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Aquarius 21/22 Roy Fuller - A Tribute

Eddie S Linden (ed); A T Tolley (guest ed) · 1993 · Dodman Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London, Eddie S Linden, 1st Edition, Special issue of literary periodical devoted to the life and work of Roy Fuller. All in VG internal order. Front cover a little cockled due to fixing of poet Ann Ridler's bookplate to verso. 8vo. 124pp, Good, No Jacket, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" ta…

Sualafeld: Bilder Um Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Lotte Meyer-Andreae · 1940 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Druck, Riedel - Verlag Gunzenhausen. Paperback. 143p. A tan-brown softcover book in good condition. Cover is shelf-worn. Spine lightly crinkled along the edge. Former owner's private library stamps inside covers, on title page, and on p. 81. Otherwise clean and tight. Text in Ge…

Postcard: Castle Piatt Mac-a-Cheek

[Abram Piatt] · 0 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Original b/w postcard with photograph of Piatt Castle, the home of Ohio poet Abram S. Piaat. Postcard is unused. Fine condition. Standard size, measuring 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Abram Piatt, and his brother Donn, built a pair of homes in West Liberty, Ohio, both modeled off of europea…

Ina Coolbrith: Librarian and Laureate of California

Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel and Raymund Francis Wood · 1973 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Provo, UT, Brigham Young University Press, 1973. Hardcover. 531p. A lavender hardcover book in very good condition. Bottom corner of front cover bumped. Former owner's private library stamps on endpapers and title page. Otherwise clean and tight. A biography of poet and libraria…

Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe.

Hoffman, Daniel, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Doubleday, 1972. VG in G DJ. Exploration by a distinguished American poet and critic of his own lifelong fascination with the work of Edge Allan Poe. Poe is a great disreputable author who gets under one's skin, wom one contracts like a disease or a vice. DJ edge wear, scrap…

Nikolay Karamzin.

Kochetkova, Natalya. · 1975 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Boston : Twayne Publishers, [1975]. Orig. cloth binding. 154 pp. (TWAS, 250). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766-1826) was a Russian Imperial historian, romantic writer, poet and critic. He is now best …

Songs of Friendship

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB · 1915 · Bluebird Books

$19.00 (€17.24 | £14.38 | ¥3,034)

Indianapolis, Indiana,: Bobbs Merrill Company, 1915. Hardcover. Early edition of poems by the "Hoosier Poet", with numerous b&w illustrations by Will Vawter. In full green decorative cloth covers w/gilt accents front and spine. Edge & corner rubbing. Interior solid, with beginni…

Leftover Life to Kill

THOMAS, CAITLIN · 1957 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

London, Putnam. 1957, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 240 pp. Purple cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Spine sl. cocked, fore-edges of boards discoloured, otherwise fine. Caitlin Thomas's deeply moving and revealing autobiographical account of lif…

Selected Poems

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED · 1925 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

London, William Heinemann. 1925, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 12mo. vii, (1) 75 pp. Navy cloth boards with gilt to front and spine. Bookplate on front pastedown of Dutch poet Clara Eggink who was married to the fampus poets J.C. Bloem and Jan Campert. A very nice first edition of…

Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps: Captain, Royal Horse Guards

Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps · 1916 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London , Smith, Elder & Co. 1916 . Hardback. A scarce collection of verses, prose fragments, and extracts from the front by war poet Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps, with a frontispiece, and one plate. A later edition of the work, originally published the year prior.In full paper…

Clio

Anatole France · 1900 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

Paris , Calmann Levy , 1900. First edition. Leather. A sought after first edition of Anatole France's novel, 'Clio', complete with Alphonse Mucha's beautiful colour plates. The first edition of this work. Handsomely bound in quarter crushed morocco with marb…

First Day; Straight or Curly?

Clifford Dyment · 1935 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1935-1937. First edition. Hardback. A smart two volume set of first edition signed presentation copies of twentieth century rural poet Clifford Dyment's first two collections of poetry to be published. A two volume set. First editions. Both sig…

Works of Francis Brett Young: White Ladies; Far Forest; They Seek a Country

Francis Brett Young · 1935 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1935-1938 . Cloth. A three volume set of mis twentieth century novels by poet and playwright Francis Brett Young. A three volume set.In the publisher's original blue cloth bindings.Three novels by Francis Brett Young, an English novelist, p…

Fabulae ... Graecè & Latinè, nunc denuo selectae: eae item quas Avienus carmine expressit. Accedit Ranarum & murium pugna, Homero olim asscripta. Cum elegantissimis in utroque libello figuris, & utriusque interpretatione plurimis in locis emendata.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1632. 8vo. With 47 woodcut illustrations (5 x 6.5 cm) by Christoffel van Sichem II in the text. Contemporary vellum, each board with a panel stamp (59 x 50 mm) of the Amersfoort coat of arms. Most endpapers later.

AESOP. · 1632 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

158, [2] pp.Rare second(?) edition (one of three dated "1632") of a popular Greek and Latin school book, edited by the famous Dutch neo-Latin poet, humanist and Leiden Professor of Greek, Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655), with 47 beautiful woodcut illustrations by Christoffel van Sic…

Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1947 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

New York, Doubleday and Company, 1947. First edition. Fine Binding. A beautifully bound selection of poems by fireside poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In a fine binding by renowned firm Sangorski and Sutcliffe as a Christmas gift from Stanley Bray to socialite and close friend …

Poems

John D. Batten · 1916 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, At the Chiswick Press, 1916 . First edition. Paperback. The vanishingly scarce first edition of artist John D. Batten's poetry collection, including a signed letter from the author to fellow poet and artist Cecil French. A very scarce first edition.With a signed let…

A Miscellany of New Poems

Robert Luck · 1736 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

London, Edward Cave, 1736 . First edition. Leather. A bright example of the very scarce first edition of teacher Robert Luck's poetical miscellany, in a full panelled calf binding. The very scarce first edition, first issue of this work. Without the quotations on the title-…

Saxe&Apos;S Poems (Beeton&Apos;S Humorous Series)

J. Godfrey Saxe · 1873 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1873]. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce collection of poetry from witty, satirical poet, John Godfrey Saxe, from Beeton's Humorous Series, with the original wraps bound in. Rebound in cloth, with the original pictorial paperback wraps bound …

Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900

Caroline F. E. Spurgeon · 1925 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1925. Cloth. A through three volume set analysing literary criticism of renowned Middle Ages poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340s-1400) was a celebrated English poet, remembered for 'The Canterbury Tales'; he was also …

Portrait de L&Apos;Artiste En Jeune Chien & la Poesie de Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas · 1947 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Paris, Les Editions de Minuit; Presses Universitaires de France, 1947-1963. Paperback. Two smart copies of these works from Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas, translated into French. French. Two volumes. Written by Dylan Marlais Thomas, a Welsh poet and writer, who became widel…