1. Stewart, Harold.

A Chime of Windbells – A year of Japanese Haiku in English verse. With 33 Haiku Paintings in Full Color. Translations with an essay by Harold Stewart.

Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc, 1981. 13 x 20 cm. 236 pages, including illustrations. Original Hardcover with slipcase. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. Dickey, James / Angel, Marie.

Tucky The Hunter. Illustrated by Marie Angel.

New York, Crown Jewel, 1978. Oblong Large Octavo. 44 pages with colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor signs of foxing. Signed and inscribed by James Dickey to Peter [Viereck] on the endpaper: ″ – to all in Peter’s house – from James Dickey”.

3. Rogers, Samuel.

Human Life. A Poem.

London, John Murray, 1819. Duodecimo. Halftitle removed. 100 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful contemporary red morocco with gilt lettering and ornament. Gilt edges. Besides the cleanly removed halftitle in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. [John Minihan Collection] – [Heaney, Seamus] Minihan, John.

First Day Cover of the commemorative stamp for Seamus Heaney. Signed by irish photographer John Minihan, whose portrait of Heaney was used for the stamp. The first day cover is illustrated with a quote from Heaney’s “Bogland”: “We have no prairies – To slice a big sun at evening – Everywhere the eye concedes to – Encroaching horizon…”

Dublin, Anpost, 2014. 19 cm x 13 cm. 1 page. Original Softcover. Excellent condition. Signed and dated by John Minihan on August 28th, 2014.

5. Kherdian, David.

Six San Francisco Poets. [Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Gary Snyder / Philip Whalen / David Meltzer / Michael McClure / Brother Antoninus].

Fresno, Giligia Press, [1969]. 25 cm. 61 pages. With Illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by David Kherdian to Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard in Fresno in 1969.

6. Howard, Richard.

Quantities. Poems.

First Edition of the poet’s first book. Middletown (Conn.), Wesleyan University Press, 1962. 22 cm. 80 pages. Softcover. Some clear signs of foxing. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Wesleyan poetry program].

7. [Saadi of Shiraz] Sa’di / Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi.

Golestan [Gulistan / Rose Garden] – Original 19th century printed version in Persian / Farsi with some contemporary manuscript notes in pencil. Complete title: Great praise and admiration be upon the Creator of the earth, human kind and spirit Infinite blessings and greetings to the God’s beloved court that in this time with the songs of nightingale in the magic and harmonious flower garden of Honourable Sheikh Saadi Shirazi, may God have mercy on him, and great acknowledgement of the book Golestan. Thanks to the great number of believers, God’s follower Qazi Ibrahim Hajji, the noble pious Hajji Qazi Nour Mohammad Milpabadi and Nour-e-Din Bin Heikhakhan, for the second time.

Bombay, In the Printing House Heydari, 1875. Octavo. 252 pages. Hardcover / Contemporary 19th century half leather with marbled paper-covered boards. It is clear from three consecutive little wholes to the bookblock that this version of the Rose Garden was previously bound as a blockbook and rebound in 19th century boards. First 9 and last 7 pages with a faded stain, possibly from the glue of a former wrapper. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some occasional manuscript notes in pencil in english.

8. Rath, Hanns Wolfgang [d.i. Carl Friedrich Schulz-Euler].

Seelen, Die Ein Klang Umspinnt – Verse.

Frankfurt am Main, Verlag Carl Fr. Schulz, 1916. Oktav. Frontispiz mit einem photographischen Portrait von Rath [Lichtbildaufnahme von Hugo Erfurth=Dresden], 36 nn. Seiten. Stoffeinband. Limitierte Auflage: Fünfzehn Exemplare wurden auf Büttenpapier abgezogen und handschriftlich bezeichnet. Die trägt die Nummer 8. Von nur fünfzehn Exemplaren ! Voll signiert von Hanns Wolfgang Rath. Gedruckt im Sommer 1916. Aussergewöhnlich gut erhalten. Von grosser Seltenheit.

9. Tupper, Martin F. [Farquhar].

Proverbial Philosophy.

Thirty-fifth Edition. London, Hatchard and Co., 1859. Octavo. Frontispiece – steel-engraving of a bust showing Martin Tuppper, 385 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative full morocco with gilt lettering to spine. In protective collector’s Mylar. Some children’s writing to frontcover. Slightly rubbed binding. Overall in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Edges gilt. Small stain to edge.

10. Poole, Charles Henry (editor).

A Treasury of Bird Poems.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. no year [c.1911]. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. XXVII, 511 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt top edge and deckled fore and tail-edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing to endpapers. Some untrimmed pages. Interior bright and clean. Binding of this rare volume good and firm.