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Horse

James K. Baxter · 1985 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

Oxford University Press 1985 Paperback, 125pp. Horse is almost twenty, a college drop-out with a job in a steel mill and a girlfriend named Fern with golden brown hair down to her waist. But his drinking, poetry writing, and above all a predilection for the disreputable combine …

Creatures

Colum, Padraic · 1927 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1927. Hardcover. Illustrated paper over boards; Black cloth at spine; Illustrated dj.; Illustrated endpapers; 56 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw plates and figures. A book of poems by Irish poet, novelist, and dramatist Padraic Colum that feat…

Ode To A Banker

Lindsey Davis · 2001 · Book Haven

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

Arrow (UK) 2001 Paperback 358 Ode to a Banker- A witty exploration of Roman publishing and banking available for the first time in mass market paperback. In the long, hot Roman summer of 74 AD, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his fa…

Richard Eberhart: A Celebration

Sydney Lea, ed · 1980 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

[No Place], Kenyon Hill Publications, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. 76p. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD EBERHART TO GLENWAY WESCOTT. A warm inscription in ink on the title page, wherein Eberhart remarks how much he admires Wescott's works. At the bottom of the page, Eberhart …

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: modern liberalism and American decline.

Bork, Robert H., · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Regan Books, (1997). 1st PB ed 7ptg. VG PB. A nation's moral life is the foundation of its culture. A prophetic and unprecedented view of a culture in decline, a. nation is such serious moral trouble that its very foundation is crumbling a nation that slouches not towards th…

More Poems

A. E. Housman · 1936 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1936 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of the first trade edition of this collection of poems from English classical scholar and poet A. E. Housman. The first trade edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappe…

Poãƒâ©Sie 39-45: An Anthology

Pierre Seghers [ed.]; Various · 1947 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Editions Poetry , 1947 . First edition. Cloth. A bilingual anthology compiled by Pierre Seghers, presenting powerful French wartime poetry from 1939–1945 that embodies the spirit of resistance and resilience. In the publisher's original cloth binding.First edition.…

Poems of Uriconium, Dovedale, & C.

Thomas M. Freeman · 1875 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Stalybridge, John Macleod, [1875]. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce poetic anthology written by a Stalybridge poet and vicar commemorating his visits to historic towns with his clergical association. Poems of Uriconium, Dovedale, & c. a very scarce poetic anthology, writt…

Write It Right

BIERCE, AMBROSE · 1946 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: The Union Library Association, 1946. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good only dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the boo…

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold · 1899 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1899. Leather. A lovely ornately decorated volume from English poet and cultural critic, Matthew Arnold. In full crushed morocco. A new impression of this collection of works by English poet Matthew Arnold.Bound in full gilt-decorated crushed …

Poems

James Blyth; Eva Dobell [foreword]; William Curran Reedy [appreciation] · 1944 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, The Favil Press, 1944. First edition. Paperback. An uncommon paperbound volume of poetry published in memoriam of James Blyth. An uncommon volume of poetry published in memoriam of James Blyth, the British writer and soldier who was tragically killed in battle at 17 year…

Le songe et le sang, poèmes

Charles LE QUINTREC · 1978 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Albin Michel | Paris 1978 | 14 x 19 cm | broché | Edition originale, un des 45 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin pur fil de Rives, tirage de tête après 25 Hollande. Bel exemplaire complet de sa bande annonce. Bel envoi autographe daté et signé de Charles Le Quintrec à un ami poète…

17 Poems. (With handwritten dedication to Jan van Krimpen).

MEYNELL, Francis · 1945 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

London, Nonesuch Press-J.M. Dent, 1945. Sewn with flaps. (4), 32 p. Cover and title decoration Eric Gill. 2nd enlarged edition. Spine slightly worn. With handwritten dedication by the author: 'For J. van Krimpen this vainglorious/ substitute for a Christmas card*/ from Francis M…

Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1874 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Chiswick Press, 1874. Leather. A finely bound Riviere & Son edition of Gray's poems and letters, featuring monochrome tipped-in illustrations and an Eton prize label. In a full calf signed binding by Riviere & Son.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and three photograp…

Nos Enfants: Scenes de la Ville Et Des Champs

Anatole France · 1900 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Paris, Hachette et Cie, [1900]. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated copy of this children's work by French poet, journalist, and novelist Anatole France, with illustrations by M.B. de Monvel. A later edition, first published in 1887.In the original quarter cloth binding, with …

Woman, a Satire

Juvenal · 1927 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, The Casanova Society, 1927. Cloth. An unusual work consisting of Roman poet Juvenal's reductive views of 'Woman', accompanied eight full plate illustrations. With eight plates of collotype illustrations depicting female nudes from artist R. B. Brooks-Greav…

A Hundred Sonnets

Charles Tennyson Turner · 1960 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A charming collection of Charles Tennyson Turner's poetry. Personally selected by future Poet Laureate John Betjeman and Sir Charles Tennyson. The first edition of the work. A collection of 100 sonnets written by Alfred…

Poems 1830-1833

Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1862 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Toronto , Privately Printed [for J. Dykes Campbell], 1862. Leather. A morocco-bound copy of this pirated edition of Tennyson's early poems, from the library of former Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. A desirable copy of this already intriguing poetical collection, previously …

American Dream

George O'Neil · 1933 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

New York, Samuel French, 1933. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an intriguing drama analysing the American Dream, taking us through the first colonial settlers and into the 1930s. The first edition of the American Dream, an intriguing historically minded play split int…

Fair Isle, a Tale in Verse

Wilhelm Jensen · 1881 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Kirkwall, William Peace & Son, 1881. First edition. Cloth. The first English translation of this poem by Wilhelm Jensen, in which the German poet Shetland's history and topography, illustrated with a frontispiece and in-text illustrations. First UK Edition, Very Scarce. In…