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Lectures on the English Poets. Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt · 1819 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Taylor and Hessey, 1819. Hardback. The second edition of William Hazlitt's early 19th-century lectures on English poets, delivered at the Surrey Institution. Second edition.Rebacked, with the original paper boards and original paper spine label. Archival repair to o…

A History of Story-Telling: Studies in the Development of Narrative

Arthur Ransome · 1909 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, T. C. & E. C Jack , 1909. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Arthur Ransome's charming study of the history of story-telling, with illustrations by J. Gavin. An uncommon copy. Arthur Ransome, English author mainly known for writing and illustrating …

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1863 · Rooke Books

£925.00 (€1,108.92 | $1,222.26 | ¥195,202)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's collection of poems, with a signed letter from Longfellow to his friend Hermine Kuchenmeister-Rudersdorf. The first edition of Longfellow's work, with a signed le…

Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490

K. L. Scott · 1996 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€78.40 ($86.41 | £65.40 | ¥13,801)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1996 Hardcover. 2 vol., 728 p., incl. 560 ills., with 17 in colour, 235 x 335 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780905203041. This is the sixth and final part of the Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, …

Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age Proceedings of the International Conference of Gottingen (22-25 July 1996). Actes du Colloque international de Gottingen (22-25 juillet 1996).,

N/A; · 1998 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€77.00 ($84.87 | £64.23 | ¥13,554)

Turnhout, Brepols, 1998 Paperback, 432 p., 1 fig. + 7 pl., 150 x 230 mm. ISBN 9782503506944. Most of the papers in this volume consider translation in medieval England (in both Old and Middle English and Anglo-Norman), though translations into other medieval vernaculars are also…

Romance and Rhetoric. Essays in Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney,

G. Donavin, A. Obermeier (eds.); · 2010 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€77.00 ($84.87 | £64.23 | ¥13,554)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Hardback, VIII+281 p., 2 b/w ill., 3 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503531496. Reflecting the work of Dhira B. Mahoney, in whose honour this book is published, these essays discuss the intersections between medieval rhetoric and various sorts of medie…

Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ,

R. S. Sturges (ed.); · 2011 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€77.00 ($84.87 | £64.23 | ¥13,554)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Hardback, XVIII+302 p., 13 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503533094. This volume offers an interdisciplinary collection of original essays by both new and established scholars that surveys the complex relationships between law and sovereign power in me…

Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ,

R. S. Sturges (ed.); · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

Turnhout, Brepols, Hardback, XVIII 302 p., 13 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503533094. This volume offers an interdisciplinary collection of original essays by both new and established scholars that surveys the complex relationships between law and sovereign power in mediev…

Kunsthoffnungen und Kunstsorgen. [Sammelband mit allen fünf Bänden: Die niederen Künste. Die Kunst des Volkes. Die Schönheit des Lebens. Wie wir aus dem Bestehenden das Beste machen können. Die Aussichten der Architektur in der Civilisation]. Dazu eine BE

Morris, William: · 1901 · Antiquariat Bürck

Spedisce da Germania · non spedisce in Russia

€51.75 ($57.04 | £43.17 | ¥9,110)

Leipzig: Hermann Seemann Nachfolger. 1901 und 1902 [4], 44, [4] Seiten. - [2], 41, [3] Seiten. - [2], 55, [5] Seiten. - [2], 74, [6] Seiten. - [2], 66, [2] Seiten. Handgefertigter Leinwandband der Zeit, bezogen mit hellbraunem Leinen, der Rücken mit etwas Linienvergoldung und e…

Stamboul Train

GREENE, Graham · 1932 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$1,100.00 (€998.00 | £832.47 | ¥175,677)

London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1932. Greene's Breakthrough "Entertainment" The Novel That Established His Reputation GREENE, Graham. Stamboul Train. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1932. First edition, second printing. Octavo (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 186 x 121 mm.). xii, [1-2], 3-…

The Kingis Quair: Together with A Ballad of Good Counsel: by King James I. of Scotland.

Skeat, Rev. Walter W. (edited by) · 1884 · Bookbarrow

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh, 1884. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons & rebound in dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spines; preceding the poem is a lengthy (55 pages) & erudite introduction b…

Renascence a Poem

Millay, Edna St. Vincent · 1924 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.04 | ¥47,912)

New York, 1924. 5 of appx. 126 (some say 180-186) copies printed and signed with the initials of the printer. Paperback. Tall narrow sewn wraps (4.25" x 9*.25") 8vo, original plain pale blue wrappers, sewn as issued, uncut. 11 pp + colophon + rear free endpaper. This is the firs…

The Summer of Katya

TREVANIAN (PSEUDONYM FOR DR. RODNEY WILLIAM WHITAKER) · 1983 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1983. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0246120916. Illustrated by Paul Bacon. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a s…

The Summer of Katya

TREVANIAN (PSEUDONYM FOR DR. RODNEY WILLIAM WHITAKER) · 1983 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York: Crown Publishers, 1983. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0246120916. This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book and o…

Harvard Classics: Millennium Edition (50 volumes)

Eliot, Charles William (editor) · 2001 · Klondyke BV

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

Gebonden, hardcover; 2001; Norwalk, CT : The Easton Press; Some worn spots and some minor damages. -- Conditie: Goed; 50 original gilt lettered and decorated genuine burgundy leather volumes with raised spines, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, ribbon marker, frontispiece with tis…

A London Garland, Selected from Five Centuries of English Verse

W. E. Henley · 1895 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1895. First edition. Hardback. A wonderful anthology of poems devoted to London and the city's surroundings, retaining the very scarce original dust wrapper, and illustrated throughout. The deluxe full paper vellum first edition of this work.In the…

Illustrated English Social History

G. M. Trevelyan · 1957 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Readers Union: Longmans, Green and Co. 1957-1958. Cloth. Four smart volumes of this illustrated social history of England from British historian George Macaulay Trevelyan, with the original glassine wraps. Complete in four volumes. With the original glassine wraps. A det…

The Works of Edmund Spenser in Eight Volumes with the Principal Illustrations of Various Commentators. To Which Are Added Notes, Some Account of the Life of Spenser, and a Glossarial and Other Indexes by the Reverend Henry John Todd

Edmund Spenser; Edited by Henry John Todd · 1805 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London , F. C. and J. Rivington, 1805. Leather. A set of the poetical works of Edmund Spenser, widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets. Containing all his best-known poetry, including The Faerie Queen, April and Astrophel. Spenser's masterpiece is an extensive …

Phillip Stubbes&Apos;S Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakspere&Apos;S Youth, A.D. 1583. : Part I. (Collated with Other Editions in 1583, 1585 and 1595. )

Phillip Stubbes; Frederick J. Furnivall [Ed] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, The New Shakspere Society for N. Trubner & Co. 1877-1879. Leather. A very scarce copy of Stubbes"s Anatomy of Abuses, collating the 1583, 1585, and 1595 texts and critically documenting Elizabethan social "corruptions" in the years of Shakespeare"s youth. Bound in a maro…

Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay

George Ewart Evans · 2010 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

Suffolk, Full Circle Editions, 2010. First edition. Hardback. A very smart first illustrated edition of this important work on folklore from Welsh writer George Ewart Evans, signed by the author and illustrator. Originally published in 1956, this is the first edition with waterc…