Poesia

The Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence Volume I - Rhyming Poems the Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence Volume II - Unrhyming Poems

D. H. Lawrence · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Martin Secker, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A scarce complete first edition of collected poems by D. H. Lawrence. The first edition, compiling a great number of poems penned by English writer D. H. Lawrence, most known for the notorious 'Lady Chatterley's Love...

From the Eastern Sea

Yone Noguchi · 1903 · Rooke Books

£2,850.00 (€3,416.18 | $3,765.25 | ¥601,262)

London , The Unicorn , 1903. First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce first edition with autograph inscriptions by Yone Noguchi, including a dated presentation to Elkin Mathews and a loosely inserted signed photographic portrait, an evocative early modernist poetry collec...

The Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence · 1932 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Martin Secker, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional example of the first single volume edition of D. H. Lawrence's collected poems, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first single volume separate edition of the collected poems of Lawrence. This w...

Forty-Two Poems

James Elroy Flecker · 1911 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. Poet and artist Cecil French's copy of this first edition collection of poems from British playwright and educator James Elroy Flecker. The first edition of this poetry collection from British novelist, playwright an...

The Lover&Apos;S Progress

W. Laird Clowes · 1881 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Effingham Wilson, 1881 . First edition. Hardback. Illustrated with a frontispiece, this is the very scarce first edition of W. Laird Clowes's late 19th century collection of poems. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece.A collection of poems f...

Shelley&Apos;S Declaration of Rights

[Percy Bysshe Shelley]; Francis Freeling; William D. Fellowes · 1868 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Not Stated , Not Stated , 1868-9. Paperback. A curious and very scarce private printing of Shelley's 'Declaration of Rights', supported with letters by Francis Freeling and Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue. Accompanying this copy of Shelley's manifesto are le...

Oberon, a Poem. From the German of Wieland

[Christoph Martin Wieland]; William Sotheby · 1805 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co for T. Cadell and W. Davies , 1805. Leather. The scarce second edition of William Sotheby's translation of Christoph Martin Wieland's epic poem, 'Oberon', from the library of Roger Senhouse. Second edition, complete in tw...

Whistle-Binkie a Collection of Songs for the Social Circle, Bound with Songs for the Nursery

Various; John D. Carrick [ed.]; Alexander Rodger [ed.] · 1842 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Glasgow, David Robertson, 1842-1846. Leather. A delightful collected edition of Whistle-Binkie, comprising Series 1-5 and 'Songs for the Nursery' bound in one volume. An early collected edition. Comprising five series of 'Whistle-Binkie; A Collection of Songs fo...

The Escorial. A Prize Poem Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 20, 1860

J. A. Symonds [John Addington Symonds] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

Oxford , T. and G. Shrimpton, 1860. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of John Addington Symond's prize-winning poem, 'The Escorial&apos. First edition of J. A. Symonds' prize-winning poem [Babington, I. 1]. Recited in the Oxford Theatre, June 20, 1...

The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated Into English Verse

Decimus Junius Juvenalis; William Gifford [trans.] · 1802 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

London, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1802. First edition. Leather. A smart English translation of Juvenal's satirical poems, by critic, editor and famous satirist William Gifford. First edition of this English translation by William Gifford, with note...

Songs of Innocence

William Blake · 1902 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London; New York, John Lane, 1902. Cloth. A charming, and very scarce little book of verse, illustrated throughout by Geraldine Morris. A very scarce little volume of poetry by English writer William Blake - an influential artistic figure in the Romantic Age through a variety ...

Shakespeare&Apos;S Sonnets and a Lover&Apos;S Complaint

William Shakespeare; W. H. Hadow · 1907 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1907 . Leather. A smartly rebound Clarendon Press edition of Shakespeare"s Sonnets and A Lover"s Complaint, reprinting the 1609 quarto text with scholarly introduction and notes by W. H. Hadow. Smartly rebound in a quarter red morocco with blue clo...

Quarles&Apos;S Enchiridion

Francis Quarles · 1822 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Charles Baldwyn, 1822. Cloth. A very scarce reprint of this collected edition of Quarles"s celebrated devotional writings, smartly rebound in brown cloth. Rebound in a smart brown cloth binding with a calf spine label laid down. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiec...

2 Vols in 1 Gertrude of Wyoming and Other Poems; Lochiel&Apos;S Warning

Thomas Campbell · 1810 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; Vernor, Hood and Sharpe; J. Murray, 1810. Leather. The smart second edition of Thomas Campbell"s celebrated Romantic poetry, uniting "Gertrude of Wyoming" and "Lochiel"s Warning" in a single volume. Bound in a contemporary half calf bindi...

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1893 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. [1893]. Leather. A smart collection of the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, handsomely bound in a full morocco prize binding. In a full navy morocco prize binding for New College, Eastbourne.This edition of Longfellow's works is the Al...

The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1869 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1869. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of poems by the notable Alfred Lord Tennyson. The complete edition. In full green morocco binding, with a gilt to fore edge.Tennyson was an English poet who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdo...

Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars.

Samuel Butler · 1761 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,523)

London, D. Browne; C. Hitch; L. Hawes; J. Shuckburgh; et al, 1761 . Leather. The second Hogarth edition of this important long narrative poem by Samuel Butler, illustrated throughout and with folding plates. The second Hogarth edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, five fold...

Poems

Alice Meynell · 1921 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. 1921 . Leather. Full-morocco poetry collection from prominent British writer and suffragist Alice Meynell. Ninth edition, enlarged.In full-morocco binding.Featuring a frontispiece portrait, from a drawing by renowned artist John Singer Sar...

More Poems

A. E. Housman · 1936 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. First trade edition of A. E. Housman's final poetry collection, published posthumously the year of his death. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.With a frontispiece port...

Moral Reflections in Verse

Joseph Whittingham Salmon · 1796 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

Nantwich, E. Snelson; Craig Nantwich, 1796 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the vanishingly scarce first edition of Joseph Whittingham Salmon's charming work of poetry about the beauties of the natural world, as seen in Hawkstone Park in Shropshire. The va...