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Alfred de Vigny · 1897 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1897. Leather. A collection of plays by French dramatist Alfred de Vigny. Comprising of Chatterton, La Marechale D'Ancre, Quitte Pour La Peur, La More de Venise, and Shylock. Two of these are adaptations and translations of Shakespeare's Othello an…

Proverbial Philosophy

Martin F. Tupper · 1853 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, T. Hatchard, 1853 . Leather. The fourteenth edition of this popular collection of poetry by bestselling writer Martin Farquhar Tupper, in a full morocco binding. The fourteenth edition. In a full black morocco binding, with a gilt to fore edge.Illustrated with a portrait…

Idyls and Rhymes.

COLLINS (Mortimer) · 1845 · Forest Books

£134.38 (€161.08 | $177.53 | ¥28,350)

Dublin: J. MC Clashan; W. S. Orr and Company, London; Stephen Barbet, Jun., Guernsey, 1845. First edition, 96 pp., original pink embossed cloth, spine slightly faded, lettered in gilt on upper cover, uncut and partly unopened, a very nice copy. The author’s first book. Collins…

Obras completas.

Becquer, Gustavo Adolfo. · 1961 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Con un prólogo Semblanza de Becquer por Joaquin y Serafin : Alvarez Quintero, Madrid : Aguilar, 1961. 10th edition. Contemp. calf binding. 1369 pp. With portrait. Spanish text. Fine copy. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Complete works …

Songs and Verses on Sporting Subjects

R. E. Egerton-Warburton · 1879 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, William Pickering , 1879. First edition. Cloth. A scarce anthology of poetry by R.E. Egerton-Warburton, a bright example. The first edition of this work, a scarce book. Containing an anthology of poetry concerning sporting subjects including fox-hunting, farming, hunters…

Des Publius Ovidius Naso Lehrbuch Der Liebe

Ovid · 1921 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.36 | $634.15 | ¥101,265)

Berlin, Paul Cassirer, 1921. Vellum. A first edition of Ovid's Ars Amatoria in German. A first edition of Ovid's Ars Amatoria in German. Illustrated with head and tail pieces by Max Slevogt. This edition limited to 320 copies of which this is 168. Ars Amatoria (The Art…

Notre frère Rabearivelo

Armand GUIBERT · 1941 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Edmond Charlot | Alger 1941 | 16 x 22 cm | agrafé | Edition originale imprimée à 400 exemplaires numérotés. Plats légèrement salis, agréable état intérieur. Nous joignons une carte postale photographique représentant Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Envoi autographe daté et signé d'Arma…

Dires du bois des pierres et du feu

Armand MONJO · 1985 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

Rougerie | Mortemart 1985 | 14.50 x 23 cm | broché | Edition originale. Agréable exemplaire malgré une petite tache en pied du premier plat. Envoi autographe daté et signé d'Armand Monjo au poète Charles Dobzynski : "... ces poèmes de dialogue et de salutation pour nos frères le…

Bonjour et adieu à la négritude suivi de Travaux d'identité

René DEPESTRE · 1980 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Robert Laffont | Paris 1980 | 13.50 x 21.50 cm | broché | Edition originale pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers. Agréable exemplaire complet de son prière d'insérer. Envoi autographe daté et signé de René Depestre au poète Charles Dobzynski et sa femme Eliane : "…

Mythologies

Yvonne FERRAND-WEYHER - Pierre PASCAL · 1934 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

Editions du trident | Paris 1934 | 29 x 39.50 cm | en feuilles | Edition originale imprimée à 150 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin Ronsard. Plats légèrement et marginalement insolés et piqués, agréable état intérieur. Envoi autographe signé d'Yvonne Ferrand-Weyher à Jean Lebrau :…

Alma Roma : a travellers' companion to Rome

MACKINNON, ALBERT GLENTHORN · 1927 · Kalamos Books

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

London Glasgow, Blackie & Son. 1927, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, Original vintage travel guide to Rome c.1920. "This book is partly based upon Roba di Roma, a work written by William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), the American sculptor and poet, and originally published in the …

Fata Morgana: Poems

COSMA, FLAVIA · 2003 · Kalamos Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Lampeter, Wales, Edwin Mellen Press. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0773434828) Decorative Cloth. Book, A collection of poems by a Romanian-Canadian author.Translated from Romanian by Don Wilson and the author, the poems in this volume are in both Romanian and English. 89p Flavia C…

Livres de Pierre Lecuire: Catalogue

Lecuire, Pierre · 1969 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Paris, Editions des Livres de Pierre Lecuire, 1969. Softcover. Cream paper wraps, 25 pp. (technically: six loose signatures and one single sheet helf in a double-fold portfolio), one illus. on cover. Text is in French. A catalogue of 15 publications or printings offered by Frenc…

Ted Hughes: A Bibliography 1946-1980

Sagar, Keith and Stephen Tabor · 1983 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, England, Mansell Publishing Limited, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and due homage to and a thorough bibliography of the poet Ted Hughes' output between 1946 and 1980, with full details, year by year, item by item. Sturdy, attractive, tig…

This. Broadside No. 1

Olson, Charles. Cernovich, Nicola · 1952 · Mare Booksellers

$486.00 (€440.94 | £367.86 | ¥77,608)

Black Mountain, NC, Black Mountain College Workshop, Publisher, 1952. Soft Cover. Single sheet, 24 by 18 inches, folded in quarters. Printed on a single side only. With original printed envelope. Bluish-green colored paper. A broadside poem by Charles Olson, accompanied by a pri…

Walt Whitman: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography and Notes, Revised Edition (American Writers Series)

WHITMAN, WALT (AUTHOR); STOVALL, FLOYD (EDITOR) · 1939 · Bluebird Books

$23.50 (€21.32 | £17.79 | ¥3,753)

New York: American Book Company, 1939. Hardcover. A selection of writings by the eminent American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). The writings are analyzed and explained in detail by editor Floyd Stovall, who has supplied a lengthy introduction and bibliography. With frontis port…

Het voorhof der ziele, behangen met leerzaeme prenten en zinnebeelden.Rotterdam, F. van Hoogstraten (colophon: Hendrik van Puer), 1668. 4to. With a fine engraved allegorical frontispiece and 60 fine engraved emblems in the text, all by Romeyn de Hooghe. Contemporary tree-marbled boards.

[HOOGSTRATEN, Frans van]. · 1645 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)

[16], 199, [9] pp.Rare first edition of a beautiful emblem book on vanitas; the first work illustrated by Romeyn de Hooghe. The emblems, in first and fresh impression, show vivid scenes of daily life, including fishing and hunting, a fire brigade in action, a surgeon performing …

dag en nacht - Vijftig Stadsfoto's van 's-ochtends tot 's-avonds met gedichten van Lucebert

Cas Oorthuys, Carel Blazer, Violette Cornelius, Eddy Posthuma de Boer, Lucebert · 1959 · Amstelbooks.com - Photography Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

Hilversum: G. van Saane "Lectura Architectonica". First edition, first printing. 40 pp., 29 x 22. Condition: Near Fine (NF). Some spotting and toning. Fifty black-and-white city photographs arranged to follow a day in the city, from morning to evening, each sequence paired with …

Don"T Call Me by My Right Name and Other Stories

James Purdy · 1956 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

New York, The William-Frederick Press, 1956. First edition. Paperback. A very smart signed copy of this short-story collection from James Purdy. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. First edition, first printing. Bound in the publisher's wraps.James Purdy was a…

Classic literature, Prize binding 1684 I Comoediae. Accedit commentaries ex variorum notis & observationibus Joh. Frederici Gronovi. Amsterdam, Blaviana (Bleau), 1684 [2 parts in 1 volume], [24]+624 pp.

Plautus, Titus Maccius · 1699 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€430.55 ($474.54 | £359.19 | ¥75,779)

Parchment ‘prijsband’ (prize binding; a book that was awarded to students who conducted outstanding performances) with the city arms of Rotterdam on the front and back. The book was awarded to Albertus van der Sporre at his promotion from second to third grade of the Erasmium at…