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Dylan Thomas Reading Fern Hill and Other Poems

Dylan Thomas · 1957 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Caedmon Records, 1957. Paperback. A smart copy of this uncommon vinyl record of Dylan Thomas reading a selection of his poetry. Scarce work. From Caedmon Literary Series. A recording of Dylan Marlais Thomas, a Welsh poet and writer who became widely popular in his lifeti…

Dylan Thomas Reading Fern Hill and Other Poems

Dylan Thomas · 1957 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London, Caedmon Records, 1957. Paperback. A smart copy of this uncommon vinyl record of Dylan Thomas reading a selection of his poetry. Scarce work. From Caedmon Literary Series. A recording of Dylan Marlais Thomas, a Welsh poet and writer who became widely popular in his lifeti…

Spieghel der eyghen-kennisse, ... in-gheknoopt Het conterfeytsel des wereldts, ...Brussels, Lambert de Grieck, 1643. 4to. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author (after P. de Backer), both by Antoine van der Does ("AVD"), and 3 nearly full-page engraved illustrations in the text, probably by Van der Does. 18th-century vellum.

BORCHT, Willem van der (Guilielmus a CASTRO). · 1621 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)

[16], 271, [1] pp.First edition, in Flemish Dutch, of a didactic satire, mostly in verse, by the Flemish poet and lawyer Willem van der Borcht or Guilelmus a Castro (1621/22-1668) in Brussels, with elegies and epigrams alternating with prose passages. It allegorically presents a…

[Original Mezzotint] Johannes Buma (portrait of)/Portret van schilder en dichter Johannes Buma.

Jelgerhuis, Rienk (1729-1806) after Keyert, Rienk (1709-1775) · 1756 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€96.80 ($106.69 | £80.75 | ¥17,040)

Bust portrait of the painter and poet Johannes Buma, turned to the right, looking at the observer. He is wearing a wig. Six lines of text in dutch below the portrait in a rococo frame. Signed on the bottom left: 'R. Keyert pinxit'. Unknown collector's mark on the bottom left cor…

POESIES

Mallarme, Stéphane; Arthur Symons, translator · 1974 · Imago Press

CA$30.00 (€19.08 | $21.03 | £15.91 | ¥3,358)

Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1974. Glued card, 51 pp. 7.25"-10.75". Good. All the poems of the French master Symboliste poet Symonds wished to translate into English. Edited, with notes and biblio by Bruce Moriss. This is # 12 out of an edition of 150. Bent top cover to fold-in pur…

'Tis Pity She's A Whore - A Critical Guide

Hopkins, Lisa [editor] · 2010 · Eastleach Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Continuum 2010 1st edition. Paperback, F. xii+193pp, index, a fine copy. A collection of nine essays on the 1631 play, which remained for centuries one of the most controversial works in English literature. John Ford [ 1586 - 1639 ] English playwright and poet.

Extracted fae: A Drunk Wumman Sittin oan a Thistle

Niven, Liz · 1997 · Byre Books

£11.77 (€14.11 | $15.55 | ¥2,484)

Book Good Signed by Author(s) Markings Kirkcudbright Satirical Scots verse. Signed by the author to the title page: 'Lang may yer lum reek Brent fae Liz x x x' (poet Brent Hodgson). Stapled booklet, covers a little sunned and marked, good.

TWO POEMS

WARREN, Robert Penn · 0 · Charles Agvent

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.90 | ¥29,945)

[Winston-Salem, NC]. Palaemon Press Limited. First Edition. Marbled boards. Copy #104 of 200 numbered copies (of a total edition of 230) SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Additionally INSCRIBED there by the publisher, Stuart Wright, to the poet William Meredith: "WM fro…

Selections from Gavin Douglas.

COLDWELL, DAVID F.C. (INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND GLOSSARY). · 1964 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. 1st edition. Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series. "Passages to exemplify the various forms and styles of the poet in his version of the Aeneid and in the Prologues he attached to each book." Pp.xxx/161, occasional light pencil marginal notations. G…

Poems

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1862 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1862. Leather. A smartly bound set of the collected poetical works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, inscribed by the great-nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his sister, Mary Frances Keble Coleridge. The fifth edition, published one year after Elizabeth&a…

Nature Magazine, September 1935

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1935 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$99.95 (€90.68 | £75.64 | ¥15,963)

USA: The American Nature Association, 1935. First Edition. Paperback. 16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Animals of the Australian Bush; Meet the Grass Family - orchard grass; Nature makes an enchanted isle atop a rock in a garden pool; Our National Scenery in…

Poems.

EDWARD DOWDEN. · 1876 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Henry S. King & Co., London, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. viii, 212pp. Green cloth with bevelled edges, lettered and multi-ruled in gold at the spine, and with gilt lettering and decoration to the upper board, alongside a circular decorative design. A touch of wear to the ba…

Evolution: A Japanese Journal

Duffett, Michael · 1980 · Mare Booksellers

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Mysore, India, Wesley Press, 1980. Wraps. Wraps. Signed, with a short dedication, by the author on the title page. 52 pp. A collection of poetry written by the author while teaching in Japan (or inspired by his time in Japan). Michael Duffett was an English born, American poet a…

Turkusowa Arena

Baykowski; Juljusz [ Julian ] & Ciechomski, Feliks [illustrator] · 1935 · Eastleach Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Wydawnictwo Skrzydlatej Polski, Warszawa 1935 1st edition. Cloth, F. 72pp, b/w illustrations, plainly rebound with the original wrappers preserved, SIGNED & inscribed by the author on the title with the date 13-2-1971, a previous owner has corrected the pagination in pencil, a n…

Rooms Overhead

Sholl, Betsy · 1986 · Mare Booksellers

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

Cambridge, Alice James Books, 1986. First Edition. Wraps. Wraps. Inscribed by the author. 71 pp. A collection of poetry by Betsy Sholl, a former poet laureate of Maine, recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and one of the founders of the press which…

Obras Escogidas (dos tomos; 2 vols.)

Neruda, Pablo · 1972 · Books on the Web

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andres Bello, 1972. Hard bound, 2 volumes complete. Volume 1 - 789pp; volume 2 - 715pp. Paste-downs to both volumes a bit bubbled from a minor defect in the gluing operation. Top edges to both vols. lightly foxed else very good in moderately scuffed …

Mountains and Caverns

Alan Sillitoe · 1975 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, W. H. Allen, 1975. First edition. Hardback. The scarce double-signed first edition, first impression of this collection of essays by the author Alan Sillitoe, with the original unclipped dust wrapper and with a personal dedication to the poet Yehuda Amichai. The first ed…

Six Tennyson Essays

Charles Tennyson · 1954 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Cassell and Company, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this detailed and interesting essays on Alfred Tennyson's poetry by the poet's grandson, Charles Tennyson. The first edition of this work. Inscribed by the author to front free endpaper:…

Music&Apos;S Bride

Marius Kociejowski · 1999 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Anvil Press Poetry, 1999 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce signed limited edition copy of this collection of poems by Canadian born poet, Marius Kociejowski, finely bound for Ulysses. A scarce limited edition copy, with this being No.13/50 numbered copies specially bound …

Blue Sonata and Quentin Crisp As Prime Minister

Jeremy Reed · 1994 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

[Edinburgh], Privately Printed at the Tragara Press, 1994-1999 . First edition. Paperback. A smart two volume set of signed limited edition poetry books by Jersey-born poet Jeremy Reed. A two volume set. Both limited editions, signed by the author.  In the publisher's orig…