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Mr. Gillray. The Caricaturist. A Biography.

JAMES GILLRAY. Draper Hill. [Edgell Rickword]. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

The Phaidon Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 266pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. The title page printed in black and red. Illustrated with nearly 150 reproductions. This copy from the library of poet and critic Edg…

The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood · 1799 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, James Finch and Co, c1909. Leather. A collection of the poems of Thomas Hood. Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was a British humorist and poet. Including Odes and Addresses, Whims and Oddities - First and Second Series, Minor Poems, Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poems…

The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Jean Ingelow · 1912 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1912. Fine Binding. A lovely edition of The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow. In a lovely full calf binding. In One Volume. With a Portrait. New impression. Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist who penned several stories for children. In a…

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore · 1827 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , A. and W. Galignani, 1827. Cloth. A collection of the poetry of Irish poet, Thomas Moore. With an engraved frontispiece. With publisher's advertisements to the endpapers. In publisher's original boards. Externally, rather worn, with marks, cracked joints, and …

The Poetical Works of William Falconer

William Falconer · 1836 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, William Pickering , 1836. Leather. A leatherbound pocket sized edition of the poetical works of William Falconer. Collected poems of William Falconer in the Aldine edition of the British poets. Falconer was a Scottish epic poet of the eighteenth century, mostly concerned…

Humphrey MILL: The Night Search. (Engraving)

[Eighteenth Century British Artist] · 1795 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

London: William Richardson, 1795. Original engraving on wove paper. Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches sheet size. Wrinkling along right edge, and some foxing. Humphrey Mill, poet. Portrait and vignettes of men with bags of gold and a demon with a severed head and leg. From a rare prin…

THE LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR

HUGO, Richard · 0 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

New York. Norton. First Edition. Softcover issue. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet "For Gary Cooper/one more nice man/from Norton/with pleasure at our first/meeting and looking ahead/to many more/Warmly/Dick Hugo." Books inscribed at length by Hugo are uncommon, and this is an i…

Homer [ Inside the ancient world series]

THORPE, MARTIN · 1973 · Kalamos Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

London, Macmillan. 1973, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0333147448) Soft cover. Book, " A short summary of the events of the Iliad and the Odyssey and the mythological background to the Trojan War. Subsequent chapters deal with the tradition of oral poetry in which Homer worked . the hu…

The Testament of Cresseid. Limited edition

Henryson, Robert; Dickins, Bruce [ed.] · 1925 · Barter Books Ltd

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.36 | ¥5,487)

G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Chip to spine head. Browning to eps. Fore edge untrimmed. Text heavily annotated in pencil and ink. Neat stamp of previous owner on fep Edinburgh The Porpoise Press 271/550 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 46pp. Robert Henryson [c1425- c1500] w…

Desert of the Lions. Poems. (SIGNED)

MICHAEL SCHMIDT. · 1972 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Carcanet Press Ltd., Oxford, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) the casebound issue. This one of just forty numbered copies, signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper (this being #30). Slim 8vo. 69pp. Black boards lettered in silver…

The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

INGELOW, JEAN · 1820 · Round Table Books, LLC

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

NY: A. L. Burt, N.D.. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering and borders on spine, t.e.g. Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) was an English poet and novelist, who became suddenly popular in 1863. She also wrote several stories for c…

Shaking the Family tree: A Remembrance.

Turco, Lewis (Inscribed by author), · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

W Lafayette, IN, Bordighera, (1998). VG PB. Turco's reminiscences of youth and family offer warmth and insights into a body of work that tracks his coming to ter. a heritage and legacy of varacity. Turco is the poet son of an unlikely couple, a first generation Sicilian Baptist …

The Beach of Falesãƒâ¡ and the Outing

Dylan Thomas · 1964 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Jonathan Cape; J.M. Dent, 1964-1985. Cloth. Two contrasting works by Dylan Thomas in the attractive original dust wrappers, one a dark tale in the South Sea, and the other an illustrated comical outing to Porthcawl Two works from the prolific and whimsical Welsh poet and…

AFTER THE NARROW LEDGE - A Collection of Poems.

Playfair, Kate, · 1982 · A Book for all Reasons

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Poet and Printer Press, Hatch End - UK, 1982, 1st edn., 32pp, paperback, stapled ochre paper wrappers lettered in maroon, signed by author on half title, lightly rubbed at extrems., 5 leaves with vertical crease, no dustwrapper, very good,

Hildegard of Bingen & her vision of the feminine.

Fierro, Nancy (flute music by Susan Greenberg), · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Boulder, CO, Sounds True Audio, (1995). VG audio tape (90 minutes). 12th century mystic Hildegard of Bingen has been described as a visionary, scientist, diplomat & poet. Dr. Fierro transports. you to medieval cloisters where Hildegard struggled to express her spirituality.

The Privateer: A Metrical Romance

A Sailor · 1874 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Griffith and Farran, 1874. Cloth. A scarce narrative poem written and published anonymously by A Sailor. Scarce work. A tragic metrical romance narrative poem in eight cantos. Following the story of the lovers through various voyages, chases, battles, and the ultimate ca…

The Fudge Family in Paris

Thomas Moore; Thomas Brown [editor] · 1818 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. Cloth. A smartly bound fifth edition of this satirical verse by Thomas Moore. Fifth edition. Originally published earlier the same year. An epistolary novel in verse intended as a comedic critique of the post-war settlement of…

Virgil the Bucolics and Georgics

Virgil; Roscoe Mongan [translator] · 0 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, James Cornish & Sons, c1890. Paperback. A scarce edition of this translation of Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics. Scarce edition. Kelly's Keys to the Classics. A translated edition of the Bucolics and the Georgics, two of the first three major poetical works from…

1914 the King of Alsander

James Elroy Flecker · 1914 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Max Goschen Ltd, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A neat first edition of this charming and exciting fantasy tale from James Elroy Flecker. First edition. Fantasy novel. When a disembodied voice directs him to travel to a land called Alsander, our protagonist makes the decisi…

The Art of Grahame Sydney

Grahame Sydney 305251, Michael Findlay 172266 · 2000 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

Longacre Press, 2000, Linnen band met stofomslag, 191, Here is a comprehensive survey of one of New Zealand's best-loved artists. Chosen from paintings produced over the past thirty years, this selection shows Sydney's enormously varied body of work; the luminous skies of Centra…