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HERBERT LOMAS · 1981 · Mike Long Books

$29.75 (€26.99 | £22.52 | ¥4,751)

Anvil Press. 1981. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1981/Gd. condition/81 pages - The ugliness of power and the uncivilizing effects of the money economy, about pain and death. (H9615z). Good.

Byron and Shelley

Blumberg, Jane · 1992 · Books & Bygones

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book As New As New First Edition Collins and Brown London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1816 was "the year without a summer", when a volcanic eruption blotted out the sun, and it was also the season when a momentous friendship was forged. Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley (who wrote "Fra…

William Langland.

LANGLAND, RYAN, William M. · 1968 · The Book Firm

A$19.00 (€11.68 | $12.87 | £9.74 | ¥2,056)

Twayne Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some sunning to spine of dj, o/wise good (no markings to text). Part of the Twayne's English Authors series TEAS No. 66. 166pp.

The Fury of the Living. Signed copy

Singer, John · 1951 · Barter Books Ltd

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

VG: in very good condition with rubbed and darkened dust jacket Glasgow William McLellan First Edition 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 58pp. Signed by author on fep with dedication to poet Richard Gilbertson.

Christian Science Hymnal Words Only

EDDY, MARY BAKER (THE REV. ) · 1932 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston, MA: Christian Science Publishing Society, 1932. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Flexible cloth. This is a small format book with flexible cloth covers that someone has bound over with black flexible cloth. The black cloth has no title or publishing information. The book is in…

The Last Crusade

Brother Antoninus · 1969 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$160.00 (€145.17 | £121.11 | ¥25,550)

Berkeley, California, Oyez, 1969. Hardcover. Beige cloth over boards; Off-white vellum with gilt titling at spine; 23 pp.; Color illus. title page; No other illustrations. 1969 poem by beat poet Brother Antoninus (aka William Everson); Includes an essay by the poet, about the po…

The Year of the Young Rebels.

Spender, Stephen, · 1969 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Random, (1969). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. Historic uprisings of 1968 which spoke out spontaneously throughout Europe and the U.S., a revolution between the new &. old generation. By journalist & poet Stephen Spender who had taken part in the radical politics of the 30s and s…

The Lay of the Last Minstrel & the Lady of the Lake

Sir Walter Scott · 1856 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1856-1858. Leather. Two smart copies of these narrative poems written by Scottish historian and poet, Sir Walter Scott. Two volumes. Written by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish historian, novelist, poet, and playwright whose works remain classics of E…

Awake in the River.

Mirikitani, Janice. · 1978 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

San Francisco, Isthmus Press, 1978. 1st. Paperback. First printing, first book by this American poet of Japanese background. 8vo, softcover. Nearly Fine copy with owner's name inside. Scarce book by this respected poet. Very Good.

The Prophet

Gibran, Kahill · 1987 · Eastleach Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Pan Books 1987 reprint. Paperback, G. [x]+114pp, b/w frontis & 11 b/w plates by the author, pages tanned, gift inscription, a reading copy. Theological musings by a Lebonese poet & philosopher. The plates are very much in the manner of William Blake.

The Wisdom of Gibran: Aphorisms and Maxims.

Gibran, Kahlil / Sheban, Joseph (ed. and transl.). · 1966 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

New York Philosophical Library 1966 Bound, board with original dustjacket, 111pp., 14x20,5cm., in fair condition (dustjacket with traces of use, a bit damaged and soiled, book itself in good condition). An early twentieth-century Lebanese-American writer, Khalil Gibran instill…

Hope

Watts, George Frederic (artist 1817-1904) and Emily Pfeiffer ( poet 1827-1890) · 1886 · Wittenborn Art Books

$500.00 (€453.65 | £378.46 | ¥79,844)

England: The Academy: May 29, 1886. 19th Century sepia photograph artistically mounted on a board with Pfeiffer's poem, of the same title. Contemporary manuscript inscription, possibly in the hand of the poet or artist: "In memory of Ralph Waldo Emerson." Deaccessioned by the Ba…

Musical Chairs a Songbook for Anxious Children

James Broughton · 1950 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

San Francisco, The Centaur Press, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A signed, limited edition copy of James Broughton's poetry collection. An association copy. Signed by Broughton to the recto of front endpaper, 'for Barbara, with love and poetry, even, James&apos. Loosely i…

Rediscovering Homer / Inside the Origins of the Epic

Andrew Dalby · 2006 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

W.W. Norton. 2006; hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar / good copy. Who created the Odyssey and the Iliad? A portrait of the poet and the world. Scholar Andrew Dalby delves into the world that first heard the Odyssey and the Iliad, and asks new questions about the poet name…

Ezra Pound: Composer

The Arch Ensemble for Experimental Music · 1983 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

San Francisco: Herbst Theatre, 1983. Poster for performances by the Arch Ensemble of musical compositions by the poet Ezra Pound, including the world premiere of his opera Cavalcanti. On the back there is a brief exposition of Pound's career as a composer. Poster is 16 x 10 inch…

The Iron Man & the Iron Woman

Ted Hughes · 1985 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Faber and Faber, 1985-1993. First edition. Cloth. Two smart copies of these science fiction children's novels from British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, with illustrations from British artist Andrew Davidson. Two volumes. Illustrated throughout. Written by Edward James …

The Balti Cookbook

BAXTER, LYNETTE · 1996 · Mike Long Books

$44.75 (€40.60 | £33.87 | ¥7,146)

Bookmart. 1996. (ISBN: 185605246x). Soft Cover. Gd. condition - . Cultural cooking .... (TK3). Good.

The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Khayyam, Omar / Fitsgerald, Edward (transl.) / Burnett, Virgil (illustr.). · 1999 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

London, The Folio Society, 1999 Bound, decorated cloth with slipcase, 32pp., 14x22,5cm., illustr. by Virgil Burnett in b/w. , in good condition (slipcover with some traces of use, binding in very good condition, name and date in pencil on first page). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám …

The Magnetic Mountain; the Noise of History

C. Day Lewis; John Lehmann · 1933 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1933-1934 . First edition. Hardback. First editions of two wonderful collections of poetry from the Hogarth Living Poets series, with works from Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis and publisher John Lehmann present here. The fi…

The Portraits, Prints, and Writings of John Milton.

MILTON. WILLIAMSON, Dr. · 1968 · The Book Firm

A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.79 | ¥2,488)

Burt Franklin, 1968 (1908). Hardcover. No dustjacket. Ex-library, otherwise good no markings to text). B/W illus. 167pp.