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Anna de Noailles · 1927 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1927. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Anna de Noailles"s poignant poetry collection, one of five hundred numbered press copies, warmly inscribed by the author and handsomely bound in full calf by M. Albinhac. In a contemporary full calf bindi…

Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor

Mervyn Peake · 1967 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1967 . Cloth. The first American edition of Peake"s first book, an eccentric pirate fantasy, profusely illustrated by the author in its striking revised two-colour format. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth boards.  Complete with t…

Pablo 1. Max Jacob

Birmont, Julie and Clement Oubrerie · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Paris, Dargaud, 2012. Premiere/First. Hardcover. Color-illustrated boards with red/black lettering on spine. 88 pp. with color cartoon images throughout. Text in French. Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie’s PABLO tackles something big: what – and who – turned a young Spanish pai…

Premiere Poesies Et Poesies Nouvelles

Alfred de Musset · 1882 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

Paris, Charpentier, 1882. Leather. Two volumes of Alfred de Musset's poetry, with some of his most popular works. Two volumes of Alfred de Musset's poetry. In the original French. These two volumes are his Premieres Poesies and his Poesies Nouvelles. They contain m…

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Raillard

André FRÉNAUD · 1964 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.10 | ¥21,124)

27 juillet 1964 | 21 x 27 cm | une feuille | Lettre autographe signée du poète André Frénaud adressée à Georges Raillard, datée du 27 juillet 1964. 27 lignes rédigées au stylo bleu sur une feuille.  Frénaud entretient son ami Georges Raillard des difficultés des universitaires r…

Louis et François Watteau dits Watteau de Lille

André MABILLE DE PONCHEVILLE · 1928 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

André Delpeuch | Paris 1928 | 15 x 20.50 cm | relié | Edition originale sur papier courant. Reliure en demi basane caramel, dos à deux nerfs orné d'un fleuron central doré, double filet doré en queue, petites traces de frottements sans gravité sur le dos, plats de papier marbré,…

Marcel Vertès. Manuscript Handwritten by André Salmon

Salmon, André · 1881 · TBCL The Book Collector's Library

$1,800.00 (€1,633.09 | £1,362.23 | ¥287,471)

n.p. n.y. [Paris], Salmon, Andre. 1st Edition. Marcel Vertès. 1st Edition. André Salmon (1881-1969), French poet, art critic, and writer, was a prominent defender of Cubism alongside Apollinaire and Maurice Raynal, and a recognized member of the avant-garde. In 1904, he lived at…

Women's Literary Tradition and Twentieth-century Hungarian Writers

Anna Menyhért · 2020 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.90 | ¥14,962)

Brill/Rodopi, 2020, Hardcover, 339, Foreword: a Writer in Search of Her Foremothers / Nadezhda Alexandrova and Suzan van Dijk -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Translator's Note -- 1. A Tradition of One's Own : A Tradition of Forgetting -- Canons and Sinking Stream…

Journey Down a Rainbow

Priestly, J.B.; Jacquetta Hawkes · 1955 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

London Heinemann-Cresset First Edition, First Printing pp. xi, 288, [1]. 8vo. Original green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine over black spine label, publisher's green topstain. Excepting for a touch of light rubbing to the boards there are no other detectable flaw…

J. -B. Greuze Peintre de la Femme Et de la Jeune Fille Du Xviiie Siecle

Edmond Pilon · 1912 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

Paris, H. Piazza, 1912. First edition. Leather. In a striking Hatchards binding, this Limited Edition celebration of the portraits of Jean-Baptiste Greuze is illustrated throughout with full plate reproductions of his work. In the original French.A Limited Edition, first edition…

George Ortman. Exhibition Poster. 1966. Artist Proof for "David Stuart Galleries. " Signed

Ortman, George Earl (1926-2015) · 1966 · Wittenborn Art Books

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

Los Angeles: David Stuart Galleries, 1966. Lithograph. 26 x 19 inches. Signed and annotated "artist proof" in pencil.. David Stuart (1910-1984). His gallery dealt in contemporary art and Stuart was also an expert in the field of Pre-Columbian art.. George Earl Ortman (October 17…

Ummer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son

Dickey, Christopher · 1998 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The personal copy of a student of James Dickey, with her bookplate at first free endpaper. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Fine-looking, structura…

Sparkenbroke

Charles Morgan · 1936 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1936. First edition. Fine Binding. A beautiful, signed first edition of Charles Morgan's mystical and quasi-autobiographical work. From the library at Julians Park, the home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. A limited edition, of which 210 copies have b…

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

COPE, WENDY · 1999 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£6.68 (€8.01 | $8.83 | ¥1,410)

Faber and Faber. 1999. (ISBN: 9780571202508). Paperback. Paperback in excellent condition. Amazon Wendy Cope is very clever. She's good at taking much of what poetry holds dear and pricking its balloon. Her humour is an acquired taste and one short poem from "Strugnell's Haiku" …

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald · 1909 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Vellum. A signed limited edition copy of this beautifully illustrated edition of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, and illustrated in colour by Edmund Dulac. Signed by the illustrator to the limitation leaf.A limit…

RED RIDING HOOD

VERY, Lydia L[ouisa Anna] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

(Boston). (L. Prang & Co.). First Edition. Shape book: 6-5/8" x 2-3/8", [16] pages; stiff chromolithographed wrappers (sewn). Charming toy book in the shape of a standing Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf crouched around her ankles. L. Prang & Company issued a series of "Doll" bo…

[A collection of Hungarian translations of Tagore's poetical works]. Budapest, Világirodalom (Otthon) 1921 & Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Globus) 1922.

TAGORE, RABINDRANATH: · 1921 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€1,850.00 ($2,039.08 | £1,543.17 | ¥325,654)

The collection comprises following works:1. A postahivatal. A letétemény. Szerencsét hozo pillanat. Èlö vagy halott? (The Post Office. The Trust Property. The Auspicious Vision. Living or Dead?). Translated by Zoltán Bartos and Márton Sármay. Budapest, Világirodalom (Otthon) 19…

Psalmorum Davidis et aliorum prophetarum. Libri quinque. Argumentis et Latina paraphrasi illustrati, ac etiam vario carminum genere Latinè expressi.Geneva, [Eustache Vignon or Henry II Estienne], 1579. 8vo. With a woodcut title border, numerous decorative woodcut initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Modern blind-tooled calf.

BÈZE, Théodore de. · 1519 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)

[16], "715" [=709], [3] pp.First edition of Théodore de Bèze's influential translation and verse paraphrase of the Psalms, divided into five books. Each of the 150 Psalms is presented with an argumentum, followed by a prose interpretation and paraphrase in parallel columns, and …

Le château d'amour

Charles LE QUINTREC · 1977 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€230.00 ($253.51 | £191.85 | ¥40,487)

Albin Michel | Paris 1977 | 14 x 21.50 cm | broché | Edition originale, un des 20 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin du Marais, seuls grands papiers. Très bel exemplaire complet de sa bande annonce. Exceptionnel envoi autographe daté et signé de Charles Le Quintrec courant sur deux…

[ Lijk-predikan wijdh ehreborne / wälwijse och wijdtförfarne / nu hoos gudh salige hr. Truls Kohres / fordom förnähm och wälförtiente rådh-mans uthi kongl. residentz och hufwudstaden Stockholm hederliga jordafärd / hållem utji stoore kyrckian / den 18 aug. anno 1672 för tå näewarande förnähmliga försambling. Stockholm, N. Wankijff, (1672).

KÅHRE (KAHRE), TRULS]. SWEBILIUS, OLOF: · 1600 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

4to. Pp. 17-94 (missing pp. 1-16 of the sermon). Text within printed woodcut border. Disbound. Partly with some light small marginal stain and a few leaves with some browning. A Funerary Oration for Truls Kåhre (1600-72) including a 17 pages "Vita defuncti" about his life and …