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City of Falling Angels, The

Berendt, John · 2005 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,849)

Sceptre. First Sceptre paperback edition-first printing. Book. Fine condition.Sceptre,2005.First Sceptre paperback edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Large format paperback(small nick and crease on the edges of the cover) in fine condition.The book is new with a small …

Hamid the Luckless and Other Tales in Verse

John Payne · 1904 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , David Nutt, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this poetry anthology from John Payne. John Payne (23 August 1842 – 11 February 1916) was an English poet and translator. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later h…

THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe · 0 · Charles Agvent

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.90 | ¥29,945)

London. Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press. Reprint. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7") bound in 3/4 green morocco and decorated boards, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, top edge gilt; xxiv, 912 pages. Edited with a preface by Thomas Hutchinson and including …

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

ATWOOD, MARGARET ELEANOR · 2008 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

House of Anansi Pr. 2008. (ISBN: 9780887848100) Soft cover. Book, CBC 2008 Massey Lectures Originally broadcast November2008 Author and poet Atwood looks at debt, which she describes as air - something we take for granted until things go wrong, and then, while gasping for breath…

Men in the Off Hours : Essays and Poetry

CARSON, ANNE · 2001 · Kalamos Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Toronto, Vintage Canada. 2001, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 0676973566) Soft cover. Book, "Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussin…

William Cullen Bryant: The Weirs and American Impressionism

Pinto, Holly Joan · 1983 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, 1983. Softcover. Burgundy and illustrated stapled wraps; 61 pp. with 60 figures and 10 colorplates. Issued in conjunction with a 1983 exhibition that explores the influence of American romantic poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)…

An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard & the Pleasures of Memory

Thomas Gray; Samuel Rogers · 1742 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, c1870. Cloth. Two illustrated copies of these important poems from English poets Thomas Gray and Samuel Rogers. Two volumes. Illustrated throughout with contributions from many great artists. This set contains: Elegy Written in a Cou…

The Golden Treasury Series: Selections from the Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough; Poems of Shelley; the Golden Treasury: Second Series

Arthur Hugh Clough; Percy Shelley; Francis Turner Palgrave · 1894 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1894-1902. Leather. A beautiful group of three volumes from the 'Golden Treasury Series' of verses in exquisite uniform prize bindings. Three volumes from Macmillan's 'Golden Treasury Series&apos. With half titles, vignette illustrat…

An Introduction to the Study of Browning. First Edition, Second Issue

Symons, Arthur · 1886 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

London, UK: Cassell & Company, 1886. 12mo. Original Green Cloth. 216 pp. Good with loose front board, nearly detached along gutter inside cover. Previous owner's signature on title page; another former owner's bookplate inside cover. "Written by the future poet and critic at the…

My Wyl And My Wrytyng - Essays On John The Blind Audelay

Fein, Susanna [editor] · 2009 · Eastleach Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University 2009 1st edition. Faux leather, F. xx+355pp, index, a fine copy. A collection of 13 essays on the writings and legacy of John Audelay the English priest and poet from Haughmond Abbey, in Shropshire.

The Monk of Fife Being the Chronicle Written by Norman Leslie of Pitcullo, Concerning Marvellous Deeds That Befell in the Realm of France in the Years of Our Redemption, MCCCCXXIX-XXXI. Now First Done Into English out of the French by Andrew Lang

Norman Leslie; Andrew Lang [translator] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Longmans, Green, and Company, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A first edition third impression of The Monk of Fife, illustrated by the noteworthy Selwyn Image. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. 4 full page engravings…

The Homes and Haunts of Henry Kirk White with Some Account of the Family of White, of Nottingham and Norfolk

John T. Godfrey; James Ward · 1908 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. 1908. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this illustrated biography of the poet and hymn-writer Henry Kirk White. The first edition of this uncommon work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Previou…

The Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1913 · Rooke Books

£1,490.00 (€1,786.26 | $1,968.83 | ¥314,434)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913-1926. Cloth. A smart complete twenty-seven volume set of this limited edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling, signed by the author. Complete in twenty-seven volumes. The Seven Seas edition. Volume one is signed by the author to the half…

The Pleasures of Imagination and the Art of Preserving Health

[Mark Akenside]; [John Armstrong] · 1744 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, R. Dodsley; A. Millar, 1744. First edition. Leather. Two first edition poems bound in one volume, beautiful ruminations on imagination and health by Mark Akenside and John Armstrong. Two volumes bound in one.'The Pleasures of Imagination', by Mark Akenside, the…

FINE BOOKS AND COLLECTIONS MAGAZINE WINTER 2016

Fine Books and Collections · 2016 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

OP Media Durham, NC Very Good with no dust jacket; Juan Felipe Herrera on the cover. Articles include Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, Inside Downton Abbey's Library, Shackleton, The Lowly Snapshot, and more. Filled with wonderful book illustrations and advertising. Magazine i…

Selected Poems

T S Eliot · 1954 · Rooke Books

£5,750.00 (€6,893.29 | $7,597.83 | ¥1,213,420)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first Faber and Faber edition of this T.S Eliot poetry collection. Signed by Eliot to the title page, this work is in the original dustwrapper and remains in a smart condition. This poetry collection was originally…

Paradise Regained / Samson Agonistes 1671. [ Paradise Regained. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes.]

MILTON, John. · 1968 · The Book Firm

A$69.00 (€42.41 | $46.75 | £35.38 | ¥7,466)

The Scholar Press, 1968 (1671). Hardcover. Ex-library, a little wear to corners, light bump to top of spine, some light marks to covers, otherwise good (no markings to clean text). No dj. A facsimile copy212pp.

Milton: Comus and Samson Agonistes. A Casebook.

MILTON. LOVELOCK, Julian ed. · 1975 · The Book Firm

A$50.00 (€30.73 | $33.88 | £25.64 | ¥5,410)

Macmillan, 1975. Hardcover. Ex-library, light mark to spine, o/wise good condition (no markings to text). Scarce. Out of print. 253pp. SBN 333-03524-0.

Robert W. Buchanan.

BUCHANAN. CASSIDY, John A. · 1973 · The Book Firm

A$70.00 (€43.03 | $47.43 | £35.89 | ¥7,574)

Twayne, 1973. Hardcover. Ex-library, spine of dj sunned and front cover of dj creased, o/wise contents good. Examines Buchanan's significant works as well as casting new light on his role in the Fleshly Controversy with Rossetti and Swinburne. Scarce. Out of print. 172pp. Part o…

Milton's Paradise Lost.

MILTON. WILDING, Michael. · 1969 · The Book Firm

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,705)

Sydney University Press, 1969. Hardcover. A little wear to dustjacket, otherwise good condition. Provides a detailed examination of the work and a survey of the more important critical thought on it. 128pp.