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Charles d'Orleans (Aime Champollion-Figeac, editor) · 1842 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

Paris, 1842, A scarce edition of the works of this important medieval poet. Over 500 pp. 8vo. Bound in quarter cloth over marbled boards. Near fine.

TRANSPORT TO SUMMER

STEVENS, Wallace · 1947 · Charles Agvent

$5,625.00 (€5,103.40 | £4,256.97 | ¥898,347)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Edelstein A 11.a.1: 1750 copies of the first printing. SIGNED by the poet on the title page and scarce as such.. Slight browning to gutters. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with a mildly sunned spine

CLIFFS NOTES ON SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS

Lowers, James · 1993 · Gibson

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

Cliffs Notes Lincoln, NE Reprint Very Good with no dust jacket; Brief Survey of Sixteenth-Century Sonnets, Critical Comments on Shakespeare's Sonnets with Essays on The Fair Young Man, The Dark Lady and The Rival Poet, Critical Analyses of Individual Sonnets, Questions for Revie…

Das Jahr der Seele

Stefan George; Ernest Briggs · 0 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB

A$110.50 (€67.92 | $74.87 | £56.66 | ¥11,956)

Manuscript Ernest Briggs Brisbane Very Good Condition 20.5cm x 13cm. [77] leaves (manuscript on recto only). Soft maroon leather wrappers. Text is in German. Autograph transcription of German symbolist poet Stefan George's 1897 work Das Jahr der Seele [The Year of the Soul] by A…

Bibliotheque Carlo de Poortere: Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Rodenbach

Carlo de Poortere · 1985 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB

A$165.00 (€101.42 | $111.79 | £84.60 | ¥17,853)

Vaillant - Carmanne Liege First Edition Near Fine Condition 26cm x 21.5cm. 279 pages, colour illustrations, facsimiles. Illustrated glossy papered boards. Text is in French. Carlo de Poortere (1917 - 2002), son of Belgian carpet manufacturer Louis de Poortere and later co-manage…

Úr Sjón og úr Minni - Orindi $ Strophes = Seeing and Remembering

MATRAS, CHRISTIAN [ GEORGE JOHNSTON TRANSLATOR] · 1988 · Kalamos Books

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

Kapuskasing Ontario, Penumbra Press. 1988, 1st Canadain Edition. (ISBN: 0921254008) Card Covers. Book, Christian Matras (1900 - 1988) was a Faroese poet and academic. He took a doctors degree in Old Norse in 1933 from the University of Copenhagen As a poet he is one of the most …

Franny and Zooey

SALINGER, J. D. · 1961 · Bookcase

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Boston, Little, Brown and Company. 1961, First Edition, Second Impression. Hard, 8vo. Pages clean and bright, previous owner inscription (the poet William Scammell) on front endpaper, light spotting on endpapers, boards slightly cocked, spotting to boards, chipping to edges of d…

Southey&Apos;S Common-Place Book

Robert Southey; John Wood Warter [ed.] · 1849 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849-1851. Cloth. A four volume set of this collection of essays and extracts by Romantic poet Robert Southey. A four volume set. In the publisher's original green cloth bindings.  A collection of the works of Robert Southey, an …

Peter Grimes

Crabbe, George, J L Carr ed. · 0 · Byre Books

£10.56 (€12.66 | $13.95 | ¥2,228)

Book Very Good J L Carr Kettering PB Undated, first. Narrative visionary maritime poem from Suffolk Poet, George Crabbe 1754-1832 in the J.L. Carr series of pocket books. Good. Stapled booklet. 16pp 0

Cocteau - A Biography

Steegmuller, Francis · 1992 · Eastleach Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Constable 1992 2nd impression. Paperback, G+. xvi+591pp, b/w frontis, 46 b/w illustrations, index, edges a little rubbed & bumped. Jean Cocteau [ 1889 - 1963 ] the French poet, playwright, novelist, film director, visual artist and critic. He was highly influential on the Surre…

John Skelton - A Selection of His Poems

Skelton, John - Gant, Roland [editor] · 1949 · Eastleach Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

Grey Walls Press - Crown Classics 1949 1st edition. Printed boards, dj, VG/VG. 64pp, bookplate, dustjacket a little worn along the edges. Crown Classics series. A slim selection of the poems of John Skelton [ 1463 - 1529 ], English Tudor poet and tutor to King Henry VIII of Eng…

Poetry Claremont - In Memory Of W R Rodgers

Rosenberg, Jim [editor] · 1969 · Eastleach Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Earl W Huntley Bookstore, Claremont College 1969 1st edition. Stapled card covers, VG. 54pp, covers irregularly sunned, a near fine copy. A collection of poems written to mark the life of William Robert Rodgers [ 1909 - 1969 ] the Irish Presbyterian Minister & poet who moved to …

Eliot's Early Years

GORDON, LYNDALL · 1977 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1977, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xiv, 174 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Blue clth with gilt to spine. Clipped pictorial dustjacket. A fine first edition of Lyndall Gordon's acclaimed biography of the famous poet up till the age of thirty-eight. Fi…

Poetry and Experience

MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD · 1961 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, The Bodley Head. 1961, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x], 204 pp. Orange boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Attractive ex-libris to front pastedown. Fine first edition of this study on the nature of poetry by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald Mac…

Candles That Burn

Aline Kilmer · 1919 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, George H. Doran Company, 1919. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 68p. A hardcover book in very good condition with the RARE dustjacket. Some light shelf wear along the edges, and occasional small brown spots on the very edges of the pages. Otherwise clean and t…

Coventry Patmore

E.J. Oliver · 1956 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

London, Sheed and Ward, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 211p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dustjacket in very good condition. Except for the fron panel's corners being lightly bumped, the cover is in excellent condition, and the pages are clean and tight. The dustjack…

Omar Repentant

Richard le Gallienne · 1908 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Grant Richards, 1908. First edition. Vellum. An uncommon first edition of this poetic satire by Robert Le Gallienne. A small paper vellum first edition by Liverpudlian poet Richard Le Gallienne.In 1897, Le Gallienne, published a verse translation of some works attributed…

Poems

Samuel Rogers · 1851 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Edward Moxon, 1851. Hardback. A very scarce illustrated volume of poetry, in handsome full green morocco. A very scarce new edition of collected poetry by English poet Samuel Rogers.Rogers was an influential Romantic poet, and contemporary to figures like Byron, Coleridg…

Das Helle Feld

R.S. Thomas · 1995 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Schondorf am Ammersee, Babel, 1995 . Paperback. A limited edition bilingual edition of this collection of thirty poems by leading Welsh poet R.S. Thomas. A limited edition, with this copy being of one 890 paperbacks with a printed cover on Fabriano laid paper.  A bilingual editi…

Fishing Holidays

Stephen Gwynn · 1904 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1904 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this collection of fishing tales by Irish journalist and poet Stephen Gwynn. The first edition.In publisher's original green cloth binding. A work by Stephen Gwynn, an Irish journalist, biogra…