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Shakespeare&Apos;S Life and World

Katherine Duncan-Jones · 2004 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, The Folio Society, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed history of the life and times of William Shakespeare, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated throughout with many colour images. A detailed and comprehensive history of the life…

Angels and Earthly Creatures

Elinor Wylie · 1929 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A delightful limited copy first edition of this collection of poems, with a monochrome frontispiece portrait of the author. An uncommon limited copy of the first edition printed on Oland (Swedish) hand made paper.Number 178…

Coleridge Fille: A Biography of Sara Coleridge

Earl Leslie Griggs · 1940 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this biography, following the life and work of English author Sara Coleridge, with the very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's very scarce unclipped dust…

Collected Poems

Louise Townsend Nicholls · 1953 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition of this collection of poetry from American writer Louise Townsend Nicholl, signed by the author. First edition. Limited to seven hundred and forty-six copies signed by the author. With the…

A History of Cirencester

Welbore St. Clair Baddeley · 1924 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

Cirencester, Cirencester Newspaper Company, Limited, 1924. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this detailed history of Cirencester, a market town in England. First edition. Illustrated with three folding maps and plans, and thirty-two plates. Collated complete. A detaile…

Physical Expression: Its Mode and Principles

Francis Warner · 1885 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co , 1885. Cloth. A smart second edition of this thought-provoking exploration into physical expression, with illustrations throughout. The second edition of this work.Volume II from 'The International Scientific Series&apos.In the publisher&a…

I Like It Here

Kingsley Amis · 1958 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comic novel by Kingsley Amis. This novel is about going away from England abroad. The 'here' referred to in the title is England. Sir Kingsley Amis was a popular English novelist, poet, crit…

Lysistrata. Vrede, vrouw en obsceniteit bij Aristophanes. With a Summary in English.

WIT-TAK, T.M. de, · 1967 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

Wolters, Groningen, 1967. 142p. Sewn. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. 'His passionate, though hopeless, longing for peace and his understanding of the misery and destruction that befell many victims of the Peloponnesian War inspired Aristophanes to his Lysistrata; the piece co…

Ode a Chiavari. Xilografie di gianni bertini - mario moronti - mario rocca.

LAMBERT Jean-Clarence - Giovanni LEOPARDI - [ ] Gianni BERTINI - Mario MORONTI - Mario ROCCA ( illustrators ) : · 1988 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€676.00 ($745.09 | £563.88 | ¥118,996)

" S.l. published by Jean-Clarence Lambert, 1988, (40) nn pp (20 double leaves, loose as issued), kept in green coloured paper portfolio with the title printed on the front. Contains the text of the poem by Leopardi (in Italian) and the French translation by J.C.Lambert. Contains…

Chronici Zelandiae libri duo auctore Iacobo Eyndio, Domino Haemstede. [First edition].

Eyndius,Jacobus. · 1634 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

Middelburgi, Ex officina Moulertiana, Middelburgi, 1634. [22],263 pp. Engr. title page after design by A. van der Venne, engr. portrait of Jacobus Eyndius & a woodcut plate with the coat of arms of Zeeland. Contemp. full vellum. Crown 8vo. - First free endpaper is somewhat loos…

A Belated Tribute to Printers. (Hand Numbered 29 of 550 Copies of This Christmas Keepsake Printed in December 1957). (Signed and Inscribed Note Laid in)

Odell Shepard; A R Tommasini · 1957 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

San Francisco: A.R. Tommasini, 1957. 16mo. 19 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christ…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Explaining What Makes a Good Poem

BRYANT, William Cullen · 131868 · Charles Agvent

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.50 | ¥149,725)

Two-page letter on 5" x 8" THE EVENING POST stationery addressed to "Dear Madam" and SIGNED "W. C. Bryant." Bryant turns down a poem by a previous contributor, stating that it is “not equal by any means to those which I once received from you.” He has no time to criticize but do…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

KIPLING, Rudyard · 81917 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,268.18 | £1,891.99 | ¥399,265)

Burwash, Sussex. Handwritten two-page letter SIGNED "Rudyard Kipling" on his Bateman's Burwash Sussex stationery to Monsieur [Paul] Lambotte. In full: "I am of course honoured to be on the Committee of the [Emile] Verhaeren's memorial but it seems to me that if he is to be adequ…

Armour for Aphrodite

Thomas Sturge Moore · 1929 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Grant Richards and Humphrey Toulmin, 1929. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this interesting analysis of contemporary thoughts on aesthetics, sexuality and morals. Smart, first edition, in the publisher's original green cloth binding. Written by Br…

Oxford

Edward Thomas · 1903 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1903. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Edward Thomas and John Fulleylove's charming celebration of the city of Oxford. First edition. Illustrated with sixty colour plates from watercolours, each retaining the original captioned tissue gua…

Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets

J. Woodfall Ebsworth · 1876 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Boston, Lincolnshire, Robert Roberts, 1876. Leather. A finely bound large paper copy of this poetical work, presented in the binder's slipcase. Large paper edition of fifty copies, of which this is number 41. Printed for subscribers and with a handwritten note to the recto …

Bide a Wee, and Other Poems.

MACCOLL (Mary J.): · 1880 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Buffalo [New York] Peter Paul & Brother, 1880. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 170 x 122 mms., pp. vi, [7] - 103 [104 blank], cover and spine blocked in gilt, all edges gilt; front joint snagged, top and base of spine worn, but a good copy, with the following authorial inscription o…

Deirdre Wed and Other Poems.

HERBERT TRENCH. [J. W. Haines]. · 1901 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Methuen & Co., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. vi, 105pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine with a gilt-stamped decoration to the upper board and two tiny gilt-stamped backstrip decorations. A little bruising to the cloth at the backstrip ends. …

La Faoniade. Inni ed odi di Saffo tradotti dal testo Greco in metro Italiano da S.I.P.A.Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1801. 8vo. Contemporary half calf.

SAPPHO [=Vincenzo Maria IMPERIALE]. · 1683 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[2], VIII, 79, [1 blank] pp.Second Bodoni edition of an Italian translation of a supposedly previously unknown work by the Greek poet Sappho (ca. 630-ca. 570 BC), discovered on papyri found by a Russian Scholar while visiting the Cape Of Leucadia. It consists of a love poem abou…

Ezopische Fabelen van Fedrus, gevryden slaef des Keizers Augustus. In Nederduitsch dicht vertaelt en met aenmerkingen verrykt door D. van Hoogstraten.Amsterdam, François Halma, 1704. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, 106 engraved illustrations in a roundel, a large armorial headpiece for the dedication and 5 large and 4 smaller head- and tailpieces, 9 engraved initials and many woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.

PHAEDRUS; HOOGSTRATEN, David van (transl.). · 1701 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

[36], 198, [12] pp.Beautiful first edition of the translation into Dutch by the editor David van Hoogstraten of the 94 Aesop fables with the 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius, together with his moral commentaries (instead o…