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Two Runaways and Other Stories

Harry Stillwell Edwards · 1889 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

New York, The Century Co. 1889. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of Southern stories, illustrated by E. W. Kemble. The first edition in book form. The works first featured serially in the 'Century Magazine' and the 'Harper and Brothers Ma…

At Home: Memoirs

William Plomer · 1958 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this memoir from South African and British novelist William Plomer, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper with an inscription that reads: "for J. R. & V. R.…

Essay on Lord Clive

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1885 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London and Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, 1885. Cloth. A smart copy of this essay from English historian Thomas Babington Macaulay on Robert Clive, also known as Clive of India. Later edition. A detailed essay on the life and work of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, the first Britis…

Sister-Songs: An Offering to Two Sisters

Francis Thompson · 1895 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, John Lane at the Bodley Head , 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this poem, 'Sister Songs', by Francis Thompson. The first edition, first impression of this poem. In the original cloth, with charming gilt leaf decorations to the front board …

Oeuvres Completes de Moliere

Moliere · 1920 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Oxford, Oxford University Press , 1920 . Cloth. A smart French edition of the complete works of playwright Moliere. In the original French. This volume contains the plays of Moliere. Moliere was the stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin who was a French playwright, actor and poe…

County Down Songs: Poems by Richard Rowley

Rowley, Richard · 1924 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

London, Duckworth & Co., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A lovely exemplar of a collection of 22 poems by Richard Valentine Williams, who wrote poetry and other works as "Richard Rowley." Rowley was born in 1877 in Belfast and at 16 entered the family manufac…

Dictionnaire Historique Des Peintres

Adolphe Siret · 1848 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Paris, Librairie Encyclopdique de Prichon, 1848. Leather. A handsome edition of a comprehensive list of international painters by Adolphe Siret. With nine plates of painter's monograms. Adolphe Siret was a Belgium historian, biographer, and poet and held great positions in…

Joie

Eugène GUILLEVIC · 1966 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Seghers | Paris 1966 | 13 x 19 cm | reliure de l'éditeur | Edition originale de la traduction française établie par Eugène Guillevic et pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers.  Reliure de l'éditeur en plein cartonnage rouge, dos lisse. Agréable exemplaire. Envois au…

Snow

PAMUK, ORHAN · 2004 · Kalamos Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

New York, Knopf. 2004, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0375406972) Hardcover. Book, An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves. But…

Reunion

Alan P. Lightman · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Bloomsbury (UK) 2004 Trade Paperback, 240pp. At fifty-two, Charles is a professor at a minor 'leafy little college', a once promising poet, divorced, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Out of impulse, he decides to attend his thirtieth college reunion - and there m…

Die Schöpfung.

STURMANN, Manfred. · 1931 · Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

CHF 220.00 (€237.97 | $262.29 | £198.53 | ¥41,884)

1931 8 unn. leaves. 8vo. Orig. stiff wrappers (somewhat discolored, not quite fresh). Berlin, (Officina Serpentis) for Soncino-Gesellschaft, 1931. First edition of this cycle of poems by Manfred Sturmann (1903-1989). Only a small number of copies were printed for the annual meet…

Fables Et Ceremonies [SIGNED]

Winthrop Palmer; Nanette Suffren-Reymond (tr) · 1959 · Dodman Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Paris, Jean Grassin, No.66 from the edition of 604 copies. Laid in are two gift cards addressed to Mr George Reavey, noted poet, publisher, translator, art collector, and Samuel Beckett's first literary agent. One is signed by Winthrop Palmer "With my affectionate regards", the…

Riki Mijling. Void / Volume.

MIJLING - Melissen, Antoon: · 2018 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

08, 2018, (22,5 x 28 cm), 192 pp., German / English text, 80 colour & 20 b/w ills., hardcover. Dutch sculptor Riki Mijling (*1954) works in a rich tradition of non-objective, (post-)minimalist sculpture. With her sculpture, and her works on paper too, Mijling has developed a uni…

Collected Poems 1917-1939

Davison, Edward · 1940 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1940. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Likely First Edition, First Printing, though not so stated. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, moderately toned at pastedowns, dissipating, minimally tone throughout, mi…

Final Harvest

Rowley, Richard · 1951 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Belfast, Ireland, H.R. Carter, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in tan cloth with dark brown lettering to front board, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, with first free endpaper showing remains probabl…

Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, Published by the Society of Antiquities of London, Vol. LIV (54). Parts 1 and 2, 1894 and 1895, Second Series vol.4

Rev. C M Church; E H Freshfield; Lionel Cust; W H St. John Hope; William Greenwell; Charles E Keyser etc. · 1894 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Society of Antiquaries of London, London, 1894. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean firm brown covers with gilt lettering on the spine, handwritten reference number at the base of spine, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Part 1 contains: …

Salome, la Sainte Courtisane, a Florentine Tragedy

Oscar Wilde · 1917 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1917. Leather. The fifth edition of this collection of plays from Oscar Wilde. Fifth edition. A collection of plays from Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet and playwright renowned for his work in the early 1890s. The plays included are: Salome Depicting the se…

A Bibliography of William Blake

Geoffrey Keynes · 1969 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

New York, Kraus Reprint Co. 1969. Cloth. A smart facsimile edition of this bibliography of the works of William Blake, with illustrations. Facsimile edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-three monochrome plates, and twelve reproductions in the text. Collated complete, …

Theodor Fontane

Mario Krammer · 1922 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Berlin, Otto von Holten, 1922. Hardback. A limited edition German volume on eminent novelist and poet, Theodor Fontane. Number 132 of 1,400 numbered copies. A limited run of 1,500 copies in total. In the original decorative paper covered boards.Theodor Fontane is widely consider…

Poems

Arthur Christopher Benson · 1893 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. First edition. Hardback. A limited edition copy of the first edition of Arthur Christopher Benson's collection of poetry. In the original paper boards. 60 of Benson's poems are collected in this work, many of which are pastora…