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Joh. Peter Uz

NORDHEIM, JOHANN GEORG, · 1720 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€63.25 ($69.71 | £52.77 | ¥11,132)

Bust-length seated portrait of Uz, turned to the right but looking forward. Johann Peter Uz (Ansbach 1720-1796) was a German rococo poet. Engraving on wove paper, sheet size 248 x 156 mm., platemark 160 x 118 mm. Engraved by Johann Georg Nordheim, and published in Meyers Konvers…

Christina Rossetti

Frances Thomas · 1994 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Virago 1994 Paperback, 448pp. Why is Christina Rossetti, probably the major woman poet of Victorian Britain, so invisible today? This is the central question addressed in this biography. Rossetti, author of Goblin Market, My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird and In the Deep Midwinter…

Le Premier [-Second, -Tiers, -Quart] Volume de Froissart. Des Croniques de France, Dangleterre, Descoce. Despaigne, de Bretaigne, de Gascongne, de Flandres. Et Leiux Circunnoisins. [the Seminal First Hand Study of the Hundred Years' War by Jean Froissart]. First Editions

Froissart, Jean (c.1333-1337 - c.1400-1405) · 1517 · Wittenborn Art Books

$11,000.00 (€9,980.20 | £8,326.14 | ¥1,756,558)

Paris: Vol. I pour Antoine Vérard, i.e. pour Germaine Guyart, veuve d'Antoine Vérard, [1517-1518] - Vol II , Michel Le Noir, July 15, 1505; and Vols. III & IV pour Guillaume Eustache, 1513-1514. 4 vols. bound in 2. Vols. I & II in 18th Century marbled calf, 19 x 26cm.; Vols, III…

A Collection of Works by Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas; Vernon Watkins · 1946 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

New York; London, New Directions; J. M. Dent and Sons; Stein and Day; Triton, 1946-1965. First edition. Cloth. Four smart first edition volumes of works from Welsh writer Dylan Thomas. Four volumes. First edition. Written by Dylan Marlais Thomas, a Welsh poet and writer who beca…

Young Betjeman. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

HILLIER Bevis · 0 · Island Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

John Murray, [1988]. 8vo., First Edition, with 42 plates on 28; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First volume of Hillier's projected three-volume life of Betjeman, a project entrusted to him by the poet himself and likely to become of the most en…

DEATH AND TAXES

PARKER, Dorothy · 1931 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.17 | £1,419.23 | ¥299,413)

New York. Viking. First Edition. Patterned fabric over boards with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Copy #203 of only 250 SIGNED by the poet of perhaps her best-known collection.. Typical but rather mild browning to the gutters, otherwise clean internally. Some professional re…

Over den gang van het onderzoek in oude geschiedenis en letteren en deszelfs grenzen

GEEL, J., · 1833 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€51.75 ($57.04 | £43.17 | ¥9,108)

Koninklijk-Nederlandsch Instituut, (1833). 23 pp. paper on board binding, damaged and back loose, text clean, treatise written by Jacobus Geel (1789-1862) on history and literature studies and their boundaries, bookplate of the famous Dutch author Albert Verwey (May 15, 1865 - M…

A Gloucestershire Lad At Home And Abroad

Harvey, F W · 1917 · Eastleach Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Sidwick & Jackson 1917 3rd impression. Cloth, VG. xvi+64pp, spine grubby, paper label to the upper board in nice condition if just a little grubby, bookplate to the pastedown, ownership inscription dated 1917 to the endpaper, a nice copy. Booksellers ticket of J J Banks, Chelten…

Poems of Men and Hours

John Drinkwater · 1911 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London , David Nutt , 1911. First edition. Hardback. An anthology of poetry from prolific poet John Drinkwater. First edition, with poems reprinted from periodicals such as Country Life, The English Review, The Englishwoman, The Nation, The Spectator, The Thrush, The Tramp, The …

Opera

Quinti Horatii Flacci [ Horace ] & Milman, H H · 1853 · Eastleach Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Joannem Murray [ John Murray ] 1853 reprint. Faux vellum, G. iv+490+14pp, 304 text illustrations, water stain to the bottom ege of the text block which gets larger as the text progresses until it cover the bottom 2 inches of the page foir the last 100pp, binding rather grubby &…

Mid-Week Period Return Home Thoughts of a Native

John Wain · 1982 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, The Celandine Press, 1982. Paperback. A fine signed limited edition long narrative poem by the talented English poet John Wain, charmingly illustrated throughout by Arthur Keene. A limited edition work, limited to one-hundred and seventy-five copies printed on Hahnemuhle…

Griffin & Sabine, an Extraordinary Correspondence

BANTOCK, NICK · 1992 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

London, Macmillan. 1992, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Bantock, Nick. Book, 8vo. [Unpaginated = 48 pp.] Illustrated boards. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. First UK edition of the book that started the Nick Bantock obsession. The story is told through the strange and intrigu…

Poetry of Byron Chosen and Arranged by Matthew Arnold

Lord Byron; Matthew Arnold [Ed.] · 1881 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Macmillan and Co , 1881 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Matthew Arnold's selection of the poetry of Lord Byron, with a lengthy introduction to the poet and his works. The first edition of this collection, one of 750 large paper copies, and with an engra…

Jan Frederik Helmers, geschetst in eene redevoering, uitgesproken in de Maatschappij Felix Meritis, den 25 november 1814 door Hendrik Harmen Klijn.

KLIJN, HENDRIK HARMEN, · 1814 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€63.25 ($69.71 | £52.77 | ¥11,132)

Amsterdam, (Geysbeek & Comp Boekverkoopers), 1814, (2)+45+(2) pages (81-126), original paper binding. J.F. Helmers (1767-1813) was a Dutch poet and successful businessman, he wrote poems and was influenced by the renaissance and Voltaire. Several streets in Amsterdam bear his na…

Minnekunst [Ars amatoria]. Vertaald [uit het Latijn], ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door Micha Kat.

OVIDIUS. Kat,Micha. · 1993 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

Baarn, Ambo, 1993. 114 pp. Orig. hardcover (black cloth with gilt lettering), d./j. 8vo. (Ambo-Klassiek).Playful didactic poem about love by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD). Translated from Latin into Dutch, introduced and annotated by Micha Kat.

A CRACKLING OF THORNS

HOLLANDER, John · 1958 · Charles Agvent

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

New Haven. Yale University Press. First Edition. Hollander's first book, with an introduction by W. H. Auden. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill who has more than helped/John May 1958.". Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper

Various Positions : A Life of Leonard Cohen

NADEL, IRA B. · 1996 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Toronto, Random House of Canada. 1996, 1st Can Ed. (ISBN: 0394224132) Hardcover. Book, Biography of Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen, includes an interesting account of his life on the island of Hydra. 325p. illus.index. Transparent dj as issued. As New/Fine.

Pierre Kemp: Man in Het Zwart, Heer Van Het Groen

MOLIN, ROB; MOREL, PETER (ED.) · 1980 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Amsterdam, De Engelbewaarder. 1980, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 188 pp. Pictorial card wraps. Gebrocheerd. Biografische artikelen over de Maastrichtse dichter Pierre Kemp. Nr.18 van het kwartaalschrift 'De Engelbewaarder'. Keurig. Biographical essays on the popular Dut…

Complete Poems of Saint Denys Garneau. Translated with an Introduction Inscribed by John Glassco

Garneau, Saint Denys. Glassco, John · 1975 · TBCL The Book Collector's Library

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed by John Glassco to the front free endpaper with a TLS and envelope to the dedicatee laid-in. A fine copy in brown cloth, black titles to the spine in a near fine…

BONDAGE OF LOVE A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lefebure, Molly · 1987 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

WW Norton New York, NY First American Edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; Traces the life of Samuel Coleridge, looks at her marriage to the difficult English poet and critic, and discusses how Coleridge's opium addiction affected their liv…