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Writers / Their Lives and Works

James Naughtie · 2018 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Dorling Kindersley. 2018; Hardcover; mooi exemplaar / fine copy. Pre-19th century. Dante Alighieri ; Giovanni Boccaccio ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; François Rabelais ; Michel de Montaigne ; Miguel de Cervantes ; William Shakespeare ; John Donne ; John Milton ; Molière ; Aphra Behn ; Ma…

The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement, 1860-1900

Calloway, Stephen and Lynn Federle Orr · 2011 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

London / San Francisco, V & A / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2011. Softcover. pictorial wraps w/ black & gold printing. 296 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. This book "focuses on a period in the nineteenth century when a group of artists, architects and designers found th…

Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America

Tom Lutz · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2007 Paperback, 384pp. From The Author Of Crying, A Witty, Wide-ranging Cultural History Of Our Attitudes Toward Work---and Getting Out Of It couch Potatoes, Goof-offs, Freeloaders, Good-for-nothings, Loafers, And Loungers: Ever Since The Industrial Revol…

The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers

Various · 1895 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

Portland, Thomas B. Mosher , 1895-1949. First edition. Hardback. A set of first editions of this collection of poetry and prose for book lovers, chosen from scarce editions. First edition, in the publisher's original paper covered boards and unclipped dust wrappers. The Bib…

The Eccentric Teapot: Four Hundred Years of Invention

Clark, Garth · 1989 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Abbeville Press, 1989. Hardcover. Black cloth with color-illustrated, glossy dustjacket. 120 pp. 137 bw and color plates. Magazine article on teapots laid in. "Short and stout is the very least of it. Since the advent of tea drinking in China four thousand years ago, t…

Guide to First Edition Prices

Russell, R.B. · 2010 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£87.00 (€104.28 | $114.94 | ¥18,354)

The Tartarus Press. Eighth edition. Book. Fine condition.The Tartarus Press,2010.Eighth edition.Large format paperback(small crease on the edges of the cover) in fine condition.Nice and clean pages as new with a couple of small creases on the edges of the pages.786pp including I…

Süddeutsche Zeitung - Bibliothek: Grosse Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts KOPMPLETT

Becker + Bernhard + Calvino + Canetti + Chatwin + Conrad + Cortaza + Duras + Dürrenmatt + Eco + Faulkner + Fitzgerald + Forster + Frisch + Grass + Green + Greene + HandkeSüddeutsche Zeitung (Hrsg.) (Autor) · 2004 · LLU Buchservice

€209.00 ($230.36 | £174.36 | ¥36,785)

, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2004. , , Hardcover. Zustand: 2. 2004-2007. 51 Bände. Pp. mit Schutzumschlag Milan Kundera: Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins Umberto Eco: Der Name der Rose Günter Grass: Katz und Maus Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Der grosse Gatsby Thomas Bernhard: Der…

The Poems of Thomas Sturge Moore: Collected Edition

T. Sturge Moore [Thomas Sturge Moore] · 1931 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1931-1932. Cloth. Volumes I and II of the collected edition of the literary works of Thomas Sturge Moore, signed by the poet to prolific English aristocrat Lady Ottoline Morrell. The signed poems of the accomplished poet, playwright and writer T. Sturge…

Privately Printed Opuscula for the Sette of Odd Volumes: Reading a Poem, a Sketch by William Makepeace Thackeray, Communicated to the Sette at a Meeting Holden at Limmer&Apos;S Hotel, on Friday the 1st of May, 1891 by Brother Charles Plumptre Johnson

William Makepeace Thackeray; Charles Plumptre Johnson [intro.] · 1891 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Privately printed at The Chiswick Press, 1891. First edition. Paperback. A scarce first edition copy of this sketch by Thackeray, one of the limited edition from the 'Sette of Odd Volumes' privately printed for members of the Sette. The first edition of this wo…

The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Vols I-XII.

Thomas B. Mosher [editor] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1895-1906. First edition. Hardback. A scarce collection of The Bibelot, including volumes I - XII, and volume X in the original monthly paperback form. A scarce collection of eleven The Bibelot issues, volumes I - XII in the original paper-covered boards…

Histoire Du Chevalier Des Grieux Et de Manon Lescaut

Abbe Prevost · 1942 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Paris, Editions du Charme, 1942. Paperback. A limited edition of the classic French tale of the Chevalier des Grieux and his lover Manon Lescaut, following them from France, leading a life of luxury in Paris, to a tragic end in Louisiana. A limited edition, numbered number one o…

The Beauty-Shop

Daniel Woodroffe [Mary Woodroffe/ Mrs J. C. Woods] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, T. Werner Laurie, [1906]. Cloth. The T. Werner Laurie colonial edition of this especially scarce novel by the author Mary Woodroffe, or Mrs J. C. Woods, published under the pseudonym Daniel Woodroffe, full bound in the publisher's original, striking, pictorial cloth…

Histoire du snobisme.

Rouvillois, Frédéric. · 2008 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Paris, Flammarion 2008 Couverture souple, 408pp.+16pp. avec ills. hors-texte, 15x24cm., ills. en coul. et n/b., en très bon état (couverture avec légère usure). ISBN 9782081205420. Février 1914 : une grande enquête est lancée pour déterminer le sujet le plus « parisien » du mo…

[Piracy] The gentle art of making enemies: edited by Sheridan Ford [Unopened]

[WHISTLER, James McNeill, 1834-1903] · 1890 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

New York [but Ghent] Frederick Stokes & Brother Unauthorized (Pirated) Edition (preceding an ordinary trade edition and a signed limited edition published, respectively, in June and August the same year) of the collected published newspaper correspondence of James McNeill Whistl…

Sammlung von 124 Bänden (in 133 Büchern)

(Insel Taschenbuch Reihe) · 2001 · Celler Versandantiquariat

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Insel Verlag - DAS FOTO ZEIGT NUR EINEN TEIL DES KONVOLUTS!!!/gute Exemplare/enthalten: George Sand: Lucrezia Floriani/Theodor Fontane. Briefe an Georg Friedlaender/Hans Blumenberg: Vor allem Fontane/Peter Demetz: Alt-Prager Geschichten/Julius Meier-Graefe: Vincent van Gogh/Ho…

The Masque: A Theatre Notebook

Various · 1946 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, The Curtain Press, 1946-1949. First edition. Paperback. A smart complete collection of The Masque, a theatre notebook. With the original two slip cases. Complete in nine volumes, with two of the original three slip cases. First edition. The Masque was a publication desig…

Voyages de Gulliver.

SWIFT (Jonathan) - POIRSON (Victor-Armand, ill. de). · 1884 · Babel Librairie

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Paris, A. Quantin, s.d. [1884]. Un fort vol. au format gd in-8 (263 x 173 mm) de 2 ff. n.fol., xii - 429 pp. et 1 f. n.fol. Reliure d'Ždition de pleine percaline satinŽe marine, plats ornŽs de deux larges bandes de maroquin fauve se prolongeant au dos, dŽcor figuratif dorŽ e…

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

WHARTON, Edith · 1913 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,505.85 | £7,096.15 | ¥1,497,066)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'For Miss Reubell/from Edith Wharton/Nov. 1913." A scarce book to find signed, this is to Henrietta "Etta" Reubell, described by Wha…

PRANCING NIGGER With an Introduction by Carl van Vechten.

Firbank, Ronald [1886 - 1926]. van Vechten, Carl [1880 - 1964] - Contributor. Richards, Grant [1872 - 1948] - Presumed prior owner · 1924 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$385.00 (€349.31 | £291.42 | ¥61,480)

New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1924. 1st US edition (Benkovitz A10). Benkovitz quotes van Vechten implying a print run of 300 cc. Black cloth binding lettered in gilt. Black topstain. White dust jacket with front panel graphic duplicating the frontis. xi, [1], 126 pp. Richards…

Ter Waarheid met het Gedachteleven in Vlaanderen en de Wereld. Maandschrift over godsdienstleven, kunst, staatkunde in Vlaanderen en in de wereld. [10 losse nummers.]

Joris Van Severen / Achilles Mussche / Wies Moens / Frans Naudts / Huib Hoste et al. · 1921 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€295.00 ($325.14 | £246.11 | ¥51,921)

Gent Erasmus 1921-1922 10 losse nummers, gebrocheerd, geniet. Jaargang I: Nrs. IV, VII, 8-9, XI en 12 (ca. 50pp. per nummer, 22x18.5cm.). Jaargang II: Nrs. 1,2,3,6 en 7 (ca. 25pp. per nummer, 24.5x24.5cm.). Schaars ensemble. In goede tot zeer goede staat. Enkel nr. IV van jaarg…