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Edmund Gosse · 1925 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, William Heinemann, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A personal selection of profound essays written by influential literary critic Edmund Gosse, including on Herman Melville and Wycherley. The first edition of Silhouettes, a collection of literary essays written by the prolif…

IL Decamerone Di M. Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio; Filippo Villani · 1802 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

Londra, Not Stated, 1802. Leather. An Italian edition of the important work of Boccaccio, including a life of the author. Complete in four volumes.In the original Italian.'The Decameron' is a collection of novellas by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, spilt into o…

An Elegy written in a Country Churchyard [in] The London Magazine, March 1751. [ GRAY'S ELEGY: EARLY PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

GRAY Thomas · 1751 · Island Books

£1,600.00 (€1,918.13 | $2,114.18 | ¥337,647)

Printed for R. Baldwin, Jun. at the Rose in Pater-Noster Row, 1751. 8vo., text in double column; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy, now housed in custom-made portfolio with patterned lining and printed paper label. …

Watch with Me, and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch

BERRY, WENDELL · 1994 · Round Table Books, LLC

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

NY: Pantheon, 1994. 0679434690. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0679434690. Stated first edition. Quarter bound in publisher's wheat cloth ober tan boards, green lettering on spine and cover. In these seven interrelated stories we are again invited to Por…

Wordsworth (Great Lives Series)

BURRA, PETER · 1950 · Bluebird Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

London: Duckworth, 1950. Hardcover. A biography of the great English romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Wordsworth became Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, and enjoyed a near-lifelong association with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Republication of this work coi…

The New York Times Magazine, November [Nov. ] 30, 1958: Berlin Beleaguered / Robert Frost / Balanchine / Arthur C. Clarke

LEWIS, FLORA; RASKIN, A.H.; BRACKER, MILTON; ABEL, ELIE; COLEMAN, EMILY; FURMAN, BESS; CLARKE, ARTHUR C.; ROWLAND, STANLEY J. JR.; TRUMBULL, ROBERT; DEMPSEY, DAVID · 1958 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

New York: The New York Times Company, 1958. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Features: Great cover photo of an East German customs checkpoint at Berlin; Berlin Beleaguered - Today the population lives far better than when blockaded a decade ago but it feels a great unease g…

Letters of Ted Hughes

HUGHES, TED (REID, CHRISTOPHER. ED.) · 2007 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

London, Faber & Faber. 2007, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xxiv, 756pp. Blue boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated clipped dustjacket. The celebrated publication of the Poet Laureate's letters, superbly selected, introduced and edited by fellow poet Christopher Reid. Len…

"Die Minze erblüht in der Minze" - Arabische Dichtung der Gegenwart mit erläuternden Essays, hrsg. von Ilma Rakusa und Mohamed Bennis, Vorbemerkung KLaus Reichert,

Rakusa, Ilma (Hrsg.), · 2007 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

München, Hanser (= Reihe: 'Dichtung und Sprache', Band 21), 2007, 8°, 197 S., original Klappenbroschur, ein sehr gutes, sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen, ohne Vorbesitzvermerke, ohne Eckknicke etc. und auch kein Nikotin- oder Kellergeruch. Zuerst zahlreiche Essays zum Th…

Nothing But. A Series of Indirect Considerations on Art and Consciousness

Fogel, Alice B. · 2021 · Mare Booksellers

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

New York, Spuyten Duyvil, 2021. Wraps. Wraps. 73 pp. A collection of poems inspired by abstract painting, exploring ways the work translates to the page. Fogel is a New Hampshire based poet, serving as New Hampshire's poet laureate from 2014 to 2019. VERY GOOD+ condition. Very l…

Poetical Works of Robert Bridges Excluding Eight Dramas

Robert Bridges · 1912 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.63 | $196.88 | ¥31,443)

London, Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1912. Leather. A smartly bound collection of poetry from British writer and poet laureate Robert Bridges. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of poetry from Robert Seymour Bridges, a British poet appointed Poet Laureate from 1…

Collected Poems, 1939-1989

Smith, William Jay · 1990 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Hardcover. Cream paper boards, fuchia cloth spine, olive and duotone and cream dust jacket, 254 pp. A collection spanning five decades of poetry penned by American poet William Jay Smith (1918-2015). With several separate advertisements f…

CHERRY BLOSSOM

WILLIAMS, Hugo · 1972 · Charles Agvent

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

London. Poem of the Month Club. First Edition. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.. Fine

ANNIVERSARY and VIGIL

HAMILTON, Ian · 1971 · Charles Agvent

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,991)

London. Poem of the Month Club. First Edition. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.. Fine

SPANISH BALCONY

BEER, Patricia · 1973 · Charles Agvent

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.38 | ¥5,989)

London. Poem of the Month Club. First Edition. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.. Fine

Rural Months: A Descriptive Poem. In Twelve Cantos; Being chiefly Founded on a Review of the Year 1799. Also, Boyland-Hall, and other Miscellaneous Poems.

COLE (William): · 1824 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

[Norwich]: Printed for the Author; and sold by Matchett and Stevenson, and J. Stacy, Norwich; and all Other Booksellers in Norfolk and Suffolk. 1824 FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Tall 12mo, 197 x 119 mms., pp.xii, [3] 4 - 152 + Errata slip, including half-title and list of subscriber…

1898 First Edition of Howard Thayer Kingsbury’S English Cyrano de Bergerac Translation Inscribed to Edmond Rostand by the American Translator Whose Version Richard Mansfield Brought to the New York Stage

EDMOND ROSTAND · 1898 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$8,225.99 (€7,463.20 | £6,225.39 | ¥1,313,741)

New York, New York, Boston, Paris, France: LAMSON, WOLFFE & CO, Boston, Mass, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. On offer is a highly important association copy of the first edition of Howard Thayer Kingsbury’s English verse translation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, inscr…

Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An historical tragedy in five acts. With notes. The Prophecy of Dante, a Poem.

Lord Byron · 1821 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€235.00 ($259.02 | £196.02 | ¥41,367)

London John Murray 1821 Bound, original full-leather binding with gilt decoration and gilt title on spine, xxi+261pp., 14x22cm., in good antiquarian condition (binding a bit rubbed along the edges and corners, gilt paperedges a bit faded, interior with some minor focxing). Mari…

Jesus and Elvis. Position Proof of the Broadside by John Updike. Signed by William B. Ewert (1943-2001), Publisher

Updike, John (1932-2009); William B. Ewert (1943-2001), publisher; Eric Gill (Illustrator); John Kristensen (Designer); Firefly Press (Printer); Elvis Presley, ( 1935-1977) · 2000 · Wittenborn Art Books

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

Concord, NH: William B. Ewert , 4 Dec. 2000. Broadside on wove paper. 31.2 x 24.3cm. Annotated in pencil verso: "Position proof broadside issue - pulled 4 Dec. 2000. 1/8 copies. William B. Ewert".... University of New Hampshire Library: About William B. Ewert (1943-2001) William…

Jesus and Elvis. First Proof of the Broadside by John Updike. Signed by William B. Ewert (1943-2001), Publisher

Updike, John (1932-2009); William B. Ewert (1943-2001), publisher; Eric Gill (Illustrator); John Kristensen (Designer); Firefly Press (Printer); Elvis Presley, ( 1935-1977) · 2000 · Wittenborn Art Books

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

Concord, NH: William B. Ewert , Nov. 26. 2000. Broadside on thick laid paper. 26.7 x 19.8cm. Annotated in pencil verso: "1st proof. pulled 26 Nov. 2000. 1/8 copies. William B. Ewert".... University of New Hampshire Library: About William B. Ewert (1943-2001) William B. Ewert (b.…

Elegy for Kathleen Raine

Jeremy Reed · 2003 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Privately Printed, 2003 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce signed first edition copy of this poem by Jeremy Reed, dedicated to the English poet Kathleen Raine. The scarce first edition. Signed by the author.  In a paperback binding.  A poem by Jeremy Reed, a Jersey-bor…