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Kingsley Amis · 1972 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Covent Garden Press Limited, 1972. Paperback. A limited edition copy of this short story, signed by Amis to the colophon. Limited edition of six hundred copies, of which one hundred are signed. This is number forty two. In this short story, Amis tells the story of an age…

Pleasure: A Poem in Seven Books

Nicholas Michell · 1859 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, William Tegg and Co. 1859. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce signed first edition of a delightful poetical work on Pleasure, written in heroic verse by Cornish poet Nicholas Michell. The very scarce and signed first edition of a fascinating poetry collection on Pleas…

Mid-Life Poems

Theresia Quigley · 1988 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Lancelot Press, 1988. Paperback. 64p. INSCRIBED BY THE POET. A thin softcover book in fine condition. Inscribed by Quigley on the half-title page. Very Good .

Days Beside Water

O'Brien, Gregory · 1993 · In 't Wasdom

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

Auckland, Auckland University Press, 1993 Very good, softcover, 80 pp. Signed with dedication tot the Dutch poet Erik [Menkveld]

Dreams on Hitler's Couch

Vitaliev, Vitali · 1999 · Byre Books

£21.18 (€25.39 | $27.99 | ¥4,470)

Book Very Good Signed by Author(s) Scribner London Reprint. 'Travel-writing of the soul'. Signed by the author to the title page, with an inscription to Scots poet Rab Wilson. VG.

New Poems

pseud. Rowland Thirlmere [John Walker] · 1920 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Selwyn and Blount, 1920. Cloth. A very scarce anthology with Romantic influence, signed and written by Lancashire poet Rowland Thirlmere, the pseudonym of John Walker. A very scarce anthology, written and signed by Lancashire poet and author Rowland Thirlmere, the pen na…

Early Poems

Lowell, James Russell · 0 · Eastleach Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Home Book Company nd c 1900 reprint. Decoarated cloth, VG. 229pp, paper browned at the edges, a nice copy. Collection of the American poet Lowells works, in a nice binding.

De poeticsche werken van mijn Heer vander Noot. Les oeuvres poetiques du Sr. Jan vander Noot.Antwerp, Daniel Vervliet and Arnout Coninx (shared printing), "1594" [=1588-1595]. Folio. With the general title page bearing Vervliet’s 1594 imprint, the only part-title (for the Inkomste bifolium) bearing s’Conincx’s 1594 imprint, 7 small bust portraits, 2 portraits of the author, 10 small rectangular illustrations, 2 medium illustrations, and 8 full-page illustrations (on integral leaves), all woodcut, some (and the 2 title pages) in architectural and/or arabesque woodcut frames. The text is variously set in 1, 2 or 3 columns, sometimes even mixing them on one page, each page in a frame (made partly from rules) and with the running titles in Dutch and French at the foot of the page. An occasional bifolium includes a woodcut decorated initial. The text, in Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek, is set in dozens of roman, italic, textura, civilité, fraktur and Greek printing types plus interlaced typographic capitals and arabesque typographic ornaments. Blind-tooled calf (ca. 1725/30?) by the so-called “Minnewit” bindery in Amsterdam.

NOOT, Jan van der. · 1539 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,577.24 | £29,195.08 | ¥6,161,024)

[102] ll.The most complete set known of the extremely rare series of laudatory poems - in Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Latin - written by the Dutch Renaissance poet Jan Baptista van der Noot (1539-post 1595). Van der Noot had each of his poems in the Poeticsche we…

Lamia's Winter-Quarters By Alfred Austin .

AUSTIN, ALFRED / ELGOOD, GEORGE S. (ILLUSTRATOR) . · 1907 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Adam And Charles Black, 1907 . 0. Limited Edition. Signed by Alfred Austin the poet laureate, limited deluxe edition of 250 copies - number 182. Soiled cream cloth hardcover with gilt titles on decoratively framed front and on dulled spine. Edges and corners rubbed and b…

LOVE & FAME

BERRYMAN, John · 1970 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.13 | £1,418.99 | ¥299,449)

New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. First Edition. A stylistic breakthrough book for the poet following his award-winning Dream Song books and including his moving "Eleven Addresses to the Lord." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper "To Marcos/very affectionatel…

Berkshire Ballads and Other Papers

Brain, John A. · 1904 · Creaking Shelves Books

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

Thomas Thorpe, 1904. Hardcover. 131p. Lectures given by John Brain, 1827-1901. Pages 1-63 reprint the title lecture; then follows; An Evening with Thomas Noon Talfourd; and two Reading Worthies: John Cennick - Poet and Preacher; and James Merrick - Poet and Scholar. The book is …

[Epigrammata]. Nova editio.Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With the woodcut printer's device of Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii on the title pages of ad 1 and 2, and the woodcut device of Maire on the title page of ad 3. With: (2) Petrus SCRIVERIUS. Animadversiones in Martialem. Opus invenile, & nunc primum ex intervallo quindecim annorum repetitum. Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1618.(3) Justus LIPSIUS, Janus RUTGERSIUS, Johannes Isacus PONTANUS (Janus GRUTERUS, Josephus Justus SCALIGER, and others). Notae in Martialem. Ad Petrum Scriverium.Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum.

MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius and Petrus SCRIVERIUS (editor). · 1619 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

[8], 16, 312; 283, [1 blank]; 24, 280 pp.Rare first edition of the text of De spectaculis and the famous epigrams of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis as edited by the Dutch philologist Petrus Scriverius. Martial, who lived in the first century (ca. 38 - 103 CE), brought …

A WALK WITH TOM JEFFERSON

LEVINE, Philip · 1988 · Charles Agvent

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. The softcover issue in pictorial wraps. SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page.. Fine

Tibullus: A Commentary

Putnam, Michael C.J. · 1973 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Gray cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. A …

A Dog of War

John Taylor · 1927 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

London, Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald, 1927. Cloth. A limited edition copy of this illustrated poetical work, complete in the uncommon unclipped dustwrapper. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. Limited edition of three hundred and seventy five copies. This copy is out…

Hengivelsen

John Donne; Ove Abildgaard [translator] · 1945 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Kobenhavn, H. Hirschsprungs Forlag, 1945. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this illustrated verse from English poet John Donne, limited to one thousand copies. Translated into Danish. Danish. Limited to one thousand copies of which this is number five hundred and forty-eight. Il…

Poems

Maurice O'Reilly · 1919 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Sands and Company, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of a poetic anthology written by Irish poet and Catholic figure Maurice O'Reilly, referencing his personal experiences, including as a priest in Australia. The signed first edition of Poems, wri…

The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; Comprising Specimens of Architecture and Scultpure, and Other Vestiges of Former Ages, Accompanied by Descriptions in Two Volumes

Walter Scott · 1814 · Rooke Books

£460.00 (€551.46 | $607.83 | ¥97,074)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-17. Leather. A beautifully bound pair of volumes on The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. Complete in two volumes. Together with illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition, and original poet…

Transformations.

Sexton, Anne. Preface by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1971). 17th prntg. VG PB. From the Preface - A strange reenactment of Grimm's Fairy Tales. and show the poet in a strangely prophetic way.

4 Letters from Abel Bonnard to the Salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (Née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny Du Faye)

Bonnard, Abel ( 1883-1968) · 1921 · Wittenborn Art Books

$275.00 (€249.50 | £208.12 | ¥43,919)

Paris: 1921-1934. 4 Als. 7pp.Abel Bonnard (1883-1968) écrivain, ministre de l'Instruction publique du gouvernement de Vichy [ exclu en 1944]..Poet, Novelist, Politician. Views evolved towards fascism in the 1930s. Bonnard was one of the ministers of National Education under the …