Poesia

The Pilgrim Way and Other Verses

Mary Winter Were · 1947 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1947. Paperback. A very scarce poetry collection by Mary Winter Were, a brilliant selection of her poetry. A very scarce work.The charming poetry of Mary Winter Were, containing fourteen wonderful poems in total, including 'Worship in Slee...

Pharsalia

Lucan · 1671 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

Amsterdam, Danielis Elzevirii, 1671. Vellum. A seventeenth century copy of Lucan's influential civil war poem 'Pharsalia', a popular Roman epic poem. In the original Latin.Lucan's popular Roman epic poem 'Pharsalia', or, 'On the Civil War&apo...

The Deserted Village

Oliver Goldsmith · 1906 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Noel Douglas, 1906 . Hardback. An uncommon facsimile of Oliver Goldsmith's poem as published in 1770. 'The Deserted Village' is a poem written in heroic couplets which comments on society and rural depopulation.Written by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith (1...

A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black Letter Ballads and Broadsides

1867 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Joseph Lilly, 1867. Cloth. An early English poetry collection, from the library of Labour politicians Norman and Janey Buchan. This work comprises a collection of ballads and broadsides printed between 1559 and 1597 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.Containing the ...

The Seasons

James Thomson; Percival Stockdale · 1793 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, A. Hamilton, 1793. Leather. An illustrated edition of James Thomson's most popular Romantic poem, the first with Percival Stockdale's notes. This is the first edition with Percival Stockdale's notes.Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page, f...

The Songs of Scotland, a Collection of One Hundred and Ninety Songs

J. Pittman; Colin Brown; Charles Mackay · 1877 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Boosey & Co, 1877. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this nicely bound Scottish song collection, containing a multitude of popular Scottish poems put to music. The first edition of this work.A selection of one-hundred and ninety Scottish songs, traditional and...

Work in Hand

Alan Hodge; Norman Cameron; Robert Graves · 1942 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this collaboration of great poets Alan Hodge, Norman Cameron, and Robert Graves, who published their three little book as one for economy and friendship. The first edition of this work.Containing ...

The More Deserving Cases Eighteen Old Poems for Reconsideration

Robert Graves · 1962 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Marlborough College Press, 1962. First edition. Cloth. An excellent copy of this collection of old poems by Robert Graves, limited to three hundred and fifty bound in cloth and signed by the author. The first edition of this work, limited to seven hundred and fifty cop...

The Village Curate a Poem

James Hurdis · 1812 · Rooke Books

£470.00 (€563.37 | $620.94 | ¥99,155)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Taylor and Hessey; Sharpe and Hailes; Darton and Harvey et al. c1812. Hardback. A lovely copy of this very scarce poem by James Hurdis, rebound in marbled boards. A scarce work, dated from the copy on Jisc c 1812, based on when Wh...

Rime, Gentlemen, Please

Robert Farren · 1945 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Sheed and Ward, 1945. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition, excellent in its original, unclipped dustwrapper, of this collection of poems by Robert Farren. The first edition of this work. An uncommon title comprising a selection of poems written by Robert Fa...

The Kings of Min Zaman

C. R. Ashbee · 1938 · Rooke Books

£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,970)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1938. First edition. Hardback. An excellent first edition copy of this poem by C. R. Ashbee. The first edition of this work. Comprising a poem by Charles Robert Ashbee, a British architect and designer whose work was inspired by the crafts ethi...

Interludes in Verse and Prose

Sir George Otto Trevelyan · 1905 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, unique copy of George Otto Trevelyan's selection of verse and prose. Trevelyan's inscription to the recto of front endpaper. Another former owner has written in pencil that this is the author&ap...

Chosen Poems by Frederic Prokosch

Frederic Prokosch · 1944 · Rooke Books

£105.00 (€125.86 | $138.72 | ¥22,152)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1944. Cloth. A super copy of this selection of poems by Frederic Prokosch. A collection of Frederic Prokosch' poems, in the original, unclipped dustwrapper. Comprising fifteen lyrics, eleven elegies, eleven landscapes, seven legends, and one ode b...

Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay, and Critical Comments

Leigh Hunt [ed.] · 1846 · Rooke Books

£137.00 (€164.22 | $181.00 | ¥28,903)

London, Smith, Elder, and Co. 1846. First edition. Leather. A very charming, uncommon first edition copy of this collection of poems by various English writers with critical comments, edited by Leigh Hunt. The first edition of this work. Comprising a selection of poems by Engl...

A Place for Tritons

Arthur Ball · 1954 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Privately Printed, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A fantastic first edition copy of this very scarce collection of poems by Arthur Ball. Undated. Dated from a British Library copy on Library Hub. Published by a private press. Comprising fifty three poems by Arthur Ball. A...

The Court of Virtue

John Hall, Russell A. Fraser [ed.] · 1961 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition published in its entirety of this miscellaneous of poems by John Hall, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition thus of this work previously appeared in anthologies and art...

Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith; Thomas Parnell · 1804 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, T. Cadell and W. Davies; W. Bulmer and Co, 1804. Leather. A selection of three poems by Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Parnell, illustrated beautifully throughout by Thomas Bewick. The second edition of this work.A selection of the poetry of Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Pa...

Kisses: A Poetical Translation of the Basia

Johannes Secundus; John Nott · 1778 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, J. Bew, 1778. Leather. Johannes Secundus' romantic poetry collection about his lover, the third edition of this illustrated translation. The third edition of this translation.ESTC citation number T101632.'Kisses' is a short collection of nineteen poems, ...

Barnabae Itinerarium: Barnabees Journal to Which Is Added the Song of Bessie Bell

Richard Brathwait · 1932 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Penguin Press, 1932. Cloth. A fine copy of Barnabees Journal by the Penguin Press, a first edition thus of the original book from 1638. The 1932 Penguin edition of Richard Brathwait Barnabees Journal, book in verses firstly published in 1683. The story follows a vagabo...

Legal and Other Lyrics by the Late George Outram a New Edition, with Explanatory Notes and a Glossary

J. H. Stoddart · 1887 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1887. Leather. An illustrated anthology of poems by George Outram. Legal and Other Lyrics is an anthology of poems by George Outram, edited by J. H. Stoddart and nicely illustrated throughout by William Ralston and A. S. Boyd.Outram...