Poesia

Arrival of the Snake Woman and Other Stories

SENIOR, OLIVER · 1990 · John Thompson Books

CA$9.00 (€5.72 | $6.31 | £4.77 | ¥1,007)

Trinidad, Longmans. 1990, 2nd Printing. Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Solid with light wear on the covers. The previous owner's name is on the first inside page and the rest of the interior is unmarked. Very Good.

Crush

WALKER, BRENDA · 1991 · John Thompson Books

CA$10.00 (€6.36 | $7.01 | £5.30 | ¥1,119)

Australia, Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 1991, 2nd Printing. (ISBN: 0-949206-98-9) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Solid with light wear on the covers. Signed by the author with inscription on the title page and the rest of the interior is unmarked. Very Good +. Signed by...

War Crimes

CAREY, PETER · 1979 · John Thompson Books

CA$25.00 (€15.89 | $17.52 | £13.26 | ¥2,798)

Australia, University of Queensland Press. 1979, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Solid with light wear on the covers and the front cover is slightly warped. The dust jacket has color fading on and along the spine and otherwise show liight wear. Very Good/V...

Down the River

Roscoe W. Brink · 1922 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 171p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a dustjacket in good condition. Front endpaper partially tanned. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Otherwise clean and tight. Dustjacket has chipped edges and dingy back...

Water, Rock and Sand

Peter Levi, S.J. · 1962 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Amsterdam, Holland, Andre Deutsch, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex library cloth. 62p. Library call number on spine. Library stamps on front endpaper. Shows some signs of shelf wear. Otherwise in very good condition. Book of poems by Jesuit priest. .

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

MANLEY HOPKINS, GERARD./ GARDNER, W.H. AND MACKENZIE, N.H. (EDITORS). · 1967 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Fourth edition, Revised and Enlarged. "Brings together all the known poems and fragments, including the early verse first published in the poet's Journals and Papers (1959), and the remainder of his Latin Verse..together with translations...

The Critical Doctrine of Honore de Balzac: Colorado College Publication General Series No. 183 [February 1932]

DRUCKER, PAULINE · 1932 · Clausen Books

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Colorado Springs, CO, Colorado College. 1932, First Edition. Stapled Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback, Textblock very clean and tight, sound and secure staples. Sunned spine and edges. 19p. Near Fine.

Lin Yutang: The Best of an Old Friend

ANDERSON, A. J. (EDITOR); FOREWORD BY LIN YUTANG · 1975 · Clausen Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Mason/Charter. 1975, First Edition/1st Printing. (ISBN: 0884051145). Red Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Textblock immaculate tight; Red cloth binding, bumped head and foot of the spine, otherwise bright and clean; Unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine, diag...

Venus Bound: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press and Its Writers

DE ST JORRE, JOHN · 1994 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Random House. 1994. (ISBN: 0679443363). Quarter Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired library copy, with usual stamps, stickers and labels; Dust jacket flaps glued to the end papers, else textblock immaculate and tight; Blac...

Poesias de Jose Sebastian Segura

Jose Sebastian Segura · 1872 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Mexico, I. Escalante, 1872. Leather. 480p. Ex-library. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 red leather with marbled boards and endpapers, gilt edges, and a gilt-decorated spine. Edges of cover scuffed. No library marks on exterior, but a few stickers and stamps inside. Pages mildly ...

Historia Critica de la Poesia En Mexico

Francisco Pimentel · 1892 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Mexico, Secretaria de Fomento, 1892. Second Edition. Leather. 976p. A hardcover book bound in 1/4 red leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Good condition overall. Leather and boards chafed due to many years of shelf wear; corners lightly bumped as well. Closed tear insid...

Shakespeare's Sonnets & A Lover's Complaint

William Shakespeare · 2009 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

The Folio Society, London, 2009. Revised Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Purple Silk Covers, blue spine with gilt lettering, dark blue slip-case. Seventh Printing. Clean sound slip-case, fresh covers, tight binding, clean pages and end-papers. Slip case as opposed to ...

Ten Poems

Morley Jamieson · 1978 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)

Bruntons, Edinburgh, 1978. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. Red card covers with black lettering, black and white frontis, upper cover edges are lightly rubbed, copy no. 665 of 210 copies set in 14 point Felicity and printed by ha...

The Algebraist and Other Poems

C G McKay · 1977 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)

The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1977. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780902616356 Sewn binding, blue covers. Copy number82 of one hundred copies hand-set in 12 point Bembo. Contents are: The Algebraist; Sea-Ghost; Variation on a line of Wordsworth; The Imagist i...

The Red Flower, Poems written in War Time: Premontition; The Trial as by Fire; France and Belgium; Interludes In Holland; Enter America

Henry van Dyke · 1917 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Inscribed by author on front end-paper "To my secretary Agnes Rix from her friend the author, Nov. 19, 1920, Avalon". Van Dyke was the US Minister to the...

The Earthly Paradise. In Twelve Parts. Parts I - XII

William Morris · 1905 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

Longmans Green and Co. London, 1905. Revised Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Twelve matching slim volumes with clean pale blue covers and darker blue linen spines with red lettering together containing the whole of this poem. Tight binding, foxing to en...

True Traveller, A Tramps Opera in Three Act

William H Davies; Decorations by William Nicholson · 1923 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1923. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Grey/pale blue covers with black lettering are significantly darkened on the spine, bumped and lightly rubbed on spine-ends, sound binding, bookplate for "Monica Norman Ewer" on inside of fro...

The Poems of Henry van Dyke, Now first collected and revised with many hitherto unpublished. Also Easier Road 1918; The Youngest Academy; A Ballad of Princeton Battle; To Our New Pilot; The Side Towards the Sky

Henry van Dyke · 1913 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913. Reprint, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. In addition to the book, this collection includes: a printed poem "Easier Road 1918" by Henry van Dyke dated March 1918; A folded leaflet containing a poem by Henry...

Coridon's Song and Other Verses from Various Sources

Coridon's Song and Other Verses, Illustrations by Hugh Thomson, Introduction by Austin Dobson · 1894 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£64.00 (€76.71 | $84.55 | ¥13,502)

MacMillan and Co. London and New York, 1894. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Black covers illustrated with gilt pastoral scene on the front and with a gilt figure on the spine, black end-papers, gilt text-block edges. Introduction date of 1894 matches ...

From Leaf to Leaf, A Volume of Poems with Illustrations

Selected and Arranged by Robert Ellice Mack · 1890 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

Ernest Nister, London and E P Dutton & Company, New York. Printed at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, 1890. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Brown covers with linen spine. Gilt lettering on rubbed spine, and gilt lettering and gilt and coloured decoration on the f...