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Eberhart, Dikkon · 1979 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$16.50 (€14.97 | £12.49 | ¥2,635)

Owings Mills: Stemmer House, 1979. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo. NF/VG+ First novel from the son of poet, Richard Eberhart.

The Square Peg or the Gun Fella

John Masefield · 1937 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, William Heinemann, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this insightful novel from John Masefield, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. A social novel about contemporary England, following the story of Robert Frampton Mansell, the inve…

The Cloud and the Silver Lining

CAMMAERTS, Emile (Morpurgo) · 1952 · Marijana Dworski Books

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.39 | ¥4,852)

London, A. R.Mowbray & Co, 1952. A good, clean, tight copy. Author's presentation copy with inscription to f.e.p. Spine ends a little chipped else very good. Used; Very Good Émile Cammaerts (grandfather of Michael Morpurgo), CBE was a Belgian playwright and poet who wrote both i…

A Widow&Apos;S Tale and Other Poems

Bernard Barton · 1827 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, B. J. Holdsworth, 1827 . First edition. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of this scarce first edition volume of early nineteenth century poems by Bernard Barton, presented to Sir John Bowring. The scarce first edition of this work, signed by the author with the inscr…

Marjorie Fleming a Sketch Being the Paper Entitled Pet Marjorie

John Brown · 1884 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1884. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching work on the child writer Marjorie Fleming, complete with a colour portrait frontispiece. The first illustrated edition.A touching biographical appreciation on the Scottish child poet Marjori…

In the Steps of Moses the Conqueror

GOLDING, LOUIS · 1948 · Bookshop Baltimore

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

London: Rich and Cowan, 1948. Hardcover. 366 pages. Clean text, good binding, DJ has edge tears, stains around the spine and back. Illustrated with photos; endpapers are a map showing the author's route, a journey made as scholar, traveller and poet. Long inscription on the titl…

Tobias Smollett

Jeremy Lewis · 2003 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed biography of the Scottish poet Tobias Smollett Signed by the author Jeremy Lewis as a gift to his friends. Jeremy Lewis was a publisher who was a director of Chatto & Windus for ten years, and the deputy editor of the L…

Dryden's Political Poetry: The Typology of King and Nation.

DRYDEN. ZWICKER, Steven N. · 1972 · The Book Firm

A$22.00 (€13.52 | $14.91 | £11.28 | ¥2,380)

Brown University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Slight wear to dj, o/wise condition very good. 154pp. ISBN 0870571346.

The Glory of the Nightingale

ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON · 1930 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1930. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have so…

THE MONUMENT

STRAND, Mark · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,062.50 (€964.00 | £804.23 | ¥169,668)

New York. The Ecco Press. First Edition. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper incorporating an ORIGINAL DRAWING by the poet to actress and philanthropist Drue Heinz: "This monument is from/Mark Strand and it is for/Drue Heinz/November 26, 1981 SLC U…

The Green Fool

Kavanagh, Patrick · 1988 · Eastleach Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Penguin 1988 reprint. Paperback, G+. 264pp, page margins a little tanned & covers yellowed. Autobiography of Patrick Kavanagh [ 1904 - 1967 ] the Irish poet and novelist.

The Lost Grove

Alberti, Rafael · 1976 · Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA ILAB

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Berkeley, Etc. University of California Press, 1976. Translated and edited by Gabriel Berns. 323p. b/w illus. dj. Autobiography of this exiled Spanish poet. .

The Poetry of the Period

Alfred Austin · 1870 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Richard Bentley, 1870. Leather. A critique of many of the most popular poets, in a leather binding. Featuring poets including Tennyson, Swinburne, Arnold and many others. Alfred Austin, born in 1835 who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896. In a Bickers binding, with bind…

The Poems of St. John of the Cross

St. John of the Cross; John Frederick Nims [Trans.] · 1959 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

New York, Grove Press Inc. 1959 . First edition. Paperback. A new English translation of the poetry of Spanish priest and celebrated poet, St John of the Cross, compiled and translated by John Frederick Nims, who has also inscribed the work. First paperback edition. Author'…

The Glass Adonis

C.A. Trypanis · 1972 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York, Chilmark Press, 1972. Hardcover. 48p. INSCRIBED BY THE POET. A thin hardcover book in fine condition with a near-fine dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is faintly tanned on the spine and has a price sticker stain on the back. Small stain in bottom rig…

The Song of the Library Staff: The Reference Librarian. The Cataloguer. Broadside

Foss, Sam Walter, (1858-1911); Johnson, Merle De Vore, (1874-1935) illustrator · 1960 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Detroit: Gale Research Company, circa 1960s. Facsimile poster of the circa 1906 original. 22 x 17 inches. Printed on several different paper colors on thick stock... Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911), Librarian of the Somerville (Massachusetts) Public Library from 1898 to 1911, was al…

Milton&Apos;S Comus; Being the Bridgewater Manuscript with Notes and a Short Family Memoir

John Milton; The Lady Alex Egerton · 1910 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

London, J.M. Dent & Sons , 1910 . Vellum. An illustrated copy of notable poet Milton's Comus, bound in vellum. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 10 plates. Collated, complete.Bound in full vellum, with ribbon ties. A work by John Milton, an English poet, polemicist, and…

The Daylight Moon.

Murray, Les A., · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Persea Books, (1988). 1st ed ss. VG PB. Australia's major poet writes about rural life, the beauty & harshness of the land, its history & folklore.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.

Garrett, Martin · 0 · Hessay Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥949)

British Library, First Edition. Soft Cover, Large format. 128pp, illustrated laminated card covers. Many colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. A biography of the poets Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert Browning - Part of the British Library Writer's Lives series.…

The Man Who Went into the West : The Life of R S Thomas

Rogers, Byron · 2006 · Eastleach Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

Arum Press Ltd 2006 2nd impression. Imitation cloth, dj, F/F. x+326pp, decorated endpapers, 8pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy. A biography of Ronald Stuart Thomas [ 1913 - 2000 ] the Welsh poet and Anglican priest.