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The Book of Job in Form: A Literary Translation with Commentary. Translated, annotated, introduced (Studia Semitica Neerlandica). ISBN 9789004231580

FOKKELMAN, JAN P. · 2012 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€119.90 ($132.15 | £100.03 | ¥21,103)

Leiden, Brill, 2012. X, 336 pp. Owner's signature inner frontcover. Else as new. Hardcover. Hebrew text with English translation on facing pages. The Book of Job in Form presents to the reader a platform for a personal and intensive encounter with a great work of art. Its bilin…

Cato to Lord Byron on the Immorality of His Writings [Bound with;] Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

George Byron; George Burges · 1814 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, John Murray; W. Wetton , 1814-1824. Leather. An uncommon collection of biographical works, celebrating the lives of prolific poet Lord Byron, and French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte. Two volumes bound in one. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte is the ninth ed…

The Works of Thomas Campion Complete Songs, Masques, and Treatises with a Selection of Latin Verse

Walter R. Davis · 1969 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London , Faber and Faber , 1969. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Thomas Campion's work since 1909. The first edition. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Very scarce. A collection of complete songs, masques, and treatises written by Thomas Campion.Thomas C…

Poems (inc. Musaeus - a monody to the memory of Mr Pope; Odes; Elegies; Epitaphs; Elfrida; Caractacus; Letters; Illustrations)

William Mason · 1773 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Printed by A Ward, York, sold by Robert Horsfield, T Cadell in London & W Tesseyman, York, London, 1773. 3rd Edition, Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Brown leather with gilt framing and raised bands to spine. Corners bumped, spine ends worn, front hinge cracked but cover securel…

The Farmer&Apos;S Boy; Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs. Wild Flowers; or Pastoral and Local Poetry

Robert Bloomfield · 1851 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

Halifax, Milner and Sowerby, 1851. Cloth. A smart copy of this collection of rural poetry from English labouring-class writer, Robert Bloomfield. With a frontispiece, vignette title page, and many in-text images. A collection of rural and pastoral poetry including: Market Night,…

Lavater&Apos;S Looking-Glass; or, Essays on the Face of Animated Nature, from Man to Plants

Lavater, Sue, & Co. [Johann Casper Lavater] · 1800 · Rooke Books

£2,985.00 (€3,578.00 | $3,943.60 | ¥629,742)

London, Richardsons; Symonds; Lackington, Allen, and Co. 1800. First edition. Leather. A really very scarce copy of this collection of essays on man and nature. First edition, in a attractive leather binding. By Johann Caspar Lavater, a Swiss poet and physiognomist. With engrave…

Testvérország. A jó gyerekeknek mesélte karácsonyra (Sister country. Told for the good children). Gyoma, Kner Izidor, 1918.

BALÁZS, BÉLA / KOZMA, LAJOS (Ill.): · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€550.00 ($606.20 | £458.85 | ¥96,802)

16mo. Size: 10 x 13.5 cm. Pp. 59. With six full-page coloured plates. Publisher's pictorial boards, cloth spine, rubbed. Some leaves with small corner loss. First edition of this unusual Hungarian children's book illustrated by Lajos Kozma in a characteristic Art Nouveau style. …

Dramatic Scenes

Barry Cornwall [Bryan Procter] · 1857 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1857 . Leather. A beautifully bound edition of the poetical works of Barry Cornwall, the pseudonym of English poet Bryan Procter. Beautifully bound in half morocco, with gilt detailing to back strip.First published in 1819, this is a charming collection…

Rupert Brooke: Four Poems. Drafts and fair copies in the author's hand. With a foreword and introductions by Geoffrey Keynes.

RUPERT BROOKE. · 1974 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

The Scolar Press, Ilkley, 1st Edition, First edition, of which 400 copies were printed (plus an additional 100 deluxe issue copies). A cloth-bound portfolio with facsimiles of draft and fair copies of Brooke's poems 'The Fish', 'Grantchester', 'The Dead' and 'The Soldier', prese…

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. Reproduction of the Large Format Poster

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

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Big Sur, Calif.: 1980. Contemporary reproduction of the original intaglio version of the poster. 24 x 17 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…

Fat-hud-dayyan fi fiqhi khairil adyan. (A compendium of Muslim theology and jurisprudence). Translated from the original Arabic-Tamil by Saifuddin J. Aniff-Doray. With a foreword y Dr. A.M.M. MacKeen [...] and a biographival sketch of the author by I.L. Muhammad Nilam.

AROOS,IMAMUL. Aniff-Doray,Saifuddin J. (transl.). · 1963 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

Colombo, The Fat-Hud-Dayyan Publication Committee, 1963. LXIII,535 pp. Orig. hardcover (clothbound), d./j. 8vo. - The dust jacket is partly stained, worn & attached to the endpapers; cover of binding is soiled.A rather rare translation of one of Imamul Aroos's most important wor…

The Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson, Now First Collected with Notes, and a Memoir of his Life. By David Laing.

HENRYSON (Robert). LAING (David), editor: · 1865 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Edinburgh: William Paterson, Princes Street, 1865. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 195 x 115 mms., pp. lx, 331 [332 blank], including half-title, title-page in red and black, handsomely bound in full straight grain contemporary panelled in gilt morocco, spine ornately gilt in compartments…

For That Day Only: Poems (Signed)

SCHULMAN, GRACE · 1994 · Bookshop Baltimore

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Sheep Meadow Press, 1994. Hard Cover. ISBN: 1878818295. SIGNED (inscribed) BY SCHULMAN on the title page. A collection of poetry that tells of New York, and New York history. Grace Jan Waldman Shuldman (1935 - ) received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievemen…

The Forest Lovers a Romance; and Rest Harrow a Comedy of Resolution in Two Volumes

Maurice Hewlett · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1912. Cloth. Two volumes of Maurice Hewlett's work. Both with a black and white Frontispiece. Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861–1923), was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay…

Entertain Yourselves: A Symposium of Suggestions to Amateurs for Combining Music, Drama and the Arts

Eric Walter White [editor] · 1949 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Not Stated, The National Council of Social Service, 1949. Hardback. A smart new edition of this very scarce guide to amateurs of the arts in music and drama, with illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Very scarce work. Illustrated with four plates and many in-text…

Mr Rb Cunninghame-Graham Mp; Trafalgar Square. Issue 1034. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) (Lith.) · 1888 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

London: Vanity Fair, 1888. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Very Good. Minor foxing in margins, not affecting image. Dated Aug 25, 1888. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 - 20 March 1936) was a S…

Suffolk House

Scott, Hardiman · 1990 · The Victoria Bookshop

£9.70 (€11.63 | $12.82 | ¥2,046)

1990, 1990. Paperback. VG PB signed & dedicated to John Smith poet Fair.

Froissart in Britain

Henry Newbolt; Jean Froissart · 1900 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, James Nisbet & Co Limited, 1900. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Henry Newbolt's illustrated work on 'Froissart's Chronicles', detailing the hundred year war, in a half calf prize binding. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome…

A Place to Come to

WARREN, ROBERT PENN · 1977 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York: Random House, 1977. Book Club Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, orange lettering on spine. Head of spine and dust jacket slightly worn, top edge lightly foxed, else square, unmarked, and clean. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tal…

Book and Magazine Collector : No 37 April 1987

JOHN DEAN (EDITOR) · 1987 · Godley Books

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,044)

London, Diamond Publishing Group Ltd. 1987. Soft Cover, 8.25 x 6 inches. A very small number of classified section listings highlighted in pale pink or blue. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with storage rubbing to c…