Poesia

From the Eastern Sea

Yone Noguchi · 1903 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.97 | $1,981.72 | ¥316,354)

London , The Unicorn , 1903. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of a collection of poetry by Yone Noguchi. The first edition. In the original pictorial publisher's cloth. Yonne Noguchi was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criti...

The Cloth of Flesh

Seán Jennett · 1945 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Faber and Faber, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from Sean Jennet, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Jennett's second collection of poetry which mostly comprises of war poetry, considering the e...

The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry 1915-1955

C. Day Lewis & John Lehmann [ed] T. S. Eliot · 1956 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1956. Cloth. A collection of poetry published by Chatto & Windus edited by C. Day Lewis and John Lehmann with the original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This work was edited by C. Day Lew...

1920 the Secret: Sixty Poems

Laurence Binyon · 1920 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London , Elkin Mathews, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A collection of sixty poems by English poet, dramatist and art scholar Laurence Binyon. The first edition. A collection of sixty short poems exploring natural, rural life and friendship. Each poem explores ideas connection. L...

The Poems of John Dryden

John Dryden · 1854 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Charles Griffin and Co, 1854. Leather. A handsomely bound collection of poetry by John Dryden. Volume Two of Three. This volume celebrates the work and life of John Dryden. It includes an introductory memoir by Robert Bell which aims to understand Dryden and how he was...

Don Juan

Lord Byron · 1822 · Rooke Books

£2,950.00 (€3,536.00 | $3,897.38 | ¥622,164)

London, Thomas Davison; John Hunt; John and H. L. Hunt, 1822-24. Hardback. A sought after set of Lord Byron's epic poem, this set including the first editions of Cantos VI to XVI. Lord Byron's complete 'Don Juan', in the publisher's original paper boar...

Gertrude of Wyoming and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1819 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Leather. The seventh edition of this collection of poetry from Campbell, including the romantic epic Gertrude of Wyoming. Seventh edition. With vignette title and two plates. Collated complete. A collection of poetry from Th...

The Idle Demon

Robert Percival Lister · 1958 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A well presented first edition of this collection of poems by British author, poet and artist, R. P. Lister. A smart first edition of this work, in the original black cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper.Thi...

Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1904 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.05 | ¥16,450)

Edinburgh, W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1904. Vellum. A smart collection of poetry from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with a biographical sketch. With portrait frontispiece. Dated from the British Library. A collection of poetry including: Voices of the Night, Ballads, Translat...

The Giaour, the Bride of Abydos, the Corsair, Lara, Hebrew Melodies, Fare Thee Well

Lord Byron · 1813 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.65 | $1,314.54 | ¥209,848)

London, John Murray; Rodwell and Martin, 1813-16. Leather. A collection of the popular poetry of Lord Byron, this volume included six first and early editions of the infamous poet's works. A collection of six of Byron's poetical works bound in one volume.'The Gi...

Suggestions Introductory to a Study of the Aeneid and Plato&Apos;S Biography of Socrates

H. Nettleship · 1875 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1875-1917 . Hardback. An interesting volume of two works on the Aeneid and Plato's biography of Socrates. This contains two volumes which have been bound in one, the first is Suggestions Introductory to A Study of the Aeneid (1875) by H. N...

Corpvs Poeticvm Boreale the Poetry of the Old Nothern Tongue - Vol II -Court Poetry

Gudbrand Vigfusson; F. York Powell · 1883 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1883 . Cloth. An uncommon collection of Scandinavian court poetry from the first century. A first edition of this collection of court poetry from the first century. Whilst the introduction and accompanying notes are in English, the majority of the ...

The Complete Poems of Christopher Harvey

Christopher Harvey; Alexander B. Grosart [ed.] · 1874 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London, Printed for Private Circulation, 1874. Cloth. A scarce late nineteenth century edition of the poetry of seventeenth century poet Christopher Harvey. Limited to only one-hundred and six copies.Harvey, a Puritan clergyman, was the author of 'The Synagogue', a s...

Fritillaries: A Book in Verse

W. J. F. · 1892 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Orford, B. H. Blackwell, 1892. Paperback. A scarce collection of verses from W. J. Ferrar. Scarce work. A collection of verses, including: Spring-Idyl, Tullia's Death, Niobe, The Lost Colours, and many others. Wrtiten by W. J. Ferrar. In the original paper wraps. External...

Les Ornemens de la Memoire Ou Les Traits Brillans Des Poetes Francais

- · 1835 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Paris, Chez Corbet Aine, 1835. Leather. An early edition of this collection of poems, essays, maxims, and other writings by famous French writers. An early edition of this collection of poems, essays, maxims, and other writings highlighting the distinctive features of the most...

Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera: Ad Lectiones Probatiores Diligenter Emendata, Et Interpunctione Nova Saepius Illustrata

Virgil; Joannis Hunter [John Hunter] · 1825 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1825. Leather. A very scarce edition of this collection of Virgil's poems in Latin, edited by John Hunter. The fourth edition of this very scarce work in a full calf binding. Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera: Ad Lectiones Probatiores Diligenter Emen...

Poemes

Emile Verhaeren · 1917 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Paris, Mercure de France, 1917. Leather. A scarce edition of this collection of poetry, in the original French language. French language. Scarce edition. A collection of poetry, including titles such as: Humanite, Illusion, Les Arbres, Le Glaive, Pieusement, Le Meurtre, and ma...

The Return of Arthur

Martyn Skinner · 1955 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of Martyn Skinner's brilliant science fiction poem in which he places a reborn King Arthur in a dystopian England. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An ambitious novel-le...

Lirici Del Secolo XVIII

G. Carducci [ed.] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Florence, G. Barbera, 1871. First edition. Leather. A scarce leather bound miniature containing eighteenth century Italian lyric poems. Published in Italian. A scarce leatherbound miniature containing the lyrics of eighteenth century Italian poets such as Ludovico Savioli, Ago...

Criterion Miscellany, No. 11: Nettles

D. H. Lawrence · 1930 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Faber & Faber, 1930. First edition. Paperback. A first edition copy of this collection of poetry by renowned modernist author D. H. Lawrence, part of the Criterion Miscellany. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original paper wraps, with the origina...