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The muse reborn : the poetry of António Ferreira.

Earle, T.F. · 1988 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1988. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. viii,187 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - This pioneering work examines the literary and aesthetic achievements of Antonio Ferreira (1528-1569), an important but neglec…

The Welshman&Apos;S Candler: Or, the Works of the Reverend Rees Pritchard

Rees Richard · 1807 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Cardiff, J. Daniel, 1807. Leather. A scarce work of religious teachings and advice, in the Welsh language. Welsh language. Scarce work. A collection of religious teachings and advice from the Bible and sermons. Written and collected by Reverend Rees Pritchard, a Welsh clergyman …

The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare

Lady Anne Blunt [translator] Wilfrid Scawen Blunt · 1892 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London , Reeves and Turner , 1892. First edition. Cloth. An intriguing copy of the Stealing of the Mare, translated and written by an interesting couple. Wilfid Scawen Blunt was a poet and writer and travelled extensively with his wife Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East from the…

Als to Geoffrey Robinson Regarding the Initials in the Heart

Whistler, Laurence · 1974 · Wittenborn Art Books

$200.00 (€181.46 | £151.38 | ¥31,937)

Lyme Regis, Dorset, April 12, 1974. 1 p. Laurence Whistler, poet and engraver on glass, brother of Rex. With tape residue along left front margin. From a collection of letters and papers amassed by illustrator and painter Geoffrey Robinson during his years as a publisher with Ro…

The Cat with the Moustache

Simon" [Oswell Blakeston; Roger Burford] · 1935 · Rooke Books

£3,500.00 (€4,195.30 | $4,623.99 | ¥738,391)

London, Wishart & Company, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce murder mystery by Oswell Blakeston and Roger Burford, starring a moustachioed cat. A very scarce signed first edition, first impression of this thrilling and unusual tale.The t…

The World Below the Window

Smith, William Jay · 1998 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Signed. Ephemera. 8.5 x 11 cream card, folded in two horizontally, in middle. Red/black lettering and 1 bw illustration. The poem, The World Below the Window; title poem from The World below the Window: Poems 1937-1997 b…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

Dr. J. C. Mardrus; Powys Mathers [translator] · 1947 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1947. Cloth. A smart four volume edition of this collection of Middle Eastern folktales commonly referred to as The Arabian Nights, translated into English. Complete in four volumes. A collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic…

The history of a church and a warming-pan, written for the benefit of the associators & reformers of the age. And dedicated without permission to their tri-fold majesties, the people, the law, and the king.

MONTGOMERY, James. · 1849 · John Turton

£52.20 (€62.57 | $68.96 | ¥11,013)

Sheffield-Moor: printed for R. Otley, 1849. 19cm. 24pp. Later brown paper wraps, MS. title to front wrap. Wraps browned and rubbed. The first work by this noted Sheffield radical and poet. DISCOVER: CUL, Sheffield U for this 1849 edition.

The Unprosaic Imagination. Essays and lectures on the Study of Literature.

KING, Alec. · 1975 · The Book Firm

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

University of Western Australia Press, 1975. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. Includes essays on Pope, Blake, Keats: The Eve of St Agnes, Yeats: The Poet, T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and Religious Poetry etc. 223pp.

The Cat and the Devil

James Joyce · 1965 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition. Hardback. A superb first edition of this brightly illustrated short story for children from Irish writer James Joyce. First edition. Illustrated with ten full colour pages and numerous in-text images. Not typically considered a write…

The Portrait of the Abbot

Richard Church · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Ernest Benn, Ltd , 1926. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition copy of this early narrative poem from Richard Church, bound in quarter crushed morocco. First edition.Scarce.Bound in quarter crushed morocco, with decorative paper covered boards.'The Portrait…

The Art of the House

Rosamund Marriott Watson · 1897 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition guide to interior design in the late Victorian period, illustrated throughout. The scarce first edition of this work, with vignette illustrations and eight collotype plates, all retaining captioned …

Under the Yew or the Gambler Transformed

Robert Nichols · 1928 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Martin Secker, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A very neat first edition of this intriguing novel by Robert Nichols. First edition. The first and only novel of the author. Written by Robert Nichols, an English playwright and war poet of the First World War. His works include…

THE NINE DAYS WONDER (The Operation Dynamo).

Masefield, John, · 1941 · A Book for all Reasons

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

William Heinemann, London, 1941, reprint, xvi, folding chart, 57pp, [iii] poetry, 6pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, lettered and bordered in blind at upper board, a account by the Poet Laureate of the last nine days of the BEF's campaign in Belgiu…

The Horkey: A Provincial Ballad

Robert Bloomfield · 1882 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1882 . First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this brightly illustrated verse from English poet, Robert Bloomfield. First edition. Illustrated throughout with colour images. A charming poem in the end of harvest customs and celebrations, a time kno…

The BELL And The ARROW. An English Love Story

Chesson, Mrs. W. H. (Nora Hopper) · 1905 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$82.50 (€74.85 | £62.45 | ¥13,174)

London: T. Werner Laurie. Clifford's Inn, 1905. 1st edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & front board lettered in dark brown. [8], 258, [6 (publisher's catalogue)] pp. Crown 8vo. General wear. Backstrip darkened. Foxing. A VG copy. Chesson…

A SWIMMER IN THE AIR: POEMS

MOSS, Howard · 0 · Charles Agvent

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Moss's third collection. INSCRIBED by the poet on the front endpaper to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill,/fondly, from/Howard." . Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

NOTES BY THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR

OAKES, Philip · 1972 · Charles Agvent

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

London. Poem of the Month Club. First Edition. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.. Fine

The Compleat Angler

Izaak Walton; Charles Cotton; Richard Le Gallienne · 1897 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1897. Cloth. A decorative copy of The Compleat Angler, richly illustrated throughout. A later printing of the fifth edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifty-two full page illustrations, and numerous images within the text. Collated, c…

The Orphan Angel

Elinor Wylie · 1926 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The Orphan Angel is a novel by Elinor Wylie first published in 1926 in which "the great young poet is rescued from drowning off an Italian cape and travels to America, where he encounters the dangers of the frontier." The fi…