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Poems in Pamphlet 1952. III. Drift. Poems and Sonnets.

BULL, A.J. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. 1st edition. Poems in Pamphlet was a monthly publication with each devoted to the work of a different poet. Pp.88, initialled dedication "For John Atkins, with sincerest good wishes, AJB" to title page, a couple of marginal notations/c…

Raphael Pages de la Vingtieme Annee

Alphonse de Lamartine · 1850 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Paris , Perrotin, 1850 . Leather. An illustrated copy of Alphonse de Lamartine's Raphael. An early edition, with the first edition published in 1849. Alphonse de Lamartine was a French author, poet and statesman who was instrumental in the foundation of the French Second R…

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

FROST, Robert · 1961 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.09 | £945.99 | ¥199,633)

Vintage 8" x 10" photograph of Frost seated outside a house next to a woman (the recipient?) with two men seated on each side of them, with the stamp of the photographer on the verso: John F. Smith, Jr. of Middlebury, Vermont. Loosely inserted into a mat on which at the bottom i…

Traffics and Discoveries

Rudyard Kipling · 1904 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from English writer Rudyard Kipling. First edition. A collection of short stories and verses, including titles such as: The Captive, The Bonds of Discipline, …

Wanderings in Arabia

Charles Montagu Doughty · 1926 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Duckworth, 1926. Cloth. The first edition of this work in one volume, a travel book of time spent in the Middle East. First edition published in one volume. An abridgment of "Travels in Arabia Deserta." Illustrated with frontispiece and folding map to the rear. Collated …

La Semaine Sainte

Louis Aragon · 1958 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Paris, Gallimard, 1958. Fine Binding. The first trade edition of this historical novel by Louis Aragon. In the original French. In a Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding, with binder's stamp to the verso of front endpaper. Louis Aragon was a French poet and a leading voice of th…

Aux champs et dans l'atelier

Felix Frenay 1086465 · 1877 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

Weissenbruch, 1877, Gekartonneerd, 211, Félix Frenay was a Belgian worker who may have been involved in the Belgian section of the International Workingmen’s Association (the “First International”). In addition to writing political pieces like this one, Frenay was a poet. An Eng…

Blue forest

Morten Andersen 30358 · 2009 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Morten Andersen, 2009, Gekartonneerd, 254, ICP alumni Morten Andersen's photographs of the interiors of 17 different Norwegian forests. The images focus upon an area rather than an object -- downed trees, webs of branches, carpets of moss and ferns. - Blå skog/Blue Forest is the…

Geschwister Tanner. Roman.

WALSER, Robert. · 1907 · Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

CHF 2,200.00 (€2,379.95 | $2,623.20 | £1,985.22 | ¥418,941)

1907 319 pp. 8vo. Orig. boards with orig. color lithography on front cover, and book design by Karl Walser (cover slightly split and discolored). Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1907. First edition. A second, undated edition appeared in the same year. It was the poet (1878-1956) who sug…

Field Notes from Alaska

Brandi, John · 1971 · Mare Booksellers

$59.00 (€53.53 | £44.65 | ¥9,423)

Benicia, CA, The Nail Press, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. One of 100 copies. Tall folio. Brown wraps. With three-color illustrations by Fred Marchman. Unpaginated. A collection of prose poems written during the author's time in Juneau, Eklutna Village and Anchorage, Alaska. John …

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold · 1892 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1892. Vellum. A stunning vellum bound copy of The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold. In full vellum. A reprint of this work. With a prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic. This volume contains h…

Fleche (Signed By Author)

Mary Jean Chan · 2019 · Richard Thornton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Faber& Faber This is a Fine Copy of this Book in soft cover wraps. (As New) with NO faults and is unread.This copy has been Signed by Mary Jean Chan on the Title Page.Great copy for the collector with crisp white page edges.Mary Jean Chan is a Hong Kong-Chinese poet, lecturer, e…

Le tailleur ensorcelé

Cholem ALEICHEM - Marc CHAGALL · 1960 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Albin Michel | Paris 1960 | 13.50 x 20 cm | broché | Edition originale de la traduction française pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers. Ouvrage illustré d'un dessin de Marc Chagall. Envoi autographe signé de l'un des traducteurs J. Gottfarstein  au poète Charles D…

Hanging Loose 3. Summer 1967

Eshleman, Clayton; Piercy, Marge; Silliman, Ron et al. · 1967 · Mare Booksellers

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.43 | ¥4,312)

New York, Hanging Gardens Press, 1967. Unbound. Loose sheets in an illustrated envelope, as issued. A little magazine adopting a unique publishing style, where all work is unbound. This issue included Denise Levertov as editor, as well as work by Marge Piercy, work by Ron Sillim…

Original Handwritten Autograph Letter Signed by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar · 1897 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$1,000.00 (€907.27 | £756.80 | ¥159,706)

A nicely framed group of material relating to the first Black American poet to win a national reputation. Includes a seven-line letter by Dunbar addressed to "My Dear Major" and asking him to kindly accept the enclosed book, presumably one of his own works. The letter is undated…

Collected Poems

Read, Herbert · 1946 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, Faber and Faber , 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities though with slight sunning and toning thereto. Blue cloth over boards…

Remembering Synge

Skelton, Robin · 1970 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Dublin, Ireland , Dolmen Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Bright interior, clean and unmarked, but final page detached and present, printed wraps soiled moderately. Fine black-and-white engraved portrait of the beloved poet at frontis, reproduced …

Poems

Charles Churchill · 1769 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.75 | $277.49 | ¥44,316)

London , John Churchill, 1769. Leather. A complete two volume set of poems by satirist Charles Churchill. A complete two volume set of Poems by Charles Churchill, a fourth edition copy. The first volume contains the poems The Rosciad, The Apology, Night, The Prophecy of Famine,…

One Hundred and Eleven Poems

Herrick, Robert, and Sir William Russell Flint · 1955 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

London, England, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Hardcover. One of the 445 copies bound in quarter cream parchment with blue cloth boards. Title and device in gold on the spine. Open end slipcase with blue cloth, gilt letters on spine & cover, gilt top edges, hand-made & waterm…

A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories 1970-1978

Codrescu, Andrei · 1999 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$35.20 (€31.94 | £26.64 | ¥5,622)

Santa Rosa, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition, published here by Black Sparrow Press in hardcover format, SIGNED by the Roumanian poet at the first blank page and NUMBERED (#72) at the colophon. Fine-looking, …