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The Hipsters
Joans, Ted · 1961 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$170.00 (€154.24 | £128.68 | ¥27,147)
New York, Corinth Books Inc / Citadel Press, 1961. Softcover. black & white illustrated wraps w/ white, black printing. approx 100 unpaginated pgs w/ bw illustrations. Veneer to wraps has toned. Edge-wear to wraps with rubbing to spine ends and edges; spine ends bumped. Upper co…
The Hours
Michael Cunningham · 2003 · Book Haven
$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)
Fourth Estate (UK) 2003 Paperback 240 'The Hours' is both a homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One grey suburban London mor…
The Painter
Will Davenport · 2003 · Book Haven
NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)
Harper Collins 2003 Paperback, 416pp. Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage,…
The Outing
THOMAS, DYLAN · 1985 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop
£15.03 (€18.02 | $19.86 | ¥3,171)
J M Dent. 1985. (ISBN: 9780460047043). Hardcover. Hardback with D/J in good condition, ex library book. 1985 J M Dent. Illustrated by Paul Cox. About the Author Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea on 27 October 1914, the son of a senior English master. On leaving school he worked o…
The Poems of Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell · 1923 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, Burns, Oates & Washbourne Ltd. 1923. Cloth. A smart first complete edition of the poetry of British writer, editor, and suffragist, Alice Meynell. Complete edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The collected poetry of Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell, a British writer,…
The Best of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker; Mervyn Horder · 2009 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, The Folio Society, 2009. Hardback. A very smart collection of the greatest works from American poet and fiction writer Dorothy Parker. Twelfth printing of the first edition of this collection with the addition of 'Big Blonde&apos. Illustrated with eight plates. Coll…
In the Night: A Story
Denise Levertov · 1968 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
New York, Albondocani Press, 1968 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce signed limited edition copy of this short story by prolific poet and writer Denise Levertov. A limited first edition copy, with this being no.49 of 150 signed by the author. Signed by Denise Levertov to the…
The Prison Cell & Barrel Mystery
Peter Reading · 1976 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Secker & Warburg, 1976 . First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this uncommon first edition of influential English poet Peter Reading's poetry collection. The first edition. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper…
The Adventures of Harry Richmond
George Meredith · 1902 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co Ltd. 1902. Leather. A handsome copy of this popular romance novel by the Victorian writer and poet, George Meredith. A new edition. Rebound in full crushed morocco with gilt detail. 'The Adventures of Harry Richmond' is a popular r…
The Garden That I Love
Alfred Austin · 1906 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Adam and Charles Black , 1906. Cloth. Second printing of this poetical gardening tale by Alfred Austin, with colourful illustrations. Second printing of this work, published first in 1905. A charming tale by Alfred Austin celebratory of gardens and gardening. Alfred Aus…
Rupert Brooke: The Collected Poems
Rupert Brooke; Edward Marsh · 1966 · Rooke Books
£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1966 . Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of poems by war poet Rupert Brooke, with a memoir by Edward Marsh. A later edition, first published in 1918.In a half navy morocco binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and a plate.A collection…
A Nip in the Air
John Betjeman · 1974 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, John Murray, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of this captivating collection of poetry from John Betjeman. First edition. A collection of poetry exploring human encounters, meditations, threnodies on lost friends, and the pensive regar…
THE TROJAN HORSE. A Play
MacLEISH, Archibald · 1952 · Charles Agvent
$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)
Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. First Edition. SIGNED by the poet on the title page. In the uncommon original printed envelope and housed in a specially made green cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label.. Usual offsetting from the tipped-in frontisp…
In the Shade of Ygdrasil
PETERSON, FREDERICK · 1893 · S. Howlett-West Books
$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This is a small format book (approx. 7.5" x 5"). The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some lightish bumping and noticeabl…
Essai sur la vie de Jean-Gaspar Lavater
(CHAVANNES, Herminie) · 1858 · Antiquariaat Looijestijn
€22.40 ($24.69 | £18.69 | ¥3,942)
Societe des livres religieux 1858, 313pp, paperback, original edition, in very good condition, paper show some slight tanning at the edges, foxing on cover and title page, back is a bit worn, unopened! Cover protected with cellophane. Pictures on request. 1858, 313pp, paperback,…
Wonder Tales
HOROWITZ, ISAC (ADAPTED INTO THE YIDDISH) ; GIAMBATTISTA BASILE · 1945 · Bookshop Baltimore
$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)
New York: Farlag Mathones, 1945. Hardcover. Yiddish text. Giovan Battista (shortened Giambattista) - Gian Battista Basile's Wonder Tales Adapted into the Yiddish by Isac Horowitz. 135 pages. Illustrated with drawings. Giambattista Basile (February 1566 – February 1632) was an It…
The Gutter and the Stars
Eliot Crawshay-Williams · 1918 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, Erskine MacDonald, 1918. First edition. Hardback. The signed first edition of a scarce anthology written by Welsh author and politician Eliot Crawshay-Williams, based on his experiences serving in Egypt and the Middle East. The signed first edition of the scarce poetic a…
The Tale of the Alerion.
Machaut, Guillaume de. · 1994 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
Edited and translated [from the medieval French] by Minnette Gaudet and Constance B. Hieatt. English translation of Dit d'alerion. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994. Orig. cloth binding. viii,192 pp. (Toronto medieval texts and translations, 10). Mailorder only - Allee…
The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker, (Sometime Vicar of Morwenstow) By His Son-In-law
C. E. BYLES · 1905 · Marion Pitman Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, John Lane, the Bodley Head. 1905, First. Hardcover, 5.5" x 8.5". Ill.: Earl of Carlisle, J. Ley Pethybridge. Book, The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker (sometime Vicar of Morwenstow), by his son-in-law, C. E. Byles, with two sketches by the Earl of Carlisle, lithographs …
The Poetical Works of Hector Macneill
Hector Macneill · 1806 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)
Edinburgh, James Ballantyne for Mundell and Son, 1806 . Leather. A delightfully bound two volume edition of the poetical works of Scottish poet Hector Macneill. A two volume edition of the works of the poet Midlothian born poet, who authored various political pamphlets, and two …