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Q. Horatius Flaccus Recensuit Atque Interpretatus Est Io. Gaspar Orellius. Editio Quarta Maior Emendata Et Aucta Quam Post Io. Georgium Baiterum Curavit Guilelmus Hirschfelder, Complete in Two Volumes

Hirschfelder, Giulelmus · 1886 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.52 | ¥12,138)

Sumptus Fecit S. Calvary Eiusque Socius, Berolini, 1886. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Complete in two volumes, rock-solid, uber-handsome, likely rebound in a heavy, almost sailcloth-like buckram cloth, black, with gilt lettering to spines. Previous owner's inscription,…

A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath

Steiner, Nancy Hunter · 1973 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Harper's Magazine Press, in association with Harper & Row, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. I do not believe that Sylvia meant to die, and I suspect that when she did die, on that bleak and lonely February day when she stuck her head into the oven, i…

Albii Tibulli [Albius Tibullus] Carmina: Libri Tres Cum Libro Quarto Sulpiciae Et Aliorum

Heyne, Christian Gottlieb · 1798 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Leipzig , Ioannem Gottlob Feindium, 1798. Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The editor Christian Gottlieb Heyne was born in Saxony in 1729 and died in Prussia in 1812 and enjoyed a successful career as poet and translator, including of this compilation. This Lat…

NORTH OF BOSTON

FROST, Robert · 1929 · Charles Agvent

$2,812.50 (€2,551.70 | £2,128.49 | ¥449,174)

New York. Henry Holt and Company. Second Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Later Printing (January 1929) of Frost's second book. Portrait frontispiece of the author. SIGNED by the poet on the title page with one of his most famous lines, from the first poem in the book "Mending Wall…

Alexandreis Pad Er Alexander Saga Mikla Eftir Hinu Forna Kvaedi Meistara Philippi Galteri Castellion Ei Sem Brandur Jonss on Aboti Sneri A

Laxness, Halldors Kiljans · 1945 · Valley Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Heimskringla 150pp. Printed on coated paper. Light wear, 1" piece of spine paper lacking. Includes Danska Tungi, Pader Islenziku A PBett Andu Old Utgefin, Her A Pent, Til. Skemmitunar Islenzkum, Almenn ingi, Arid 1945 Ad FrumkvedI ( The Great Saga of Alexnader the Great Accordin…

A Vision of Judgement

Robert Southey · 1821 · Rooke Books

£690.00 (€827.19 | $911.74 | ¥145,610)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Robert Southey's poem attacking the modern poets of his day, most especially targetting Lord Byron. The first edition of this work. Bound without the half-title and publisher&a…

Erzählungen Und Aufsätze Des Rheinländischen Hausfreunds : Band I & Band II [with] Band III : Alemannische Gedichte - Hochdeutsche Gedichte - Rätsel [with] Band IV : Biblische Geschichte [ 4 volumes complete ]

Hebel, Johann Peter & Zentner, Wilhelm [editor] · 19591972 · Eastleach Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Verlag C F Müller, Karlsruhe 1959 - 1972 1st edition. Cloth, VG. 4 volumes, 336pp, [ii]+337-727pp, 469pp, 259pp, b/w frontis to vols I - III, 6 b/w illustrations, spines of volumes I & II tanned & cloth a little marked, edges of the text block a little yellowed, but overall a n…

A Tribute To Austin Clarke On His Seventieth Birthday 9 May 1966

John Montague and Liam Miller (eds); Thomas Kinsella, Hugh MacDiarmuid, Ted Hughes, et al · 1966 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1st Edition, The literary great and good offer contributions in this tribute to the leading Irish poet Austin, in both poetry and prose. All in VG+, clean and bright internal order. Plain card covers with grey paper printed wraps, these a little faded a…

Still Life. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

SHAUN TRAYNOR. · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Designed and produced by first year graphics students at the Teesside College of Art., 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First edition - limited to 200 numbered copies (this being #194). This copy additionally inscribed by the author to poet Jeremy [Hooker] and with a number …

MARCEL BROODTHAERS

GOLDWATER, MARGE [INT]. COMPTON, MICHAEL; CRIMP, DOUGLAS; JENKINS, BRUCE; MOSEBACH, MARTIN. · 1989 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Minneapolis / New York, Walker Art Center / Rizzoli, 1989 Cloth binding with dustjacket, 25,5x25,5cm, 116pp., with colour and black/white photo's A large album dedicated to the Belgian surrealist artist and poet Marcel Broodthaers. The book features several essays about his work…

As It Was [and] World Without End. FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION

THOMAS Helen · 0 · Island Books

£42.00 (€50.35 | $55.50 | ¥8,863)

Faber, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition thus; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy. The first omnibus edition, collecting 'As It Was' (1926) and 'World Without End' (1931). Helen Thomas tells her moving story of love, courtship and marriage to th…

"L'Isolement. Méditation poétique de M. Alphonse de Lamartine; mise en musique par L. Niedermeyer et dédiée à son Ami F.Grast. (idem) L'Automne."

NIEDERMEYER Louis (compositeur ) - Alphonse de LAMARTINE ( paroles ) : · 1835 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€133.00 ($146.59 | £110.94 | ¥23,412)

" Bruxelles, H. Messemaeckers, rue de Loxum n°12, s.d. (ca. 1835), (10)nn pp (title with lithograpic ill. of the poet; + 8 pp. of engraved music (score)). followed by 8 pp. of engraved music (the score for ''Automne''. Plate number 2332 & 2949 . Loose and no wrapper, removed fro…

DOCUMENT HISTORIQUE DE BOCCACE SUR PÉTRARQUE. Manuscrit de la bibliothèque de Saint-Marc de Venise, publié pour la première fois et accompagné d'une dissertation et de recherches nouvelles. Neuvième édition

Marquis De Valori · 1866 · Moby Dick

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

Paris 1866, 82 pp., softcover, The Marquis De Valory, French nobility from Italian extraction, himself a man of letters and a poet, was eminently placed to research Italian poetry, duly made an interesting discovery, published it, and enjoyed at least nine editions (code N-40)

INDIAN CIVILIZATION: A LECTURE

[WHITTIER] PUMPHREY, Stanley · 1877 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€567.04 | £473.00 | ¥99,816)

Philadelphia. Bible & Tract Dist. Society. First Edition. Original printed wraps; 52 pages. BAL 21950. Introduction by the poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Illustrated with a large color folding map. Written right after the Custer Massacre in an attempt to show how gentle and peace…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. Volumes I - IV

James Boswell; Edmond Malone · 1824 · Rooke Books

£199.99 (€239.75 | $264.26 | ¥42,204)

London, James Christie, 1824. Paperback. An uncommon edition of 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' by Boswell, with copious notes and biographical illustrations by Edmond Malone. Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784, was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, h…

Poems

James Montgomery · 1864 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London , Routledge, Warne, and Routledge , 1864. Leather. A leather bound copy of the poetical works of James Montgomery, with illustrations. James Montgomery was a Scottish born hymn writer, poet and editor. This volume contains his poetical works including The Wanderer of Swit…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works, Volumes I-V

Elizabeth Barett Browning · 1896 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1896. Leather. 5 vols. A complete set of five hardcover books bound in 3/4 teal leather with marbled boards and endpapers and ornate gilt decorations on the spines (each of which has five raised bands). Very good condition overall. The spines ar…

Poetry Collections of Robert Bloomfield

Robert Bloomfield · 1820 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, Various, 1820-1826. Fine Binding. Two volumes, of several poetry collections by the labouring class poet, Robert Bloomfield. Several volumes of Bloomfield's works bound together across two volumes. Comprising: 'The Farmer's boy' (1820), the fourteenth…

A Bibliography of Dr John Donne, Dean of Saint Paul&Apos;S

Geoffrey Keynes · 1958 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Cambridge, At the University Press, 1958. Cloth. An extensive, limited-edition bibliography of the significant metaphysical poet, in its original dust wrapper. Third edition. Limited to 750 copies.   In the publisher's original blue cloth binding, smartly presented in the …

Poems

Bernard Barton · 1825 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London , Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. Cloth. A fourth, revised edition of Poems by Bernard Barton. A fourth edition with additions of Poems by Bernard Barton. Bernard Barton was known as the Quaker poet with his main works including The Convicts Appeal where he protested ag…