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Oliver Goldsmith. The Rising Village and Other Poems. John McMillan, 1834.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published for the author, by John McMillan, and printed by Henry Chubb, Market-Square, Saint John, N. B. (Canada), 1834. Oliver Goldsmith was born in New Brunswick, Canada in 1794, and his great-uncle was the famous Anglo-Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith who penned the famous poem The Deserted Village. This book The Rising Village is a play off of the noted well-known poem. This work was first published as The Rising Village: A Poem in London, England id 1825. The author reworked the poem, included additional poems, and published this book in 1834. The poem The Rising Village is the first poem to be published in book form by an English Canadian. The Rising Village is not, in fact, a particular village at all. It is a typical village that is used to suggest all the rising villages. It is, therefore, Nova Scotia itself. It should be noted that the author was living in Halifax, Nova Scotia as he wrote this poem. The movement in the poem is from the first settlement to a fully realized embodiment of the British idea which is Nova Scotia. The book is dedicated To the Inhabitants of Nova-Scotia and New-Brunswick, this little volume of poems is inscribed, by their very grateful and obedient servant, OLIVER GOLDSMITH. This book, 144 pages, is a small format book, with pages measuring 135mm X 90mm. It is bound in a silk-like cloth that is threadbare on both sides of the spine and at the corners, all edges gilt. The book is square and sound and internally, the book is in fine, bright condition. Not a hint of foxing or fading. There is a prior owners plate on the inside front cover and pasted on the opposite end page is a newspaper clipping referring to The Autobiography of Oliver Goldsmith. This is a truly rare and important work of Canadian literature and would be considered a cornerstone of any collection of Canadian poetry in very, acceptable original condition.
Seller: Raven & Gryphon Fine Books, Hackett's Cove, NS, Canada
Price: US$1009.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 32mo. Quarter grey cloth, faded green moire boards. A.E.G. 144 pp. Professionally rebacked (spring 2021), new spine label, moire is original. Original endpapers, with ink ownership insciption dated 1897 to front pastedown. White and black stains to boards, wear to extremities, bumping to corners. Some rust spotting to interior. First published in 1825, this is the best known work of Oliver Goldsmith [St. Andrews, N.B., 1794-1861], the first native-born Canadian poet. It is the first book-length poem published in Canada, and it depicts the progress of settlement and civilization in a Maritime community, while cautioning remaining loyal to Britain. (The Canadian Encyclopedia) It was described by Klinck et al (Literary History of Canada) as "the first volume of verse ever published in Canada by a native-born Canadian to receive serious attention at the hands of critics and literary historians." A scarce copy of an important work of Canadiana.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Price: US$1205.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The scarce first edition thus of this collection of poems from Canadian poet Oliver Goldsmith, in the publisher's original moire binding. Best known for the titular poem, 'The Rising Village', which was first published in 1825 in London, this edition altered that poem and combined it with other examples of Goldsmith's work, and was published in his native New Brunswick.This has been described as 'the first volume of verse ever published in Canada by a native-born Canadian to receive serious attention at the hands of critics and literary historians'.With the armorial bookplate of Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave to the front pastedown. Sir John Gilmour, 4th Baronet, was a military officer who served in the Fife Yeomanry.The titular poem, curiously, is a response to the 'The Deserted Village', a celebrated poem from his great-uncle, the Anglo-Irish novelist also names Oliver Goldsmith, best known for penning 'The Vicar of Wakefield'. In the publisher's original moire covered boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Front joint starting, with board holding firm. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Tide mark to tail of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom