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Martin Tupper: His Rise and Fall
Hudson, Derek · 1949 · Naomi Symes Books
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)
(Constable, 1949) With a foreword by the Rev. Martin E. Tupper grandson of the author of Proverbial Philosophy. Hardback. Mark left by small label on cloth at rear, corners worn, otherwise very good. xvi + 342pp.
Poems on Several Occasions by the Right Honourable Joseph Addison and Matthew Prior
Rt. Hon. Joseph Addison; Matthew Prior · 1770 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
Glasgow, Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for the University of Glasgow, 1770. Leather. A small two-volume set of poems by Joseph Addison and Matthew Prior, in uniform full calf bindings. A two-volume set in uniform full calf bindings, with the spine labels stating 'PRIO…
Charles Kingsley Collection: Hypatia, Hereward the Wake, Alton Locke, Westward Ho
Charles Kingsley · 1890 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1890-1902. Fine Binding. A handsomely bound set of four of Charles Kingsley's novels in eight volumes. Bound by J&E Bumpus in half calf bindings. A beautifully bound set of four of Charles Kingsley's novels, 'Hypatia, Or New Foes with an …
The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
Young, Edward · 1750 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$420.00 (€381.06 | £317.91 | ¥67,069)
London, England, Printed for A. Millar in the Strand and R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1750. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An early reprint of a justifiable classic in English religion and moral philosophy in the form of verse. The title page continues: "To which is added, A Parap…
The Spectator, New Edition, Carefully Corrected from the Originals, with Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes, Contents, and a General Index, to Which Are Prefixed, the Lives of the Authors, in Eight Volumes, Volumes I-VIII
Addison, Joseph and Richard Steele, eds. · 1819 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$236.00 (€214.12 | £178.63 | ¥37,686)
London, Printed for J. Bumpus, Holborn-Bars, 1819. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Eight structurally sound and internally clean copies, with some unexploded top edges, indicating probable light use and prior reading. Bound in light gray paper over boards…
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope Esq
William Ayre · 1745 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
London, For the Author, 1745. First edition. Leather. A mixed, early edition of this biography regarding noted Romantic poet and translator, Alexander Pope. An uncommon biography as it was unauthorized. It is believed that this work was actually written by Edmund Curll under a p…
Garibaldi and the Thousand: May 1860 & New Paths of Helicon
George M. Trevelyan; Sir Henry Newbolt · 1936 · Rooke Books
£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)
London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1936-1938. Cloth. Two smart volumes from British writers and historians George Macaulay Trevelyan and Sir Henry John Newbolt. Two volumes. Library edition. This set includes: Garibaldi and the Thousand: May 1860, 1936. Illustrated with six maps to t…
Pearson&Apos;S Magazine Secrets of the Courts of Europe
Allen Upwards · 0 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London , Pearson's Magazine, c1896 . First edition. Cloth. A bright volume of articles from Pearson's magazine including works by Allen Upward and A. V. Pearson's Magazine was a monthly periodical that specialised in speculative literature, political discussion an…
The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke; Alfred Perles [trans.] · 1987 · Rooke Books
£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)
London, Turret Books , 1987. Cloth. One of five hundred copies of Alfred Perles' translation of Rilke's charming prose-poem, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first Alfred Perles translation of this prose-poem by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Telling of…
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
Charles Kingsley · 1927 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1927. Cloth. A fantastic illustrated edition of Charles Kingsley's classic of Victorian literature, with plates in colour by Warwick Goble. The third impression of this particular edition of Warwick Goble's illustrations, which first …
Twenty-Five Lyrical Poems from the Hand of Richard Church
Richard Church · 1967 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Heinemann, 1967 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited first edition copy of this collection of poetry by Richard Church. First edition of the work, in the publisher's original maroon cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. A limited edition, numb…
The Laird of Abbotsford a View of Sir Walter Scott
A. N. Wilson · 1980 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)
Oxford, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of this biography of Sir Walter Scott, signed by the author and in the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of The Laird of Abbotsford, A…
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Charles Kingsley · 1903 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1903. Leather. A later printing of the fourth edition of Charles Kingsley's important children's fantasy novel, with illustrations from Linley Sambourne. A later printing of the fourth edition. Illustrated throughout. A children'…
Gerard and Isabel: A Romance in the Form of Cantefable
Francis William Bourdillon · 1921 · Rooke Books
£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)
London, Alexander Moring Ltd. 1921. First edition. Hardback. A first edition copy of this romantic fable: Gerard and Isabel by F.W. Bourdillon, number VII of the Saint George Series. One of the first edition copies of this fantasy romance written by Francis W. Brouillon, printed…
A Tour on the Prairies by Washington Irving Representative Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1850 · Rooke Books
£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)
London, Henry G Bohn, 1850. Leather. Two volumes bound in one of Irving's A Tour on the Prairies, a novel, and Emerson's Representative Men, a series of lectures. Bound in calf leather. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 Â1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and …
The Making of an Immortal: A Play in One Act
George Moore · 1927 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
New York, The Bowling Green Press, 1927. First edition. Hardback. A smart first US edition of this short play from Irish novelist George Moore, limited to 1240 copies signed by the author. First US edition. Limited to twelve hundred and forty copies signed by the author, of whic…
Field and Hedgerow, being the last essays of Richard Jefferies
Jefferies, Richard · 1904 · Pemberley Natural History Books
£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)
Longmans, Green, and Co. London viii, 331, 40-publisher's ads, portrait frontis. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, spine slightly faded. Some minor foxing to edge of frontis. Vg.. New Impression [12th impression] (first published 1889). Posthumous collection of Jefferies’ last nature essa…
Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush
Fischer, Felice and Kyoko Kinoshita et al. · 2007 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007. Hardcover. Gray cloth with red color illustrated dustjacket. 464 pp. 5 gatefolds; 26 bw, 461 color figures. Accompanied the 2007 exhibition of the same name, held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Includes seven essa…
Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush
Fischer, Felice and Kyoko Kinoshita, et al. · 2007 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)
[Philadelphia]/New Haven, Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2007. Paperback. Red and illustrated wraps with black and white lettering; 503 pp.; richly illustrated. Ike Taiga (1723-1776) and his wife Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727-1784) were preeminent artists in 18th-ce…
Pindar and the sublime : Greek myth, reception, and lyric experience.
Fowler, R.L. · 2022 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Paperback. 261 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. Pindar—the ‘Theban eagle’, as Thomas Gray famously called him—has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on win…