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Painted Shadow: The Life Of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife Of T. S. Eliot

Carole Seymour-Jones · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Nan A. Talese 2002 Hardback, 744pp. ""By the time she was committed to an asylum in 1938, five years after T. S. Eliot deserted her, Vivienne Eliot was a lonely, distraught figure. Shunned by literary London, she was the "neurotic" wife whom Eliot had left behind. In The Family …

LUCRETIUS, DE RERUM NATURA OF TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS; (On the Nature of Lucretius)

Lucretius · 1515 · Books On The Boulevard

$11,500.00 (€10,433.85 | £8,704.61 | ¥1,836,401)

Very Good with no dust jacket Aldine Reprint Latin text. Bound in blue leather, (circa 1890-1910) gilt illustrated border. Gilt spine illust, five raised spine bands, black title label. Black spine edge label reads: AD1515. All edges gilt, rose-pink moire endpapers. Pink silk ma…

Memoirs Illustrative Of The Art Of Glass-painting. By The Late Charles Winston, Of The Inner Temple. Illustrative With Engravings, From The Author's Original Drawings By Philip H. Delamotte, F.S.A.

WINSTON, CHARLES 1814-1864. · 1865 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1865 . 0. A very good Victorian publisher's cloth binding. 8vo. pp.xiv./[2pp./pp.362. Worn blue cloth covers. Top & tail of spine and corners carefully strengthend. Spine with dulled gilt titles: "Art Of Glass Painting - C. Winston." Origin…

Descriptive Catalogue of the Goewey Collection of Browning Pictures 1898-1917; Together with an Introductory Paper Read Before the San Francisco Browning Society

Mrs. James M. Goewey · 1917 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

San Francisco, California, John Henry Nash, 1917. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Mrs. Goewey's fascinating recollections of the process of amassing her own personal and her family's collection of the poet Robert Browning's images and memorabilia. …

Jerzyk: Diaries, Texts, and Testimonies of the Urman Family

Jerzy Feliks Urman; Sophie Urman; Izydor Urman; Anthony Rudolf (Ed); Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Trans) · 2016 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Bristol, Shearsman Books, 2016. First edition. Paperback. A collection of diaries and testimonies of the Urman family, who lived in Poland during the events of World War II, signed by the editor to Michael Berkeley, the English compose and House of Lords member. First Edition Th…

The Poetical Works and Remains of Henry Kirke White

Henry Kirke White; Robert Southey · 1852 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, George Routledge and Co. 1852. First edition. Leather. A scarce first thus edition of the collected poetical works of the renowned English poet Henry Kirke White. Henry Kirke White, who died at the tragically young age of twenty one, had a short but prolific literary car…

Presage of Victory and Other Poems of the Time

John Freeman · 1916 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Selwyn and Blount , 1916. First edition. Paperback. The first of only 25 copies printed for this very scarce poetry collection from John Freeman, this copy gifted to his wife. Gifted by the author to his wife, Gertrude. With his inscription to the half title.The first of…

Portrait of a Spy: The Story of Mata Hari

E. Temple Thurston · 1938 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, The Readers Library Publishing Company LTD, [1938]. Cloth. A thrilling work of fiction depicting the notorious exotic dancer and spy, Mata Hari, set during the First World War. This work is an early edition, in original publisher's cloth binding with original unclip…

The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill in Three Volumes

Charles Churchill · 1844 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , William Pickering, 1844. Leather. An attractive set of The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill with copious notes and a life of the author by W. Tooke. rom The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. Complete in three volumes. There is an engraved portrait of Charles Churc…

On the River Amour. [N° 277 of 1250 copies.]

Joseph Delteil, Samuel Putnam (translator), Alexandre Alexeieff (illustrator) · 1929 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

New York Covici Friede 1929 Bound, half-cloth, title on spine, cardboard covers, xvi+214pp., 17x25cm., ills. in b/w., in good condition (covers rubbed, corners slightly bumped, interior and pages clean and in very good condition). A first English translation of Joseph Delteil's…

Studies of the Greek Poets, Volume I, Volume II

Symonds, John Addington · 1893 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

London, England, Adam & Charles Black, 1893. Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable set of two reference copies, complete in two volumes, good for reading and study; nothing fancy, but complete and still fairly sturdy beyond cracking to pasted…

The North American Review, Volume 143 (July-December 1886)

Allen Thorndike Rice, ed · 1886 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, Allen Thorndike Rice, 1886. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 650p. Ex-library hardcover book bound in 3/4 black leather with marbled boards. POOR CONDITION. Front and back hinges cracked, and binding is cracked in the middle of the text block, leaving some page signatures loose…

A vision of nature : traces of the original world.

Tobias, Michael. · 1995 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 1995. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket.xiv, 296 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-290) and index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. From the publisher : For thou…

The Remonstrance. To Which Is Added An Ode To My Ass : Also, The Magpie And Robin, A Tale ; An Apology For Kings ; And, An Address To My Pamphlet

Pindar, Peter [ Wolcot, John ] · 1791 · Eastleach Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

printed for J Evans, Paternoster Row 1791 1st edition. Half calf over marbled boards, G. [iv]+63+[1]pp, last page is a list of Pindar's works available from Evans, with the half title, upper board held by the cords, both boards very worn & rubbed, remains of a paper label to the…

Moortown. Poems. With two drawings by Leonard Baskin and a half-title decoration by the author. (INSCRIBED)

TED HUGHES. · 1979 · Clearwater Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Peggy and Sean, yet another book, with much love from Ted, 10th Nov 1979". (The recipients of Hughes' inscription are…

A Collection on the Works of Eugene O&Apos;Neill

Eugene O'Neill; Various · 1929 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

New York; New Haven, Horace Liveright; Random House; Yale University Press; McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1929-1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of seven volumes of work by and on American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Seven volumes. A collection of volumes by and on …

Picture Stories. Soviet Children's Library. For Tiny Tots. Translated from the Russian by D. Rottenberg.

RADLOV, N.. [Daniil Kharms Harms] (trans. Rottenberg). · 1960 · Marijana Dworski Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)

Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d. Not dated, early translation, probably c. 1960. Landscape format, colour illustrated card covers, unpaginated, c. 40 pp. illustrated throughout by Radlov in colour. Upper cover chipped at spine and lower edge, internally clean and…

Literature and Occult Tradition. Studies in Philosophical Poetry. (Translated from the French by Dorothy Bolton).

SAURAT, DENIS. · 1930 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London:G.Bell and Sons,1930. 1st ed. "Modern philosophical poetry is the expression, varying according to the character, intelligence and surroundings of each poet, of a body of common ideas, related to neo-platonism and various occult doctrines, but original in its essence whic…

The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle. Number Thirteen. June 1968. Vol. 2 No. 1

levy, d.a. (editor and author) · 1968 · Mare Booksellers

$216.00 (€195.97 | £163.50 | ¥34,492)

Cleveland, No publisher Given, 1968. Tabloid. Side folding tabloid newspaper. 15 by 11 ¾ inches. 16 pp. including covers. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Thirteenth issue of this underground newspaper style work published and created by Cleveland poet d.a. l…

The Prose Works, Letters, and Final Memorials of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb; Thomas Noon Talfourd · 1837 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Edward Moxon, 1837-1848 . Leather. A lovely set of this collection of poetry, prose, and letters by Charles Lamb in Sotheran Sackville signed morocco bindings. A beautifully bound collection of works and letters by Charles Lamb, including three sets rebound in Sotheran S…