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Speeches of Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1865 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. Leather. A smartly bound new edition of this collection of speeches from British historian, poet, and politician Lord Macaulay. New edition. A collection of speeches by Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British historian, poet, …

Air Raid, a Verse Play for Radio

Archibald Macleish · 1939 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1939 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this verse play from American modernist poet Archibald MacLeish, following a town's inhabitants during an air raid. The first UK edition of American poet and writer Archibald Macleish&ap…

Chatterton

Peter Ackroyd · 1987 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1987 . First edition. Cloth. A smart signed limited edition copy of Peter Ackroyd's Booker Prize shortlist novel concerning plagiarism and poetry, in the original glassine wrap. A limited edition copy, with this being No.35 of 150 numbered copies si…

Alfred Edward Housman: Recollections

Katharine E. Symons; A. W. Pollard; Laurence Housman; R. W. Chambers; Alan Ker; A. S. F. Gow; John Sparrow · 1936 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Bromsgrove , Bromsgrove School , 1936. First edition. Cloth. A limited work of five hundred copies, being a series of recollections about English poet and scholar, A. E. Housman. A limited edition of five hundred copies. Published at Bromsgrove School, which is where Housman att…

Poems by Mr. Gray

Thomas Gray · 1786 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, John Murray, 1786 . Leather. A beautifully illustrated 'New Edition' of the poetry of Thomas Gray, the writer best known for 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard&apos. A scarce, posthumously published, 'New Edition' of Gray's works.Illustr…

Still Life. William Sautar (1898-1943).

WILLIAM SOUTAR. Alexander Scott. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Chambers, London & Edinburgh, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 218pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Photographic frontispiece. Top edge and the margins of four or five preliminary leaves lightly spotted. Errata slip pasted to the base of p.210. A ve…

Stikhotvoreniia 1910 - 1925

Esenin'', Sergiei [ Yesenin, Sergei ] & Ivanova, Georgiia [editor] · 1950 · Eastleach Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

La Renaissance - Vozpozhdenie, Parizh [ Paris ] 1950 1st edition thus. Plain cloth, VG. 255pp, b/w frontis, plain cloth re-bind preserving the original card wrappers, bookplate & related news paper cliping tipped in, a nice copy. A selection of the poems of Sergei Alexandrovich …

Life is Elsewhere

Aaron Asher, Aaron Asher, Milan Kundera · 1986 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Hardcover, hardcover; 1986e druk; Perennial; 311pp.; Conditie: Goed; A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man's fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de fourc…

Old World Essays.

R. L. GALES. · 1921 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Daniel O'Connor, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 336pp. Maroon cloth lettered in black at the spine. The title page printed in black and red. The top edge fractionally dust soiled. A virtually fine copy in fractionally rubbed dust wrapper, with a tiny e…

A Lesser Child. An Autobiography.

KAREN GERSHON. · 1994 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Peter Owen Publishers, London, 1st Edition, First English Edition (first printing). 8vo. 198pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. Photographic endpapers. A fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a small area of moisture marking to the upper edge. Publisher'…

Satyrica.

Petronius. · 1996 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 224 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Encolpius, a soldier of fortune, despiser of pedantry, lecherous and contrary, and the beautiful Giton, who lives off his char…

Slow Fire of Time

Pendleton, Conrad · 1956 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Denver, Colorado, Alan Swallow, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Conrad Pendleton is the pen-name of Dr. Walter E. Kidd, a poet known for his poetry set within regional landscapes. Somewhat unusually, the interior of the moderately worn and mildly sunned print…

Les Copains

Jules Romains · 1923 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Paris, Les Éditions G. Crès & C, 1923. Leather. A limited edition copy of this classic French novel by the renowned poet, Jules Romains. This edition was limited to 1100, of which 100 were out of trade. This book is number eight. Rebound in quarter morocco by Durvand, with the o…

Poetic Gems + More Poetic Gems + Last Poetic Gems. Wm. McGonagall: A Library Omnibus

McGonagall, William · 1970 · Barter Books Ltd

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket London Geral Duckworth & Co Ltd First edition thus 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 214pp, 173pp, 171pp. The 'Worst Poet of All Time' are among the many accolades heaped upon William McGonagall, who was sustained by an invin…

Cruelty

AI, [pseud. Anthony, Florence] · 1973 · Kaaterskill Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1973. First edition. Cloth. [vii], 46 pp. 8vo. First book of poems by the Afro-American and Japanese-American poet Florence Ai Ogawa [born Florence Anthony] (1947-2010). A near fine copy, with a bit of dustiness to edges, in a very good dust jacket with…

El Audaz - historia de un radical de antano

Galdos, Perez Benito · 0 · Byre Books

£8.25 (€9.89 | $10.90 | ¥1,741)

Book Very Good Aguilar Madrid 1952 HB No 347 in the Coleccion Crisol, part of the Complete Works. Text in Spanish. Red leather, lightly worn, silk bookmark, India paper, neat name (of British poet Jack Beeching) to ffep verso, small tear to half-title page, frontis, pages a litl…

Vida, Poe Ia Y Estilo de D. Gaspar Núñez de Arce

Romo Arregui, Josefina · 1946 · Kaaterskill Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Insti tuto "Antonio de Nebrija, 1946. First edition. Paper wrappers. 277 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the half title to a colleague. Series: Revista de filología española. Anejo 34. Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1834–1903) …

Tomas Moncayo Avellan Y Su Memoria Presentada Al Instituto Geografico Argentino

Mera, Juan Leon · 1888 · Kaaterskill Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Quito, [Imprenta de Gobierno], 1888. First edition. Removed. 19 pp. 8vo. Political work by Juan León Mera Martínez (1832-1894) an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, and politician considered the father of Ecuadorian literature. OCLC shows one at the Univ. Texas. Palau 164866. Removed fr…

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher.

JONES, HENRY. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons,1899. Rep. "The purpose of this book is to deal with Browning, not simply as a poet, but rather as the exponent of a system of ideas on moral and religious subjects, which may fairly be called a philosophy." Pp.16/350/2(ads), welsh inscription to …

Tides and Fashions.

BLAIR. (WALLACE WILFRED BLAIR-FISH). · 1969 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ipswich: Norman Adlard and Company, 1969. 1st ed. "With the advice of several of his friends, his widow has assembled these poems as a memorial to a genuine poet whose work reflected the changing tides and fashions of over fifty years of writing." Pp.65, b/w photo portrait front…