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Gotthard de Beauclair: Buchgestalter, Lyriker, Verleger 1907-1992 Leben Und Werk

Gert Fischer; Heinz Richter [editors] · 1996 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Siegburg, Rheinlandia Verlag, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this study of the life and work of German publisher Gotthard de Beauclair, in the original German. German. First edition. Illustrated with five black-and-white photographic plates and sixty-n…

Italy

Samuel Rogers · 1830 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, T Cadell et al. 1830. Leather. An attractive copy of the first illustrated edition of this poet's masterpiece. In a full straight grained morocco binding, with gilt detailing. The first illustrated edition of this work, published in 1830.Despite being one of the mos…

Das Tränenmeer, Band 2.

[Avant-garde]. Roth, Dieter (Rot, Diter) (1930-1998). · 1973 · Fahrenheit 451

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

Stuttgart, hansjörg mayer, 1973, 264,(1) pag., ilustrations by Dieter Roth on the left pages, the opposite pages with a short (1 or 2-line) text, printed in 200 numbered copies by Helgasonur (Reykjavik), untrimmed and for the greater part unopened, modern black leather embossed …

Poems

DUGAN, Alan (1923-2003) · 1961 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

New Haven Yale University Press First Edition First Printing of this important debut, awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Selected and introduced by Dudley Fitts. Slim crown 8vo (203 x 124mm): xiii,[1],62,[2]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven plum-colored cl…

Ioniko Lektiko ston Platona. Meros A'. Syntaxi. Meros B'. Phonitiki.

SAKALIS, D.Th., · 1978 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Panepistimio Ioanninon, Ionannina, 1978/80. 2 vols. 220,158p. Sewn. Head and tail spine vol.1 bit worn. Lower corner front cover vol.1 little bit creased. Fading personal library mark from KJD on tail spine. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Pen markings and…

Arrangements In Blue

Amy Key · 2023 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Jonathan Cape 2023 Hardback. When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forti…

Scherzi poetici e pittorici. (Colophon: Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1795). 8vo (22 x 14 cm). With engraved title-page and 40 engraved plates (plate size: ca. 7 x 11 cm). Richly gold-tooled red morocco by Rémy Petit (active 1855-1900), spine with 5 raised bands resulting in 6 compartments, one with black title-label and the other five gold-tooled with black oval inlays; the sides with gilt triple fillet borders, corner ornaments with same oval inlays and a central oval ornament (gold on green); further with gilt fillets on board edges and richly gold-tooled turn-ins with a floral motive, gilt edges.

[ROSSI, Giovanni Gherardo de]. · 1754 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,200.00 ($7,935.71 | £6,006.72 | ¥1,267,230)

[52] ll.One of the several issues of the elegant first edition of a collection of allegorical poetry by the playwright, poet and scholar Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi (1754-1827), containing epigrams, sonnets and other poems dedicated to love, featuring Venus and Cupid. It is one o…

Vuit poemes. Vuit aiguaforts. With original signed etchings by Arranz-Bravo, Roser Bru, Hernàndez Pijuan, Robert Llimós, Albert Ràfols Casamada, Antoni Tàpies, Miquel Vilà, and J. Vives Campomar.

Joan Brossa, Josep Carner, Narcís Comadira, Joan Ferraté, Gabriel Ferrater, Pere Gimferrer, and Salvador Oliva. Illustrated by Arranz-Bravo, Roser Bru, Hernàndez Pijuan, Robert Llimós, Albert Ràfols Casamada, Antoni Tàpies, Miquel Vilà, and J. Vives Camp · 1983 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$2,250.00 (€2,041.41 | £1,703.07 | ¥359,296)

Barcelona, An outstanding portfolio comprising 8 large folio sheets of fine wove paper enveloped in protective sheets, each with an original etching signed in pencil by the artist and, underneath, a poem signed by the poet (the poems by Carner and Ferrater are not signed because…

Chrysal; or, a Story with an End

Frances Freeling Broderip · 1861 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Saunders, Otley and Co, 1861. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce children's fantasy novel by Frances Freeling Broderip, the first edition of this illustrated work. The first edition of this very scarce work. A charming work for children by Frances Freeling Broderi…

Lirici Antichi Serj E Giocosi Fino Al Secolo XVI

Dante Alighieri; Lorenzo de' Medici; Angelo Poliziano; Andrea Rubbi [ed.] · 1812 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Venice, Pietro Bernardi, 1812. Leather. A scarce collection of ancient lyric poetry, part of the Parnaso Italiano collection. A scarce work in a half calf binding, with the binder's label of Carss & Co. to the front paste down. Engravings pasted onto the verso of the first …

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk; Erdag M. Goknar · 2001 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Faber and Faber, 2001. First edition. Paperback. The first English edition of Orhan Pamuk's reclaimed novel about minaturists in the Ottoman Empire, translated here into English by Erdag Goknar. Held in the original publisher's unclipped dustwrapper. The first …

A Walk from London to Fulham

Thomas Crofton Croker; T. F. Dillon Croker [editor] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, William Tegg, 1860. Cloth. An illustrated copy of this historical account of the author's observations during a journey from London to Fulham. Illustrated throughout. Intended to preserve the memory of places that may soon be lost due to urban development, this acco…

Quite Early One Morning: Broadcasts by Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas; Aneirin Talfan Davies [preface] · 1954 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1954. First edition. Cloth. A first impression of this collection of the broadcasts of Dylan Thomas, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the o…

Happily Ever After

Ian Serraillier · 1963 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Oxford University Press, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this delightful children's poetry collection, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's full cloth binding, with the original, unclipped du…

Poems of Felicia Hemans

Felicia Hemans · 1854 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1854. Leather. A lovely prize bound edition of the collected poems of Felicia Hemans, illustrated with a frontispiece. In a prize binding from Cheltenham Training College with their crest to the front board. Prize inscription to the recto to …

Picturesque America

William Cullen Bryant · 1872 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

New York, D Appleton and Company, 1872-74. First edition. Leather. The complete two volumes of this popular travel text. A beautifully illustrated series which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton's Journal. The volumes describe and illustrate the scenery of America. T…

A Trojan Ending

Laura Riding · 1937 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, The Seizin Press - Deya Majorca and Constable & Company, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. A smart example of the first UK edition of Laura Riding's celebrated novelistic retelling of the final years of the Trojan war. The first UK edition, first impression, in the publi…

Cougar Hunter: A Memoir of Roderick Haig-Brown. {Limited Edition. Copy Number 1}.

AL PURDY - RODERICK HAIG-BROWN · 1992 · Bruce Cave Fine Books

$300.00 (€272.19 | £227.08 | ¥47,906)

Vancouver, British Columbia. The Phoenix Press. 1992. Limited edition. Book number 1 of 15 copies published. Octavo (9 x 6). 80 pp. including the colophon. The book is signed by Al Purdy and Alex Widen on the limitation page. Without explanation this copy number 1 does not have …

Sketches from St. George&Apos;S Fields

Giorgione Di Castel Chiuso · 1821 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, R. and M. Stodart, 1821. First edition. Leather. A very scarce copy of this collection of poetry written by Peter Bayley, or better known by his pen name, Giorgione di Castel Chiuso. First series, second edition. Illustrated throughout with in-text illustrations. Giorgio…

Poems by Mrs. Felicia Heman, a New Collection / Mrs. Hemans's Earlier Poems (2 Volumes)

Heman, Felicia · 1828 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

Boston, Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1828. Hardcover. 2 vols. Three-quarters brown paper boards with brown cloth spines, tan title blocks on spines, total 689 pp. A two-volume set, alternately titled "Mrs. Hemans's Earlier Poems" and "Poems by Mrs. Felicia Heman." Felici…