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A King&Apos;S Daughter, a Tragedy in Verse
John Masefield · 1923 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, William Heinemann, 1923 . First edition. Hardback. A signed limited edition of John Masefield's tragic drama, retaining the original dust wrapper. A signed limited edition, first edition.Number 211 of 250 limited edition copies, signed by the author.In the publisher…
The Poet's Tale: Chaucer And The Year That Made The Canterbury Tales
Paul Strohm · 2014 · Book Haven
NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)
Profile Books 2014 Hardback, 284pp. As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-aged bureaucrat and sometime poet, living in London and enjoying the perks that came with his close connections to its booming wool trade. When it ended, he was jobless, homeless, out of fa…
The Poetical Works of William Shenstone with the Life of the Author and a Description of the Leasowes
William Shenstone · 0 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, C. Cooke, c1800. Leather. A smart collection of poetry from English poet William Shenstone. Cooke's edition. A collection of poetry including elegies, pastorals, levities, moral pieces, odes, songs, and ballads. With a biographical sketch of the life of the author a…
Auden in Love
Farnan, Dorothy J. · 1985 · Books & Bygones
£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)
Book Very Good Very Good First Edition Faber and Faber London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall W. H. Auden was the greatest poet of his generation, he was also a practising homosexual, whose great lifelong love was Chester Kallman.
THE LOST PILOT
TATE, James · 1967 · Charles Agvent
$937.50 (€850.59 | £709.61 | ¥149,707)
New Haven & London. Yale University Press. First Edition. The more common softcover issue of Tate's first trade book, the title poem a tribute to his father who was lost during World War II over Germany five months after Tate was born. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIG…
The Radiant Inventory
DEWDNEY, CHRISTOPHER · 1988 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines
$49.95 (€45.32 | £37.81 | ¥7,976)
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0771026994. 107 pages. "Chrisopher Dewdney is a poet, one of the most remarkable working in Canada now. His verse is written out of a sense of wonderment... Dewdney is unique." - Robert Fulford. Light wear and …
The Angel in the House. The Betrothal and the Espousals
Coventry Patmore · 1854 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, John W. Parker, 1854-56. Cloth. The first two books of The Angel in the House sequence with The Espousals inscribed by the author Patmore. First editions, and in the original bindings. The half-title of The Espousals is inscribed 'From the Author&apos. With a Stassi…
Treasury of Kahlil Gibran, A
Gibran, Kahlil ( Wolf, Martin L. - Edited by ) · 1974 · Books & Bygones
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
Book Good Good First Edition Heinemann London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Translated from the Arabic by Anthony Rizcallah Ferris. Green cloth with gilt title to spine, dustwrapper has a small stain to inside bottom of spine, not affecting boards.
Reynard the Fox or the Ghost Heath Run
John Masefield · 1921 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, William Heinemann, 1921. Cloth. A brightly illustrated copy of this narrative poem from English writer John Masefield. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, twelve monochromatic plates, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. A thrilling narra…
The Descent Into the Cave and Other Poems
James Kirkup · 1957 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Oxford University Press, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this collection of the poetry of English poet, translator and travel writer James Kirkup, in the original dust wrapper. A signed first edition, first impression. Flat signed to the title page…
To the Dyfrdwy the River I Love
Anderson, J. Redwood · 1951 · Mare Booksellers
$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)
London, The Grasshopper Press, 1951. First Edition. Wraps. One of 200 copies printed at the Faun Press. Printed wraps. Signed, with an inscription in Welsh, by the author. 10 pp. A single poem, written in English, on the River Dyfrdwy, or Dee. By John Redwood Anderson, an Englis…
THE TOY BONE
HALL, Donald · 0 · Charles Agvent
$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)
Brockport, NY. BOA Editions. First Edition. One of 400 copies in wrappers of a total edition of 500. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the title page in 1987.. Fine
The Spiral Staircase
JOHNSON, ADAM · 1993 · Godley Books
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
Brixham, Acumen Publications. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 1873161042) Soft Cover, 7.75 x 5.25 inches. Ill.: Robert Medley. Appears unread. Book in as new condition. 34pp. Stalybridge poet Adam Johnson's first full collection of his poetry. Fine/Fine.
The Time Tree
Thinh, Hu'u, George Evans and Nguyen Qui Duc, translators · 2003 · Imago Press
CA$16.00 (€10.17 | $11.21 | £8.49 | ¥1,790)
Willimantic CT, Curbstone Press, 2003. Perfect binding, 171 pp. 5.5"-8.5". fine. Bilingual Vietnamese/ English. Poet served in the Vietnamese/ American War as a tank driver and journalist. This is a selection from 5 volumes of his poems.
The Poem Itself
Burnshaw, Stanley, editor · 1967 · Imago Press
CA$20.00 (€12.72 | $14.01 | £10.61 | ¥2,238)
New York, Schocken Books, 1967. Perfect binding, 338 pp. 5.25"-8". Good. 150 poems from French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish given literal cribs and explanations by the editor. 45 poets, not all symboliste but certainly all of them put the poem ahead of the poet.
The Light between
Terry Blackhawk · 2012 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.
$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)
Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2012. 1st Edition. Paperback. 89p. SIGNED BY THE POET. A softcover book in fine condition, as new. From the publisher's "Made in Michigan" Writers Series. This copy is signed by Blackhawk on the title page. As New .
The Inner Room
MERRILL, JAMES · 1993 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books
€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)
New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1993. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. viii, 100 pp. Illustrated card wraps. Neat ownership inscription, otherwise a nice copy of this later work by the double National Book Award winning poet. Very Good.
Federico Garcia Lorca and The Public: A Study of an Unfinished Play and of Love and Death in Lorca's Work.
LORCA. NADAL, Rafael Martinez. · 1974 · The Book Firm
A$27.00 (€16.60 | $18.29 | £13.85 | ¥2,921)
Schocken Books, 1974. Hardcover. A little wear to dustjacket, otherwise good condition. 247pp. ISBN 0805235558.
ROBERT BURNS; The Man-His Work-The Legend
Lindsay, Maurice · 1954 · The Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore
$16.58 (€15.04 | £12.55 | ¥2,648)
Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket MacGibbon & Kee Light wear and chipping to DJ. Sticker removal to DJ spine; Author Lindsay examines the extant biographies and analyses of the Scottish poet and finds them lacking scholarly merit and a Scottish perspective, both of which he se…
The Prometheans
Alec Craig · 1955 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, The Fortune Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from British poet Alec Craig, signed by the author. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front endpaper with a message that reads: "A pre-publication cop…