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Between Friends: Letters of James Branch Cabell and Others
Padraic Colum; Margaret Freeman Cabell [ed.] · 1962 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1962. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this excellent correspondence between important American literary figurers of the 1920s. The first edition of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper…
Captain Swing a Romantic Play of 1830
F. Brett Young; W. Edward Stirling · 1919 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
London, W. Collins Sons and Co Ltd. 1919. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this play by F. Brett Young and W. Edward Stirling. The first edition of the work. First performed at the Repertory Theatre, Plymouth on May 26th 1919. Scarce. The work is based upon the la…
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: Saviour of Society
Robert Browning · 1871 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1871. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Robert Browning's lesser known long poem concerning the French Emperor Napoleon III. First edition. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.This long poem by Robert Browning …
Paléontologie Française. Description des Fossiles de la France continuée par une réunion de paléontologistes. Animaux Invertébrés. Terrain Jurassique. Tome XII. Zoophytes. Atlas.
Orbigny, A. dâÇÖ [by L.E.G. de Fromentel & H. Testot-Ferry] · 1865 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer
€165.00 ($181.86 | £137.65 | ¥29,041)
1865-1869 60 lithographed plates, loose in two printed installment wrappers. Uncut copy. A few plates with some very slight foxing, but the great majority of the plates are very clean. The lithographed plates are masterfully executed by the first author De Fromentel, after plate…
Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady (By a Gentleman with a Blue Beard) and Famous Love Affairs
MARQUIS, DON · 1929 · S. Howlett-West Books
$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1929. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stuart Hay. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends an…
Collected Poems of Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Geoffrey Winthrop Young · 1936 · Rooke Books
£108.00 (€129.46 | $142.68 | ¥22,785)
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1936. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from Geoffrey Winthrop Young, signed by Eleanor Winthrop Young. The first edition in the publisher's original cloth, signed by Eleanor Winthrop Young to the front free …
Incarnate Isis
Shaw Desmond · 1941 · Rooke Books
£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)
London, Hutchinson, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Shaw Desmond's thrilling 1941 novel, a tale of reincarnation set in Ancient Egypt. In the charmingly illustrated original dust wrapper. The very scarce first edition, first impression.In the o…
To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials, with Other Pieces
Edmund Blunden · 1931 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, The Beaumont Press, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first limited edition of this pleasing poetry collection, containing the illustrations of Randolph Schwabe. First edition. Uncommon. No. 362 of a limited edition of 405 numbered copies printed on hand-made pape…
Beowulf: A Novel
Bryher [Annie Winifred Ellerman] · 1956 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
New York, Pantheon Books, 1956. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this wartime novel from Bryher, the pen name of English novelist Annie Winifred Ellerman. First US edition. Set in London during the Blitz, this novel follows a collection of tenacious characters in crisis. Being…
Original Plays
William Schwenck Gilbert · 1910 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1910 . Leather. A fine-paper edition of W. S. Gilbert's original plays, in a smart, red calf binding. Rebound in a smart, full, red calf binding, by Henry Sotheran, London. The fine-paper edition of the work. First published c1856. A collection of…
Difficulties with Girls
Kingsley Amis · 1988 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, Hutchinson, 1988. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel, signed by Kingsley Amis to the title page. In the original unclipped dustwrapper designed by Patrick McCreeth. Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. Amis's first nove…
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
Thomas Hardy · 1917 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1917. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this anthology of brilliant poems by Thomas Hardy, an extensive collection of his poetical works, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped d…
Contes Rapides & Madame Bovary
Francois Coppee; Gustave Flaubert · 1889 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre; Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1889-1892. Leather. Two smartly bound important French pieces from Francois Coppee and Gustave Flaubert, in the original French. French. Two volumes. This set contains: Contes Rapides, 1889. A collection of short stories providi…
LEAFLETS
[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870] - Subject of First Poem. Harley, Walter [fl. 1869 - 1880] · 1879 · Tavistock Books, ABAA
$302.50 (€274.46 | £228.97 | ¥48,305)
(n. p): , (n. d.). Ca 1879 - 1880. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, dated July 16, 1880. Full red leather binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Gilt perimeter rules. AEG. 23, [1 (blank)] pp. Binder's blanks at front & rear. 10-7/8" x 7-1/4". Slight splay to boards, whi…
Callimachi Hymni, epigrammata et fragmenta ex recensione Theodori J.G.F. Graevii, cum ejusdem animadversionibus. Accedunt N. Frischlini, H. Stephani, B. Vulcanii, P. Voetii, A.T.F. Daceriae, R. Bentleii commentarius, et annotationes viri illustrissimi Ezechielis Spanhemii, nec non praeter fragmenta, quae ante Vulcanius & Daceria publicarant, nova, quae Spanhemius & Bentleius collegerunt, & digesserunt. Hujus cura & studio quaedam quoque inedita epigrammata Callimachi nunc primum in lucem prodeunt.
CALLIMACHUS. · 1697 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta
€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)
Utrecht (Ultrajecti), Apud Franciscum Halmam, Guilielmum vande Water, 1697. 8vo. 2 volumes: (XXXII),1-438; 369-496,(138); (16),758,(64 index) p., frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, and occasional engraved text illustrations. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 833518089; Hoffmann 1,429: …
Marguerite
Anatole France; J. Lewis May [translator] · 1921 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A smart first English edition of this illustrated work of prose fiction from French writer Anatole France, signed by the translator. First English edition. Signed and inscribed by the translator to the front free …
Dichtlievende verlustigingen
BOSCH, BERNARDUS DE, · 1758 · Antiquariaat Goltzius
€454.25 ($500.67 | £378.97 | ¥79,950)
Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1758, 4to., half leather binding with woodlike decorative paper on the front and back, ribbed spine with titleplate, red sprinkled edges, [26]+308+[4] pp., the edges of the binding are a bit worn with the leather loosening on the bottom of the spine…
Focus on art.
Spies, Werner. · 1982 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)
New York : Rizzoli, 1982. Paperback. 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. From the publisher : The internationally renawned German author and critic Werner Sples (1937-) is among today's most articulate and p…
May Sarton: A Biography
PETERS, MARGOT · 1997 · Kalamos Books
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
New York, Knopf. 1997, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 9780679415213) Hardcover. Book, The first biography of May Sarton: a brilliant revelation of the life and work of a literary figure who influenced her thousands of readers not only by her novels and poetry, but by her life and her wr…
Zeitgeschichte in Dichtungen Claudians.
DÖPP, S., · 1980 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity
€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)
Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1980. XII,281p. Nice privately green cloth rebinding. Spine gilt titled. Series: Hermes, Einzelschriften, Heft 43. 'On the considerable number of monographs, commentaries and papers that have in recent years occupied themselves with Claudian as …