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The Colorado Magazine Winter/Spring 1979: Volume 56, Number 1 and 2

JOHNSON, CATHRYNE (EDITOR) · 1980 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Denver, The Colorado Historical Society. 1980. Wraps, 8vo - over 7 " - 9 " tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Historical Periodical, Gift quality copy; Textblock bright and tight; Minor shelf wear to the head and the foot of the spine. 118p. Includes: The Controversial Career of Edwar…

The POEMS Of ELIZA COOK: Comprising Melaia; Together with Her Miscellaneous Pieces

Cook, Eliza [1818 - 1889] · 1850 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$192.50 (€174.65 | £145.71 | ¥30,740)

New - York: Leavitt & Company, 1850. 1st edition thus, i.e. with this imprint. Original publisher's extra-gilt deluxe binding, dark blue ribbed-morocco grain cloth with elaborate gilt stamping, gilt wood and vine border and arch, central figure of woman with lyre within floral w…

The Child of Pleasure (Likely Modern Library First Edition, ML #98. 1)

D'ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE · 1925 · Bluebird Books

$62.00 (€56.25 | £46.93 | ¥9,901)

New York: The Modern Library / Boni & Liveright, Inc, [c.1925]. Flexible Leatherette. A Modern Library reprint edition of the first novel by Italy's Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938). The author was a poet, journalist and military leader. Text of the novel rendered into English by…

Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. In Two Volumes

Cowper, William · 1814 · Mare Booksellers

$59.00 (€53.53 | £44.66 | ¥9,422)

New York, David Huntington, Publisher, 1814. Full Leather. Full calf leather. Approximately 4 by 3 inches. Two volumes. 268, 248 pages. With frontispiece illustrations at the front of each volume. A collection of shorter and longer poems by William Cowper, the noted 18th century…

The Farmer&Apos;S Boy; Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs

Robert Bloomfield · 0 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)

London, J. F. Dove, c1830. Leather. A finely rebound full-calf edition of Robert Bloomfield"s The Farmer"s Boy, the celebrated pastoral poem inspired by rural Suffolk life. Rebound in full calf.Illustrated with a frontispiece and title vignette. This copy is undated. Dated here…

An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie

Sir William Forbes · 1824 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, E. Roper, 1824. Leather. An account of the life and works of James Beattie, written by his lifelong friend Sir William Forbes, a new edition illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. Complete in two volumes.Illustrated with a frontispiece to volume I.William Forbes'…

The Anatomy of Dandyism with Some Observations on Beau Brummell

Barbey d'Aurevilly; D. B. Wyndham Lewis [translator] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London, Peter Davies, 1928. Cloth. A smart limited edition of D'Aurevilly's biographic essay on British dandy Beau Brummell, translated into English. Limited to five hundred copies of which this is number three hundred and sixty-eight. Illustrated with a vignette title…

The Streets of London: Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated Residents

John Thomas Smith; Charles Mackay [editor] · 1861 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Richard Bentley, 1861. Cloth. A scarce new edition of this fascinating history of London and its celebrated residents from English antiquarian John Thomas Smith. New edition. Scarce work. A historical compilation of stories and anecdotes of notable figures who lived on o…

Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush

Fischer, Felice and Kyoko Kinoshita et al. · 2007 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007. Softcover. Softcover. Illustrated wraps; cinnamon spine. 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 essays; …

For Whom Do I Toil? Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry.

STANISLAWSKI, MICHAEL · 1988 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€32.70 ($36.04 | £27.28 | ¥5,755)

New York, Oxford University Press, 1988. 263 pp. Very good copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustj. slightly discolored. Modern Jewish history. This is the first full-length biography, in any language, of Judah Leib Gordon, one of the pivotal intellectual and cultural figures in…

An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894

William Morris · 1898 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Chiswick Press; Longmans & Co, 1898. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Morris' address given to the students of Birmingham Municipal School of Art. The first edition of this inspiring addresse given by noted artist William Morris, at the prize cerem…

Mary and Charles Lamb: Poems, Letters, and Remains

W. Carew Hazlitt · 1874 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1874 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this charmingly illustrated biographical study of English writers and siblings Charles and Mary Lamb. A scarce first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates, including a fol…

Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens: With Remarks on his Life and Writings. Notes, &c. &c. By Lord Viscount Strangford. The Second Ediiton

CAMOENS (Luis de). · 1803 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London: Printed for J. Carpenter..., 1803. Small 8vo, 1672x 107 mms., pp. [iv], 160 [161 - 164 adverts], engraved portrait of Camoens as frontispiece, engraved arms of Strangford on dedication page, entirely uncut, contemporary paper spine (soiled and faded), marbled boards (ru…

Fables in English and French Verse. Translated from the original Latin of Gabriele Faerno. With hundred Copper-plates.London, for Claude du Bosci, and sold by C. Davis, 1741. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece by Claude Du Bosc (Aesop communicating with the animals), 100 engraved illustrating the 100 Fables (ca. 96 x 110), inspired by the fable illustrations by Marcus Gheeraerts, numerous head- and tailpieces by Henry Woodfall. Full calf over boards.

AESOP/FAERNO. · 1563 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)

[2], XVI, 190, [2], VI, 3-191 pp.First edition of this lovely printed collection of the famous ‘100 (Aesop) fables’, originally translated in elegant Latin verses by Gabriel Faerno (1563), and now translated into English and French verses by Claude Du Bosc and Charles Perrault.P…

Guide to the Turf; or Pocket Racing Companion: Containing the English, Scotch, and Irish Nominations for 1843 & 1844; Also, Alphabetically Arranged and Indexed; the Performances of the Two-Year-Olds; List of Winning Horses in 1842; Lengths of Courses; Laws of Racing; Derby and St. Leger Lots, Colours of the Riders, Etc.

W. Ruff · 1843 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, R. Ackermann, 1843 . Leather. A smart Victorian racing companion, with a former owner"s hand-written lyrical poems to the rear. In the original full morocco binding, bound by H. Jones, Swansea. A compact racing handbook, providing detailed listings of nominations across …

The Poetical Works of John Milton, With Notes of Various Authors. To which are added Illustrations. And some Account of The Life and Writings of Milton, by the Rev. Henry J. Todd.... The Second Edition, with Considerable Additions, and with a Verbal Index to the Whole of Milton's Poetry. In Seven Volumes.

MILTON (John): · 1809 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London: Printed for J. Johnson... [and 23 others], 1809. 7 volumes. Large 8vo, 211 x 128 mms., pp. [vi] xv [xvi blank], 217 [218 - 615 indexes 616 blank]; [iv] v - xix [xx b lank], [3], 4 -462; [vi], [3], 4 - 473 [474 blank]; [vi], [3], 4 - 395 [396 blank];[vi]. [i] ii - xix […

Departmental Ditties and Other Verses

Rudyard Kipling · 1899 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, George Newness, 1899. Leather. Rudyard Kipling's first collection of verse, bound in a decorative crushed half morocco binding. The 'Sixpenny Series' edition. First published in 1886. Bound in crushed half morocco with marbled paper to the boards, and flo…

The Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1829 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.59 | $2,378.05 | ¥379,744)

London, Robert Cadell, 1829-1833. Leather. A large set of forty-eight volumes of the Waverley Novels by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott. Complete in forty-eight volumes. With a frontispiece and vignette title to each volume. The Waverley Novels are a collection created by the a…

Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things: Death; Judgment; Heaven; Hell. Part I, Death.

[Joseph Trapp] · 1734 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Lawton Gilliver, 1734. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce meditation of death by the clergyman Joseph Trapp. The first edition of this very scarce work.Part I of Joseph Trapp's four part poem 'Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things', for which each part wa…

The World before the Flood, a poem, in Ten Cantos: With Other Occasional Pieces. By James Montgomery. Seventh Edition.

MONTGOMERY, JAMES . · 1826 · Chilton Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster-Row. 1826 . 0. 12mo. pp.18/pp.294 . 16.8cm x 10.5cm x 2.5cm. A very good full leather binding. Polished dark brown calf, bords with a few chips and scuffs. Spine carefully repaired, preserving original black lea…