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Dreaming of Samarkand

BOOTH, MARTIN · 1990 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, William Morrow & Co. 1990, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0688095291) Hardcover. Book, "Dreaming of Samarkand" is a novel of a love affair sought in loneliness - not the loneliness of body but that of the soul. The three central characters were real people: the archaeologist/s…

Poems, Moral, and Descriptive

Thomas Dermody · 1800 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Printed by J. Crowder for Vernor and Hood; and Lackington, Allen, and Co. 1800 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this collection of lyrical poetry by ill-fated Irish poet, Thomas Dermody, in a contemporary marbled calf binding. In a contemporary full marbled…

Iliade di Omero. Traduzione del Cav. Vincenzo Monti. Milano, Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1812. 2 vols. Large 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm). Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled green calf (or sheepskin), with a light brown title-label on the spine lettered in gold. All boards show the large gold-tooled crowned coat of arms (of the French Barons Pavée de Vendeuvre - see to Rietstap 5, Pl. XXIII) within a gold-tooled frame, brown marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

HOMER. · 1754 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], 366; 386 pp.Large paper copy of the second edition of this translation of Homer's Iliad by Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828). An "Esperimento di traduzione della Iliade de Omero" appeared in 1807 - translated by Monti, Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), and M…

Work in Hand

Alan Hodge; Norman Cameron; Robert Graves · 1942 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, binding the works of three friends and contemporary poets together, with the original dust wrapper. A very smart copy of the first edition. Bound in publisher's original green cloth, with the…

A Collection of Crown Classics

William Wordsworth; Coventry Patmore; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Thomas Hood; Robert Burns; Thomas Gray · 1947 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, The Grey Walls Press, 1947-1953. Hardback. Six smart volumes of collections of poetry from the Crown Classics series. Six volumes. Crown Classics. First thus. This set contains: Selected Poems of William Wordsworth, 1947. With an introduction by Montgomery Belgion, a Fre…

Opera. Ex postrema doctorum virorum recensione. In usum scholarum edita

Aurelius Prudentius Clemens 231796 · 1648 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

Stern, 1648, Contemp. vellum, flat spine, Rather rare collected poetry of Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348-405), Roman Christian poet born in Spain. With his merger of Christianity with classical culture, Prudentius was one of the most popular medieval authors, with the allegori…

Encounter (Vol. XXIII, No. 3, September 1964)

Spender, Stephen ; Lasky, Melvin J. (eds. ) ; Anne Sexton, Eugene Ionesco, Christopher Isherwood, Josef Brodsky · 1964 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

London: Encounter Ltd. 1964. 8vo. 95 pp. illus. Very good in wraps. Pen scrawl on front cover above title. Includes contributions from Anne Sexton, Eugene Ionesco, Christopher Isherwood, Josef Brodsky; most notably includes the original transcript of Brodsky's Soviet show trial …

It Isn't This Time of Year At All ! - An Unpremeditated Autobiography

Gogarty, Oliver St John · 1954 · Eastleach Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,794)

MacGibbon & Kee 1954 1st UK edition. Cloth, dj, G/P. 224pp, page margins tanned, cloth rubbed along the edges, dustjacket rather grubby & with several large tears with loss. A reading copy. Biography of Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty [ 1878 - 1957 ] the Irish poet & author, and…

John Lydgate - Troy Book : Selections

Lydgate, John & Edwards, Robert R [editor] · 1998 · Eastleach Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University Press 1998 1st edition. Paperback, F. x+430pp, a fine copy. Extracts from Lydgate's Troy Book, a Middle English poem which relates to the history of Troy from its foundation through to the end …

A Bowl of Cherries

SHENA MACKAY · 1992 · Mike Long Books

$24.75 (€22.45 | £18.73 | ¥3,953)

Moyer Bell Publishing. 1992. Hard Cover. Hardcover dj/ pub. 1992/ VG condition/190 pages- Twin brothers whose lives are inexorably intertwined: Rex, a self-absorbed and successful writer, and Stanley, a minor poet who works as a dishwasher. Rex lives on the Estate being the olde…

W.B. Yeats: A New Biography

JEFFARES, A. NORMAN · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1989, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 374 pp. Green boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of A.N. Jeffares's new biography of the Irish poet, providing the most complete picture we have of o…

Jani Broukhusii Carmina.

BROUKHUSIUS,J. · 1684 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)

Utrecht (Trajecti ad Rhenum), Apud Franciscum Halma, Academ. Typogr. Ordinarium, 1684. 12mo. (VIII),95,(1 blank) p. Vellum 16 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 84001225X; Oberlé no. 325) (Details: 3 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut flowery ornament on the title) (Condition: Vellum age-…

DROWNING WITH OTHERS

DICKEY, James · 0 · Charles Agvent

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.90 | ¥29,945)

Middletown, CT. Wesleyan University Press. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Issued simultaneously in softcover and hardcover, this is the softcover issue of Dickey's first book under his name (preceded by INTO THE STONE where he appeared with two other poets). This copy SIGNED by…

Difficulties of a Bridegroom

Ted Hughes · 1995 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Faber and Faber, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A superb first impression of one of Ted Hughes' anthologies of short stories. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This work features nine short stories written by English poet, trans…

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir

Hallam Tennyson · 1897 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1897. Cloth. A smart third impression of Hallam Tennyson's affectionate memoir of his father Lord Tennyson, complete in two volumes. Complete in two volumes. Third impression, published the same year as the first. Volume one is illustrated…

Vita Di Vittorio Alfieri Da Asti Scritta Da Esso

Vittorio Alfieri · 1817 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Italia, Co'Caratteri Di Didot, 1817 . Vellum. A vellum-bound copy of the autobiography of Italian playwright, poet and author, Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri. Bound in full vellum. First published posthumously in 1806, this work contains the autobiography of Italian poet and autho…

Lowell and Coleridge&Apos;S Poetical Works

Samuel Taylor Coleridge; James Russell Lowell · 1892 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Macmillan and Co , 1892-93. Cloth. Two volumes of poetry collections from Coleridge and Lowell in their original cloth bindings. Two volumes. In the publisher's original green cloths. With frontispieces to both. This two volume set includes two collections of poe…

Trio of Works by Eden Phillpotts

Eden Phillpotts · 1946 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1946-1952. First edition. Cloth. A charming trio of three first edition works by English author, poet and dramatist Eden Phillpotts in the original bright dust wrappers. Three works by Eden Phillpotts. This set contains: Quartet firs…

Metrical Tales and Other Poems

Robert Southey · 1805 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1805 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Robert Southey's Metrical Tales and Other Poems in full tree calf. The first edition of Robert Southey's Metrical Tales and Other Poems in full tree calf. Southey describes this vo…

Fables from Aesop

James Reeves · 1961 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Blackie and Son, 1961. First edition. Cloth. An excellent collection of Aesop's fables, retold here by poet James Reeves and illustrated throughout. The first edition of this retelling of Aesop's fables. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper…