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G. Bender à Brandis; Bernadette Rule · 1985 · Books on the Web

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Carlisle: Brandstead Press, 1985. Hard bound, limited edition of 100 hand-made copies of which this is #91, SIGNED on dedication page by both artist and poet. Illustrated with the author's fine engravings. Unpaginated. Fine in slip-case. All books in stock and available for …

OLD LIGHTS FOR NEW CHANCELS. Verses Topographical and Amatory.

BETJEMAN, John. · 1940 · The Minster Gate Bookshop

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London: John Murray, 1940. First edition, 12mo., pp.xix,67,(1), blue cloth, printed paper label to spine; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, with light toning and minimal chipping to edges. With a card written by Betjeman for Eric Mascall (Poet and Theologian), w…

Egypt Under The Pharaohs. A History Derived Entiely from The Monuments By Heinrich Brugsch-Bey. A New Edition Condensed And Thoroughly Revised By M. Brodrick. with Maps, Plans, And Illustrations.

BRUGSCH-BEY, HEINRICH / BRODRICK, M. · 1891 · Chilton Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1891 . 0. First edition with an interesting provenance. 8vo. 23cm x 15cm x 4cm. pp.28/pp.469/pp.28 Original black cloth covered boards. Gilt image of a Pharaoh to the front board and gilt titles an decoration to the spine. Boards and spine …

Abdias' Blind Daughter Ditha Struck by Lightning Through a Window. First Edition of the Wood Engraving

Lark-Horovitz, Betty (1894-1995) · 1950 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Berkeley, CA: Betty Lark-Horovitz, circa 1950s. Wood-engraving on thin rice paper watermarked with the face of Ditha (and the number 1399, on some impressions). 5.25 x 3.25 inches on sheet size 17 x 11 inches... Abdias' blind daughter Ditha is struck by Lightning through a Windo…

The Art of Painting: By C.A. Du Fresnoy: With Remarks. Translated Into English with an Original Preface, Containing a Parallel Before Painting and Poetry. As Also a Short Account of the Most Eminent Painters, Both Ancient and Modern: By Richard Graham

Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy; John Dryden [trans.]; Richard Graham · 1750 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)

London, Henry Lintot, 1750. Leather. A pleasing eighteenth-century third edition of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, translated by John Dryden with contributions by Richard Graham and Alexander Pope. An excellent third edition of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy&ap…

The War Illustrated - a Picture-Record of Events by Land, Sea and Air, 24th November [Nov. ] 1917, No. 171, Vol. 7

HAMMERTON, J.A.: EDITOR · 1917 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

London: Amalgamated Press, Ltd, 1917. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 20 pages. Features: Supports of the King (article); Cover illustration of British infantry rounding up a 'Pill-box" in Flanders; A Soldier of Italy - A Picture of Heroism by Italy's Hero-Poet Gabriele D'…

Rainbow. Second Proof W/Author's Alterations of the Broadside by John Updike. Signed by William B. Ewert (1943-2001), Publisher

Updike, John (1932-2009); William B. Ewert (1943-2001), publisher; Firefly Press (Printer) · 2001 · Wittenborn Art Books

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

Concord, NH: William B. Ewert ,26 February 2001. Broadside on card. 34.9 x 26.7cm. Annotated in pencil verso: "2nd proof w/author's alterations . - pulled 26 February 2001. 1/10 copies. William B. Ewert"....OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 663400873: Notes: "This broadside was s…

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Morris, Tony · 1983 · Hessay Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

AM Press, 1983. First Edition. Printer Wrapper, 28pp, orange softback coevrs. Gift inscription on the title page signed by the author. A very clean copy. Rare poems from a York poet. Signed by Author. Fine.

Fire on Stone

Ralph Gustafson · 1974 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

McClelland & Stewart, 1974. 1st. Paperback. 0771037031. Signed by Author(s). First printing. Octavo format softcover. SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page. Fine copy with faintest trace of wear to some tips. Fine.

Al-Barrak. Poem. All-Barrack Poemen.

KUSIKOV, Aleksandr pseud. of Boris KUSIKIAN Alexander Kussikoff. · 1922 · Marijana Dworski Books

£92.00 (€110.29 | $121.57 | ¥19,415)

Berlin, Skify Skythen, 1922. Original textured paper wrappers, in very good condition. Mild damp spotting to covers, paper a little browned. Used; Very Good Armenian poet born Boris Kusikian but wrote undr the name of Aleksandr Kusikov. With Esenin, a founder member of the Imagi…

An Upton Sinclair Anthology.

EVANS, I.O. (COMPILER) · 1934 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: T.Werner Laurie Ltd, 1934. 1st British edition. "In these works, as indeed in all his writings, Sinclair manifests himself as a worthy exponent of the ideals characteristic of his own nation, their dogged determination and unbounded energy, their love of freedom, thier p…

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STRAND, Mark · 1970 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

New York. Atheneum. First Edition. Printed wraps. Strand's third book, not published in hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page.. Fine

Robert Nathan: A Bibliography

Laurence, Dan H. · 1960 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Library, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the poet himself, Robert Nathan, at first free endpaper, "For Lard Williams of Irving, from Sir Robert (of Nathan) Ho Hum! Forty long years --" Bound in simply blu…

Mystery Train

Wojahn, David · 1990 · Mare Booksellers

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.43 | ¥4,312)

Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition. Trade paperback. 85 pp. SIGNED, with an inscription, by the author to another poet/author. 85 pp. A collection of poems, with a large section centered around rock music and the r…

John Betjeman

Morse, Greg · 2011 · Eastleach Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥528)

Shire Publications 2011 1st edition. Paperback, F. 56pp, colour & b/w illustrations throughout, index, a fine copy. Shire album 648. A short monograph on the life and legacy of the poet and architectural historian John Betjeman.

Body Home

Robert Flanagan · 1971 · Dodman Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

Belfast, Ulsterman Publications, 1st Edition, Despite the publisher, this is, I think, the work of Canadian poet Flanagan. In VG internal order. Blue card covers toned to edges. 8vo. 12pp, Very Good, No Jacket, 8vo, 12

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Rosenblatt, Joe · 0 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Toronto, Coach House Press. 1st. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First printing. Stapled oblong illustrated softcover wraps, printed recto only. SIGNED by the poet on the front cover. Very slight wear to covers at extremities. Fine.

Pair of Works on John Betjeman

Bevis Hillier · 1984 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, John Murray, 1984-1988. First edition. Cloth. Two fine, first edition works of literary criticism on English poet, writer, and broadcaster John Betjeman by Bevis Hillier, both in the original bright, unclipped dust wrappers. Both in the original bright, unclipped dust wr…

Swiss Letters and Alpine Poems

Frances Ridley Havergal; J. Miriam Crane [ed.] · 1881 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, James Nisbet & Co. 1881. Cloth. A collection of letters and verses from Switzerland, by religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal. Early edition. Eighth thousand. With illustrated frontispiece. A collection of letters and verses, such as: the mountain maidens, my alpine sta…

A Time to Dance and Other Poems

C. Day Lewis · 1935 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf , 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetical collection from Poet Laureate, Cecil Day-Lewis. The first edition. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, with a small gilt stamp to the front board.This is the four…