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Angels of Pompeii

BRIGIDI, STEPHEN; ROBERT BLY · 1992 · Round Table Books, LLC

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY: Ballantine Books, 1992. 0345377419. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0345377419. Illustrated by Stephen Brigidi. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped lettering and medallion on cover, gray endpapers. This book is a collect…

Portrait photographique de Jacques Prévert enrichi d'un envoi autographe signé

Izis BIDERMANAS - Jacques PRÉVERT · 1950 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€2,800.00 ($3,086.11 | £2,335.94 | ¥492,812)

s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [ca 1950] | 23 x 27.50 cm | une photographie | Très belle photographie originale en tirage argentique d'époque, montée sur carton, représentant Jacques Prévert fumant face à l'enclos d'un d'éléphant dont la trompe dépasse à travers les barreaux. L'enclos es…

Poems, with an Account of His Life and Writings.

Alexander WIlson · 1816 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Paisley, J. Neilson, 1816. First edition. Leather. The first edition of a very scarce posthumous collection of poems from the 'Father of American Ornithology', inspired by the dialect verse of Robert Burns. The first edition of Poems, a posthumous collection of poems b…

Mr. Hervey&Apos;S Contemplations on a Flower-Garden, Done Into Blank Verse

T. Newcomb; James Hervey · 1757 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, J. Rivington and J. Fletcher, 1757 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this very scarce blank verse poem by English clergyman and teacher Thomas Newcomb. A charming and very scarce mid eighteenth century blank verse poem, constructed by Thomas Newcomb from c…

Bertrud and Other Dramatic Poems

Lady Margaret Sackville · 1911 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Edinburgh, William Brown, 1911 . First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first edition of this work of poetry from English poet and children's author Lady Margaret Sackville, second cousin of Vita Sackville-West. A Limited Edition work, with 200 copies printed on Van Geld…

Poems for Charles Causley

Various · 1982 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, The Enitharmon Press, 1982. First edition. Paperback. A signed first edition of this commemorative poetry collection, published for the sixty-fifth birthday of Charles Causley. Inscribed by David Gascoyne. The first edition of this work.Inscribed by David Gascoyne to his…

Quite Early One Morning

Dylan Thomas · 1954 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1954 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart example of the first edition of Dylan Thomas's literary anthology. The first edition, first impression of this work. The first issue, with periods after the words 'sailors' to pages 3 and 11.In t…

Strong Words: Poetry In A Russian And English Edition

Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin and Andrei Voznesnsky · 2013 · Book Haven

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,954)

Exile Editions Ltd 2013 Paperback 154 Celebrating three Russian literary greats--Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, and Andrei Voznesensky--this collection of their writing presents new translations of a combined 44 poems and includes both Russian and English text. Nearly 20 art…

Antique portrait print, engraving | Portrait of Constantijn Huygens, published ca. 1657, 1 p.

Paulus Pontius (1603-1658), after Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) · 1596 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€302.50 ($333.41 | £252.37 | ¥53,241)

Portrait of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687), half-length in front of a cloudy sky, turned slightly to left but looking towards the viewer, with long hair, moustache and beard, resting his left hand on a book.Huygens recorded in his diary of 28 January 1632 that Van Dyck made a p…

[Literature 1842] Leven en karakter van Johannes Henricus van der Palm. Leiden, D. du Mortier en zoon, 1842, [18] 184.

Beets, Nicolaas · 1940 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€65.40 ($72.08 | £54.56 | ¥11,511)

Cardboarded, 8°. Opposite to the title page is a steel-engraved portrait of Van der Palm by J.P. Lange after C.H. Hodges. Both pages discolored due to an old newspaper clipping (1940) enclosed in the book.Nicolaas Beets, husband of Van der Palm's granddaughter Aleide, described …

De Re Beneficiaria Liber Singularis sive Quæstionis celebris et difficilis, an & quibus in casibus liceat homini Christiano absque culpâ & peccato plura Beneficia ecclesiastica possidere, anakrisis. Curâ & studioTheologi Parisiensis abbatis Sidichembechensis.

[BOILEAU (Jacques)]: · 1710 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

No place No publisher 1710. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 159 x 92 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 296 [297 - 308 Index, 309 - 310 Errata], contemporary sheepskin, spine richly gilt in compartments, red leather label; top and base of spine slightly chipped, upper front joint slightly cracke…

A Witness Tree

Robert Frost · 1943 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1943. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this poetry collection from American writer Robert Frost, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First UK edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A poetry collection, most of which are short lyric, awarde…

Die Miniaturen des Vergilius Vaticanus.

VERGILIUS. Wit,John de. · 1959 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1959. 216 pp. 40 loose plts b./w. ills (collotypes) rear-pocket. Orig. hardcover (gilt lettered light light blue cloth), d./j. 4to.Scholarly publication dedicated to one of the most important and oldest manuscripts of classical antiquity: the Vergi…

Poems in Two Volumes

William Cowper · 1814 · Rooke Books

£119.99 (€143.83 | $158.52 | ¥25,314)

London, William Lewis, 1814-1816. Leather. A two volume illustrated set of Poems by William Cowper. Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering. Volume I is dated 1816. Volume II is dated 1814. William Cowper, 1731 – 1800, was an English poet and…

H.R. Giger's Necronomicon. English translation by Nicolas Fry.

Giger, H.R. (1940-2014). · 1978 · Fahrenheit 451

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

London, Big O Publishing, 1978, 1st English ed., 78,(8) (incl. backwrapper), b/w illustrations by H.R. Giger, b/w photographic illustrations, paperback, foluio (42 x 29,8 cm.). = H.R. Giger's Necronomicon, a renowned art book in oversized paperback format by the Swiss artist fa…

Joachim, Ou, le Triomphe de la Piete Filiali Drame Et Trois Actes Et En Vers, Suivi D&Apos;Un Choix de Poesies Fugitivies

Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore · 1775 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Amsterdam; Paris, Delalain; Le Jay; Ruault; Brunet, 1775. First edition. Leather. An uncommon first edition play in verse and selection of poetry by Blin de Sainmore, in the original French. In the original French.The first edition of this uncommon work.A poetical drama by Blin …

Let Quebec Go!

Forster, Victor W. · 1983 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines, Member of

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

Good No dust jacket as issued Vic Forster Publishing First Edition "Exposes the fact that France ordered secret agents into Canada on a planned project of subversion! Publicizes the fact that France, faced with a drastic decline in the use of the French language worldwide, initi…

Corsendonca, sive Coenobii canonicorum regularium Ordinis S. Augustini de Corsendoncq, origo et progressus, auctore Ioanne Latomo, Throni Mariani iuxta Herentaliam Coenobiarcha. Ioannes Hoybergius S.T.B.F. Prior Corsendoncanus nunc primum edidit, continuavit & notationibus illustravit. Quibus non solum multa quae ad Brabantiae Historiam pertinent, sed & variorum Coenobiorum origines e tenebris eruuntur.

LATOMUS,J. · 1644 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€575.00 ($633.75 | £479.70 | ¥101,202)

Antwerp (Antverpiae), Apud Hieronymum Verdussium, 1644. 8vo. (XVI),180,(28 index) p. Calf. 15 cm (Ref: Beledimar 962; In STCV; NNBW 2,787/88) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Morocco shield in the second compartment. Edges of the boards gilt. Marbled endpapers) (Co…

Three Hundred Games and Pastimes; or, What Shall We Do Now?

Edward Verrall Lucas; Elizabeth Lucas · 1903 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Grant Richards, 1903. Cloth. A smart third edition of this charming collection of games and pastimes for children to enjoy. Third edition. A scarce early edition of this work. Illustrated throughout. A charming collection of ideas for games and pastimes to entertain chil…

Cock-a-Doodle-Don&Apos;T!

Ivor Cutler · 1966 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Dennis Dobson, 1966. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon, illustrated compilation of humourous stories from Ivor Cutler, neatly presented in the original dust wrapper. First edition. Uncommon. In the publisher's original cloth binding, presented…