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Scenes of a Clerical Life

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1909. Leather. A smartly bound copy of George Eliot's collection of three short stories, with colour illustrations from Hugh Thomson. Illustrated with fifteen colour plates and numerous black-and-white images. Collated complete. A 1858 col…

Poems Vol. I.

Hartley Coleridge · 1833 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Leeds , F. E. Bingley, 1833. First edition. Cloth. The first issue of this understated poetical collection from Hartley Coleridge, the eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. First edition, first issue [Hayward 251]. Uncommon.Bound in quarter diced cloth, with paper covered board…

Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography

Irving, Washington · 0 · Round Table Books, LLC

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Very Good No dust jacket as issued G. P. Putnam's Sons Author's Revised Edition. First Printing Half polished calf over marbled boards, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on red and green panels in two compartments, gilt tooling in two compartme…

Agnes Grey

Bell,Acton · 1931 · Richard Thornton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Shakespeare Head Press Published By Basil Blackwell This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in dark green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and with title lettering in green blocked in black to the front cover.This is the First Illustrated Edition and is Volume Four of Seven …

Poems of James Montgomery

James Montgomery; Robert Aris Willmott [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860. Cloth. An illustrated collection of poetry by James Montgomery. Edited by the nineteenth century cleric and author Robert Aris Willmott, this collection of poetry by James Montgomery is accompanied by illustrations by Birket Foster an…

A Collection of Poems Chiefly Manuscript and from Living Authors

Joanna Baillie · 1823 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First edition. Hardback. A first edition anthology of poetry, written by a variety of notable poets. Collected and arranged by Joanna Baillie, a Scottish poet and dramatist. The first edition. This work contains work by Scott, …

Shakespeare&Apos;S Comedy: As You Like It

William Shakespeare · 1909 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Cloth. A brightly illustrated edition of Shakespeare's play As You Like It, with colour images throughout. Printed by permission of the Oxford Edition. Illustrated with forty tipped-in colour plates. Collated complete. A pastoral comedy f…

Eugenie de Guerin Journal Et Fragments

Eugenie de Guerin; G. S. Trebutien · 1864 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Paris, Didier et Cie, 1864. Leather. An original French volume containing extracts of the diaries and letters of Eugenie de Guerin, from the library of Adolphus William Ward. In the original French.The second edition of this work.A selection of the diaries and letters of Eugenie…

A Collection of Novels from Gunter Grass

Gunter Grass · 1979 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Darmstadt; Gottingen, Luchterhand; Steidl, 1979. First edition. Cloth. Four smart first edition novels from German writer Gunter Grass, in the original German. German. Four volumes. First edition. Written by Gunter Wilhelm Grass, a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator,…

"... je ne comprends pas l'exclusivisme du Mercure, il m'a étonné et peiné.." • Lettre autographe datée et signée adressée à Edouard Ducoté qui a été refusé par le Mercure de France

Francis VIELÉ-GRIFFIN · 1896 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€180.00 ($198.39 | £150.17 | ¥31,681)

S. n. | s. l. • (Paris) 31 Décembre 1896 | 13 x 20 cm | une page et demie | Lettre autographe signée de Francis Viélé-Griffin (32 lignes à l'encre violette depuis son domicile parisien) adressée à Edouard Ducoté, poète, bibliophile et directeur de la revue l'Ermitage depuis 1895…

Poems of Spenser

Edmund Spenser; W. B. Yeats [ed.] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Edinburgh, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1906 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout by Jessie M King, this is an excellent first edition of William Butler Yeats's collection of the work of sixteenth century poet Edmund Spenser. The first edition of this work, being the first…

Ovid: Amores. Text, prolegomena and commentary in four volumes: Volume IV.i. A Commentary on Book Three, Elegies 1 to 8.

OVIDIUS. McKeown,J.C. & R.J. Littlewood. (eds). · 2023 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

[Prenton], Francis Cairns [Publications], [2023]. XXVIII,305 pp. Orig. hardcover (green paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine), d./j. 8vo. (ARCA. Classical and medieval texts, papers, and monographs, 57). [ISBN: 9780995461239]. - New unused copy."The third and final …

Riverhead

HILLYER, ROBERT · 1932 · S. Howlett-West Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. 3-ring binder. Illustrated by F. M.. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with a decent sized inscription on the half title page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacke…

LIII. arrests d'amours. Arresta amorum. Accuratissimis Benedicti Curtii Symphoriani commentariis ad utrusque iuris rationem, forensiumque actionum usum quàm acutissimè accommodata. Le tout diligemment reveu & corrigé en une infinité d'endroits outre les precedentes impressions.Rouen, Thomas Mallard, 1587. 16mo. With title within an ornamental woodcut border. 19th-century gold-tooled red sheepskin.

[MARTIAL d'Auvergne]. · 1420 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

899 [=897], [58], [1 blank] pp.First newly enlarged edition of Arrêts d'Amour ("Rulings of love"), a collection of fictional lawsuits concerning love by the attorney and poet Martial d'Auvergne (ca. 1420-1508). "The … imitate strictly the style and procedures used at the Parleme…

More Poems

A. E. Housman · 1936 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1936. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this collection of poetry by the celebrated poet A. E. Housman, published after his death in 1936, in the original dust wrapper. The first trade edition. First published as a limited edition the same …

Terre Promise D'Afrique; Symphonie en noir et or avec dix-sept lithographies originales de Hans Erni

Senghoe, Leopold Sedar / Hans Erni · 1966 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$920.95 (€585.52 | $645.35 | £488.48 | ¥103,055)

Lausanne, Switzerland Andres et Pierre Gonin 1st edition pp. 143. Folio. The contents, although loose, are in excellent condition. One, or two, page edges are slightly 'thumbed' with just a touch of soiling. The parchment spine is partially detached from the front board, but thi…

Stéphan Crasneanscki. Medea.

CRASNEANSCKI,STEPHAN. Smith,Patti & Philippe Grandrieux. · 2023 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

Stockholm, Libraryman, 2023. 250 pp. Chiefly col. ills. Hardcover.Text French & English. - In his artistic research, Ste´phan Crasneanscki (b. 1969, French) combines sound, image, and text. Medea is no exception to this rule: the project developed during a crossing of the Black …

Crack Hardy

DANDO-COLLINS, STEPHEN · 2011 · Little Lane Books

A$18.00 (€11.06 | $12.20 | £9.23 | ¥1,947)

Australia, Vinatge. 2011. Soft cover with dust jacket, 23.5cm. Book, 450g to post, 363 pp, photo section amidships, This is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came home a decora…

First Edition of Hamlet in Harper's Weekly (January 17, 1857)

(Shakespeare, William) · 1857 · Clayton Fine Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Very Good First Edition Harper's Weekly New York 0 Volume I, Number 3. Very good in wrappers with light wear to spine, where disbound, and some foxing, otherwise clean and bright with hardly any where. Interesting article about the discovery of the "First Edition of Hamlet" (p. …

Works of Charles Kingsley / 29 titles in 37 volumes

Kingsley, Charles · 1866 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$2,166.86 (€1,377.65 | $1,518.42 | £1,149.33 | ¥242,473)

London and Cambridge Macmillan, Chapman & Hall 8vo. We offer for sale a collection of the works of the famous 19th century novelist and poet, Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). This collection contains 29 individual titles; being Kingsley's prose works, most of his sermons, and all b…