Poesia

Harrow in Prose & Verse

George Townsend Warner · 1913 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. A brightly illustrated collection of poetry and prose from noted alumni and associates of Harrow School. The first and only edition of the work. Bound in a decorative white cloth with the Harrow School coat of arms in ...

The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats · 1829 · Rooke Books

£525.00 (€629.30 | $693.60 | ¥110,759)

Paris, A. and W. Galignani and Co , 1829. First edition. Cloth. The first collected edition of Keats, this collection of poetry from three of the most celebrated English poets. The first edition of this collection of works, with this being the first collected edition of Keats&...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald · 1909 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Vellum. A signed limited edition copy of this beautifully illustrated edition of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, and illustrated in colour by Edmund Dulac. Signed by the illustrator to the limitation leaf.A lim...

A Garland of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern

Joshua Sylvester [ed.] · 1861 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, John Camden Hotten, 1861 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this anthology of Christmas carols, blending both familiar Victorian songs with older compositions. The first edition of this very scarce work.Edited and selected by Joshua Sylvester, thi...

Fragmenta Aurea: A Collection of All the Incomparable Peices, Written by Sir John Suckling

Sir John Suckling · 1658 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

London, Humphrey Moseley, 1658 . Leather. An attractively bound example of the scarce third edition of this collected edition of the works of Sir John Suckling. The scarce third edition of this work.This collected edition of the works of Suckling, an English poet and the inven...

The Song of Lazarus

Alex Comfort · 1945 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

New York, The Viking Press, 1945. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of poems by Alex Comfort, signed by the author. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, dated 27.1.46.In the original unclipped...

Soldiers Bathing and Other Poems

F. T. Prince · 1954 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, The Fortune Press, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of poet F. T. Prince's collection of poems written during the Second World War. The first edition, first impression. Inscribed to the front free endpaper 'For H.A. ...

The Illustrated Book of Sacred Poems

Rev. Robert H. Baynes [ed.] · 1867 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1867. Leather. A scarce collection of sacred poems, richly illustrated throughout with engravings and bound in half crushed morocco. A scarce collection of sacred poems. Bound in half crushed morocco with marbled boards.Featuring beautiful...

The Second Book of the Rhymer&Apos;S Club

The Rhymer's Club · 1894 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the second book of poetry issued by the Rhymer's Club, limited to five hundred copies printed for England. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies printed for England (of which ...

Oxford Poetry

Various · 1926 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1926-1932. First edition. Hardback. Five smart first edition volumes from the Oxford Poetry collection for the years 1926 to 1932. Five volumes. First edition. A collection of poetry from the Oxford Poetry collection which was issued from 1915. With co...

Reynard the Fox

C. S. Evans · 1921 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1921. Cloth. A brightly illustrated copy of this narrative poem, as told by C. S. Evans. Signed and inscribed by the author. Scarce edition. Signed by the author to the half title, with an inscription dated July 1923. Illustrated with a colour t...

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

Michael Hofmann; James Lasdun [editors] · 1994 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Faber and Faber, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of this collection of poetry inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. First edition, first impression. A collection of poems inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, which chronicles ...

Difficult Morning

Randall Swingler · 1933 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Randall Swingler, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. The Gateway Poets series. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dus...

Flowers and Insects

Ted Hughes · 1986 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of this anthology of nature-themed poems by Ted Hughes. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An anthology of poems on the natural world by Ted Hughes, includi...

The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1836 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, William Pickering, 1836. Leather. An anthology of the poetical works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, containing a selection of his important Romantic poetry. Complete in three volumes.An early edition of Pickering's anthology of the poetical works of Samuel Taylor Col...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia

Edward Fitzgerald [trans.]; Omar Khayyam · 1913 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, 1913 . Cloth. A Medici Press limited edition of Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyat&apos. No. 434 of 1000 copies produced.'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' was the title that Edward Fitzgeral...

Tatlings

Sydney Tremayne · 1922 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Sydney Tremayne's charming book of epigrams, illustrated by Fish. A scarce first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece printed in orange and black, and with further full page mon...

John Dryden

David Hopkins · 1986 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this scarce biography on John Dryden by David Hopkins. The first edition. Inscribed by the author to the title page: "For Harold With Best Wishes and Gratitude, David". This work...

Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment

C. L. Wrenn [ed.] · 1969 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, George G. Harrap and Co, 1969. Cloth. A revised edition of this enlightening breakdown and commentary of the Old English epic poem, 'Beowulf&apos. A later printing of the second edition, revised and enlarged.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappe...

Pen and Pencil Pictures

Thomas Hood · 1857 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1857. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of prose and non-fiction work from Thomas Hood, illustrated throughout. First edition. Illustrated with a vignette title page, and many in-text images. A collection of the essays, ...