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Poetical Works of Hector MacNeill, Esq. 2 volume set

MacNeill, Hector · 1801 · Barter Books Ltd

£86.00 (€103.08 | $113.62 | ¥18,143)

G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Gilt tooled edges. Marbled eps with bookplates London T N Longman & O Rees First Edition 160mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). xv, 166pp; 176pp. Hector Macneill (1746-1818) was a Scottish poet, the son of a poor army capta…

A Dull Day in London and Other Sketches. With an introductory note by Thomas Hardy.

THOMAS HARDY. Dora Sigerson. · 1920 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Eevleigh Nash Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 125pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, the spine lettering considerably dulled. Top edge soiled, spine ends and corner tips gently rubbed. Free endpapers browned an…

La Fonction Poetique de L'Image Dans L'Oeuvre de Georg Trakl

Rovini, Robert · 1971 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Monaco, Les Belles Lettres, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. According to a Wikipedia entry about him, "Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. He is …

Shadow Dance: a womansleuth mystery.

Bushnell, Agnes, edited by Iren Zahav, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Freedom, CA, Crossing Press, (1989). VG LG SZ paperback. The year is 1980 Johanna Wilder and her partner Ruth Wilson have a small private investigating business in Portland, Maine. An intricate plot that moves from the terrors of a Russian prison camp to the glamor of the New Yo…

Mauchlinware, a collectors guide

Trachtenberg, David · 2002 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

Antique Collectors' club, 2002 Cloth. 287 pages. Text in English. As new. Little has previously been published about this highly collectable souvenir ware which was manufactured in Scotland between 1840 and 1939. Mauchline ware is now widely collected around the world and prices…

Concerning Man

Gil Orlovitz · 1947 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New York, The Banyan Press, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition of the first collection of poetry from American writer Gil Orlovitz. First edition. Limited to three hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number seventeen. Uncommon work. The author's firs…

Antigua, Penny, Puce

Robert Graves · 1936 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Majorca and London , The Seizin Press And Constable And Company , 1936. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Antigua, Penny, Puce by Robert Graves. The first edition.Antigua, Penny, Puce is a novel by Robert Graves. Robert Graves was an English poet, historical novelist, a…

New Poems

Glyn Hughes · 0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1970 . Paperback. A very scarce signed copy of this collection of four poems by English writer Glyn Hughes. A very scarce work. In the publisher's original paper wraps.  Signed and inscribed by the author to the front wrap: 'Thought this might…

Poems 1656

Abraham Cowley · 1971 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Yorkshire, Scolar Press, 1971. Cloth. A facsimile edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Abraham Cowley. Facsimile edition. A collection of poetry from Abraham Cowley, an English poet and essayist who was one of the leading English poets of the seventeenth cent…

Horace.

HARRISON, S. J., · 2014 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

Cambridge University Press, 2014. 120p. Paperback. Series: Greece & Rome, New Surveys in the Classics, 42. This book sets out to give a full and authoritative survey of the scholarly literature on the Roman poet Horace (65–8 BC), a central figure in Latin literature and Western…

Dreamstone

Jones, Liane · 1992 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£9.80 (€11.75 | $12.95 | ¥2,067)

William Heinemann. First edition. Book. VGC.Heinemann,1992.First edition.Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the cover) with Dj(very small tear,a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Nice and clean pages but slightly tainted a…

Pensees

Joseph Roux · 1886 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1886. Leather. A volume of philosophical observations from the French priest, poet, and philologist. Roux is known as a good source of quotations. Examples include: "Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired" and, "solit…

Psyche

Pierre Louys · 1927 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Paris, Albin Michel, 1927. Leather. A smart limited edition copy of Psyche by Pierre Louys. A limited edition copy, with this being number 172 of four hundred printed on papier de Hollande. In the original French. Psyche is a novel by Pierre Louys. With additional notes by Cla…

Via Lucis

Julia Brewster; Edouard Rod · 1898 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Paris, Didier; Perrin Et Co , 1898. First edition. Paperback. A fine, first edition copy of Julia Brewster's journal which was printed posthumously. In the original French. Comprising 166 journal entries total. This work contains Brewster's meditations. She was a progr…

On Death

John Donne · 2008 · Klondyke BV

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Paperback; 2008; Hesperus Press Ltd; 112pp.; Puntgaaf exemplaar met onberispelijk binnenwerk. -- Conditie: Als nieuw; Dean of St. Paul&;s, John Donne was feted in his day not just as a poet but also as an inspired and inspiring preacher, and these four extended meditations on de…

Fragmentos. Edicion de A. Ropero Gutierrez.

ESTRATIS (STRATTIS), · 1985 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€42.50 ($46.84 | £35.46 | ¥7,480)

Editorial Coloquio, Madrid, 1985. 138p. Wireless. Pages loosening. Personal notes from WGA loosely inserted. Seeries: El Legado de los Griegos. (Rare). Indice: 1. Introduccion, 2. Bibliografia, 3. Testimonios, 4. Fragmentos, 5. Comentario, 6. Index verborum, 7. Index fontium. '…

Horace Traubel: His Life and Work

Karsner, David · 1919 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

New York, Egmont Arens, 1919. 19/1000. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering; bw portrait frontispiece; 160 pp. Signed by Horace Traubel on the frontispiece portrait of him. One thousand copies have been printed of which this is No. 19. Contents: I go where my hea…

A Popular History of Priestcraft in All Ages and Nations

William Howitt · 1833 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

London, Effingham Wilson, 1833. First Edition, First Printing. Leather. 276p; 28p. A small hardcover book bound in 3/4 brown leather with marbled boards and endpapers and a gilt top edge. Edges lightly rubbed, including some rub marks on the spine. Blank endpapers tanned. Closed…

White-Haired Lover

Shapiro, Karl · 1968 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Random House, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the publisher's blurb, "A celebratory cycle of twenty-nine love poems. In these new poems, highly personal and frankly erotic, Karl Shapiro returns to the traditional verse form that he tempora…

Solstice

Oates, Joyce Carol · 1985 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, A William Abrahams Books, E.P. Dutton, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plasti…