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Under the Cherry Tree

Peter Traill [Guy Mainwaring Morton] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Faber and Gwyer, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this charming novel from Peter Traill, the pseudonym of author Guy Mainwaring Morton. The scarce first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a frontispiece and five further illustrations by Au…

George Meredith 1909

J. M. Barrie · 1924 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New York, William Edwin Rudge, 1924. First edition. Paperback. A limited first edition of this memorial of George Meredith, by James Matthew Barrie. First edition. Limited edition. One of five hundred copies. Signed by typographer Bruce Rogers to the rear. In memory of George Me…

Jettatura

Theophile Gautier · 1857 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, 1857. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of Gautier's memorable fantasy novella, in quarter morocco. A scarce work, in the first separately published edition, having first appeared in installments in 1856 in Le Moniteur Universel. Boun…

La Fleur Double

Paul Morand · 1924 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Paris, Emile-Paul, 1924. First edition. Leather. A fine, smartly bound copy of this limited edition novella by popular novella author, Paul Morand. The first edition of this work. Limited edition, numbered 283 of 840 copies. Collated, complete. With the original wraps bound in, …

Men: A Dialogue between Women

Allegra Sander; Vyvyan Holland [translator] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

London, The Cresset Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first translated edition of this essay on the relationship between the sexes, with decorations from Mervyn Peake. First edition. With decorations by Mervyn Laurence Peake, an English writer, artist, poet, and illustr…

Portraits,

Pericoli, Tullio, · 1992 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

Erstausgabe, Milano, Electa, 1992, kl.4°, 78 S. mit Farbabbildungen, dreisprachig: deutsch, englisch und italienisch, original illustr. Halbleinen-Einband (Hardcover), heller Einband minimal berieben, Besitzervermerk auf Vorderdeckelinnenseite, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar. …

A Good Light Weight (Portrait of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry) (Original Lithograph)

Sir Leslie Matthew Ward ("Spy") · 1877 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

London: Vanity Fair, 1877. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Foxing in top margin. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on November 10, 1877, depicting John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (…

Moore Versus Harris. An Intimate Correspondence between George Moore and Frank Harris

Moore, George, Frank Harris; Max Beerbohm · 1925 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Chicago, Illinois: Privately Printed, 1925. Moore Versus Harris: An Intimate Correspondence Between George Moore And Frank Harris Relating To The Brook Kerith, Heloise And Abelard, Astonishing Criticism Of George Bernard Shaw, Moore's Rejection Of Oscar Wilde As An Artist, Impor…

The Sonnets of William Shakespeare & Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton. Together with A Lover's Complaint and The Phoenix & Turtle

Editor by Walter Thomson · 1938 · West Wessex Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Book Very Good No Jacket First Edition Basil Blackwell Oxford 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 199pp with index. Dedication to Miranda Harrison Hughes. The Preface states...The main purpose of this monograph is; To express strong and earnest expostulation against the allegation that Sh…

Kattenverhalen, Geïllustreerd door Lesley Holmes

Herriot, James · 1994 · Elettra Antiquariaat - Boekhandel - Verzendboekhandel

€6.50 ($7.16 | £5.42 | ¥1,144)

Vianen Areopagus-BZZTôH 1994 175 pp 1e druk JAMES HERRIOT, de beroemdste en meest geliefde dierenarts ter wereld, heeft tien van zijn favoriete kattenverhalen gebundeld in een hartverwarmende en vrolijke verzameling. Ontmoet ALFRED, de deftige kater van het snoepwinkeltje. En OS…

The World of Charles Ricketts

Darracott, Joseph · 1980 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Methuen, 1980. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine, white & color illus. dust jacket, 200 pp. many BW illus. some color illus. "Charles Ricketts [1866-1931] was a man of remarkable versatility. In the 1890s he ranked with Aubrey Beardsley as a powerful influe…

An Alphabet of Celebrities

Herford, Oliver · 1900 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.54 | ¥12,776)

Boston, Small, Maynard & Company / Heintzemann Press, 1900. Second Edition. Hardcover. Gray board with lighter gray cloth spine; illus. flyleaves, unpaginated, illus. in BW and red. A merry and poetic turn-of-the-century romp through the ABCs of well-known folks of the day. The …

Elements Of Wit: Mastering The Art Of Being Interesting

Benjamin Errett · 2014 · Book Haven

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Penguin Publishing Group 2014 Paperback, 258pp. Got wit? We’ve all been in that situation where we need to say something clever, but innocuous; smart enough to show some intelligence, without showing off; something funny, but not a joke. What we need in that moment is wit—that s…

War Poems by "X".

T. W. H. CROSLAND (published anonymously). · 1916 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Martin Secker, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) of this anonymous collection of Great War poems by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, author and journalist more widely known now for the small role he played in events following Oscar Wilde's trial and imprisonmen…

Theater heute 1/1965. THEMA: Brecht: Der Ingwertopf / Der Tag des großen Gelehrten Wu.

1965 · Antiquariat Thomas Haker GmbH & Co. KG

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Friedrich Velber bei Hannover 1965. ca. 72 S. Standardeinband. INHALT: Diskussion: Martin Walser - Für einen neuen Realismus. G. Storz, S. Melchinger: Reaktionen auf Walser. Hellmuth Karasek: John Gabriel Borkmann in Wien. Henning Rischbieter: Michelsens Lappschiess in Frankfur…

All For Love Great Love Affairs ... Great Stories

Kerry Cook and Megan Gressor · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Exisle Publishing 2005 Paperback, 296pp. \'All for Love\' is the companion volume to the same authors\' international bestseller, \'An Affair to Remember\'. This new collection tells the stories of 38 great love affairs, from David & Bathsheba and Antony & Cleopatra in ancient t…

Mercure de France, n°481 à n°484, tome CXXVIII, année 1918

COLLECTIF · 1918 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)

Mercure de France | Paris juillet-août 1918 | 15 x 23 cm | Édition originale. Reliure en plein cartonnage souple gris souris, couvertures conservées, reliure de l'époque. Contributions de A. Digeon "Emerson et la caractère anglais", A. Rouveyre, Rachilde "Oscar Wilde et Lui", E.…

Pathologieën. De ondergangen van Johan van Vere de With. Met eene voorrede van Georges Eekhoud [die uit het Frans vertaald werd door De Haan].

HAAN, Jacob Israël de · 1908 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

Rotterdam, Meindert Boogaerdt jun., 1908. Ingenaaid. XVI, 320 p. Portret. Met een kort woord vooraf van de auteur. 1e druk. Matig exemplaar: voor- en achteromslag liggen los (alleen bij elkaar gehouden door kristalpapier), aan de achterkant ontbreekt een hap. Verbruind. Rug vers…

The Truth at Last from Charles Hawtrey

Charles Hawtrey; W. Somerset Maugham [editor] · 1924 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1924. Cloth. A smart second impression of the illustrated memoirs of English actor Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey. Second impression, published the same year as the first. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-five images across thi…

A Masque of May Morning

W. Graham Robertson · 1904 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London & New York, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Graham Robertson's brightly illustrated play, presented in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Written and illustrated by W. Graham Robertson (1866-1948), a British illus…