Cerca libri

Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie

Collins, J Churton (edited by) · 1941 · Bookbarrow

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Oxford at the Claredon Press, Londom, 1941. Reprint, Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. gilt titles spine; gilt motif front; edited with an introduction and notes including a memoir of Sidney by J. Churton Collins (professor of English Literature in the university of Birmingham);…

L’abesse du Paraclet. Histoire galante d’Héloise et d’Abailard

Marc de Montifaud 244368 · 1883 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

1883, 1e druk, Contemporary full ivory vellum, decorated with double green fillet borders on the covers, green lettering and ornamental tooling on the spine, green top edge, marbled endpapers and silk ribbon marker. Binding signed by L. Pouillet (Louis Charles Alexandre, Marc de…

Les "Souvenirs de Tranchees" D&Apos;Un Poilu

Marc Leclerc · 1917 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Paris , Georges Cres Et Cie, 1917 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce presentation copy of this collection of war poetry by soldier Marc Leclerc. A signed presentation copy of the work.With author's signature and inscription to first blank, dated 1917.In publisher's o…

Poems 1926-1930

Robert Graves · 1931 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, William Heinemann, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Robert Graves's 1931 volume of poetry, retaining the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The poetry in this collecti…

Flowers of Paradise

Reginald Francis Hallward · 1889 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Macmillan & Co , 1889. First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated throughout with chromolithographs, this is the first edition of Reginald Hallward's charming work of music, verse and illustration. The first edition of this decorative and richly illustrated music…

Graziella

Alphonse de Lamartine · 1881 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1881 . Leather. The 1881 edition of A. de Lamartine's French romance Graziella, beautifully bound in half red morocco with paper-covered marbled boards. The 1881 edition of Alphonse de Lamartine's French romance Graziella, in half red morocco wi…

Fritto Misto

E. S. P. Haynes · 1924 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Kensington, Cayme Press, 1924 . Cloth. A bright scarce first edition of E. S. P. Haynes's collection of literary and satirical essays. Inscribed by man of letters Maurice Baring. The first edition, first impression of this scarce work. Inscribed 'Susan from Maurice Bar…

Repose Ailleurs

Julien Ochse · 1921 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris, R. Chiberre, 1921 . Paperback. A very scarce limited edition copy of this collection of French wartime poetry. A very scarce work.This copy is out of series, with only five copies printed on Arches laid paper, which were not for sale, and two hundred and fifty printed on …

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Milton; (Modern Library #132. 3)

MILTON, JOHN · 1959 · Bluebird Books

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1959-60]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting of all of the poetry and some of the more important prose works by the noted 17th Century British poet and advocate of free speech and freedom of the press. Includes "Paradis…

Mr. Lieven van Coppenol Schoolmeester-Calligraaf

WIJNMAN, H.F., · 1933 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€51.75 ($57.04 | £43.17 | ¥9,108)

Offprint from Jaarboek Genootschap Amstellodamum, J.H. de Bussey, 1933, 94-186 pages, with illustrations, original softcover binding. Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol (1598 - 1667) was a Dutch calligrapher best known today for his portraits by Rembrandt. He became a French schoolmas…

Song at Evenfall By Clark Ashton Smith Featured in Overland Monthly Magazine May 1930

OVERLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE · 1930 · S. Howlett-West Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

San Francisco, CA: Overland Monthly Magazine, 1930. Magazine. This is an oversized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is an inked previous owner's notation on the front cover of the magazine. There is some light rubbing a…

Rupert Brooke: Fragments Now First Collected Some Being Hitherto Unpublished

Rupert Brooke; R.M.G. Potter · 1925 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Hartford, at the press of the Finlay Brothers, 1925 . First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of this limited edition publication of the juvenilia and fragments of Rupert Brooke. Number 54 of 99 limited edition copies of this work.Edited by Brooke's first bib…

Doings and Dealings

Jane Barlow · 1913 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A bright, scarce, first edition by Doings and Dealings by Jane Barlow. First Edition. Scarce. Jane Barlow, 1857 – 1917 was an Irish poet and writer. Barlow was educated at home and is said to have been frail and slight. The…

Italy: A Poem, in Four Cantos with Notes

John Edmund Reade · 1845 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London , Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845. Cloth. A volume of poetry by the little-known novelist and poet John Edmund Reade. Reade (1800–1870) possessed a remarkable capacity for imitation that often verged on plagiarism. Byron was his chief model, but his poems and pla…

Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1920 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1920 . Leather. A collection of essays by philosopher and leader of the transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson. A later edition, first printed in 1883.A collection of the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, containing both the first and secon…

Poemes

Marie Batilliat · 1933 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Paris, Fasquelle Editeurs, 1933. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce presentation copy of this posthumously-published volume of poetry, signed by the poet's husband. An incredibly scarce presentation copy of this unusual volume of personal French poetry, by Marie Batill…

En Lachant L&Apos;Barda!

Marc Leclerc · 1920 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Paris, Editions G. Cres Et Cie , 1920. First edition. Paperback. A scarce presentation copy of this collection of war poetry by soldier Marc Leclerc. A scarce presentation copy of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the half title page.In publisher's original pap…

Salomon Gessners Schriften

Salomon Gessner · 1813 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Zurich, Gessnersche Buchhandlung, 1813 . Leather. A three volume edition of the collected works of Swiss figure Salomon Gessner. In the original German.With an engraved frontispiece and title page to volume I.Gessner was a Swiss painter, graphic artist, government official, news…

A Description of Bath a Poem

Mary Chandler · 1733 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)

London, J Roberts; J Jackson; J Gray; J Leake; S Lobb, 1733. First edition. Fine Binding. The first edition of this very scarce poem on Bath by a resident there, Mrs Mary Chandler. Very scarce in any edition. Former owner's book label to the front pastedown, J O Edwards. T…

Poems

Archibald Y. Campbell · 1926 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the scarce first edition of Alexander Young Campbell's collection of poems, which the author claimed 'seeks point, force, grace; and occasionally humour&apos. The first edition, first impr…