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SANADON, Nat.Steph. · 1715 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Paris, Joh.Barbou, 1715 (printed by P.A. Le Mercier). Sm-8vo. [xii],278,[xii],[2] pp. Contemporary calf with double filets. (slightly loosening; gilt spine at the ends damaged; small bookplate of J.E. Kenney on pastedown) ¶ Sommervogel VII/p.511 & 512 (items 17 and 20). Noël Eti…

Bokkachcho Fiametta.

(KUZMIN, Michail). BOCCACCIO, Giovanni · 1913 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Saint Petersburg, M.G. Kornfeld, 1913. Original wrappers. (2), 216 p. Uncut. First edition. Damaged wrappers loose and in two parts, repaired with paper and tape. Backstrip missing. Price sticker on rear. Title page loose. Extremely rare translation into Russian of Boccaccio's F…

Chronologia Dziejow Krolestwa Polskiego Dla Mlodego Pokolenia

Konopacki, Szymon · 1878 · Eastleach Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Ksiegarnia J K Zupanskiego, Poznan 1878 2nd edition, revised. Half cloth over marbled boards, G. 2 volumes in 1, cx+195+[i]+277+70pp, rebound at sometime with the text block cut down which has resulted in the loss of some of the marginal text ( dates ), cheap papper begining to …

Going West

Maurice Gee · 1993 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Penguin 1993 Hardback, 288pp. For All The Promise Of His Name, Jack Skeat Cannot Be A Poet. His Friend Rex Petley--eel-catcher, Girl-chaser, Motorbike Rider--takes That Prize. Is He Also A Murderer? And Why, Forty Years Later, Does He Drown Out On The Gulf? Jack Has To Find Out,…

End and Beginning

Masefield, John · 1933 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1933. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First American Edition. Sturdy, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned and moderately foxed at endpapers front and rear, less so of interior, minimal rubbing to extremiti…

Achim Und Bettina In Ihren Briefen : Briefwechsel Achim Von Arnim Und Bettina Brentano [ 2 volumes complete ]

Arnim, Achim Von & Brentano, Bettina - Vordtriede, Werner [ editor] · 1961 · Eastleach Books

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,692)

Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1961 1st edition. Cloth, VG. 2 volumes, lxviii+439pp, [vi]+441-989pp, inex to the whole in volume II, folding genealogy at the rer of vol II, 679pp, spine lettering piece rather rubbed, spines evenly faded. The correspondence between Achim von…

DEATH AND TAXES

PARKER, Dorothy · 1931 · Charles Agvent

$1,687.50 (€1,531.05 | £1,277.31 | ¥269,472)

New York. Viking. First Edition. Patterned fabric over boards with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Copy #27 of only 250 SIGNED by the poet of perhaps her best-known collection.. Typical browning to the gutters, otherwise clean internally. Two small nicks with loss on the spin…

Tafereeltjes uit de twaalfdaagsche beurstogten op de Tusschenbeurs.

Oosterwijk Bruijn,Jacob van. · 1845 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Te Amsterdam, G.J.A.Beijerick, 1845. 17 pp. 1 single-page engraved view ot the temporary stock exchange on the Damd square, Rebound in simple 20the century hardcover binding. 8vo.Scarce booklet by the Dutch humorous poet Jacob van Oosterwijk Bruyn (Amst., februari 22, 1794 - Ams…

Pour le réalisme, un peintre s'interroge

Roger SOMVILLE · 1970 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Roger Maria | Bruxelles 1970 | 14.50 x 20.50 cm | broché | Edition originale. Agréable exemplaire. Belnvoi autographe signé de Roger Somville au poète Charles Dobzynski sur deux pages : "... à un vrai poète et un vrai camarade... qui cherche aussi la lumière de l'avenir... ce li…

Kertaljós [Candle Light] : úrvalsljóð

Johnson, Jakobína (1883-1977) · 0 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$200.00 (€181.46 | £151.38 | ¥31,937)

Reykjavík Ísafoldarprentsmiðja First edition pp. 94 [1]; 16 cm. 12mo. Fine in pebbled leatherette over boards with gilt lettering and illustration to front board; gilt foredges. Subjects: Poetry/Ljóð; Icelandic-Canadian literature; Íslenskar bókmenntir. The author, the daughter…

Winter News : Poems by John Haines

Haines, John · 1966 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Grey cloth/boards; black lettering. Grey illus. dj with black lettering. 71 pp. with no illus. Poet and essayist John Haines was born in 1924 and studied art and painting at the National Art School, the America…

Chansons et Descorts de Gautier de Dargies

Gautier de Dargies (Gedeon Huet, editor) · 1912 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1912, First edition of the poems of Gautier de Dargies, an early thirteenth-century poet. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth. Uncut an…

Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations; traduction nouvelle, avec des notes et observations par Germain Garnier. Volumes I-V. [FIVE VOLUMES, THE CORRECTED ISSUE].

Smith, Adam. [Germain Garnier]. · 1802 · Librarium of The Hague

€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)

Paris, Agasse, 1802. Hardcover. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Five volumes. Crown octavo. Pp. cxxvii (Preface), 368; 493; 564; 556; 588. With the famous engraved frontispiece by Benoît-Louis Prévost to the first volume. All half-titles present. Ext…

Flower of Youth: Poems in War Time.

KATHARINE YTNAN. · 1915 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 80pp. Blue cloth with a printed paper spine label. A touch of wear to the cloth at the spine ends and corner tips, some very light spotting to the edges, and a hint of toning to the endpapers. A v…

Het kasteel van Aigermont, en d'omleggende landtstreeken in de heerlykheit van Nederkan, nevens de stadt Maastricht.Leeuwarden, François Halma, 1715. 4to. With the title page and dedication printed in red and black, an engraved printer's device on the title page, 3 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 double page), 4 decorated woodcut initials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf.

HALMA, François. · 1698 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

[20], 60 pp.First and only edition of a Dutch poem in praise of Château Agimont, now known as Château Neercanne, and the nearby city of Maastricht. It starts with a six-page verse dedication to Daniel Wolf, Baron van Dopff, who had the chateau rebuilt in Dutch Baroque architectu…

Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore · 1826 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. Leather. Thomas Moore's famous romance poem 'Lalla Rookh', bound in a full calf binding. 'Lalla Rookh' is an romance poem by Thomas Moore. It tells the story of Lalla Rookh, engaged to a young king, bu…

Poems

William Mason · 1774 · Rooke Books

£159.99 (€191.77 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

York, A Ward, 1774. Leather. A collection of William Mason's poetry. Leatherbound volume with gilt title to the spine. William Mason (1724 – 1797) was an English poet, editor and gardener. He was born in Hull and studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordaine…

California Literature and Its Makers

James, George Wharton · 1918 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Oakland: Oakland Tribune, 1918. Folio. Folded Newspaper Clippings (9), Good with yellowing throughout, creasing, small tears, minor losses, edge wear. Illustrated, photographs. Includes: Edwin Markham--An Epoch-Making California Poet; Edwin Markham, Some Experiences In Oakland; …

Unthinking

COLEMAN Les · 1993 · Inch's Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Todmorden, Littlewood Arc 1993 64pp, illustrated, folded blank card insert. 22x13 illustrated wrapper in blue slip-case. Fine; signed by author on last page (note that the silkscreen print distributed with these boxed copies is absent). Rare edition of this collection of aph…

A Lume Spento and Other Early Poems

Pound, Ezra · 1965 · Mare Booksellers

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

New York, New Directions, 1965. Cloth. First printing, so stated (of this edition). Floral illustrated paper covered boards with a blue cloth spine. In glassine jacket. 128 pp. A work collecting various early books of poetry by Ezra Pound, with a very short foreword to this coll…