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Arthur Symons · 1892 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Elkin Mathews & John Lane , 1892 . First edition. Hardback. A limited edition of this delightful collection of poetry by British poet and critic, Arthur Symons. The first edition, limited to 250 copies. Bound in the publisher's original grey paper-covered boards. Th…

An Equal Music and Two Lives

Vikram Seth · 1999 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Phoenix House; Little, Brown , 1999-2005. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition novels by the multi award winning Indian novelist and poet, Vikram Seth. The first edition, first impressions. In the publisher's original cloths with the original unclipped dust wrap…

Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography

JUSDANIS, GREGORY & JEFFREYS, PETER · 2025 · Kalamos Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2025, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 9780374610425) Hardcover. Book, "The first biography in nearly fifty years of the greatest Greek poet of the twentieth century" This long-awaited study captures the complexities of Constantine Cavafy's life and wo…

Izbrannye Sochineniia

Lermontov M Y [ Mikhail Yuryevich ] · 1946 · Eastleach Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Ogiz, Moskva 1946 1st thus. Cloth, G+. 342pp, b/w frontis, 2pp b/w plates, cloth spotted & faded, paper rather browned with age, the prose work 'A Hero of Our Time' annotated in ink but still a solid working copy. CYRILLIC text. Selected works of the Russian Romantic poet Mikha…

San Joaquin. Poems. With an introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell.

WILLIAM EVERSON. · 1939 · Clearwater Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1st Edition, First edition, of which only 100 copies were printed. Slim square 8vo. xiv, 38pp. Paper-covered cloth with a paper spine label, the latter a little discoloured. With a title page design by Hubert Buel, repeated on the upper and l…

Moscow News. June 11-18, 1989

Various authors · 1989 · Mare Booksellers

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

Moscow, Moscow News, Publisher, 1989. Tabloid. Small tabloid format newspaper. 16 pp. Black and white photos throughout. Single issue of this long running newspaper that published news from within the Soviet Union/USSR, this with news of the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as the …

Titus Aan Zijn Schrijftafel

KOPLAND, RUTGER · 2008 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Terhorst, Ser J. L. Prop. 2008, Limited First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Uit de handpers van Ser Prop. Het 22ste deeltje in de Koppermaandagreeks, uitgegeven op 7 januari 2008 met in potlood getekende opdracht door Ser Prop. From the handpress of Ser Prop. A poem by the famous D…

Aire Nuestro. Cántico - Clamor - Homenaje.

GUILLÉN, Jorge · 1968 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Milano, All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1968. Cloth. 1704 p. Printed in 2000 numbered copies on India paper. Faint traces of use. Voluminous book from the collection of Dutch poet and translator Peter Heringa (alias H.G. Liebentrau and Peter Leberecht, 1945-1987), with his penciled…

'Tis Pity She's A Whore

Ford, John & Massai, Sonia [editor] · 2011 · Eastleach Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Methuen Drama - Arden Shakespeare 2011 1st edition. Boards, F. xviii+267pp, 16 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. Arden Early Modern Drama series. Critical edition of the 1631 play, which remained for centuries one of the most controversial works in English literature. John …

'Tis Pity She's A Whore

Ford, John & Massai, Sonia [editor] · 2011 · Eastleach Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Methuen Drama - Arden Shakespeare 2011 1st edition. Boards, F. xviii+267pp, 16 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. Arden Early Modern Drama series. Critical edition of the 1631 play, which remained for centuries one of the most controversial works in English literature. John …

Federico Garcia Lorca

TELLO, A.B. / LORCA · 1988 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€17.11 ($18.86 | £14.27 | ¥3,012)

Barcelona : Vilmar 1988 Cubierta ilustrada con dibujo de retrato del biografiado. 160 p. Ilustrado con fotografías b/n y dibujos a toda página en texto. SOFTCOVER: (Rústica original / paperback. COMO NUEVO/ AS NEW) Scarce and sought after well illustrated biography of the in the…

Enoch Arden, Etc.

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1865 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Edward Moxon, 1865. Leather. A celebrated anthology in which Tennyson aspired to become the 'people's poet', bound in lovely purple decorative full calf. An early edition of Enoch Arden Etc. originally called Enoch Arden and Other Poems, an anthology writt…

Dreamthorp with Selections from &Apos;Last Leaves&Apos;

Alexander Smith; Hugh Walker · 1914 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1914. Leather. A finely bound collection of essays from Scottish poet, Alexander Smith. Bound by Syd. A Howe, Sheffield. In a very unusual and fine leather binding. A collection of essays, including: Dreamthorp, On the Writing o…

ENCOUNTER Volume XVII, No. 6

SPENDER, Stephen & Melvin J. Laskey (eds.) · 1961 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

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

London pp. 96.,4to,,Corners thumbed, card covers sl. soiled; conts. clean & tight,Articles, essays, and poems by Robert Graves ('The Dedicated Poet'), T. R. Fyvel ('Ilya Ehrenburg'), George Steiner ('Norman Mailer') etc. A complete single issues.

L'esprit de Gerson (ou instructions catholiques touchant le Saint Siège).

LE NOBLE, EUSTACHE (anonymously publ.), · 1692 · Charbo's Antiquariaat

€110.00 ($121.24 | £91.76 | ¥19,363)

N.p., 1692. Small 8vo. (II)+249 pp. Hardcover. Contemp. full calf, spine richly gilt. (Early inscription on rear pastedown). Fine. ¶ Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429), French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the…

Letters of Matthew Arnold 1848-1888

Matthew Arnold; George W. E. Russell · 1895 · Rooke Books

£96.00 (€115.09 | $126.85 | ¥20,259)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart two volume set of the first edition of this collection of letters from English poet Matthew Arnold. Complete in two volumes. First edition. A collection of the letters and correspondence of Matthew Arnold, an…

Collected Poems, 1929-1936

C. Day Lewis · 1948 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this anthology of Cecil Day Lewis's poetry, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust…

Collected Lyrical Poems

Vivian Locke Ellis · 1946 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Faber and Faber LTD, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of lyrical poems by Vivian Locke Ellis, in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, in the publisher's original red cloth binding, with the scarce, original, uncl…

STRUCTURES DE L'EVIDENCE, Poems

[FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence] SARAFIAN, Paul · 0 · Charles Agvent

$93.80 (€85.10 | £70.99 | ¥14,980)

(Brussels). Editions Des Artistes. First Edition. Printed wraps with wrap-around band; text in French. Association Copy lengthily INSCRIBED in French and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.. Largely unopened; minor soiling to covers. Near Fi…

Wordsworth Selected Poems

William Wordsworth · 1987 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Brighton, Snake River Press, 1987 . First edition. Leather. A limited edition copy of this illustrated collection of Wordsworth Selected Poems. A limited edition of thirty copies, with this being number three.William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who was Poet Laureate …