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The Pot of Gold and Two Other Tales

Aaron Judah · 1959 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of stories from Aaron Judah, with illustrations throughout from Mervyn Peake. First edition. With illustrations throughout. Three charming stories, including: The Pot of Gold, Roge…

Poems of William Cowper of the Inner Temple

William Cowper · 1790 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Dublin, John Jones, 1790. Leather. A two volume set of the poems of William Cowper. Complete in two volumes. The fifth edition. Uncommon Dublin printing. William Cowper was an English poet and one of the most popular poets of his time. He is sometimes considered a forerunner to …

The Poems of Hesiod [Theogony, Works and Days]

HESIOD (TRANS R.M.FRAZER) · 1985 · Kalamos Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Norman Ok, University of Oklahoma Pr. 1985, Reprint. (ISBN: 0806118466) Soft cover. Book, "Besides Homer, there is Hesiod." These words still contain much truth today. Hesiod is a very important poet, and for this reason his two surviving poems, Theogony and Works and Days, dese…

Landfall 210: The Mouths Of Beasts - Spring 2005

Nick Ashcroft · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Otago University Press 2005 Paperback, 198pp. "In "Landfall 210", language humbly falls into line as just another job-lot of animal noises. Poets speak out of the mouths of beasts from Fiona Farrell's eel, through all the monkeys and borzoi and owls of Russia to an MP poet per R…

The Night Watch For England and Other Poems.

EDWARD SHANKS. · 1942 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Macmillan, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 50pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a decorative blind border to the upper board. A trace of spotting to edges and pastedowns. Very good in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper. For…

God's Fugitive : The Life of C. M. Doughty

TAYLOR, ANDREW · 1999 · Godley Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

London, HarperCollins. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002558157) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or ma…

Emerson's Impact on the British Isles and Canada

Sowder, William J. · 1966 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Charlottesville, Virginia, The University Press of Virginia, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bri…

The Gotham Book Mart and Farrar, Straus and Company Invite You to Meet 3 Poets

Chisholm, Hugh, Owen Dodson, Howard Griffin · 1947 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York: The Gotham Book Mart, 1947. Announcement of readings by three poets. Postcard. 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches. Dark green type on lighter green card. Poet and editor Hugh Chisholm's book of poems The Prodigal Never Returns came out in 1947; African-American poet and playwright O…

The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus

Theocritus; Richard Polwhele [trans.] · 1792 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Bath, R. Cruttwell; T. Cadell, C. Dilly et al, 1792 . Cloth. A bright example of Cornish clergyman, poet and historian Richard Polwhele's translation of Theocritus's rustic poetry. Complete in two volumes bound in one, this is a 'new edition, corrected' of Ri…

Pocket Volume of Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning · 1898 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1898. Leather. An attractive pocket-sized volume, containing a selection of Robert Browning's poems; complete in one volume. An early edition of this pocket-sized work in a half morocco binding, with marbled boards, end papers and edges. Ink ins…

The Boy&Apos;S Winter Book: Descriptive of the Season, Scenery, Rural Life, and Country Amusements

Thomas Miller · 1847 · Rooke Books

£134.00 (€160.64 | $177.06 | ¥28,278)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1847 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition copy of this insight into the scenery and pastimes of British rural life in winter of the nineteenth century. The very scarce first edition. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding.  …

The Granite Monthly - a New Hampshire Magazine, November 1896 - the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, N.H.

GROW, EUGENE JULIUS; BENEDICT, MILO; WARNER, LUCY MAYO; BURNS, DORA L.; PIERCE, GEORGE W.; GRIFFITH, GEORGE BANCROFT; SHIRLEY, MOSES GAGE; METCALF, H.H.; CHESLEY, CHARLES HENRY; CONWELL, ANNIE J.; CHAPIN, BELA; GOWING, FRED · 1896 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.32 | ¥31,933)

USA: Granite Monthly Company, 1896. First Edition. Paperback. Pages 245-310. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: The Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital - feature article with many excellent photos; Night on Moosilauke - a sketch charcoaled in prose;…

At the Shrine of St. Charles Stray Papers on Lamb Brought Together for the Centenary of His Death in 1834

LUCAS, E. V. (EDWARD VERRALL) · 1934 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1934. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. Included is a special preface for the American Edition. The book and its contents are in clean, mostly brigh…

The Gotham Book Mart and Coward-Mccann, Inc. Cordially Invite You to Meet Muriel Rukeyser, on Publication Day of Her New Book the Orgy

Rukeyser, Muriel · 1965 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York: The Gotham Book Mart, [1965]. Invitation to a reception for The Orgy, a fictionalized memoir by poet Muriel Rukeyser. The Orgy was published in 1965. Black type on white cardstock. Also included is an RSVP card. 5-1/2 x 4-3/8 inches. Both in unaddressed mailing envelop…

Masks

EDWARD BRATHWAITE · 1968 · Mike Long Books

$164.75 (€149.47 | £124.68 | ¥26,312)

Oxford University Press. 1968. Hard Over. Hardcover dj/pub.1968/80 pages- Sets out to survey the conditions within the contemporary New World Negro within his total context of Africa. (B97747). Good.

John Gower - The Minor Latin Works With In Praise Of Peace

Gower, John - Yeager R F & Livingston, Michael [editors] · 2005 · Eastleach Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,794)

published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University 2005 1st edition. Large format paperback, F. viii+139pp, a fine copy. The Latin poems have a parallel English translation. A critical student edition of 15 Latin poems plus the Middle English In…

Notes from under the Rug: the Barry Louis Polisar Songbook: a songbook and more: songs, poems, drawings complete 1974-1984.

Polisar, Barry Louis, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Silver Spring, MD, Rainbow Morning Music Alts., (1985_). 1st ed. VG PB. Poet and songwriter Polisar writes and sings songs for and about children. He has recorded and produced 7 record albums. and cassettes for children and presents concerts for chldren and families all over the…

Joe Miller's Jests; Or, the Wit's Vade Mecum: Being A Collection of the most Brilliant Jests, the excellent Bon Mots, and the most pleasant short Stories, in the English Language: A originally edited by John Mottley, Esq. Author of the Life of Peter the Great, &c. With Considerable Additions. A Collection of Witty and Moral Sentences; And the most pointed and truly valuable Epigrams and Epitaphs; With the Names of the Authors, to such as are know. Inscribed to the Choice Spirits of the Age!

MOTTLEY (Johm), compiler: · 1796 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London: Printed and Published by J. Barker, Dramatic Repository... [no date] [?1796}. 12mo, 184 x 111 mms., pp. [vi], [5] 6 - 164, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Joe Miller as Teague (Published by T. Rodd...), printed obituary notice on recto of leaf after portrait…

Poems by T. Sturge Moore: The Rout of the Amazons; the Centaur&Apos;S Booty; Gazelles and Other Poems; Theseus, Medea and Lyrics

T. Sturge Moore · 1903 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Duckworth, 1903-1904 . First edition. Paperback. The first editions of four charming volumes of poetry by author, artist and poet Thomas Sturge Moore, housed in a slip case. Four first edition volumes from Thomas Sturge Moore. Two further volumes - 'Pan's Proph…

The Novels of Francis Brett Young, Severn Edition: Marching on Tanga; the Black Diamond; the House Under the Water; This Little World; White Ladies; They Seek a Country; the City of Gold

Francis Brett Young · 1935 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, William Heinemann, 1935-1950. Cloth. A scarce set of the Severn edition novels by author of the Mercian novels Francis Brett Young, with City of Gold signed by Young. Seven of the scarce Severn Edition novels, written by English novelist and poet Francis Brett Young, wit…