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Louys, Pierre · 1902 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB
CA$81.21 (€51.63 | $56.91 | £43.07 | ¥9,087)
Paris Editions Jules Tallandier pp. xiii, 374. 4to. Bound in dark green half morocco over matching marbled boards. The boards are rubbed, with a few chips to the marbled paper. Spine lightly sunned with a touch of wear to the joints, which are otherwise strong and tight. Evidenc…
War Letters. Harry Crosby. First Limited Edition
Crosby, Harry (1898 -1929); Henrietta M. Crosby, editor ; Roger Lescaret, printer; Bacharach, David [?] photographer · 1921 · Wittenborn Art Books
$2,750.00 (€2,495.05 | £2,081.54 | ¥439,139)
Paris: The Black Sun Press, MCMXXXII. 4to. 17.7 x 23cm. VIII, 312, [2]pp. Original publisher's half tree calf; spine repaired and rubbed..One of 125 unnumbered copies on Navarre paper. Photogravure frontispiece dated 1921, and signed, possibly by David Bachrach (1845-1921), foun…
Quinti Horatii Flacci Poëmata - Scholiis Sive Annotationibus, Instar Commentarii, Illustrata À Joanne Bond
Quinti Horatii Flacci [ Horace ] & Bond, John · 1767 · Eastleach Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
typis Couret de Villeneuve, Aurelianis [ Orléans ] 1767 editio nova Speckled calf, VG. [ii]+vi+231pp, gilt ruled calf, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, complete with the half title, contemporary marginalia ( ink crosses ), leather a little rubbed especially to …
Conversations With Jorge Luis Borges
BURGIN, RICHARD · 1970 · Kalamos Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
New York, Discus Books/ Avon. 1970, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved,…
A Very Pleasant Evening With Stevie Smith Selected Short Prose
Stevie Smith · 1995 · Book Haven
NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)
New Directions Publishing 1995 Paperback, 89pp. "Stevie Smith is a magnificent wild card in the deck of this century's great writers--beyond category and past calculation. As Annie Dillard has said, "She is a wonder. " A great poet and novelist (Novel on Yellow Paper), Stevie Sm…
Orange Street. A novel.
S. P. B. MAIS. (Henry Williamson interest). · 1926 · Clearwater Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Grant Richards Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 406pp. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board with a double blind border and an ornate black-stamped rule. Publisher's disclaimer slip tipped to the head of the first text leaf, a…
Chants Du Desespere
Vildrac, Charles · 1920 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)
Paris, France, Librairie Gallimard, Librairie Generale, Livres Anciens et Modernes, 1920. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Unique in the trade, there being no additional copies available on-line currently in this state and condition, being a First Edition copy…
A Bed of Roses (Modern Library #75. 1)
GEORGE, W. L. · 1921 · Bluebird Books
$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)
New York: The Modern Library / Boni & Liveright, Inc, [c.1921]. Flexible Leatherette. A Modern Library reprint edition of the first novel by Italy's Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938). The author was a poet, journalist and military leader. Text of the novel rendered into English by…
Fables.London, printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727 (volume 1); printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738 (volume 2). 2 volumes. 4to. Volume 1 with an engraved illustration on the title page, and 51 engraved illustrations (1 for each fable) engraved by Gerard Vandergucht, Paul Fourdrinier, Bernard Baron and Andrew Motte. Volume 2 with an engraved frontispiece, showing Gay's memorial monument, a small engraved author's portrait on title page, and 16 engraved plates (one for each fable), engraved by Gérard Scotin after drawings by Hubert-François Gravelot. Green morocco (ca. 1900), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, gold fillets on boards and board-edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (Riviere & son).
GAY, John. · 1685 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[14], 173, [1 blank]; [12], 155, [1 blank] pp.Attractively bound first editions of the two series of fables written by the celebrated English poet and dramatist John Gay (1685-1732). Gay became famous with the present publication of Fables and the opera The beggar's opera, first…
Sir John Vanbrugh: Architect and Dramatist
Sir John Vanbrugh; Laurence Whistler · 1938 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A biographical work on this seventeenth century architect and dramatist. First edition. Illustrated throughout, with fifteen plates of buildings designed by Sir John Vanbrugh. Collated, complete. With the signature of one Joh…
Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883
Edward Fitzgerald; William Aldis Wright [ed.] · 1895 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of letters sent from Edward Fitzgerald to life-long friend, Fanny Kemble. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with two plates.…
Child Life: A Collection of Poems
John Greenleaf Whittier · 1897 · Rooke Books
£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)
London, James Nisbet and Co. 1897. Cloth. A collection of poetry for children edited by John Greenleaf Whittier, bound in pictorial cloth and illustrated throughout. Containing the verses of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Mary Lamb, Allan Cunningham, Elizabeth Barratt Browning, William …
Marcian Colonna an Italian Tale with Three Dramatic Scenes and Other Poems
Barry Cornwall [Bryan Waller Procter] · 1821 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, John Warren, 1821. Leather. A smart full calf volume of this new edition of poetry published under the pseudonym of B. W. Procter. A smart new edition volume of verse. Bound in full red calf, and decorated with gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers and speckled text b…
Antique title page | OEUVRES DIVERSES DE MR BERNARD DE FONTENELLE, published 1728, 1 p.
Bernard Picart (1673-1733) after Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) · 1727 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)
€102.85 ($113.36 | £85.80 | ¥18,102)
Beautiful emblematic title print to the: 'OEUVRES DIVERSES DE MR BERNARD DE FONTENELLE' with a portrait of the poet by Rigaud, in an oval held by flying putti. On the bottom right Apollo with his lyre is looking towards the portrait, while the muses are seated in front of him. O…
Soldier's Joy
BELL, MADISON SMARTT · 1989 · Round Table Books, LLC
$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)
NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1989. 0899198368. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0899198368. Quarter bound in publisher's burgundy cloth over green boards, gilt lettering on spine, blue endpapers. Madison Smartt Bell (b. 1957) is a critically acclaimed novelist. Over the l…
Save Me, Joe Louis
BELL, MADISON SMARTT · 1993 · Round Table Books, LLC
$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1993. 0151794324. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0151794324. Quarter bound in publisher's blue cloth over orange boards, metallic bronze lettering on spine. Madison Smartt Bell (b. 1957) is a critically acclaimed novelist. …
A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson
William Prideaux Courtney; David Nichol Smith; R. W. Chapman; Allen T. Hazen · 1984 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)
Delaware, Oak Knoll Books and Gerald M. Goldberg, 1984. Cloth. A very pleasing facsimile reprint of this bibliographical reference to the works of Samuel Johnson, with the original supplement. Facsimile of the 1925 edition, with the preface of the 1915 edition and the supplement…
An English and Italian Dictionary
Joseph Baretti [Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti] · 1816 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
Florence , John Marenigh, 1816. Vellum. The very scarce first Florentine edition of Joseph Baretti's popular English-Italian dictionary, bound in vellum. The first Florentine edition, carefully revised and corrected. "Containing many words and phrases which have never appea…
Algier Und Paris
Ludwig Rellstabd · 1831 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
Berlin, Friedrich Laue, 1831. First edition. Leather. A first edition of these scarce short stories by nineteenth century German music critic and author, Ludwig Rellstab. A first edition of these two scarce short stories by German music critic and poet, Ludwig Rellstab. Publishe…
Debris Selections from Poems
MORRIS, MADGE (MADGE MORRIS HILYARD WAGNER) · 1881 · S. Howlett-West Books
$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)
Sacramento, CA: H. S. Crocker & Co, Printers, 1881. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have edge wear, bumping, rubbing and fraying. The spine joints have r…