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Dr. W. C. H. Staring, gehuldigd op zijnen hondersten geboortedag 5 october 1908.

LOVINK, H. J., A.O., · 1908 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€51.75 ($57.04 | £43.17 | ¥9,108)

's-Gravenhage, Gebrs. J & H. van Langenhuysen, 1908. 132 pp. With a portrait. Original wrappers, tear in frontwrapper, frontwrapper partly split rrom spine. W. C. H. Staring [1808-1877] was a Dutch agriculturist and geologist and son of the Dutch poet A. C. W. Staring.

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bissett, bill (ed.) bp Nichol (intro.) Musgrave, Susan, Mandel, Eli, etc. (contributors) · 1992 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Talonbooks, 1992. 1st. Paperback. 0889223033. Signed by Author(s). First printing. Octavo format in card covers. Fine, unread copy. INSCRIBED by the poet to a friend: "For Mr. B___ love w/thanks Bill", including a small sketch of a couple of doves and sun. Fine.

Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend

LEHMANN, JOHN · 1980 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1980, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xiii, 178 pp. (+ 12 pp. plates). Blue boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. Excellent copy of Lehmann's biography of the young poet who died on his way to Gallipoli in 1915. Fine/Ver…

Robert Graves and John Betjeman. An Open University A-Level unit course-book for Twentieth Century Poetry focusing on Graves and Betjeman and written by, respectively, Derwent May and John Purkis.

JOHN BETJEMAN AND ROBERT GRAVES. · 1977 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

The Open University Press, Milton Keynes, Corrected edition. Slim 4to. 47pp. Card wrappers, a little chafed and dust marked with a small nick to head of spine. The Betjeman portion comprises twenty-three pages and includes sections on 'Vintage Betjeman', 'A Selection of Poems', …

Poems

Matthew Arnold · 1857 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, George Routledge, c1901. Cloth. An attractively bound collection of poems by Matthew Arnold, a leading poetical figure of the nineteenth century. Matthew Arnold was a poet and critic, who famously served as the headmaster of Rugby School. Ranked among the bets poets of t…

Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems and Thomas Hood: Selected Poems

Andrew Marvell; Thomas Hood; Fred Marnau; Clifford Dyment · 1948 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, The Grey Wall Press, 1948. First edition. Cloth. Two volumes in the Crown Classics series containing selected poems by celebrated authors Andrew Marvell and Thomas Hood. The first editions. The first editions. In the Crown Classics series.  Andrew Marvell: Selected Poe…

Portrait of Robert Hendrik Arntzenius

1777 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€34.50 ($38.03 | £28.78 | ¥6,072)

Engraving pf Robert Hendrik Arntzenius Robert Hendrik Arntzenius was a Dutch jurist and poet born in Amsterdam in 1777. He studied classical literature, mathematics, and law, later working as a lawyer and government official in the Netherlands. Alongside his legal career, he de…

Levensschets van D.J. den Beer Poortugael door J.C.C. den Bees Poortugael

BEER POORTUGAEL, J.C.C. DEN, · 1880 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€224.25 ($247.16 | £187.08 | ¥39,469)

Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1880, privately published, 42 pages, original paper binding, biography written by a son (former minister of war) for his father. Diederik Jacobus den Beer Poortugael (Leiden, 16 april 1800 - Den Haag, 10 juni 1879) was a Dutch officer and poet, knight in the …

Lynn Davis: November 11 - January 13

Davis, Lynn; Ashbery, John (text.) · 2000 · Wittenborn Art Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

New York: Edwynn Houk Gallery, 2000. 8vo. [30 pp]. Stiff printed wraps with French folds. Very good. Black and white plates. Grey endpapers. Includes preface by poet John Ashbery. Catalog created on occasion of exhibit "Lynn Davis" at the New York Edwynn Houk Gallery from Novemb…

Driftwood

McLane, James L., Jr. · 1919 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Boston, Mass.: Four Seas, 1919. 4to. 112 pp. frontis. VG- in boards, some wear to cover, front hinge starting but sound, spine label worn, spine top chipped, light pink stain on front cover, rubbed spot rear cover. Presentation copy from the poet to Walter Prendergast in ink, wi…

Katie's Birthday Bug

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

$185.00 (€167.85 | £140.03 | ¥29,542)

San Francisco, Calif.: Press in Tuscany Alley, 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: Estate o…

Xenia and Motets

Eugenio Montale, translated by Kate Hughes · 1980 · Byre Books

£23.53 (€28.20 | $31.09 | ¥4,964)

Book Good Agenda Editions London A bilingual edition, with Italian facing English translations. Covers worn and marked, with small splits to the spine. Loosely laid in are handwritten addenda relating to Montale, and some poems in Xenia have pencil annotation attempting alternat…

Robert Fergusson 1750 - 74

Sydney Goodsir Smith, ed. · 0 · Byre Books

£12.94 (€15.51 | $17.10 | ¥2,730)

Book Very Good Good Essays in various hands ( Garrioch, Goodsir Smith, MacDiarmid, Young, Oliver, Spiers, Caird, Mackie, Law, Montgomerie, Scott, Lindsay) to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth. Boards a little marked, name (poet John Manson), to ffep, generally VG in chipp…

EASEFUL DEATH

McInerny, Ralph · 1991 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Atheneum New York, NY First Edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; A poet and teacher, Howard Webster, feigns death and moves to Italy where he reads a magazine article lauding his work and returns home to enjoy the 'posthumous' fame ; Remainder; 261 …

LATE NIGHT MUSE

Pesetsky, Bette · 1991 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Harpercollins New York First Edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; A New York City poet diagnosed with a fatal disease looks back on her life--abandonment by her mother, her bizarre romantic entanglements, her involvement with a Kafkaesque group called the Cousins Club--or…

LATE NIGHT MUSE

Pesetsky, Bette · 1991 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Harpercollins New York First Edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; A New York City poet diagnosed with a fatal disease looks back on her life--abandonment by her mother, her bizarre romantic entanglements, her involvement with a Kafkaesque group called the Cousins Club--or…

Bread and Water

Knowles, Alison · 1995 · Imago Press

CA$26.00 (€16.53 | $18.22 | £13.79 | ¥2,909)

Tarrytown NY, Left Hand Books, 1995. Perfect binding, 72 pp. 6"-10.5". Fine. Fluxus Artist, Knowles matching the cracks in homemade bread as it's cooling to rivers in an atlas. She then applies that pattern as a template to given source texts to follow their words into poetry. 2…

Lunation. A Good Fat Anthology of 114 Women Poets

Various authors · 0 · Mare Booksellers

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Portsmouth, NH, Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program/Senile Monk Press, Publishers. Trade Paperback. no date, perhaps early to mid 2000s. Trade paperback. 148 pp. An anthology of poetry by women poets from around the region of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, including Maine and elsewhere…

Selected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative

William Butler Yeats · 1932 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

London, Macmillan, 1932. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 203p. A blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Binding slightly cockeyed, but still tight. Corners lightly bumped and spine barely faded. Early owner's signature on front endpaper, dated 1946. Otherwise unmarked. Scarc…

Eve Speaks To God

Kabita Sinha · 1977 · Dodman Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Calcutta, Dainik Kavita / Samarendra Das, 1st Edition, Important work from the first feminist poet of Bengali literature in first English language edition. Stock lightly toned, but otherwise all in VG+, clean and bright order. Typographic card covers lightly worn and a little du…