJ, Frontis) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition. Parson's ninth book of poetry. Foreword by G.A. Frecker. 15 poems/77 pp. Green cloth covered boards have as-new gilt text on spine and front panel, frontis by R. Shepherd, Errata on Title page. Book has sunned top edge and a tiny nick at the mid-top front. Unclipped, unpriced DJhas top edge wear with some chipping. Vertically SIGNED and dated by Parsons at St.John's, Newfoundland in February, 1974. Bookseller's Inventory # 143738. Signed by Author(s).