The Poet — 14124 libri antichi

Momohara" Landscape of a Mountain Stream, Dancing Cranes

[Kakemono ??? - Hanging Scroll] Tsuda Seif? ????, artist · 1921 · Boston Book Company

$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)

1921. [Kakemono ??? - Hanging Scroll] Tsuda Seif? ????, artist "Momohara" Landscape of a Mountain Stream, Dancing Cranes Taish? 10 [1921] Hanging scroll with the image size 135.2 X 33.4 cm. Beautifully mounted on brocade with bone jiku. The painting is signed and sealed by Tsuda…

Light Through Darkness

Michaux, Henri · 1963 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$128.00 (€116.13 | £96.89 | ¥20,440)

New York, The Orion Press,, 1963. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, bright interior, lightly worn and soiled grey cloth covers, still sharp white and gold lettering to front cover and spine, minimal rubbi…

Quatrains Life&Apos;S Mystery and Other Poems

William Wilsey Martin · 1891 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Elkin Mathews, 1891. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this very scarce collection of quatrains, with additional poems inscribed by the author. The author's presentation copy, inscribed and dated to front free endpaper, Christmas 1893. Als…

Arthurian Romances; (Everyman's Library #698)

CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES · 1967 · Bluebird Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1967. Hardcover. A 1967 reprint of the 1914 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition offering tales which greatly added to the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The 12…

Cuba Libre

LEONARD, ELMORE · 1998 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. Advance Review Copy; 1st Edition. Paperback. This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is an Advanced Review Copy. Laid-in is a publishers review sheet. "Elmore Leonard has…

A World of Difference

Robert Conquest · 1955 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited , 1955 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon science-fiction novel set in the early twenty-first century, written by Robert Conquest. The first edition. With the original, price-clipped dust wrapper. Uncommon work. Written by…

Roman History, 1736, Latin | Lucii Annaei Flori Rerum Romanorum Libri iv, Amsterdam, Waesberge, Wetstein & Smith, 1736, [4], 224, [108] pp.

Florus, L. A., Pontanus, J. I., Freinsheim, J. · 1736 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€272.50 ($300.34 | £227.34 | ¥47,961)

A 1736 copy of Florus' Roman History, with added notes and observations by <span class="mw-page-title-main">Johannes Isacius Pontanus and Johann Freinsheim.</span>Florus is known under several names: his first name is rendered as Publius and Lucius; his family name as Annius and…

CLASS POEM 1915

[MacLEISH, Archibald] · 1915 · Charles Agvent

$3,125.00 (€2,835.28 | £2,365.38 | ¥499,022)

[New Haven]. [Yale University]. First Edition. Printed wraps, 5-1/2" x 6-15/16"; 4 pages with the title on the first page and the poem on the following three pages. First edition of the author’s first separately published work. About 600 copies were printed and distributed to th…

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Siegfried Sassoon · 1930 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical novel set during and immediately following the First World War. First edition, first impression. A fictionalised account of Sassoon&ap…

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1863 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. Cloth. A first issue copy of this poetry collection set in a Massachusetts Inn, written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The first edition, first issue, with page 11 of the publisher's adverts to the rear stat…

Jane Campion on Jane Campion

Ciment, Michel · 2022 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$23.20 (€21.05 | £17.56 | ¥3,705)

New York, Abrams, an imprint of H.S. Abrams, 2022. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the gray and white and black pictorial hardcovers. Apparently unread, spine still crackle…

Sassa Yo Yassa Japanische Tanze

Bernhard Kellermann · 1926 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Berlin, Paul Cassirer Verlag, c1912. Leather. A charmingly illustrated book about Japanese dances and culture. Written in the original German. A book about Japanese dances, and culture in Japan. Some of the dances described in this book are 'Der Tanz des Waschebleichens&apo…

Oeuvres Completes de Moliere

MoliÃ¨re · 1946 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

Oxford, A L'imprimerie de L'universitÃ© , 1946. Leather. A smart new edition featuring the complete works of MoliÃ¨re, the famous French playwright. A new edition. Rebound in smart half morocco with gilt lettering to the spine. Complete with a half title page. The comp…

Memoirs of Modern Philosophers

Elizabeth Hamilton · 1800 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

Bath, R. Cruttwell; G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800 . Leather. In full tree calf bindings, this is the second edition of Elizabeth Hamilton's very scarce novel about the role of women within English society, arguing for moderate reform based on middle-class morality and Christi…

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera, Interpretatione Et Notis

Horace · 1799 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, J. Johnson; et al, 1799. Leather. A collection of the Latin poetical works of Horace, an extensive collection of his influential lyrical poetry. A collection of the works of Horace, here in the original Latin.Including a life of Horace.'Odes' is a collection of…

Archy Does His Part

MARQUIS, DON · 1935 · S. Howlett-West Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1935. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Don Marquis. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and…

Colonel Sun

Robert Markham; Kingsley Amis · 1968 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

New York, Harper & Row, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first U.S edition of Kingsley Amis' celebrated James Bond continuation. Written under the pseudonym, 'Robert Markham&apos. The first U.S edition, published the same year as the U.K first edition.With the…

Winter in Harper's Weekly (January 17, 1857)

Southey, Robert · 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. Southey's sonnet appears on p. 37. Also, lengthy travel essay "Modern Naples"…

Studien zu Sprache und Stil des Prudentius.

THRAEDE, K., · 1965 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

VandenHoeck&Rupprecht, Göttingen, 1965. 143p. Sewn. Sereis: Hypomnemata, Heft 13. ' Part i of the work deals with the poet's conception of his own position. In Prudentius' statements regarding himself Thraede finds an important source of illumination in respect of his style, hi…

A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors

Joanna Baillie · 1823 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. Leather. A leather bound edition of 'A Collection of Poems' edited by Joanna Baillie A collection of the poetry from poets of the nineteenth century. The work is prefaced by a list of subscribers' names, includi…

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