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Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills: Songbook for Piano and Voice with Chords

FRANK MILLS · 1979 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$59.95 (€54.39 | £45.37 | ¥9,574)

Canada: Music Box Dancer Publications, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. 56 pages. Nice photos of Mr. Mills. Includes piano sheet music and lyrics for these songs: Blackfoot Country, From a Sidewalk Cafe, Hennessy's Island, Love Me Love Me Love, Love's Like That, Music Box Dancer,…

Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

Thomas Gray · 1951 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, The Heritage Press, 1951. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated edition of Gray's popular poem, being a meditation on death. Illustrated with thirty-two wood engravings. Collated complete. First published in 1751, the poem was partly inspired by Gray's thou…

Chatterton

Peter Ackroyd · 1987 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Peter Ackroyd's Booker Prize shortlist novel concerning plagiarism and poetry, a lovely first impression in its original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. A novel by Peter Ackroyd exploring t…

Jerusalem Delivered (Volume I only)

Tasso, Torquato; John Joshua, Earl of Carysfort, K.P. (Trans.) · 1828 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$19.26 (€12.25 | $13.50 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Huntingdon, England Printed by A. P. Wood pp. 268. 12mo. Our copy is in the original printer's boards, with the front board now detached, and with portions of the spine absent leaving only a fragment of the original printed label. 'Jerusalem Delivered' is an epic poem by the Ita…

L'Allegro -and- IL Penseroso

MILTON, JOHN (AUTHOR); BLAKE, WILLIAM (ILLUSTRATIONS) · 1954 · Bluebird Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

New York: The Heritage Press, 1954. Hardcover. Two famous poems by the eminent English poet, John Milton (1608-1674). Both are presented here in a one-volume deluxe Heritage Press reprint edition in slipcase. With 12 illustrations by the English poet and artist William Blake (17…

In Thy Heart&Apos;S Garden

Harry Potter · 1917 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London and Glasgow, Gowans and Gray, 1917 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional example of the vanishingly scarce first edition of this collection of poems from war poet Harry Potter, signed by the author. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce volume of verses from poet …

Oeuvres de Arthur Rimbaud. Vers et proses. Revues sur les manuscrits originaux et les premières éditions mises en ordre et annotées par Paterne Berrichon. Poèmes retrouvés. Préface de Paul Claudel.

RIMBAUD, Arthur · 1938 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Paris, Mercure de France, 1938. Sewn. (4), 400 p. Uncut. Backstrip browned. On page (2) the bookplate of the poet and artists’ patron Joan Stakenburg (1917-1980). Here and there a translated word in pencil in the margin.

Khomiam [ Khotiat / Khotyat ] Li Russkie Voiny ?

Evtushenko, Evgeniya [ Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich ] & Kolmanovskii, Eduarda [music] · 1965 · Eastleach Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

Izd-vo Agentstva Pechati Novosti 1965 1st edition. Large format paperback, VG+. 76pp, b/w illustrations throughout, covers a little yellowed, a nice copy. Bookplate. A popular Russian song, with words by the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the title translates as 'Do the Rus…

Harriet Monroe.

HARRIET MONROE. Daniel J. Cahill. · 1972 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Twayne Publishers, 'Twayne's United States Authors' series, New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 148pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Backstrip ends and corner tips gently rubbed. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. A critical st…

Brothers of Morning

Steingesser, Martin · 2009 · Mare Booksellers

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

Cumberland, ME, Deerbrook Editions, 2009. Wraps. Second edition. Wraps. SIGNED, with an inscription, by the author, both on the first endpaper and title page. 73 pp. A collection of poetry by Steingesser, a Maine based poet, with a few small, loose broadsheet style poems laid in…

Star Dust. Poems

Bidart, Frank · 2005 · Mare Booksellers

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, first printing. Black cloth in unclipped jacket. 84 pp. A collection of poetry by American poet Frank Bidart, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. VERY GOOD condition. Minor fading and rubbing …

Notes on Joseph Conrad with Some Unpublished Letters

Arthur Symons · 1925 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Myers & Co. 1925. Hardback. A first edition of this collection of biographical and critical notes on Joseph Conrad by the poet and critic Arthur Symons. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original paper boards, with the original unclipped dust wrapper…

A Wreath of Christmas Poems. Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Herrick, Ben Jonson, Milton Wither Southwell, Rilke, Whittier, Christina Rossetti, T.S. Eliot, Lope De Vega, Martin Adan Phiyllis, Kenneth Patchen

1942 · Valley Books

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,358)

New Directions Blue Ox Press, plain biege wrappers. Staple bound. Dust jacket has areas of fading. Light wear. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" The Poet of the Month. Good Norfolk, Ct Fine

Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchilsea 1661-1720

Anne, Countess of Winchilsea; John Middleton Murry [ed.] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this collection of poetry by English poet and courtier Anne Finch, edited by John Middleton Murry. The scarce first edition.  In the publisher's original marbled cloth binding.  A work cont…

Steps

Ian Hamilton · 1997 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Tregarne, Cornwall, Cargo Press, 1997. First edition. Paperback. A signed, limited edition of poetry by Ian Hamilton, this being no. 193 of 250 copies. The signed limited edition of Steps, poems written by British poet and literary editor Ian Hamilton, this being no. 193 of 250 …

Fiddle Lane.

Carper, Thomas (Inscribed by author), · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Baltimore, MD, John Hopkins University, (1991). VG PB. 65 poems that treat subjects from the creation of the world to the pleasures and triads of growing up. And what people do. for a living that are slightly or greatly out of the ordinary, a dump man with a penchant for neatnes…

Where Lilith Dances

Darl Macleod Boyle · 1920 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1920. First edition. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of this debut collection from the Yale Series of Younger Poets, owned by English dramatist Alfred Sutro. A charming presentation copy of this very scarce book issued for the Yale Series o…

Light on a Dark Horse; an Autobiography 1901-1935

CAMPBELL Roy · 1951 · Fortuna Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Hollis & Carter unclipped DW heavily rubbed to edges with small nicks and chipping, autobiography of the South African poet, soldier etc. H First Edition Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Petri Pictoris Carmina, nec non Petri Avdemaro Librum de coloribus faciendis.

PICTOR Petrus - L. van Acker : · 1972 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€48.00 ($52.91 | £40.04 | ¥8,449)

2. Turnhout, Brepols, 1972, in-8°, sewn, orig. wrappers. clxx + 246 pp, indices.edition with commentary of the Flemish medieval Latin poet Petrus Pictor (Sant-Omer ca. 1100). Loosely inserted is a Dutch summary.

Den handel der amoureusheyt inhoudende vier poetische spelen, 1. Van Aeneas ende Dido. 2. Narcissus ende Echo. 3. Mars ende Venus. 4. Leander ende Hero. Poetelijck geinventeert ende rethorijckelijck ghecomponeert.Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe III, 1621. 4 parts in one volume. 8vo. With an engraved ornamental title-page with the title in an oval cartouche and 4 roundels in the corners with scenes from the four plays; 4 full-page engraved plates with similar scenes, one in the preliminaries of each play. Contemporary calf, spine richly gold-tooled in compartments with red title label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges.

HOUWAERT, Johan Baptista [recté: MOL, Jacob de, Colyn KEYART and “SMEECKEN” (Jan SMEKEN?)]. · 1533 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,500.00 ($6,062.14 | £4,587.80 | ¥968,161)

237 ll.First and only edition of four morality plays or dialogues, often wrongly attributed to the famous Antwerp rhetorician Jean Baptiste Houwaert (1533-1599). In fact, they were written by Antwerp rhetoricians ca. 1550, when Houwaert was only about seventeen. It has mistakenl…