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Dafnis - Lyrisches Porträt Aus Dem 17 Jahrhundert

Holz, Arno · 1961 · Eastleach Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,794)

Fackelträger Verlag - Schmidt Küster, Hannover 1961 1st edition thus. Cloth, VG. xxvi+[8]+278pp spine sunned & yellowed, otherwise a nice copy. Later edition of the author's enlarged version of his 1902 'Songs on an old Lute' which were inspired by the poetry of the Baroque era.…

GOLDEN STATE

BIDART, Frank · 0 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€567.04 | £473.00 | ¥99,816)

New York. George Braziller. First Edition. With a note by Richard Howard. One of 500 copies printed of the poet's first book. This copy is INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith vertically on the front endpaper: "To William Meredith--/with affection, and admiration--/and happy m…

Stikhi. Dnevnik 1911 - 1921

GIPPIUS, Z. N. HIPPIUS · 1922 · Marijana Dworski Books

£345.00 (€413.60 | $455.87 | ¥72,805)

Berlin, Slovo, 1922. A very nice bright copy. Possibly unused. Original decorated card covers, paper browning just a little. Used; Very Good "One of the most influential figures of her time .. poet, dramatist, prose-writer and critic.. Her verse marked the beginning of modern Ru…

Sonnets érotiques

Baffo, Giorgio; Pratt, Hugo · 1994 · Parigi Books

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.22 | ¥28,747)

Paris, Vertige Graphic Editions, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. 75pp + index. Collects several licentious verses by the Venetian poet Giorgio Baffo. With eight full-page and ten double-spread illustrations in color by Hugo Pratt. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with mild wear to…

In a Country Churchyard.

Fletcher, Ronald · 1978 · Hessay Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Batsford, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover, 168pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket, a little faded to the spine. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Eight stories of individuals or communities found in East Anglian country c…

Poetry World, July 1937, vol. 8, no. 12.

Harrison, Henry, edited by, · 1937 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

NY, Henry Harrison, (1937). G PB ex-library. Editorial contains protest by a poet, "I protest indignantly against havaing loathsome communism flaunted under the banner. of poetry - which should be the highest form of literature -.shows tolerance of such incendiary ideas." The ed…

Hemming Flames : Poems by Patricia Colleen Murphy.

Murphy, Patricia Colleen · 2016 · Brookline Village Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Logan, Utah State University Press, [2016]. Hardcover. 67 pages ; 23 cm. Very good condition/very good d.j. Winner of the 2016 Swenson Poetry Award, this collection explores themes of pain and loss as they emerge especially within a dysfunctional family. Includes a foreword by S…

Miriam and Other Poems.

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. · 1871 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Boston: James R.Osgood and Company, 1871. Pp.106, toning to pages. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to front and spine, edges rubbed. Good. **John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the a…

Les Tombeaux de L'Abbaye Royale de St. Denis. Poème Élégiaque. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée.

TRENEUIL Joseph : · 1806 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)

Paris, chez Giguet et Michaud, 1806, in-8°, 56 pp, contemporary marbled boards, title label on discolored spine. With the printed ex-libris on the first paste-down of J.B. Gerusez Profess. Rheims. With (his ?) handwritten note that the author became curator at the ''Bibliothèque…

Edidit R. Pfeiffer. Volumen I: Fragmenta. Volumen II: Hymni et Epigrammata.

CALLIMACHUS, · 1987 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€275.00 ($303.11 | £229.39 | ¥48,408)

Clarendon, Oxford,1987. Reprint reissue 1965. 2 vols. XIV,520;CVI,208p. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. Signature C.D.N. Costa and date on paste-down endpaper. 'It is no disparagement of Pfeiffer's achievement to point out that many old problems remain unsolved, while t…

Wild Barley Author Signed Copy

HURD, MURIEL JEFFRIES · 1941 · Pegasus Books

$15.75 (€14.29 | £11.92 | ¥2,515)

Dallas, TX: The Kaleidoscope Press, 1941. First Edition (?). Hardcover. B & W ; 5 1/2 x 8; xiii, 78 pages; AUTHOR INSCRIBED AND SIGNED ON FRONT END PAPER. Hard cover is light brown with black lettering on the spine. Light rubbing, scuffing, sunning to boards. Some rubbing, scuff…

Andre Blanchard: poete de notre temps

Kerhoas, Emilienne and Jehan Despert · 1980 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Paris, 1980, First edition of the first study of Blanchard's poetry. Signed and inscribed by Despert to poet and translator Leo Birch. Also signed by Kerhoas. Octavo. Very good in original wraps, with a tear at base of spine.

Kleine Freuden - Kurze Prosa Aus Dem Nachlass

Hesse, Herman & Michels, Volker [editor] · 1980 · Eastleach Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥950)

Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1980 reprint. Paperback, VG. 408pp, edges of the text block yellowed last page ( publishers catalogue ) detached. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 360. A collection of 70 essays. Hermann Karl Hesse [ 1877 - 1962 ] German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter.

David Solway: Essays on his Works

STARNINO, CARMINE · 2001 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Toronto, Guernica. 2001, 1st Can Ed. (ISBN: 1550711326) Soft cover. Book, Critical essays on Canadian writer and poet, who lived in Greece, and whose writing often reflects his experiences there. (See the esaay by Eric Ormsby " The Dark Regime of Paradise" pp 90-104). New.

Come for Abutus and Other Wild Bloom

Oberholtzer, Mrs. S.L. · 1882 · Valley Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

J.B. Lippincott Green cloth binding stamped in gold. 147pp. Slight wear. Photos on request. The author was a Pennsylvania poet, educator, superintendent of School Savings Bank, helping hundreds of public schools in the U.S. follow a program of student's saving accounts. Engraved…

Things temporal.

LEA, George; [David JONES, Illustrator]. · 1962 · John Turton

£226.20 (€271.18 | $298.89 | ¥47,735)

[Wallasey:] The Lilac Tree Press, [1962 limited edition, no. unspecified, of 6 copies.] 20cm. 14 leaves hand-printed on rectos only, engraved title-page vignette and head-pieces. Original decorated full padded-calf gilt by J. Oman. Extremes lightly rubbed. Ex-reference library w…

Robert Frost: A Pictorial Chronicle

Kathleen Morrison · 1974 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 133p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Gift inscription inside front cover; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped and shelf-worn, but otherwise intact. Memoirs of …

Poems by Owen Meredith

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton · 1875 · Rooke Books

£107.99 (€129.46 | $142.69 | ¥22,789)

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Leather. An American edition of the poems of the first earl of Lytton in a decorative binding. Bound in leather with gilt lettering and blindstamped decoration. Complete in Two Volumes. With the bookplate of Elizabeth Sherman Cameron to…

A Tale of Old England

Thomas Miller · 1807 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, William and Robert Chambers , c1870. Cloth. A scarce children's story that refers to the scenery and life of Old England, written by prolific poet and novelist, Thomas Miller. A charming children's tale about a group of children who go for a walk outside of the…

Idyllen in Gesperrter Landschaft : Zeichnungen Und Gouachen Von Salomon Gessner (1730-1788)

de Alencar Xavier, Wiebke Roben (and) Bernhard von Waldkirch · 2010 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Munchen / Zurich, Hirmer / Kunsthaus Zurich, 2010. Softcover. Green-tone illustrated wraps. 275 pp. Many illustrations in color and black and white. Text in German. Salomon Gessner was a painter, poet, publisher, politician and family man in Zurich. The catalog has full-page ill…