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Consider the Lilies

Stuart Scougall; Franz Holford · 1953 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Sydney, Ure Smith, 1953. First edition. Vellum. A very scarce copy of this signed, limited edition work of this ode to nature, with six original wood engravings by Eva Sandor. A very scarce limited edition of two hundred copies, signed by the authors and illustrator to the colop…

The Hidden Kingdom

M. Lynn Hamilton · 1932 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Melbourne, N. Wentworth-Evans, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this intriguing Lost Race Utopia novel set in remote Australia by M. Lynn Hamilton. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Promotional letter from the publisher is…

The Free-Holder

Joseph Addison · 1752 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

Glasgow, J. Bryce; D. Paterson; D. Baxter, 1752 . Leather. The eighth edition of this series of political essays by essayist, poet and playwright Joseph Addison. A smart copy of a mid eighteenth century edition of Joseph Addison's series of essays on the various social, cul…

The Biglow Papers

James Russell Lowell · 1859 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, John Camden Hotten, 1859. Leather. The first edition published in England, of this humorous poetical work by American writer James Russell Lowell, in a leather binding. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was an American poet, editor and diplomat remembered for his associat…

The Deserted Village

Oliver Goldsmith · 1909 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1909. Cloth. The first W. Lee Hankey's illustrated edition of Oliver Goldsmith's celebrated poem, The Deserted Village. First Hankey illustrated edition. Illustrated with forty tipped in colour plates. Collated complete, with plate fo…

The Stranger's Child

Alan Hollinghurst, Alan Hollinghurst · 2011 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 2011; Groothandel - Mac, Mac; 340pp.; paperback met schoon en fris binnenwerk; rand onderkant voorplat met schaafwondje. -- Conditie: Redelijk; Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize It is the late summer of the l…

The First Casualty

Ben Elton · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)

Black Swan 2007 Paperback, 448pp. From Ben Elton, author of the hugely successfulPast Mortem, a gut-wrenching historical drama which forces us to handle the truth. Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while he wa…

The Origami Bird

ASHWORTH, ELIZABETH · 2004 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£13.36 (€16.02 | $17.65 | ¥2,819)

Parthian. 2004. (ISBN: 9781902638256). Paperback, 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches. Whether exquisitely detailing a little boy learning to read by connecting the printed letters on a page to a picture of a daisy in "Little Miss Mischief" or, in "The Origami Bird," conjuring the feeling of…

An Address to the Swindon Branch of the Workers Educational Assn. Given on October 28, 1916

Robert Bridges · 1916 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1916. First edition. Paperback. A speech delivered to the Swindon Branch of the Workers' Educational Association, by the then Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. The first edition of this uncommon work in the publisher's original paper wraps. Rob…

The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, The Library, Fifth Series, Volume XXVII, Number 3 September 1972

Edited by Peter Davison · 1972 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

The Oxford University Press, 1972. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contributors include: Peter W M Blayney; D M Palliser & D G Selwyn; Leslie Fairfield; E J Devereux; A Scobie; John Feather; Richard Perkin; B C Bloomfield. Contents include: 'Composi…

The 1918 Shikoku pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue

ITSUE, TAKAMURE · 2010 · Serendipity, NL

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

Bowen Island, BC, Bowen Publishing, 2010; 8vo (22.5cm), 268pp., glossary, bibliography, paper. Good copy. Rare! ¶ l \"In 1918 Takamure Itsue, 24 years old, set off alone to walk the 1400 kilometre pilgrimage path around Shikoku, a route visiting 88 Buddhist temples. [...] In lat…

Apollinaire In The Great War : 1914 - 18

Hunter, David · 2015 · Eastleach Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

Peter Owen 2015 1st edition. Paperback, F. 255pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy. New. An account of the wartime experiences of the French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire [ 1880 - 1918 ] and the effect his time fighting on the Champagne front had on him and his wor…

THE BREAD OF TIME: TOWARD AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

LEVINE, Philip · 1994 · Charles Agvent

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. INSCRIBED "for Elizabeth, with hope" and SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page.. Small address label on the front pastedown under the front flap of the dustwrapper. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

The Wild Scot of Galloway: a Poem

Joseph Train · 1848 · The Victoria Bookshop

£372.09 (€446.07 | $491.67 | ¥78,522)

J Nicholson, 1848. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Not in British Library 16mo 20pp Grey wrapper. was tucked in a copy of The Bards of Galloway Joseph Train (6 November 1779 - 7 December 1852)[1] was a Scottish excise officer, antiquarian, writer and poet. He corresponded with Sir Walt…

Passionate Paradox: The Life of Marie Stopes

KEITH BRIANT · 1962 · Mike Long Books

$89.75 (€81.43 | £67.92 | ¥14,334)

W.W. Norton & Co. Publishers. 1962. Hard Cover. Hardcover dj/ pub. 1962/ Gd. condition/285 pages- The Noble, Tragic, and Contradictory woman who pioneered in sex education, and was a scientist and mystic, poet, playwright and friend to the famous m en of her time. (D42404). Good.

The SPEECHES Of Sr. BENJAMIN RUDYER [sic] In The HIGH COURT Of PARLIAMENT

[English Civil War]. [Rudyerd, Sir Benjamin. 1572 - 1658] · 1641 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$192.50 (€174.65 | £145.68 | ¥30,743)

[London]: Printed for T. S. 1641. 1st edition thus (Wing R-2201). Modern plum-colored wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. [2], 19, [1] pp. Last page a blank. Printer's decoration to title page. 4to: A - C4. Lacks A1, presumed half-title. 17.5 cm x 13 cm. Overa…

When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda

MAMDANI, MAHMOOD · 2002 · Mike Long Books

$44.75 (€40.60 | £33.87 | ¥7,147)

Princeton University Press. 2002. (ISBN: 0691102805). Soft Cover. Gd. condition : Historical research and analytical study of the Hutu - Tutsi division and genocide ... (AI44314ml). Gd.

The Bab Ballads - Much Sound And Little Sense

Gilbert, W S [ William Schwenck ] · 0 · Eastleach Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥950)

George Routledge & Sons nd c 1920 reprint. Cloth, G+. 317pp, book a little cocked, otherwise a nice copy. A Pocket edition of Gilberts absurd verse, written before his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan. William Schwenck Gilbert [ 1836 - 1911 ] librettist & poet.

The Late Sunny Pavilion Painting and Calligraphy Collection

Xu Minghuan (Editor) · 2005 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Shanghai: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, (2005). fo. 127 pp. Bound in cream-colored cloth. Near Fine. Dust Jacket: NF. Color Plates. Features inscriptions, paintings and calligraphies in tribute to the renowned Chinese poet Jingzhou Xu. Text in Chinese and English…

To the Happy Few: selected letters of Stendhal

Intro. by Emmanuel Boudot-Lamotte, trans. by Norman Cameron · 1952 · Byre Books

£18.83 (€22.57 | $24.88 | ¥3,974)

Book Good John Lehmann London Green cloth much sunned and marked, spine title faded to illegibility, neat name (poet Jack Beeching, dated 1.IX.56) to ffep, foxing to prelims, otherwise clean and sound, good.