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Twenty-five Chinese Poems

CLIFFORD BAX (PARAPHRASED BY) · 1916 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Hendersons. 1916, Second Edition. Soft cover. Book, Blue paper covers, 53 pages. 17th century Cantonese poems, translated by a Japanese poet and paraphrased by Clifford Bax. Publisher's address on back cover "The Bomb Shop, Hendersons, 66 Charing Cross Road". Covers disc…

Zemire en Azor, zangspel. Met konstwerken en balletten. Gevolgd naar het Fransche.Amsterdam, Jan Helders, Abraham Mars, 1783. 8vo. With an engraved title page including a vignette by H.L. Meyling, a letterpress title page with an emblematic engraved vignette by Reinier Vinkeles. Extra added in this copy are an additional letterpress title page, also dated "1783", but with a portrait of Pieter Pijpers engraved by Theodorus Koning dated 1789, accompanied by the letterpress explanatory leaf with a poem "Op myne afbeelding door Theodorus Koning", dated 1789, signed by Pijpers in brown ink. Further with 3 extra added engraved plates (2 full-page and 1 half-page), plus 1 repeated in an earlier state with no lettering, depicting scenes from the play by various Dutch artists (A. Fokke, H.L. Myling, W. Immink, A. Hulk Jacobsz), 1 dated 1784. And finally with 6 engraved plates by various French artists, made for the original French edition. The engraved title is richly coloured and highlighted with gold (incl. the lettering) by a contemporary hand. The 6 French plates are splendidly coloured and highlighted with gold and gum arabic by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with one brown and a green morocco title label lettered in gold and fleurons in the remaining compartments, sprinkled paper sides.

MARMONTEL, Jean François and Pieter PIJPERS. · 1771 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

[16], 76, [2] pp.Splendid copy, luxuriously extra-illustrated 5 years after the original publication, of the first edition of Pijpers's Dutch adaptation of Marmontel's 1771 Zémire et Azor, a version of the fairytale Beauty and the beast. It is signed in brown ink by the author, …

Catálogo de la Biblioteca Chileno-Americana de Ramon Briseño

(Briseño, Ramon). Montt, Luis, ed · 1889 · Kaaterskill Books

$500.00 (€453.65 | £378.46 | ¥79,844)

Santiago de Chile, Imprenta Gutenberg, 1889. First edition. Cloth. frontis, xvi, 373 pp. Sm. 8vo. Number 8 of only 60 copies. Inscribed by Alberto [?] Gana to Carlos Luis Hübner, Chilean poet, and signed by Hübner. Portrait frontis of Briseno (1817-1910), director of the Bibliot…

Ballads and Lyrics of Old France

Andrew Lang · 1872 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London , Longmans, Green and Co, 1872. First edition. Leather. A first edition handsomely bound in a John Bumpus signed binding. The first edition. Handsomely bound in a calf binding. John Bumpus signed binding. Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, literary critic, and novelist. He …

Lyrics from Cotton Land

John Charles McNeill · 1922 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Charlotte, Stone Publishing Co. 1922. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated collection of poetry from American writer John Charles McNeill. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of poetry, published posthumousl…

Odes and Addresses to Great People

Thomas Hood; John Hamilton Reynolds · 1825 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1825 . First edition. Hardback. A bright copy of the first edition of Thomas Hood and John Hamilton Reynolds's collection of satirical odes to famous contemporary figures. The first edition of this work, consisting of fifteen short addresses…

Human Life a Poem

Samuel Rogers · 1819 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, John Murray, 1819. First edition. Leather. An handsomely bound first edition of copy Samuel Rogers' poem, Human Life. First Edition. A charming book of poetry published by the celebrated English poet Samuel Rogers. This edition contains the poem Human Life, a set of…

Poems of Charles Churchill in Two Volumes

James Laver · 1933 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , King's Printers, 1933. Cloth. A set of poetical anthologies from poet and satirist, Charles Churchill. Limited edition, being number 326 of 600. Featuring a frontispiece William Hogarth's 1763 cartoon targeting Churchill, to volume two. Churchill's satire…

Chantecler Piece En Quatre Actes, En Vers

Edmond Rostand · 1926 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1926. Leather. A copy of 'Chantecler; Piece en Quatre Actes, en Vers' Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play C…

Le Sang Poemes

Pierre Grange · 1914 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Paris, Editions de la Correspondance de la Guerre, 1914 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce signed presentation copy of this collection of ten poems by Pierre Grange. The very scarce first edition of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, d…

Repetitious

Peter Reading · 1999 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

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 …

Songs and Verses

G J Whyte-Melville · 1821 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.19 | ¥8,015)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, c1890. Leather. An uncommon single volume edition of Songs and Verses by G. J. Whyte-Melville. New edition with numerous additions. Contained are numerous poems and hunting songs such as Hero and Leander, The Queen of the Rose, A Cavalier's…

Exchanges

James Dickey · 1971 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Bruccoli-Clark, 1971 . First edition. Paperback. A smart signed limited edition copy of this poetry collection by American writer James Dickey. A limited edition copy, with this being no.17 of 200 signed by the author. Signed by James Dickey to the li…

But Even So

Kenneth Patchen · 1968 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

New York, A New Directions Book, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A smart two volume set of both the hardcover and softcover first edition of this charming work from American author Kenneth Patchen. Two volumes. First hardcover and first softcover edition. Illustrated throughout with…

Dreaming In Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer

Emily Arnold McCully · 2019 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Candlewick Press 2019 Hardback 164 "Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of the brightest minds. A…

Au clair de mon rêve

Huguette DUBOIS · 1935 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

François Bernouard | Paris 1935 | 14.50 x 19.50 cm | broché | Edition originale dont il n'est pas fait mention de grands papiers. Précieux envoi de Huguette Dubois à son éditeur François Bernouard : "...à l'important chantre de "Futile", au grand artiste-éditeur, au poète ami de…

Contract for Artistic Services

Boyle, Kay · 1980 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Seattle, WA: King County Arts Commission, 1980. Printed contract form. 8-1/2 x 14 inches. Two sheets stapled in left corner, folded three times for mailing. Signed contract for Boyle's services as a "literary juror," along with writer Ishmael Reed, to select two writers for the …

W.H. Auden

JOHNSON, Wendell Stacy · 1990 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Continuum, New York / Literature and Life: British Writers 1990, 175pp. Hardcover with dustjacket. In good condition. "A lost soul; a literary nomad; a voice filled with life, sensuality, and childlike wonder yet heavy with sorrow and the specter of death--this is the essence of…

Ballads and Carols

Gales, R.L. · 1916 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, "To Doris Tindall on the occasion of her wedding with every good wish, fr.: R.L. Gales April 27, 1921." A perfectly servic…

Near and Far: New Poems by Edmund Blunden

Blunden, Edmund · 1930 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine collection of fine poems, this time about the War and the English countrside, by the award-winning poet. First Trade Edition, having been preceded by a …