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The Country Blues
Samuel B. Charters · 1960 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)
London, Michael Joseph, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. A smart UK first edition of this comprehensive study by American music historian, Samuel Charters, tracing the roots of American blues from slave songs to seminal artists like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. In the publisher&…
The Sleeping Lord
David Jones · 1974 · Rooke Books
£490.00 (€587.43 | $647.47 | ¥103,404)
London, Faber, 1974 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce Limited Edition of this celebrated collection of poetic fragments from modernist David Jones, signed by the author himself. A very scarce signed Limited Edition of David Jones's final published work of poetry, no. 46…
The Shadowy Waters
W. B. Yeats · 1901 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
New York , Dodd, Mead and Company , 1901. First edition. Hardback. The first U.S. edition of this haunting poetic drama from celebrated Irish poet W. B. Yeats. First U.S. edition. In the publisher's paper covered boards, with paper title label to the front board. Several le…
Shakespeare The Biography
Peter Ackroyd · 2006 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner
€6.00 ($6.61 | £5.00 | ¥1,056)
Vintage. 2006, paperback, goed exemplaar, good copy. With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd has long been recognized as today's foremost practitioner of the literary biograp…
Harvest the Fire
Poul Anderson · 0 · Book Haven
NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)
Tor Paperback, 190pp. Poul Anderson, a legend of SF, is the writer whom the mantle of Robert A. Heinlein descended upon. Anderson devoted his career to the visionary enterprise of creating science fiction set in a carefully extrapolated human society of the future in the spirit …
The Private Patient
JAMES, P. D. (PHYLLIS DOROTHY JAMES, BARONESS JAMES OF HOLLAND PARK) · 2008 · S. Howlett-West Books
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0307270777. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine en…
The Magician's Girl
GRUMBACH, DORIS · 1993 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop
£20.04 (€24.02 | $26.48 | ¥4,229)
W. W. Norton & Company. 1993. (ISBN: 9780393310917). Paperback, 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches. Paperback in good condition. 1st Norton Paperback edition 1993. Initially restrained, this story of three young women coming to maturity in New York City in the 1930s soon becomes engrossing,…
The Conch Bearer
DIVAKARUNI, CHITRA BANERJEE · 2003 · Round Table Books, LLC
$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)
Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2003. 0761319352. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0761319352. Quarter bound in publisher's brown cloth over red paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956) is an Indian-America…
London's Underworld
Quennell,Peter Editor (From the Working Library of Cecil Day Lewis) · 1968 · Richard Thornton Books
£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)
Spring Books This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in green cloth with slight sunning to spine.No dust-jacket.This copy has been SIGNED by Cecil Day Lewis on the blank front endpaper.This copy has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.The book was acquired from the private worki…
Una storia vera - Ein Kinderalbum in Versen,
IB 1237, Grünbein, Durs, · 2002 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR
€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)
Erstausgabe, Frankfurt am Main/Leipzig, Insel-Verlag (= Insel-Bücherei Nr. 1237), 2002, 8°, 41 S., farbig illustr. original Pappband (Hardcover), sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend ggü. Musterschule) möglich. Das spart die Por…
Focus on Ray Crooke
ROSEMARY DOBSON · 1971 · Mike Long Books
$114.75 (€104.11 | £86.84 | ¥18,326)
University of Queensland Press. 1971. Hard Cover. Hardcover dj/ pub. 1971/ Fair condition/ 49 pages A Visual interpretation of some poems by Rosemary Dobson; in this biography the poet is able to make appropriate reciprocation. It is simply an interp retation based on conversati…
The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the Xviiith Century
Austin Dobson · 1892 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1892. Cloth. A charming collection of eighteenth-century poems from Austin Dobson, with illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece, seventeen plates and many images in the text. Collated complete. …
The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the Xviiith Century
Austin Dobson · 1903 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1903. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated collection of eighteenth-century-style poetry from English writer Henry Austin Dobson. Illustrated throughout. A collection of poetry by Henry Austin Dobson, commonly Austin Dobson, an Englis…
Sinne-vonck op den Hollandschen Turf, ende des selfs wonder veen-brandt: in gedicht uyt-geschildert, en aen-gewesen op de Haegsche tvrf-marct. Hier noch by gevoegt een vermakelijcken Hollandschen sinne-droom op het nievw wys--mal van den ouden Italiaenschen smit; mitsgaders de vindinge der tabacks wonder-smoock, rijckelijck verciert met konst-beelden. ’s-Gravenhage, Isaac Burghoorn, 1634.
Venne, Adriaen van de · 1589 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)
€626.75 ($690.81 | £522.80 | ¥110,326)
16°: a-g8 (§)8 A-H8 , pag.: 1-111 [32] 1-108 [4]. With an engr. portrait of Adriaen van der Venne by Daniel van den Bremden and 9 etchings after designs by Van der Venne. Calf binding gilt-tooled flowering on the spine, spine partly loose, some browning, else a fine copy. Collec…
The Mind of the English Speech Delivered at the Meeting of the Royal Society of St. George, London, St. George"S Day, 1920.
Rudyard Kipling · 1921 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)
New York , Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this very scarce transcribed speech by Rudyard Kipling, in the original binding and the original glassine dust wrapper. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original quarter paper vellu…
Adventures on the Road to Paris During the Campaigns of 1813-14. Extracted from the Autobiography of Henry Steffens. Translated from the German.
Henry Steffens · 1848 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, John Murray , 1848. First edition. Leather. The first English language edition of this personal account of the Napoleonic Wars by Henrich Steffens, scarcely seen. The first English language edition of this work, translated from the German of Henrich Steffens. A scarce vo…
Hereward the Wake &Apos;Last of the English&Apos; & Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face
Charles Kingsley · 1889 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1889-90. Leather. A smart copy of two novels from English historian, poet, and novelist, Charles Kingsley. Two volumes in one. Reprinted. Hypatia, or New Foes With Old Faces, 1899. A fictionalised account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia,…
At the Center of the Universe: Essays on Western Intellectual Space (Signed - See Description)
PLAUT, MORDECAI · 1983 · Bookshop Baltimore
$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)
Mordechai Plaut, 1983. Hardcover. ISBN: 0961208805. SIGNED with a separate note by Howard Plaut. Clean book. DJ has edge tears. 167 pages. Introduction by Yaakov Weinberg. Notes on an Outmoded World View; The Rise of the Science of Economics and the Idea of Gain; How to Succeed …
Raymond Roseliep: Man of Art Who Loves the Rose
Bauerly, Donna · 2015 · Imago Press
CA$20.00 (€12.72 | $14.02 | £10.61 | ¥2,239)
Winchester VA, The Haiku Foundation, 2015. Perfect binding, 300 pp. 5.5"-8.5". fine. Enigmatic poet who was ordained a Catholic priest in 1943 and surged to the forefront of North American haiku by 1975. The life, the passions, the poems bewteen crimson covers.
A Hidden Wholeness. The Visual World of Thomas Merton
Merton, Thomas (artist); Griffin, John Howard (text) · 1979 · Mare Booksellers
$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.43 | ¥4,312)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1979. Wraps. Wraps. 146 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. A collection of photography by monk, mystic, poet and theologian Thomas Merton. GOOD+ condition. General toning to the covers. Hinges and extremities rather scuffed. Good .