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A Letter from Pontus and Other Verse

Masefield, John · 1936 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Macmillan & Co., 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine collection of short poems and narratives, inventive prose, including the title piece, "A Letter From Pontus." John Masefield was England's Poet Laureate at the time of publication in 1936.…

Selected Poems

Rowley, Richard · 1931 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

New York, Duckworth & Co., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Richard Valentine Williams, who wrote poetry and other works as "Richard Rowley," was born in 1877 in Belfast and at 16 entered the family manufacturing firm McBride and Williams before in 1931 b…

Bericht Van Mistvorming. Twaalf Late Brieven Aan Karel Reijnders

KEMP, PIERRE · 1993 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Terhorst, Ser J. L. Prop. 1993, Numbered Limited Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 36pp. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt to front and spine. Uit de handpers van Ser Prop. Met de hand gezet uit de Baskerville en gedrukt op Zerkall-Bütten in een oplage van 110. Dit is eén van de vijfenve…

An Attempt at Exorcism

Edwin Brock · 1959 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Northwood, Middlesex, The Scorpion Press, 1959. First edition. Paperback. The scarce limited signed first edition of Edwin Brock's debut poetry collection. The scarce limited first edition. No. 25 of 25 copies to be signed by the author. In the publisher's original sof…

Celibates

George Moore · 1895 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, Walter Scott, Ltd, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of short stories from Irish novelist and short story writer George Moore, signed by the author. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page, dated June 13th 1895. A …

English Literature: An Illustrated Record

Richard Garnett; Edmund Gosse · 1903 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, William Heinemann, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A first edition four volume, complete set of work on English literature by Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse. Complete in four volumes. First edition. This exhaustive and detailed set traces the history of literature in Engla…

Collected Essays, Papers &C. Of Robert Bridges

Robert Bridges · 1927 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1927-1934. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of the twenty volumes of Bridges collected essays and papers, bound in eight. Twenty volumes bound in eight, of a thirty volume set. Lacking volumes twenty-one to thirty. First…

Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar: A Period of Conflict (1936-1946)

Mallen, Enrique; Picasso, Pablo; Maar, Dora · 2021 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2021. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Glossy illustrated boards. xv, 364 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm. "Although Pablo Picasso spotted Dora Maar in a café in January 1936 it is highly likely that she had come to his attention prior. As Brassaï, a Hungaria…

Possession

Byatt, A.S. · 1990 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,322)

New York, Random House, 1990. Third Printing. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. 3" in "number" line present, thus indicating, in Random House parlance of the time, a Second Printing of the First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, …

Maan Ibn Zaida

J. H. Leopold · 1980 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Baarn, Arethusa Pers Herber Blokland , 1980. Paperback. A very scarce limited printing of this poem by J. H. Leopold. In the original Dutch. This is published as the seventeenth edition of this work in an edition of 75 numbered copies. This copy is number 64.With an etching by …

Milton&Apos;S Paradise Regained

John Milton; L. C. Martin [editor] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of Milton's Paradise Regained, edited by L. C. Martin. With a portrait frontispiece. Connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, this epic poem in blank verse progr…

Oho! Certain Two-Faced Individuals

Lawrence Whistler · 1946 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , John Lane The Bodley Head , 1946. First edition. Cloth. A humourous first edition reversible copy of Oho! Certain Two-faced Individuals created by brothers Rex and Laurence Whistler. This is a reversible copy of Rex Whistler's Reversible Faces with verses written b…

Odes and Other Poems

Ronald Campbell Macfie · 1919 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , John Murray, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first and only edition of Odes and Other Poems. Ronald Campbell Macfie was not only a poet but also a medical doctor and a science writer with interests in eugenics and evolution. He criticised Darwinism and theorised about t…

Schiller&Apos;S Sammtliche Werke in Einem Bande

Friedrich Schiller · 1834 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Stuttgart und Tubbingen, J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1834. Cloth. The collected works of Friedrich Schiller in one volume, containing his poems and plays, all in the original German. In the original German.The collected works of polymath Friedrich Schiller in one volume…

Devotional Verses Founded on and Illustrative of Select Texts of Scripture

Bernard Barton · 1826 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, B J Holdsworth, 1826. Leather. A selection of devotional verses, by Bernard Barton, in a leather binding. A scarce work, based on and illustrative of select texts of scripture. Written by Bernard Barton, a Quaker poet, born in 1784. His chief work 'The Convict'…

Classic Tales: Serious and Lively, Collected by Leigh Hunt

John Hawkesworth · 1850 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London and Edinburgh, William Paterson, 1850. Leather. Leigh Hunt's collection of Hawkesworth's short stories, from his five volume set. Hawkesworth was a book editor and sometime friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson. He started a periodical called The Adventurer with Dr Johns…

J.B. A Play in Verse

Archibald Macleish · 1958 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, eleventh printing, of this play written in free verse from American writer Archibald MacLeish. First edition, eleventh printing. A modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical fig…

Songs, Ballads, and Sacred Songs

Thomas Moore · 1856 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Longmans, Brown Green, and Longmans, 1856. Leather. A smart pocket-sized collection of songs and ballads from Irish writer Thomas Moore. Pocket-sized. With a frontispiece. A collection of verses from Irish writer, poet, and lyricist Thomas Moore, who is celebrated for hi…

Arthur Yates: Trainer and Gentleman Rider

Arthur Yates; Bruce Blunt · 1924 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of trainer and Gentleman rider, Arthur Yates' autobiography, adorned with monochrome plates. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This autobiography, written in c…

Motion Sickness: a Memoir

LAYTON, DAVID · 1999 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Toronto, Macfarlane, Walter & Ross. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 1551990393) Hardcover. Book, "During David's disjointed upbringing, the comings and goings of his parents (famous Canadian poet Irving Layton and Aviva) are unannounced and unpredictable, their extramarital affairs …