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ELIOT, T. S · 51929 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.09 | £945.99 | ¥199,633)

London. One-1/2 page typed letter on both sides of THE CRITERION stationery SIGNED by the poet and addressed to “Mrs. Roberts.” Eliot asks what topics would be appropriate for a speech he is to give for the “St. George's Renovation Fund.” He writes, in part: “...in order to make…

Tradiciones/Y Que Siga la Tradicion Featuring Gay and Lesbian Latino/Latina Performance Poets Event Handbill and Poem

Xavier, Emanuel · 1998 · Mare Booksellers

$162.00 (€146.98 | £122.60 | ¥25,872)

New York, Urban, the Latino Magazine and Pier Queen Productions presenters and presumed Publishers, 1998. Unbound. Single sheet, thick paper stock. 5 ¾ by 4 ¼ inches. Printed on both sides. A handbill promoting an event held on February 25th, 1998 at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe tha…

Dudley et Claudy ou, L'Ile de Ténériffe . Traduit de l'Anglais de Mlle O'Keefe, par Madame de Montolieu

O'KEEFE (Adelaide). MONTOLIEU (Isabelle de): · 1824 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

A Paris, Chez Arhurs Bertrand, Librarie, rue Hautefeuille, no. 23. 1824. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 6 volumes. 12mo, 176 x 97 mms., pp. [iv], iv, 328; [iv], 268; [iv], 250; [iv], 298; [iv], 206; 215 [216 blank], including half-titles, engraved frontispiece to volumes 1 -5, bou…

St. Nicholas Magazine (Volume XIV, Part II) Six Issues Bound Into One Volume: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks. May, 1887 to October, 1887

ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY; DODGE, MARY MAPES (EDITOR) · 1887 · Bluebird Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York: The Century Company, 1887. Hardcover. Six months of the famed magazine bound together, from May 1887 to October 1887. --- Each issue of St. Nicholas includes stories, often by well-known authors, as well as dozens of charming illustrations, photos, riddles, poems, lett…

Poems

Stephen Phillips · 1901 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London and New York, John Lane, 1901. Cloth. An attractive example of the eleventh edition of Stephen Phillips' popular poetry collection, containing many of his most popular works, including Marpessa andThe Woman with the Dead Soul. A lovely example of this popular poetry …

Paradise Lost

John Milton; Thomas Newton · 1770 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, J. Beecroft; W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; et al, 1770. Leather. Milton's influential blank verse poem 'Paradise Lost', illustrated with lovely detailed engraved plates for each book of the poem. Complete in two volumes.Illustrated with a frontispiece a…

Poems 1914-1916

William Ellery Leonard · 1916 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

None Stated, Privately Printed, 1916 . First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce privately printed First Edition of Leonard"s withdrawn WWI poetry cycle, inscribed by the author and issued only in a small handful of copies for private distribution. In the publisher's o…

On Semantic Poetry.

[Gaberbocchus Press]. Themerson, Stefan. · 1975 · Fahrenheit 451

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

London, Gaberbocchus Press, 1975, 1st ed., 127,(1) pag., illustrations by Franciszka Themerson, lay-out and original glazed wrappers in red and black by Stefan Themerson (21,5 x 13,8 cm.). = Gaberbocchus Press was a London publishing house founded in 1948 by the artist couple S…

Special Branch (a dialogue).

[Gaberbocchus Press]. Themerson, Stefan. · 1972 · Fahrenheit 451

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

London, Gaberbocchus Press, 1972, 1st ed., 94,(2) pag., original glazed wrappers in red and black by Stefan Themerson (21,1 x 14,2 cm.). = Gaberbocchus Press was a London publishing house founded in 1948 by the artist couple Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. Besides the Themerso…

Phaedri, Aug. liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Cum integris commentariis Marq. Gudii, Conr. Rittershusii, Nic. Rigaltii, Is. Neveleti, Nic. Heinsii, Joan. Schefferi, Jo. Lud. Praschii, & excerptis aliorum. Curante Petro Burmanno.

PHAEDRUS. · 1718 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€280.00 ($308.62 | £233.56 | ¥49,288)

The Hague (Hagae-Comitum), Apud Henricum Scheurleer, 1718. 8vo. 2 parts in 1: (LXII),398;258,(70 index) p., including frontispiece. Vellum 19.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 189725249; Schweiger 2,735; Dibdin 2,280; Moss 2,394; Graesse 5,253; Ebert 16595) (Details: 6 thongs laced through …

Actions and Reactions

Rudyard Kipling · 1909 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, with charming illustrations to accompany the text. First edition. Bound in the publisher's pictorial green cloth. Written by English n…

Vies de Haydn, de Mozard Et de Metastase; Storia Della Economia Pubblica in Italia

M. de Stendhal; M. Schlichtegroll; Giuseppe Pecchio · 1829 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

Paris; Lugano, Alphonse Levavasseur; Presso G. Ruggia e Comp, 1829-1831. Leather. A vellum-bound work concerning the lives of the important composers Haydn and Mozart, and the librettist Pietro Metastasio, with a history of the economy of Italy. The second edition of this work i…

Movements in European History

D H Lawrence · 1925 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Oxford, Humphrey Milford, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first illustrated edition copy of D H Lawrence's school textbook, 'Movements in European History&apos. First thus, the first illustrated edition of this work, which was first published in 1921 under th…

Boule de Suif

Guy de Maupassant; Arthur Symons · 1899 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, William Heinemann, 1899. First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first separate English edition of Guy de Maupassant's famous story, 'Boule de Suif' - a limited edition printed on Japanese vellum. The first separate English edition. First appeared in Engl…

And Time Began

Eugene McCarthy · 1968 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

Not Stated, Eugene McCarthy, 1968 . First edition. Cloth. A bright, limited edition of Eugene McCarthy's collection of poetry, signed by the author and addressed to fellow writer Stephen Vizinczey. First edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding, decorated by …

Essays of Montaigne

Michel De Montaigne; Charles Cotton [translator]; W. Carew Hazlitt [editor] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

New York, Edwin C. Hill, 1910. Cloth. A smart translated edition of the essays of Michel de Montaigne, limited to one thousand and fifty copies. Nine volumes of a ten volume set, lacking volume one. Limited to ten hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number three hundred a…

Novels

ELIOT, George; EVANS, Mary Ann · 1901 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$850.00 (€771.18 | £643.28 | ¥135,750)

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1901. The Library Edition of George Eliot's Works in Three Quarter Morocco ELIOT, George. Novels. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1901. The Library Edition. Ten octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 210 x 150 mm.). Phot…

Design for three theatre costumes. [Dryad and Sylvan Spirits]

Pogédaieff, G. A. de · 1930 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

Paris, unpublished, ca. 1930. Oblong cardboard (35.8 x 44.7 cm). Gouache, watercolour, and pencil, heightened with silver. = An original design by the great illustrator, set and costume designer, painter and poet, Georges de Pogédaieff (Grigory Anatolyevich Pozhydaev - or Pozhi…

Studies in Chaucer: His Life and Writings

Geoffrey Chaucer; Thomas R. Lounsbury · 1892 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A complete three volume first edition of this detailed study on the life and work of Geoffrey Chaucer, from American literary historian Thomas Lounsbury. Complete in three volumes. First edition. With a portrait frontispie…

Terra del Fuego, Strait of Magellan, Strait of Le Maire - Willem + Joan Blaeu, 1643-1650

Blaeu-- Joan · 1643 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€875.00 ($964.43 | £729.88 | ¥154,026)

CHART OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO, THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN AND THE STRAIT OF LE MAIRE "Tabula Magellanica", copperplate engraving made by Willem Blaeu and published by his son Joan Blaeu, 1643–1650. Hand-coloured at the time. Dimensions: 41.2 x 53.5 cm. In the early seventeenth century…