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Letters Supposed to Have Passed between M. De St. Evremond and Mr. Waller

John Langhorne · 1769 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1769 . First edition. Leather. In handsome original calf bindings, this is the very scarce first edition of John Langhorne's collection of fictional correspondences between Saint-Évremond and Edmund Waller. The very scarce first edition…

Hame. McAfee Annalena

Annalena Mcafee, Annalena Mcafee · 2017 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2017; Vintage Publishing; 577pp.; Puntgaaf exemplaar met schoon en fris binnenwerk. -- Conditie: Goed; Hame, n. Scottish form of home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin In the wake of the breakdown of her relationship, Mhairi McPhail dis…

Poems

Thomas Hood · 1861 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London , Edward Moxon, 1861. Leather. A smart leather bound copy of the poems of Thomas Hood. The fourteenth edition of this collection of poems by Thomas Hood. Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humourist best known for his poems The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of th…

Engraving of Rodolphus Agricola

1443 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€34.50 ($38.03 | £28.78 | ¥6,072)

Rodolphus Agricola (August 28, 1443, or February 17, 1444 - October 27, 1485) was a Dutch humanist of the Northern Low Countries, famous for his knowledge of Latin and Greek. He was an educator, musician, builder of church organs, a poet in Latin and the vernacular, a diplomat, …

Sonety Krymskie

Mickiewicz, Adam & Konstantinowa, F D [illustrator] · 1955 · Eastleach Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Czytelink, Warsawa 1955 1st thus. Paperback, G. 36pp, b/w frontis, 18 woodcut vignettes, grease?stain to the bottom R corner of the pages, covers grubby. Neat pencil inscription reads that the book was 'bought from Anne Pennington's estate, 4th Jan 1982. The Crimean Sonnets of t…

LA CENTURIE (Amarusataka). Poèmes amoureux de l'Inde ancienne.

Amaru · 1993 · Antiquariaat van Veen

€9.50 ($10.47 | £7.93 | ¥1,672)

Paris, Gallimard / Unesco, 1993. e 124 pp. Pb . Serie Indienne. Traduit du sanskrit par Alain Rebière. The Amarusataka ranks as one of the finest lyrical poetry in the annals of Sanskrit literature, ranking with Kalidasa and Bhartrhari's Smgarasataka. The ninth-century literar…

Chaucer and His World

Derek Brewer · 1978 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. First American Edition. Hardcover. 224p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Except for very lightly rubbed spine ends, the book's cover is in excellent condition, the text is clean, and the binding is tight. The dustj…

West of Elm. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

ROGER GARFITT. · 1974 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Carcanet New Press, Cheshire, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) of the author's first full-length collection of verse. This copy inscribed by the author to critic and fellow poet Jeremy [Hooker], dated 1982 and with a single inked textual correc…

Faux traité d'esthétique

Benjamin FONDANE · 1938 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

Denoël | Paris 1938 | 14 x 22.50 cm | broché | Edition originale pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grand papier. Quelques piqûres sur les plats. Rare envoi autographe signé de Benjamin Fondane au poète Raymond Datheil. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First Edition for which h…

AGENT IN PLACE

Little, Robert · 1991 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Bantam New York Second Printing Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. Owner embossed. ; In Moscow as a low-level diplomat, Ben Bassett meets an independent poet named Aida Zavaskaya, and they enter into a passionate love affair and become caught in a plan to r…

Marcel Mariën. Le Passager clandestin.

CANONNE Xavier - [ ] Marcel MARIËN : · 2013 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€73.00 ($80.46 | £60.90 | ¥12,848)

Anvers ( Antwerpen ) , Pandora, Ronny van de Velde, 2013, in-4°, 29 cm, 432 pp, over 800 ills.,publisher's illustrated cased binding. Published to coincide with the 2013 exhibition at the Museum of Photography in Charleroi ( Belgium), of photographs, collages and other artworks …

Marcel Mariën. Le Passager clandestin.

CANONNE Xavier - [ ] Marcel MARIËN : · 2013 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Anvers ( Antwerpen ) , Pandora, Ronny van de Velde, 2013, in-4°, 29 cm, 432 pp, over 800 ills.,publisher's illustrated cased binding. Published to coincide with the 2013 exhibition at the Museum of Photography in Charleroi ( Belgium), of photographs, collages and other artworks …

Marcel Mariën. Le Passager clandestin.

CANONNE Xavier - [ ] Marcel MARIËN : · 2013 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Anvers ( Antwerpen ) , Pandora, Ronny van de Velde, 2013, in-4°, 29 cm, 432 pp, over 800 ills.,publisher's illustrated cased binding. Published to coincide with the 2013 exhibition at the Museum of Photography in Charleroi ( Belgium), of photographs, collages and other artworks …

MORE ABOUT TOMPKINS And Other Light Verse [SIGNED]

Roy Fuller · 1981 · Dodman Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Edinburgh, The Tragara Press, 1st Edition, No 11 of 25 signed copies printed on Canson Ingres paper, from the edition of 135. Bookplate of poet Ann Ridler to inner flap. In VG order throughout. Plain card covers with VG fixed decorative wrap around and paper label to front. 8vo.…

Francis Thompson: A Critical Biography

Paul van Kuykendall Thomson · 1961 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1961. Hardcover. 280p. A red cloth hardcover ex-library book in original binding. Label residue on faded spine; foredges stamped, patches of covers faded, and edges worn. Label, stamp, and card pocket on endpapers. Stamp on title page. Otherwise, …

Dissegno per la fabrica della Libreria Canonicale. [Verona, ca. 1720/25]. Folio (38.5 x 25.5 cm). With 4 architectural drawings, 3 double-page (ca. 37 x 50 cm at a scale of about 1:60) and 1 loosely inserted full-page (24 x 35 cm at a scale of about 1:107), skillfully drawn in brown ink and several shades of grey watercolour. Two of the double-page drawings are elevations (1 partly in cross-section), the other 2 drawings are floor plans, each plan with a folding flap tipped on showing the plan of a higher level. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers.

[ARCHITECTURE - DRAWINGS]. · 1675 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)

The original designs for the alterations to the chapter library at Verona, situated in the Church of St. Helena, abutting the famous Cathedral of San Zeno (the common wall appears in the drawings). The alteration was ordered by Scipione Maffei (1675-1755) and Jacopo(?) Muselli a…

Life and Letters of Robert Browning

Mrs. Sutherland Orr; Frederic G. Kenyon · 1908 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1908 . Leather. A new edition of this biographical work on famed poet Robert Browning, in a smart, prize leather binding. A new edition, revised and in part rewritten by Frederic G. Kenyon. First published in 1891. Bound in a smart, half calf prize win…

Zlatorog Eine Alpensage

Rudolf Baumbach · 1901 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Stuttgart, J. B. Cotta'sche , 1901. Cloth. A scarce tale in verse from Baunbach, in the original German language. German language. Scarce work. An Alpine legend told in verse form. Written by Rudolf Baumbach, a German poet. In the original brown cloth binding with gilt deco…

chairman mao

Nahl Nucha 252105 · 1971 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Brescia: Edizione Amodulo, 1971, Square saddle-stapled large 8vo in printed wrappers, Printed in red, with pages printed in black and white. Unpaginated (28 pp.) Text in English and Italian. An artists’ book featuring a series of concrete and visual poems on the subject of Chai…

Portrait of Francina Baane

1758 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€28.75 ($31.69 | £23.99 | ¥5,060)

Oval portrait engraving 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 marr…