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Rollins, Henry · 1986 · Mare Booksellers

$108.00 (€97.99 | £81.73 | ¥17,248)

Beverly Hills, CA, Illiterati Press, 1986. Wraps. Stated fourth printing. Early collection of poetry by spoken word artist, poet and front man for the hardcore punk band Black Flag. VERY GOOD condition. Minor fading and a hint of curling along the spine. Owner's name crossed out…

Layli and Majnun. Love, madness and mystic longing in Nizami's epic romance.

Seyed-Gohrab,Ali Asghar. · 2003 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€125.00 ($137.78 | £104.27 | ¥22,004)

Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2003. XII,2],368 pp. Orig. hardcover (boards). (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Vol. 27).A comprehensive study of Nizami's romance, "Layli and Majnun" (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysi…

Lalla Rookh an Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore · 1853 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London , Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans , 1853. Leather. An illustrated, leather bound copy of Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore. Lalla Rookh is an Oriental romance by Irish poet Thomas Moore. The work consists of four narrative poems with the connecting tale in prose. Lalla Rook…

Poems by Father and Son

William Cryer, James Wilfred Cryer · 1923 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Bolton, Tillotson and Son, c.1923. Cloth. A very scarce and intimate anthology of poems by Lancashire poets William Cryer and his son James Wilfred, who has also signed the work. A very scarce poetic anthology Poems by Father and Son, by Lancashire William Cryer and James Wilfre…

Der innere kreis, mit einer radierung von Harro Fromme, Johannesburg 1947, 29 pp.

Engelken, Ernst. · 1937 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€49.05 ($54.06 | £40.91 | ¥8,634)

Softcover, 19,5 x 13,5 cm. Text in German.Harro Heins Theodor Fromme was from 1937-1939 sailor on the Adalbert and the Ussukuma. After a short period at the Falkland islands he was untill 1947 prisoner of ware in Baviaanspoort near Pretoria. He became a friend of the poet Ernst …

East Anglian Verse.

GOODWYN, E.A. & BAXTER, J.C. (EDITORS). · 1974 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ipswich: The Boydell Press, 1974. 0851150470. "The rural poet was an observer and keen-eyed recorder of everyday life rather than a conscious artist, seeking the grand effect: and the result is an anthology of social history and social attitudes, by turns delightful, amusing and…

NOT THIS PIG

LEVINE, Philip · 0 · Charles Agvent

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.10 | ¥69,871)

Middletown. Wesleyan University. First Edition. Levine's second book and his first by a trade publisher. Especially uncommon in cloth. SIGNED by the poet on the title page.. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some edgewear and a small rubbed spot on the spine

Portrait of Hieronymus van Alphen

1746 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€80.50 ($88.73 | £67.15 | ¥14,170)

Mezzotint of Hieronymus van Alphen. Hieronymus van Alphen (8 August 1746 in Gouda - 2 April 1803 in The Hague), a jurist in Utrecht, Leiden and The Hague, is especially remembered as a poet, particularly for his poems for children under the title Kleine gedigten voor kinderen (…

Longfellow Square

Rosen, Ken · 1991 · Mare Booksellers

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Portland, ME, The Ascensius Press, 1991. First Edition. Wraps. Stated first edition, one of 500 copies. With illustrations by Richard Wilson. SIGNED, with a lengthy inscription, by the author to a fellow poet. 52 pp. The fourth collection of poetry by Rosen, accompanied by illus…

Newdick's Season of Frost an Interrupted Biography of Robert Frost

NEWDICK, ROBERT & WILLIAM SUTTON (EDITOR) · 1976 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0873953169. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the s…

A Troubadour's Testament: A Novel

James Cowan · 1999 · Book Haven

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

Allen & Unwin 1999 Paperback, 224pp. A platonic romance in 12th century France between a poet and a nun. It is narrated by a modern-day academic who is researching medieval attitudes to love. By the author of A Mapmaker's Dream. Minimal foxing to the first page. (ISBN: 978186508…

Mid-Life Poems

Theresia Quigley · 1988 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Lancelot Press, 1988. Paperback. 64p. INSCRIBED BY THE POET. A thin softcover book in very good condition. Spine and back cover faintly creased. Pencil notes in table of contents; otherwise clean and tight. Inscribed on the half-title page by Quigley, usi…

Outlines

Rich, Vera · 1960 · Eastleach Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

printed for the author by W Ostrowski, 57 Cathnor Rd 1960 1st edition. Paperback, G. 53pp, ink inscription in Ukranian to the first blank, staples rusted & covers unevenly yellowed, rear cover a little creased. A collection of poems by the British poet, journalist, historian…

Steps of Youth

Bess Dickey · 1943 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Philadelphia, Dorrance and Company, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 89p. SIGNED BY THE POET. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is faintly toned and mildly shelf-worn. Also includes a Dorrance-branded tissue dust…

Up Rising

DUNCAN, Robert · 1965 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1965. Broadside. Single sheet, black ink on white paper. 11 x 17 inches. Anti-war poem protesting US involvement in Vietnam, by noted poet Robert Duncan. "Drawing from the underbelly of the nation / Such blood and dreams as swell the idiot psyche." Faint crea…

Ausgewählte Werke

Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb & Schleiden, Karl August [editor] · 1969 · Eastleach Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

Carl Hanser Verlag, München 1969 3rd impression. Cloth, VG. 1378pp, cloth a little marked. Selected works by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock [ 1724 - 1803 ] the German poet, best known for the epic poem Der Messias. The book contains - Gedichte : Oden und Elegien - Epigramme : De…

Catholic Influence on Longfellow

R.P. Hickey · 1928 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Kirkwood, MO, Maryhurst Normal Press, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 334p. Ex-library hardcover book in good reading condition, bound in the original red cloth. Sticker on spine, card pocket residue on endpaper, and stamp on title page. Text unmarked and complete, and binding tig…

Phantomas issue 62 .

BROODTHAERS Marcel - [ ] M. HAVRENNE - Théodore KOENIG - Joseph NOIRET - Gabriel et Marcel PIQUERAY (editors) - [ ] Revue belge surréaliste PHANTOMAS :Special issue nr. 62 . · 1966 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€442.00 ($487.18 | £368.69 | ¥77,805)

0. Bruxelles, la revue Phantomas, 13e année, février 1966. in-8°, (16) nn pp , stapled, original coloured wrapper. A small fold in the frontcover, but still a very fine copy. Early publication on the visual art of Broodthaers. The poet-artist made his career change in 1964 at t…

Sylvie: Souvenirs Du Valois

de Nerval, Gerard and Lucie Page (translator) · 1899 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.62 | ¥8,784)

Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1899. Softcover. Off-white illus. wraps; 87 pp.; Color frontispiece. A novella by the 19th-century French poet and essayist Gerard de Nerval; Explores the themes of love and illusion through the memories of the narrator as he remembers his form…

Otherwise Unseeable

Sholl, Betsy · 2014 · Mare Booksellers

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. Wraps. Glossy wraps. 78 pp. Signed by the author, with an inscription, on the title page. A collection of poetry that won the 2014 Four Lakes Poetry Prize, one that explores the ruins of the days in ones lives. Betsy Sholl is a forme…