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The Tenth Muse.

THOMAS Edward · 0 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Martin Secker, [1917]. 8vo., Third Issue, Second State, on laid paper; original blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip moderately sunned (but all gilt just legible); a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. Thomas's studies of the love poems of English Poets from Chaucer to Shelley; …

Jaarboek van het Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen 1996 [= Volume 4].

NEDERLANDS GENOOTSCHAP VAN BIBLIOFIELEN · 1997 · Antiquariaat Schot

€14.40 ($15.87 | £12.01 | ¥2,535)

Amsterdam, De Buitenkant. 1997. Original publisher's green cloth hardback, purple lettering spine and frontcover, 8vo: 190pp., [2]pp., illustrations, 6 contributions, notes, on the authors, colophon. Contents: 1. Jaarverslag: Isa de la Fontaine Verwey. 2. Boek van het jaar. …

HISTORY, PROPHECY, AND THE STARS: The Christian Astrology of Pierre D'Ailly, 1350-1420.

Smoller, Laura Ackerman. · 1994 · J.D. Holmes, ABAA - ILAB

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Premium Cloth copy in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Contents: The Medieval Debate About Astrology; The Making of an Astrologer: The Development of Pierre d'Ailly's Thought on the Stars; Astrology & the Nar…

Hitler's Death: Russia's Last Great Secret from the Files of the KGB

Roberts, Andrew · 2005 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£42.50 (€50.95 | $56.16 | ¥8,969)

Chaucer Press. First UK edition-first impression. Book. Fine/Near fine.Chaucer Press,2005.First UK edition-first impression.Black hardback(silver lettering on the front cover and spine) in fine condition, with Dj(small nicks,scratches and crease on the Dj cover) in near fine con…

My Story: The War Years

SAUNDERS, HERBERT C. [BERT] · 2006 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.58 | ¥31,143)

Victoria, B.C.: Chaucer Workshop Publishing, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0978051904. Signed and inscribed upon title page by author, who has also written an address beneath. "The colourful account of an ordinary young man 'doing his bit' when drawn into WWII. Bert Saun…

The Life of DH Lawrence : An Illustrated Biography

SAGAR, KEITH · 2003 · Godley Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London, Chaucer Press. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 1904449182) Hard Cover, 11 x 8.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear silver lettering spine and front, very minor bunping around top of spine (otherwise fine) and no …

Assorted Works

Various · 1950 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Various, 1950-1970. Cloth. A group of nine volumes containing poetical works and studies of English authors including George Crabbe and Chaucer. Comprised of the following:1950-1 2vol 'Introduction to English Literature, vols. I and III, second revised editions. Dus…

The Tale of the Alerion.

Machaut, Guillaume de. · 1994 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Edited and translated [from the medieval French] by Minnette Gaudet and Constance B. Hieatt. English translation of Dit d'alerion. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994. Orig. cloth binding. viii,192 pp. (Toronto medieval texts and translations, 10). Mailorder only - Allee…

Reynard the Fox or the Ghost Heath Run

John Masefield · 1919 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, William Heinemann, 1919. Vellum. A bright, limited edition of John Masefield's narrative poem, 'Reynard the Fox&apos. Limited edition, numbered 142 of 250 copies signed by John Masefield to the limitation page. 'Reynard the Fox' has been critically co…

The Decameron : Selected Tales

Giovanni Boccaccio · 2011 · Book Haven

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Dover 2011 Paperback 169 While the Black Death rages through fourteenth-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themselves by telling tales of romance and adventure. This is the premise of Boccaccio's Decameron, a landm…

Indenture Between Ether Brown

Vellum Document between Ester Brown and Arthur Grimwood. · 1899 · CHILTON BOOKS

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Sudbury, Suffolk: Thomas Bates, 5th August 1899 0 Vellum indenture for the purchase of land in York Road (Wents Estate) between Esther Brown, Widow and Arthur Grimwood, Builder. ** "The Wents estate is the name given to a group of fields, among which there were several called “…

Ratis Raving And Other Moral And Religious Pieces In Prose And Verse [bound with] Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris With Some Early Scottish Prophecies From A MS KK 1. 5. In The Cambridge University Library

Lumby, J Rawson [editor] · 1870 · Eastleach Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Trubner & Co - Early English Text Society 1870 1st edition. Library cloth, G. xii+139+xii+46pp, plain library rebind, Ex-Library [Camden Public] with stamps & bookplates, index to each part, text clean & unmarked. A good copy. EETS OS 43 & 42. Two volumes in one. The book contai…

The Two Noble Kinsmen

William Shakespeare · 2015 · Book Haven

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Courier Dover Publications 2015 Paperback, 108pp. "The king of Thebes is a tyrant but his young relatives, Palamon and Arcite, defend him anyway. The two noble kinsmen find their loyalty rewarded with imprisonment when they end up on the losing side of a battle with the great he…

The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, The Library, Sixth Series, Vol 17, No. 2 June 1995

Edited by Dr Martin Davies · 1995 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

The Oxford University Press, 1995. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contributors include: David Stoker; Joseph A Dane. Contents include: 'Innumerable Letters of Good Consequence in History' - The Discovery and First Publication of the Paston Letters;…

Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas

DAICHES, DAVID; FLOWER, JOHN · 1981 · Bluebird Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1981. Softcover. ISBN: 0140057358. The physical locations in Great Britain that served as backdrops for many literary classics are described in this work. Such authors as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, W. B. Yeats, the Brontës and ma…

Golden Leaves from the Works of the Poets and Painters

Multiple, inc. Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cowper, John Donne, Robert Herrick, John Keats, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth. · 1863 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.33 | $759.78 | ¥121,342)

London, Griffin, Bohn & Co. 1863. Leather. An uncommon edition of this discerning and richly illustrated anthology of poetry edited by Robert Bell. Uncommon.In full morocco binding with abundant gilt decoration and gilt fore edges. Marbled pastedown and marbled free endpaper at …

The Flower of the Mind: A Choice Among the Best Poems

Alice Meynell · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Grant Richards , 1898. Paperback. A limited edition collection of English poems from the sixteen century up until the late nineteenth century. One of 250 copies of this work. This work has been reissued in this format. Very scarce. A collection of poems from the sixteen…

Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems

Edmund Blunden · 1932 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from Blunden. First edition. A collection of poetry from English poet, author, and critic, Edmund Blunden. A friend of Siegfried Sassoon, he often wrote of his experiences of…

The Flower of the Mind

Alice Meynell; Various · 1897 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

London, Grant Richards, 1897. First edition. Leather. A sumptuously bound first edition of this volume if brilliant poems from English literature, collected together by Alice Meynell. The first edition of this uncommon work.Beautifully bound by J. Adams. A brilliant anthology o…

Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay, and Critical Comments

Leigh Hunt [ed.] · 1846 · Rooke Books

£137.00 (€164.24 | $181.03 | ¥28,911)

London, Smith, Elder, and Co. 1846. First edition. Leather. A very charming, uncommon first edition copy of this collection of poems by various English writers with critical comments, edited by Leigh Hunt. The first edition of this work. Comprising a selection of poems by Englis…