Poesia

Les Flã¨Ches D&Apos;or

Maurice Heim · 1920 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Paris, Edward Sansot, 1920. Paperback. A very scarce and signed poetry anthology from the romantic tradition, written by early twentieth century French writer Maurice Heim. Les Flèches D'or (The Golden Arrows), a very scarce poetry anthology, written and signed by French ...

Dans la Fosse Aux Lions: Poã¨Me de la Guerre

Jean Suberville · 1927 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

Paris, La Renaissance de Livre, 1927. First edition. Paperback. A striking post-WWI poetic cycle, a signed presentation copy from the author, pairing classical and religious imagery with the trauma and rebirth of France after the Great War. In the publisher's original pap...

After Easter

Sibael Tucaig · 1918 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

Dublin; London, The Talbot Press; T. Fisher Unwin, 1918. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce Talbot Press booklet of Easter Rising era patriotic verse, inscribed by the author. In the publisher's original paper wraps.First edition.Signed and inscribed by the author to...

To-Day and Other Poems

James Latimer McLane · 1920 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1920. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce unique first edition of James Latimer McLane"s reflective post-war verse, inscribed by the author. In the publisher's original paper wraps.First edition.An exceptionally scarce copy of this work.In...

A Patriot of Britain: And Other Poems

James Millar · 1918 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Arthur H. Stockwell, 1918 . Cloth. An exceptionally scarce, author's presentation copy of this colletcion of patriotic and pastoral verse, inscribed in pencil by the author to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original dark blue cloth binding. This ...

The Heart&Apos;S Unreason

Edward Davison · 1931 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London , Victor Gollangz Ltd, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce signed presentation copy of this collection of poems by Scottish poet Edward Davison. The very scarce first edition of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, to Stanley M. ...

Shoots in the Stubble

Max Plowman · 1920 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London , C.W. Daniel, Ltd. 1920 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce signed presentation copy of this collection of twentieth century poetry by Max Plowman. The first edition of the work. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, dated '4th Dec 1920&...

The Garden of Sleep and Other Verses: Original and Translated

William Blathwayt · 1924 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London , Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1924 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce signed and inscribed first edition of this collection of poetry by William Blathwayt, with a frontispiece. The very scarce first edition of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front fre...

Visions

J.W.N. Smith · 1917 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,799)

Rugby, George E. Over, 1917 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this collection of twentieth century poetry by J.W.N Smith. The extremely scarce first and only edition of the work.In publisher's quarter brown cloth binding.A collection of 20th century p...

A Legend of Liberty and Other Verses

F.C. Palmer · 1916 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

Birmingham , Cornish Brothers, LTD. 1916 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce signed presentation copy of this collection of poetry by Frederick Palmer. The very scarce first edition of the work.A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to front free endpape...

Macedonian Measures and Others

John Macleod · 1919 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1919 . First edition. Paperback. Scarce signed first-edition poetry collection from John Macleod, Scottish poet and former soldier. Scarce first edition.In publisher's original binding.Signed by the author with dedication to front fr...

Metrical Tales and Other Poems

Robert Southey · 1805 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1805 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Robert Southey's Metrical Tales and Other Poems in full tree calf. The first edition of Robert Southey's Metrical Tales and Other Poems in full tree calf. Southey describes this ...

Walks in a Forest

Thomas Gisborne · 1801 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1801 . Leather. A delightful full-calf illustrated collection from Thomas Gisborne on his walks through Needwood Forest. Corrected fifth edition.In full calf binding with gilt detail and marbled endpapers.With two bookplates, the first of ...

Rime, E Prose Di M. Giovanni Della Casa: In Questa Ristampa Di Molto Accresciute, E Ricorrette

Giovanni della Casa · 1761 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

[Napoli], [Per lo stampator N. Naso], 1761. Vellum. A very scarce vellum-bound anthology offering Giovanni della Casa's Rime and prose, in the original Italian. A very scarce volume offering his Rime and selected prose by 16th-century Italian poet and diplomat, Giovanni d...

Autumn Sequel: A Rhetorical Poem in XXVI Cantosâ by Louis Macneice, 1954 First Editionâ  the Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogueâ by W.H. Auden, 1956 First Edition, Third Impression Life Studiesâ by Robert Lowell, 1959 First Editionâ  for the Union Dead by Robert Lowell, 1970 Reprint Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W.H. Auden, 1971 Reprint

Louis MacNeice; W. H. Auden; Robert Lowell · 1954 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

London, Faber and Faber, 1954-1971. Cloth. A pleasing five-volume collection of works in modern poetry, by Louis MacNeice, W. H. Auden, and Robert Powell, in the original cloth with the original dust wrappers.  A five-volume collection of works in modern poetry, by Louis MacNe...

Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1905 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London , George Bell & Sons, 1905. First edition. Leather. A smart illustrated collection of poetry by acclaimed poet Alfred Tennyson, in half red calf. The first edition of the work.In half red calf, with gilt to top edge, and decorative end papers. A collection of poetry by ...

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth; Thomas Hutchinson · 1913 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New York, Toronto, Melbourne and Bombay, Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1913. Leather. Lovely collection of Wordsworth's poetry with an additional 70 pages of prefaces and notes. In full red morocco. Oxford edition. In beautiful red moro...

The Infernal Machine, a Play in Four Acts

Jean Cocteau; Carl Wildman [trans.] · 1936 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. In the charmingly illustrated dust wrapper, this is a first UK edition of Jean Cocteau's' reworking of the Oedipus myth, translated and with an introductory essay by Carl Wildman. The firs...

Later Poems the Echoes Return Slow

R. S. Thomas · 1983 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Macmillan , 1983-1988 . First edition. Cloth. A set of first edition poetry collections by Welsh poet R. S. Thomas in the publisher's original cloth bindings with the original bright, unclipped dust wrappers. A set of first edition poetry collections by R. S. Thom...

Don Juan

Lord Byron · 1821 · Rooke Books

£4,500.00 (€5,393.90 | $5,945.16 | ¥949,063)

London, Thomas Davison; John and H. L. Hunt; John Hunt, 1821-4. First edition. Leather. A sought after set of Lord Byron's epic poem, this set including the first editions of Cantos VI to XVI, and the first octavo editions of Cantos I-V, bound in half calf. The first Octa...