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Local & Literary Account of Leamington, Warwick, Stratford, Coventry, Kenilworth, Hagley, the Leasowes, Birmingham and the Surrounding Country

Mr. Pratt [Samuel Jackson Pratt] · 1814 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Birmingham, Lewis Thomson, 1814 . Leather. Mr. Pratt's very scarce and charmingly illustrated study of various English towns. Prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist Mr. Samuel Jackson Pratt offers a 'local and literary' guide to 'Leamington, Warwick, S…

Permanent Greetings from the Society for Aesthetic Realism

Siegel, Eli · 1959 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

New York: Definitions Press 1959. Broadside. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. Printed in black ink on white paper. Title in red ink. Displays a poem "Picketing God or Something to Be God" by Eli Siegel. Poet educator and philosopher of "Aesthetic Realism" Siegel was one of the Greenwich Villa…

Indian Love. With a Portrait of the Author.

(HATCHARDS BINDING). HOPE, Laurence · 1910 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€125.00 ($137.78 | £104.27 | ¥22,004)

London-New York, Heinemann-John Lane Company, 1910. Richly gilt full morocco, decoration on upper and lower cover and spine. Stamped 'Hatchards, 187, Piccadilly' and address in very small type at the inside of the first flyleaf. Top edge gilt. viii, 96 p. With a portrait of the …

The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts.

Hall, Donald (Inscribed by Author), · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1988. 1st prntg. VG PB. A book length poem written in his 60th year. sets on the page some of the harrowing events of his day as Poet Laureate of. New Hampshire. One of the most professional and committeed of American poets, as well as the author of numerou…

The Works of William Cowper; Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations.

William Cowper; Robert Southey (ed.) · 1854 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, H.G. Bohn, 1854. Leather. Five volumes from Bohn's illustrated edition of Cowper's complete works, edited by the poet Robert Southey William Cowper was a forerunner of the Romantic poets of the late 18th century; his work celebrated nature and everyday life whe…

Ancient Funerall [Funeral] Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent; with the dissolved Monasteries therein contained; their founders, and what eminent persons have beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud. Roiall, the nobilitie, and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations with other matters mentioned in the insuing title

JOHN WEEUER [WEEVER] · 1631 · Tinakori Books

$675.00 (€612.41 | £510.84 | ¥107,802)

London, Tho. Harper. 1631, First Edition. Half-Leather, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 871 pages, engraved title page, 18 woodcut illustrations, some whole page. The beautifully engraved title page is mounted on old paper, old bookplate and old name and date 1854 on front endpa…

The Journal of William Schellinks' Travels in England 1661-1663.

EDS.]./EXWOOD, MAURICE/H.L. LEHMANN [TRANSL. · 1993 · Antiquariaat Schot

€9.60 ($10.58 | £8.01 | ¥1,690)

London, Offices of the Royal Historical Society. 1993. Original publisher's red paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, 8vo: [viij], 196pp. footnotes & references, acknowledgements, abbreviations, appendices [Schellinks' drawings based on his travels in England & The dynastic li…

HENRY MOORE. THE LIFE AND WORK OF A GREAT SCULPTOR

HALL, Donald · 0 · Charles Agvent

$93.80 (€85.10 | £70.99 | ¥14,980)

New York. Harper & Row. First Edition. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and drawings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet in 1966 in Salisbury, CT, on the half-title page: "For Rich/a man who knows/the experience of forms/with much pleasure/in our acquaintance.". Fine in …

Ognennyi Stolp [the Pillar of Fire] Vtoroe Izdanie. Second Edition.

GUMILEV, N. (Nikolay) Gumilyov. · 1922 · Marijana Dworski Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

Peterburg-Berlin, Petropolis, 1922. Original paper-covers in very good condition both internally and externally. Publisher's mark by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. Used; Very Good First published in Petrograd in 1921. Gumilev, influential Russian poet was a co-founder of the Acmeist move…

Poems dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Mansfield.

BURRELL [née Raymond], (Sophia, Lady Burrell): · 1793 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

London: Printed by T. Cooper, Bow Street, Covent Garden. Sold by Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Gardedn; T. P:ayne, at the Mews Gate; and J. Borson, in Bond Street. 1793. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 207 x 122 mms., pp. [viii] vi, 286; [ii], vii [viii Errata], 303 […

Five Poems. First Edition of the Broadside

Mason, Mason Jordon ; nom de plume of Jason Jordon · 1947 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress on paper.2pp 40.5 x 30.2cm. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Other works: Mason, Mason Jordan. A LEGIONERE Eureka: Hearse Press, [1959]; Mason, Mason Jordan. THE CONSTIPATED OWL Eureka: Hearse Press, …

The New York Times Magazine, January (Jan. . ) 9, 1972 - Ezra Pound Cover Photo

MICHENER, JAMES A.; LEVY, ALAN; DAVIDSON, BARBARA; BURNHAM, SOPHY; PETERSON, PATRICA; SKURKA, NORMA · 1972 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.58 | ¥31,143)

New York: The New York Times & Arno Press, 1972. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Lee; Manning, Jack; Goldsmith, Bill; Peterson, Gosta. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE COPY. EZRA POUND ARTICLE AND MANY OTHER PAGES HAVE BEEN REMOVED AND ARE NOT INCLUDED. WE OFFER THIS COP…

The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (Penguin Classics)

Marquis, Don · 2006 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Penguin First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Penguin, 2006, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xlii+346pp. Mild age tone to paper, else as new. Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to Mar…

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1880 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London , William P. Nimmo, 1880. Leather. A smart, leather binding of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, with illustrations. This is a smart, leather bound copy of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, published in 1880. This edition is illustrated by Heeley Halswell and …

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1891 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1891. Leather. A smartly bound Albion edition of this collection of poetry from English author and historian Sir Walter Scott. The "Albion" edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of the poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, a English no…

L.E. L. A Mystery of the Thirties

D. E. Enfield · 1928 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of D. E. Enfield's scarce work on Letitia Elizabeth Landon's life, work and mysterious death. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece. A biographical account of the lif…

A Paraphrase Upon the Psalms of David

Samuel Woodford · 1678 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, J. M. for John Martyn, John Baker; Henry Brome, 1678. Leather. A very scarce religious analysis of the Psalms of David, the second edition of this work by Samuel Woodford. A very scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece.The second edition.An analysis of the Psalms of …

The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems

Samuel Rogers · 1806 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. Leather. A leatherbound new edition of this collection of poetry from English author Samuel Rogers. New edition. A collection of poetry from Samuel Rogers, an English poet who, during his lifetime, was one of the most celebrated. Containing…

The Poetical Works of Sir Alexander Boswell

Sir Alexander Boswell; Robert Howie Smith [editor] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Glasgow, Maurice Ogle & Company, 1871. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of the poetical works of Sir Alexander Boswell, with a memoir of the author. First edition. Scarce work. The collected poetry of Sir Alexander Boswell, a Scottish poet, antiquary, and…

The Story of Rosina and Other Verses

Austin Dobson · 1895 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1895. Cloth. A charming collection of verses from Austin Dobson with illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece, twenty-five plates and many images in the text. Collated complete. A collection of v…