Poesia

Black Rain

Katue Kitasono · 1954 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Palma de Mallorca, The Divers Press, 1954. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this scarce volume of poems and drawings by Kitasono Katue. The first edition of this scarce work.A beautiful volume of poetry and drawings by the Japanese poet and photographer Kitasono ...

These Yellow Photos

Val Warner · 1971 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford, Carcanet Press, 1971. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce limited first edition of These Yellow Photos, Val Warner"s striking debut poetry pamphlet. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps.This copy is a first limited edition, being one ...

Poems

Peter Wells · 1997 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Suffolk, The One Time Press, 1997. Leather. A signed, limited-edition volume from Peter Wells"s Poems, providing lyrical verse with sculptural illustrations in a finely bound, quarter calf binding. Bound in a quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards.Signed by the author ...

Collected Poems

Norman MacCaig · 1990 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1990 . Cloth. Signed by the author Norman MacCaig this 1990 New Edition celebrates his 80th birthday with nearly 700 poems, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding, complete with the origi...

Indian Love

Laurence Hope · 1914 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, William Heinemann, 1914. Leather. A smartly bound copy of Laurence Hope"s impassioned Indian love lyrics, praised by Thomas Hardy for their "tropical luxuriance and Sapphic fervour." In a half morocco binding with cloth boards. This volume includes a tissue‑guarde...

Maud and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Edward Moxon, 1859. Leather. A selection of poetry from the renowned Alfred Lord Tennyson, bound in full calf with gilt details to the spine. A new edition. First published 1855. Bound in full contemporary calf with gilt details to the spine. This collection of poetr...

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1864 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864 . First edition. Leather. A lovely example of the first UK edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's charming work of poetry, in a signed calf binding. The first UK edition of this work, published the year after the American fir...

Two Elegies; One Man Two Women; Couple

Giles Gordon · 1968 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London; Knotting, Turret Books; Sheep Press; Sceptre Press, 1968-1978 . First edition. Paperback. Signed presentation copies of three scarce limited edition works of poetry by Giles Gordon, inscribed to publisher and friend Carmen Callil. Three first edition works by Giles Gor...

The Defence of Guenevere

William Morris · 1905 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, John Lane, 1905 . Leather. A charmingly bound edition of William Morris's celebrated dramatic monologue, illustrated with the celebrated plates of Jessie M. King. First published with King's illustrations the year prior, this is a charming edition of William ...

2 Vols the Poems of Robert Bloomfield

Robert Bloomfield · 1814 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, ; Longman; Hurst; Rees; Orme and Co.; B. and R. Crosby and Co,; Darton: Harvey and Darton; Walker; Edwards and Reynolds; and G. 1814 . First edition. Leather. London: ; Longman; Hurst; Rees; Orme and Co.; B. and R. Crosby and Co,; Darton: Harvey and Darton; Walker; Edw...

The Queen&Apos;S Wake: A Legendary Poem

James Hogg · 1842 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson, 1842 . Cloth. An 1847 edition of James Hogg"s best-known bardic cycle The Queen"s Wake, a Romantic tribute to Scottish legend, reissued by Thomas Nelson. In the publisher's original red cloth binding.This copy features an illustrated title page a...

Reynard the Fox: After the German Version of Goethe

Thomas James Arnold · 1860 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Trubner and Co, 1860. Cloth. A decoratively bound translation of Goethe's 1793 poem of Reynard the Fox, with illustrations. The first edition of this translation with these illustrations. In the publisher's original gilt-decorated cloth binding. From Johann...

Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough · 1895 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1895. Leather. A handsome selection of the poems of Arthur Hugh Clough, presented in full signed tree calf by Bickers & Son. Offering the poems of Arthur Hugh Clough who, as well as being a poet, was an educationalist and devoted assistant to pioneeri...

Select Poems Divine and Humane

Thomas Beedome · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Vellum. A smart limited edition collection of the seventeenth century poems of Thomas Beedome, a nice work from the Nonesuch Press. A limited edition, limited to 1250 copies, of which this is numbered 871.The poetry of Thomas Beedome, a sevent...

The Complete Works of Adelaide A. Procter

Adelaide A. Procter; Charles Dickens [intro.] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1905 . Leather. A beautifully bound example of the poetry of Adelaide A. Procter, one of the most popular female poets of the Victorian period. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Procter.With an introduction from Charles Dickens, a close ...

Moortown

Ted Hughes · 1979 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Faber and Faber, 1979. First edition. Paperback. A smart first softcover edition of this poetry diary from English writer Ted Hughes. First edition. With the original errata slip. A poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm. Ted Hughes married Caro...

The Mistress with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667

Abraham Cowley; John Sparrow (ed.) · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Cloth. A limited edition of 'The Mistress with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1619-1667' edited by John Sparrow for the Nonesuch Press. A limited edition of this work, being copy seven hundred and four of one thousand and fifty...

Tecumseh: Or, the West Thirty Years Since. A Poem.

George H. Colton · 1842 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1842 . First edition. Hardback. The author's presentation copy of this exceptionally scarce publication containing George H. Colton's best known work, the poem 'Tecumseh&apos. First edition. Very scarce work. The author's present...

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

Various; Thomas Percy · 1858 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

Edinburgh; London, James Nichol; James Nisbet & Co, 1858. Leather. A smartly bound set of this important anthology of ancient English poetry, a brilliant collection compiled by Thomas Percy. Complete in three volumes.'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry' is a collecti...

Hengivelsen

John Donne; Ove Abildgaard [translator] · 1945 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Kobenhavn, H. Hirschsprungs Forlag, 1945. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this illustrated verse from English poet John Donne, limited to one thousand copies. Translated into Danish. Danish. Limited to one thousand copies of which this is number five hundred and forty-eight. ...