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Selections from Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning · 1896 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1896. Leather. Two volumes bound in one or Browning's poetical works. New edition. Two volumes bound in one. The selected poetical works of Robert Browning, an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian…

A Grain of Sand

PAGE, P.K. · 2003 · Kalamos Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Toronto, Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 1550418017) Hardcover. Ill.: Vladyana Kryborka. Book, With the words of William Blake as their stepping stone, award-winning poet P. K. Page and celebrated artist Vladyana Krykorka enter the magical, mystical world of a…

KABIR LEGENDS AND ANANTA-DAS’S KABIR PARACHAI.

Lorenzen, David N. · 1991 · Antiquariaat van Veen

€29.50 ($32.52 | £24.61 | ¥5,193)

Albany, State University of New York Press., 1991. 1st edition 268 pp. Pb . With a translation of the Kabir Parachai prepared in collaboration with Jagdish Kumar and Uma Thukral and with an edition of the Niranjani Panthi recension of this work. This book represents the first s…

Shelf Life: Reviews, Replies And Reminiscences

C. K. Stead · 2016 · Book Haven

NZ$23.50 (€11.78 | $12.98 | £9.82 | ¥2,073)

Auckland University Press 2016 Paperback, 446pp. The best of C. K. Stead's 'afternoon work': reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best…

Opera. commentarijs Aelij Antonij Nebressis atq(ue) Ioannis Sichardi scholijs illustrata.

PRUDENTIUS Clemens Aurelius - Antonio de Nebrija ( editor ) : · 1546 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€1,040.00 ($1,146.30 | £867.51 | ¥183,070)

" Antverpiæ (Antwerpen), typis Aegid. Diesth (Gillis van Diest), 1546, in-8°, 9,5 x 15 cm, title with large typographical border consisting of grotesque + (522)pp (numbered 2-262) + (4)(index) + (1)(bl), later full calf, rebacked with original spine, repairs to foot of spine, to…

Maurine and Other Poems

WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER · 1888 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Chicago, IL: W. B. Conkey Company, 1888. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The green cloth covers have been decorated in black, red and gilt by Margaret Armstrong. The edges o…

Mixed Rushes. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

CHRISTOPHER LOGUE. [W. S. Graham]. · 1974 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Privately printed at the John Roberts Press, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First edition. This copy inscribed by the author: "Salud! C. 25.12.74", the recipient of the inscription his fellow poet W.S.Graham, with Graham's initials pencilled in his own hand to the half-tit…

Ancestry of Jesus, Excerpts from 'Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David filii Abraham' (Matthew 1:1?17) Excerpts from Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David filii Abraham (Matthew 1:1?17)

G. Dinkova-Bruun · 2005 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€16.24 ($17.90 | £13.55 | ¥2,859)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2005 Hardcover. VIII 136 p., 140 x 215 mm, Languages: English, Latin, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888444783. The work edited here (in linked excerpts), an anonymous composition in 1611 rhymed hexameters, is an example of the exegetical t…

Shelley

Francis Thompson; George Wyndham · 1909 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, Burns & Oates, 1909. First edition. Vellum. A scarce large paper copy in Japanese vellum of this essay on Shelley by Francis Thompson. Literary essay concerned with the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Francis Thompson, English poet and Catholic mystic. With an introdu…

Corridas

Albert Dubout · 1967 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

Paris, Trinckvel, 1967. Cloth. A very smart copy of this collection of artwork from Albert Dubout, in the original French language. French language. Illustrated throughout. A humorous and entertaining collection of artwork from Albert Dubout, a French cartoonist, illustrator, pa…

4 volumes, [s.a.], German | Heinrich Heine's Sämmtliche Gedichte. Tiel, H.C.A. Campagne, [s.a.], 4 vols.

Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€76.30 ($84.10 | £63.65 | ¥13,431)

Collection of the poetic work (and other work) of Heinrich Heine, a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of <i>Lieder</i> (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Fran…

Kurt Seligmann Exhibition

Sweeney, James Johnson · 1941 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$135.00 (€122.48 | £102.17 | ¥21,560)

New York, Nierendorf Gallery, 1941. Softbound. Black, color-illustrated stapled wraps. Three stapled sheets plus cover, eligmann is called a Swiss-American Surrealist painter, engraver, and occultist. This early catalogue has a brilliantly colored serigraph cover in 7 colors on …

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Van Doren, Mark · 1927 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, The Literary Guild of America, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound handsomely in blue paper over boards, black cloth over tips and spine, still shar…

Poesie Di Giovanni Fantoni Toscano

Giovanni Fantoni · 1824 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Naples, Torchi di Raffaello di Napoli, 1824. Hardcover. Full leather cover measuring 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". 184p. Book in good condition. Corners bumped. Some abrading and shelf wear on cover leather. Some foxing within. First two pages bear dampstaining. Last page is half loose. Bind…

La muerte de César, tragedia.

VEGA, Ventura de la. · 1863 · Jack Baldwin - Rare Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Madrid: M. Rivadeneyra, 1863. xix, [3], 126p. Bound in full contemporary roan, all edges gilt. Covers decorated to a panel design with blind and gilt fillets; gold-tooled spine. Both covers marked and faded at edges. Very slight discolouration on a few pages. ***** Ventura de la…

Recueillements Poetiques, Epitres Et Poesies Diverses

Alphonse de Lamartine · 1877 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Paris, Hachette & Cie, 1877 . Leather. A lovely late nineteenth century edition of the poetry of French politician and writer Alphonse de Lamartine. In the original French.A lovely collection of the poetry of French figure Alphonse de Lamartine.Alphonse de Lamartine was a French…

NORTH OF BOSTON

FROST, Robert · 1925 · Charles Agvent

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

New York. Henry Holt and Company. Second Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Later Printing (December 1925) of Frost's second book. Portrait frontispiece of the author. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper with a three-line stanza from a poem in the book "Blueberries": "Who cares …

Le Duc de Beaufort

HUBERT, FRANÇOIS, · 1616 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€97.75 ($107.74 | £81.54 | ¥17,207)

Oval bust-length potrait of François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616-1669), the son of César, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise de Lorraine. He was a prominent figure in the Fronde, and later went on to fight in the Mediterranean. Engraving on laid paper, sheet size 267 x 192 mm.…

Johann Caspar Lavater

SCHLEUEN, JOHANN DAVID (I), · 1741 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€103.50 ($114.08 | £86.33 | ¥18,219)

En profil bust-length portrait of Johann Caspar Lavater. Lavater (1741 - 1801) was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher and theologian, but mostly remembered for his work in the field of physiognomy. Etching on laid paper, sheet size 174 x 104 mm., carrier size 355 x 223 mm. Etchin…

Elegies and Camille

Andre Chenier; Levi Robert Lind [trans] · 1978 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Washington, University Press of America, 1978. Paperback. A bilingual edition of Andre Chenier&apos;s elegies, in both French and English, with an inscription from the translator L. R. Lind. The bilingual edition. The translator&apos;s presentation copy with an inscription by t…