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ARMORED HEARTS: SELECTED & NEW POEMS

BOTTOMS, David · 0 · Charles Agvent

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.30 | ¥9,982)

(Port Townsend, WA). Copper Canyon Press. First Edition. Softcover issue in pictorial wraps. SIGNED by the poet on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED by him in 5/95 on the half title page: "To Austin--/Thanks for/your kindness--/looking forward to/more of your fine/poems/…

Sombere gedichten. Tristia. Vertaald [uit het Latijn] en toegelicht door Wiebe Hogendoorn.

OVIDIUS. Hogendoorn,Wiebe. (transl.). · 1998 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Amsterdam, Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, 1998. 237 pp. Orig. hardcover (black cloth with gilt lettering on spine), d./j. 8vo. - Spine very sl. discol. (Baskerville Serie).Including belly band. - Introduction to and Dutch translation of the laments written by the Roman poet Ovi…

Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin: Zapiski 1743 - 1812, Polnyy Tekst (Gavrill Romanovich Derzhavin: Notes 1743 - 1812, Full Text)

Derzhavin, G.R. · 2000 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Moskva, Mysl', 2000. Hardcover. Red decorative boards with gold Cyrillic lettering; decorative end papers; 334 pp. and 1 bw image of the poet. Text in Russian. Derzhavin, overshadowed by Pushkin, helped break the constraints of classical Russian poetry. Herein are the full texts…

A Survey of Modernist Poetry

Laura Riding; Robert Graves · 1929 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1929. Cloth. A second impression of Laura Riding and Roberts Graves' authoritative study of modern poetry, with the very scarce dust wrapper. The second impression. With the publisher's very scarce unclipped dust wrapper.A survey of the…

Walter Scott

DEGOBERT, PIERRE, · 1771 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€40.25 ($44.36 | £33.57 | ¥7,085)

Portrait of British novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Lithograph on wove paper, sheet size 240 x 164 mm., image c. 140 x 115 mm. The work is illegibly signed (..-J College ?). The lithograph was made by Pierre Degobert, and published in: Loménie, Louis de, et al. …

That Winter. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

PAMELA GILLILAN. · 1986 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author to fellow poet Jeremy [Hooker]. Slim 8vo. 62pp. Card wrappers (never issued in casebound format). In fine state. Forty-nine poems, the auth…

Henrik Steffens. Ein Lebensbild. Aus dem Dänischen Michelsen.von Al.

PETERSEN, Richard.: · 1884 · Aquila Natural History Books /<br>Aquila Antiquariaat

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

Gotha: F.A. Perthes, 1884. 8vo, 20.5cm. Pp. vi,[2],419, lithogr. frontisp. portr., notes & refs. Old half cloth, red lettering label on backstrip. - With exlibris of the Goethe-Sammlung of Gunther Schmid. - Henrik Steffens (1773-1845) was a Norwegian philosopher, scientist, an…

Izbrannye Sochineniia

Dobroliubov, N A [ Dobrolyubov, Nikolay Alexandrovich ] · 1947 · Eastleach Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Ogiz, Moskva 1947 1st thus. Cloth, G+. 436pp, b/w frontis, 2pp b/w plates, cloth spotted & faded, paper rather browned with age, a solid working copy. CYRILLIC text. Selected works of the Russian poet, critic & social revolutionary Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov [ 1836 - 186…

ZERO GRAVITY

Lourie, Richard · 1987 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Harcourt Brace New York First Edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; A Soviet agent plots to get Jews back into Russia, and an American and a Russian poet are sent to the moon and create an interstellar scandal. ; 284 pages

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 smart first edition of poetry by Hughes, reflecting on the death of Sylvia Plath, with unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition. In lovely condition. Bound in publisher&apos;s original blue boards, with the original uncl…

RALPH: A LOVE STORY

JUSTICE, Donald (Mark STRAND) · 1999 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€567.04 | £473.00 | ¥99,816)

[West Chester, PA]. Aralia Press. First Edition. Sewn wraps, 8 pages. Of a total of 130 copies, this is one of 100 printed on Johannot Paper. Though not called for this copy is SIGNED by the poet on the limitation page and is additionally SIGNED by the poet Mark Strand on the fr…

ADDRESS OF CARL SANDBURG BEFORE A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS FEBRUARY 12, 1959

SANDBURG, Carl · 0 · Charles Agvent

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.90 | ¥29,945)

New York. Harcourt Brace. First Edition. One of 750 numbered copies on rag paper issued to celebrate the publishing house's 40th anniversary, with a printed note from the publisher to this effect laid in. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet beneath the limitation: "Dick + Florence/…

Last Poems

George Meredith · 1909 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Constable and Co. 1909. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poetry from George Meredith. First edition. A collection of poetry including the works: The Wild Rose, Youth in Age, The Call, and many others. Written by George Meredith, an English no…

Poems.

Masefield, John, · 1941 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

NY, Macmillan, 1941. 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. In a 3,000 word Preface Masefield tells of the influence of Yeats, the wish for the freedom of his early verse, his poetry. experiments, his turning toward dramatic poetry, his later interest in speaking verse, and his work with verse-sp…

Les Travaux poétiques [20 ex. signé + page manuscrite]

Paul Magritte 282828 · 1974 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€245.00 ($270.04 | £204.37 | ¥43,127)

1974, 1e druk, Gekartonneerd, 112, E.O. 300 ex. num. sur vélin, XX ex. num. sur vergé signé par l'auteur . This copy with with a handwritten text [incipit: 'Tourne deux fois te dents, ...] , signed and dated by the poet \"Zeebrugge le 15-8-74\"., Goed

La vie des abeilles.

MAETERLINCK, M., · 1907 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€23.00 ($25.35 | £19.19 | ¥4,049)

Paris, Charpentier, 1907, 311pp. half linen binding, gilt lettering on spine. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 - 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He…

Paris Spleen

Baudelaire, Charles & Varèse, Louise [translator] · 1990 · Eastleach Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

New Directions, New York 1990 10th impression. Paperback, G. x+118pp, page edges a little tanned, covers a little marked. A collection of prose poems, written between 1855 - 1867. This translation originally published in 1947. Charles-Pierre Baudelaire [ 1821 - 1867 ] the Frenc…

Randall Jarrell

SHAPIRO, Karl · 1967 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Washington: Gertrude Clarke Whittal Poetry and Literature Fund, 1967. Stapled in black wrappers, with black and white drawing of Jarrell. 8vo. 6 x 9-1/4 inches. 48 pp. First edition. Lecture on Jarrell delivered by poet Karl Shapiro at the Librar of Congress in 1967. Includes bi…

Big Jake

Holtan, Gene; Sheehan, Timothy; Young, Gary; Rice, Felicia · 1989 · Wittenborn Art Books

$185.00 (€167.85 | £140.01 | ¥29,546)

San Francisco, Calif.: Press in Tuscany Alley, 1989. Original letterpress and relief in 3 colors. 21.75 x 16.75 inches. One of 100 impressions, signed in pencil by the poet Sheehan. Illustrated by Holtan and printed in Palatino types on Iyo Glazed laid paper.Provenance: Estate o…

Styrofoamosaurus

Holtan, Gene; Sheehan, Timothy; Young, Gary; Rice, Felicia · 1989 · Wittenborn Art Books

$185.00 (€167.85 | £140.01 | ¥29,546)

San Francisco, Calif.: Press in Tuscany Alley, ca. 1989. Original letterpress and relief in 4 colors. 21.75 x 16.75 inches. One of 100 impressions, signed in pencil by the poet Sheehan. Illustrated by Holtan and printed in Palatino types on Iyo Glazed laid paper.Provenance: Esta…