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BORGES, JORGE LUIS · 1984 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

New York, E.P. Dutton. 1984, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 174 pp. Green boards and cream half-cloth with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. First English-language translation of Borges's disarming and unclassifiable essay about the Argentine poet Evaristo C…

Pieces of Light

Adam Thorpe · 1998 · Rooke Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1998. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel about self-discovery from Adam Thorpe. First printing. Adam Thorpe (born 5 December 1956, Paris, France) is a British poet, novelist and playwright whose works also include short stories and radio…

Poems

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1909 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1909. Vellum. A fine paper edition of this collection of poetry from Robert Louis Stevenson. Fine paper edition. A collection of poetry including: Underwoods, Ballads, and Songs of Travel. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, poet, tra…

Poems & Pieces 1911 to 1961

Francis Meynell · 1961 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London , Nonesuch Press, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A lovely limited edition poetry anthology by Francis Meynell. A limited edition copy, limited to 750 copies with this being number 245. Francis Meynell was a British poet and printer at the Nonesuch Press and this volume is a…

Poetical Works of Hector MacNeill, Esq

MacNeill, Hector · 1856 · Barter Books Ltd

£15.60 (€18.70 | $20.61 | ¥3,292)

G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and faded Edinburgh Wm Forrester Reprint 170mm x 100mm (7" x 4"). xiv, 278pp. Hector Macneill (1746-1818) was a Scottish poet, the son of a poor army captain and went to work as a clerk in 1760 at the age of fourteen. He wa…

Fedorovskiye Chteniya 2003 (Fedorov Readings 2003)

Vasiliev. V.I. · 2003 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Moskva, Nauka, 2003. Hardcover. Linen-look boards with cranberry Cyrillic lettering; 447 pp. with no illustrations. Text in Russian. Readings given at the 18th celebration for Vasily Fedorov in the village of Maryevka. Begun in 1985, artists, poets, museum personnel and general …

Conversations. Edited by Mike Davies.

JON SILKIN, GEORGE MACBETH, ADRIAN HENRI, MICHAEL HAMBURGER AND ROGER MCGOUGH. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

The Flat Earth Press, University of Birmingham, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 47pp stapled into lettered card wrappers. With a full-page black and white photograph of each poet. Addenda slip tipped to the copyright page, as issued. Wrappers very lightly …

Osbert Sitwell

Ziegler, Philip · 2000 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. The definitive literary critical biography of the renowned poet, novelist, e…

Dairine: And Other Poems

Katherine Vereker · 1901 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Jarrold and Sons, 1901. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of a poetic anthology centered on Irish Medieval tales of kings and queens, with a whimsical and abstract flavour. The first edition of Dairine, a scarce anthology of narrative poems, written by Iris…

George Eliot&Apos;S Works

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] · 0 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

New York, Publishers Plate Renting Co. c1900. Cloth. The library edition of this collection of the works of English novelist and poet, George Eliot. Complete in ten volumes bound in eight. Library edition. With a frontispiece to each volume. A collection of the works of Mary Ann…

Shakespeare's Wife

GREER, GERMAINE · 2008 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 2008, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 9780771035821) Hardcover. Book, A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway's rightful place in history.Little is known about the wife of the world's most famous playwright…

Diana Stair

DELL, FLOYD · 1932 · S. Howlett-West Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, NY: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1932. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. Association copy - this copy has been signed by the author, with a short inscription, to the San Francisco author Gertrude Atherton. This book is in Very Good condition and …

Private Correspondence of William Cowper - 1st American Edition

WILLIAM COWPER ESQ. · 1824 · Peter Austern & Co. / Brooklyn Books

$90.00 (€81.65 | £68.11 | ¥14,374)

Philadelphia, E.Littell, A. Small.. et al. 1824. Hardcover. Book, Published in Philadelphia in 1824, the 1st American edition. William Cowper was one of the most popular poets of his time. Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and…

The Hull Quarterly and East Riding Portfolio, Vols. I, Nos. I-IV and Vol II Nos. I-IV. January 1884 to December 1885

ed. W G B Page · 1884 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

A Brown & Sons Limited, Hull, 1884. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark red covers with black and gilt lettering and simple decoration are lightly rubbed at the edges, ex-library copy with usual pasted labels, stamps and ticket wallet. Paper is split ov…

Das Chinesische Vordergrundbild Tier-Und Pflanzenmalerei Ostasiens

Otto Schneid · 1934 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Wien , Rudolf M. Rohrer , 1934. First edition. Cloth. A desirable copy of Otto Schneid's first publication, from the library of poet and art scholar Laurence Binyon, with the author's complimentary letter addressed to him. The author's signed presentation copy, gi…

Stofgoud.

DIJKSTRA,RINEKE & JACOB MOLENHUIS. Schippers,K. (introd.). · 1995 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Amsterdam, Basalt, 1995. [48] pp. Ills (photographs) by Rineke Dijkstra & Jacob Molenhuis. Orig. hardcover (pictorial boards). Small 8vo. - Without the often missing paper belly band. (Lindereeks).A well-known Dutch photo book from 1995 by the celebrated Dutch photographer Rinek…

Orion. An Epic Poem. In Three Books. Second Edition.

HORNE (Richard Henry Hengist): · 1843 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

London, J. Miller, 1843. Slim 8vo, pp. [iv], 137 [138 adverts], marbled boards; all before title-page removed, front cover stained. \"In 1843 Horne published the work for which he is best-known, the three-book epic Orion. This poem, broadly of the Spasmodic school, more credi…

Latin American Diaries: : Otra Vez or a Second Look at Latin America.

Ernesto Che Guevara · 2011 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Melbourne Ocean Press 2011 Softcover, 177pp., 14x21cm., illustr. in b/w., in very good condition. ISBN 9780980429275. The Motorcycle Diaries is the travel diary of the young Ernesto Che Guevara, written during his journey through Latin America in 1951, years before he would pla…

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ROSITA · 1915 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)

Maurice Bauche | Paris 1915 | 16.50 x 23 cm | broché | Edition originale, un des 365 exemplaires numérotés sur vergé, seul tirage avec 10 Japon. Envoi autographe signé de Rosita à la femme du poète symboliste André-Ferdinand Hérold. Agréable exemplaire. Rare. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPT…

Anathemas and Admirations, translated by Richard Howard.

Cioran, E. M. · 1991 · Grimbergen Boeken Antiquariaat

€82.50 ($90.93 | £68.82 | ¥14,522)

New Yoprk, 1991. Hard Cover with dustwrappers. 256 pp. Previous owner's name on flyleaf l In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations-which he calls "admirations"-of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet P…