Poesia

Poems 1937-1942

David Gascoyne · 1948 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,912)

London, Editions Poetry London Ltd. 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, third impression of Gascoyne's anthology of poetry between 1937 and 1942, illustrated by Graham Sutherland. The first edition, third impression of this work in a quarter cloth binding, with p...

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1913 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Humphrey Milford, 1913. Leather. The 'Oxford Edition' of this collection of poetry by the celebrated Elizabeth Barrett Browning, bound in half calf. The 'Oxford Edition&apos. Bound in half calf with cloth to the boards. Illustrated with a monochrome fr...

Jerusalem Delivered; an Heroic Poem

Torquato Tasso; John Hoole · 1803 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

London, T. Bensley, 1803 . Leather. The eighth edition of John Hoole's translation of Torquato Tasso's epic poem, with engravings throughout. Bound in half calf, with five raised bands to the spine and marbled boards.Volume I of a two volume set. 'Jerusalem Del...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

J. Logie Robertson (Ed); Sir Walter Scott · 1916 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1916 . Leather. A collected edition of the poetry of Sir Walter Scott, bound in half calf, edited by J. Logie Robertson. Bound in half calf, with brown cloth to the boards. The Oxford edition. Edited by eighteenth and nineteent...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam · 1919 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,508)

London, T. N. Foulis, 1919. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Omar Khayyam's well known Rubaiyat, translated here into English, and illustrated with many tipped-in colour plates. 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' was the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave ...

The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

William Morris · 1904 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.08 | ¥125,487)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1904. Cloth. A nice copy of these mythological poems by William Morris, this new edition beautifully illustrated by Jessie M. King. A collection of the dark poetry of William Morris, set in a sombre world of violence, many of which are writte...

Paradise Lost, to Which Are Prefixed the Life of the Author; and a Criticism on the Poem

John Milton; Samuel Johnson · 1817 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1817 . Leather. A smart early nineteenth century edition of Milton's epic, including a biographical account of the life of Milton by Samuel Johnson. With a life of Milton by Elijah Fenton, and with a critical analysis of the poem by Samuel ...

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1863 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. Cloth. A first issue copy of this poetry collection set in a Massachusetts Inn, written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The first edition, first issue, with page 11 of the publisher's adverts to the rear st...

Summoned by Bells

John Betjeman · 1960 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,661)

London, John Murray, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Poet Laureate John Betjeman's autobiographical poetry collection. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.A collection of personal and intimat...

Mirror for Magistrates

Joseph Haslewood [ed.]; William Baldwin; George Ferrers; John Higgins et al. · 1815 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.43 | $2,510.18 | ¥400,716)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815 . Leather. A very smart copy of this scarce early nineteenth century edition of this collection of sixteenth century poetry about the downfall of eminent figures. Only one-hundred and fifty copies of this scarce edition were p...

Cecil Floersheim Collected Poems Poems. Translations from the Greek Anthology. Epigrams

Cecil Flowersheim · 1936 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1936. Cloth. A very smart collection of poems by Cecil Floersheim. In the original publisher's green cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper. Gilt top edge. This collection of poems was written by poet Cecil Floersheim. This work features a ...

Collected Lyrical Poems

Vivian Locke Ellis · 1946 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Faber and Faber LTD, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of lyrical poems by Vivian Locke Ellis, in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, in the publisher's original red cloth binding, with the scarce, original, un...

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith; James Prior [editor] · 1837 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

London, John Murray, 1837. Leather. A very smart complete four volume set of the works of Oliver Goldsmith, with a variety of pieces now first collected. Complete in four volumes. Including a variety of pieces now first collected. Each volume includes the title vignette. The w...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott; J. Logie Robertson [ed.] · 1904 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,280)

London, Henry Frowde, 1904. Leather. A collected edition of the poetry of Sir Walter Scott, in a full morocco Oxford binding. The Oxford complete edition of this work in a full morocco binding, with gilt decoration to the square and 'Oxford binding' stamped to the fr...

Man and Women

Robert Browning · 1855 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.34 | $640.76 | ¥102,288)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1855. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this collection of fifty one poems bound between two calf bound volumes. The first edition.Bound by Bickers with binder's stamp to recto of front free endpaper. A collection of fifty-one poems f...

Rokeby; a Poem

Walter Scott · 1813 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)

Edinburgh; London, John Ballantyne and Co; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Brown, 1813. Leather. A smartly bound first edition large paper copy of this popular historical poem by Sir Walter Scott, an epic narrative poem set at the home of Scott's friend. The first edition. Pag...

Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment

C. L. Wrenn [ed] · 1961 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London , George G. Harrap & Co, 1961 . Cloth. A revised edition of the Old English epic poem, Beowulf. A reprint of the revised and enlarged edition.Beowulf is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend. It is one of the most important translated works...

Poesies de Francois Coppee 1869-1874

Francois Coppee · 1875 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1875. Leather. A collection of poetry from Coppee dated 1869 to 1874, in the original French language. French language. A collection of poetry including: Les Humbles, Ecrit Pendant le Siege, Plus de Sang, Promenades et Interieurs, and Le Cahier Rouge. ...

Poems

Elizabeth Belloc · 1937 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1937 . First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A first edition copy of this collection of poems by Elizabeth Belloc. A first edition copy. This is an interesting collection of poems by Elizabeth Belloc. Some of the poems that appear in this volume include...

The Springing Wilderness ( Poems of Uganda)

Stella Wood; Geoffrey Masefield · 1941 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

Kampala, Uganda Bookshop, 1941. First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first edition of Stella Wood and Geoffrey Masefield's anthology of poems, a bright copy. The very scarce first edition of this work. Found institutionally only at the University of Oxford Libraries....