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16 Vols a Collection of the Works of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1899 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1899–1937. Cloth. A substantial sixteen-volume collection of Rudyard Kipling"s works, including several first editions and illustrated volumes, charting his literary career. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original red cloth binding, …

Quest for Sita

Maurice Collis · 1947 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

New York, The John Day Company, 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition Maurice Collis's retelling of 'The Ramayana', illustrated by Mervyn Peake. The first U.S. edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A beautifully illustrated retel…

Kak Vnuki Zaputali Babushku. Starii Pastukh. Dedushkini Usii. [Translated Into Russian from the Adyghe or Circassian Language]. Perevod S Adigeiskogo Ritala Zaslavskogo. Khudozhnik M. Rebinder.

ZHANE, K. · 1968 · Marijana Dworski Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Moscow Moskva, Sovetskya Rossiya, 1968. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Colour illustrated covers and throughout. Stapled. A little chipping to leading edge with minor loss. A little chipping to cover's leading edge and lower corner with minor loss. Stories by Kirimize…

Clievelandi Vindiciæ; or, Clieveland’s genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. Purged from the many false & spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies. To which are added many additions never printed before: with an account of the author’s life. Published according to the author’s own copies

CLIEVELAND [Cleveland], John (1613-1658) · 1677 · Fine Editions Ltd

$649.00 (€588.82 | £491.16 | ¥103,649)

London Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Sign of the Bear in St. Paul s Church-Yard, near the Little North Door First Edition Best edition of Cleveland's works, "Purged from the many false & spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions…

Works by Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock · 1927 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1927. Cloth. Two bright volumes of works by Thomas Love Peacock, with illustrations. Both volumes were published in 1927. These volumes include Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey and The Misfortunes of Elphin and Rhododaphne. Headlong Hall and Nightma…

Ghastly Good Taste; or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

JOHN BETJEMAN. · 1970 · Clearwater Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Anthony Blond, London, 2nd Edition, Signed by Author(s), The deluxe issue of the expanded second edition, designed by Sebastian Carter and limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #75). 4to. xxviii, 112pp. Quarter leather with cloth-covered sides, gilt le…

Frida Kahlo. The Complete Paintings of Frida Kahlo in an XXL edition

Luis-Martín Lozano / Andrea Kettenmann / Marina Vázquez Ramos · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

, Tasch, 2021 Hardcover, 29 x 39.5 cm, 5.42 kg, 624 pages. Fine. English. ISBN 9783836574204. The complete paintings of Frida Kahlo in an XXL edition. Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahl…

Album of Lost National Treasure of the Qing Palace (Painting Volume only)

Zhuzhenhua (editor); Zhaoxiaohua · 2004 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)

Book Near Fine No Jacket 1st Edition Liaoning Province Museum English and Chinese text.; Hardcover (cloth in carton box).; 10 Kg.; 47 x 34 x 11 cm.; 628 pages with colour illustrations and a few foldouts..; The exterior of the hardcover cloth shows minor signs of wear. Interior …

[Recollections of the First 25 Year History of the Icelandic Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North America] ; Minningarrit tuttugu og fimm ára alfmaelis Hins ev. lút. kirkjufelags Islendinga í Vesturheimi, 1885-1910

Evangeliska-lúterska kirkjufélag Íslendinga í Vesturheimi · 0 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$245.00 (€222.28 | £185.41 | ¥39,128)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Lögbergi First Edition, First Printing pp. 78. Slim 8vo., measuring 24 cm. Bound in pebbled maroon cloth over boards with gilt rules and lettering to front board; speckled endpapers. Detailed history of the Icelandic Lutheran Church in North America with most …

A Lot of Six (6) Books by and About Randall Jarrell: Randall Jarrell: Selected Poems; Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood; Randall Jarrell: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1929-1983; a Sad Heart at the Supermarket; Randall Jarrell 1914-1965; Randall Jarrell: Poetry and the Age

Pritchard, William H.; Richard Flynn; Stuart Wright; Randall Jarrell; Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren; Randall Jarrell · 1990 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$88.00 (€79.84 | £66.60 | ¥14,054)

, , . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A lot of six (6) books by and about the American poet, one of the most underrated poets of the time of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. William H. Pritchard, ed., Randall Jarrell: selected poems (SC, VG condition, remainder mark, Ne…

Malcolm Colour of Darkness : Eleven Stories and a Novella the Nephew Children Is All

James Purdy · 1960 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Secker & Warburg , 1960-63 . First edition. Cloth. A four volume set of first UK edition works by American novelist James Purdy, in their original unclipped dust wrappers. The first UK edition to all. Four volumes. In the publisher's original cloth with the origin…

The Digressions of V: Written for His Own Fun and That of His Friends

VEDDER, ELIHU · 1910 · Round Table Books, LLC

$350.00 (€317.54 | £264.88 | ¥55,897)

Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. First Edition Thus. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Elihu Vedder. Publisher's full light brown cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, elaborate gilt decoration and borders on cover, all designed by Vedder, t.e.g.…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works

James Boswell, Esq. · 1851 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Office of the National Illustrated Library, [1851]. Cloth. A fantastically illustrated four volume set of biographies on English writer Samuel Johnson, with frontispieces, vignette title pages, and a folding plate. A fantastic complete four volume set of biographies on …

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, As Related by Himself

Daniel Defoe; Austin Dobson [Intro.] · 1883 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Elliot Stock, 1883. Leather. A scarce facsimile reprint of the first edition of Robinson Crusoe, originally published in 1719. A facsimile reprint of the first edition of Robinson Crusoe published in 1719, with an introduction from English poet and essayist Austin Dobson…

Dramatic Poems, Comprising the Following Tragedies: Gunilda, Usurper, Matilda, and Abdalla.

DELAP (Rev. J.): · 1803 · John Price Antiquarian Books

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

Lewes: Printed by W. and A. Lee 1803. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large 8vo, 223 x 128 mms., pp. [xvi]. 295 [296 blank], including list of subscribers, entirely uncut, cased in recent marbled wrappers. A very good copy, with the faint autograph \"[?W H] Gage\" on the top margin of…

THE SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES with a Complete MANUSCRIPT of His Famous Poem "A Sick Child"

JARRELL, Randall · 0 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,505.66 | £7,094.96 | ¥1,497,245)

New York. Harcourt, Brace and Company. First Edition. His fourth book. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper and pastedown and SIGNED by the poet to his friends and poets Meryl and Courtney Johnson. Jarrell has also written out the complete poem in the book, "A Sick Child":  …

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected

Oliver Goldsmith · 1837 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, John Murray, 1837. Leather. The Miscellanous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, complete in four beautifully bound volumes, containing many works first printed. In four volumes complete. With illustrated second titles to all volumes. Containing: To volume one: The Bee; Essay;, A…

Ghastly Good Taste or, a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture

John Betjeman · 1970 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London; , Anthony Blond, 1970. Cloth. An insightful architectural title, featuring a large folding plate to the rear of the work, and the original unclipped dust wrapper. An engaging and informative discussion of England's architectural history, penned by writer, broadcaste…

Le Puits de Sainte Claire

Anatole France · 1895 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

Paris, Calmann Levy , 1895 . First edition. Leather. A first edition, French copy of this novel by Anatole France. In the original French a first edition copy. Anatole France was a French poet, journalist and novelist. This is one of his prose fiction novels. With a bookplate t…

Mr. Hodge & Mr. Hazard

Elinor Wylie · 1928 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of Elinor Wylie's novel about an idealistic poet who is alienated from proper English society. The first edition of this limited edition work, housed in the publisher's original slip case.…