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Stelae and Other Poems.

ANTHONY CONRAN. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Clive Allison, 'The Harlequin Poets' series, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 19pp. Stapled card wrappers with just a trace if discolouration to extremities. A very good copy. Sixteen poems, although curiously the title poem does not appear. A fairly ear…

Sentiers de la Demeure

Henri Wasser · 1984 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Paris, Editions Saint-Germain-des-Pres, 1984. Paperback. 94p. Ex-library copy of a softcover book in very good condition. Library markings and stickers inside and on cover. Otherwise, the cover is only lightly creased along the spine, the text is clean, and the binding is tight.…

Starshine and Candlelight

Sister Mary Angelita · 1925 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 100p. INSCRIBED BY THE POET. A hardcover book in very good condition with an acceptable dustjacket. Spine ends faintly tanned; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is tanned and chipped; the corn…

Tombeau D'Orphee Fragment. "Poesie 41.

Emmanuel, Pierre · 1941 · Mare Booksellers

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Lyon, France, Poesie 41, Publisher, 1941. First Edition. Original Wraps. Wraps. One of an edition of 333, this being #299. 75 pages. Pierre Emmanuel (pseudonym of Noel Mathieu) was a French poet, holding a seat on the Academie Francaise, as well as serving as president of the Fr…

Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses

Adelaide Anne Procter; Charles Dickens · 1882 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

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…

Yevtushenko: Selected Poems

Yevgeny Yevtushenko; Robin Milner-Gulland [trans.]; Peter Levi [trans.] · 1962 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Penguin Books, 1962 . First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by translator Peter Levi to critic Alan Pryce-Jones, this is the first edition of this English translation of the early poetry of Soviet writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The first edition of this English language trans…

Larkspur: A Lyric Garland

[Victor Neuberg] · 1922 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Steyning, The Vine Press, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A scarce limited first edition of this delightful poetry work, beautifully illustrated by Dennis West. Scarce limited first edition. No. 481 of 550 copies printed on antique laid paper.   In the publisher"s original quarter-…

In Autumn

Herbert Palmer · 1931 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Privately Printed for Terence Fytton Armstrong , 1931. First edition. Hardback. One of ten limited lettered editions of this privately printed seasonal poem by Herbert Palmer, signed by him and the illustrator. This is one of ten lettered copies signed by the author and …

Portrait of Antoine Arnauld

0 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€28.75 ($31.69 | £23.98 | ¥5,061)

Engraving of Antoine Arnauld Antoine Arnauld was a French Catholic theologian, priest, philosopher and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics. Contemporaries called him le Grand…

Romance.

VRIES, H. DE, · 1996 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€69.00 ($76.05 | £57.56 | ¥12,146)

De Ammoniet (Gerard Post van der Molen), 1996, 10pp. and the poem (difficult to read) printed on the dustjacket, original paper softcover binding, with an illustration by Hendrik de Vries. Hendrik de Vries (Groningen, 17 August 1896 - Haren, 18 November 1989) was a Dutch poet an…

Contemporary Russian Art / l'Art Russe contemporain. Современное русское искусство

Alexander Glezer 339577, Alexandre Gleser 339578, Александр Глезер 339579 · 1993 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

The Third Wave, 1993, Hardcover, 528, From the preface: 'This book is not scientific research nor a treatise on art, though it talks, and quite a lot, about the unofficial Russian artists. This book was not written by a professional critic, but a poet, a collector of unofficial …

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI

Henri J. W. Wijsman · 2000 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

Brill, 2000, Linnen band met stofomslag, 310, In spite of an increased interest over the last ten years in the 1st century AD Roman poet Valerius Flaccus, involving the production of several commentaries, part of his work Argonautica was still lacking a modern commentary. This b…

A Thomas Hardy Memorial.

Newton, A. Edward, · 1931 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$38.00 (€34.48 | £28.76 | ¥6,069)

Daylesford, PA, Privately printed, 1931. G PB. Inscribed by Newton who wrote Thomas Hardy, Novelist or Poet? to raise funds for the memorial near Egdon Heath immortalized. in the first chaper of The Return of the Native. The memorial was unveiled on April 10, 1931 (photo as fron…

Presque rien sur presque tout

Jean d' ORMESSON · 1996 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

Gallimard | Paris 1996 | 14 x 20.50 cm | broché | Edition originale sur papier courant. Petites taches en mileu du dos. Envoi autographe signé de Jean d'Ormesson à Jean-Baptiste Para. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] first edition on current paper. Small spots in the middle of th…

Eliot's New Life

GORDON, LYNDALL · 1988 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1988. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xii, 174 pp. (+ 20 pp. plates). Blue cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. A fine first edition of Lyndall Gordon's second part of her acclaimed biography of the famous poet, the years of maturity of hi…

IL Dono Che Non Ebbi. (Signed and Inscribed Copy with Typewritten Letter Signed)

Musciacchio, Mauro · 1955 · Parigi Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Milano, Gastaldi Editore, 1955. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 55pp. Original wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to a fellow poet in the year of publication. Laid in is a letter also addressed to the fellow writer and signed by Musciacchio. A near fine copy. T…

Tonight at Noon. Poems.

ADRIAN HENRI. · 1968 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Rapp & Whiting Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 84pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A little spotting to the top- and fore edge and a narrow strip of light browning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in very good non-price-clipped …

Akathiste Chora : Eikosi Tria Poiemata

POPA, VASKO · 1990 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Toronto, Deca Publications. 1990, 1st.Can Ed.. Original Wraps. Ill.: Trans Christos Ziatas. Book, 23 poems by the Romanian Serbian poet Vasko Popa (1922-1991) Elleniki Apodose / Translations into Greek BY Christos Ziatas. Unpaginated [WorldCat lists only 1 copy]. New.

Joan of Arc: Ballads, Lyrics, and Minor Poems

Robert Southey · 1857 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

London, George Routledge & Co. 1857. Cloth. An illustrated collection of poetry and verse on patron saint of France, Joan of Arc. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. A collection of poems on patron saint of France, Joan of Arc, who w…

Oeuvres de Sully Prudhomme: Poesies 1865-1866: Stances & Poemes

Sully Prudhomme · 1877 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Paris , Alphonse Lemerre , 1877. Vellum. A collection of early poems by Sully Prudhomme, in the original French. In a charming half vellum binding. A collection of early poetry by French poet Sully Prudhomme, a copy dated from the same work held at the University of Oxford Libra…