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Poems of Love and Earth

John Drinkwater · 1912 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, David Nutt, 1912 . First edition. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of the very scarce first edition of this poetry collection, inscribed by Drinkwater to the Nobel Prize winning author John Galsworthy. The very scarce first edition, first impression of this work.Insc…

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Edmond Rostand · 1923 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1923. Leather. An attractive leather bound copy of Edmond Rostand's play about the son of Emperor Napoleon. Premiered in 1900, this six act play by Edmond Rostand is based on the life of Napoleon II, the son of Emperor Napoleon I and his sec…

Select Poetical Works of Allan Ramsay, Including His Gentle Shepherd with a Prefatory Memoir of the Author and His Writings

Allan Ramsay · 1859 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, William and Robert Chambers, 1859. Cloth. A smart collection of verses from Scottish writer Allan Ramsay, with a memoir of his life and work. Scarce edition. With a frontispiece. A collection of verses from Allan Ramsay, a Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian,…

SHAMANISM Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy .Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. With a new foreword by Wendy Doniger.

Eliade, Mircea · 2004 · Antiquariaat van Veen

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press , 2004. 2nd edition 610 pp. Pb . Bollingen Series LXXVI. First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of t…

A Lot of Twelve (12) Anne Sexton Poetry Titles: Words for Dr. Y. ; the Awful Rowing Toward God; Love Poems; Live or Die; All My Pretty Ones; 45 Mercy Street; to Bedlam and Part Way Back; Love Poems; the Death Notebooks; the Book of Folly; Transformations; Words for Dr. Y.

Sexton, Anne · 1974 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$96.00 (€87.10 | £72.65 | ¥15,332)

New York / Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co., . . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound set of a dozen (12) volumes of works from the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry award-winning poet, Anne Sexton, one volume (Words for Dr. Y.) being edited by Linda Gray…

COLLECTION OF 8 SIGNED PRINTED CHRISTMAS GREETINGS PLUS ONE TYPED MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED

MEREDITH, William · 1958 · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.10 | ¥69,871)

Holiday greetings, all INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet, usually as "Bill," to another poet, usually in the form of a printed reproduction of the poet's holograph of a poem. The years 1958, 1959, 1961, and 1963-1967 are covered. In addition there is a two-page typed manuscript p…

Tooneel decoratief, voorgesteld in op steen geteekende platen door F.J. Pfeiffer Jr. Amsterdam, Coenraad Weddepohl, 1845. Folio. With a lithographed portrait of the artist (mounted), 8 lithographed plates of stage designs, and 9 poems in red decorated letterpress frames, the lithographs by Desguerrois & Co. With the 8 plates of stage designs hand-coloured as published. Original publisher's cloth, with a gold-blocked lyre in the centre of each board.

PFEIFFER, François Joseph junior, Jacob van LENNEP and Gerrit van ENST KONING. · 1778 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[2 blank], [1], [1 blank], 10 pp., [9] ll. + plates.First and only edition of a memorial to the costume and stage designer François Joseph Pfeiffer Jr. (1778-1835), with a biographical sketch by Gerrit van Enst Koning (1794-1853), lithographic portrait, lists of his work and col…

The History of His Own Time Compiled from the Original Manuscripts of His Late Excellency Matthew Prior, Revised and Signed by Himself; and Copied Fair for the Press by Mr Adrian Drift, His Executor. Miscellaneous Works of His Late Excellency Matthew Prior Consisting of Poems on Several Occasions

Matthew Prior · 1740 · Rooke Books

£399.99 (€479.52 | $528.53 | ¥84,410)

London, For The Editor, 1740. Leather. Two volumes of works by Matthew Prior. Two leather bound volumes with gilt titles to the spine. Matthew Prior (July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721) was an English poet and diplomat. When Queen Anne died and the Whigs regained power, Prior w…

Geurstilleven. Een project van Joshua Rozenman. Bart J.J. Krieger - Over Het Glazen Huis, De Muur & Het Geurstilleven. Compositie in geuren./ Scent Still Life. A project by Joshua Rozenman. Bart J.J. Krieger - On the Glass House, The Wall & The Scent Still Life. Composition in scnets. English translation Sheila Gogol.

[Artist's books]. Rozenman, Joshua. · 2002 · Fahrenheit 451

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

No place, no publisher, 2002, VII,(2) pag., text-book (“keerboek”) in Dutch and English with 2 mounted orignal coloured photographs and and 2 original microscope-slides loosely inserted in 2 small mounted plastic sealbags, publsihed in 60 numbered and signed copies, original wra…

Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield, with Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His Writings

Anna Seward · 1804 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, J. Johnson, 1804. Leather. The first edition of the biography and memoirs of Erasmus Darwin, the leading Midlands enlightenment thinker, written by The Swan of Lichfield. The first edition of the Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfiel…

Poems of Passion

Ella Wheeler Wilcox · 1900 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Gay and Bird , 1900. Leather. A beautiful copy of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poetry, bound in full decorative calf by Riviere & Sons. A scarce new edition. Authorised, revised and enlarged. Held institutionally in only four UK libraries. Rebound in beautiful decorative c…

Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1820 · Rooke Books

£4,200.00 (€5,035.10 | $5,549.72 | ¥886,324)

London & Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co. 1820-1825 . First edition. Fine Binding. A stunning full calf fine binding of the first editions of these important works by prolific and renowned writer Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish novelist and po…

The Works of Mrs Hemans; with a Memoir of Her Life by Her Sister

Mrs Felicia Hemans · 1839 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons and Thomas Cadell, 1839. Leather. A handsomely-bound set of the works of the poet, Felicia Hemans. Felicia Hemans' works appeared in nineteen individual books during her lifetime. After her death in 1835 they were republished…

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne and A Garden Kalendar Vol. I-II

White, Gilbert; Sharpe, R. Bowdler (Ed.) · 1900 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

S.T. Freemantle London xxiii, 427; xv, 443, 2 frontis (1 col), 95 b/w plates, 1 (of 2) facsimile letters (folding), woodcuts to text. . HB. 2 vols, 4to (260x200mm), finely bound by Bickers & Son of London in contemporary full green morocco, slightly edge-worn. Selborne scene wit…

The Odes. Edited with introduction, revised text and commentary by K. Quinn.

HORACE, (HORATIUS), · 1987 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

MacMillan Education, Houndmills (...), 1987. Reprint 1st ed.1980. XVIII,333p. Paperback. Spine discoloured and with light reading traces. Signature and date in pencil on half title. Two pen underlinings in Commentary. (Rare). ’T.E. Page’s commentary on Horace’s Odes was first p…

The Phanseys of William Cavendish Marquis of Newcastle Addressed to Margaret Lucas and Her Letters in Reply

William Cavendish; Margaret Lucas; Douglas Grant [ed.] · 1956 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1956. First edition. Hardback. A handsome limited edition of William Cavendish's poems addressed to his wife Margaret Lucas, and her letters in reply. The first edition of this work, limited to 785 copies, this copy being number 270.In the publis…

Mr. And Mrs. Pennington

Francis Brett Young · 1931 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of one of Young's many 'Mercian' novels, in lovely condition, with scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition of this romance title, penned by English novelist, poet, play…

Stark Beauty

Thomas, Larry D. · 2005 · Books On The Boulevard

$19.95 (€18.10 | £15.10 | ¥3,186)

Near Fine Timberline Reprint Author Thomas was the 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 094404834x

Verses

Christina G. Rossetti · 1896 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896. Cloth. A delightful work of Christian poetry by the popular Victorian writer, Christina Rossetti. A new edition. The fifteenth thousand of this work, re-set and electrotyped. In the publisher's original full cloth bin…

The Savoy, an Illustrated Monthly: No. 3, July 1896; No. 4, August 1896

Various [ed. by Arthur Symons] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£460.00 (€551.46 | $607.83 | ¥97,074)

London, Leonard Smithers, 1896. Cloth. Two volumes in one of the influential short-lived illustrated monthly magazine of the Decadent movement, with the original paper wraps by Aubrey Beardsley bound inside. The first editions of Nos. 3 and 4 of The Savoy, the short-lived illust…