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Mogul Recollected

OUTRAM, RICHARD · 1993 · Kalamos Books

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

Erin, Ontario, Porcupine's Quill. 1993, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 0889841748) Soft cover. Book, In 1836 an elephant drowned off the coast of New Brunswick. Poet Richard Outram explores the significance of this bizarre occurrence in his brilliant new volume of poetry, Mogul Re…

Jean-Francois Millet

Fermigier, Andre · 1977 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, Rizzoli / Skira, 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. Chocolate-colored cloth, white & color illus. dust jacket, cardboard slipcase, 158 pp. 102 BW plates, 43 color plates. Title on spine & front cover: Millet. Series: Discovering the Nineteenth Century. Considers …

David Gray, and Other Essays, Chiefly on Poetry.

ROBERT BUCHANAN. · 1868 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Sampson Low, Son & Marston, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 318pp + xxiv + [iv] publisher's catalogues at the rear. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine with a gilt-stamped border and vignette to the upper board, and a blind-stamped border…

Green Song and Other Poems

Edith Sitwell · 1944 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1944. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poems by Edith Sitwell. First edition. With original unclipped dustwrapper. Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic. She was the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. In publisher&…

A Song of Italy

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1867 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , John Camden Hotten, 1867. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of A Song of Italy by Algernon Charles Swinburne. A first edition copy. In the blue remainder binding.  Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. His poems often…

Idyls of Strawberry Bank. Poems

Drown, Daniel Augustus · 1873 · Mare Booksellers

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

Portsmouth, NH, Printed for the Author, 1873. Cloth. Original cloth with a gilt decoration on the front cover. 264 pages. Frontispiecs of a Portsmouth Parade, with an illustration of the Piscataqua within. A book of poetry, many reflecting life and scenes of Portsmouth, New Hamp…

Leftover Life to Kill; Not Quite Posthumous Letter to My Daughter; Caitlin a Warring Absence: Caitlin Thomas with George Tremlett

Caitlin Thomas; George Tremlett · 1957 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Putnam; Secker and Warburg , 1957-1986. First edition. Cloth. A very smart selection of autobiographical works from Caitlin Thomas, the widow of Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas. The first edition, first impressions of these works. Comprising three works from Caitlin …

James Montgomery: a lecture, delivered in Norfolk Street chapel, Sheffield.

KIRK, John. · 1861 · John Turton

£40.60 (€48.67 | $53.65 | ¥8,568)

London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co; Sheffield: Loxley Brothers, 1861. 18cm. 65[1]pp, [2]pp publisher's advert, frontis with guard. Original blindstamped limp green cloth gilt. Extremes very lightly rubbed; 'tide-mark' to litho frontis. A biography of the radical Sheffield hymn writ…

The Book of Omar and Rubãƒâ¡Iyãƒâ¡T, Being a Book of Miscellanies -- Biographical, Historical, Bibliographical and Pictorial Notes on Omar Khayyam of Naishapur and His Inspired Quatrians

Multiple, including Richard Le Gallienne, Owen Seaman, Edwin Gosse, Andrew Lang, and Alfred Tennyson. · 1900 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York and London, The Bankside Press, 1900. First edition. Hardback. This scarce first edition, first impression of an illustrated, miscellaneous collection of items relating the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, in the original publisher's pictorial paper wraps. The first ed…

Gedichten.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1636. With: (2) HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon. Henrik de Gróte. Zijn leven en bedrijf. Naerder overzien, ende vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1638. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each work, an engraved portrait of Pieter Dirkszoon Hasselaer in the text, and 30 engraved emblems by Christoffel le Blon in ad 1, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik de Grote in ad 2, and several decorated woodcut initials, head-, and tailpieces in both works. Contemporary vellum.

HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon and Jacob vander BURGH (ed.). · 1581 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,850.00 ($2,039.08 | £1,543.17 | ¥325,654)

[2 blank], [6], "464" [= 460]; [8], 203, [5] pp.First edition of the collected poems, plays, sonnets, and songs of the most famous Dutch poet of the 17th century, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581-1647). It was also the only edition of his collected poems published during his life…

Tūnui: Comet

Robert Sullivan · 2022 · Book Haven

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,955)

Auckland University Press 2022 Paperback 71 Tētahi Waerea (Prayer of Protection) -- Māui's Mission -- Hello Great North Road -- Kawe Reo / Voices Carry -- Decolonisation Wiki Entries -- A. O. U. -- Feathers -- Kōwhai -- Ah -- Cooking with Gas -- Reading List -- i wasn't a poet f…

My Irish Year

Colum, Padraic · 1912 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$460.42 (€292.78 | $322.71 | £244.22 | ¥51,538)

New York City James Pott & Co 1st edition pp. xiii, 286. Thick 8vo. Bound in original decorated ribbed green cloth. 15 black & white plates & photos. Cloth wrinkled, edge-rubbed, lightly soiled & scuffed. Carries old donation bookplate. Binding shaken; else good condition. Colum…

La grande chronique ancienne et moderne, de Hollande, Selande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'an 1600.Dordrecht, Jacob Canin (and volume 2: G. Guillemot), 1601. 2 volumes. Folio (30.5 x 19 cm). With 2 hand-coloured engraved title pages, a hand-coloured engraved portrait of the author, a contemporary hand-coloured woodcut illustration in the text, heightened with gold, and 56 engraved illustrations in the text (of which 55 contemporary hand-coloured and heightened with gold). Late 17th- or early 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers.

PETIT, Jean François le. · 1600 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,577.24 | £29,195.08 | ¥6,161,024)

[22], "652" [= 658], 240, [18]; [16], "779" [= 774], [15], [1 blank] pp.One of the very few hand-coloured copies of this chronicle of Holland from its beginning until 1600. The work contains 57 large portraits of the counts of Holland, of which 56 have been vibrantly coloured an…

October 42 Art, Theory, Criticism, Politics. Broodthaers.

Buchloh, Benjamin H.D. [Buchloh, Benjamin] [edit.] Borgemeister, Rainer Gevaert, Yves Oppitz, Michael Pelzer, Birgit Rorimer, Anne Schwarz, Dieter Snauwaert, Dirk · 1988 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€135.00 ($148.80 | £112.61 | ¥23,764)

, Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press , 1988 Original publishers paper-covered boards, white wrappers printed in black & red. 210 pages, 8vo; illustrated, Bibliography by Marie-Pascale Gildemyn. **VERY FINE CONDITION!. ISBN 0262521350. October books. - Cambridge, Mass.; vol. 198…

La Chute D&Apos;Un Ange Episode

Alphonse de Lamartine · 1882 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Paris, Hachette, 1882. Leather. A later leather bound edition of this poem by Alphonse de Lamartine. A later edition of La Chute D'Un Ange, or The Fall of an Angel. In the original French. La Chute D'Un Ange is a poem by Alphonse de Lamartine. Lamartine was a French au…

Two Marriages

D. M. M. Craik · 1867 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Leipzig , Bernhard Tauchnitz , 1867. Cloth. A copyright edition of this novel by Dinah Craik. A copyright edition. Two Marriages is written by Dinah Craik who was an English novelist and poet and the author of John Halifax, Gentleman. This is another one of her novels. In the p…

Set of 2, [s.a.], Theatre | Oeuvre complètes de Molière, Garnier frères, Paris, [s.a.], 2 volumes.

Molière · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€43.60 ($48.06 | £36.37 | ¥7,675)

Collection of the works of Molière bound in two volumes. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet. He is widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His plays have been translat…

NORTH OF BOSTON

FROST, Robert · 19141924 · Charles Agvent

$4,375.00 (€3,969.31 | £3,310.98 | ¥698,714)

New York. Henry Holt and Company. Second Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Later Printing (December 1924) of Frost's second book. Portrait frontispiece of the author. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper with some of his most famous lines, from "The Death of the Hired Man," a po…

Poems

Thomas Hood · 1846 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London , Edward Moxon, 1846. Leather. Two volumes smartly bound in one of the poems of Thomas Hood. A second edition copy of poems by Thomas Hood, two volumes bound in one. Thomas Hood was an English author, poet and humourist, best known for his poems The Bridge of Sighs and Th…

Sketches in Italy

John Addington Symonds · 1883 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883. Cloth. A collection of writing on Italy by John Addington Symonds. Tauchnitz edition. A collection of writings on Italy, including comments on Siena, Orvieto, Parma, Canossa, Palermo, Syracuse, Amalfi, and Capri. Written by John Addington Symon…