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Roy Fuller · 1985 · Dodman Books
£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)
London, The Salamander Press, 1st Edition, In near-fine order throughout bar fading to spine. Bookplate of poet Ann Ridler to half title. 8vo. 63pp., Very Good, No Jacket, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall, 63
Dante Alighieri
Quinones, Ricardo J · 1979 · Eastleach Books
£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)
Twayne Publishers - G K Hall & Co, Boston 1979 1st edition. Cloth, F. 212pp, b/w frontis, a fine copy. Twayne's World Authors Series : TWAS 563. A critical study of the works of Dante Alighieri [ 1265 - 1321 ] the Italian poet and philosopher best known for his Divine Comedy.
Vitae aliquot excellentium Batavorum.
PEERLKAMP, P.Hofman. · 1806 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954
€32.00 ($35.27 | £26.69 | ¥5,633)
Haarlem, A. Loosjes, 1806. xvi,77 pp. Library-halfcloth. (stamps on title; small marginal tear in two leaves) - short biographies in Latin of 20 famous Dutch, incl. William the Silent, prince Maurice, Erasmus, but also Janus Koenius (Jan Pieterszn. Coen) and Hubertus Potius (th…
Matthew Arnold: Between Two Worlds
Robert Giddings, ed · 1986 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.
$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)
London/Totowa, NJ, Vision Press/Barnes & Noble, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. 207p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Like-new apart from a former owner's neat bookplate inside the front cover. A collection of essays studying the Victorian poe…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published, the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During Which He Flourished
James Boswell · 1822 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)
London, T. Cadell; F. C. and J. Rivington et al , 1822. Leather. A complete ninth edition set of James Boswell's authoritative biography of Samuel Johnson, bound in half calf. The ninth edition, revised and augmented. Complete in four volumes. Uniformly bound in half calf …
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Compositions, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain for Near Half a Century During Which He Flourished
James Boswell · 1823 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)
London, J Richardson and Co et al. 1823. Leather. A very smart four volume leather set of James Boswell's famous biography of the life and work of Samuel Johnson This classic work was a huge critical success, and is a significant landmark in the development of genre of biog…
Andre Chenier: Elegies and Camille
Andre Chenier; Levi Robert Lind [trans] · 1978 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)
Washington, University Press of America, 1978. Paperback. A bilingual edition of Andre Chenier's elegies, in both French and English, with an inscription from the translator L. R. Lind. The bilingual edition. The translator's presentation copy with an inscription by t…
Keramos and Other Poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1878 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of the poetry and translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the first edition of this work. The first edition, in the first state binding, with 'Houghton, Osgood, & Co' to the tail of the s…
Tiresias and Other Poems
Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1885 · Rooke Books
£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1885. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lesser known anthology of poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The first edition, first issue, without the printer's name to the final page. An anthology of poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, including t…
A RUN OF JACKS
HUGO, Richard · 0 · Charles Agvent
$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.10 | ¥69,871)
Minneapolis. University of Minnesota. First Edition. Poet's important first book. This copy with the signature of poet Joan Swift on the front free endpaper. . Very minor rubbing to the bottom edge of the boards. Close to Fine copy in a Fine dustwrapper and uncommon as such
1881 Letters from Inside the Franco-Belgian Press Revealing "Unpublishable" émile Zola & Maupassant Gossip and Literary Networks.
F. WILMET · 1881 · Katz Fine Manuscripts
$395.00 (€358.37 | £298.93 | ¥63,084)
Antwerp, Belgium, France, Paris, 1881. Ephemera. On offer are two signed manuscript letters written from Antwerp in 1881 by Belgian journalist F. Wilmet to French author Aimé Giron (1836-1907). The principal four-page letter presents a remarkably lively view from inside the nine…
Shadow-box
Logue, Antonia · 1999 · Books & Bygones
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
Book As New As New First Edition Bloomsbury. London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall In the dazzling first novel, Antonia Logue weaves together the lives of three extraordinary characters: Jack Johnson, who punched his way out of the docks of Galveston to become the first black heavywe…
Shards Of Silver
Paul Thompson · 2006 · Book Haven
$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)
Steele Roberts 2006 Paperback 103 A kind of photograph made with words is how New Zealand poet Riemke Ensing describes what a poem is. Like many of our finest poets, she draws inspiration from photographs and photography. Paul Thompson has investigated the interplay between phot…
Chimera
Ebba Maria Rankin and Ellenora Beamish · 1934 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.
$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)
New York, John H. Hopkins & Son, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 256p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Patchy, light fading on covers. Top right corner bumped. Small scuff on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. The dustjacket is mildly c…
Ernesto Cardenal: Poeta de la Liberacion Latinoamericana
Promis Ojeda, Jose, et al. (Ernesto Cardenal) · 1975 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery
$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)
Buenos Aires: Fernando Garcia Cambeiro, 1975, First edition of this landmark study of the Nicaraguan poet. 8vo, original wraps. Very good.
Compendium chronicorum Flandriae, per Iacobum Meyerum Balliolanum. Opus nunc recens aeditum, anno M.D.XXXVIII. Norimbergae apud Io. Petrium.Neurenberg, Johannus Petreius, 1538. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer’s device on the title page of each work, and 33 decorated woodcut initials (2 in ad 1, 31 in ad 2). With: PANORMITA, Antonius (Antonio BECCADELLI). De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Aragonum libri quattuor. Commentarium in eosdem Aeneae Sylvii quo capitatim cum Alphonsinis contendit. Adiecta sunt singulis libris Scholia per Iacobum Spiegelium.Basel, Ex officina Hervagiana (Joannes Hervagius & Joannes Erasmus Froben), 1538.Contemporary panel-stamped calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, blind-tooled diagonal cross-hatching in the top and bottom compartment, a central panel on both boards (measuring 156 x 93 mm) with acorns on branches, surrounded by a floral border with acorns and wyverns, and an escutcheon at the bottom, the titles written in a humanistic hand at the top of the front board and on the fore edge, remnants of closing ties.
MEYER, Jacques de. · 1491 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
[14], 134 ll; [8], 1-125, 226-299, 100-108, 209-212, 203, 213-214, 214-216, 117, 218-230, 221-278 [=282], [2] pp.Ad 1: First edition of an early humanist history of Flanders from 445 to 1278, in a beautiful contemporary, likely Flemish, binding with exceptionally clear impressio…
Vergils Aeneis
Vergil & Schröder, Rudolf Alexander [translator] · 1963 · Eastleach Books
£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)
Winkler Verlag, München 1963 reprint. Cloth, VG. 387pp, 20 colour plates, spine sunned & cloth a little marked, otherwise a fine copy. German edition of the Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy. Publ…
Lamia's Winter-Quarters
Austin, Alfred · 1898 · Barter Books Ltd
£14.60 (€17.50 | $19.29 | ¥3,081)
VG : in very good condition without dust jacket London Macmillan & Co First Edition 210mm x 150mm (8" x 6"). 164pp + ads. B/W illustrations. Alfred Austin (1835-1903) took up the position of Poet Laureate in 1896 following the death of Tennyson. 'Lamia's Winter Quarters' takes t…
Burning Bright
Tracy Chevalier · 2007 · Book Haven
NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)
HarperCollins 2007 Hardback, 400pp. Against the backdrop of a city anxious over the bloody French revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, whose family have moved from Dorset, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they be…
Browning
Patricia Mochin · 1985 · West Wessex Books
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Book The Author Very Good Very Good 1st Edition Webb & Bower Exeter 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 48pp.pocket poet, 13 poems combined with beautiful paintings, a lovely little book, as new really, illustrated in full colours.