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English Farming and Why I Turned It Up
Ernest Bramah · 1894 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, The Leadenhall Press, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of crime fiction author Ernest Bramah's humorous autobiographical account of his farming adventures in his youth. The first edition of the first published work from popular author of detective nove…
Een hogere liefde ? Brieven aan een Duitse vriend : met een essay van Bas Heijne
Albert Camus · 2024 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner
€6.00 ($6.61 | £5.01 | ¥1,056)
Prometheus. 2024, hardcover, goed exemplaar. Het vergt heel veel om te vechten terwijl je oorlog verafschuwt, te accepteren dat je alles kwijtraakt terwijl je liever gelukkig zou zijn, om vernietiging onder ogen te zien terwijl je het idee van een hogere beschaving koestert." 0M…
Writers / Their Lives and Works
James Naughtie · 2018 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
Dorling Kindersley. 2018; Hardcover; mooi exemplaar / fine copy. Pre-19th century. Dante Alighieri ; Giovanni Boccaccio ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; François Rabelais ; Michel de Montaigne ; Miguel de Cervantes ; William Shakespeare ; John Donne ; John Milton ; Molière ; Aphra Behn ; Ma…
A Garland of First Lines
Brian Aldiss; Various · 2002 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)
Oxford, Printworks, c2002. Paperback. A very scarce chapbook by Brian Aldiss, collecting together some of his favourite first lines in literature, from Aldiss' library. A very scarce work.From the library of the author.'A Garland of First Lines' is a charming chap…
The Transmutation of Ling
Ernest Bramah · 1911 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, Grant Richards, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated Ernest Bramah 'Kai Lung' work, signed by the illustrator, Ilbery Lynch. The first edition of this work, one of only five hundred copies produced.With the inscription …
My Name Is Love
Julien Maclaren-Ross · 1964 · Rooke Books
£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)
Isle of Man , Times Press, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of the scarce last published work by Julian Maclaren-Ross. The first edition. My Name is Love is Julien Maclaren-Ross's last and most scarce book. The novel details a love story based on the …
New and Used.
Joseph, Marc · 2006 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
Gottingen, Steidl, 2006 Bound, green illustr. boards, 184pp., 23.4x28.5cm., 52 col. photogr. ills., new. ISBN 9783865212733. Growing up in Ohio in the 1970s, photographer Marc Joseph was first exposed to art, writing and music in the eccentric smaller book and record shops of d…
N.B.L.C.- brochures met bio- en bibliografische informatie over auteurs. Eigen bijdragen gesigneerd door Lampo en Vinkenoog.
Gool, Jef van · 1978 · Antiquariaat Secundus
€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)
's-Gravenhage, NBLC, (1978-1991?). 37 or. gevouwen bladen. Ca. 29,5 x 10 cm. Redactie en teksten Jef van Gool; 2 exemplaren gesigneerd door de auteur. 1. Hans Andreus (1978?); 2. J. Bernlef (sept. 1987); 3. J.M.A. Biesheuvel (1982?); 4. Anna Blaman (1978?); 5. Herman Pieter de B…
Kai Lung&Apos;S Golden Hours
Ernest Bramah · 1924 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
London, Grant Richards, 1924 . Leather. A beautifully bound, signed limited edition of Ernest Bramah's fantasy novel, in a half calf signed binding with slip case. First published in 1922, this is one of two-hundred and fifty signed copies of this limited edition to be prod…
Why Not Catch 21? The Stories Behind the Titles
Dexter, Gary · 2007 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
Francis Lincoln, 2007 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 238 pages. Text in English. As new. Why Not Catch 21? is an expansion on Gary Dexter's long-running Sunday Telegraph column. Each of its 50 chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenti…
Historic London. An Explorer's companion.
Inwood Stephen. · 2008 · SomeThingz, books etcetera
€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)
Chatham Macmillan 2008 Softcover., 414pp., 13,5x21,5cm., illustr. in b/w., in very good condition (covers with light traces of use, spine slightly folded). ISBN 9780230705982. There is hardly a city in the world with richer historical and cultural assocations than London. It i…
Neue Auslese aus dem Schrifttum der Gegenwart, Konvolut von 21 Heften 1945-1947,
Alliierter Informationsdienst (Hrsg.), · 1945 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR
€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)
München/Frankfurt, M., Alliierter Informationsdienst, 1945-1947, kl.8°, insg. ca. 2.600 S., mit s/w-Abbildungen, original Hefte, altersgemäß gute Exemplare, äusserst interessantes Zeitdokument (re6) Hefte: 1945: 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. 1946: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 1947…
John Steinbeck: The Voice of the Land
FERRELL, KEITH · 1986 · S. Howlett-West Books
$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)
New York: M. Evans & Company, 1986. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0871314800. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is cri…
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
William Hazlitt · 1852 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, Office of the Illustrated London Library, 1852. Leather. A handsomely bound second edition of William Hazlitt"s impassioned Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, in two volumes. In a handsome full red calf binding with gilt detailing. William Hazlitt"s The Life of Napoleon Buona…
Frank Harris: His Life and Adventures: An Autobiography
Frank Harris; Grant Richards [Intro.] · 1947 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, The Richards Press, 1947 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Frank Harris' autobiography, inscribed by the editor Martin Secker to fellow editor, and member of the Bloomsbury group, Roger Senhouse. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth. Sig…
Clara Hopgood
Mark Rutherford; Reuben Shapcott · 1936 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Oxford; London, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1936 . Cloth. s Uncommon edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding, encased in the clipped, increasingly scarce dust wrapper. Originally published in 1896, this novel follows the story of Clara Hopgood and …
Absent Minds. Intellectuals in Britain. (HARDCOVER)
COLLINI, Stefan · 2006 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA
€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)
Oxford University Press 2006, 540pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Pakketzending. A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of 'the question o…
Triumph at midnight of the century. A critical biography of Arturo Barea. Explaining the roots of the Spanish civil war.
BAREA,ARTURO. Eaude,Michael. · 2011 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.
€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)
Eastbourne, Sussex Academic Press, 2011. XVII,[2],243 pp. 22 b./w. ills. Softcover.Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write concretely and sensuously: about himself in order …
Eats, Shoots And Leaves
Lynne Truss · 2003 · Book Haven
$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)
Profile Books 2003 Hardback 209 'A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. Not a primer but a 'zero tolerance' manual for direct action.' Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely? Aren't we all taught a…
The ADELPHI. Vol. I, No. 1. June 1923
Murry, John Middleton [1889 - 1957] - Editor; Lawrence, D[avid]. H[erbert. 1885 - 1930]; Mansfield, Katherine [1888 - 1923]; Tchekhov, Anton [1860 - 1904]; Koteliansky, S[amuel]. S[olomonovich. 1882 - 1955]; Tomlinson, H[enry]. M[ajor. 1873 - 1958]; Sulli · 1923 · Tavistock Books, ABAA
$82.50 (€74.85 | £62.45 | ¥13,174)
London: Loxley Brothers Limited, 1923. 1st edition. Printed pale yellow paper wrappers. viii, 1 - 88 pp. Numerous full page advertisements interspersed. Frontis tipped-in, a b/w portrait of Katherine Mansfield. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Ex-lib. with "reference use only" sticker to inside…