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The Shipwrecked Prodigal; a Tale of a Life of Trials
Rev. J de Liefde [Reverend Jan de Liefde] · 1814 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Dean and Son, c1850. Cloth. A very scarce pocket-sized volume of this Dutch work by the Rev. J de Liefde, translated into English. A very scarce work in the publisher's original blind-stamped cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board.Illustrated with a h…
Fairy Tales from Finland: From the Swedish of Zach. Topelius
Zachris Topelius; Ella R. Christie [trans.] · 1896 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)
London, T. Fisher Holland, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this English language translation of the Finnish fairy tales of Zachris Topelius, illustrated throughout. A very scarce first edition.Translated by Ella R. Christie, a pioneering Scottish tr…
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More
William Roberts · 1834 · Rooke Books
£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)
London , R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834. Leather. A complete four volume set of Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More by William Roberts. Second edition copies of Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More by William Roberts. Hannah Mo…
A City Beautiful Dream: The 1912 Vision for Colorado Springs
Robinson, Charles Mulford; Plus Matt Mayberry, David Rasmussen, and Heather Norris · 2012 · Clausen Books, RMABA
$10.95 (€9.93 | £8.29 | ¥1,749)
Pikes Peak Library District / Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Approx. 57 min. A DVD-R Widescreen format video, NTSC / 2012 / Color / Not Rated /. New, in shrink-wrap. During the 2012 book release event for "A City Beautiful Dream", Pioneers Museum Director Matt Mayberry provid…
Mckane's Falls. (Now You'Ve Seen Through Me, Sang the Cataract . .
Merrill, James and Robert Perkins (artist) · 1983 · Wittenborn Art Books
$475.00 (€430.96 | £359.54 | ¥75,851)
New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 1983. Color lithograph; 19 x 32 inches. Edition of 40 numbered copies, signed by the poet and artist. Printed by master lithographer Maurice Sanchez and published by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in 1983, "Perche no spero" and "McKane's Falls" ar…
The Latin poems. Edited and translated by John & Winfred MacQueen.
PITCAIRNE, ARCHIBALD · 2009 · Antiquariaat Isis, NVvA/ILAB
€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)
Assen, Van Gorcum, 2009. (XV) 484 pp. Cloth. Bibliography. (Bibliotheca Latinatis Novae, 359) good condition Archibald Pitcairne or Pitcairn (25 December 1652 ? 20 October 1713) was a Scottish physician. He was a physician and poet who first studied law at Edinburgh and Paris gr…
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. A Play in Three Acts
HELLMAN, Lillian · 1947 · Charles Agvent
$1,250.00 (€1,134.11 | £946.15 | ¥199,609)
New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. A prequel to her 1939 drama THE LITTLE FOXES. Patricia Neal, making her Broadway debut, won a Tony Award for her performance in this play. Made into a film in 1948 starring Fredric March. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author …
The Trojan Women [With] Helen and Orestes By Yiannis Ritsos
EURIPIDES ; RITSOS, YANNIS; MACEWEN, GWENDOLYN ; TSINGOS, NIKOS, (TRANSLATORS) · 1994 · Kalamos Books
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
Toronto, Exile Editions. 1994, 1st.Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 0920428266) Original Wraps. Book, With a stunning command of the Greek language and a mastery of poetic nuance, this translation of Euripides' play breathes unparalleled life into an ancient masterpiece. Using vocabular…
Brief Encounters. Literary Dublin and Belfast in the 1940s. (SIGNED)
ROBERT GREACEN. · 1991 · Clearwater Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
Cathair Books, Dublin, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) - the casebound issue. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 47pp. Two-tone cloth lettered in black at the spine. A fine copy in fractionally dust soiled dust wrapper. F…
Doctor of Revolution: The Life and Genius of Erasmus Darwin
KING-HELE, DESMOND · 1977 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines
$79.95 (€72.54 | £60.52 | ¥12,767)
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0571107818. 361 pages. Index. References. "Grandfather of Charles, he developed the concept of biological evolution to a sophisticated level more than fifty years before publication of The Origin of Species. Hi…
The Life and Letters of John Keats (Everyman's Library #801)
HOUGHTON, LORD (RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES) · 1938 · Bluebird Books
$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)
London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1938. Hardcover. A 1938 reprint of the 1927 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting Lord Houghton's biography of English poet John Keats, first published in 1848. The author used …
The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker (Modern Library #123. 4)
PARKER, DOROTHY · 1966 · Bluebird Books
$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1966]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition offering twenty-four short stories by the noted poet, writer, columnist and possessor of matchless wit. With a foreword by Franklin P. Adams. --- In Toledano spine 10 / blue cloth / ML hex…
The American Historical Review: Volume 85, Number 3, June 1980
PFLANZE, OTTO (ED.) · 1980 · Clausen Books
$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)
Washington, DC, American Historical Association. 1980. Wraps, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Photographs/Diagrams. Periodical, June 1980. Textblock clean and very tight. All page edges are straight and sound. Lightly hand soiled covers, light folds to the corners as well as to…
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume I, Volume II
Pope, Alexander · 1688 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
London, William Pickering, . . Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Two short hardcover copies, measuring 7" tall x 5 1/2" wide, bound in publisher's pebbly dark blue cloth, paper labels to spines, sunned and a bit abraded, rubbing to extremities, a bit of scuffing along one edg…
The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on his Life and Work
Joseph Campbell · 1999 · Denton Island Books
£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)
Element, 1999. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781862045989 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; slight wear to jacket edges. Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of our time, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. The Hero's Journey recounts his own quest…
The History of Great-Britain, from the first Inhabitants thereof, 'till the Death of Cadwalader, .; and of the Kings of Scotland to Eugene V. and also a short Account of the Kings, Dukes, and Earls of Bretagne...
LEWIS JOHN -1615/6. LLWYD HUMPHREY 1527-1568. TWYNE THOMAS - TRANSLATOR 1543-1613. (THOMAS HUGH - EDITOR) · 1729 · Chilton Books
£420.00 (€503.44 | $554.88 | ¥88,607)
London: Printed for F. Gyles in Holborn, Mess. Woodman and Lyon in Covent-Garden, and C. Davis in Pater-Noster-Row, M DCC XXIX. [1729] . 0. A very good quarter calf binding. Folio. 15.5" x 10.0" x 1.2". Irregular pagination (but complete): [66pp.]/[1p.]/pp.2-71[1p.]/pp.251/[22pp…
The Works of Horace, Translated Literally Into English Prose; for the Use of Those Who Are Desirous of Acquiring or Recovering a Competent Knowledge of the Latin Language
Horace; Christopher Smart [trans.] · 1762 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
London, J. Newberry, 1762. Leather. The two volume second edition of Christopher Smart's English language prose translation of Horace's works. The second edition, complete in two volumes. In Latin and English, printed in parallel. In these volumes, Christopher Smart …
The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tennyson, Alfred Lord · 1898 · Round Table Books, LLC
$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)
Near Fine No dust jacket as issued Houghton Mifflin Company 1st Edition. First Printing Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt wreath medallian and border on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece portrait and sepia illustration of Farri…
The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
Charles Kingsley · 1904 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. Leather. A smartly bound collection of retold Greek myths and legends from Charles Kingsley, written for children with illustrations. Later edition. Illustrated throughout. A collection of retold Greek myths and legends written for childr…
Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review
Lord Macaulay · 1884 · Rooke Books
£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)
London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1884. Leather. A handsome set with the Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay which includes essays on: Milton, Machiavelli, Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, and Moore's Lif…