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Nothing Left to Fake. A Great American 4 Page Novel

Everett, Graham · 0 · Mare Booksellers

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

No Place, The Black Hole School of Poethnics, Presumed Publisher. Wraps. No place or date. Illustrated wraps (by Frank Efferen). #279 of 300 copies. SIGNED, with a short inscription, by the author. A four page 'novel' by Graham Everett, a New York based poet and publisher, being…

Thomas und Gottfried : ihre Konstruktiven Sprachformen.

Dijksterhuis, Aaltje. · 1935 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Groningen/Batavia, Noordhoff, 1935. Original wrappers. 194 pp. Thesis, University of Amsterdam. List of theses included (in Dutch). With bibliography. Deals with linguistic and literary forms in the twelfth/thirteenth century Tristan and Isold novels by the German poet Gottfried…

Poems and Ballads

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1866 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, John Camden Hotten, 1866 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this celebrated but controversial collection of poems by English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic, Algernon Charles Swinburne, in the original cloth. The first edition.In the publisher's …

Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes · 1998 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Faber and Faber, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing first edition, first impression of this poetry collection from English writer Ted Hughes. First edition, first impression. A collection of poetry released only months before the author's death, which won m…

A Legend of Ravenswood; and Other Poems.

Thomas Maude · 1823 · Rooke Books

£194.00 (€232.57 | $256.34 | ¥40,940)

London, Hatchard and Son, 1823 . First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce, first edition of this collection of poetry from English clergyman and poet, Thomas Maude. The first edition.A very scarce work, bound in the publisher's original paper wraps. A collection of po…

Enoch Arden, Etc.

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1864 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1864 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's mid nineteenth century narrative poem, published during his tenure as Poet Laureate. The first edition of this work, second issue, with advertisements dated September 1864, …

Sonnets and Other Poems

John Kennair Peel · 1916 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Charles H. Kelly, [1916] . Paperback. Very scarce presentation copy of the delightful poetry collection from British scholar and poet John Kennair Peel. Very scarce.In publisher's original binding.Author's presentation copy. Inscription "Given by the Author" to…

Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses

Adelaide Anne Procter; Charles Dickens · 1882 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1882. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of verses from English poet Adelaide Anne Procter. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of verses from Adelaide Anne Procter, an English poet and philanthropist whose literary career began…

Works of Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock · 1893 · Rooke Books

£249.00 (€298.51 | $329.02 | ¥52,546)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1893. Cloth. A charming set of nine uniform Thomas Love Peacock works, edited by English scholar Richard Garnett, in the publisher's original decorative cloth.  Nine uniform volumes in the publisher's original decorative cloth. Headlong…

Oeuvres complètes (6 volumes)

DELILLE, JACQUES · 1835 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€88.50 ($97.55 | £73.82 | ¥15,579)

Paris : Édouard Leroi 1835 avec les notes et variantes, les imitations des poètes les plus estimés, et de nouvelles observations littéraires, par A.V. Arnault. Uit de Bibliotheek van het missiehuis SVD Deurne (kleine stempeltjes en etiketjes) (XII), 203, (XII) 402, 352, 188, 42…

My Life As A Fake

Peter Carey · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)

Vintage 2005 Paperback, 308pp. "" My Life As A Fake is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning au…

Almanzor en Zehra, treurspel. door Mr. J. Kinker

KINKER, J., · 1804 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€86.25 ($95.07 | £71.95 | ¥15,183)

Amsteldam, Abraham Mars, 1804, x, (2),103 pages, half leather binding, titlepage with vignette. Play by the poet, philosopher and lawyer Johannes Kinker (1764-1845). Kinker is still remembered by a street in Amsterdam (Kinkerstraat). Kinker was a freemason (vrijmetselaar) and t…

Romantiker - Neue Folge

Gundolf, Friedrich · 1931 · Eastleach Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Heinrich Keller, Berlin 1931 1st edition. Cloth, G. 255pp, cloth marked & a little grubby, pages a little tanned. A study of four German Romantic poets : Ludwig Tieck- Karl Immermann - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff - Eduard Mörike. Friedrich Gundolf [ 1880 - 1931 ] German-Jewish …

Izbrannye Sochineniia

Aksakov S T [ Sergey Timofeyevich ] · 1949 · Eastleach Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatuty, Moskva 1949 1st thus. Cloth, G. xii+596pp, b/w frontis, cloth very grubby, edges worn, one gather detached due the cheap dinding method employed ( staples ) a reading or reference copy. Selected works of the Russian poet…

Sting

George Gunn · 1991 · Byre Books

£42.67 (€51.15 | $56.38 | ¥9,005)

Book Very Good Signed by Author(s) Chapman Edinburgh Signed to the half title page and inscribed to poet John Manson, Loosely laid in is a hand-written letter from Gunn to Manson, dated 23/1/92, with a hand-written poem by Gunn, titled 'On the Beach at Crakaig' (? hand-writing i…

Stuart Little.

White, E. B., · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper & Row, (1971). VG in G DJ. First children's book by distinguished author E. B. White with the hero a mouse with a shy, engaging manner and a somewhat. philosophical turn of mind. White himself who wrote for the early New Yorker and Harper's Magazine wanted to be a poe…

Re-Treads [SIGNED]

Roy Fuller · 1979 · Dodman Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Edinburgh, The Tragara Press, 1st Edition, No 11 of 25 signed copies printed on Barcham Green 'Tovil' paper, from the edition of 135. Bookplate of poet Ann Ridler to ifc. In VG order throughout. Plain green paper covers lightly faded. 8vo. Unpaginated., Signed by Author(s), Very…

Poems.

GILLETT, ELIZABETH. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Privately published, 1995. "Elizabth Gillett lived for many years on a farm near the Suffolk coast. The beauty, and sometimes conflict, in her rural surroundings inspired many of her verses, written until her death in 1992..This book provides a lasting tribute to a dedicated poe…

Lorrin Andrews: Pioneer of Many Talents

Morse, Peter · 1828 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

no publisher stated. Fine trade paperback pamphlet in decorative wrappers (softcover book)/ no dust jacket. 8vo., Andrews arrived in Honolulu in 1828 with the Third Company of missionaries. In addition to being a man of God, he was a talented, industrious schoolmaster, printer, …

Der Duft Des Mittagsmahls

Odysseas Elytis · 1993 · Rooke Books

£46.00 (€55.15 | $60.78 | ¥9,707)

Luxembourg, Editions Phi, 1993. Cloth. An exceptional copy of this collection of poetry by Greek poet Odysseas Elytis, translated into German and illustrated in colour by Franz Dasbourg. In the original slipcase. An exceptional copy of this collection of poetry by twentieth-cent…