Poesia

The Little Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets

RITTENHOUSE, JESSIE B. (ED) · 1931 · Round Table Books, LLC

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. 1st Edition. Twenty-Sixth Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering (faded) on spine, gilt medallion on cover, top edge green. A collection of 158 poems by many now- famous, some lesser-known, and some quite obscu...

Restoration Love Songs

HADFIELD, JOHN (EDITOR) · 1950 · John Thompson Books

CA$33.00 (€20.99 | $23.14 | £17.51 | ¥3,694)

British, Cupid Press. 1950, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 153 pages. Square and solid with slightly warped covers, else covers show light wear. Copy # 261 of 660 total printed. Very Good.

The Works of George Herbert.

HUTCHINSON, F.E. (EDITOR.) · 1964 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Reprint. (From corrected sheets of 1st ed.) Contains a brief biography together with a commentary on the works of George Herbert. Pp. lxxvi//619, frontispiece + 5 illustrations, owner's name to front free endpaper. Dark blue cloth, gilt t...

Wilderness Trek: A Novel of Australia

GREY, ZANE · 1944 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap. 1944. Cloth, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Reprint; Grease stain along the fore edge of the front free endpaper, with the owner's signature, dated 1954, at the top of the same page; Overall, the gently aged textblock is very clean and tight; Covers slightl...

Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors

BLISS, ALEXANDER; KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON (COMPILERS) · 1864 · Clausen Books

$2,000.00 (€1,814.55 | £1,513.84 | ¥319,273)

Baltimore, Cushings & Bailey. 1864, First Edition. Embossed Cloth, 4to - Over 9 3/4 " - 12" Tall. Hardcover, First Edition of the first publication of the definitive version of the Gettysburg Address; In his own hand, Abraham Lincoln wrote his final version of the Gettysburg A...

La Grazia: Poema in Decima Rima

dalla Corte, Girolamo Murari · 1793 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$156.00 (€141.54 | £118.08 | ¥24,903)

Vicenza, Italy, Nella Stamperia Turra, 1793. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line. A still quite handsome exemplar of an Italian language compilation of verse. Girolamo Mu...

Look, Stranger!

W H Auden · 1946 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London, Faber & Faber, 5th or later Printing, Fifth impression. All in VG internal order. Signature of former owner neatly to fep verso. Small bubble to grey cloth on front board. Dulled gilt titling to lightly faded spine. Unclipped d/j faded, chipped and marked, well worn to...

From Chekov to the Revolution: Russian Literature 1900-1917

SLONIM, MARC · 1962 · John Thompson Books

CA$18.00 (€11.45 | $12.62 | £9.55 | ¥2,015)

New York, Oxford University Press. 1962, 1st Printing. Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 253 pages. Solid copy with a light spine roll, a reading crease along spine on front cover, and covers show light wear. About 12 inside page have some light moisture wrinkling on...

The Good Soldier: Schweik

HASEK, JAROSLAV · 1930 · John Thompson Books

CA$33.00 (€20.99 | $23.14 | £17.51 | ¥3,694)

Garden City, Doubleday. 1930, Reprint. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Solid copy with a spine lean, small bumps on bottom corners of covers, some soiling on spine, and covers show light wear. Previous owner's name in fountain pen ink on front free end paper, rest of in...

The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne

GOSSE, EDMUND & THOMAS JAMES WISE (EDITORS) · 1919 · John Thompson Books

CA$39.00 (€24.81 | $27.34 | £20.70 | ¥4,365)

New York, John Lane. 1919, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volume set which are 309 pages and 291 pages respectively. Square solid copies with light wear on covers and interiors are unmarked. Very Good.

Wordsworth Scholarship and Criticism, 1973-1984: An Annotated Bibliography, with Selected Criticism, 1809-1972

JONES, MARK & KARL KROEBER · 1985 · John Thompson Books

CA$50.00 (€31.81 | $35.06 | £26.54 | ¥5,596)

New York, Garland Publishing. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-8240-8840-9) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Square solid copy with minor wear on covers and interior is clean and unmarked. Very Good - Fine.

William Wordsworth: A Reference Guide to British Criticism, 1793-1899

BAUER, N. S. · 1978 · John Thompson Books

CA$45.00 (€28.63 | $31.55 | £23.88 | ¥5,037)

Boston, G.K.Hall & Co. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-8161-7828-3) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 467 pages. Solid copy with minor wear on covers and the interior is clean and unmarked. Very Good/No Jacket.

Death and the Ploughman: An Argument and a Consolation from the Year 1400

TEPL, JOHANN VON · 1947 · John Thompson Books

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

London, Langley & Son. 1947, 1st Printing. Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 42 pages, staple bound booklet. A solid copy with slight wavyness from moisture along spine and along right side, a small chunk mmissing on top right corner of back cover, covers extend over...

In Midway Thought: Poems from a House of Glass II

CORNELL, F. B. · 2009 · John Thompson Books

CA$18.00 (€11.45 | $12.62 | £9.55 | ¥2,015)

New York, Vantage Press. 2009, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780553161966) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 116 pages. Square tight copy with minor wear on jacket from rubbing. Very Good - Fine/Very Good- Fine.

Tatsea

WIEBE, ARMIN · 2003 · John Thompson Books

CA$10.00 (€6.36 | $7.01 | £5.31 | ¥1,119)

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Turnstone Press. 2003, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0-88801-281-0) Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Square solid copy with a small corner crease on front and back covers, else covers show light wear. Signed by author with inscription on title pag...

In the Window-Seat: A Selection of Victorian Stories

AVERY, GILLIAN (EDITOR) · 1965 · Clausen Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NJ, D. Van Nostrand Company Inc. 1965, Reprint. Green Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Susan Einzig. Ex-Library Hardcover, Ex-library copy, usual stamps, stickers, labels, and card pocket on fep. Minor age toning, tiny exterior moisture stain along the top edge, else te...

The Love Books of Ovid: Being the Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris and Medicamina Faciei Femineae of Publius Ovidius Naso

NASO, PUBLIUS OVIDIUS; TRANSLATED OUT OF THE LATIN BY J. LEWIS MAY · 1930 · Clausen Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Rarity Press. 1930, Limited Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Jean De Bosschere. Hardcover, An un-numbered copy, one of 3,000 privately printed for Rarity Press; Age-toned textblock, else clean and very tight. Deckled fore-edge; Binding has an irregularly su...

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1963-1990 Complete

Walker, Alice · 1990 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

New York, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "a" in "number" line present. Big, tall, Imperial octavo format copy, brilliant pictorial cover, bright and shiny dust jacket to match, il...

Atalanta's Race and Other Tales from the Earthly Paradise

William Morris · 1888 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1888. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 242p. Ex-library, original cloth. A hardcover book in good reading condition. Wrinkles in cloth on front cover. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed. Call number on spine and small label on back cove...

Opera: Facsimile of the Edition Groningen 1614 1614

GANSFORT, WESSEL · 1966 · John Thompson Books

CA$90.00 (€57.25 | $63.10 | £47.76 | ¥10,074)

Nieuwkoop - B. De Graaf. 1966, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, 922 pages. Bump on top right corner of front cover, otherwise covers show light wear. Usual library markings on covers, inside front cover, front free end paper, and title page, re...