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Edward and Eleonora. A Tragedy. As It Was to Have Been Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Agamemnon. A Tragedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty&Apos;S Servants Tancred and Sigismunda. A Tragedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty&Apos;S Servants. The Tragedy of Sophonisba. Aced at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty&Apos;S Servants.

James Thomson · 1738 · Rooke Books

£675.00 (€809.21 | $891.92 | ¥142,445)

London, A. Millar, 1738-45. First edition. Leather. A collection of four plays by James Thomson, with two, 'Edward and Eleanora' and 'Tancred and Sigismunda', being the first editions. Four plays by James Thomson, bound as one. This volumes includes; 'Ag…

Collection of 12 Architectural projects. These designs were made in response to excercises written out by the ''Society for the Encouragement of Architecture'' - ''Maatschappij tot Aanmoediging der Bouwkunde te Amsterdam ''.

MAATSCHAPPIJ tot AANMOEDIGING der BOUWKUNDE- Amsterdam - SOCIETE d'ENCOURAGMENT de l'ARCHITECTURE à Amsterdam ( editor-publisher ) · 1819 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€1,248.00 ($1,375.55 | £1,041.01 | ¥219,685)

11. Amsterdam, Maatschappij tot Aanmoediging der Bouwkunde te Amsterdam - Société d'Encouragement de l'Architecture à Amsterdam, 1819 - 1842, in-folio, 46 x 32 cm, (54) nn pp + 31 full page plates ( engraved / lithographed ). Bound in contemporary half leather, smooth spine with…

He Thought He Saw a Rattlesnake That Questioned Him in Greek: He Looked Again and Found It Was the Middle of Next Week. 'the One Thing I Regret,' He Said, 'Is That It Cannot Speak!'' --Lewis Carroll Read Arsenal Surrealist Subversion

Arsenal Surrealist Subversion (Chicago); Franklin Rosemont (ed.) · 1971 · Wittenborn Art Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Chicago: Arsenal Surrealist Subversion, [ca. 1971]. Broadside, 10.5 x 5.5 cm. Oblong. Very Good. Illustrated. Black ink on beige paper. In 1965, Penelope & Franklin Rosemont co-founded the Chicago Surrealist Group, following a trip to Paris where they met André Breton. Franklin …

Poems by William Mason

William Mason · 1764 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Dublin, Peter Wilson, and James Potts, 1764 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first Dublin edition of this collected edition of the poetic works of William Mason. The very scarce first Dublin edition of this work, published in the same year as the first UK edition.This D…

The Letters of Goronwy Owen (1723-1769). Newly translated, edited and with an introduction by J.H.Davies.

GORONWY OWEN. · 1924 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

William Lewis (Publishers) Ltd., Cardiff, 1st Edition, The first edition of this new translation: seventy-eight letters, almost all bar the examples to William Morris, most of which no longer exist, translated from the original documents (the three prior editions of Owen's corre…

The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, Vol. I. Life of Spenser, Essays

Edmund Spenser, edited by Rev. Alexander B Grosart et al. · 1882 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

Private Circulation Only, 1882. Revised Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 100 Copies only. Title page Printed in red and black. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of front cover previous owner - (Bertram G Theobald, Brighton author of "Enter Francis Bacon…

1839 Original, Likely Unpublished Manuscript Poem on the Death of a Young Person by Christian Writer Caroline Fry Aka Caroline Wilson

CAROLINE FRY AKA CAROLINE WILSON · 1839 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$2,995.99 (€2,718.17 | £2,267.35 | ¥478,478)

England, 1839. Non-Book. On offer is a very special handwritten original (possibly unpublished) poem by theologian, writer, poet and Christian educator, Ms. Caroline Fry [Mrs. Caroline Wilson] (1787-1846). The poem on offer is a draft titled "Ex Gx [or EG]...died aged 18 years".…

Providence and Prophecy; or, God&Apos;S Hand Fulfilling His Word; More Especially in the Revolutions of 1848, and Subsequent Events

William Rees · 1851 · Rooke Books

£82.00 (€98.30 | $108.35 | ¥17,304)

Liverpool, M. A. Jones, 1851. Cloth. A scarce edition of this religious work by the Rev. William Rees. From the private library of renowned Theologian David Arthur Pailin. The Rev. William Rees usually known in Wales by his bardic name of Gwilym Hiraethog, was a Welsh poet and a…

The Schoolmate. An Illustrated Monthly for Boys and Girls. June 1869. With Rough and Ready, Life Among New York News-Boys

Alger, Horatio; Austin, Jane G. et al. · 1869 · Mare Booksellers

$59.00 (€53.53 | £44.65 | ¥9,423)

Boston, Joseph H. Allen, 1869. Wraps. Illustrated wraps, although MISSING rear wrapper. Pagination runs 247-294, plus a frontis portrait plate of Paul Revere. Single issue of this serial magazine for children, featuring chapter 11 of "Rough and Ready, Life Among New York News-Bo…

Doktor Zhivago.

Pasternak, Boris / Haward, Max & Harari, Manya (transl.) / Bour, Véronique (illustr.). · 1997 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€79.50 ($87.63 | £66.31 | ¥13,994)

London, Folio Society, 1997 Bound, quarter cloth with decorated cloth sides and slipcase, 460pp., 17x25cm., 9 full page color plates by Véronique Bour, in very good condition (slipcase with some traces of use, a little brown spot on paper edges, name and date in pencil on firs…

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John Armstrong · 1790 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Not Stated, 1790. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the collected poems of the eighteenth century Scottish poet John Armstrong, containing his best known poem 'The Art of Preserving Health', in a nice contemporary calf binding. The first edition of t…

The Earthly Paradise: Arts and Crafts by William Morris and His Circle from Canadian Collections

Lochnan, Katharine A. · 1993 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Toronto, ONT, Key Porter Books, 1993. Paperback. Color glossy pictorial glued wraps. xv, 294 pp. approximately 300 plates, half of them in color. Offering a significant review of the achievements of celebrated British artist, poet and social reformer Morris (1834-1896) that also…

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc. (Complete in One Volume)

MOORE, THOMAS · 1829 · Round Table Books, LLC

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1829. First Edition. Second Printing. Leather. Bound in brown leather over marbled boards, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment, gilt tooling and borders around bands, gilt floral borders on covers, t.e…

The Iliad. Translated by Alexander Pope. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield. BAND 6 (von 6).

Homer [Homeros] [Homer]. · 1796 · Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

London, T. Longman, 1796. 2 Bl., 359 S. Gr.-8vo (22,5 cm). OGanzleder mit 2 Rückenschildchen u. floraler Goldprägung. Band 6 mit den Büchern XII-XVI, gefolgt von: Personen- und Sach-Index, poetischer Index und Index der Künste und Wissenschaften. . Aus der erweiterten Ausgabe d…

Athenian Sport: or, Two Thousand Paradoxes Merrily Argued, To Amuse and Divert the Age: As A Paradox in praise of a Paradox. Corporeal Affections remain after Separation... And so on, to the Defence of 2000 Paradoxes (or Pleasant Theses) which seem Strange, and Contrary to the Common Opinion. With Improvements from the Honourable Mr. Boyle, Lock, Norris, Collins, Cowley, Dryden, Garth, Addison, and other Illustrious Wits. By a Member of the Athenian Society.

[DUNTON (John)]: · 1707 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Printed for B. Bragg..., 1707. FIRST EDITION. 8Vvo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. xxxii, 544, including half-title, later panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments; spine very dried and cracked, joints cracked, a so-so copy, with the armorial bookplate of Wolfe de Forenaughts on …

Volume I Pastoral Poetry and an Essay on Criticism Volume II the Rape of the Lock and Other Poems Volume III I an Essay on Man Volume III II Epistles to Several Persons (Moral Essays) Volume IV Imitations of Horace Volume V the Dunciad Volume VI Minor Poems Volume XI: Index

Alexander Pope · 1961 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1961-1969. Cloth. An 8 volume set of works by Alexander Pope, as published by Methuen, all in original dust wrappers. An 8 volume set of Methuen publications dedicated to the poetry of Alexander Pope.Bound in original red cloth, in lovely condition.Fea…

Music at Midnight

Grainger, Muriel & John Smith · 0 · The Victoria Bookshop

£11.47 (€13.75 | $15.16 | ¥2,421)

London Fortune Press n/d, 1111. Paperback. G HB signed & dedicated to John Smith poet rolled sp Fair.

Loup-Garou!

Eden Phillpotts · 1899 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, Sands & Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this volume of ten short stories by Eden Phillpotts, tales which include supernatural themes. The first edition of this scarce work.A collection of short stories by Eden Phillpotts.All of the stories …

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Seamus Heaney · 1975 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Faber and Faber, 1975. First edition. Paperback. A first edition copy of Seamus Heaney's work of poetry, in which he talks about the Troubles in Northern Ireland as well as Vikings. First Edition. In the publisher's original paper wraps. This is a collection …

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 Covers. Very Good+. Gray paper covered boards with quarter cloth binding. Glassine Dust Cover Very Good, with minor edge wear on top. Else, book is near fine. B&W plates and illustrations throughout. Scarce. Contents: This friend …