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The Last World: With An Ovidian Repertory
Christoph Ransmayr · 1990 · Book Haven
NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)
Chatto & Windus 1990 Hardback, 252pp. A man goes in search of the Roman poet Ovid, banished to the end of the world. He finds that Ovid's personality and stories have undergone a sea-change, and have fragmented themselves into lots of clues - people, bizarre events, odd stretche…
The Life and Work of Petros Duryan
Yerevan State University · 1967 · Salsus Books
£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)
Book Good Fair 2nd Edition Mitk Publishing House Yerevan 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 240pp Armenian text, hardback, grey cloth gilt in wrapper, wrapper chipped with losses, inscribed to front end-paper ''To highly respected and well known Armenologist, Arshak Chopanyan's personal …
They Keep Riding Down All The Time
Kenneth Patchen · 1946 · Dodman Books
£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)
New York, Padell, 1st Edition, "Intense and profoundly moving short prose work" by noted poet Patchen. All in VG crisp and clean internal order. Light marking to blank pale cream card covers. Printed wraps to Patchen's own design, this the red and black variant (vs blue and red …
Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union
MICHAEL DAVIDSON · 1991 · Mike Long Books
$44.75 (€40.60 | £33.87 | ¥7,147)
Mercury House Publishing. 1991. Soft Cover. PB/ pub.1991/ Gd.+ condition/ 151 pages- Sometimes the collision of cuyltures produces comical effects: One Russian asks the Americans if the Manson Family is a TV show. At other times events are far more ominous: A Moscow poet enterta…
The Journal of Thomas Moore 1818 - 1841.
Quennell, Peter (ed) · 1964 · Hessay Books
£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥950)
Batsford, 1964. Hard Cover, The revised edition of 1964, edited and with an Introduction by Peter Quennell. 256 pp, the paper browning a little with age, marroon boards. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. The diaries of t…
The Last Word: An Insomniac Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Poetry
1999 · Inno Dubelaar Books
$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)
Insomniac Press, 1999. 1st. Paperback. 1895837324. First printing this collection. INSCRIBED by the editor to a fellow Toronto poet. Fine unread copy. Fine.
The Works of Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson; W. Gifford; F. Cunningham · 1875 · Rooke Books
£1,350.00 (€1,618.42 | $1,783.84 | ¥284,890)
London, Bickers and Son, Henry Sotheran and Co, 1875. Leather. A handsome example of this nine volume edition of the collected works of influential playwright and poet Ben Jonson, in signed half morocco bindings. This set, with a biographical memoir from W. Gifford and introduct…
The Jacobite Relics of Scotland
James Hogg · 1819 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, William Blackwood, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a compilation of songs, poems and folktales associated with the Jacobites, edited by prolific Scottish poet James Hogg. The first edition of the Jacobite Relics of Scotland, a co…
The Works of Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson; Wilfrid Meynell · 1913 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Burns and Oates, [1913]. First edition. Cloth. A nice set of volumes I and II of mystic and poet Francis Thompson's poetry in the original cloth with decorative gilt, edited by Wilfrid Meynell, Thompson's friend, with two portrait frontispieces of Thompson to e…
The Works of John Dryden
John Dryden; Walter Scott · 1808 · Rooke Books
£2,350.00 (€2,817.26 | $3,105.20 | ¥495,919)
London, William Miller , 1808 . Leather. A complete, eighteen-volume set of the collected works of John Dryden, the first Scott edition, uniformly bound in straight-grain morocco. The collected works of John Dryden, with notes, historical, critical and explanatory, and a life of…
The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man&Apos;S Recreation
Izaak Walton; Charles Cotton; John Major [editor] · 1925 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)
London, Privately Printed for The Navarre Society Limited, 1925. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated edition of Izaak Walton's classic work, 'The Compleat Angler&apos. Privately printed. Illustrated with eight etchings on Japon Vellum and many in-text images. Colla…
Mind over Matter: The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent
Ranulph Fiennes · 1993 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)
London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this illustrated account of the expedition across the Antarctic undertaken by Ranulph Fiennes, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Illustrated with twel…
The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man&Apos;S Recreation
Izaak Walton; Andrew Lang · 1896 · Rooke Books
£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)
London, J. M. Dent and Company, 1896 . Fine Binding. An elegantly bound copy of Izaak Walton's celebration of fishing, with an introduction by Andrew Lang and illustrations by E. J. Sullivan. Bound by Bickers & Son in a full calf prize binding for Charterhouse school. Illus…
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio, in which are incorporated translations of the Principal Letters
CHARLES BURNEY. · 1796 · Clearwater Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, London, 1st Edition, First edition, complete in three volumes. 8vo. xv, 407pp + [xxx] contents + [i] errata; 420pp + [xxix] contents + [i] errata; 414pp + [xxiii] contents + [i] errata. Contemporary calf with gilt rules and bordering, and with …
The Earthly Paradise a Poem
William Morris · 1907 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London; New York; Bombay; Calcutta, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1907. Cloth. The first epic poem of artist, designer and poet William Morris, in decorative cloth binding. Bound in original red cloth, with charming gilt motifs to the front board and spine.Within, William Morris&apos…
The Diverting History of John Gilpin
William Cowper · 1953 · Rooke Books
£64.99 (€77.91 | $85.88 | ¥13,715)
London , Penguin Books, 1953. Cloth. An illustrated edition of William Cowper's poem The Diverting History of John Galpin. With illustrations to every page by Ronald Searle. Limited to 1,600 copies. The illustrations were originally made for a filmin the 'Poet and Pain…
The Ship's Career and Other Poems
G.J. Williamson · 1864 · Books on the Web
$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.28 | ¥35,934)
London: Truscott, Son & Simmons, 1864. Bound in gold-stamped embossed red leather with five raised hubs on the backbone, second edition, all edges gilt, 382pp. Hand-written inscription on front fly by the author/poet to 'His Grace the Most Noble Algernon Percy, Duke of Northumbe…
THE POEMS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe · 1971 · Charles Agvent
$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.53 | ¥12,984)
Cambridge. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter burnt-orange morocco leather and orange linen with a black embossed portait of the poet in the center of the front cover. Selected with an introduction by Stephen Spender. Copy #887 of 1500 illust…
THE POEMS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe · 1971 · Charles Agvent
$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.45 | ¥16,977)
Cambridge. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter burnt-orange morocco leather and orange linen with a black embossed portait of the poet in the center of the front cover. Selected with an introduction by Stephen Spender. Copy #842 of 1500 illust…
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Yeats, William Butler · 1933 · Barter Books Ltd
£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)
G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Wear to cloth along external hinges. Sm mark to rear cover. Title page browned. Light foxing to prelims. Edges untrimmed London Macmillan & Co Second Edition 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). ix, 101pp. Includes 'Byzantium', 'Coole Park, 1929', …