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The Werewolf Sequence

ROSENBLUM, MARTIN J. · 1974 · Round Table Books, LLC

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

Milwaukee: Membrane Press, 1974. 1st Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. Boldly inscribed by the poet on the rfep. This is No. G of only 26 copies lettered A-Z and signed by the author. Publisher's illustrated card wraps, now in Mylar. Three closed tears on spine, else fine, ti…

The Oxen

Thomas Hardy · 1915 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Hove, [E. Williams], 1915 . First edition. Paperback. A lovely example of the first trade edition of this charming Christmas poem by celebrated poet and novelist Thomas Hardy. The first trade edition of this work, which was first published in 'The Times' on December 24…

The Forest

Rodney, Janet and Nathaniel Tarn and John Digby (illustrator) · 1978 · Wittenborn Art Books

$300.00 (€272.19 | £227.08 | ¥47,906)

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1978. Original handmade paper covers. 25 x 17 cm. 24 page surfaces, 17 printed. Edition of 190 numbered copies. Fine. Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 89. Walter Hamady (born 1940) is an America…

Provisional Maps: Critical Essays on David Malouf.

MALOUF. NETTELBECK, Amanda ed. · 1994 · The Book Firm

A$80.00 (€49.18 | $54.20 | £41.03 | ¥8,655)

Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia, 1994. Paperback. Very good condition. Includes papers on The Evidence of Anecdote: Some Perspectives on the Poetry of David Malouf; Some Drifting Up at Dawn: Individual Identity in the Poetry of Da…

Antipodes in Shoes.

DUTTON, Geoffrey. · 1958 · The Book Firm

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,868)

Edwards and Shaw, 1958. Hardcover. Light bump to bottom of spine, a touch of sunning to spine of dustjacket, a little edgewear to top of dustjacket, a little loss to bottom of spine of dustjacket, some browning to half-titlepage and rear endpaper, otherwise good condition. 91pp.

Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680.

WILMOT. PINTO, Vivian de Sola. · 1962 · The Book Firm

A$20.00 (€12.29 | $13.55 | £10.26 | ¥2,164)

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. Hardcover. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, a little wear to dust jacket, otherwise good (no markings to text). 246pp.

Poets In Their Letters.

EMDEN, Cecil S. · 1959 · The Book Firm

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

Oxford University Press, 1959. Hardcover. Ex-lib, o/wise contents good. Looks at Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon/ Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats & Edward Fitzgerald.

Poetry Towards Novel.

SPEIRS, John. · 1971 · The Book Firm

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

Faber, 1971. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Considers poets of the 18th & 19th centuries who foreshadowed the imaginative development of the novel. Examines Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, Conrad, D.H. Lawrence. Considers Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Wordsworth, Crabbe, …

Thirteene most pleasaunt and delectable questions, entituled, A Disport of Diverse Noble Personages, written in Italian by M. Iohn Bocace [Giovanni Boccaccio] Florentine and poet Laureat, in his booke named Philocopo: Englished anno 1566 by H .G. To which is prefixed an Introduction by Edward Hutton.

[Enschedé en Zonen]. Boccaccio, Giovanni. · 1927 · Fahrenheit 451

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

London, Peter Davies, 1927, XIII,(1),102 pag., printed in black and blue in 520 copies by H. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem (The Netherlands), original green patterned paper over green cloth; paper spine label, untrimmed. = H.G. is Humphrey Gifford of Henry Grantham (? - 1587). Col…

The Widow of Nain, the Outlaw of Taurus, and Other Poems

Rev. Thomas Dale · 1842 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Tilt and Bogue, 1842. Leather. A lovely example of the poetical works of the noted poet Rev. Thomas Dale. A very scarce vast collection of poetry by the Rev. Thomas Dale. Thomas Dale was a priest, poet and theologian of the 18th and 19th centuries. Handsomely bound in a …

The Secret : The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron

HAY, ASHLEY · 2000 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

London, Aurum Press. 2000, 1st UK Ed.. (ISBN: 1854107836) Hardcover. Book, " "In January 1815, Lord Byron married Annabella Milkbanke. He was London's most famous poet and its most desirably notorious lover, and every woman wanted to be his wife. She was a young lady with handso…

The Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

Lamb, Charles · 1907 · Byre Books

£21.23 (€25.45 | $28.05 | ¥4,479)

Book Very Good J M Dent London Two vols, in the series, "The Temple Classics". Soft green leather with light wear and some scratches, gilt on top, silk marker, no inscriptions, tissue guarded frontis, some pages unopened, generally VG both vols. 28 essays by the much-loved poet.…

The Princess Marries the Page: A Play in One Act

Edna St. Vincent Millay · 1932 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1932. 1st edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. 51p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a very good dustjacket. Spine slightly darkened, but otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly soiled and edgeworn, but still largely intact. Decorat…

Inside the Halo and Beyond: the anatomy of a recovery.

Kumin, Maxine, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Norton, (2000). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Poet Kumin's recovery from a terrible accidnt when her horse bolted at a carriage-driving clinic. Most people don't recover. from such an accident. Kumin's halo was a device that kept her head immobile during the weeks of intens…

The Music Master

William Allingham · 1855 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

London, G. Routledge and Co. 1855. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of a narrative poem written by the influential Irish poet, as well as his revised Two Series of Day and Night Songs. The scarce first edition of The Music Master, A Love Story, including Two Series…

The New Army in Training & the Fringes of the Fleet

Rudyard Kipling · 1915 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Macmillan, 1915-1916. Paperback. A pair of pamphlets issued during the First World War written by Rudyard Kipling. The New Army in Training is a first edition. The Fringes of The Fleet is a reprint. Originally published in 1915. Kipling wrote 6 articles about the trainin…

On the Constitution of the Church and State

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1830 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Hurst, Chance, and Co, 1830 . Cloth. The scarce second edition of poet and theologian Samuel Taylor Coleridge's explanation of his religious philosophy, and his view of the importance of a unifying National Church. The second edition of this work, which is scarce in…

Journey to the Trenches. The Life of Israel Rosenberg 1890-1918

COHEN, JOSEPH · 1992 · Global Village Books

A$12.50 (€7.68 | $8.47 | £6.41 | ¥1,352)

London, Robson. 1992, Reprint. (ISBN: 0860517969). Trade Paperback. Book, Trade Paperback. Fine. Reprint First Thus. :. xvi,224pp. The short life of a young poet and painter killed on the Somme in 1918. Size: 8vo. Near Fine.

Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets. Selected Poems 1972-1989

Ooka, Makoto · 1995 · Mare Booksellers

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Honolulu, Katydid Books, 1995. Trade Paperback. 140 pp. A collection of poetry by Japanese poet Makoto Ooka, a pioneer in the collaborative form of poetry, Renshi. VERY GOOD condition. Light fading and edgewear to the book. Light foxing along the top page edges. Very Good .

The Poetic of Aristotle

Aristotle; Henry James Pye · 1788 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, John Stockdale, 1788 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Henry James Pye"s English Aristotle, in a contemporary full calf binding, issued shortly before Pye"s appointment as Poet Laureate. In a contemporary full marbled calf binding.  First editio…