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MASEFIELD, John · 1930 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

15 x 21 and 20 x 25 cm. With press organisation stamps and captioned tickets and red crayon lines at the reverse. Slight creases and other little signs of wear, but in a general very good condition. The first photo, dated May 12 1930, shows Masefield apparently caught unawares i…

John Gabriel Borkman [English edition]

Henrik Ibsen / Nicholas Wright (bewerking) · 1996 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Nick Hern Books / Royal National Theatre. 1996; Paperback; goed exemplaar / good copy. John Gabriel Borkman has been in voluntary seclusion in an upstairs room in his drab mansion since enduring a prison sentence for embezzlement. Still blindly hoping his career will be reignite…

Armando. Between Knowing and Understanding. [ English edition ]

ARMANDO / ANTOON MELISSEN. · 2015 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€38.35 ($42.27 | £31.99 | ¥6,751)

Rotterdam : NAI010 Publishers 2015 272 p., richly illustrated in color and b/w, 22 x 30 cm. HARDCOVER: (Orig. large hardcover. UNREAD NEW) This monumental monograph is devoted to one of the most important post war European artists. Armando (born in 1929) has worked for decade…

Florine Stettheimer

McBride, Henry · 1946 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Softcover. Pink wraps. 56 pp. 4 color, 36 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of artwork by American painter and poet Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Consists of an illustrated narrative by Henry McBride. The catalogue l…

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 50 (Dec. 1874 - May 1875)

1875 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1875. Leather. 928p. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Edges heavily scuffed, spine label is gone, and bottom of spine is cracking off. However, the pages are still tightly bound. Some fingerprint smudges and other blemishes …

A High-Pitched Buzz

Roger Longrigg · 1956 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Faber and Faber, 1956 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Roger Longrigg's scarce debut novel, in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Scarce work.This copy belonging to Geoffrey Cust Faber, the B…

Quinti Horatii Facci Opera by Horace & Phaedri Fabulae Et Publii Syri Sententiae

Horace · 1733 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Paris, E Typographia Regia, 1733. Leather. A collection of the poetry of Horace bound with the fables of Phaedrus, in the original Latin. Latin. Two volumes bound in one. With a frontispiece to each volume. This volume contains: Quinti Horatii Facci Opera by Horace, 1733. A coll…

Five Lyrical Poems

Vivian Locke Ellis · 1909 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head , 1909. First edition. Paperback. An extremely scarce first edition of Vivian Locke Ellis's Five Lyrical Poems. First edition, in the publisher's original paper wraps. Dated using Jisc from copies of the work held at the British Librar…

Oho!

Laurence Whistler · 1946 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1946 . First edition. Hardback. A humorous first edition of this collection of reversible faces by Rex Whistler, accompanied by verses from his brother Laurence. First edition, in the publisher's original pictorial boards, with the origin…

Sparkenbroke

Charles Morgan · 1936 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1936. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first impression of this novel by Charles Morgan, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this novel by Charles Morgan, in which he explores the theme of the haunted bound…

Beautes de Walter Scott; Magnifiques Portraits Des Heriones de Walter Scott

Alexandre Dumas; Carmouche; Emile Souvestre; et al. · 0 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Paris, Garnier Freres, c1850 . Leather. A beautifully illustrated work on the heroines of Scottish novelist Walter Scott, with 28 portrait plates. In quarter purple morocco binding, with a gilt to fore edge.A volume of the beauties of Walter Scott, with magnificent portraits of …

A Day of George Moore

WOLFE, HUMBERT · 1932 · Round Table Books, LLC

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY: Oxford University Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, blue lettering on tan paper label on spine. Includes a Bibliographical List of George Moore's Writings. George Augustus Moore (1852 – 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-stor…

Christopher Marlowe: A Biography

Rowse, A. L. · 1964 · Bookbarrow

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

MacMillan, London, 1964. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A. L. Rowse, the noted author, historian & Shakespearean scholar, has here written an erudite & scholarly biography of the Elizabethan poet and dramatist and contemporary of S…

Plays and Poetry by John Drinkwater

John Drinkwater · 1916 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1916-1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart seven volume set of signed plays and poetry by John Drinkwater, from the author's library. A seven volume set of works by John Drinkwater.All volumes signed by the author.In the original red cloth bind…

Original Manuscript Poem Laurence Housman

Edmund J Sullivan · 1898 · Rooke Books

£4,200.00 (€5,035.10 | $5,549.72 | ¥886,324)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1898. Cloth. An original unpublished manuscript poem by Laurence Houseman written to the half-title of Thomas Carlyle's 'Sartor Resartus&apos. 'To Iris, Xmas 1898Until Man blossoms into wingsand sits upon a cloud and singsHe has to dr…

Copper Sun

Cullen, Countee · 1927 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1927. . . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Decorated paper over boards, black cloth-backed, with yellow and black paper title labels to front cover and spine. Tightly bound hardc…

Poems

Michael Drayton · 1619 · Rooke Books

£2,400.00 (€2,877.20 | $3,171.27 | ¥506,471)

London, W. Stansby for John Swethwicke, 1619. Leather. A folio collection of the early poems of Michael Drayton, the popular Elizabethan poet, an important collection of his various poetical exploits. ESTC citation number S125214.The publisher is misspelled 'Swethwicke&apos…

Sobraniye Sochineniy V Chetyrekh Tomakh [Collected Works in Four Volumes] ???????? ????????? ? ??????? ?????. Volumes One and Two. I: Stikhi 1903-1915. II: Stikhi 1916-1921. ??? ??????. ??? ??????. Pod Redakciej Prof. G.P. Struve I B.A. Filippova (Russian Edition)

GUMILEV, N. (Nikolay) ??????? ??????? · 1962 · Marijana Dworski Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

Washington ????????? Vashington, Victor Kamkin ?????? ??????, 1962, 1964. Volumes I (1962) and volume II (1964). Original stiff card covers, lvi+333[xiv]pp. xl+365[xi]pp. Portrait frontispieces to both volumes. In very good condition. Clean and tight. Minor age darkening to cove…

Portrait à l'aquarelle et à l'encre de Paul Verlaine

Marie CRANCE - (Paul VERLAINE) · 1893 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)

Paris S.d (Circa 1893) | 19.20 x 22.50 cm | une feuille sous marie-louise | Portrait à l'encre et à l'aquarelle du poète Paul Verlaine par son amie Marie Crance, portant la signature de l'artiste et la mention manuscrite « Paul Verlaine à l'hôpital ». Une feuille sous cadre et …

Browning As a Philosophical & Religious Teacher

Henry Jones · 1911 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1911. Cloth. A later edition of this interesting study of the work of Robert Browning, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Later edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. With a frontispiece. An e…