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Les Chefs-D&Apos;Oeuvre Lyriques de Pierre de Ronsard Et de Son Ecole

Pierre de Ronsard; Auguste Dorchain · 1910 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Paris, A Perche, 1910. Leather. A smartly bound collection of the poetry of Pierre de Ronsard and his school, in the original French. French. A collection of the lyrical poetry of Pierre de Ronsard, a French poet known in his generation as a "prince of poets". His poetry is char…

Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, And Other Makers Of Amerian Literature

Millichap, Joseph R · 2021 · Eastleach Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

University of Tennesse Press, Knoxville 2021 1st edition. Printed boards, F. xii+176pp, index, a fine copy. A study of the life & work of Robert Penn Warren [ 1905 - 1989 ] the American poet, novelist, and literary critic .

Gli Orti Dei Poveri. (Signed and Inscribed Copy)

Pento, Bortolo · 1956 · Parigi Books

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

Roma, Bardi, 1956. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 57pp. Original wrappers. Signed and inscribed by Bortolo Pento to a fellow poet in the year of publication. A fine copy. In the Italian language. ; 16mo; Signed by Author. .

Letters of the late Right Hon. Earl of Brooke & Warwick, to Mrs. Wilmot Serres, illustrated with the Poems and Memoirs of His Lordship, &c. &c (1819). rebound with Ryves and Ryves versus Her Majesty's Attorney-General (Legitimacy declaration) : an appeal for royalty being a letter to Her Majesty the Queen, From Lavinia, Princess of Cumberland and Duchess of Lancaster / Lavinia Ryves. (1866 - 2nd. edn.)

Greville, George, Earl of Brooke and Warwick & Olivia Wilmot Serres (editor) · 1819 · Bookbarrow

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Printed for Mrs. Olivia Wilmot Serres, and sold by Birkett & Scott, London, 1819. First Edition (rebound), Hardcover (Half Leather). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. rebound in faded red boards with brown leather spine & corners, gilt titles to brown leather label front cover; mar…

A TOUR THROUGH PARTS OF WALES, Sonnets, Odes, and Other Poems. With Engravings from drawings taken on the spot, by J. Smith.

Sotheby, W. · 1794 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London: Printed by J. Smeeton ... for R. Blamire ... 1794. 1st Ills. Ed. [2nd Enlarged Ed]. Sm. 4to. [viii] + 120pp. 13 tinted aquatint plates from drawings taken by J. Smith engraved by Samuel Alken (with foxed tissue guards). From the Library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, light a…

NOT THIS PIG

LEVINE, Philip · 0 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Middletown. Wesleyan University. First Edition. Levine's second book and first by a trade publisher, this being the softcover issue. SIGNED by poet laureate on the title page. . Bookplate on the inside front cover. Small red ink price stamp on the front free endpaper. Very Good

THAW

SMITH, Douglas · 1977 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$12.20 (€7.76 | $8.55 | £6.47 | ¥1,366)

Winnipeg Four Humours Press 1st edition pp. 35.,8vo,,Stitched card covers a bit sunned; else vg/nf condition,Publisher's announcement laid-in loose. This edition consists of 429 copies. ISBN 0920090060. SIGNED by both the poet, Douglas Smith, and the engraver/artist, Suzane Gaut…

Thoéphile Gautier

Du Camp, Maxim · 1890 · Eastleach Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Librairie Hachette, Paris 1890 1st edition. Cloth rebind, VG. 201pp+6pp publishers adverts, b/w frontis, spine faded & page margins a little tanned. Publisher's Les Grands Écrivains Français series. A critical study of the life & work of Théophile Gautier [ 1811 - 1872 ] the Fre…

A Long And Happy Life

Price, Reynolds · 1964 · Eastleach Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Penguin 1964 1st edition. Paperback, VG. 176pp, fore edges marked, pages slightly tanned. Penguin 2105. The author's first award winning novel, the troubled love story of Rosacoke Mustian and Wesley Beavers and its beautifully evoked vision of rural North Carolina. Reynolds Pric…

Thomas Lloyd Jones (Gwenffrwd), 1810-1834

Ellis, G. · 2000 · Acanthophyllum Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Bro Treffynnon. 1st edition. Good. No Jacket. Small food stain on front (Welsh) cover. 24 + 24 pp. "Gwenffrwd" was the bardic name of poet and translator T.Ll. Jones, born in or near Holywell (Treffynnon), who died in Alabama at the early age of 24 years.

Songs of Experience by William Blake & Hesperides by Robert Herrick

William Blake; Robert Herrick · 1911 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, The St. Catherine Press, 1911. Paperback. Two scarce volumes of poetic works from William Blake and Robert Herrick. Two volumes. Scarce editions. Dated from the British Library. This set includes: Songs of Experience A poetry collection including: Holy Thursday, The Ange…

Vittoria Colonna with Some Account of Her Friends and Her Times

Maud F. Jerrold · 1906 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

London, J. M. Dent & Co. 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical work on Italian poet Vittoria Colonna by Maud F. Jerrold. The first edition. In the original publisher's cloth. With a frontispiece portrait of Cardinal Reginald Pole. This biogra…

Erysichthon. A Callimachean Comedy.

Mc KAY, K.J., · 1962 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

Brill, Leiden, 1962. X,202p. Sewn. Series: Mnemosyne, supplementum septimum. 'There is learning, diligence, enthusiasm in McKay's studies of Callimachus' two Hymns (the Fifth or 'Bath of Pallas'; the Sixth or 'Demeter') but there is also, as I see it, a fundamental failure of ju…

One Bright Morning.

ROBERTS, Kate (translated by Gillian Clarke) · 2008 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Gomer Press 2008, 264pp, Paperback. In very good condition. A lyrical, evocative translation by poet Gillian Clarke of a classic Welsh novel by Kate Roberts, Tegwch y Bore. Set during the years of the First World War, this novel tells the story of Ann Owen, a young teacher. -- W…

A Preface To Keats

Watts, Cedric · 1988 · Eastleach Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

Longman 1988 2nd impression. Paperback, VG+xiv+185pp, b/w frontis, 25 b/w illustrations, index, spine faded & marked, otherwise a fine copy. publisher's Preface Books series. A critical introduction to the poetical works of John Keats [ 1795 - 1821 ] the influential English poet…

M&Apos;Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos

John Trumbull · 1792 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, J. S. Jordan, 1792 . Leather. In a tree calf binding, this is the fifth edition of John Trumbull's scarce mock epic, cataloguing the blunders of the British leaders during the American Revolution. The fifth edition of this work, which is scarce in all early editions…

Meredith

Siegfried Sassoon · 1948 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. Lovely biography of George Meredith from prominent war poet Siegfried Sassoon. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.Featuring a frontispiece portrait of George Mered…

Selected Poems 1963 - 2009

CUMBERLEGE, Marcus · 2010 · Marc Van de Wiele Antiquariaat

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Brugge, Van de Wiele, 2010. 21 x 15 cm, 224 pp. Soft cover. Text in English The hitherto much-travelled poet Marcus Cumberlege, winner of the Eric Gregory Award and widely published in Britain in the 60’s and 70’s, settled with his Flemish wife in Bruges shortly before the canal…

Francois Villon: A Documented Survey

D.B. Wyndham Lewis · 1928 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The literary Guild of America, 1928. Hardcover. 407p. A burgundy-plum cloth hardcover book in very good condition with damaged slipcase. The spine is faded. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The slipcase is badly torn along the edges. A study of the life and wor…

Collected Poems, Volume One

Alfred Noyes · 1941 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941. Hardcover. 426p. INSCRIBED BY THE POET. A green cloth hardcover book in near-fine condition. Corners and spine ends barely chafed; otherwise clean and tight. Volume 1 only, containing "The Flower of Old Japan," "The Progress of Love,"…