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John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections with Biographical Notes

1916 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Letchworth , Garden City Publishing Company, 1916. Brochure/Pamphlet. A limited edition copy of these personal recollections of writer John M. Synge. A limited edition copy, limited to two hundred copies. John M Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, writer and a key figure in th…

A Certain Justice

P. D. James · 1997 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Faber and Faber , 1997. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition of this Adam Dalgliesh novel by P. D. James, signed by the author. Successor of Original Sin in the police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh series, following the mysterious murder of Venetia Aldridge, a…

Passionate Walter Ffilpot

Diarmid Cathie · 1980 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, John Gill, 1980. First edition. Paperback. A scarce copy of these selected poems by Charles Baudelaire. The first thus of this collection. Scarce. In the publisher's original wraps.A delightful selection of verses written by French poet and essayist, Charles Baudel…

St. St. Blicher Samlede Noveller Og Skitser

Steen Steensen Blicher · 1911 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Kobenhavn, Madsen Linds Forlag, 1911. Cloth. A scarce complete collection of ten of the works of Steen Steensen Blicher, in the Danish language. Danish language. Ten novels in five volumes. Scarce work. Written by Steen Steensen Blicher, a Danish author and poet. This collection…

Oeuvres Completes D&Apos;Horace

Horace; M. Felix LeMaistre; M. H. Rigault · 1914 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Paris, Librairie Garnier Freres, 1914. Leather. The complete works of Horace, with a study of his work by M. H. Rigault, French and Latin language. French language with some extracts of the original Latin language. The complete works of Horace, a leading Roman lyric poet during …

Rien qu'une autre année - Anthologie poétique 1966-1982

Mahmoud DARWICH · 1997 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

Les Editions de Minuit | Paris 1997 | 13.50 x 18.50 cm | broché | Edition collective de la traduction française pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers. Plats légèrement et marginalement sali, deux petites taches sur la tranche n'affectant pas les feuillets. Très rar…

Ce qui n'a pas de visage

Jean FRÉMON · 1976 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Flammarion | Paris 1976 | 11.50 x 18.50 cm | broché | Edition originale, tampon imprimé de service de presse au verso du second plat de couverture qui comporte une petite pliure angulaire en pied.  Exemplaire complet de son prière d'insérer. Envoi autographe signé de Jean Frémon…

Futurism. World Of Art Library

Angelo Bozzolla, Angelo Bozzolla, Caroline Tisdale, Caroline Tisdall · 1978 · Klondyke BV

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

Paperback; 1e druk, 1978; Thames & Hudson Ltd; 216pp.; Conditie: Goed; Noisy, violent and aggressive, Italian Futurism proclaimed the bankruptcy of an artistic culture that clung to the forms and values of the past. The movement was launched in 1909 by F.T. Marinetti, who was bo…

31 signatures of mainly American famous people.

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION · 1874 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

Various formats, from complete letters to cut-off signatures and autographs written on collector's cards. 19th and 20th centuries. From writers and painters to politicians, talk show hosts and even a humorist and a great picture collector. Laura Adams Armer (1874-1963), American…

Mon Odyssee Ou le Journal de Mon Retour de Saintonge Poeme a Chloe

Pierre-Honore Robbe de Beauveset · 1760 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

The Hague, La Haye, 1760. Disbound. A scarce, illustrated edition of Pierre-Honore Robbe de Beauveset's poem 'My Odyssey&apos. In the original French.Illustrated, with a vignette title page, and four plates engraved by Charles Cochin after designs by Desfriches. Pierre…

LEAVES OF GRASS: "America's Second Declaration of Independence"

WHITMAN, Walt · 1876 · Charles Agvent

$10,625.00 (€9,639.75 | £8,040.95 | ¥1,696,878)

Camden, NJ. Author's Edition. Original marbled boards rebacked and recornered with brown morocco leather reproducing the original spine with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Author's Edition, with two portraits from life. BAL 21412: 600 copies printed with most copies SI…

SHATTERHOUSE

CONNELLAN, Leo · 0 · Charles Agvent

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.90 | ¥29,945)

(Chester, MA). (Hollow Spring Press). First Edition. Wraps decorated by Bruce MacDonald. One of 1000 copies printed, the first 25 issued signed. There is no indication that this is one of those 25, but it is SIGNED on the title page by the poet. In addition it is INSCRIBED on th…

Faith Gartney&Apos;S Girlhood

A. D. T. Whitney [Adeline Dutton Train Whitney] · 1863 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

Boston, Loring, 1863 . Cloth. The second edition of this very scarce novel for young women from prolific American female novelist and poet Adelaide Dutton Train Whitney. The second edition of this very scarce work, which was published in the same year as the first edition.A dome…

De Consolatione Philosophiae, Lib V. Cum Castigationibus Theodori Pulmann, Epicteti Stoici Enchridion ex Graeco ab Angelo Politiano in Latinum conversum.

BOETHIUS. Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini Boethii: · 1581 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

Lugduni, Apud Alexandrum Marsilium, 1581. Small 8vo, 107 c 70 mms., foliated, 118 leaves, contemporary sheepskin, all edges gilt; binding a bit worn, front end-papers wormed, no rear paste-down end-paper, rear hinge cracked and open. The classics textual critic Angelo Polizia…

Gold Coast Customs

Edith Sitwell · 1929 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Duckworth, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful first edition of Edith Sitwell's thought provoking poem on the nature on humans, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. 'Gold Coast Customs…

Gestures and Other Poems 1968-1970

Giann?s Ritsos; Nikos Stangos · 1971 · Wittenborn Art Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.62 | ¥8,784)

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1971. 8vo. 88 pp. Very Good. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. B&W illustrations throughout. Illustrations by the poet. ISBN: 0206006438. Provenance: from the Estate of Judy Stone (1924 -2017), The San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic who for two…

Les Saisons, Poëme Traduit De L'Anglois De Thompson [sic]

[ Thomson, James ] & Bontems, Marie Jeanne Chatillon [translator] · 1779 · Eastleach Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Londres, Avec Approbation. 1779 reprint. Full contemporary speckled calf, VG. ht+tp+[xii]+270pp, mardled endpapers, engraved frontis ( dated 1781 & engraved by De Launay ) all edges gilt, with the half title, small chip to the leather at the head & tail of the spine with larger…

Kuboya

JACK MICHELINE [SIGNED] · 1973 · Peter Austern & Co. / Brooklyn Books

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

No Place Stated, Self Published. 1973. Printed Wrapper. Ill.: Jack Micheline. Book, Jack Micheline, born Harold Martin Silver [November 6, 1929, The Bronx, NY - February 27, 1998, Orinda, CA], was an American painter and poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. His name is synonymo…

Sard Harker a Novel

John Masefield · 1924 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1924. First edition. Hardback. A smart, signed limited and first edition copy of Masefield's first Santa Barbara novel, with dust wrapper. A very smart copy of the first edition. Bound in publisher's original blue and white boards, with q…

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Black Beauty and Treasure Island

Spike Milligan · 1973 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Book Club Associates; Virgin Publishing Ltd, 1973-2000. Cloth. Three volumes of work by Irish actor, writer, comedian, poet, and playwright, Spike Milligan. Three volumes. Written by Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan, an Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and pla…