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English Poetry from Collins to Fitzgerald; in Three Volumes, Volume II: Harvard Classics Series

WILLIAM COLLINS; GEORGE SEWELL; HENRY FIELDING; SAMUEL JOHNSON; WILLIAM BLAKE; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH; SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE; SIR WALTER SCOTT; PERCY BISSHE SHELLEY; JOHN KEATS; EDWARD FITZGERALD; AND MANY MORE · 1969 · Books from the crypt

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, P. F. Collier and Sons. 1969. Hardcover. Book, Reprint [1969]. Slight wear. Near Fine.

The Works of Flavius Josephus. The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior; To Which are Added Seven Dissertations Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, Atc

Josephus, Flavius; William Whiston [trans.]; H. Stebbing [intro.] · 0 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$50.61 (€32.18 | $35.47 | £26.85 | ¥5,665)

Philadelphia Henry T. Coates & Co pp. 1055. 4to. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt letter and decoration to spine and front board. Illustrated. Front joint cracked with mull exposed, corners bumped, spots to rear board and page edges, discolouration to several pages (from presse…

Specimens of the Later English Poets, with Preliminary Notices

Robert Southey; Various · 1807 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this nicely bound collection of poems from the reign of James II of England to the beginning of the nineteenth century, including poems by Walter Scott, Alexander Pope, and William Cowper.…

Henri Matisse

Laymarie, Jean, Herbert Read, and William S. Lieberman · 1966 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1966. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of an exhibition catalogue, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear and soiling. Te…

English Literature and Its Backgrounds Shorter Edition. From the Old English Period through the Twentieth Century

Bernard D. Grebanier, Brooklyn College, Samuel Middlebrook William Watt · 1958 · buchgenie.de Sigrun Wuertele

€67.89 ($74.83 | £56.63 | ¥11,951)

A Holt-Dryden Book Henry Hot and Company New York 1958. Gebundene Ausgabe Guter altersbedingter Zustand Gewicht über 2 kg, Versand ins Ausland nur auf Anfrage, Namenseintrag: Fink 1960 New York gut - gebraucht

The History and Topography of the County of Essex

Thomas Wright · 1831 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)

London, George Virtue, 1831-1835. First edition. Leather. A two volume full calf first edition of this history of Essex, with detailed steel engraved plates by W. Bartlett throughout. The first edition of this work, with the first volume published in 1831 and the second volume p…

A Life Of John Davis, The Navigator, 1550 - 1605, discoverer of Davis Strait. (The World's Great Explorers And Explorations)

CLEMENTS B. MARKHAM, C.B., F.R.S. · 1891 · Tinakori Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, George Philip & Son. 1891, Second Edition. Green Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, 301, 4, [4] pages, frontispiece, b/w plates, folding coloured maps, text illustrations. Ex-library copy in a green buckram binding. John Davis (c.?1550 - 1605) was one of the chief n…

Songs and Ballads; Translated from Uhland, Korner, Burger, and Other German Lyric Poets

Charles T. Brooks; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Various · 1842 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Boston, James Munroe and Company, 1842. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce anthology of German lyric poems translated into English, including a translation by Longfellow. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work. Last seen at auction in 1924.An anthology of beau…

Newsweek Magazine, June 10, 1963 - Pope John XXIII (23) Cover Photo

LIPPMANN, WALTER; HUGHES, EMMET JOHN; HAZLITT, HENRY · 1963 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$129.95 (€117.90 | £98.35 | ¥20,754)

New York: Newsweek, Inc, 1963. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 112 pages. Features: Pope John XXIII - Gentle Shepherd of a Revolution; Amazing two-page Westinghouse photo ad features the world's biggest mobile land machine (an excavator); United States Lines color-photo ad…

Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance

W. Harrison Ainsworth · 1844 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Henry Colburn, 1844. Leather. A profusely illustrated edition of William Harrison-Ainsworth's historical fiction novel, with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and illustrated plates. The 'New Edition' of this work, having been the second edition to be i…

Narrative of the Peninsular War, from 1808 to 1813

Charles William Vane Marquess of Londonderry · 1829 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.95 | $1,189.23 | ¥189,927)

London, Henry Colburn, 1829. Leather. An uncommon memoir by Charles Vane, recounting his experiences during the Peninsular War, this being the third edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. The third edition of this uncommon work, being the first time it appeared in octav…

Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq F.R. S.

John Evelyn; Edited by William Bray · 1819 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. Leather. A detailed edition of the life and memoirs of diarist John Evelyn. Second edition. 'Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between K…

Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

W. A. Lampadius; William Leonhard Gage [ed.] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, William Reeves , 1877. Cloth. A smart second edition of this biography of German composer, Felix Mendelssohn. The revised second edition of this work, exploring the life and career of Felix Mendelssohn, a German composer, pianist and conductor of the early Romantic perio…

NARRATIVE OF THE PENINSULAR WAR From 1808 to 1813

VANE Charles William Lieut.-General Marquess of Londonderry · 1828 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

Henry Colburn, 1828 1st edn. 4to (11 x 9 ins). Contemporary full polished calf, spine elaborately gilt tooled in six compartments with gilt lettered label, boards with treble gilt fillet borders and gilt rolled edges, marbled edges and endpapers (outer joints tender with loosene…

Romantic & Symbolist Paintings & Drawings

CHARLES CHOLMONDELEY · 1987 · William Glynn

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London, Charles Cholmondeley. 1987, First Edition. Card Covers. 70 pages, colour & b/w illustrations. Artists include Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon, James Dickson Batten, Sidney Meteyard, Joseph Southall, Henry Payne, Frederick Cayley Robinson, Glyn Philpot, Vivian Forbes, …

Astounding Science Fiction: September, Sept. 1950

ASTOUNDING (FRITZ LEIBER; LAWRENCE O'DONNELL - AKA HENRY KUTTNER; WILLIAM MORRISON; WILLIAM T. POWERS; H. B. FYFE; L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP) · 1950 · Books from the crypt

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

NY, Street & Smith. 1950. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. XLVI, No. 1. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Miller for "The Lion and the Lamb" (novelette) by Fritz Leiber. Includes "Paradise Street" (novelette) by Lawrence O'Donnell [Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore]; "The Sa…

Astounding Science Fiction: September, Sept. 1950

ASTOUNDING (FRITZ LEIBER; LAWRENCE O'DONNELL - AKA HENRY KUTTNER; WILLIAM MORRISON; WILLIAM T. POWERS; H. B. FYFE; L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP) · 1950 · Books from the crypt

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

NY, Street & Smith. 1950. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. XLVI, No. 1. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Miller for "The Lion and the Lamb" (novelette) by Fritz Leiber. Includes "Paradise Street" (novelette) by Lawrence O'Donnell [Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore]; "The Sa…

Astounding Science Fiction: September, Sept. 1950

ASTOUNDING (FRITZ LEIBER; LAWRENCE O'DONNELL - AKA HENRY KUTTNER; WILLIAM MORRISON; WILLIAM T. POWERS; H. B. FYFE; L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP) · 1950 · Books from the crypt

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

NY, Street & Smith. 1950. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. XLVI, No. 1. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Miller for "The Lion and the Lamb" (novelette) by Fritz Leiber. Includes "Paradise Street" (novelette) by Lawrence O'Donnell (Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore); "The Sa…

Shakespeare Raconte a la Jeunesse

Charles Simond · 0 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Paris, Librairie Felix Juven, c1888. Cloth. An uncommon volume on certain works of Shakespeare in very attractive and ornate cloth binding. Written in French and with plates and decorative embellishments throughout, the volumes deal with historical context of several of Shakespe…

The Pre-Raphaelites in Context

Malcom Warner; Susan P. Casteras; Lindsay Smith; Jerome McGann; Jane A. Munro; Sara S. Hodson; Shelley M. Bennett · 1992 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1992. First edition. Paperback. A collection of four essays presented at 'The Pre-Raphaelite in Context' symposium, researched and written by a range of academics with illustrations throughout. First and only edi…