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Edgell Rickword · 1931 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Glasgow, Wishart, 1931. Paperback. A scarce anthology, written an signed by English poet and intellectual Edgell Rickword to famous bookseller Martin Woolf Orskey. Twittingpan and Some Others, a scarce anthology written and signed by poet and intellectual Edgell Rickwood. Publis…

PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS OF PORTUGAL. PROSE PIECES

HALL, Donald · 0 · Charles Agvent

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Boston. Beacon Press. First Edition. Reflections on his family home in New Hampshire, baseball, and much more. SIGNED by the poet on the title page.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

Matthew Arnold A Centennial Exhibition.

Woof, Robert (ed) · 1988 · Hessay Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

The Wordsworth Trust, 1988. First Edition. Soft Cover, A large folio sized exhibition catalogue of 12 pages. Introductory essay by Robert Woof on the work of the educator, poet and critic. Descriptions and many b + w illustrations of items in the exhibiton. A clean copy... Very …

Les genealogies et anciennes descentes des Forestiers et Comtes de Flandre, avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies et gestes le tout recueilly des plus veritables, approvees et anciennes croniques et annales qui se trouvent...Antwerp, (colophon: Andre Bax for) Pierre Balthasar (also known as Pieter Balten), [1580]. Folio. With an engraved title-page, a full-page engraved plate with the dedication, a full-page engraved plate showing the coats-of-arms of the Foresters of Flanders and the counts of Flanders and a map of Flanders, a full-page engraving showing verse below an allegorical scene of death, 40 full-page engraved portraits of the Foresters and Counts of Flanders, 30 small coats-of-arms in the text, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. All illustrations (except for the initials) are expertly coloured by hand. Contemporary parchment, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with remnants of green closing ties.

MARTIN, Cornelis and Pieter BALTEN (illustrator and publisher). · 1459 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

[6], 119, [2], [1 blank] pp.Rare, beautifully illustrated and contemporary hand coloured copy containing the biographies and portraits of the rulers of Flanders since the 9th century CE. The work details the genealogy of the Counts of Flanders, supposedly - according to the so-c…

Cold Mountain Holiday Postcards

Cold Mountain Press; Reginald Gibbons; Anita Skeen; Nancy Willard; Gretchen Reed (ill.) · 1975 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Austin, TX: Cold Mountain Press, 1975. 18mo. Letterpress On Card, Very Good with minor creasing. Illustrated. All three post cards signed by the poet. .

Festus a Poem

Philip James Bailey · 1848 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, William Pickering, 1848 . Cloth. The uncommon third revised edition of this poem by Philip James Bailey from the mid nineteenth century. Third edition of Festus, A Poem by Philip James Bailey in the original publisher's red cloth binding. The third and revised edit…

A Kumquat for John Keats (SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FOR BILL SCAMMELL)

HARRISON, TONY · 1981 · Bookcase

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Bloodaxe Books. 1981. Staple, 8vo. Poetry, Signed presentation copy given to the poet Bill Scammell. Pages clean and bright, staple binding tidy. Very Good. Signed.

Ernst Haas. Color Photography

Ernst Haas 41034 · 1989 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1989, Linnen band met stofomslag, 176, A poet and visionary, Ernst Haas was one of the great masters of photography. Beginning with early photographs made in the 1950s, his works are presented here in full color., Goed

Philippe Dumaine

Despert, Jehan (Philippe Dumaine) · 1979 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Paris: Subervie, 1979, First edition of the first critical study of Dumaine. Includes many hitherto unpublished poems by Dumaine. Inscribed by Dumaine to poet and translator Leo Birch, who has marked the text in pencil throughout. 12mo, original wraps (soiled).

Epithalamium for Ariel & Thomas Parkinson

[Richard Moore?] · 1948 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Berkeley, CA: [Richard Moore?], 1948. 8vo. Poem inside hand-illustrated folder, dated December 23, 1948, on the occasion of Ariel & Thomas Parkinson's wedding, where poet Moore was the Best Man. Very Good. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, Thomas Parkinson a…

Selected Poems, Joseph Brodsky

Brodsky, Joseph; George L. Kline, translator · 1973 · Imago Press

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.51 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

Hammondsworth UK, Penguin, 1973. Perfect binding, 168 pp. 5"-7.75". fine. Major European poet born in the Soviet Union but hardly published there. Meditative poems, prefaced by one of the last pieces W.H. Auden ever wrote. Green on purple cover.

We All Fall Down.

McQuilkin, Rennie, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Wesley Chapel, FL, Swallow's Tale Press, (1987). VG PB. 1986 Swallow's Tail Poetry Award chosen by David Bottoms. A poet with an extraordinary eye who knows how to use, who looks. at the hard questions of the world and never flinches..

A Flagon of Beauty (signed).

MacDonald, Wilson, · 1947 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Buffalo, NY, Broadway Press, (1947). 4th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Signed by author MacDonald on half title page. MacDonald has been called the man's poet because of the virility of his poems. Partially removed bookplate ft endpaper, black out name.

Miner's Pond (SIGNED + ephemera)

Michaels, Anne. · 1991 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1991. 1991. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo, ill. wraps. SIGNED by the poet. Fine copy. Second book by the award-winning author of Fugitive Pieces. Promo material from publisher laid in. Fine.

American Poetry at Mid-Century

Ransom, John Crowe, Delmore Schwartz and John Hall Wheelock · 1958 · Wittenborn Art Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1958. Lectures Presented under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. 8vo. 49 pp. Signed by one of the authors, "For Lee / poet and friend / Jack / December 26, / 1958." Very good in stapled wraps. .

Fêtes Galantes - Jadis Et Naguère

Verlaine, Paul & Dantec, Yves Gérard [editor] · 1943 · Eastleach Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Éditions De Cluny, Paris 1943 1st edition. Paperback, dj, VG/G+. 297pp, edges a little rubbed, spine of the dustjacket tanned, ownership name, address & bookplate. Two collections of poems by Paul-Marie Verlaine [ 1844 - 1896 ], the French poet associated with the Decadent move…

Origins: vol. 10, Galloway Poets

Ross, Derek · 1997 · Byre Books

£15.30 (€18.34 | $20.22 | ¥3,229)

Book Good Signed by Author(s) Markings Kirkcudbright Poems, some in Scots. Signed by the author to the title page: 'To Brent all the very best, Derek' (poet Brent Hodgson)20. Portrait covers a little worn and marked, clean and sound, good.

Histoire maccaronique de Merlin Coccaie, prototype de Rabelais. Avec notes par G. Brunet et P. L. Jacob

Teofilo Folengo 547195 · 1859 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

A. Delahays, 1859, Linnen band, 19th-c edition reprint of the story of the giant Fracasse and the cunning Cingar, by the Italian macaronic poet Teofilo Folengo (1491-1544), under the pseudonym Merlinus Cocaius, said to be an inspiration for the stories of Rabelais., Goed

WAITING FOR MY LIFE. POEMS

PASTAN, Linda · 0 · Charles Agvent

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York. W. W. Norton & Company. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in 1981 on the title page to the partner of poet William Meredith.. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

BEAST IN VIEW

[BLACKBURN, Paul] RUKEYSER, Muriel · 1946 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Garden City. Doubleday & Company, Inc.. First published in 1944. Paul Blackburn's copy, SIGNED by the poet and dated August 1948 in New York on the front endpaper.. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper