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ADAMS, PERFORMER) DOUGLAS (AUTHOR · 1987 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£53.00 (€63.53 | $70.02 | ¥11,181)

Front room, New Millennium Audio. 1987. (ISBN: 9781590070598). Audio Cassette, 18.7 x 11 x 3.2 cm. Boxed set of 2 cassettes in good condition, box slightly damaged. What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chr…

Relics of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley; Richard Garnett [Ed.] · 1862 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Edward Moxon & Co. 1862. First edition. Leather. A smartly rebound first edition offering a collection of Shelley"s lesser-known writings, with a presentation association from novelist and poet, Mortimer Collins. Smartly rebound in a later quarter calf binding with marbl…

Studies of D.H. Lawrence

Warren Roberts; H.M. Daleski; F.R. Leavis; Harry T. Moore [ed.]; Graham Hough · 1961 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Cambridge; London, Cambridge University Press; Faber and Faber; Chatto & WIndus; Heinemann; Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. 1961-1982. Cloth. A very smart five volume set of biographies and studies on English modernist novelist D.H. Lawrence. A five volume set of works on D.H. Lawre…

Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard

Padgett, Ron · 1950 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

Coffee House Press, Hardcover, 357, When someone we love dies, most of us do something to keep them from completely vanishing. We summon up memories of them, we talk about them, we visit their graves, we treasure photographs of them, we dream about them, and we cry, and for thos…

Theriaca. Alexipharmaca interprete Jo. Gorraeo Parisiensi (Ejusdam interpretis in opus utrunque scholia...)

NICANDER, (Greek) [COLOPHONIUS] · 1557 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€2,600.00 ($2,865.67 | £2,169.09 | ¥457,611)

Paris, Apud Guil. Morelium, 1557. In Graecis Typographum Regium. 3 vols in 1. W. 3 printer's marks, num. fine woodcut initials. Fine 17th c. full vellum. [a4, A-N4, O2; 2a4-2b4, X2, 2C4-2n4; 2A-2I4]. (VIII, 223 (=215) [=1- 106, (107-110), 111 - 223], I (blank); 80 (i.e. 72 pp.)…

Recollections of a Rambler

G. A. Simcox [George Augustus Simcox] · 1874 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1874 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this beautifully illustrated account of an English scholar and poets walks through the English countryside. The scarce first edition of British classical scholar and poet George Augustus Wilcox&ap…

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth · 1993 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Phoenix House , 1993. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Vikram Seth's novel about a mother's attempt to find the perfect husband for her daughter, in the original dust wrapper. The first UK edition.In the publisher's original cloth with the origin…

Renart-le-Nouvel Roman Satirique

Jacquemars Gielee; Jules Houdoy · 1874 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

Paris, A. Aubry, 1874. Leather. A limited edition copy of this satirical novel by Jacquemars Gielee. A limited edition copy, limited to 250 copies. In the original French. Jacquemars Gielee was a French poet of the Middle Ages. This is a copy of the satirical novel Renart-Le-N…

Anselm Kiefer et la poesie de Paul Celan.

KIEFER,ANSELM & PAUL CELAN. Lauterwein,Andrea. · 2006 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.23 | ¥11,440)

[Paris], Éditions du Regard, [2006]. 253 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. softcover (stiff paper wrappers), pictorial dust jacket. 4to. - With belly band "Prix Artcurial du Livre d'Art Contemporain." - Very good copy.A study in French on art and literary history examining the profou…

Le Salon Emile Verhaeren. Donation du Président René Vandevoir au Musée Plantin-Moretus a Anvers. / Het salon Émile Verhaeren. Schenking voorzitter René Vandevoir aan het Museum Plantin-Moretus te Antwerpen.

VERHAEREN,ÉMILE. Vandevoir,René, a.o. · 1987 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

Antwerpen, Museum Plantin-Moretus, 1987. 661 pp. 1 col. plate & b./w. ills / plts. Orig. hardcover (gilt lettered blue cloth). In orig. slipcase.Including a catalogue of the collection written by René Vandevoir. Foreword by Leon Voet. - Text in Dutch & French. - - Émile Adolphe …

Sketches of English Life and Character

Mary R. Mitford · 1910 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Edinburgh & London , T.N. Foulis , 1910 . Cloth. A smart second edition copy of this charmingly illustrated account of English life in the nineteenth century, with tipped in coloured plates by Stanhope Forbes. The second edition, originally published the year prior.  In the publ…

Home. A Poem.

John Boyd Greenshields · 1808 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

Edinburgh and London, Mundell, Doig & Stevenson; Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, and J. Harris, 1808. Leather. A scarce book of poetry from John Boyd Greenshields, usually difficult to find in any edition. Bound in leather with gilt lettering and spine decoration. The Second Edition, Cor…

Transcripts and Studies

Edward Dowden · 1896 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1896. Leather. A smartly bound second edition of this study from Irish critic Edward Dowden, bound by Bickers & Son, London. Second edition. A collection of literary studies, being a series of essays on a variety of subjects, in…

Take a Girl Like You

Kingsley Amis · 1960 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this comic novel by Kingsley Amis, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. A comic novel, following a young woman named Jenny Bunn who has moved from her family home in the North o…

Poems

Alice Meynell · 1921 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. 1921 . Leather. Full-morocco poetry collection from prominent British writer and suffragist Alice Meynell. Ninth edition, enlarged.In full-morocco binding.Featuring a frontispiece portrait, from a drawing by renowned artist John Singer Sarge…

Black Roses

Francis Brett Young · 1929 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1929. Vellum. A signed and numbered limited edition copy of this novel from British writer, Francis Brett Young, bound in full vellum. A limited edition of 525 signed copies, of which this is number 467. Signed by the author to the colophon. In t…

Legal & Other Lyrics

George Outram · 1916 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Edinburgh, and Boston, T. N. Foulis, Publisher, 1916 . Cloth. An early edition of this collection of poems by George Outram with illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. Early edition of Legal & Other Lyrics by George Outram in the original publisher's cloth binding. T…

Proverbial Philosophy: [Bijou Edition. ]

Martin F. Tupper · 1866 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Edward Moxon and Co. 1866. Leather. The Bijou Edition of Martin F. Tupper's successful Proverbial Philosophy, in a full calf binding. Two hundredth thousand of the Bijou Edition of this work, in a full calf binding. All edges gilt. Ink inscription to the first blank…

Contes

Albert Samain · 1923 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris, Henri Jonquieres et Cie. 1923. Leather. A lovely copy of this limited edition short story anthology by Albert Samain, with illustrations by Charles Guerin. A short story anthology by Albert Samain, French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. A lovely limited edition, …

Poems of Wit and Humour

Thomas Hood · 1866 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, E Moxon, Son and Company, 1866. Fine Binding. A finely bound collection of Thomas Hood's poetry. In a lovely gilt stamped binding. The twentieth edition of this work. Undated, dated using LibraryHub. Including poems such as 'A Tale of A Trumpet', 'The…