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Selected Poems

Verlaine, Paul & Sorrell, Martin [translator] · 2009 · Eastleach Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

Oxford University Press 2009 2nd edition. Paperback, VG+. xxxviii+317pp, index, mark to the upper cover where a sticker has been removed, page edges a little tanned. Parallel French - English text to the poems section. A collection of the poems of Paul Marie Verlaine [ 1844 - 18…

Die Sieben Geschichten Der Sieben Prinzessinnen

Nizami & Gelpke, Rudolf [translator] · 1959 · Eastleach Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

Manesse Verlag, Zürich 1959 1st edition. Cloth, G+. 301pp, colour frontis, 11 colour plates, cloth a little rubbed & with a small hole to the spine. Booksellers ticket of Kaapstad, Cape Town to the pastedown. German language prose translation of the Persian poem Haft Peykar by …

These Yellow Photos

Val Warner · 1971 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Oxford, Carcanet Press, 1971. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce limited first edition of These Yellow Photos, Val Warner"s striking debut poetry pamphlet. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps.This copy is a first limited edition, being one of…

De stad zonder joden [Die Stadt ohne Juden/ The City Without Jews]. Een roman van overmorgen. Geautoriseerde bewerking van Ph.J.G. Roest.

[Antisemitism]. Bettauer, Hugo (1872-1925). · 1933 · Fahrenheit 451

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Alphen a/d Rijn, A.C. de Haan, Uitgever, z.j. (1933), 1st Dutch edition, sewn in original wrappers with original dustjacket in black and orange . = Extremely scarce with the original expressive dustjacket with flaps with blurb preserved (strengthened on folds on the inside and…

Dylan Thomas: A New Life

Andrew Lycett · 2003 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Woodstock, NY, The Overlook Press, 2003. Hardcover. Publisher remainder. Otherwise a new hardcover book in dustjacket. 434p. A biograhy of Thomas exploring his wild, public image and his deep, sensitive life as a poet. .

Ariosto

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn · 1980 · Parigi Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, Pocket Books, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. 83294-8. A paperback original. The mighty epic of a poet-warrior caught in fantasy's furious game of chance. A near fine copy. ; Octavo; 361 pages. .

Taken Care Of : An Autobiography

Sitwell, Edith · 1965 · Eastleach Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Hutchinson 1965 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 192pp, printed endpapers ( Sitwell's Times obituary ), b/w frontis, 16pp b/w plates, index, edges of the dustjacket a little rubbed, a nice copy. The biography of Edith Louisa Sitwell [ 1887 - 1964 ] the British poet and critic and…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT and TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)

MacLEISH, Archibald and FITZGERALD, Robert · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.10 | ¥69,871)

Hamden, CT. Two handwritten two-page letters on both sides of an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet SIGNED "Robert" to MacLeish along with a page of notes handwritten in pencil by MacLeish and a small card in pencil and ink written by MacLeish. The notes refer to consciousness with MacLeish men…

Right Royal

John Masefield · 1920 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, William Heinemann, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. Number thirty-six of five hundred limited edition copies signed by the author, in the publisher's original quarter paper vellum. Number thirty-six of five hundred limited edition copies with hand-made paper. Signed by …

Shakespeare&Apos;S Songs

William Shakespeare · 1907 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Stratford-on-Avon , Shakespeare Head Press, 1907. Leather. A smart limited edition copy of this collection of verse from English playwright, poet and actor, William Shakespeare. Limited edition of five hundred and ten copies printed on handmade paper, of which this is number six…

Haunts of Ancient Peace

Alfred Austin · 1908 · Rooke Books

£97.00 (€116.29 | $128.17 | ¥20,470)

London , Adam & Charles Black , 1908. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated copy of Alfred Austin's Haunts of Ancient Peace. Haunts of Ancient Peace is a volume written by Alfred Austin that celebrates British countryside.Alfred Austin was an English poet and writer who was appoi…

An Autobiographical Novel

REXROTH, KENNETH · 1966 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1966. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and …

Nezdeshnie vechera. (Otherworldly evenings).

KUZMIN, Michail · 1922 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€125.00 ($137.78 | £104.27 | ¥22,004)

Petrograd, Petropolis, 1922. Original wrappers (designed by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky). 136 p. In Russian. 1st edition. Tiny edge tears and little spots on the cover. On the back the usual Russian bureaucratic stamps, stripes and scribbles. Some spots inside. From a particularly acti…

Continual Dew a Little Book of Bourgeois Verse

John Betjeman · 1937 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, John Murray, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of John Betjeman's poetical works, held in the original dustwrapper. Written by John Betjeman the English poet and broadcaster, who served as the poet laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 up until his…

Tribute

FARRELL, WINSTON · 1996 · Black Rock Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Barbados, FARCIA. 1996. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, Signed by poet. A selection of poems dedicated to the life and times of The Landship Movement. Winston Farrell is one of the best poets currently writing and performing in Barbados. Postage may be reduced. Good.…

Poems.

E. L. MAYO. · 1954 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Platform, 'The Platform Poets' series, London [c.1954]., 1st Edition, First edition of the first and only issue of 'The Platform Poets' series, issued as a supplement to the short-lived Frederick Woods-edited poetry periodical 'Platform'. 8vo. 8pp stapled into lettered wrappers.…

Beurze-Stryd, of Saemen-Spraek tusschen Galenus, en Baldus.[The Hague, Meyndert Uytwerf?], 1692. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Bound on two modern chords.

[BIDLOO, Govert]. · 1649 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

[8], 9-24 pp.One of variant issues of this satirical pamphlet supposedly written by the famous physician (he became a few years later the personal physician of Stadholder/King William III), anatomist, poet and playwright and above all colorful Govert Bidloo (1649-1717).In Februa…

Selected poems, 1961-1994

Cullinan, Patrick [Cullman, Patrik] · 1994 · In 't Wasdom

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Plumstead [South Africa], Snailpress, 1994 Good, softcover, 142 pp., ill. Judith Mason, with illustrations in black and white (drawings), signed Edited and introduced by Stephen Watson, signed and dedicated to the Dutch poet Erik [Menkveld]

Dust Jacket for a Windmill Near Calvary

Waldrop, Keith · 1968 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, 1968. Dust jacket for this well-known poet, translator, and publisher's first book of poems. Not price-clipped. Slight crease at top of spine, otherwise Near Fine. .

A Miniature Cathedral and Other Poems

Walter Wangerin, Jr. · 1987 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1987. 1st paperback printing. Paperback. 132p. A paperback book in essentially fine condition. Head of spine lightly bumped; otherwise clean and tight. The poet was also a Lutheran pastor. Very Good .