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In the Flesh. (INSCRIBED)

Bowering, George. · 1974 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

McClelland and Stewart. 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 0771015984. Signed by Author(s). First printing. 8vo, quality trade softcover. INSCRIBED by the poet. Nearly Fine copy with light wear to extremities. Near Fine.

The Wheelwright's Shop. [Second Impression.] CECIL DAY-LEWIS'S COPY PRESENTED TO HIM BY HIS FATHER

STURT George · 1934 · Island Books

£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)

University Press, Cambridge, 1934. 8vo., Second Impression, with a frontispiece, 7 plates and 24 illustrations in the text; original pictorial brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy. C DAY LEWIS'S COPY, PRESENTED TO …

VIRGIL

Woodberry, George Edward · 1930 · Gibson

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Author's Club New York Limited Edition Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Cover has some sunning. ; Reprint of the Woodberry Essay in Honor of the Bi-Millennial of Virgil. One of Eleven Hundred Copies. ; 35 pages

Songs of the Ozark Folk

LEO RAINEY · 1972 · Mike Long Books

$69.75 (€63.28 | £52.80 | ¥11,138)

The Ozarks Mountaineer. 1972, 1st. Soft Cover. Gd. condition - First Edition / First Printing .. (Text clean and unmarked ) .. A Completely new and simplified approach to reading music at sight with particular emphasis on ear-training . (AI2). Good.

The Seasons and the Castle of Indolence

James Thomson · 1820 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, F.C. and J. Rivington et al. 1820. Leather. The two famous poetical works of prolific Scottish poet James Thomson, of which would later influence key figures of the Romantic Movement. A smart edition of The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, the two iconic poetical wor…

The Origins Of The School For Scandal - The Slanderers - Sir Peter Teazle

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley & Redford, Bruce [editor] · 1986 · Eastleach Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Princeton University Press 1986 1st edition. Cloth, dj, G/G. 165pp, b/w illustrations, top edge of the text block damp stained with the upper part of each page wrinkled, a working copy only. Text unmarked. A facsimile reproduction of the holograph manuscripts for two early Sheri…

The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

Elizabeth Smart · 1978 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.26 | ¥18,565)

London, Jonathan Cape and Polytantric Press, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this inspirational work from Elizabeth Smart. First edition. A magnificent work exploring the life of a thirty-one year old woman, with four children by a faithless lover, as s…

The Region of the Summer Stars

Charles Williams · 1944 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Editions Poetry, 1944. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this work of poetry by Charles Williams. First edition. A work of poetry from the calling of Taliessin, to the Queen's servant and the prayers of the Pope. Written by Charles Williams, a British nove…

The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd

[James Hogg]; Rev. Thomas Thomson · 1866 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Blackie and Son, 1866. Leather. A new edition containing the renowned verses of the 'Ettrick Shepherd' James Hogg. Written by James Hogg, a Scottish poet and writer who worked in the Scots and English dialect. A friend of Sir Walter Scott…

The Browning Cyclopedia: A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning

Edward Berdoe · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery, & Co. 1892. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this guide to the works of Robert Browning with notes and references. First edition. A guide to the study of Robert Browning's works, with copious explanatory notes and references on all…

The Eighteenth Year Book 1919 [of the Bibliophile Society]

Bibliophile Society (Boston, Mass.) · 1919 · Brookline Village Books

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

Boston, The Society, 1919. Limited edition of 500 copies. Hardcover. 164p. Very good condition, partly unopened, backstrip darkened and worn Includes Paul Verlaine - the Poet of Absinthe by Nathan Haskell Dole, Letter of Carmen Sylva, Joaquin Miller by Charles Keeler, Where Mark…

Tls from Carolyn Kizer for the National Endowment for the Arts, to Norman Moser

Kizer, Carolyn · 1967 · Wittenborn Art Books

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Arts, 1967. TLS on National Endowment for the Arts letterhead, dated September 10, 1967, from poet Carolyn Kizer to poet, editor, and graphic artist Norman Moser, acknowledging receipt of Moser's magazine Illuminations and expressing gr…

The Recluse

William Wordsworth · 1888 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1888. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a previously unpublished introductory verse to what would be Wordsworth's magnum opus. The first edition of The Recluse, the never before published first part to a planned masterpiece, written by cel…

The Testament of Beauty

Robert Bridges · 1929 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1929. Leather. A lovely little leather bound book of poetry by Robert Bridges. Robert Seymour Bridges, OM (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was a British poet. Bridges achieved literary success rather late in life, but still gained the prestigious p…

The Testament of Beauty

Robert Bridges · 1938 · Rooke Books

£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)

London , Clarendon Press, 1938. Hardback. A long philosophical poem by Robert Bridges. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece of the author. Despite being made poet laureate in 1913, Bridges was never a very well-known poet and only achieved his great popularity shortly before his d…

Poems of Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson [int. by T. Herbert Warren] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Henry Frowde, 1912. Cloth. A scarce edition of poems from the iconic poet laureate, including The Princess and In Memoriam, with an introduction from eminent scholar Herbert Warren. A scarce edition of The Poems of Tennyson, writing by the renowned British poet laureate …

Rimbaud : The Poems

Rimbaud, [ Jean Nicolas Arthur ] & Bernard, Oliver [ translator ] · 2012 · Eastleach Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Anvil Press Poetry 2012 2nd edition. Paperback, VG. 454pp, covers very slightly edge worn, otherwise a nice copy. Parallel French - English text ( the translator providing prose versions of the poems ). An expanded edition of the translator's 1962 Penguin edition of the works o…

The Praise Singer

RENAULT,MARY · 1978 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Pantheon. 1978, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0394502736) Hardcover. Book, Beautifully crafted novel based on the life of the itinerant Lyric Poet Simonides of Keos and his observations of the Tyrant leaders of 6th.C. Greece. 291p. Chronology. Mark on front of DJ,else fine. A…

The Little Goddess.

Snow, Lyndon · 1973 · Hessay Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Collins, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover, 160pp, the paper browning a little with age. Dustjacket illustrated by Biro is a little rubbed to edge of spine and priceclipped but otherwise complete. Internally very clean. A fictionalised account of the life of Skittles, the lover of…

The Glassblowers

Mervyn Peake · 1950 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Mervyn Peake. First edition. A collection of verse, including: To Live at all is Miracle Enough, Swans Die and a Tower Falls, Each Day we live is …