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The Effusions of Friendship and Fancy in Several Letters to and from Select Friends

1766 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1766. Leather. The second edition of this rare epistolary collection by John Langhorne, complete in two volumes. The second edition of this very scarce work, complete in two volumes. With large additions and improvements.  In a contemporary…

Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt: Being a Personal Narrative of Events

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A first US edition of this historical account of the events surrounding the English occupation of Egypt from English writer Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. First US edition. With a frontispiece. A historical account focused on the pol…

The Saturday Evening Post, November 19, 1960 *a Visit with Robert Frost / Perry Como*

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1960 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.50 | ¥23,945)

USA: Curtis, 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Features: Twilight of the great beasts - Africa's wildlife is disappearing - photo of dead rhino and smashed car after collision (large clipping from the first page of this article); A visit with Robert Frost - at 86, the great poet o…

Black Venus; the Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera; Wise Children

Angela Carter · 1985 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1985-1996. First edition. Cloth. A smart three volume set of first edition works by feminist author Angela Carter, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. A three volume set.In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust…

High Altars: The Battle-Fields of France and Flanders As I Saw Them

John Oxenham [William Arthur Dunkerley] · 1918 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Methuen & Co. 1918 . First edition. Paperback. A signed first edition in the original unclipped dust wrapper, Oxenham"s eyewitness reflections on the Western Front, an inscribed presentation copy. In the publisher's original paper wraps.First edition, printed in Mar…

Gods Have Faces'. The Biblical Epigrams and Short Poems of Hildebert of Lavardin

Hildebert of Lavardin, Marc Wolterbeek (ed) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 336 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 8 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503612812. Summary Hildebert of Lavardin is one of the great poets of the Middle Ages, praised for his elegant style by his contemporaries and by modern scholars a…

Castalia: A Semiannual Magazine of Literature and the Arts (Volume I, Number 1)

Kehlmann, Robert (editor) · 1961 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.31 | ¥35,930)

Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College Union, 1961. Softcover. Black and white stapled wraps, 76 pp. BW illus. The first issue -- apparently, the only issue -- of this burgeoning art periodical. Consists of prose pieces and poems. Contents: Astarte's Revenge / Larry Rubin -- Gras…

Castalia: A Semiannual Magazine of Literature and the Arts (Volume I, Number 1)

Kehlmann, Robert (editor) · 1961 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$200.00 (€181.46 | £151.38 | ¥31,937)

Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College Union, 1961. Softcover. Black and white stapled wraps, 76 pp. BW illus. The first issue -- apparently, the only issue -- of this burgeoning art periodical. Consists of prose pieces and poems. Contents: Astarte's Revenge / Larry Rubin -- Gras…

The dispensary. A poem. In six canto’s. The ninth edition. With several descriptions and episodes never before printed.London, printed for J.T. and sold by Tho. Astley, 1726. 12mo. With frontispiece and 6 full-page plates, one for each of the canto’s engraved by Lud. Du Guernier (included in the collation), many woodcut head- and tailpieces. Calf over boards, gold-tooled spine.

[GARTH, Samuel]. · 1699 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

[24], 84, 36 pp.Ninth edition (the first after the dead of the author) of this satirical mock-heroic poem in six canto’s which had been first published anonymously by Garth in 1699. Although the satire on the building of a medicines dispensary for the poor at Royal College of Ph…

A Tribute to Henry Miller by the Author Jerry Kamstra Reading from the Major Works with a Special Guest Reading Anaïs Nin . Monday Sept. 8th 7-9 P.M. At River Inn in Big Sur. $3. 00. First Edition of the Large Format Poster

Kamstra, Jerry ( 1935 - 2019); Henry Miller (1891-1991 ); Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) · 1980 · Wittenborn Art Books

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

Big Sur, Calif.: 1980. Original intaglio version of the poster. 23 x 16.5 inches. Large format version. fold marks.. Jerry Kamstra (January 2, 1935 - November 26, 2019) was an American novelist, poet, artist and community organizer. Kamstra is best known for his novels Weed: Adv…

Acta apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1534 (impressum: 1535). 8vo (15.2 x 9.7 cm). With the title on the verso of leaf 24 underlined in red ink and the accompanying initial also coloured in red. Modern half brown calf.

ARATOR. · 1502 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[48] ll.First and only 16th-century edition of the most celebrated work of Arator (ca. 490-after 544), a 6th-century Christian poet and subdeacon of Rome. De Actibus Apostolorum, written in Latin verse, stands as a remarkable example of early Christian literary culture.Arator, o…

Personal letter by the famous doctor and conversationalist Oliver Wendel Holmes, dated 'Boston Aug. 15th 1876', opening 'My dear Lady...' To the author & collector Amy Twiss housed in the original 'Autographensammlung von Amy Twiss' folder. Wendell Holmes acknowledges the receipt of the letter and replies most kindly to Ms. Twiss' praise for his writing skills. He then tells the events surrounding the loss of her letter upon his return to Boston after a visit to the sea-shore. Once he realises he took out his pocket-book at a pharmacy's Sunday last [in order to buy some mosquito repellant] the puzzle is solved: 'Just one hour and 15 minutes ago I got into a horse-car and went to the shop where I made my purchase. There sure enough, I found the letter!' He explains that letter writing 'a few words of communication' makes him feel better. 'I like myself better for having done so.' In 30 lines he then proceeds to explain the poem 'How the Old Horse Won the Bet'

WENDELL HOLMES, Oliver.- ALS.- AMY TWISS [Recipient].- · 1876 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

Boston, autograph, 1876. [15 August 1876]. 8vo. [Meas. appr. 12.5 x 20.5 cm.]. 2 further folds visible. Without the envelope. Appr. 95 lines of text in the hand of Wendell Holmes, w. signature. (4 pp.). Oliver Wendell Holmes [1809 - 1894] was an American physician, professor, po…

Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work

Gilliam, Bryan Randolph · 1992 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$135.00 (€122.48 | £102.18 | ¥21,558)

Durham, Duke University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Pale yellow cloth boards with black lettering; yellow and black illustrated dj, mylar cover; x, 289 pp; bw illustrations and music. "This first English-language volume of musicological essays on Richard Strauss places the German co…

The Compleat Angler: Or, Contemplative Man&Apos;S Recreation. In Two Parts.

Izaak Walton; Charles Cotton; Moses Browne · 1772 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Richard and Henry Causton, 1772. Leather. The eighth edition of this classic ode to fishing from Izaak Walton, complete with ten copper plates. The eighth edition. Complete in two parts bound into one, with separate title page for Part II stated as the "fourth edition im…

AHH 2: Love the ART HATE: ART HATE Graphics 1972-2010 [Signed]

CHILDISH, Billy (b. 1959); Harry Adams · 2010 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London L-13 First Edition (so stated), one of only 500 copies privately published for subscribers. Oblong royal 8vo (210 x 230): [2],7-230pp, copiously illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's saffron quarter-cloth over thick card boards, spine lettered in black, paper AHH l…

The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with a critical introduction

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · 1893 · Bookbarrow

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Ward Lock, London, circa 1893. Edition Unstated, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A volume in the Minerva Library of Famous Books with an introduction by G. T. Bettany. Tissue-guarded b/w. frontis. portrait of Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)…

Annotations of Giant&Apos;S Town

John Fuller · 1970 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Poem-of-the-Month Club Ltd. 1970. First edition. Loose Pages, Articles. A fine first edition of this broadside poem from the Poem-of-the-Month Club, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author. From the Poem-of-the-Month Club set of broadside printed poems.…

Human Shows Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles

Thomas Hardy · 1925 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1925. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Thomas Hardy's penultimate poetry collection, in the original cloth binding. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt detail. Thomas Hardy's penul…

The Friend: A Series of Essays, in Three Volumes, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1818 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

London, Rest Fenner, 1818. Hardback. A complete three volume set of the essays Coleridge published in his 'The Friend' periodical, each volume with the half-title present. A new edition of this work. This new edition was expanded from the first. Complete in three volum…

The Trial of William Lord Byron [with] the Trial of Lawrence Earl Ferrers for the Murder of John Johnson [with] the Whole Proceedings at Large in a Cause on an Action Brought by the Rt Hon. Richard Lord Grosvenor Against His Royal Highness Henry Frederick Duke of Cumberland for Criminal Conversation with Lady Grosvenor. [with] the Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy

Various · 1765 · Rooke Books

£2,750.00 (€3,296.31 | $3,633.13 | ¥580,165)

London, Various Publishers, 1765-1776. First edition. Leather. A sammelband of prominent eighteenth century legal cases, which deal with cases of bigamy, adultery and murder. These four uncommon publications form the account of proceedings during trial. The first edition of all …