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Pen and Pencil Pictures

Thomas Hood · 1857 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1857. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of prose and non-fiction work from Thomas Hood, illustrated throughout. First edition. Illustrated with a vignette title page, and many in-text images. A collection of the essays, sh…

Gold Coast Customs and Other Poems

Edith Sitwell · 1929 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Duckworth, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A neat first edition of Sitwell's poem on the nature of humans, in the original dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece. A collection of poetry including 'Gold Coast Customs' - a poem pondering th…

Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1904 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

Edinburgh, W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1904. Vellum. A smart collection of poetry from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with a biographical sketch. With portrait frontispiece. Dated from the British Library. A collection of poetry including: Voices of the Night, Ballads, Translatio…

Tales

George Crabbe · 1813 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, J. Hatchard, 1813. Leather. The fourth edition of George Crabbe's collection of poetry, bound in full straight grain morocco. The fourth edition.Bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt details.This work features a collection of poetry by George Crabbe, the no…

Twelve Apostles

Gavin Ewart · 1970 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

[Belfast], An Ulsterman Publication, 1970 . First edition. Paperback. A smart signed presentation copy of the first edition of this collection of twelve poems by Gavin Ewart. The first edition.  A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author: 'For Audrey with love…

Poems

Michael James O'Brien · 2015 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Milton Keynes, Michael James O'Brien, 2015. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry from writer Michael James O'Brien, signed by the author. First edition. Very scarce work. Signed and inscribed by the author to the titl…

Pacific Peace Piece. (Signed by Aaron Stern)

Carl Phillips; Aaron Stern · 2018 · Wittenborn Art Books

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

New York: 205-A, 2018. Autographed. 8vo. [ca 34 pp.]. Soft cover. Very Good+. Beige paper wraps. Color plates throughout. Signed by Aaron Stern on last page. Scarce. The photographer Aaron Stern and poet Carl Phillips spent over half a year corresponding, sending work back and f…

Del Ricciardetto

Carteromaco, Niccolò [ Forteguerri, Niccolò ] · 0 · Eastleach Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

A Spesedi Francesco Pitteri Librario Veneziano, Parigi [ 1765 ] reprint. Calf, P+. 432pp, upper board detached, leather dry & rubbed, spine decoration worn. Armorial bookplate of Charles Grave Hudson to the pastedown. [ publisher & date taken from the pagination as the second vo…

Twenty-One Poems.

CAUSLEY, CHARLES · 1986 · Kalamos Books

$300.00 (€272.19 | £227.08 | ¥47,906)

Stratford Upon Avon, Celandine Press. 1986, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0948795026) Quarter Leather. Ill.: Robert Tilling. Book, "Among the English poetry of the last half century, Charles Causleys could well turn out to be the best loved and most needed " Ted Hughes. This limited ed…

Indaba, my children. [African trabal history, legends, customs and religious beliefs].

Mutwa,Vusamazulu Credo. · 1976 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Kahn & Averill, 1976. XIII, 354 pp. B./w. ills. Hardcover, d./j. - Dustjacket parly discol. & worn.Credo Mutwa is an African, a practicing witchdoctor- and a writer who has been called 'the Homer of Africa." A witchdoctor is part physician, part poet, part library; he le…

Heart Absolutely I Can

Michael Harlow · 2014 · Book Haven

NZ$19.50 (€9.77 | $10.77 | £8.15 | ¥1,720)

Makaro Press 2014 Paperback. Michael Harlow is a poet, publisher and librettist who lives in Alexandra. Born in the USA with Greek and Ukrainian heritage, he settled in New Zealand in 1968. Michael has published seven collections of poetry including Giotto’s Elephant and The Tra…

Selected Poems

Rees, Ennis · 1973 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Marbled light blue lettering over boards, blue cloth-backed, qui…

Nature Beautiful

Hair, Dell · 1900 · Mare Booksellers

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

Toledo, OH, The Goodrich Printing Company. Wraps. no date, presumed early 1900s. Stated sixth edition. Greenish gray wraps. 269 pp. plus index. With a few black and white photos. A collection of poems by the 'policeman poet' Dell Hair, covering a range of subjects, including Cha…

Wet Magic.

Nesbit, E., afterword by Peter Glassman, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Sea Star Books, (2001). Reprint. G PB. When the poem on the mermaid picture above the mantel turns out to be a powerful invocation for Francis and his sister Mavis to. unwittingly summon a real mermaid and more magical adventure then he ever bargained for. When the mermaid i…

James Russell Lowell: A Biographical Sketch

Francis H. Underwood · 1882 · Rooke Books

£83.99 (€100.68 | $110.96 | ¥17,719)

Boston , James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. Cloth. A biography of this American Romantic poet - one of the New England group of 'Fireside Poets', whose popularity rivalled that of British poets in the nineteenth century. Featuring a number of tissue guarded plates, inc…

Les poètes et l'univers. Anthologie

Jean-Pierre LUMINET · 1998 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Le cherche midi | Paris 1998 | 15 x 22 cm | broché | Edition originale sur papier courant.  Une trace de pliure transversale sur le premier plat. Envoi autographe daté et signé de Jean-Pierre Luminet au poète Charles Dobzynski : "... grand-maître de l'opéra comique..." | [ENGLIS…

Salomon Gessner, Buchhändler, Dichter, Maler Und Radirer Zu Zürich

Gessner, Salomon (1730 - 1788) · 1853 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Köln, J.M. Heberle (H. Lempertz), 1853-1865. Folio sheet. 48 x 31.5 cm. Lithographed printer's marks, portrait and manuscript. Plate 33 from Bilder-Hefte zur Geschichte des Bücherhandels und der mit demselben verwandten Künste und Gewerbe by Heinrich Lempertz. Salomon Gessner (1…

Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po (2 volumes in 1)

A F.R.G.S. [RICHARD BURTON] · 1863 · Tinakori Books

$925.00 (€839.24 | £700.15 | ¥147,711)

London, Tinsley Brothers. 1863, First Edition. Full-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, viii, [ii], 303; [vi], 295 pages, frontispiece illustration and a folding map in volume 1. Small repair to the map. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British explorer, geograp…

Johannes Scotus Erigena und dessen Gewährsmänner in seinem Werke De divisione Naturae libri V.

Dräseke, Johannes. · 1972 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Aalen : Scientia Verlag,1972. Reprint 1902-ed., Paperback, 67pp. (Studien zur Geschichte der Theologie und der Kirche IX,2) Verlagsneu. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c. 815-877) was an Irish theologian, Neoplato…

RESISTANCE AGAINST TYRANNY.

Heimler, Eugene (ed), · 1966 · A Book for all Reasons

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1966, 1st edn., 168pp, black cloth lettered in red, accounts of tyranny, including those from a German colonel who became aware of what Hitler really stood for, a Polish writer who had to fight the Nazis and the Hungarian Jewish poet who recite…