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A. D. Hope. A Bibliography.

A. D. HOPE. · 1968 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

Libraries Board of South Australia, 'Bibliographies of Australian Writers' series, Adelaide, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Stapled card wrappers, with a short closed tear to the front wrapper. A good copy of this unaccredited bibliography of the Au…

Medusa In Gramercy Park

Horace Gregory · 1961 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, "The maturing art of a distinguished American poet". In VG, clean crisp and bright order throughout. Very light shelfwear to smart brown boards with black titling to spine. Good clipped d/j lightly worn and a little faded, with inter…

A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present

Richard Chenevix Trench · 1859 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, John W. Parker and Son, 1859. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this glossary of English words from Anglican archbishop and poet Richard Chenevix Trench. First edition. A detailed and comprehensive glossary of words and phrases that aims to enrich the reader&apo…

Two Worlds and Other Poems

Richard Watson Gilder · 1891 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. First edition. Cloth. An unusual first UK edition, first impression of this scarce collection of verse by American poet Richard Watson Gilder. The first UK edition, first impression of this work, published in the same year as the first US edition, …

Lauwerkrans op het graf van kardinaal Lavigerie, in diepe vereering nedergelegd door Lodewijk De Koninck.

KONINCK Lodewijk De : · 1892 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€64.00 ($70.54 | £53.39 | ¥11,266)

Mechelen, Raym. Van Velsen, s.d., (after 1892) lg in-8°, 10 pp, red leather, decorated endpapers, printed in red and black. The poet had this copy especially bound with a dedication to cardinal Goossens in gilt lettering on the front. Titlepage slightly spotted but a fine copy.

[Carmina]. Catullus, et in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti.Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1554. 8vo. With Aldus's woodcut device on the title-page, repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf, and spaces with guide letters left for 2 5-line and about 60 3-line manuscript initials (not filled in). Set in an Aldine italic (with upright capitals) with occasional words (mostly names) in roman and frequent passages in Greek. Gold-tooled mottled calf (ca. 1700).

CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius and Marc-Antoine MURET. · 1526 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[4], "134" [= 136], [2] ll.First edition to include Muret's important and influential commentaries, of the poems of the passionate (if self-centred) Roman poet Catullus (84-ca. 54 BCE), often given the collective title Carmina. Both the poems and the commentaries appear here in …

Nerve Squall

LEGRIS, SYLVIA · 2001 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Coach House Books. 2001, 1st Canadain Edition. (ISBN: 9781552451601) Soft cover. Ill.: Sylvia Legris. Book, Sylvia Legris is a Canadian poet. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has published four volumes of poetry, the third of whic…

Herder's humaniteitsphilosophie.

Smits, Everard J. Fr. · 1939 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Assen, van Gorcum, (1939). Original wrappers. 128 pp. Thesis, University of Groningen. List of theses included. With bibliographical references , index and portrait frontispiece. Deals with the humanist philosophy of the German poet and philosopher Herder (1744-1803), and his re…

Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations (Loa #144) (Library of America)

Pound, Ezra · 2003 · The Wild Muse

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Library of America First edition, second printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 2003. 8vo., xxiii+1363pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles, sewn-in ribbon marker. As new in as new dust jacket. Here in one volume is the biggest and best collection …

W.B.Yeats. Thames & Hudson literary lives

Liammoir, Micheal Mac · 1986 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Thames & Hudson, 1986 Hardcover. 144 pages. Text in English. As new, cover partly faded, internally as new. Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, was also perhaps the most outstanding poet to have written in English since Wordsworth. Many of his early poems - wistful, m…

War Voices and Memories

Clinton Scollard · 1920 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, James T. White and Company, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce presentation copy of this collection of war-time poetry by American poet and writer of fiction Clinton Scollard. The scarce first edition of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free …

In Borderland

R. S. Craig · 1899 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Harwick, W. & J. Kennedy, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce illustrated first edition of this collection of Scottish poet R. S. Craig's works. The very scarce first edition of this collection of verses from R. S. Craig, a Scottish poet responsible for both this wo…

Poems by William Cowper

William Cowper · 1815 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, J Johnson & Co et al by S Hamilton, 1815 . Leather. A lovely copy, in full calf, of the poems of pre-Romantic William Cowper. In full calf. William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. A forerunner to Romanticism, Cowper changed …

Dolphins

Stephen Spender · 1994 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Faber and Faber, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Sir Stephen Harold Spender, a signed limited edition copy. First edition. Limited to one hundred and fifty specially bound copies, of which this is number …

Remy de Gourmont Selections

Remy De Gourmont; Richard Aldington · 1932 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. Leather. The first UK edition of this translation of works from Remy De Gourmont, with a detailed introduction to his life. First UK edition of this translated work. First published in two volumes in the US in 1928. A selection of wr…

Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work

Thomas, E. · 0 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Hutchinson London 352, portrait frontis. . HB. 16mo, orig. cloth, teg, gt, fading to spine. Cont. ownership to front pastedown; some foxing to endpapers and frontis. Vg.. Re-issue (first published 1909). Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet, essayist, and novelist, was deeply…

Rapture

Mitchell, Susan · 1992 · Mare Booksellers

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

New York, HarperPerennial, Publisher, 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First paperback edition (also issued in a hard cover edition). Trade paperback. Signed and inscribed by the author. A collection of poems, being a finalist for the National Book Award. Susan Mitchell is …

POEMS.

BERRYMAN. JOHN. · 1942 · Paul Foster Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

New Directions. Norfolk, Connecticut. 1942. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6.1 inches). One of only 2000 copies printed. Fine in publishers pale blue boards with black lettering to the front. In the original pale blue dustwrapper with price ($1.00) still intact to inner front flap. Ju…

On John Masefield Collection

John Masefield; Constance Babington Smith · 1947 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London; Oxford, William Heinemann Ltd; Oxford University Press; Buchan and Enright, 1947-1983. First edition. Cloth. An insightful collections of works which offer an intimate portrait of the fascinating 1930 poet laureate. All first editions. An insightful collection on John Ma…

Loquitur

Basil Bunting · 1965 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Fulcrum Press, 1965. First edition. Hardback. A smart first and limited edition volume of verse from Briggflatts poet Basil Bunting. A first edition, bound in the publisher's original pictorial boards.  This copy belongs to a limited edition, being one of 1000 copie…