Poesia

The Beauties of Dryden

John Dryden; Alfred Howard · 1834 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, T. Davison; Thomas Tegg et al, 1834 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce edition of the poetry of John Dryden, edited by Alfred Howard, and in an attractive calf binding. A very scarce first edition thus.Edited and compiled by Alfred Howard, this is a very scarce co...

Poems

Christina G. Rossetti · 1901 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1901 . Cloth. A wonderful example of the 'New and Enlarged' edition of the poetry of English Romantic and devotional poet, Christina Rossetti. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and three plates. Collated, complete.A wonderful example of Rosse...

Les Forces Tumultueuses

Emile Verhaeren · 1906 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris, Societe du Mercure de France, 1906. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of poetry from Belgian writer Emile Verhaeren, in the original French. French. A collection of poetry from Emile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren, a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in th...

The Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth; Thomas Hutchinson [ed.] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Henry Frowde, 1911 . Leather. A beautifully bound edition of the collected poems of William Wordsworth, in half morocco from Hatchards of Piccadilly. Edited and with an introduction and notes from Thomas Hutchinson.In a half morocco signed binding by Hatchards.Illustra...

Names and Local Habitations (Selected Earlier Poems 1951-1972)

Joel Oppenheimer · 1988 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Winston-Salem, North Carolina , The Jargon Society , 1988. First edition. Cloth. A lovely anthology of poems by Joel Oppenheimer. The first edition of this collection. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Offering a satisfying selection of earlier poems...

Living in the Open

Marge Piercy · 1976 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1976. Paperback. A very scarce uncorrected proof copy of this poetry collection by American activist, Marge Piercy. A very scarce uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. In the publisher's wraps. A delightful volume of poetry by American...

The Teeth of the Lion

Kenneth Patchen · 1942 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Connecticut, New Directions, 1942. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this poetry collection from American author Kenneth Patchen. First edition. A collection of poetry from Kenneth Patchen, an American poet and novelist likened to William Black and Walt Whitman...

Beginning with O

Olga Broumas · 1977 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of lesbian eroticism from Greek poet Olga Broumas. First edition. Volume seventy-two of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The author's first published collection. A...

The Bright-Winged Piper: Poems by Padraig O&Apos;Horan

Padraig O'Horan · 1945 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, The Fortune Press, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of this collection of poetry by Padraig O'Horan, in the rare original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped du...

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1909 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Portland Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Leather. A limited edition of this influential collection of romantic poetry by the renowned Elizabeth Barrett Browning, bound in full calf by Hatchards. The fifth edition, being a limited edition of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. Boun...

Thirty Poems

William Cullen Bryant · 1864 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

New York, D. Appleton and Company , 1864. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this anthology by American poet William Cullen Bryant. The first edition. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding. A delightful collection of thirty poems from American...

The Triumphs of Divine Grace

Samuel M. Phelps · 1835 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

New York, Craighead and Allen, 1835. First edition. Cloth. A scarce father-daughter volume of poetry, a religious volume by a Presbyterian minister, the first and only edition. The first and only edition of this scarce work.A religious poem by Samuel Merrick Phelps, divided in...

The Harmony of Birds

John Wright · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Shaftesbury, The High House Press, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition copy of an anonymous sixteenth century poem, printed on handmade paper. A limited edition, being number 41 out of 170 copies, printed on unbleached Arnold hand-made paper.In the original publisher's pattern...

The Glass Tower

Nicholas Moore · 1944 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, PL [Editions Poetry London]; Nicholson and Watson, 1944. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this delightful selection of Nicholas Moore's poetry, decorated with drawings by Lucian Freud. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher...

Parnassian Molehill: An Anthology of Suffolk Verse Written between 1327 and 1864, with Some Account of the Authors

Various; The Earl of Cranbrook [ed.] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

Ipswich, W. S. Cowell Limited , 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition collection of Suffolk poetry collected by the Earl of Cranbrook. A limited edition of 500 copies, this being number 94. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. With an illu...

Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes

Walter De La Mare · 1924 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1924. Cloth. A charming and entertaining series of poems by acclaimed author Walter de la Mare, with colour images. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fifteen colour plates. Collated complete. Being a collection of old and new verses ...

Two Ariel Poems: The Other Wing; the Winnowing Dream

Louis MacNeice; Walter de la Mare · 1954 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. Two pamphlets from the Ariel Poems series, by Louis MacNeice and Walter de la Mare, with illustrations by Michael Ayrton and Robin Jaques, as well as the original envelope for one of the poems. Two pamphlets, one...

The XII Propertees or Condicyons of a Lover by Johan Picus, Erle of Myrandula, a Grete Lord of Italy

Sir Thomas More · 1928 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Ditchling Common, Saint Dominic's Press, 1928. Cloth. A limited printing containing Sir Thomas More's ballade, offering an extended expression of Pico della Mirandola's 'Twelve Properties of a Lover&apos. Number 131 of 250 copies printed on a Stanhope Hand-...

The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog

Sarah Catharine Martin · 1951 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Plymstock, Peacock Press, 1951. Leather. A very scarce limited edition copy of this beloved nursery rhyme, signed by the printer, W. O. Reynolds. A very scarce limited edition, one of 120 copies, this being numbered 1, one of only 6 copies printed on Whatman handmade paper.Sig...

Ode to France

Charles Morgan · 1942 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London; Edinburgh, Macmillan & Co. Ltd; R. & R. Clark, Ltd. 1942. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A fine limited edition copy of Charles Morgan's ode to France, signed by the author, with the original envelope. A signed limited edition of this work in the publisher&apos...