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Trois entretiens sur la guerre, la morale et la religion traduits du russe, avec une introduction, par Eugène Tavernier

Vladimir Soloviev · 1916 · Moby Dick

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

Broché Paris Plon 1916 CIV+219 pages. With portrait. First French translation Contains the famous Short Story about the Antichrist. Copy from the library of Grimbergen Abbey. Two small stickers on cover, some light underlining. Early opportunity for Western Europe to become acqu…

Anacreon Redivivus: A Study Of Anacreontic Translation In Mid Sixteenth Century France

O'Brien, John · 1995 · Eastleach Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

University of Michigan Press 1995 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. x+276pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Recentiores: Later Latin Texts & Contexts series. Study of the publication in 1554 of what were thought to be odes by the Greek poet Anacreon and the way in which the…

Anacreon Redivivus: A Study Of Anacreontic Translation In Mid Sixteenth Century France

O'Brien, John · 1995 · Eastleach Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

University of Michigan Press 1995 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. x+276pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Recentiores: Later Latin Texts & Contexts series. Study of the publication in 1554 of what were thought to be odes by the Greek poet Anacreon and the way in which the…

Sappho of Lesbos: Her Life and Times

WEIGALL, ARTHUR · 1937 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

London, Thornton Butterworth. 1937, First Thus. Cloth. Book, A solid, scholarly and interesting biography of this poetess, including 'Every known fragment of Sappho's poetry is quoted in full .(using) the Greek text as edited by J.M.Edmonds in his Lyra Greca" . The notion that t…

Portrait of Francina Baane

1758 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€40.25 ($44.36 | £33.57 | ¥7,085)

Etching of Francina Baane. Francina Baane (1758-1837) was a Dutch woman from Vlissingen, Zeeland, best known as the great love of the poet Jacobus Bellamy. Bellamy referred to her as “Phyllis” or “Fillis” in his poems. They became engaged in 1780, but never married because of o…

Enoch Arden, Etc.

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1864 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

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, first issue, with advertisements dated August 1864, as c…

A New Book of Old Ballads

James Maidment · 1844 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

Edinburgh, Laurie and Co. 1844. Leather. A very scarce collection of traditional Scottish ballads, by James Maidment, bound in a leather binding. Including Blythe Jockey, Willy and Marie, Lady's Complaint and many others. James Maidment was born in 1793. Passing the Scottis…

Comedies Et Proverbes

Alfred de Musset · 0 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

Paris, Garnier Freres, c1927 . Leather. A smart two volume edition of French dramatist, poet and novelist De Musset's comedies and proverbs. In the original French.A lovely two volume collection of plays from the Romantic poet and dramatist, containing his humorous plays, a…

Right Royal

John Masefield · 1920 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1920. First edition. Hardback. A signed, limited edition of this long poem by John Masefield, number 150 of 500 copies issued. Copy number 150 of 500 issued, limited signed edition with hand-made paper. John Masefield was a renowned English poet a…

Creation: A Philosophical Poem, in Seven Books

Sir Richard Blackmore · 1797 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, C. Cooke, 1797 . Leather. A handsomely bound illustrated edition of this philosophical poem from physician and writer Sir Richard Blackmore. Publisher Cooke's edition of this philosophical poem about creation by Sir Richard Blackmore. Illustrated with a frontispiece…

Ralph T. Field. Paintings: 54 - 61, March 6 to April 1

Borregaard, Ebbe, Ralph T. Field (Tom Field) · 1960 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

San Francisco: Borregaard's Museum, [n.d.]. Exhibition announcement. Black on white paper. Illustrated by black and white reproduction of drawing by Field. 8-1/2 x 14 inches. Addressed on verso by hand to poet Philip Whalen. Ralph T. Field, also known as Tom Field, was a painter…

Ways of Life. On Places, Painters and Poets.

MOTION, Sir Andrew · 2008 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Faber & Faber 2008, 288pp, Hardcover, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, but alongside his work as a poet he also had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and an illuminating critic. Ways of Life celebrates …

Absalon Et Achitophel Carime Latino Heroico

Dryden,John · 1682 · Richard Thornton Books

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

Typis Lichfieldianis Prostant Apud Ricardum Davis Oxon This book translated into Latin hexameters by William Coward First Edition in Latin.With Corrigenda and blank at end of volume,and there is some identification of characters written in ink by contemporary hand to page edge m…

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Clark, Tom · 1972 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

[Detroit]: The Alternative Press, [1972]. Bumpersticker. 3 x 17-1/4 inches. Printed in blue and brown; adhesive backing (unused). A short poem by noted New York School and Bolinas poet Tom Clark, printed as a bumpersticker, Most likely this was part of the famous subscription ma…

Mr Ingleside

Lucas, E V [ Edward Verrall ] · 1910 · Eastleach Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

The Copp Clark Company, Toronto 1910 1st Canadian edition. Cloth, G. viii+316pp, rear hinge cracked, some browning to the preliminary & final pages, cloth rubbed. Booksellers ticket of Gaskell Odlum Stabler, 679 Granville St Vancouver to the rear pastedown. A novvel from the pe…

A Porter Folio. New Poems. (INSCRIBED)

PETER PORTER. · 1969 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Scorpion Press, Middlesex, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) of the author's third collection, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow poet Peter [Redgrove]. Slim 8vo. 70pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted…

Curtmantle. A play. (INSCRIBED)

CHRISTOPHER FRY [Richard Church]. · 1961 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) - a presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author to poet Richard Church. Slim 8vo. 99pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A light speckling of spotting to the top …

I Never Saw It Lit

Brock, Edwin · 1974 · Mare Booksellers

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

Santa Barbara, Capra Press, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition, number 60 of 75 copies signed by the author, and handbound by Emily Paine. 40 pp. With illustrations by Liz Brock. Number 22 in the Yes! Capra Chapbook series. A limited edition, signed, collection of po…

A Paper Raincoat

Dorman, Sonya · 1976 · Mare Booksellers

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

Orono, ME, Puckerbrush Press, 1976. First Edition. Wraps. Illustrated wraps. Signed by the author. 49 pp. A collection of poems reflecting on New England scenes through the lens of Chinese and Japanese sensibilities. Dorman was an American poet, while also being recognized for s…

Antiphonal Swing. Selected Prose, 1962/1987

Eshleman, Clayton · 1989 · Mare Booksellers

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

McPherson and Company, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Stated first edition with a 1 in the number line. In an unclipped jacket. INSCRIBED AND DEDICATED by Clayton Eshleman to the poet Charles Simic. Inscription reads, " For Charlie Simic, a salute from the long shadow of the Gate o…