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Present Tense: Photographs by Joann Verburg

Kismaric, Susan · 2007 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2007. Hardcover. Light yellow fabric casebound book with a color-illustrated matte dust jacket. There is yellow text on a white spine. Patterned end pages. 184 pages; profusely illustrated with a majority color images. "Through such formal dev…

Messrs Bat and Ball

Norman Gale · 1930 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Old Bilton, Rugby , Privately Printed by Norman Gale , 1930. First edition. Cloth. Very scarce copy of this first edition of this anthology of poems concerning cricket by Norman Gale, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, a very scarce copy, r…

Short Stories [Poems]

MERRILL, James (1926-1995) · 1954 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

Pawlet, Vt Claude Fredericks at the Banyan Press Limited Edition Only Printing of this scarce early collection, No. 147, one of the first 150 copies reserved for the poet and printer, from a limited edition of 210 numbered copies, of which only 60 copies were for sale. Slim demy…

Poetry Quarterly Volume 7, No. 2, Summer 1945

Wrey Gardiner [editor] · 1945 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, The Grey Walls Press, 1945. Paperback. A smart copy of the summer edition of Poetry Quarterly for the year 1945, edited by English writer Charles Wrey Gardiner. Volume 7, No. 2, Summer 1945. Uncommon issue. Founded in 1940, at just the time when the public demand for ver…

Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825) Life of John Sterling (1851) Two Biographies

Thomas Carlyle · 1893 · Rooke Books

£148.00 (€177.40 | $195.53 | ¥31,223)

London, Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1893. Leather. Two biographies on John Sterling and Frederick Schiller, written by Thomas Carlyle and bound by Baker & Son in full vellum. Two biographies in one volume. Later editions of both biographies. Bound in full vellum by Baker & Son with the…

William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends

Philip Henderson · 1967 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Thames and Hudson , 1967 . First edition. Hardback. A fine, first edition of this illustrated, biographical work of William Morris, by Philip Henderson. First edition, in the publisher's original decorated boards, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper.Written by…

Lullaby-Land: Songs of Childhood

Eugene Field; Kenneth Grahame [ed.] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1898 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this charming collection of children's poetry by American writer Eugene Field, selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. The first edition thus of this work.A charming poetry volume with …

Le Testament d'Orphee. Film. COCTEAU'S SIGNED PRESENTATON COPY TO LOUIS PAUWELS

COCTEAU Jean · 0 · Island Books

£680.00 (€815.09 | $898.38 | ¥143,459)

Editions du Rocher, Monaco, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, with 62 pages of full-page photographs from the film; grey tweed boards, upper board with mounted photograph [of Maria Casares] lettered in red, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION…

Allen Verbatim Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness

BALL, GORDON (EDITOR) ALLEN GINSBERG · 1974 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0070232857. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of…

Homer and His Critics

Myres, John L.; Dorothea Gray, ed. · 1958 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, slight bumping to spine head and foot, with …

Delle Novelle Di Franco Sacchetti

Franco Sacchetti · 1724 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Firenze, Not Stated, 1724. Leather. An anthology of the short stories of Franco Sacchetti, one of the most counterfeited works of the century. One of the pirated editions published in the same year as the true first, with the false 'Firenze' imprint, the work likely ha…

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.] · 0 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)

London, Hodder & Stoughton , c1920. First edition. Cloth. Edward FitzGerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's collection of poetical quatrains, adorned with Edmund Dulac's fantastic colour plates, and in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The Edmund Dulac illust…

Stories from Froissart

Henry Newbolt · 1899 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. 1899. First edition. Leather. Henry Newbolt spotlights thirteen episodes from Jean Froissart's Chronicles in this illustrated first edition. Thirteen episodes of Jean Froissart's Chronicles are reproduced in this attractive first ed…

Weepings and Wailings

J. C. Squire · 1935 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce collection of humorous verses from British writer Sir John Collings Squire. First edition. Very scarce. Illustrated throughout. A collection of humorous laments and elegies on the sub…

Les Dieux Ont Soif

Anatole France · 1921 · Rooke Books

£96.00 (€115.07 | $126.83 | ¥20,253)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1921. Leather. A finely bound copy of Anatole France's famous novel regarding the French Revolution. A finely bound copy of Anatole France's famous novel. In the original French. With the original paper wraps bound in with the text. Les Dieux ont S…

Wilderness

WARREN, ROBERT PENN · 1962 · S. Howlett-West Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

London, England: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp …

A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems

STERLING, GEORGE · 1909 · S. Howlett-West Books

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

San Francisco, CA: A. M. Robertson, 1909. 1st Edition; 1st state. Hardcover. First Edition, First State, with illustration of a chalice on the front cover. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some l…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Doris Grumbach with her SIGNED Copy of GINSBERG. A BIOGRAPHY by Barry Miles

GINSBERG, Allen · 121988 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.11 | £946.15 | ¥199,609)

New York. First Edition. A two-page handwritten letter on separate sheets SIGNED by Ginsberg to the writer Doris Grumbach asking for her assistance in getting one of his students, Brian Jackson, into the Iowa Writer's Workshop where she was a teacher at the time. The letter is t…

Poesies Nouvelle de Alfred de Musset, 1836-1852

Alfred de Musset · 1852 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Paris, Charpentier, 1852. Leather. A collection of poems by Alfred de Musset. A collection of poems by Alfred de Musset. Nouvelle edition. In French. Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December 1810 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his po…

Poems, Elegiac and Miscellaneous

Mr. Hackett · 1804 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, J. Carpenter, 1804 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this early 19th century collection of poems - 'elegiac and miscellaneous' - from Mr. Hackett, in an attractive straight grain morocco binding. The very scarce first edition of this wo…