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De Mengelpoezy van Katharyne Lescailje

LESCAILJE, KATHARYNE · 1731 · Art4Brains

€1,050.00 ($1,157.29 | £875.98 | ¥184,804)

Amsteldam (Amsterdam), De Erfgenaamen van J. Lescailje en D. Rank op de Beurssluis, 1731. 21 cm, Hardcover. (14, including frontispice)+36+375+(1), (2)+424, (2)+558+(2) pp. Engravings. Conditie: Very good, Bound in contemporary full vellum bindings. Title, author and volumenumbe…

Rosemary Isle and Other Rhymes

Dorothy Una Ratcliffe · 1949 · Richard Thornton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Thomas Nelson and Sons This is a Very Good Copy of this book in original blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover.No Dust-Jacket.The book has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness and there is NO leaning…

Stevie Smith and Authorship.

May, William · 2010 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

Oxford & New York. Oxford University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 256 pp.- A full-length study of the British novelist, poet, and illustrator Stevie Smith (1902-1971), this book draws on extensive archival material to offer new insights into her work, challenging conventi…

My Lives . Francis Meynell . (signed).

MEYNELL, FRANCIS 1891-1975. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London : Bodley Head, 1971 . 0370013034. Autobiography of Sir Francis Meynell, recalling his many 'lives', as journalist, poet, publisher, publicist, sportsman and businessman, with descriptions of the many eminent personalities he encountered. Signed first edition with 3 loosel…

Seven Types of Ambiguity

William Empson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this important work of literary criticism by William Empson, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. First state binding, with the title in gilt.In the original unclipped dust …

Die höchstnöthige Erkenntniss des Menschen, sonderlich nach dem Leibe und natürlichen Leben, Oder, ein deutlicher Unterricht von der Gesundheit und deren Erhaltung: auch von den Ursachen, Kennzeichen und Namen der Kranckheiten, und ... einer bequemen Haus- Reise- und Feld-Apothecken ... Und zum Sechzehenten mal mit einem verbesserten Register heraus gegeben.

RICHTER, Christian Friedrich. · 1760 · Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

CHF 720.00 (€778.81 | $858.39 | £649.73 | ¥137,074)

1760 Title printed in red and black. 6 unn. leaves, 32 pp. (preface), 2 leaves, 1232 pp., 56 unn. leaves index. Small 8vo. Contemp. half calf, back on 5 raised bands. Exlibris Hans Wyss. (Halle?, n. pr.), 1760. The most voluminous edition of this immensely popular medical work. …

Keats&Apos; Poetical Works

John Keats [ed. by William T. Arnold] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1932. Leather. A very scarce copy of The Poetical Works of the young poet who helped shape the Romantic movement, celebrated for his portrayal of beauty. A very scarce globe edition of The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by English writer and journ…

LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS: IN TWO VOLUMES

WORDSWORTH, William (COLERIDGE, Samuel T.) · 1802 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,505.85 | £7,096.15 | ¥1,497,066)

Philadelphia. James Humphreys. First American Edition. Two volumes bound in one in contemporary calf recently rebacked. The First American Edition printed from the Second London Edition and including the first printing of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in America.…

Romantic Image

Kermode, Frank · 1961 · Bookbarrow

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1961. Second Impression, Softcover. Good Condition. b/w. frontis. illust. by Thomas Heine; Kermode's extremely important book of speculative and scholarly criticism, sets out to re-define the notion of the Romantic tradition, especially in its r…

Lethe and Other Poems

Edward D. Berry · 1916 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

[Chicago] Not stated, located from copy held by University of Oxford Libraries, Not Stated [private publication], 1916. First edition. Cloth. An incredibly scarce, privately printed first edition volume of wartime poetry, inscribed by the poet's cousin. An incredibly scarce…

Ulysses, a Drama

Stephen Phillips · 1902 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1902 . First edition. Hardback. A Limited Edition first UK edition copy of this drama from playwright Stephen Phillips. Printed on Japanese vellum. A Limited Edition of the first US edition of this play from English poet and dramatist Stephen Phi…

Poems

Thomas Bailey Aldrich · 1836 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

New York , Carleton , 1836. First edition. Cloth. A smart, first edition collection of Poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, offering his graceful and finely crafted verse. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding with blind stamping. This volume is a first edition. This a …

A Song to David

Christopher Smart · 1926 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Oxford, John Johnson at the Clarendon Press, 1926 . Paperback. A scarce limited edition copy of this facsimile reproduction of Christopher Smart's Christian poem. A limited edition copy, with only 550 copies being printed, 500 of which for sale. A facsimile of the poem by …

London Lyrics

Frederick Locker · 1881 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, [Privately Printed], 1881 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated with proof engravings by Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, this is the large paper privately printed edition of Locker's poetical works. The first privately printed edition of this work, the large pa…

Letters of Walter Savage Landor: Private and Public

Stephen Wheeler · 1899 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London , Duckworth and Co , 1899. First edition. Leather. Collection of writer Walter Savage Landor's private and public letters. First edition of the letters of Walter Savage Landor edited by Stephen Wheeler. These letters give a glimpse into Landor's life and the way…

Butleriana

Samuel Butler · 1932 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1932 . Leather. A lovely limited edition collection of the autobiographical essays of English novelist Samuel Butler, best known for 'The Way of All Flesh', and 'Erewhon&apos. Number ninety of eight-hundred copies of this work produced.Illu…

Works of Alfred de Musset

Alfred de Musset · 1867 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Paris, G. Charpentier, 1867-1878 . Leather. A bright set of the works of Alfred de Musset, in the original French. Eight volumes of works by Alfred Musset. Alfred Musset was a French dramatist, poet and novelist. He was a French romantic writer who is best known for his plays.…

Alice&Apos;S Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] · 1921 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. 1921. Cloth. A smart copy of this delightful nonsensical children's novel from Lewis Carroll, with colour plates. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seven colour plates. Collated complete. A renowned nonsense novel for children foll…

L&Apos;Aminta and IL Pastor Fido

Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini · 1824 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

Milano, Dalla Tipografia di Commercio, 1824. Leather. Poems from two of Italy's great Renaissance poets. No poet was more influential on music history in the late Renaissance and Baroque eras than Guarini. While Guarini's work may be seen as lacking the deep feeling an…

Le pèlerin de saint-Roch

Charles LE QUINTREC · 2004 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Albin Michel | Paris 2004 | 15.50 x 23.50 cm | broché | Edition originale, un des 40 exemplaires numérotés sur vergé blanc chiffon de Hollande, seuls grands papiers. Très bel exemplaire. Bel envoi autographe daté et signé de Charles Le Quintrec à un ami poète : " A Jean-Louis De…