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Letters to Howard Moss, Poetry Editor of New Yorker

Moser, Norman · 1956 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Raleigh, NC: Norman Moser, 1956. Two letters, ALS and TLS, from poet and editor Norman Moser to Howard Moss, poetry editor at the New Yorker. The first, handwritten on New Yorker letterhead (upside down), is a self-introduction ("I am a serviceman just returned from 3 years over…

Ovid.

MACK, S., · 1988 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Yale University Press, New Haven / London, 1988. IX,180p. Wireless. Card board. Cover bit used. Binding cracked between pp.86-87. Edges bit stained. Bit crooked. ‘Hermes Books are intended to be written in ‘clear, lively and graceful English without polysyllabic language or par…

My Darling Heriott

Jane Brown · 2006 · Book Haven

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

HarperCollins Publishers 2006 Paperback, 320pp. Henrietta St John was born on St Swithun’s Day in 1699 into a world of wealth, privilege and seeming security. Beloved sister of rake and statesman. Viscount Bolingbroke, she grew up in Hogarthian London and Wiltshire, her ancestra…

Childhood

Githa Sowerby · 1907 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this colourful collection of children's poetry by the sister duo Millicent and Githa Sowerby, complete with Millicent's twelve colour plates. The first edition of this work.A collection of nine…

Talks About Autographs

George Birkbeck Hill · 1896 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Boston & New York, Houghton, Miffin, & Co. 1896. Cloth. An interesting tome on the practise of collecting autographs, by this English man of letters. He opens the book with an anecdote about the poet Longfellow, who recorded in his diary: "March 23, 1854. A snowstorm. Write and …

Looms of Life

Herman Scheffauer · 1908 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

New York and Washington, The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of an early poetry collection by Herman Scheffauer, the author's presentation copy. First edition.Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto to the front e…

Aurelien

Louis Aragon · 1946 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Pilot Press Ltd , 1946. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of Louis Aragon's sweeping novel set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, with the very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first English edition.With the publisher's very scarce or…

Mothers and Sons Stories

TOIBIN, COLM · 2007 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, NY: Scribner, 2007. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1416534652. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright co…

Flavii Aviani fabulae, cum commentariis selecties Albini scholiastae veteris, notisque integris Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti et Casparis Barthii: quibus animaversiones suas adjecit Henricus Cannegieter. Accedit ejusdem dissertatio de Aetate et stilo Flavii Aviani.Amsterdam, Martinus Schagen, 1731. 8vo. With an engraved printer’s device (‘Dum spargit sperat’) on title-page (which is printed in red and black), and some woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary paper over boards, manuscript title on spine.

AVIANUS. · 1731 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

[24], 324, [72] pp.Most important first scholarly edition of the famous 42 fables by the Latin poet Avianus (ca. 400 AD) in its original edition. A parallel edition appeared at the same time in Leiden by Johannes van der Linden in 1731.The editor, Hendrik Cannegieter (1691-1770)…

Poems

Matthew Arnold · 1895 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1895 . Leather. An elegantly bound collection of poetry by Matthew Arnold, complete in three volumes, in a Bickers prize binding. Bound by Bickers in a full morocco prize binding, with the motif for Repton School to the front cover. A striking binding w…

Sugar and Other Stories

A.S Byatt · 1987 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London , Chatto & Windus, 1987 . First edition. Cloth. A marvelous signed first edition of 11 captivating short stories by Booker Prize winning author A.S. Byatt. The first edition of the work.Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. In publisher's original black c…

Nostalgia Neurosis & Other Poems

Penelope Shuttle · 1968 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Aylesford, Saint Albert's Press, 1968 . First edition. Cloth. One of fourteen copies printed out of series of this collection of poetry by award winning writer Penelope Shuttle, signed by the author. A very scarce limited edition copy, with this being one of fourteen copies…

Les Chants Du Bivouac

Theodore Botrel · 1915 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

Paris, Librairie Payot et Cle, 1915 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce presentation copy of this collection of soldier songs by France's official 'Bard of the Armies', Theodore Botrel. A scarce work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, …

Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio · 1924 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Berlin, Neufeld & Henius , 1924. Cloth. An illustrated two volume set of this important collection of short stories from Boccaccio, translated into the German language. German language. Two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with colour frontispiece and nine coloured plates. Vol…

Saratoga Swimmer & Saratoga Fleshpot

Stephen Dobyns · 1981 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London; New York, Allison & Busby; W. W. Norton & Company , 1981-1995. First edition. Cloth. Two very smart first editions from Dobyns, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Two volumes. Written by Stephen Dobyns, an American poet and novelist. From the Charlie Bradshaw ser…

Die Darstellung der Kinetik bei Lukrez.

MÜLLER, G., · 1959 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1959. 130p. Sewn. Front cover and first pages to lower part a bit punched. Upper corner a bit creased through and through. Series: Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für griechisch-römische Altertumskunde, Arbeitsgruppe für hellenis…

Carmina, De imagine

Iohannes Scottus Eriugena (auth), Michael W. Herren, Andrew Dunning, Chiara O. Tommasi, Giovanni Mandolino (eds) · 2020 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€205.00 ($225.95 | £171.02 | ¥36,081)

, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, clvii + 201 pages, Size:155 x 245 mm, Illustrations:5 col., Languages: English, Latin, Greek. ISBN 9782503551746. Summary John Scottus Eriugena's Carmina reflect not only his central philosophical and theological ideas, but also his literary education…

Sonetti Di Anton Maria Salvini Accademico Della Crusca

Anton Maria Salvini · 1728 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.21 | $779.47 | ¥124,472)

Firenze, Nella Stamperia di sua Altezza Reale, 1728. First edition. Vellum. The first edition of this anthology of the sonnets of Anton Maria Salvini, illustrated with a frontispiece. The first edition.In the original Italian.Half-title is present.Illustrated with a portrait fro…

Les Peintres Militaires: Contenant Les Biographies de MM. De Neuville, Detaille, Berne-Bellecour, Dupray, Jazet, Couturier, Sergent, Chaperon, Protais, Medard Et Walker

Eugène Montrosier · 1881 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

Paris, Librarie Artistique, 1881 . First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound, limited edition of this illustrated work on military artists, compiled by Eugène Montrosier. Bound in a wonderful half morocco with marbled boards. Number thirty-one of the limited, deluxe edition. I…

Dos açores Cartas. 1. A Parte [and] Segunda Parte (S. Miguel) [Two Volumes in One]

Bulhão Pato, Raymundo Antonio · 1868 · Kaaterskill Books

$275.00 (€249.51 | £208.15 | ¥43,914)

Ponta-Delgada, Typ. da Voz da Liberdade, 1868. First edition. Three quarter black morocco over textured blue leather boards, gilt title and rules on spine, silk endpapers. 96 pp. 16mo. Raimundo António de Bulhão Pato (1828-1912) was a Portuguese essayist, poet, and translator of…