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Oeuvres de Alfred de Musset: Poesies 1833-1852

Alfred de Musset · 1833 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Par, Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, c1870. Leather. A smartly bound collection of the poetical works of Alfred de Musset between 1833 and 1852, in the original French. French. With a frontispiece. A collection of the poetical works of Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay, a French…

Free-Holder; or, Political Essays

Joseph Addison · 1758 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Jacob and Richard Tonson, 1758. Leather. A smart collection of political essays by Joseph Addison. Early edition. A collection of political essays, including: 'Of His Majesty's Character', 'Of Party-Lies', and 'The Female Association&apos. W…

February

Paul Evans · 1977 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Fulcrum Press, 1977 . Cloth. The very scarce limited first edition of this lovely signed poetry collection from Paul Evans. First edition. No. 44 of a limited edition of 75 to be signed by the author. Very scarce. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. A wo…

Schnurrdiburr Die Bienen

Wilhelm Busch · 1891 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Munich, Braun and Schneider, [1891]. Hardback. An early edition of this uncommon humorous illustrated story by Wilhelm Busch, written in German. The third edition. Illustrated with monochrome vignettes by Wilhelm Busch.  Written in German.This uncommon work was written by the…

Songs and Meditations

Maurice Hewlett · 1896 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co. 1896. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Maurice Hewlett. First collected edition. Most poems collected were previously unpublished, with few having been published in the Academy or the Pall Mall G…

Poems Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold · 1888 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1888. Cloth. Three bright volumes of poems by Matthew Arnold. Three volumes of poems by Matthew Arnold. The three volumes contain early poems, narrative poems and sonnets, lyric and elegiac, dramatic and later poems. Some of the poems that appear in t…

Essays and Sketches

Charles Lamb · 1904 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , J. M. Dent , 1904. Cloth. A bright copy of Essays and Sketches by Charles Lamb with a letter from the publisher. These works were first published in various periodicals between 1802-1835. Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet and antiquarian best known for his Ess…

English Past and Present: Eight Lectures

Richard Chenevix Trench · 1881 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1881. Leather. A collection of lectures on the study of the English language from Richard Chenevix Trench, bound in full morocco. The eleventh edition, revised.Bound in full morocco. A collection of eight lectures on the English language delivered orig…

Season Songs

Ted Hughes · 1976 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Faber and Faber, 1976. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Ted Hughes' entertaining poetry collection for children, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. A collection of poems intended for children, organised into the four seasons of the ye…

Walking To Jutland Street

Michael Steven · 2018 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Otago University Press 2018 Paperback, 80pp. "Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive first book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven. The title refers to Dunedin’s industrial wharf precinct where some of the poet’s friends shared a flat in 2…

Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri XV. Expurgati, & explanati. Cum appendice de Diis, & Heroibus Poeticis. Auctore Josepho Juvencio e Societate Jesu.

OVIDIUS. · 1715 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€190.00 ($209.41 | £158.51 | ¥33,441)

Venice (Venetiis), Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1715. 12mo. (VI),640,(13 index),(1 blank). Calf 15.5 cm 'Kind of prize copy?' (Ref: Not in Schweiger, though he mentions other editions; cf. Graesse 5,76; cf. Ebert 15445) (Details: Back gilt and with 4 raised bands. Woodcut ornament on…

Marcel Broodthaers.

Broodthaers, Marcel. · 2013 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€28.00 ($30.86 | £23.36 | ¥4,928)

Edited by Marie-Puck Broodthaers ; Text by Wilfried Dickhoff. New York : D.A.P., 2013. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 320 pp. With 350 colored ills. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Marcel Broodthaers filled his brief, 12-year artistic career with …

Alton Locke, Two Years Ago, and Westward Ho!

Charles Kingsley · 1900 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1900-01. Leather. Three renowned novels by celebrated Victorian author Charles Kingsley, handsomely and uniformly bound in half calf. All new editions of this work.This set includes:Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography, published in 1900. This…

Über das Negerrecht namentlich in Kamerun.

Kohler,Josef. · 1895 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

Stuttgart , Ferdinand Enke, 1895. 64 pp. Orig. softcover (light green printed wrappers). 8vo. - Spine ends sl. dam. (Seperate print from: Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft).Rare copy of Josef Kohler's legal study on Negro Law, specifically in Cameroon. Josef Kohle…

SELECTED POEMS with a Complete MANUSCRIPT of His Poem "A War"

JARRELL, Randall · 1955 · Charles Agvent

$3,750.00 (€3,402.34 | £2,838.46 | ¥598,827)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and SIGNED by the poet "For Fred Millett/Randall Jarrell." Above the inscription Jarrell has written out the complete short but powerful poem, the penultimate poem of the book, "A War," first published in …

Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849. With a three-page preface by J. A. Froude.

THOMAS CARLYLE. · 1882 · Clearwater Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 263pp + xxxii publisher's catalogue. Green cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine, and with a double border blind-stamped to the upper and lower boards. A sliver of …

Three Books of Song

Henry Wadsworth Longefellow · 1872 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this poetical work from American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. First edition. Three books of poetry entitled: Tales of a Wayside Inn, Judas Maccabaeus, and A Handful of Translations, i…

Real Copies

Reynolds Price · 1988 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

North Carolina, Wesleyan College Press, 1988. Paperback. A signed limited edition of this autobiographical work by Reynolds Price about the people who inspired him. A limited edition. Number 25 out of 50 signed copies. The first edition was published in a numbered edition of fiv…

Rockspring: A Novel

R. G. Vliet · 1974 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

New York, The Viking Press, 1974. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling Western from American writer Russell G. Vliet. First edition. The author's first novel. Set in Texas in the wild 1830s, the daughter of poor white pioneers is kidnapped by three Mexican outlaws…

Oeuvres Completes de M. De Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine · 1842 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1842. Leather. Two volumes of the works of Alphonse de Lamartine, in the original French language. French language. Volumes one and two of eight. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece. The complete works of Alphonse de Lamartine, a French author…