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The Amazing Marriage
George Meredith · 1895 · Rooke Books
£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)
London, Archibald Constable and Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this novel by George Meredith complete in two volumes. George Meredith was a popular Victorian novelist and poet, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. This…
The Stranger's Child.
Hollinghurst, Alan. · 2011 · Fahrenheit 451
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
London, Picador, 2011, (8),563,(1)pag., hardcover with dustjacket (as new). = In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyo…
ON THE EDGE
LEVINE, Philip · 1964 · Charles Agvent
$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.70 | ¥89,835)
[Iowa City]. Second Press. First Edition. Pictorial white wraps. First trade edition of Levine's scarce first book, published the previous year in an edition of 220 copies. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to a student: "with best regards/Philip Levine." Laid …
THE POETRY QUARTOS
FROST, Robert; DREISER, Theodore; AIKEN, Conrad; et. al · 1929 · Charles Agvent
$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.90 | ¥29,945)
New York. Random House. First Edition. Printed wraps. Twelve brochures each containing a new poem by an American poet; designed, printed and made by Paul Johnston. One of 475 copies. Includes "The Lovely Shall be Choosers" by Robert Frost, "Rigamarole, Rigamarole" by Vachel Lind…
The Shadow Boxer
HEIGHTON, STEVEN · 2000 · Kalamos Books
$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)
Toronto, A.A.Knopf. 2000, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 0676971938) Hardcover. Book, Signed by author on title page. The Shadow Boxer, he delivers a stunning portrait of the artist in the tradition of such great tales as Jude the Obscure, Candide and even Don Quixote, and gives l…
The Quickening Maze
FOULDS, ADAM · 2009 · Little Lane Books
A$15.00 (€9.22 | $10.16 | £7.69 | ¥1,623)
UK, Jonathan Cape. 2009. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Book, The Quickening Maze by Foulds is under 500g to post & 257pp. After a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in London's …
The Old Life.
Hall, Donald, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1996. First Printing. VG in VG DJ. For nearly 50 years, Donald Hall has stood in the front rank of American poets. In his 12th book of poems, the Old Life is a. long autobiographical sequence preceded by two substantial poems: "The Night of the Day" and…
Calyx
MARGARITA DONNELLY · 1995 · Mike Long Books
$29.75 (€26.99 | £22.51 | ¥4,751)
Calyx Publishing. 1995. Hard Cover. PB/pub.1995/VG condition/127 pages - The poems and stories are refreshing to the spirit, more than a hot meal or a good nights sleep. [K911321]. Good.
Continual Dew: A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
John Betjeman · 1977 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
London, John Murray; W. & J. Mackay Limited, 1977 . Cloth. A signed facsimile edition of an early collection by Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, illustrated throughout. Flat signed by Betjeman to the front free endpaper.A facsimile of the 1937 first edition of this work, in the …
The Poems of John Dryden
John Dryden · 0 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)
London, Charles Griffin and Co. c1854. Leather. Three volumes of John Dryden's poetry, edited with a memoir by Robert Bell. Complete in three volumes, bound as one. Edited, and with a memoir by Robert Bell. John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator and pl…
The Poems of William Dunbar
William Dunbar; John Small [ed]; AE. J. G. Mackay [ed] · 1883 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1883. Leather. Three volumes of poetry from the fifteenth and sixteenth century Scottish court poet, William Dunbar, bound in half morocco. The 'Scottish Text Society' edition, printed for the society by Blackwood. Bound in half …
The Garden That I Love
Alfred Austin · 1895 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1895. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this poetical gardening tale by Alfred Austin, inscribed and with a letter loosely inserted signed by the author. Third edition of this work, published first in 1894. A charming tale by Alfred Austin c…
Adventures in the Skin Trade
Dylan THomas; Andrew Sinclair · 1967 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1967. Cloth. A stage adaptation of Thomas's comedic work, complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. This novel was originally left incomplete by Thomas, and is the story of Samuel Bennet, who leaves his home in Wales to seek greater things in t…
The Heart&Apos;S Journey
Siegfried Sassoon · 1928 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, William Heinemann, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this collection of poems from English war poet Siegfried Sassoon. First UK edition, previously published in the US in 1927. A collection containing thirty-five of the author's moving poems, p…
The Poetical Works of Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1925 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1925. Leather. A smart copy of this collection of poetry by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in handsome half calf prize binding. In half calf prize binding, with gilt coat of arms and motto 'In Domino Confido&apos…
THE GHETTO and Other Poems
RIDGE, Lola · 1918 · Charles Agvent
$625.00 (€567.04 | £473.00 | ¥99,816)
New York. B. W. Huebsch, Inc.. First Edition. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Her scarce first book. Ridge was an Irish-born New Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publicat…
The Poems of Jonathan Swift
Colum, Padraic (Editor) · 1962 · Bookbarrow
£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)
Collier Books, New York, New York, U.S.A. 1962. First Edition, Paperback. Very Good/N/A. black titles spine; "one of the most widely read prose writers in English, Swift has been generally kept out of the canon of English poetry. Yet the quality of his verse is so great that a g…
Chronicles of the Little Tot
COOKE, EDMUND VANCE · 1905 · S. Howlett-West Books
$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)
New York, NY: Dodge Publishing Company, 1905. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Clyde O. DeLand. Color Illustrations; Presentation copy, This copy has been signed by the author on the front endpaper, with a long inscription to H. Clark Brown - poet and indian interpreter.…
Latin Poetry in Verse Translation: From the Beginnings to the Renaissance
LIND, L. R. (EDITOR) · 1957 · Bluebird Books
$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)
Boston: Riverside Editions / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. Softcover. An English-language selection of notable poems by Latin poets. Most of the principal Latin poets are represented: Plautus, Lucretius, Vergil (Virgil), Horace, Ovid and many others. Edited, with an introducti…
The life and work of Ephraim Luzzatto.
MIRSKY, DAVID · 1987 · Antiquariaat Spinoza
€27.25 ($30.04 | £22.73 | ¥4,797)
New York, 1987. VIII, 98, 93, XII pp. Fine copy. Or. boards with dustjacket. Ephraim Luzzatto 1729-1792, Italian Hebrew poet and physician. Hebrew and English. Modern Hebrew literature. Judaica.