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Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry

Richard Aldington · 1955 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Collins, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biography of T. E. Lawrence, with maps. First edition. illustrated with frontispiece, eleven plates, and three maps. Collated complete. A biographical enquiry into the life of Lawrence of Arabia, or Thoma…

Selections from a Correspondence between an Irishman and a Rat

Christopher Logue · 1966 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Goliard Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. A limited first edition of this striking poetry work from Christopher Logue. First edition. One of a limited edition of 150 copies. In the publisher's original green tissue soft covers, featuring the abstract tide mark …

Oskar Kokoschka

Sabarsky, Serge · 1987 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Europalia, 1987 Paperback. 231 pages. Text in several languages. Clean, tight and fresh copy. A retrospective exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by the Austrian expressionist painter Kokoschka (1886-1980) was held in Belgium. Kokoschka played a leading role in Vienna a…

Material

Jet Swan · 2021 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

Loose Joints, 2021, Linnen band, 160, A striking new photographic voice engages with street portraiture to create dark, interior psychological spaces exploring the relationship between public and private lives. British artist Jet Swan's first monograph collects together the last…

A Prayer for Moderns - Memorial Service for Julia Cooley Altrocchi

Altrocchi, Julia Cooley (1893-1972) · 1972 · Wittenborn Art Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

San Francisco: 1972. 4pp. folded to 10.75 x 8.375 inches on rag paper. Printed by Lawton Kennedy. Julia Cooley Altrocchi (1893-1972) was an author and poet. She wrote a large number of children's books. A resident of Berkeley, California from 1928 until her death, Julia Cooley w…

Robert Browning. A Life After Death

Pamela Neville-Singleton · 2005 · Klondyke BV

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Paperback; 2005; Orion Publishing Co; 352pp.; Conditie: Goed; Robert Browning spent fifteen years married to fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett. He was 49 when Elizabeth died, and it is her death that is the starting point of this new biography. The central drama of Browning's life w…

This Paper Boat

Gregory Kan · 0 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Auckland University Press Paperback, 88pp. In This Paper Boat , poet Gregory Kan traces the life and written fragments of Robin Hyde, vivid with imagery and impression – the tide pool at Island Bay and its shrimp, the driftwood and crushed lemon leaves. He listens to the stories…

General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems. With an introduction by Robert Nichols.

VACHEL LINDSAY. [J. W. Haines]. · 1919 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. xv, 119pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped border to the upper board. Free endpapers lightly browned and spotted, with some further browning to the half-title. A very g…

Verzamelde gedichten. Vertaald [uit het Latijn] en toegelicht door M. d'Hane-Scheltema.

CLAUDIANUS,CLAUDIUS [known in English as CLAUDIAN]. Hane-Scheltema,M.d'. (transl.). · 2008 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€14.50 ($15.98 | £12.10 | ¥2,552)

Amsterdam, Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, 2008. 339 pp. Orig. hardcover (black cloth with gilt lettering on spine), d./j. 8vo. - Dust jacket sl. discol. on the spine; d./j. sl. foxed. (Baskerville Serie).Including belly band. - Dutch translations of the collected poems of Claud…

Rumpus No. 4. October 1969

Bielski, Alison J.; Cross, Colin; Gettisburg, M.A.; Horovitz, Michael; Mercer, David; Morris, Steve; Parfitt, Will; Reid, David; Thomas, Robert S.; Ward, J.P.; Williams, Clive et al. · 1969 · Mare Booksellers

$54.00 (€48.99 | £40.87 | ¥8,624)

Swansea, Rumpus/University of Wales, Swansea, Publisher, 1969. Wraps. Side stapled orange wraps. 20 pp. With a single page broadsheet laid in, as issued. Issue number four of this little magazine featuring experimental work both in form and content, including work by concrete an…

Eerste (-derde) deel van de Thalia, of geurige sang-godin.Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679. With: (2) [ULAEUS, Johannes & Willem Godschalk van FOCQUENBROCH]. De herders-sangen van Virgilius Maro, in Nederduyts gesongen, op twee verscheydene toonen. Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679.(3) FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. Min in 't Lazarus-huys, blyspel. Amsterdam, Jacob Vinckel, 1674. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 8vo. With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a large engraved vignette on the separate title to ad 3, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum.

FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. · 1682 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[16], 447, [1 blank]; [16], 223, [1]; [16], 112; [8], 77, [3 blank] pp.Rare collection of the most important of Focquenborch's works, incorporating all three parts of the Thalia, a translation of Virgil's Bucolica, and the play Min in 't Lazarus-huys. The present copy includes a…

Poems 1656

Abraham Cowley · 1971 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

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…

NORTH OF BOSTON Inscribed to Sidney Cox

FROST, Robert · 0 · Charles Agvent

$18,750.00 (€17,011.32 | £14,189.91 | ¥2,994,491)

London. David Nutt. First Edition. Crane A3: Binding A, one of 350 copies in this first binding of a total of 1000 printed of Frost's second book. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet at a very early date on the front endpaper "Sidney Cox/from/Robert Frost/Ryton Dymock/England/Octob…

P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera. Petrus Burmannus ad fidem veterum exemplarium castigavit.

OVIDIUS. · 1713 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€230.00 ($253.51 | £191.85 | ¥40,487)

Amsterdam (Amstaelodami), Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios, 1713 - 1714. 12mo. 3 volumes: (LXII),302; 340,(XVII index),(3 blank);370 p., portrait and frontispiece. Vellum 14 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,631: 'Heinsius Text liegt zum Grunde, ist aber nach Handschriften verbessert. Sehr cor…

Het vermaaklyk buitenleven, of de zingende en speelende boerenvreugd. Met zangkunst verrykt, en tot gemak der speelers op de G sleutel gesteld.Haarlem, Weduwe van Hermanus van Hulkenroy, 1716. 4to. With an etched frontispiece, an etching of a mermaid on the title, 2 folding etchings, 2 full-page etchings, and 21 etchings in the text, all after Adriaen van Ostade. Further with musical annotation to all songs. Early 19th-century marbled boards.

[GIJSEN, Jan van or Aaron van HULKENROY]. · 1610 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)

[8], 63, [1] pp.First edition of a rare Dutch songbook with songs for farmer's festivals, all with musical annotation. The work has been beautifully illustrated with etchings after the famous Dutch painter of country life, Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). The fine etchings, newly…

Eugenia

Gottfried Keller · 1925 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Berlin, Phantasus Verlag, 1925. Hardback. A limited edition, illustrated German facsimile of the legend of Eugenia. A lovely limited edition copy, a facsimile edition of five hundred copies with this being number 250. This volumes tell the legend of Eugenia by Gottfried Keller.…

Repetitious

Peter Reading · 1999 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Not Stated, Laertides Press, 1999. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, individually bound poem; number 40 of a limited edition, signed to the rear cover. A very scarce work, in the publisher's original pictorial boards. In the limited edition - one of 250 copies, this …

Poems

Richard Chevenix Trench · 1856 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, Redfield , 1856. First edition. Cloth. Bright copy of this scarce anthology of the poems by Richard Chenevix Trench, the first US edition. Anthology of poems by Richard Chevenix Trench, Anglican archbishop and poet. Scarce first US edition of this work. Featuring verse…

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. (Engraving)

R. Hicks (engraver); Sir Joshua Reynolds (artist) · 1840 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

London: Fisher, Son & Co. 1840. Original steel engraving on paper. Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inch sheet size. Some staining. Facsimile signature under image. Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 - 7 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of …

Greece on My Wheels

ENFIELD, EDWARD · 2012 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Chichester, Summersdale. 2012, ARC/Advance Reading Copy. (ISBN: 9781849531689) Soft cover. Book, AdvanceReading Copy." Fired by a long enthusiasm for all things Greek, Edward Enfield mounts his trusty Raleigh to follow in the footsteps of such notable travellers to Greece as Ben…