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The Works of Thomas Hood Comic and Serious, in Prose and in Verse, with All the Original Illustrations in Nine Volumes

His Son and Daughter · 1799 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London , Ward, Lock, & Co. c1880. Cloth. An illustrated set of The Works of Thomas Hood by his son and daughter. This set contains nine of eleven volumes, and is missing volumes nine and eleven. Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was a British humourist and poet. His son, T…

Aesop&Apos;S Fables Told to the Children, and, Beasts Shown to the Children

Aesop; Lena Dalkeith · 2008 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, T. C. & E. C. Jack; E. P. Dutton & Co, c1906. Cloth. A scarce curated set of Edwardian adaptations of Aesop for children, colourfully illustrated, in a custom clamshell. A curated set of three scarce Edwardian renditions of Aesop, presented together in a custom cloth cla…

The sixth book of the Aeneid. With introduction and notes (commentary) by H.E. Butler.

VERGILIUS, · 1920 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

Blackwell, Oxford, 1920. VII,288p. Original green cloth. Cloth a bit mottled. Library mark to tail spine. Remains of library stickers to first end papers. Library stamps on first pages. ‘Professor Butler’s book will receive a cordial welcome. Both for the knowledge which it pre…

Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose, of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison; Mr. Tickell [Ed.] · 1769 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Edinburgh, J. Robertson, 1769 . Leather. A very scarce copy of this collection of miscellaneous works of Joseph Addison, compiled by Mr. Tickell. Uniformly bound in full calf. A later edition. First published in 1721. Complete in four volumes. Comprised of the miscellaneous work…

Angels and Earthly Creatures

Elinor Wylie · 1929 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The limited edition first edition of this volume of poetry from renowned beauty Elinor Wylie, in both the dust wrapper and very scarce slip case. A limited edition, first edition work. In the publisher's original uncli…

Poems: Including the Second Edition of Egypt

M.M. Clifford · 1808 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, William Bulmer & Co. 1808. Leather. A very scarce anthology inspired by travels as a soldier to Egypt as well as those across the Mediterranean and Asia, with the bookplate of Countess Wolseley. Poems: Including the Second Edition of Egypt, very scarce anthology written …

Elijah the Slave a Hebrew Legend Retold

SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS · 1979 · S. Howlett-West Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Color Illustrations; Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book an…

Wercken door Zacharias Heijns.[Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns], [1621]-1628. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title pages, the engraved publisher's device on the title page of part 2, the engraved portrait of Zacharias Heyns in the text of part 1 and 34 full-page engravings (incl. 1 large folding plate and 1 plate outside the collation) illustrating the days of the two weeks and the other texts by Du Bartas. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Both volumes bound in almost matching 17th-century vellum, both spines with manuscript title in black ink.

DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste. · 1544 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

Volume 1: part 1: [12], 1-168, 168-183, [1], 184-313, [1] pp.; part 2: [8], 634, [6] pp. Volume 2: part 3: [8], 150, [2], 231, [1] pp.Very rare complete and first set (in 4to) of the works of the famous French Huguenot courtier and Renaissance poet Guillaume de Salluste Du Barta…

Poems Plays and Miscellaneous Essays and Mrs Leicester&Apos;S School and the Letters of Charles Lamb, Vols 1 & 2 and the Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb · 1888 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1888-92. Leather. A handsome collection of works by Charles Lamb. An English writer, essayist, and poet, Charles Lamb was part of an elite literary group that included Coleridge and Wordsworth. Biographer E V Lucas described Lamb as 'the most lovab…

Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton 1842-1849 The India Years

ONDAATJE, CHRISTOPHER · 1996 · Kalamos Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Toronto, HarperCollins. 1996, 1st Can Ed. (ISBN: 0002554364) Hardcover. Book, Since reading a biography of him more than 25 years ago, Christopher Ondaatje has been fascinated with the still-enigmatic Sir Richard Francis Burton, 19th-century explorer, scholar, poet and British s…

India in the Persian World of Letters: Khan-I Arzu Among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists (Oxford Oriental Monographs)

Dudney, Arthur · 2022 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$115.00 (€104.34 | £87.05 | ¥18,364)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Navy cloth in glossy illustrated jacket. xvi, 320 pages ; 23 cm. "This study traces the development of philology (the analysis of literary language) in the Persian tradition in India, concentrating on its socio…

Aisle-Seat: Lyrics, Sonnets, Quatrains

Conant, Isabel Fiske · 1937 · Clausen Books, RMABA

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

The Mosher Press Binding little faded with little wear to corners; textblock clean; signed on ffep by Colorado Poet Margaret Tod Ritter, dated 1947, and from her personal collection; 55 pp. First Edition Portland, ME Good 12mo - over 6¾" 7¾" Tall Hard Cover

The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; with an Introduction and Notes, Historical and Critical, and Characters of the Lyric Poets

Allan Cunningham · 1825 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, John Taylor, 1825. First edition. Hardback. A first edition collection of Scottish verses, complete in four volumes in the publisher's original binding. Containing verses such as 'Ah, the poor shepherd's mournful fate', 'Callum o' glen'…

Photographs of Queen Elizabeth in Cologne-Koeln Germany from the 1965 State Visit

Montfort, Michael · 1965 · Wittenborn Art Books

$600.00 (€544.37 | £454.15 | ¥95,812)

May 25, 1965. Group of 4 photographs. 30 x 20 cm. Images from the 1965 State Visit of Queen Elizabeth to Germany. Most with the Montfort's studio stamp on the rear. and with dates, manuscript annotations and often the name of the publication.. Provenance: The Estate of Michael M…

A Change of World: Volume 48 of the Yales Series of Younger Poets

Rich, Adrienne Cecile · 1951 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1951. Second Printing. Hardcover. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Red paper boards with black titles. 85 pages ; 20 cm. A Change of World (1951) is the first poetry collection by renowned American poet Adrienne Rich, selected as Volume 48 in the presti…

The Pageant: A Magazine of Belles-Lettres (Vol. I, No. 1, June 1905)

Rossetti, Christina and Wallace Rice · 1905 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Chicago, The Blue Sky Press, 1905. Softcover. Tan paper tied wraps, 32 pp. The first issue of this little literary magazine features the poem "Goblin Market," penned by English poet Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894). With an introduction by Wallace Rice. The narrative tell…

A Picturesque Tour of the River Thames in Its Western Course

John Fisher Murray · 1853 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Cloth. A fascinating account of the surroundings of the River Thames, richly illustrated with wood cuts. An excellent account of the River Thames estuary, including detail on Richmond, Windsor and Hampton Court Palace.Written by Irish humourist and p…

The Suburban Sage: Stray Notes and Comments on His Simple Life

H. C. Bunner · 1896 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

New York, Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short pieces from American written Henry Cuyler Bunner. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and numerous in-text images. A collection of short pieces on s…

WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? THE STORIES OF RAYMOND CARVER

CARVER, Raymond · 0 · Charles Agvent

$6,250.00 (€5,670.57 | £4,730.76 | ¥998,044)

New York. McGraw-Hill Book Company. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Carver's first trade book, a collection of stories that heralded a new perspective on the role of Everyman in modern fiction. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Carver to poet Michael Waters and his wife o…

A CONTINUING JOURNEY: ARCHIBALD MacLEISH: THE MAN, HIS CRAFT HIS TIMES

[MacLEISH, Archibald] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,994)

[Boston]. [National Public Radio]. First Edition. Pictorial wraps, 8-1/2" x 11"; 68 mimeographed pages printed on one side only. A proposal for a series of radio presentations of 10 documentaries and 11 plays by MacLeish. Likely produced in small numbers.. Fine. Archibald MacLei…