Poesia

Builder of Bridges

STEWART, ANNA BIRD · 1929 · Clausen Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

NY, Robert M. McBride & Company. 1929, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Author's ink signature and inscription on ffep. First Edition; Clean and tight textblock. Blue cloth with minor shelf wear, gilt stamped title/auth on front cover and down spine....

Letters to Dead Authors

LANG, ANDREW · 1886 · Clausen Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886, Second Edition. Quarter Vellum, Cloth Sides, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, Newspaper clipping glued to ffep leaving an offset stain on fep; Former owner's inked gift inscription on half title page. Very aged but tight textblock, ...

Little Mr. Thimblefinger

HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER · 1898 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin. 1898, Early Reprint. Embossed Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Oliver Herford (incomplete). Hard Cover, a reading copy of delightful stories and lovely illustrations; ink gift inscription on second ffep, dated Christmas 1899 "Willard From His ...

Journeys Through Bookland, Volume III: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children

SYLVESTER, CHARLES H. · 1909 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Chicago, Bellows-Reeve Co. 1909. Cloth, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Illustrations. Hardcover, Volume III only; Textblock very clean and tight; Binding lightly edge and corner worn, some smudging on front cover. Spine extremities worn and scuffed. 496p. V...

Flower Shadows Behing the Curtain: A Sequel to Chin P'Ing Mei

YING, KO LIEN HUA (BY); KEAN, VLADIMIR (TRANSLATED BY) · 1959 · Clausen Books

$8.99 (€8.16 | £6.80 | ¥1,435)

NY, Pantheon Books Inc. 1959, First English Edition. Yellow Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Klaus Gemming Jacket Design. Hardcover, Textblock is clean and tight. Lightly shelf worn binding. Unclipped, spine-sunned dust jacket with chipping to head and foot of spine, we...

Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse

MILLER, OLIVE BEAUPRE (EDITOR) · 1925 · Clausen Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Chicago, The Bookhouse for Children Publishers. 1925. Embossed Cloth, 8vo - over 7 " - 9 " tall. Ill.: Alice Beard, Milo Winter N.C. Wyeth, and others. Hardcover, Volume Two ONLY: Age-toned textblock, else clean and tight, with illustrated end papers; Top edge faded gilt; Surf...

Poetische Werken van Mr. J.van Lennep. Mengelpoezy 3 delen

Lennep, J.van · 1861 · Kastenvol

€27.00 ($29.76 | £22.53 | ¥4,751)

M. Wijt & Zonen, Rotterdam, 1861,290/292/312pp., zw.w.frontispieces achter vloei, 19,512,5cm., geb.hardcovers, goed (lichte verg.,).

De gedichten van den Schoolmeester

Lennep, Mr. J. van (ps.Schoolmeester), uitgegeven · 1886 · Kastenvol

€6.50 ($7.16 | £5.42 | ¥1,144)

'Elsevier', 1886,9e druk,179pp., 11,5x15,5pp., ingenaaid(wat los in binding), hardcover(voor kl.besch.),linnen rug iets sl.), licht verg.

City Ballads

CARLETON, WILL · 1885 · Clausen Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Harper & Brothers. 1885. Embossed Brown Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Plates and Drawings. Hardcover, gift inscription from Christmas 1892, on second ffep; original medium brown end papers are intact and unbroken at the gutters, though buckled slightly along the ...

The Three Musketeers

DUMAS, ALEXANDER; AFTERWORD BY PETER HARNESS · 2004 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Barnes & Noble Books. 2004. (ISBN: 0760757887). Red Cloth, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover, Collector's Library printed end papers, red silk bookmarker sewn into headband. Textblock is very clean and very tight. All edges gilt. Red cloth binding, minimally shelf worn...

Great Expectations

DICKENS, CHARLES; AFTERWORD BY D. PINCHING · 2003 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Barnes & Noble Books. 2003. (ISBN: 0760748632). Red Cloth, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover, Red silk bookmarker sewn into headband, Collector's Library end papers, textblock is very clean and very tight. All edges gilt. Red cloth binding. Unclipped dust jacket, usual...

The Last of the Mohicans

COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE; AFTERWORD BY SAM GILPIN · 2004 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Barnes & Noble Books. 2004. (ISBN: 076075781X). Red Cloth, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover, Collector's Library. Textblock is very clean and very tight, Collector's library printed end papers, red silk bookmarker sewn into headband. All edges gilt. Red cloth, minimal...

The Age of Innocence: Collector's Library

WHARTON, EDITH; CLIFF, NIGEL (AFTERWORD BY) · 2004 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Barnes & Noble Books. 2004. (ISBN: 0760757704). Red Cloth, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover, Collector's Library. Complete & Unabridged. Collector's Library printed end papers, red silk bookmarker sewn into the headband, textblock is very clean and tight; All edges gi...

Nobel Prize Library: Gerhart Hauptmann- Verner Von Heidenstam- Johannes V. Jensen

HAUPTMANN, GERHART; HEIDENSTAM, VERNER VON; JENSEN, JOHANNES V. · 1971 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY & California, Alexis Gregory/CRM Publishing. 1971. Textured Boards, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Plates. Hardcover, Former owner's ink-stamped name and address on ffep, otherwise textblock immaculate and tight; All page edges are straight and sound. Embossed spine and f...

The Loud Halo

BECKWITH, LILLIAN · 1965 · Clausen Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1965, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Douglas Hall. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired library copy, stamped and marked; Textblock clean and tight; Binding frayed, worn and torn; Dust jacket edge and corner worn; Library label removed ...

Vignettes Volume II: An Eclectic Assemblage of Anecdotes About Papermaking, the Private Press, Printing and Its History, Book Collecting, Numismata Typographica and Much More

MORRIS, HENRY · 1999 · Clausen Books

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.08 | ¥47,891)

Newton, PA, Bird & Bull Press. 1999, Limited, Numbered Edition. Cloth, Folio. Hard Cover, No. 99 of 155 copies; As New in slipcase, with prospectus laid in; 77p. including eleven pages of black and white illustrations and two pages of color inserts; a 7 X 11" sample sheet of t...

Les Pisseuses: Poã¨Me [the Pissers: A Poem]

Perceau, Louis [sometimes also Alexandre de Verineau · 1934 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$480.00 (€435.49 | £363.32 | ¥76,625)

Paris, France , Self-published, 1934. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An extraordinary exemplar of this French-language collection of seven erotic poems, Les Pisseuses, by the French poet and raconteur, publicist and activist, gadfly and erotophile. From the pers...

Tales of Northamptonshire

Charles Henry Montagu-Douglas-Scott · 1936 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Kettering, Northamptonshire Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. at the Leader Press, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 45p. A hardcover bound in 1/4 cloth with marbled boards. Very good condition. Edges rubbed and boards mildly warped. Owner's gift inscription on fron...

Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Poet Laureate

Tennyson, Alfred Lord · 1926 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Macmillan, 1926. Later printing. Hardcover. 13th printing of this The Globe Edition. 8vo. Pp viii + 646. Full leather light boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. All edges gilt. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper (Christmas 1927) else a clean, u...

The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse (Two Volumes, Only, of Four)

GRAY, THOMAS; EDMUND GOSSE (ED) · 1884 · Round Table Books, LLC

$200.00 (€181.46 | £151.38 | ¥31,927)

London: Macmillan and Co, 1884. 1st Edition. First Printing. Leather. Full green calf by Bradstreet's (spines sunned to a lovely brown); spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tools in remainder, t.e.g, floral gilt decora...