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Pedasus: Twenty-Four Poems

C.A. Trypanis · 1955 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Reading, University of Reading School of Art, 1955. Limited Edition. Paperback. 36p. WITH ALS FROM TRYPANIS TO JOHN WAIN. A thin softcover book in good+ condition. Water stains on front cover, plus a small hole torn in the upper right corner. Tiny dark speckles on front as well.…

Tell It Me Again

John Fuller · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this exciting novel from English writer John Fuller, limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition. Limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author, of which …

Biographies by Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay · 1875 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1875. Leather. The biographies of the historian, essayist, and poet Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay (1800–1859). "Written in the last year of his life, this work contains five biographical essays, on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnso…

Tell It Me Again

John Fuller · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this exciting novel from English writer John Fuller, limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition. Limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author, of which …

Girl in a Turban

Marta Morazzoni; Patrick Creagh [translator] · 1988 · Rooke Books

£33.00 (€39.56 | $43.60 | ¥6,964)

London, Collins Harvill, 1988. First edition. Cloth. The first English translation of this collection of interconnected short stories from Italian educator and writer Marta Morazzoni. First English translation. Scarce edition. A collection of five interconnected short stories wh…

Innocent Blood

P. D. James · 1980 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London and Boston, Faber and Faber, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition copy of this thrilling mystery novel by P. D. James. A first edition copy of this fine crime novel. Both a mystery and a thriller, exploring themes of love and the search of identity, this …

White Man Falling

Mike Stocks · 2006 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Alma Books, 2006 . First edition. Cloth. A fine limited edition of Mike Stocks' novel following a white man falling from the sky, creating a mystery for retired Police Sub-Inspector R. M. Swaminathan. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies of the first edition…

Chemistry and Other Stories

Ron Rash · 2007 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

New York, Picador, 2007. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition, second impression of this short story collection from American writer Ron Rash, signed to the title page. First edition, second impression. Signed by the author to the title page. A collection of thirteen …

Hosea Biglow (Portrait of Jr Lowell) (Original Lithograph)

Théobald Chartran (T) · 1880 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

London: Vanity Fair, 1880. Original color lithograph, 13.5 x 8.5 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Scarce. Published on August 21, 1880, depicting James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891), an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and d…

Poems

PAINTED BINDING; PHILLIPS, Stephen · 1898 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.56 | ¥71,868)

London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898. A Charming Hand-Painted Binding in the Pre-Raphaelite Style [PAINTED BINDING]. PHILLIPS, Stephen. Poems. London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898. Second edition. Small octavo (7 9/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 192 x 118 mm.). viii, 108, [2, Some P…

Private press signed by Schinkel presented to Holtrop 1856 | Nadere bijzonderheden betrekkelijk Constantijn Huygens en zijne familie 2e stuk, z.pl. 1856, 43 pp. Limited edition of 125 copies. Signed by the author.

Schinkel, A.D. · 1806 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€76.30 ($84.10 | £63.65 | ¥13,431)

Presentation copy from the author to J.W. Holtrop (1806–1870), librarian of the Royal Library at The Hague and one of the foremost nineteenth-century bibliographers of early Netherlandish printing, inscribed by Schinkel on the front flyleaf: ‘Aan mijn vriend J.W. Holtrop. A.D. S…

Light Through Darkness

Henri Michaux · 1963 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB

A$1,100.00 (€676.16 | $745.26 | £564.01 | ¥119,023)

The Orion Press New York First Edition Near Fine Condition 21.5cm x 16cm. viii, 230, [2] pages. Full red decorative leather, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and arti…

Al. Blok I Yego Mat'. ??. ???? ? ??? ???? [Alexander Blok and His Mother]. ???????????? ? ???????. Vospominaniya I Zametki. . [Memories and Notes].

BEKETOVA, M. A.. ?. ?. ????????. [ Alexander Blok ????????? ???? biography]. Cover illus. V. D. Zamirailo. · 1925 · Marijana Dworski Books

£690.00 (€827.19 | $911.74 | ¥145,610)

Leningrad - Moscow. ????????? - ??????, Petrograd. ???????????? "?????????". 1925. Large 8vo. 183[ix]pp. 15 illustrations from photographs (mainly portraits). Text in Russian. A good copy but mainly lacking fragile backstrip, sewing somewhat adrift. Many sections loose although …

Else Lasker-Schüler: Die Wupper: [Play in Five Acts; Premiere June 3, 1976]. [Scarce]

Lasker-Schüler, Else; Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer (Berlin) · 1976 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Berlin, Germany: Hallesches Ufer, 1976. 4to. 80 pp. Soft, brown and color photographic wraps with French folds. Good with chipping along spine and edgewear along wrap corners. Black and white plates. Some pages printed on brown pages. Program for play performance of poet Else La…

Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art After Marcel Broodthaers = Eiga O Meguru Bijutsu : Maruseru Bur T Su Kara Hajimeru

Makiguchi, Chinatsu et al. · 2013 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, 2013. Softcover. BW pictorial wraps, 204 pp. color & BW illus.; includes small booklet and a separate four-fold with English translation of main text. Text is in Japanese and English. Issued in conjunction with several 2013-2014 exhibiti…

Oeuvres Completes de Gilbert

Nicholas Joseph Laurent Gilbert · 1805 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.88 | $118.91 | ¥18,991)

Paris, Pillot, 1805. Leather. A French collection of the poetical works of Nicholas Joseph Laurent Gilbert, containing all of his most beloved satirical works. In the original French.Complete in two volumes.A new edition of this work.A collection of the works of Nicholas Joseph …

Antinarcissus: Surrealist Conquest 1. Special Issue 1969-70

Schwartz, Stephen (ed.); Andre Breton, Aime Cesaire, Benjamin Peret, Joyce Mansour, et al. · 1969 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

San Francisco: Antinarcissus, 1969. 4to. 4 pp. Stapled Wraps, Very Good. Illustrated. First Edition. In 1965, Penelope & Franklin Rosemont co-founded the Chicago Surrealist Group, following a trip to Paris where they met André Breton. Franklin Rosemont played an important role i…

RETURN TO A PLACE LIT BY A GLASS OF MILK. POEMS

SIMIC, Charles · 0 · Charles Agvent

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.29 | ¥24,962)

New York. George Braziller. First Edition. Printed wraps. Also issued in hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper: "For Michael/Even the mutes are unhappy/since they've learned to/read lips/Charles Simic/Nov. 21, 1981/Boston.". Fine. "The literary scene …

POEMS 1967 - 1982. WEATHER FORECAST FOR UTOPIA & VICINITY

SIMIC, Charles · 0 · Charles Agvent

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.80 | ¥59,890)

(Barrytown, NY). Station Hill. First Edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering. There were only 53 copies issued in cloth, this being one of only ten SIGNED copies with a roman numeral. According to the colophon page, these copies were to have an original drawing bound in, but we h…

FIRST WILL & TESTAMENT

[AUDEN, W. H.] PATCHEN, Kenneth · 0 · Charles Agvent

$3,125.00 (€2,835.22 | £2,364.99 | ¥499,082)

New York. New Directions. First Edition. Patchen's second book, consisting of 800 copies, this copy INSCRIBED "with respect and admiration" for W. H. Auden on 10 May 1940 and SIGNED by Patchen. Patchen's first book brought him much acclaim including comparisons to Auden, unlikel…