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Bij den vrijwilligen heldendood van J.C.J. van Speyk, (...) door Cornelis Loots, uitgesproken in het tweede Departement der Maatschappij Tot nut v n het algemeen, den 16den Februarij 1831.

LOOTS, C., · 1831 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€86.25 ($95.07 | £71.95 | ¥15,183)

Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey en Zoon, 1831, 16 pages, half cloth library binding, library stamp on titlepage, staining throughout, Jan Carolus Josephus van Speijk, also written Van Speyk (31 January 1802 - 5 February 1831), was a Dutch naval lieutenant who became a hero in th…

Albii Tibulli [Albius Tibullus]. Carmina Libri tres, cum libro quarto sulpiciae et aliorum. Novic curis castigavit Ch. G. Heyne

Tibullus, Albius; Heyne, Chr. G. · 1777 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Lipsiae [Leipzig], Ioannes Fredericus Iunius, 1777, editio emendiator et auctior, halfleather, 8vo, title shield on spine, lxxii+206+244+index, Albius Tibullus (born c. 55 bc—died c. 19 bc) was a Roman poet, the second in the classical sequence of great Latin writers of elegiacs…

Il Libro Delle Prefazioni

Carducci, Giosue · 1912 · Bookbarrow

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

G. Barbera, Florence, Italy, 1912. First Thus, Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. gilt titles spine; tissue-guarded frontis. engraving of author; Italian text; book of prefaces by the Italian poet, teacher & satanist who was the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature;…

This Is Moscow Speaking: And Other Stories. Translations by Stuart Hood, Harold Shukman, John Richardson. With a Foreword by Max Hayward.

YULI, Daniel (Pseud. Nikolay Arzhak and Yu. Petrov., ). · 1968 · Marijana Dworski Books

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.39 | ¥4,854)

London, Collins and Harvill, 1968. Hardback in original price-clipped dust-wrapper. Portrait frontis. 159 pp. D.w. design by Yvonne Skargon. In very good condition, clean and tight. Dust-wrapper back just a little marked. Yuli Daniel 1925-1988 ???? ???????? ??????? wrote under t…

Aventures de Telemaque Suivies Des Aventures D&Apos;Aristonous

Fenelon; Villemain · 1844 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Paris, Belin-Leprieu, 1844. Cloth. A smart illustrated edition of the Adventures of Telemachus and The Adventures of Aristonous by Fenelon, in the original French language. French language. Illustrated with twenty plates. Lacking portrait frontispiece. The Adventures of Telemach…

Difficult Morning

Randall Swingler · 1933 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Randall Swingler, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. The Gateway Poets series. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust …

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Siegfried Sassoon · 1931 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Faber & Faber Limited, 1931 . Cloth. The first illustrated edition of Sassoon's fictionalised account of the First World War. First illustrated edition of Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon in the original publisher's cloth binding. Lacking the…

Poems

Thomas Gray · 1946 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Riccardi Press for Eton College, 1946. Vellum. A nice privately printed edition of the poetical works of the Romantic Thomas Gray, printed for Eton, from the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Privately printed by Riccardi Press for Eton College, with an Eton presentat…

Steamers V. Stages: Or, Andrew and His Spouse

Tom Hood · 1830 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London , William Kidd, 1830 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this poem by Tom Hood and Illustraetd by George Cruikshank. A first edition copy. This poem is written by Thomas Hood, or the author of York and Lancaster. Hood was an English poet, author and humorist …

Voyage en Arabie. Pèlerinage au Nedjed, berceau de la race arabe. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1882.

BLUNT, LADY ANNE (Baroness Wentworth): · 1879 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)

Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), lxviii, 447. With one map and 60 wood-engraved illustrations drawn by G. Vuillier after water colours by the author. Contemporary half calf, spine with four raised bands and title, g.e., lightly rubbed. First French edition translated from the English (1879) …

Light and Shade

Maida Stanier · 1953 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Abingdon-on-Thames, The Abbey Press, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of poetry with the author's presentation slip. First edition. Scarce work. With author's presentation slip, inscription reads: With Christmas Greetings A collecti…

Astrophel and Other Poems

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1894 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London , Chatto & Windus, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote…

Digte: Fjerde Samling

Aage Berntsen · 1917 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Kobenhavn [Copenhagen], V. Pios Boghandel - Povl Branner, 1917 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of the very scarce fourth collection of poetry by Danish fencer Aage Berntsen. In the original Danish.The first edition of the fourth collection of poetry by Danish fencer…

Tiger

Witter Bynner · 1913 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York , Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this one-act play set in New York City, the second work by the author. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Bynner's second book, a one-act…

This Morning I Met a Whale

Michael Morpurgo · 2008 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Walker Books Ltd, 2008. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this illustrated work by Michael Morpurgo, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author. Illustrated throughout. The story of a young boy's relationship with a whale that swam up the Ri…

Verses and Translations

C. S. Claverly · 1891 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1891. Cloth. A small volume of a collection of poetry by C. S. Claverly. Charles Stuart Calverley was an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour". In a green cloth binding with gilt l…

A Collection of Works by Algernon Charles Swinburne in Five Volumes

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1880 · Rooke Books

£525.00 (€629.39 | $693.71 | ¥110,791)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1880-1908. Leather. A beautiful set of some of the Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne. In five volumes. The set consists of: A Study of Shakespeare, Miscellanies, Poems and Ballads II, A Study of Ben Jonson and Age of Shakespeare. Algernon Charles Swi…

Sir Guy de Guy

Rattlebrain · 1864 · Rooke Books

£46.00 (€55.15 | $60.78 | ¥9,707)

London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864. First edition. Cloth. A first edition verse romance by the curious author named "Rattlebrain" Illustrated frontispiece and numerous illustrations throughout by Hablot Knight Browne the English artist, famous as Phiz, who illustrated…

Edmund Gosse Some Memories

William Bellows · 1929 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, R Cobden-Sanderson, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of biographical memories by William Bellows, illustrated with several plates throughout. First edition. Bound with half title. This particular copy has been taken direct from the library o…

Brass Band To Follow

Bryan Walpert · 2021 · Book Haven

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,955)

Otago University Press 2021 Paperback 86 Award-winning poet Bryan Walpert's fourth collection of lyric poems ranges in its focus from flowers to infinities, from laundry to eternity, but is founded most fully on what it is to move into middle age - to wait for life's promised br…