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New Poems

Francis Thompson · 1897 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

Westminster, Archibald Constable and Co. 1897. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition anthology of the poems of Francis Thompson. The first edition of this work. An uncommon volume. One of three anthologies published before his death.Anthology of the poems of English po…

Links of Memory.

Anon. · 1890 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€19.50 ($21.49 | £16.27 | ¥3,432)

London / New York Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton no date (ca. 1890-1900) Hardcover, stapled, 16 non-numbered pp., 14x17.5cm., 8 chromolithographic illustrations, in fair condition (covers soiled, binding loose, endpapers with some drawings in pencil, text and illustrations in good…

Socialism and Superior Brains; A Reply to Mr. Mallock

Shaw, Bernard [George] (1856-1950) · 1910 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

London A.C. Fifield Fabian Socialist Series, No. 8 pp. 59. 12mo. Quarter terracotta cloth over salmon boards with like lettering to spine, and front board. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of Shaw. Rubbing to covers, light edgewear, very faint foxing confined to the endpa…

La deuxième collection Salubra / Zweite Salubra Kollektion / Second Salubra Collection.

Le Corbusier. · 1959 · Antiquariaat Adr. van den Bemt

€3,200.00 ($3,526.98 | £2,669.65 | ¥563,214)

jpg Basel,, Original hard cover, 25x40 cm., 3 title leaves + pages of Corbusiers’ sketches, in French, German and English + 14 double-page plates of wallpapers + 19 (of 20) plates of basic colours .)+ a plastic folder at end of the volume containing 2 cardboard windows (used…

Baxter's Requiem (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION NO 232 of 750 COPIES)

Crow,Matthew · 2018 · Richard Thornton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Corsair in Association with Goldsboro Books This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket.Great Copy (As New) This copy is a Signed Limited Edition and is number 232 of Just 750 Copies Issued.Signed by The Author on the Limitations Page.This is a superb unread copy for …

Autumn Songs and Sketches

E Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack · 1886 · Richard Thornton Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Griffith Farran & Company Produced and Printed By Ernest Nister.Rare title graded Very Good + in the Rare Dust-Jacket graded Very Good + with red silk bow binding with coloured pictorial Autumn scene to the front cover.All the page edges are in gilt.These Autumn songs and sketch…

Innocent Blood

James,P.D. · 1980 · Richard Thornton Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Faber & Faber This is a Near Fine Copy of this Book in publisher's red cloth with bright gilt title lettering to spine,In a Near Fine Dust-Jacket with NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the wrapper which remains in simply lovely condition with no marks or dustiness,some fad…

Set 'Em Up!

Madden,Joe (Signed Copy) · 1939 · Richard Thornton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Joseph Madden This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in Publisher's original orange coloured cloth with bright and vivid blue title lettering to spine and upper cover.This copy has been Signed and Inscribed by Joe Madden on the Front Endpaper and the inscription reads.... '' To…

Southwark Story

Higham,Florence · 1955 · Richard Thornton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Hodder & Stoughton This is a Fine Copy of this hardcover book in blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No Dust-jacket.This copy has one previous owner's name to the front pastedown and one small owner's stamp name to the same page and also to the title page.The book has …

Precaution

[James Fenimore Cooper] · 1821 · Rooke Books

£1,995.00 (€2,391.32 | $2,635.67 | ¥420,883)

London, Henry Colburn and Co, 1821. First edition. Leather. The scarce first U.K. edition of the first ever novel by the noted American author James Fenimore Cooper. The scarce first U.K. edition, published the year after the first U.S. edition.Pages 139 and 272 in Volume III ar…

Epistles in Verse

[Richard Sharp] · 1828 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, John Murray, 1828. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this very scarce verse collection, the first edition presented to his friend Joseph Jekyll, a politician and grandfather of the gardener Gertrude Jekyll. The very scarce first edition of this…

Stray-Aways

E. OE. Somerville; Martin Ross · 1920 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1920. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this collection of sketches and original stories from Somerville and Ross. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-three in-text images. A collection of sketches and origi…

Kim

Rudyard Kipling · 1901 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this classic novel from Rudyard Kipling, with illustrations. First edition, first impression. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth, with a gilt elephant to the fron…

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf · 1919 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

London, Duckworth and Company, 1919. First edition. Cloth. A smartly rebound first edition copy of Virginia Woolf's second novel, an Edwardian-set novel on love and happiness. The first edition.A smartly rebound copy. One leaf of adverts to the rear.Half-title is present.W…

Don Juan: Cantos I and II

Lord Byron · 1820 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Thomas Davison, 1820 . Hardback. The second edition of Canto's I and II of Lord Byron's epic poem, Don Juan, bound in the publisher's original boards. The second edition. Published a year after the first edition, holding all the same issue points as the fi…

John Caldigate

Anthony Trollope · 1879 · Rooke Books

£1,350.00 (€1,618.19 | $1,783.54 | ¥284,808)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Anthony Trollope's three volume novel about a man accused of bigamy by his former mistress. A novel published in the latter part of Trollope's career, this work tells the tale of the titular cha…

Poor Poems and Rotten Rhymes

A.P. Herbert · 1910 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Winchester, P. & G. Wells, 1910. First edition. Paperback. A signed, first edition copy of A.P. Herbert's first ever published collection of poetry, the personal copy of British novelist Dennis Wheatley. The first edition of this collection of poetry, Poor Poems and Rotten …

Vignettes from My Life [SIGNED]

Richardson, Tannis · 2020 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Heartland Associates First Edition, First Printing pp. 207. Square 4to. Pictorial boards. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white, and colour photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; as …

Spangled Unicorn An Anthology

Coward,Noel · 1932 · Richard Thornton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Hutchisnon This is a Good Copy of this hardcover book in pink cloth with red cloth spine lettered in dulled gilt.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.There is one previous inscription to the front endpaper.This copy was acquired from the impressive private library …

Lectures on Language Contact (MIT Press Classics).

Lehiste, Isle · 1988 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Cambridge, MA. : The MIT Press, 1988. Paperback. 128 pp.- These concise lectures have been developed and refined over a period of ten years as the basis for the author's senior and first-year graduate course on language contact. They provide factual information on and interpreta…