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Clay Bird Sings

Rebecca Jane Hare · 2022 · Book Haven

NZ$19.50 (€9.77 | $10.77 | £8.15 | ¥1,720)

Self-published 2022 Paperback. A poetry collection by an Auckland-based poet. Signed by the author, including w a brief message. Signed by Author. (ISBN: 9780473628826). Near Mint.

Poems

Samuel Rogers · 1834 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

London, T. Cadell and Edward Moxon, 1834. First edition. Leather. The first edition of an illustrated anthology of the prolific poet Samuel Rogers, including illustrations by J.M.W. Turner. The first edition of Poems, a collection of poetry across the lifetime of prolific Englis…

Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy

Randall Jarrell · 1954 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this humorous novel by poet Randall Jarrell, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First UK edition. A humorous novel which focuses upon the oddities of academic life. The narrator teaches at Benton Wom…

Les Idylles

Theocritus · 1884 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

Paris, A. Quantin, 1884. Leather. A lovely copy of these short pastoral poems attributed to the ancient Greek poet Theocritus, in a recent binding. Theocritus was a Greek poet hailing from Sicily, active around the second century BC and best known for his pastoral poetry.Featuri…

1937 Poems

Thomas Gray · 1937 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Eton, Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society Limited, 1937. Vellum. A lovely collection of verses by Thomas Gray, privately printed for leavers of Eton College and presented in a vellum binding. Thomas Gray (1716-1771) was an English poet and letter-writer. Often considered …

Amores. Vertaald [uit het Latijn], ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door John Nagelkerken.

OVIDIUS. Nagelkerken,John. (transl.). · 1995 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Baarn, Ambo, 1995. 153 pp. Orig. hardcover (black cloth with gilt lettering on spine), d./j. 8vo. (Ambo Klassiek).Dutch translation from the Latin of the poems about love by the Latin poet Ovid (43 BC - AD 17).

5 DETROITS

LEVINE, Philip · 0 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

n.p.. Unicorn Press. First Edition. One of 450 copies bound in black sail-cloth. Contains the first publication in a book of "They Feed They Lion." This copy SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page.. Fine

Uppercase [SIGNED by PAOLOZZI]

CROSBY, Theo & PAOLOZZI, Eduardo · 1958 · Antiquariaat Looijestijn

€280.00 ($308.62 | £233.56 | ¥49,288)

Whitefriars 1958 app. 70 pp With dedication from Eduardo Paolozzi to Edouard Roditi (Poet and art critic). The first issue of Theo Crosby's seminal avant-garde art, design and architecture journal Uppercase. The lead editorial content comes from Eduardo Paolo... 1958 app. 70 pp …

Swords And Ploughshares

Drinkwater, John · 1915 · Eastleach Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

Sidgwick & Jackson 1915 1st edition. Cloth, G. 56+8pp publishers adverts, errata slip tipped in at pp48, cloth unevenly grubby with the spine browned, paper spine label rather worn ( spare tipped in to the rear of the book ), a fair copy. A small collection of poems. John Drink…

Coventry Patmore

E.J. Oliver · 1956 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, Sheed and Ward, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 211p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight, just with lightly bumped bottom corners. The jacket is intact, but scuffed and tanned on the edges and spine. Biography of t…

Poems

Mallarmé, Stéphane & Fry, Roger [translator] · 1936 · Eastleach Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Chatto & Windus 1936 1st edition. Cloth, VG. xii+308pp, fore edges & endpapers spotted, ownership signature, cloth a little rubbed. Parallel French - English text to the poems section. A selection of the poems ( along with an introduction & essay by Fry ) of Étienne [ Stéphane ]…

Black Venus

James MacManus · 2014 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Duckworth Overlook 2014 Paperback. The poet Baudelaire's real-life affair with the beautiful Haitian cabaret singer Jeanne Duval forms the basis of this novel. Their drug- and absinthe-soaked romance in 19th-century Paris will inspire his finest verse, and lead to a scandalous t…

Heide-bloemen, Haarlem, Francois Bohn, 1815-1816, set of 2 parts

WALRé, JAN VAN, · 0 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€86.25 ($95.07 | £71.95 | ¥15,183)

With two identical engraved titelpages by R. Vinkeles after J. van Walre and a portrait of the poet by W. van Senus after W. Hendriks. Saalmink II, p. 2120

This Thin Now - Hoopla Series

Jo Thorpe · 2018 · Book Haven

NZ$19.50 (€9.77 | $10.77 | £8.15 | ¥1,720)

Makaro Press 2018 Paperback, 47pp. This Thin Now tells the story of a love lost and of the places the poet finds it still - from inside the space two hands make to the numinous blue of sea and sky. These are poems of dazzle and quiet that give the reader a rare gift. Hoopla Seri…

Rubaiyat

KHAYYEM, Omar · 1859 · Boston Book Company

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.33 | ¥13,575)

19. KHAYEM, Omar. THE RUBIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, the astronomer poet of Asia. A facsimile reprint of the first English language edition, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, and published in London by Bernard Quaritch in 1859. 4to. printed paper wraps.[c.1920] With the extra wrapper. …

Grace To A Witty Sinner - A Life Of John Donne

Le Comte, Edward · 1965 · Eastleach Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

Gollancz 1965 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/G. [vi]+307pp, index, endpapers a little yellowed, spine of the edges worn & slightly frayed dustjacket yellowed. A biography of the English metaphysical poet & priest John Donne [ 1572 - 1631 ].

Poemas Nicaraguenses

PABLO ANTONIO CUADRA · 1994 · Mike Long Books

$29.75 (€26.99 | £22.51 | ¥4,751)

Hispamer Publishing. 1994. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1994/Gd. condition/83 pages - A page sufficed to reveal the accent, a strange individual rhythm of mounting yet sharply controlled passion-the signature of a true poet. [K711110]. Good.

Elucidarius poeticus co[n]tinens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas regiones, urbes, fluvios, mo[n]tesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, …Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, 1527. With the title in an elaborate woodcut border. With: (2) [FIOCCHI, Andrea Dominico (Andras Dominicus FLOCCUS)] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iamprimum nitori restitutus.[Cologne, Hero Fuchs, 1527]. With the title in a finely cut 4-piece woodcut border. 2 editions in 1 volume. 8vo. 16th-century(?) limp vellum (formerly used for a slightly thinner book). The binding is an interesting example of a spine reinforced with a horizontal metal rod at the central sewing support to give more support and prevent the bookblock from becoming concaved or developing sharp kinks; probably bound in Flanders.

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus (Herman van der BEKE). · 1498 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

[88]; [88] ll.Ad 1: Extremely rare third Antwerp edition of a well known Latin dictionary of classical antiquity by Hermannus Torrentinus, covering people, Gods, topographic names, etc., taken mostly from classical literature and arranged in alphabetical order. Pafraet published…

Rede uitgesproken door G. Buisman Jr. ter gelegenheid van de Onthulling van het Gedenkteeken van onze dichter P.A. de Genestet op 2 juli 1910, in het kerkgebouw der Remonstrantsch-Gereformeerde Gemeente te Delft.

BUISMAN JR., G., · 0 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€63.25 ($69.71 | £52.76 | ¥11,134)

20 pages, original paper binding, photograph of the monument, speech held by G. Buisman Jr. at the unveiling of the monument in Delft for Dutch poet P.A. de Genestet.

Indiana History Magazine, June 1934

MCMURTRY, R. GERALD; ZERFAS, L.G.; TRUEBLOOD, LILLIE D.; VEACH, GLEN E.; BARTHOLOMEW, H.S.K.; BYERLEY, MARY; COLEMAN, CHRISTOPHER B.; FLICK, OKA STANTON; LEACH, ELIAS; MACY, WILLIAM M. · 1934 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$129.95 (€117.90 | £98.35 | ¥20,754)

USA: Indiana Historical Society, 1934. First Edition. Paperback. Pages 116 - 211. Features: Indiana in the Douglas-Buchanan Contest of 1856; The Influence of Riley's Narrative Upon Abraham Lincoln; Medical Education in Indiana; The Story of John Williams, Colored; The Indiana Bo…