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String of Beads. Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi

Princess Shikishi 84007, Hiroaki [translation] Sato · 1993 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

1993, Linnen band met stofomslag, 1978, A complete translation, with annotations, of all the poems attributed to the 12th-century Japanese poet Princess Shikishi. The introduction places the poet in her age and society and explains some of the prosody of the 5-7-5-7-7 syllable t…

A Companion To the Works of Hartmann Von Aue (Studies in German Literature Linguistics And Culture)

Francis G. Gentry · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$64.00 (€32.08 | $35.35 | £26.76 | ¥5,646)

camden house 2005 Hardback, 299pp. In perhaps 25 years of creative productivity (ca. 1180-ca. 1205), Hartmann von Aue authored a dispute about love between the body and the heart, Die Klage, numerous songs of courtly love, crusading songs, and most likely took part in a Crusade …

(1954) a Few Late Chrysanthemums; (1966) High and Low; (1974) a Nip in the Air; (1982) Uncollected Poems.

John Betjeman · 1954 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, John Murray, 1954-1982. First edition. Cloth. A delightful collection of four first-edition poetry works from John Betjeman, smartly presented in their original dust wrappers. Collection comprised of: (1954) A Few Late Chrysanthemums; (1966) High and Low; (1974) A Nip in…

A Journal of Transactions and Events, During a Residence of Nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador

George Cartwright · 1792 · Rooke Books

£6,500.00 (€7,792.41 | $8,588.85 | ¥1,371,692)

Newark, Printed and sold by Allin and Ridge, 1792. First edition. Leather. An exceptional copy of the three volume first edition of English army officer, trader and explorer George Cartwright's journal relaying his sixteen year exploration of Labrador and Newfoundland. One …

A Canticle of Pan: And Other Poems

Witter Bynner · 1920 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of a poetic anthology by esteemed American poet Witter Bynner, published the same year he became President of the Poetry Society of America. The signed first edition of A Canticle of Pan: And Other P…

Alfred, an Epic Poem

Henry James Pye · 1815 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Suttaby, Evance and Fox, 1815. Leather. A sound copy of this epic poem in six books from English poet Henry James Pye. With a frontispiece and engraved title page. An epic, long narrative poem focusing on the life and heroic deeds of King Alfred the Great, divided into s…

Large signed original photograph.

DICKEY, James · 1979 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

Very fine original b/w photograph made by Terry Parke in 1979, 24 x 18 cm, with a signed dedication in ink by the poet. Pasted onto a sheet of paper - on the other side of the paper a typed letter has been glued with a signed greeting to a Dutch autograph and photo collector, da…

A.K. A.

Perelman, Bob · 1979 · Mare Booksellers

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

No Place, Tuumba Press, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. #111 of 450 copies printed. Stiff card stock wraps. Signed, with a short inscription, by the author on the title page. Unpaginated. Prose poetry by Bob Perelman, an American poet associated with the LANGUAGE movement in America…

Sarganserland - Gedichte, (signiert),

Donhauser, Michael, · 1998 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

Erstausgabe, Basel/ u.a. Urs Engeler, 1998, 8°, 86 S., original Kartonage (Paperback), sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar ohne nennenswerte Mängel mehrzeilige, persönliche Widmung und Signatur ('Michael') des Autors auf der 2. Vorsatzseite Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am …

[Widmungsexemplar:] Die Blumen des Bösen, neu übertragen in veränderter Anordung mit einem Vorwort und 12 Geboten für den Lyrikübersetzer sowie Anmerkungen zur Langeweile,

Baudelaire, Charles und Manfred Thiel, · 1977 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

1977, 8°, 380 S., original Kartonage (Paperback), eine Einbandecke geringfügig bestossen, Rückdeckel stellenweise geringfügig nachgedunkelt, sonst ein sehr gutes, sauberes Exemplar. Von Manfred Thiel handschriftlich gewidmet und signiert (''Für ... zur Buchmesse 2004 Thiel'')…

Ainu Dreams

QUASHA, GEORGE WITH HASEGAWA, CHIE · 1999 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Barrytown, NY, Station Hill, 1999. First edition. Paperback. First printing. Pp 141. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Signed dedication by the author on the title page: For Lisa - In Common, uncommon - warmly George. The Lisa referred to is the Canadian poet Lisa Robe…

Scripture Vindicated; In Answer to a Book intituled, Christianity as old as the Creation. Part I. [ II. and III.].

[WATERLAND (Daniel)]: · 1730 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London: Printed for W. Innys [Part I]; Printed for Cornelius Crownfield and John Crownfield [Part II]; Printed for John Crownfield [Part III.]..., 1730, 1731, 1732. FIRST EDITION of all three parts. 8vo, 198 x 119 mms., pp. [iv], 96 [last page misnumbered 94]; [iv], 160; [iv],…

The British Novelists; with an Essay and Prefaces Biographical and Critical

ed. Mrs. Barbauld · 1820 · Rooke Books

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

London, F. C. and J. Rivington; W. Lowndes et al. 1820. Leather. A gorgeous collection of British novels from the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, comprising such writers as Maria Edgeworth, Fanny Burney, Samuel Johnson and Daniel Defoe. Bound in contemporary full leath…

Guide to London; It Isn&Apos;T Far from London; London from the Bus-Top

H. V. Morton; S. P. B. Mais; Lucy Masterman · 1937 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd; The Richards Press; Dennis Dobson, 1937; 1948; 1951. First edition. Cloth. Lovely collection of London guidebooks, each illustrated, with map endpapers, from various eminent writers. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. With dust wrappers. It …

The Castle of Indolence: An Allegorical Poem. Written in Imitation of Spenser. By James Thomson.

THOMSON (James): · 1748 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London: Printed for A. Millar..., 1748. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 234 x 177 mms., pp. [iv], 81 [82 blank], 19th century half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine; a good to very good copy, with the bookplates of Ray Livingston Murphy and Eric Gerald Stanley on the front paste-down end…

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic. Volume II (First Edition 1791)

Anderson, James (editor) · 1791 · Clayton Fine Books

$130.00 (€117.95 | £98.38 | ¥20,762)

Good 1st Edition 0 Good in full leather binding with front board and fly page present but detached. Back board separated (held on by one string) and back end paper detached but present. Mild wear to tips of boards. The rest of the binding is firm. The pages, although faded from…

Umbra vitae, nachgelassene Gedichte,

Heym, Georg, · 1985 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

München, Heyne (= Reihe: 'Heyne-Lyrik', Band 49), 1985. 85 S., farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), der helle Einband ein wenig berieben, Mängelexemplarstempel am Fußschnitt, sonst ein sehr gutes, sauberes Exemplar, wirkt ungelesen und auch kein Nikotingeruch. Abho…

Riddle and Incest.

Markert, Lawrence, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Baltimore, MD, The New Poet Series, 1974. VG PB.

O estandarte auri-verde cantos sobre a questao Anglo-Brazileira.São Paulo, Typ. Imparcial, de J.R. de A. Marques, 1863. 8vo. Half dark green leather, marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers, and with the original blue printed wrappers bound in.

FAGUNDES VARELA, Luís Nicolau. · 1862 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], 24, [2] pp.First edition of an exceptionally rare pamphlet with anti-British poems, written in response to the Christie Question; the diplomatic crisis between the Brazilian and the British Empire that took place from 1862-1865. The work contains eight poems that…

Casualties

Rash, Ron · 2000 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Beaufort, South Carolina, The Bench Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. SIGNED and dated by the author at the half-title, inscribed warmly by him to a fellow poet and "good soul." Illustrated glossy card-stock wraps. Evocative short stories from the Appala…