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If Not, Winter : Fragments of Sappho

SAPPHO & CARSON, ANNE (TRANSLATOR) · 2002 · Kalamos Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, Vintage. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780375724510) Soft cover. Book, Parallel texts in Greek & English "A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. She was a mu…

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1912 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912 . Leather. A beautifully bound, second edition of Rudyard Kipling's celebrated anthology of verse. Second edition. First published in 1907.In an elegant half morocco binding with cloth boards. A charming collection of verses written by Engl…

Drapeaux Deployes

Jacques Normand · 1919 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Paris, Calmann-Levy, Editeurs, 1919 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce signed presentation copy of this collection of French wartime poetry by Jacques Normand. A very scarce work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the half title page, to the novelist and critic Jacques…

Sensation Novels, Condensed

Bret Harte · 1871 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, John Camden Hotten, [1871]. First edition. Leather. Leather bound copy of this scarce first edition book containing tales by Bret Harte. The first and only edition of this work. Jisc notes this the second printing with introduction to 'Mary McGillup' on pp. 153…

Fables de Fenelon

Francois Fenelon · 1651 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

Paris, Chez Santain, c1800. Leather. A charming book of fables by Francois Fenelon. With an engraved title page, frontispiece and three further plates. Francois Fenelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He tod…

A Spanish Triptych: Being Three Poems of Compassion

Robert Nichols · 1936 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Cambridge , Rampant Lion Press, 1936. First edition. Paperback. A scarce first edition of this short anthology of poems by Robert Nicholls, a limited edition copy. Containing three poems around the theme of compassion: 'Virgin of Sorrows,' 'Prison Calvary,' &…

Cotswold Characters

John Drinkwater · 1921 · Rooke Books

£124.00 (€148.63 | $163.82 | ¥26,160)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1921. First edition. Leather. A morocco-bound first edition copy of this series of Cotswold sketches by John Drinkwater. First edition. In a handsome binding of full crushed morocco, with raised bands and gilt detailing.John Drinkwater offers a…

Quiétude

Jean ROYÈRE · 1923 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Emile-Paul frères | Paris 1923 | 14.50 x 22.50 cm | broché | Edition originale sur papier courant. Bel envoi autographe daté et signé de Jean Royère à Louis de Gonzague-Frick : "... A mon cher, à mon fidèle, à mon pur ami Louis de Gonzague-Frick l'artiste certain, le sage et le …

A Tangled Web

Blake, Nicholas Pseud (Cecil Day-Lewis) · 1956 · Ariel Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Collins Cecil Day- Lewis was poet laureate who wrote mysteries under the name of Nicholas Blake. US title was "Death and Daisy Bland". "A chance meeting in a London street in the 1950s... and fate is sealed for carefree cat burglar Hugo Chesterman and Daisy Bland, the girl eager…

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

James Patterson · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Headline Book Publishing 2002 Paperback, 310pp. Book editor Katie is in love with poet, Matt Harrison. He seems to share her feelings, but his refusal to talk about his past makes her suspicious. All she knows is that Matt was once married. One evening, he suddenly ends their re…

Storyteller: Poems, 1988-1999

Simon Williamson · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

HeadworX 2002 Paperback, 316pp. \'Storyteller\' is a commemorative volume of work by a young Wellington poet, Simon Williamson, who died early at 31 and who was well known at pubs and local reading venues for his lively performances. The poems collected here reveal a prolific an…

Wanderungen durch Tyrol und Steyermark. 2 vols.

SEIDL, Joh(ann) Gabr(iel). · 1840 · Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

CHF 390.00 (€421.86 | $464.96 | £351.94 | ¥74,248)

1840 With 30 and 29 steel-engraved plates. 303 pp.; 245 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half cloth, orig. typographic front wrapper laid down (somewhat soiled and spotted). Leipzig, Georg Wigand, (1840). "Das malerische und romantische Deutschland", VII. First edition of this literary descrip…

NOON WINE

Porter, Katherine Anne [1890 - 1980] · 1937 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$220.00 (€199.60 | £166.52 | ¥35,131)

Detroit: Schuman's, 1937. 1st Edition. SIGNED / LIMITED, # 42 of 250 cc. Textured brown paper-wrapped boards, printed title labels, slipcase. Book protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper. [4], 65, [3] pp. Fore-edge untrimmed. Royal 8vo. 10-1/4" x 6-5/8". Slight lean, hint …

Pushkin's Button

VITALE, SERENA · 1999 · Bluebird Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374239355. Stated first English-language edition. An examination of the last four months of the life of the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837). Pushkin was killed in a duel with his b…

Lamia&Apos;S Winter-Quarters

Alfred Austin · 1907 · Rooke Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

[London], A. & C. Black, [1907]. Cloth. A charming illustrated edition of Alfred Austin's 'Lamia's Winter-Quarters' copiously illustrated throughout. Written by the English poet and journalist who succeeded Alfred Tennyson as Poet Laureate in 1896, 'Lami…

BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: PROOF of Canby's Review of Dorothy Parker's DEATH AND TAXES

(PARKER, Dorothy) CANBY, Henry Seidel · 131931 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€567.06 | £473.08 | ¥99,804)

The Saturday Review of Literature. A single sheet (14" x 19") printed on one side and folded into fours of Canby's important review of Parker's book that helped establish her as a serious poet. This is a proof copy of that review in which Canby states, "I attempt no real critici…

Poetry, 1827, Boddaert | Levensgeschiedenis van den vermaarden dichter Mr. P. Boddaert, benevens zijne poëtische en prozaïsche portefeuille. In een deel. Tweede druk. Amsterdam, H. Moolenijzer, 1827, 252 pp.

Boddaert, P. · 1805 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€76.30 ($84.10 | £63.65 | ¥13,429)

An anthology of Pieter Boddaerts poetic and prosaic work. Illustrated with engraved title page with vignette by W. Schults after J. Steijn. With table of contents. Contains, i.a., a poem on the occasion of the Saint Nicholas feast and texts about Freemasonry. With inscription by…

Spain

W. H. Auden · 1937 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Faber and Faber, 1937. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of Auden's political poem on the Spanish Civil War. First edition. In the publisher's original red soft covers. A contemporary poem on Spain, written to raise money for Medical Aid for Spain in …

Proverbial Philosophy

Martin F. Tupper · 1858 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, T. Hatchard, 1858. Leather. A smartly bound thirty-second edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Martin Farquhar Tupper. Thirty-second edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A bestseller in the United Kingdom and North America for several decades, this …

Glimpses of Three Coasts

Helen Jackson · 1887 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1887 . Cloth. An early edition of this travel work by the American author Helen Jackson. Early edition of Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Jackson in the original publisher's cloth binding. First published in 1886. Helen Hunt Jackson was an Amer…