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Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry

Robert Bloomfield · 1806 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Printer for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe , 1806 . First edition. Leather. Rebacked first edition of this anthology of verses by Robert Bloomfield. Charming collection of poems by Robert Bloomfield, English labouring-class poet known for his rustic descriptive verse, celebrat…

Tls from James Schevill to Norman Moser

Schevill, James · 1980 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Providence, RI: Brown University, 1980. TLS on plain typing paper from poet, playwright, and professor James Schevill to poet, editor, and graphic artist Norman Moser, mentioning a letter of recommendation (not present) and giving Moser advice on his resume and self-presentation…

A Short Account of John Marriott, Including Extracts from some of his letters. To which are added, some of his Poetical Productions.

MARRIOTT (John): · 1803 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

Doncaster: Printed and Sold by D. Boys. And sold in London by W. Phillips..., 1803. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo (in 4s), 164 x 102 mms., pp. [viii], [3], 4 - 194 [195 - 196 errata], including half-title, contemporary boards, cloth spine (soiled and snagged), uncut and m…

Collected Translations: Italian French Spanish Portuguese

Smith, William Jay · 1985 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

St. Paul, Minnesota, A New Rivers Abroad Book, New Rivers Press, 1985. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound softcover, bound simply in pictorial wraps, light foxing to fore- and top-edges. 150 pp. including notes and a full index. Augented also …

Historical Odes and Other Poems

Richard Watson Dixon · 1864 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Humphrey Milford, 1864. First edition. Cloth. A scarce collection of Richard Watson Dixon's historical poems, bound using the first edition sheets and in the very scarce original glassine dust wrapper. Bound using the first edition sheets with the publisher's i…

ANTIQUARIAN AND TOPOGRAPHICAL CABINET, Containing a Series of Elegant Views of the Most Interesting Objects of Curiosity in Great Britain. Accompanied with Letterpress Descriptions. 10 vols. [And] ANCIENT RELIQUES; Or, Delineations of Monastic, Castellated & Domestic Architecture, and Other Interesting Subjects; With Historical and Descriptive Sketches. 2 vols.

[Storer, James Sargant and Greig, John]. · 1807 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

Published for the Proprietors by W. Clarke ... 1807-13. 1st Ed. 12 vols. in total. 600 plates on India paper. Usual browning and spotting, marbled e.ps., uniformly bound in contemporary gilt rule edged red half morocco with red/grey boards, some wear to boards, faded gilt letter…

Dangerous Muse : A Life Of Caroline Blackwood

Schoenberger, Nancy · 2001 · Eastleach Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, F/F. xvi+336pp, 16pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy. A biography of Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood [ 1931 - 1996 ] the English writer, socialite, and muse. She was married three times, to painter Luci…

1955 James Whitcomb Riley High School Yearbook

James Whitcomb Riley High School · 1955 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

South Bend, IN, James Whitcomb Riley High School, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A large hardcover book bound in embossed purple cloth. Good condition overall. Bottom edges stained; numerous student inscriptions on endpapers. Otherwise, binding is tight. 1955 yearbook, the "Hoosi…

King of Egypt, King of Dreams. (SIGNED)

MacEwen, Gwendolyn. · 1971 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Toronto, MacMillan, 1971. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First printing of softcover edition. 8vo, softbound. SIGNED by the poet on the title page. VG copy with some overall wear to covers but no creasing except to spine. No owner's name. Tiny scuff to front cov…

Die Philosophie des jungen Geijer in ihrem Ideengeschichtlichen Zusammenhang.

Skredsvik, Kare. · 1937 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

No Place, (1937). Original wrappers. 192 pp, Thesis, University of Nijmegen. With bibliography. and portrait. On the early life and thought of the Swedish poet, historian and notably philosopher of religion Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847). Text in German. Small library marks, tic…

Mama Dot

D'AGUIAR, FRED · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

London, Chatto & Windus - The Hogarth Press. 1985, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 48 pp. Decorative card wrappers with original "Poetry Book Society Recommendation" label to front. The highly acclaimed debut collection by renowned award-winning poet and novelist Fred D'Ag…

Autograph Quote Signed (1908)

TRENCH, Herbert · 1865 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Card, 7.0 x 10.4 cm. Reverse with traces of paper glued, probably from an album. AQS with elucidation in handwriting by the Irish poet Frederic Herbert Trench (1865-1923), 'Between thee and thy son lies but a sleep...'

Dylan Thomas: His Life and Work

ACKERMAN, JOHN · 1965 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London, Oxford University Press. 1965. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [xvi], 202 pp. Green cloth with gilt to orange spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent copy of this perceptive critical analysis of the Welsh poet and his work. Fine/Fine.

A Survey

Max Beerbohm · 1921 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The first American edition of a brilliant collection of caricatures from a master of satire, with the ex libris bookplate of American poet Scofield Thayer. The first American edition of A Survey, a brilliant collec…

Darwin. A Life in Poems. (SIGNED)

RUTH PADEL. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with her printed name struck-through. 8vo. xviii, 141pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped …

Austin Dobson - Some Notes

Dobson, Alban · 1928 · Eastleach Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Oxford University Press 1928 1st edition. Cloth, VG. xii+340pp, b/w frontis, 12pp b/w plates, 3 folding facsimile letters, index, SIGNED by the author on the endpaper to Roy Beddington, cloth a little marked & stained, a nice copy. A biography & selected letters of the English…

Poems

Charles Eric Staddon · 1953 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Beckenham, Privately Published, 1st Edition, Poetry collection from Charles Staddon OBE, former town clerk of Beckenham. One set of verses commemorates the award of the freedom of the borough to Sir Winston Churchill, rather in the style of the (nearby but much earlier) Penge Po…

Ein Turnier

Sophie Freiin von Kunsberg · 1923 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Graz, Verlagsbuchhandlung "Styria, 1923. Hardcover. 244p. A small hardcover book in good condition. Spine rubbed; back cover slightly bent about an inch from the top. Pages tanned with age. Pencil marks in the margins of numerous pages, but majority of text is still clean. The b…

Crainquebille Putois, Riquet And Other Profitable Tales

France, Anatole [ Thibault, François Anatole ] & Stephens, Winifred [translator] · 1925 · Eastleach Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

John Lane - The Bodley Head 1925 3rd impression of 2nd edition. Cloth, VG. viii+238pp+10pp publishers adverts, cloth a little rubbed & marked to the spine, internally fine. Publisher's Library Edition of the Works of Anatole France. A collection of 16 short stories. Anatole Fra…

Cherubinischer Wandersmann

Silesius, Angelus [ Scheffler, Johann ] & Gnädinger, Louise [editor] · 1984 · Eastleach Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

Philipp Reclam Jun, Stuttgart 1984 1st edition. Cloth, VG+. 415pp, 3 b/w illustrations, a fine copy. Critical edition of the 1674 second edition of the author's 'Geistreiche Sinn-und-Schlussreime zur Göttlichen Beschaulichkeit'. The work is a collection of 1,676 short poems, mo…