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Recalling Peter: The Life and Times of Peter Beilenson and His Peter Pauper Press. (First Edition, Limited to 700 Copies)

Harry Behn; Paul A Bennett; David M Glixon · 1964 · Wittenborn Art Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

New York: The Typophiles, 1964. 8vo. 86 pp. Hard Cover. Very Good. Gray paper covered boards with quarter cloth binding. B&W plates and illustrations throughout. Scarce. Contents: This friend called Peter / Paul A. Bennett --Peter and the Walpole imprint / Edmund B. Thompson --F…

A Collection of First Edition Novels from the Crime Club by Collins

John Rhode [Cecil Street]; Lynn Brock [Alister McAllister]; Shelley Smith [Nancy Hermione Courlander Bodington]; Andrew Garve [Paul Winterton]; Nicholas Blake [Cecil Day-Lewis]; Catherine Arley; Mervyn Savill [translator]; Joan Fleming · 1935 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1935-1968. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of thrilling crime novels from the Collins Crime Club. Seven volumes. The Crime Club. This set includes: Mystery at Olympia, 1935. First edition. Scarce. A novel featuring armchair detective L…

La Fille Aux Yeux D&Apos;or

Honoré de Balzac [trans. by Ernest Dowson] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Leonard Smithers, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A charming illustrated edition of Balzac's tragic romance, part of his La Comédie Humaine series, the first English translation by Decadent poet Ernest Dowson. The first English translated edition of La Fille Aux Yeux …

CATALOGUE Of The VERY CHOICE DRAMATIC & GENERAL LIBRARY Of JOHN MASFIELD MACKENZIE, ESQ. Of EDINBURGH [bound with] CATALOGUE Of A COLLECTION Of BOOKS, &c. From the Library of G. B. ANDERSON, ESQ. of SELKIRK.

[Book Auction Catalogue]. MacKenzie, John Masfield; Anderson, G. B. - Collectors · 1892 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$269.50 (€244.51 | £203.96 | ¥43,041)

London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Wellington Street, Strand. Dryden Press: J. Davy and Sons, 137, Long Acre, London, 1892. 1st Edition. Period tan half-calf with marbled paper boards. Marbled eps. Original wrappers bound-in. Now protected, and supported, by a custom cut clear …

Poems by the Rev. Thomas Penrose, Late Rector of Beckington and Standerwick, Somersetshire

Thomas Penrose; [Anna Laetitia Barbauld] · 1774 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, J. Walter; Joseph Johnson , 1774-1781. First edition. Leather. A sought after first edition of Thomas Penrose's posthumous poetical volume, bound together with the fourth edition of 'Poems' by Anna Laetitia Barbauld. A delightful volume comprising two poet…

An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie in Two Volumes

Sir William Forbes · 1806 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co. 1806. Leather. A scarce set of the Life and Writings of James Beattie by Sir William Forbes. Complete in two volumes. Including many of his original letters. Volume I contains a Frontispiece of James Beattie. James Beattie FRSE (25 October …

Dizionario Delle Lingue Italiana Ed Inglese, Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages

Giuseppe Baretti; Joseph Baretti · 1798 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, B. Law; G. Johnson; G. G. and G. Robinson; et al, 1798. Leather. A brilliant Italian-English dictionary by Joseph Baretti, an extensive work for which he was inspired by Samuel Johnson. Complete in two volumes.An vast and important English to Italian dictionary, with sup…

The Idylliums of Theocritus, with Rapin"S Discourse of Pastorals Done Into English

Theocritus; Thomas Creech [Trans.]; Rene Rapin · 1684 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Oxford, L. Lichfield for Anthony Stephens, 1684 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition in English of Creech"s Theocritus with Rapin"s influential discourse on the pastoral tradition, illustrated with an engraved pastoral frontispiece. In a contemporary calf bindin…

The Works of Lord Byron with His Letters and Journals, and His Life

Thomas Moore; Lord Byron · 1840 · Rooke Books

£899.99 (€1,078.94 | $1,189.21 | ¥189,924)

London, John Murray, 1840. Cloth. A uniformly bound in the original publishers boards of this uncommon edition of Thomas Moore's definitive collection of the works of Lord Byron. An exhaustive and definitive collection. Complete in Seventeen Volumes. Includes the engraved f…

Poems by the Rev. Thomas Penrose late rector of Beckington and Standerwick, Somersetshire.

PENROSE (Thomas): · 1781 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£400.00 (€479.53 | $528.54 | ¥84,412)

London: Printed for J. Walter..., 1781. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. viii, 120, contemporary fair polished calf, gilt spine, red leather label; upper and lower front joint very slightly cracked, but a very good and handsome copy, with the Heytesbury House bookplate on the front pas…

Gatsby's Oxford : Scott, Zelda and the Jazz Age invasion of Britain: 1904-1929.

Snyder, Christopher Allen. · 2019 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York : Pegasus Books, 2019. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xxii, 346 pp., 8 unnumbered p. of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Maps on endpapers. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - The poet T.S. Eliot. The polo star Tommy Hitchcock. F. Scott …

The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary, Being a Supplement to Mr. Warburton&Apos;S Edition of Shakespear

Thomas Edwards · 1750 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, C. Bathurst , 1750 . Leather. The third edition of Thomas Edwards's somewhat controversial work of mid-eighteenth century Shakespearian criticism. The third edition of this work from English critic and poet Thomas Edwards.Subtitled as a 'supplement to Mr. Warbu…

Chrysomela a Translation from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick Arranged with Notes by Francis Turner Palgrave

Robert Herrick, Francis Turner Palgrave (Editor) · 1911 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1911. Leather. A poetical anthology of Robert Herrick's poems. With a vignette title page. Edited by scholar and critic Francis Turner Palgrave. Palgrave is known for his anthologies of poetry and was a respected editor of texts. He was Professor o…

Catching Life by the Throat. How to Read Poetry and Why. Poems from eight great Poets + CD.

HART, Josephine · 2006 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

VIRAGO 2006, xiv,238pp. + CD. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In very good condition. This book is an anthology of poems by WH Auden, TS Eliot, Philip Larkin, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Rudyard Kipling, Sylvia Plath and W B Yeats, introduced by Josephine Hart and accompanied …

Hanover by Gaslight or Ways That Are Dark. Being an Expose of the Sophomoric Career of '85

Hovey, Richard · 1885 · Mare Booksellers

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.08 | ¥7,826)

No Place, No printer or publisher Given. First Edition. Wraps. Imprinted for the class of '85. No place or date. Original wraps. Bound with History of Sophomore Year C.S.D. '85. By Maurice L. Clark. 44, 13pp. A somewhat humorous look at the lives of the class of 1885 of Dartmout…

A Course of Lectures: Containing Remarks upon the Government and Education of Children. Thoughts upon the Government and Education of Children, Thoughts upon the present Plan of Education, and An Essay upon Elocution. As read lately in many parts of England and Scotland. To which is added, A Sermon.

KNIPE (Rest): · 1783 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, 1783. 8vo, 202 x 128 mms., pp. 338, including half-title, contemporary calf, recently rebacked with old gilt spine and red morocco label laid down, facsimiles of pp. 19 - 22 inserted before defective leaves of those pages in text, and last lea…

In Praise of Churches; Saint Peter&Apos;S: The Story of St Peter&Apos;S Basilica in Rome

James Lee-Milne; John Betjeman · 1996 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, John Murray; Hamish Hamilton, 1996-1967 . First edition. Cloth. A smart two volume set of first editions of these colourfully illustrated religious works, including a presentation copy. A two volume set.The first editions.In the publisher's original blue cloth bindi…

Painting in the Far East: An Introduction Tot He History of Pictorial Art in Asia Especially China and Japan

Laurence Binyon · 1923 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Edward Arnold & Co. 1923. Cloth. The third edition of this study in the arts of Asia, with specific reference to China and Japan. Third edition, revised. Illustrated with colour frontispiece and forty-one plates. Collated complete. A study of the art of Asia, with refere…

The Poems of Mr Gray to Which Are Added Memoirs of His Life and Writings in Four Volumes

Thomas Gray, W Mason · 1778 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, A Ward, 1778. Leather. A collection of Thomas Gray's poetry. With memoirs of Gray's life and writings written by W Mason. With a portrait frontispiece of Gray to volume I. Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer and classical scholar. His best known work…

Satirical print/Spotprent "Hoe, Leydens Warmond, hoe, men tergt u Vrank en Vry?", etching with printed text. Text in the etching: Mediis Furibundus In Iocis.

1784 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€151.25 ($166.71 | £126.16 | ¥26,624)

Satirical print on the poet Johannes le Francq van Berkhey exclaiming hard critic on the Patriot party and the volunteer Corps of Leiden. The tension between the Patriots and the followers of Stadhouder Willem V were very huge around 1784. In June there was a Oranjeoproer in Lei…