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The Laughing Philosopher
John Bull (Charles Lamb) · 1825 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, Sherwood, Jones, & Co. 1825. First edition. Leather. An attractive first edition of this scarce work of 'wit', compiled anonymously by Charles Lamb and Thomas Hood, from the Selbourne collection. The work is a selection of satirical pieces with contemporary soc…
The Doctor, &C.
SOUTHEY, ROBERT; JOHN WOOD WARTER (ED) · 1856 · Round Table Books, LLC
$300.00 (€272.19 | £227.08 | ¥47,906)
London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1856. New Edition. 1. Leather. Bound in half calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on black label in one compartment, intricate gilt tooling in remainder, all edges marbled, marbled…
On The Eve - A Novel
Turgenev, Ivan & Garnett, Constance [translator] · 1919 · Eastleach Books
£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)
William Heinemann 1919 8th edition. Cloth, G+. xx+290pp, cloth a little rubbed at the edges, spine lettering dulled. Pocket sized edition called the 'Large Type fine Paper Edition' by the publishers. The third novel by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev [ 1818 - 1883 ] the Russian novel…
The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam.
GRAVES, ROBERT & ALI-SHAH, OMAR. (TRANSLATORS). · 1967 · Chilton Books
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
London: Cassell, 1967. First in this new translation with critical commentaries. "A Persian scholar and a distinguished English poet have collaborated in a new translation of the Rubaiyyat which presents the philosophy of Omar Khayyam in a very different light." Pp.86. Blue clot…
Pastoral Suite, for the Pianoforte. 2 Pastorale
Cyril Scott · 1913 · The Victoria Bookshop
£8.82 (€10.57 | $11.65 | ¥1,861)
London, Elkin, 1913. First Edition. Paperback. 7pp Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, and poet Fair.
Garments the Living Wear
James Purdy · 1989 · Rooke Books
£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)
London, Peter Owen, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A handsome edition of James Purdy's novel that satirizes 1980s New York. With themes including Aids, the excess of the super rich, modern evangalism. James Purdy (1914 -2009) was a controversial American novelist, writer, poet…
DISMANTLING THE SILENCE. POEMS
SIMIC, Charles · 0 · Charles Agvent
$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)
New York. George Braziller. First Edition. Printed wraps. Poet's first trade book of poetry, published after two limited editions and a few translations. Issued in softcover only. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill/Even the mutes are unhappy/since they'…
ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS
SANDBURG, Carl · 0 · Charles Agvent
$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,959)
New York. Harcourt, Brace and Company. First Edition. Later printing of the First Trade Edition of this autobiography but with a fine INSCRIPTION by Sandburg on the half-title page: "For Harold Taylor/our good friend who has/heard but not read the cen-/sored & omitted portions o…
THE UNFORTUNATE VALENTINE MORRIS.
(Morris). Waters, Ivor. · 1964 · Francis Edwards Booksellers
£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)
Chepstow Society, Chepstow 1964. 1st Ed. Slim 8vo. xii + 96pp. Port. frontis., vignette title page, 15 plates. Good in d/w. Ivor Waters (1907-1992) initial proposer and then General Secretary of the Chepstow Society, was an assiduous local historian as well as a poet. Author’s …
The Sense of Movement
GUNN, THOM · 1957 · Godley Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, Faber & Faber. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover, 9 x 5.75 inches. Old tape marks to end papers (not a library book) and name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards and no bumping to corners…
The Dry Season. Poems.
MALCOLM COWLEY. · 1941 · Clearwater Books
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
New Directions, 'The Poet of the Month' series, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1st Edition, First edition, the card wrapper issue. 8vo. Unpaginated. Plain white stapled wrappers, with three narrow strip of browning, offset from some internal tape repairs to the dust wrapper. A very good …
The Loiners. Poems. (SIGNED)
TONY HARRISON. · 1970 · Clearwater Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London Magazine Editions, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) of the author's first regularly published book (preceded only by the pamphlets 'Earthworks' and 'Newcastle is Peru', the latter reproduced here). This copy signed by the author on …
The Angel of History
Rabih Alameddine · 2016 · Phoenix Books (Joanne's Used Books)
$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)
Atlantic Monthly, 2016. First Edition. Hardback. Signed by Author(s). The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine Signed Atlantic Monthly, 2016, lst, ISBN: 978802125767 Hardback in good+ condition with good+ dust jacket. Text clean and unmarked, binding tight. Board cover and dust …
Haste to the Wedding
Comfort, Alex · 1962 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, a collection of then new, coherent poems from the English poet, poems of love and sensuality and private pleasure and delight. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover,…
The Kick: a memoir.
Murphy, Richard, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)
London, Granta Books, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Irish poet Richard Murphy draws on five decades of private notebooks to create a unique memoir of his life and times. Written with the personality of a dairy and full of a diary and disparaging wit, his memoir takes us from a d…
The Weald of Youth.
SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. · 1986 · Chilton Books
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
London: Faber and Faber, 1986. 0571139620. "Second volume of Siegfried Sassoon's autobiography, the sequel to The Old Century, covering the years between 1909 and the Great War. He looks back frankly and amusedly at his charmed life as an innocent but resilient young poet and sp…
The Shaman Visions of Frank Melton
Melton, Frank · 1967 · Wittenborn Art Books
$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)
San Francisco: Frank Melton, N.D. Portfolio of drawings by artist and poet Frank Melton, whose poster for a Straight Theater concert in 1967 is very collectible. 10 x 14 inches. Self-cover. Loose sheets, 10 drawings, 3 in colored inks. .
The Formalist, Vol. 1, Number 2
Nathan, Leonard · 1949 · Wittenborn Art Books
$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)
Oakland, CA: 1949. Volume One, Number Two. Literary magazine edited by Leonard Nathan, poet and professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and George Hochfield. Prints a novel excerpt by Nathan. Tan wrappers. Very good. 27 pp. .
PROSE FROM THE SOUTH. Continental Impressions.
Reade, John Edmund. · 1847 · Francis Edwards Booksellers
£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)
Charles Ollier 1847. 2nd Ed. 2 vols. xvi + 332pp. + [iv] publ. adverts. + viii + 336pp. Some very light browning, original blind embossed cloth, spines sl. faded and bumped. John Edmund Reade (1800–1870), poet and novelist.
THE MAGICAL DILEMMA OF VICTOR NEUBURG
FULLER,J.O · 1990 · Magis Books
£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)
., 1990 revised 270pp. Soft covers. Fine Magican, poet, & seer, Victor Neuburg was the disciple of Aleister Crowley & literary godfather of Dylan Thomas. Neuburg has been Crowley's partner in magical rituals in the desert & in rites even more dangerous and controversial