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Fire-Side Verses

Mary Howitt · 0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London , Darton and Clark, c1845. Cloth. An uncommon copy of Fire-Side Verses by poet Mary Howitt. Fire-Side Verses by Mary Howitt.Mary Howitt was an English poet and author who wrote sometimes alongside her husband. Many of her works were intended for young people. This is a c…

Ten Unpublished Poems

Hart Crane · 1972 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New York, Gotham Book Mart, 1972 . First edition. Paperback. A smart limited first edition copy of this collection of ten poems published posthumously by American poet Hart Crane. A limited first edition copy, with this being no.82 of 500 numbered copies for sale.  In the publis…

Futile suivi de regrets à Futile

François BERNOUARD · 1911 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

A la belle édition | Paris 1911 | 14 x 15 cm | broché | Edition originale imprimée à petit nombre sur vergé. Rare et agréable exemplaire, ex-libris encollé en pied du verso du premier plat. Envoi autographe signé de François Bernouard au poète Adolphe Lacuzon : "... A monsieur L…

Poem/Print

Kriwet, Ferdinand. (Ian Hamilton Finlay , publisher) · 1964 · Wittenborn Art Books

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

Scotland: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1964. First edition. 22 3 ? 8 x 17 3 ? 8 inches. 57 x 44 cm. broadside, printed in two colors. Faint toning along lower edge, else very near fine. Murray 1.9. Ferdinand Kriwet was born in Düsseldorf in 1942, and lives in Dresden. As well as his tex…

A Heap o' Livin'

GUEST, EDGAR A. · 1919 · Bluebird Books

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,837)

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1919. Hardcover. A November, 1919 reprint of Edgar Guest's volume of poetry, first published in 1916. "Eddie" Guest, sometimes referred to as the "People's Poet," was a popular poet in the early part of the 20th century. Mr. Guest was born in England, but …

Theology 1833 | Oeuvres d'Alphonse Lamartine - Méditations -, Bruxelles E. Laurent 1833, 552 pp. Complete copy.

Lamartine, de Alph. · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€32.70 ($36.04 | £27.28 | ¥5,756)

Theological book with meditations by the famous french poet Lamartine. Text in French.Half linen binding with original paper binding on the front but damaged and with frayes, 11 x 7 cm.In the text: La mort de Socrate (Socrates), Le Poete Mourant, Sapho (Sappho), Le Temple, Ischi…

De St. Paulus Rots. Dichtstuk. Nieuwe uitgave.

Haar, Bernard ter. · 1856 · Fahrenheit 451

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

Amsterdam, G.W. Tielkemeijer en W. Willems, 1856, XI,(1),128 pag., engraved title after H.A. Klinkhamer by J.B. Tétar van Elven, original beige moiré blindstamped cloth with gilt ship on frontcover, all edges gilt. = Title-page and last pages foxed. Account of the shipwreck of …

Nine Lives

edited by Willy Maley · 1998 · Byre Books

£11.77 (€14.11 | $15.55 | ¥2,484)

Book Very Good Signed by Author(s) Clydeside Press Glasgow Items by eight writers connected with the teaching of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow: Philip Hobsbaum, Landon J Napoleon, Shug Hanlan, Sarah Neely, Holly Young, John Hancox, Daniel Sellers, Andy Manders, a…

Fedorovskiye Chteniya 2009 (Fedorov Readings 2009)

Vasiliev. V.I. · 2009 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Moskva, Nauka, 2009. Softcover. Linen-look boards with cranberry Cyrillic lettering; 665 pp. with a few bw illustrations. Text in Russian. Readings given at the 24th celebration for Vasily Fedorov in the village of Maryevka. Begun in 1985, artists, poets, museum personnel and ge…

Egils Saga.

Fell, Christine (ed) and Lucas, John · 1975 · Hessay Books

£18.50 (€22.18 | $24.45 | ¥3,904)

Dent, 1975. Hard Cover, First Everyman edition, translated and with an Introduction by Christine Fell. Poems by John Lucas. 221pp, including maps, family tree, Notes and Index of Proper Names. Priceclipped illustrated dustjacket is otherwise complete, but has one small mark to t…

Pearls of Wisdom

KELLY, NINA · 1990 · Bookshop Baltimore

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.89 | ¥3,354)

Empress Publishing, 1990. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1550560573. Signed by the author on the free front endpaper. Nina Kelly is an Irish poet. This book contains poems such as A hero; Hear What I say; Stolen Love; Hugs and Kisses; A Toast, etc ; ; Signed by…

Edw. D Jerningham Esq. R. From an Original Picture

Paton Thomson (engrav.); (After) Sir Martin Archer Shee · 1794 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

London: John Sewell, 1794. Engraving, 9 cm x 13.5 cm. Good with losses, marginal tears, staining & light creasing. Edward Jermingham was a poet who moved in high society during the second half of the 18th century. A writer of liberal views, he was savagely satirized later in lif…

Gore Ot Uma - Komediia V Chetyrekh Deistviiakh, V Stikhakh

Griboedov, A S [ Aleksandr Sergeevich ] & Piksanov, Nikolai Kir'iakovich [editor] · 1948 · Eastleach Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Khudozhestvennaia literatura, Moskva 1948 reprint. Paperback, G+. 120pp, 8 colour plates, pages rather tanned, a reading copy. A comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow by the Russian Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer Alexander Sergeyevi…

JACK STRAW'S CASTLE

GUNN, Thom · 1975 · Charles Agvent

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.30 | ¥9,982)

(New York). Frank Hallman. First Edition. Of a total of 400 copies this is one of 300 copies in red wrappers printed in black (there were also 100 signed and numbered casebound copies). Though not called for, this copy is SIGNED by the poet on the title page.. Fine

SIGNED CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth · 0 · Charles Agvent

$2,187.50 (€1,984.65 | £1,655.49 | ¥349,357)

Boston. Warren. A fine 4-1/4" x 6-1/2" cabinet card photograph of a seated elderly Longfellow SIGNED on the verso "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1875 by the poet.. Clear dark image and signature. About Fine

[Antique title page, 1821] GEDICHTEN VAN JACOB VAN DAM, published 1821, 1 p.

Danie?l Veelwaard (1766-1851) after Jacobus van Meurs (1758-1824) · 1785 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€24.20 ($26.67 | £20.19 | ¥4,260)

Title page to the collection of stories by Jacob van Dam (1785-1865), a poet and veterinary. A vignette in the middle represents a field with a column in the middle, featuring a medal with the profiles fo Ceres and Apollo.The vignette is signed at bottom: 'J. van Meurs / Dr. Vee…

SIGNED CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth · 0 · Charles Agvent

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.50 | ¥149,725)

Boston. Warren. A fine 2-7/16" x 4-1/4" carte-de-visite photograph of a standing full-bearded Longfellow SIGNED on the verso "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1864 by the poet.. Mild fading to the image with some letters just a little light in the signature. Still Near Fine

Collected Poems 1925-1948

Louis MacNeice · 1949 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1949. Cloth. A collection of poems, published between 1925 and 1948, by the Irish poet, playwright and BBC producer Louis MacNeice, who was renowned as a member of the Auden Group. A review copy of this work in the publisher's original cloth…

Conversation with Strangers

George Buchanan · 1961 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Gaberbocchus, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. The commercially scarce first edition of this second poetry collection from the acclaimed Irish poet and journalist, together with the original dust wrapper. First edition. Scarce in commerce. In the publisher's original cl…

Epistle to a Godson & Other Poems

W. H. Auden · 1972 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Faber & Faber, 1972. First edition. Hardback. The U.K. first edition, first impression of this wonderful anthology by the poet W. H. Auden, with the original dust wrapper. The U.K. first edition, first impression of the work. With the original unclipped dust wrapper.W. H…