Poesia

Poems

Gwen M. Rolling · 1961 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Ilfracombe, Arthur H. Stockwell LTD, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce signed first edition collection of the poetry of Gwen M. Rolling, in the original dust wrapper. A very scarce first edition work.Signed by the author to the title page, 'With the authors good w...

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Complete in One Volume

Robert Southey · 1853 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1853. Leather. The 1853 edition of the Robert Southey's poetic works, complete in one volume, with a frontispiece and a title vignette page. 1853 'New Edition&apos. Bound in half-morocco on cloth boards.Illustrations include ...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper; William Benham · 1870 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1870. Leather. The poetical works of William Cowper in a full calf binding signed Macmillan. An anthology of William Cowper's poetry. In a pleasing full calf Macmillan binding. Cowper was a famed English poet and hymnodist. He was a great influen...

The Poems of Emma C. Embury

Emma C. Embury · 1869 · Rooke Books

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

New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1869. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of the first collected edition of the poems of Emma C Embury, pioneer in female literature in the United States. The first collected edition of the poems of Emma Catherine Embury, American author, pion...

The Chase

William Somervile · 1896 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, George Redway, 1896. Cloth. A delightful illustrated edition of William Somervile's celebrated verse, with engravings by Hugh Thomson. An early English georgic, this work first appeared in 1735. Written by William Somervile, an English poet active in the early ei...

Personal Poems

R L Megroz · 1919 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

London, Elkin Mathews, 1919. First edition. Paperback. A scarce first edition of this anthology of personal poems by R L Megroz, in the original publisher's stiff cardboards, and complete in its unclipped dust wrapper. Rodolphe Louis Megroz was a prolific English author, ...

The Complete Angler or Contemplative Man&Apos;S Recreation Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing

Izaak Walton; Charles Cotton · 1815 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

London, Samuel Bagster, 1815. Fine Binding. A finely bound, early edition of Izaak Walton's noted work 'The Complete Angler&apos. This being Bagster's second edition, and the eighth edition overall. This edition is beautifully illustrated, with an engraved title...

The Writings of Bret Harte

Bret Harte · 1899 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company , 1899-1914. Cloth. A collection complete in twenty uniformly bound volumes of the standard library edition of the works of Bret Harte. Bret Harte was a short story writer and poem, known as the author of numerous pieces of fi...

Eton Echoes, a Volume of Humorous Verse

Gilbert Frankau · 1901 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

Eton, G. New, 1901. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of Gilbert Frankau's very scarce first published work, a collection of humorous verse published when Frankau was seventeen. A vanishingly scarce first edition.The first published work of Gilbert Frankau, a po...

La Chute D&Apos;Un Ange: ãƒâ‰Pisode

Alphonse de Lamartine · 1870 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Paris, L. Hachette & Cie, 1870. Leather. A vast metaphysical poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, dealing with a battle of a man between faith and love for a woman. A long metaphysical poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, important French author who played a major part in the foundation o...

Sketches from St. George&Apos;S Fields

Giorgione Di Castel Chiuso · 1821 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, R. and M. Stodart, 1821. First edition. Leather. A very scarce copy of this collection of poetry written by Peter Bayley, or better known by his pen name, Giorgione di Castel Chiuso. First series, second edition. Illustrated throughout with in-text illustrations. Giorg...

The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith · 1806 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Albion Press: James Cundee, 1806. Leather. A delightful little collection of the poetry of Goldsmith, illustrated throughout with engravings and presented in a smart contemporary calf binding. Comprising 'The Traveller', 'The Deserted Village', &apo...

Enslaved and Other Poems

John Masefield · 1920 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, William Heinemann, 1920. Vellum. A signed, limited edition of Poet Laureate John Masefield's delightful poetry collection. Written by John Masefield (1878-1967), an English poet and writer who served as Poet Laureate for nearly forty years until his death. As well...

Poems

Enid Bagnold · 1978 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, The Whittington Press & William Heinemann, 1978. Cloth. A beautiful limited edition of Enid Bagnold's poetry collection, signed by the author. This work consists of the author's own favourite poems to have written and enjoyed throughout her career, which span...

Poems by Eliza Cook

Eliza Cook · 1861 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London & New York, Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1861. Cloth. A beautiful clothbound collection of the poetry of Eliza Cook, selected by the author and illustrated throughout. Written and selected by Eliza Cook (1818-1889), an English poet, author, and proponent of women'...

The Poems of Lord Byron Selected and Arranged in Chronological Order with a Preface by H.J. C. Grierson Litt. D.

Lord Byron · 1923 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Chatto and Windus at the Florence Press, 1923. Unbound. A scarce limited edition copy in a charming half vellum binding of Lord Byron's poems. A special edition printed on hand-made paper, limited to two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number thirty.A c...

1887 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems

William Edmondstoune Aytoun · 1887 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. Leather. A full calf edition of William Edmonstoune Aytoun's famous Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. A lovely full calf edition of this work.William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a Scottish poet, lawyer, and professor of rhetoric at Edin...

Poems from Heine

Philip G. L. Webb · 1927 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Nisbet and Co. 1927. First edition. Cloth. A lovely and scarce first edition thus to be revised and enlarged of Philip G. L. Webb's collection of poems. The author's signed presentation copy. A revised and enlarged edition of 'Translations from Heint &c....

Eidola

Frederic Manning · 1917 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, John Murray , 1917. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of Frederic Manning's first collection of poems after his return from the war. An excellent copy. Frederic Manning was an Australian poet who fought in France during World War One. Upon his return, h...

The Works of Edmund Waller in Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller · 1744 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Printed for J and R Tonson and S Draper in the Strand , 1744. Leather. An early edition of the works in prose and verse by Edmund Waller, English poet and politician. Illustrated. An early edition of this work, originally published in 1729. Comprising the works in pros...