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The Golden Treasury

Francis T. Palgrave · 1898 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1898. Leather. A smart set of this selection of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language. Complete in two volumes. Selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes. This work include…

The Golden Legend

H. W. Longfellow · 0 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, c1910. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Longfellow's poem The Golden Legend with colour chromolithographs. Beautiful edition of The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the original publisher's decorative cloth binding.Â…

The Peyote Dance

Antonin Artaud; Helen Weaver [trans.] · 1975 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Paperback. A very scarce uncorrected proof of the first English language translation of this account of Antonin Artaud's time in 1930's Mexico. A very scarce uncorrected proof of Helen Weaver's English translation of auth…

The Green Man

Kingsley Amis · 1970 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Harcourt Brace and World, 1970. First edition. Hardback. The first U.S edition of this novel by Kingsley Amis. With the printer's key, B C D E . Held in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Sir Kingsley Amis was a popular English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. H…

The Animal House

Ivor Cutler · 1976 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1976 . First edition. Hardback. First edition of this humorous children's book from Ivor Cutler, beautifully illustrated in colour by Helen Oxenbury. First edition.In publisher's original hardback boards. With unclipped dust wrapper.Wonde…

The One Before

Barry Pain · 1902 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Grant Richards, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this humorous story by Barry Pain, heavily illustrated with entertaining cartoons by Tom Browne. A first edition of this light story by Barry Pain. A regular contributor to the weekly satiric magazine Punch, …

The Silver Crescent

Somerset de Chair · 1943 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. Leather. A limited edition work by Somerset de Chair, recounting his experiences in World War Two, in the binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. A limited edition work, limited to five hundred copies, of which this is numbered two-hundred and …

The Naked Mountain

Stanley Snaith · 1949 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Chingford Hatch, Essex, Not Stated, 1949. First edition. Paperback. A signed first edition and presentation copy of this very scarce poetry work from Stanley Snaith. Very scarce. First edition. In the publisher's original soft covers. Author's presentation copy to the …

The Only Problem

Muriel Spark · 1984 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, The Bodley Head, 1984. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this charming novel following a rich writer, from Scottish author Muriel Spark. First edition. Harvey Gotham lives in a small cottage on the grounds of an empty Chateau in France where he is writing…

The 5th Inning

MILLER, E. ETHELBERT · 2012 · Pegasus Books

$10.25 (€9.30 | £7.76 | ¥1,637)

Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012. Paperback. ISBN: 1604865210. Busboys And Poets Series; 7.2 X 4.5 X 0.6 inches; 172 pages; Soft cover has a white spine with black and brown lettering. The author's second memoir following Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer, thi…

The unknown revolution.

Voline. · 1974 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,225)

Detroit Black & Red 1974 Paperback, 717pp., 13.5x22cm., in very good condition. As new!. The untold story of the Russian Revolution: its antecedents, its far-reaching changes, its betrayal by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries. A famou…

The Artist as

Aileen Burns , Johan Lundh , Tara McDowell · 2018 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

Sternberg Press, 2018, Paperback, 328, Does the way artists work today impact the ecology of art? Has the pluralism of art given way to a pluralism of roles that artists may occupy? What are the contemporary conditions of labor producing this new state of affairs, and what re-sk…

Into the Light

TAYLOR, EDWARD ROBESON · 1911 · S. Howlett-West Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

San Francisco, CA: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1911. Revised Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This is a small format book with heavy cardstock covers and a glued spine. The the spine ends and corners have very beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has b…

THE SWASTIKA POEMS 1957 - 1974

HEYEN, William · 0 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

New York. The Vanguard Press, Inc.. First Edition. SIGNED on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED on the half-title page to the poet William Meredith: "again, William, inscribed for you/(this time in Washington, D.C.),/with love and admiration, and/with thanks for your ste…

The Complete Poems of Cavafy

CAVAFY, C.P. (CONSTANTINE P) · 1961 · Kalamos Books

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)

New York, Harvest/Harcourt,Brace,Jovanovich. 1961, Reprint. Soft cover. Ill.: Trans. Rae Dalven. Book, "This volume presents new translations and the first complete edition of the poems of C.P.Cavafy, the most famous modern Greek poet of Alexandria..This distinguished collection…

The Poetical Works of Longfellow

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth · 1904 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London, Henry Frowde, 1904. Hardcover. Brown marbled full leather binding with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration, and gilt dentelle. Marbled edges and endsheets. Engraved frontispiece and plates. viii, 878 pp. A collection of poetry by American poet Henry Wadsworth L…

The Paintings of Washington Allston

Bolton, Kenyon C. III and Elizabeth Johns · 1975 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Coral Gables, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1975. Softcover. Red-orange and color illus. stapled wraps, 56 pp. 29 duotone illus. in red or pink tones. Issued in conjunction with a 1975 exhibition of artwork by American painter and poet Washington Allston (1779-1…

The Loveless Letters. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

RODNEY PYBUS. · 1981 · Clearwater Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Chatto & Windus and Hogarth Press, 'Phoenix Living Poets' series, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition, a paperback original. This copy inscribed by the author to fellow poet Jeremy Hooker. Slim 8vo. 48pp. Card wrappers, with just a trace of spotting to upp…

The Wanderer and Other Poems.

SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH. · 1943 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Oliver & Boyd Ltd., Edinburgh & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 36pp Stapled into lettered card wrappers, very lightly marked and faded. A very good copy. Former owner name neatly inked to the title page (which serves at the first leaf). Comprises…

THE TOY FAIR Poems [SIGNED]

Howard Moss · 1954 · Dodman Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Moss to poet Allen Tate on fep: "For Allen, in appreciation, from Howard Jan.7 1954". Light toning to stock and endpapers, but otherwise all in VG, clean and bright internal order. Light wear only to black boards with …