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Charlotte Mew and Her Friends.

PENELOPE FITZGERALD. · 1984 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Collins, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 240pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny trace of bruising to the head of the backstrip, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly faded at the spine panel a…

Le Manuscrit de Ma Mãƒâ¨Re Avec Commentaires, Prologue Et ãƒâ‰Pilogue

Alix de Lamartine; Alphonse de Lamartine · 1877 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Paris, Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1877. Leather. The writings of Alix de Lamartine, compiled and edited by her son the poet Alphonse de Lamartine. An early edition of this work in a quarter calf binding. A collection of excerpts from the diary of Alix de Lamartine (1766-1829), compil…

Poems 1948-1954

C. Wrey Gardiner · 1955 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Tunbridge Wells, Peter Russell, 1955 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce signed presentation copy of the limited first edition of this collection of poems by noted literary figure Wrey Gardiner. The first edition, limited to 350 copies.  A signed presentation copy, inscribed by the…

Lord Rochester's Monkey

Graham Greene · 1988 · Book Haven

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.70 | £3.55 | ¥750)

Penguin 1988 Paperback, 197pp. 'Lord Rochester's Monkey' was written between 1931 and 1934 and, because of the reputation of its subject, the notorious Restoration libertine and poet, the book failed to find a publisher. Rochester was the most prominent of rakes. He was also a f…

N.M. Karamzin. A Russian Sentimentalist.

NEBEL, Henry M., · 1967 · Marijana Dworski Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

The Hague, Mouton, 1967. A good copy in original dust-wrapper. 190pp. Ex L.S.E. library. Clean and tight. Used; Good Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian writer, poet, historian and critic. He is best remembered for his "History of the Russian State", a 12-volume national…

Sandburg

STEICHEN, EDWARD (EDITOR) · 1966 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, Harcourt Brace & World, Inc. 1966. Cloth, 4to. 113 pages. Edward Steichen and Carl Sandburg were brothers-in-law and knew each other for some 60 years. This is Steichen's tribute to the poet; nearly all the photographs of Sandburg are by Steichen. Very Good/Dustjacket …

Meredith

SASSOON , SIEGFRIED: · 1948 · Val Waring (formerly Stort Books)

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Constable 1948 First H/Back green cloth boards VG spine sunned 269pp 9 x 6 420g ¶ Biography of George Meredith (1828-1909) poet and novelist. There is some writing at the back of the book. We have other titles by this author, please contact us direct for further details.

Shameless Hussy Books

Alta · 1973 · Wittenborn Art Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Books, 1973. Catalog of books available from Shameless Hussy Books. With note written and signed by poet Alta, publisher of the press. Single 16-1/2 x 8-1.2 inch sheet, folded in quarters. .

Kristall der Ewigkeit. Gedichte.

LUSCHNAT, David · 1926 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Berlin, Self-published, 1926. 16 x 10 cm. Orig. cloth-backed stiff wrappers. (16) p. 1st Edition. Cheap text-paper browned, but a good copy of a delicate, a bit amateurish book production by the young poet himself.

Southey

Dowden, Edward · 1888 · Eastleach Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

Macmillan & Co 1888 2nd edition. Cream cloth, VG. vi+199pp+2pp adverts, spine a little grubby & endpapers foxed, but a nice copy. English Men of Letters Series, edited by John Morley. Literary biography of the romantic poet Robert Southey.

Fairy Tales

Lipton, Douglas · 1997 · Byre Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book Good Markings Kirkcudbright A Marking special edition. Powerful poems, reflecting on the holocaust through Grimm and Andersen. Stapled booklet, covers a little worn and sunned, address stamp (poet Brent Hodgson) to back fep, clean and sound, good.

Alexander Pope

Sitwell, Edith · 1930 · Byre Books

£12.94 (€15.51 | $17.10 | ¥2,731)

Book Good Faber and Faber London Second impression. A biography of the poet. Yellow cloth a little worn and marked, slight foxing to prelims and edge of page block, no inscriptions, tissue-guarded frontis and illus., good, no DJ.

Oil

JAMES K. BAXTER · 1957 · Tinakori Books

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.82 | ¥19,165)

Wellington, Government Printer. 1957, First Edition. Soft cover, Oblong. Ill.: William Jones, Roy Cowan. Book, 36 pages, illustrations and diagrams. Old name on front cover. Probably the rarest book by New Zealand poet James K. Baxter. Very Good.

Poems

Dunbar, William; James Kingsley, editor · 1958 · Imago Press

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

London, Oxford University Press, 1958. Perfect binding, 160 pp. 5"-7.25". Fair. 15th Century Scottish Mediaeval poet whose poems are a medley of chivalry, piety, grossness and splendid riot. Coffee stains and smudges to covers in the Clarendon Series.

Kayak 57

Hitchcock, George, editor · 1981 · Imago Press

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

Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Books, Inc. 1981. Staplebound, 73 pp. 6.5"-8.5". Good. Hey, Raymond Carver's in here. And the Welsh poet, Tony Curtis. Great graphics by Thomas Wiloch, Karen Rasco, John Digby and Marjorie Simon. Covers clean bt rumpled.

Last Harvest: poems of Bernard Grebanier.

Grebanier, Bernard, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

np, np, (1980). VG in G DJ. Well-known as educator, scholar, biographer, essayist and poet, awarded the Samuel French Award for best teacher of Playwriting. in U.S. DJ tanned & wear at edges, binding some spotting & fading.

Collection of Als from Paul Hervieu de L'Académie Française to the Salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (Née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny Du Faye)

Bourget, Paul (1852-1935) · 1913 · Wittenborn Art Books

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.28 | ¥35,934)

Paris : 20 rue Barbet de Jouy, 1913-1923. 8 Als (6 on card stock) , 14 pp.signed with handwritten messages..After completing his studies in philosophy, Bourget began his career as a poet, and several of his poems were set to music by Claude Debussy. Encouraged and deeply influen…

Debits and Credits

Rudyard Kipling · 1926 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S edition of this collection of stories and poems by Rudyard KIpling. The first U.S edition. In the publisher's original cloth. This work was written by the popular English author and poet Rudyar…

Terry Street

Douglas Dunn · 1969 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, Faber and Faber, 1969 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this award-winning collection of poetry, the debut work of Scottish poet Douglas Dunn. The first edition. Signed by the author to the title page.The first published collection of poetry from Scottis…

Peter Levi - Oxford Romantic

Allen, Brigid · 2014 · Eastleach Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Signal Books, Oxford 2014 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG+/VG+. xii+452pp, 10 b/w illustrations, index, SIGNED by the author ( with dedication ) to the endpaper, a near fine copy in a slightly edge worn dustjacket. Biography of Peter Chad Tigar Levi [ 1931 - 2000 ] the Eng…