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Portrait of Murdock Pemberton : The New Yorker's First Art Critic

Pemberton, Sally; Pemberton, Murdock · 2011 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Enfield, NH, Picture Book Press; Distributed by Enfield Publishing & Distribution Co, 2011. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, black dust jacket with bw illustration. 408 pp. 400 Illustrations, chiefly in color. In 1925, no one in New York City was more surprised …

Whispers And Breath of the Meadows = Handeri Shshuknern U HevkeÌOe

Razmik Davoyan · 2010 · Book Haven

NZ$25.50 (€12.78 | $14.08 | £10.66 | ¥2,249)

arc 2010 Paperback, 165pp. Armenia's most significant contemporary poet, Razmik Davoyan is one of a handful of names in Armenian literature which define not only an era, but go much further to embody an entire history. Davoyan's work reflects the experiences of an old nation, ye…

THE SHORES OF LIGHT. A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties INSCRIBED to Floyd Dell

WILSON, Edmund · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.17 | £1,419.23 | ¥299,413)

New York. Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc.. First Edition. Chapters on T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, H. L. Mencken, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Virginia Woolf, and others, as well as an explo…

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

J G Lockhart · 1837 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1837. Leather. A first edition of this biography of Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, complete in seven volumes. With a frontispiece and folding facsimile plate of handwriting to volume I. Publisher's catalogues to the front and rear of most volumes…

The Works of Lord Byron in Six Volumes

Lord Byron · 1830 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London , John Murray, 1830-1831. Leather. A set of the works of Lord Byron. Complete in six volumes. Volumes I-IV are described as complete in four volumes, with volumes V and VI desrcibed as complete in six volumes. With an engraved frontispiece of Lord Byron in volume I. Georg…

For the Train: Five Poems and a Tale

Lewis Carroll; Hugh J. Schonfield · 1932 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Denis Archer, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short works from Lewis Carroll original written for The Train. First edition. Originally published in The Train between 1856 and 1857, together with some Carrollean episodes concerning …

The Genuine Poetical Works of Charles Cotton, Esq.

Charles Cotton · 1771 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, J. Rivington; W. Johnston; T. Davies; T. Caslon; S. Crowder; et al, 1771. Hardback. An early rebound collection of the poetical works of Charles Cotton, an illustrated edition including one striking folding plate. ESTC citation number N18243.The sixth edition.Illustrated…

The Chase; to Which Is Annexed Field Sports

William Somervile; Edward Topham · 1804 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Albion Press; James Cundee; T. Hurst , 1804. Leather. The first Edward Topham edition of William Somervile's famous hunting poem, issued here with 'Field Sports', with a sketch and notes. This edition, to which is annexed 'Field Sports', is issue…

The Legend of a Thought and Other Verses

Martha Agnes Rand; Agnes Lee · 1889 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Chicago, Not Stated, 1889. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce volume of poetry by American author, Agnes Lee, or Martha Agnes Rand. A presentation copy of the first edition. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work. Inscribed by the author to the recto of the front fr…

The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence

D. E. Williams · 1831 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this two volume biography of this immensely popular Regency era portrait artist, a scarce work. The scarce two volume first edition biography of leading Regency era portrait artist Sir…

The Farmer&Apos;S Boy; a Rural Poem

Robert Bloomfield · 1800 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, T. Bensley; Vernor and Hood, 1800 . Cloth. The second edition of this poem by Robert Bloomfield with illustrations from the turn of the nineteenth century. The second edition of The Farmer's Boy; A Rural Poem by Robert Bloomfield in the original publisher's clo…

The "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense

W. S. Gilbert · 1869 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, George Routledge and Sons, [1869]. First edition. Cloth. The first collected edition of Gilbert"s foundational comic verse, illustrated throughout by the author. In the publisher"s original green cloth binding, with gilt pictorial decoration.  The undated second issue o…

The Works of Charles Lamb in Five Volumes

Charles Lamb · 1870 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

New York, W. J. Widdleton, 1870 . Leather. A lovely five volume collection of the letters and poetry of this prominent English literary figure, in smart half calf bindings. A scarce five volume edition of the works of this English essayist, poet and antiquarian, published in New…

The Organ (Literary Magazine); "It took us millions of years to get here. We're here."

Mundwiler, Leslie (Ed.) · 1978 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Privately Printed Vol 1., No. 2 pp. 105. Illustrated stiff card covers. Appears unread; as new. At time of cataloguing this title does not appear amongst the holdings at BAC/LAC, Peel. Scarce. Leslie Mundwiler was amongst other things a writer, poet, magazine …

The Organ (Literary Magazine); "It took us millions of years to get here. We're here."

Mundwiler, Leslie (Ed.) · 0 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Privately Printed Vol 1., No. 1 pp. 105. Illustrated stiff card covers. Appears unread; as new. At time of cataloguing this title does not appear amongst the holdings at BAC/LAC, Peel. Scarce. Leslie Mundwiler was amongst other things a writer, poet, magazine …

TWO POINT FIVE 26 Poems Published By The Poetry Society London University Institute Of Education

Robert Yeo Cheng Chuan, Victor Fenech, Simon Heywood, et al · 1967 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, The Poetry Society London University Institute Of Education, 1st Edition, University poetry collection notable for early works from renowned Singaporean poet Robert Yeo, Maltese writer Victor Fenech, Simon Heywood and others. All in VG internal order. Marking and fading …

De vasculis libellus, adulescentulorum causa ex Bayfio decerptus, addita vulgari Latinarum vocum interpretatione. Paris, Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], (colophon: 13 October) 1543. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Later blueish-grey paper over boards with the title printed in black on the spine.

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. · 1947 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

52, [3], [1 blank] pp.Second instalment of the first children's books series ever printed. The work contains a description of ancient Roman vessels, and was specifically printed for the entertainment and edification of children. This second edition by Estienne is very rare. It w…

The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett. With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan. The Text Edited by Charles Cowden Clarke.

Johnson, et al. ; George Gilfillan [notes etc]; Charles Cowden Clarke [editor] · 1863 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1863. Leather. A lovely copy of The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan, in Bickers & Son fine binding. In full-calf Bickers & Son fine binding, with Bick…

The Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. First Edition of the Print

Covarrubias, Miguel (1904 - 1957) · 1933 · Wittenborn Art Books

$850.00 (€771.20 | £643.38 | ¥135,734)

1933. Color half-tone. Mounted on an old support sheet with printed text pasted verso. Damage to lower right corner. Without the printed text beneath the image...Mexican caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias produced this rendering of Roosevelt's inauguration for Vanity Fair, which bi…

Letters from the North of Italy. Addressed to Henry Hallam William

1819 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , John Murray , 1819. First edition. Leather. A scarce combined two volume copy of "The Letters from the North of Italy. Addressed to Henry Hallam." A scarce combined two volume copy of "The Letters from the North of Italy. Addressed to Henry Hallam" written by the Britis…