Poesia

Les Heroides, le Remede D&Apos;Amour, Les Potiques - Petits Poemes

Ovid · 0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Paris, Librairie Garnier Freres, c1900. Leather. A smartly bound edition of this scarce edition of Ovid's Heroides, in the French language. French language. Scarce edition. A collection of fifteen epistolary poems in elegiac couplets, presented through the heroines of Gre...

Memories and Other Poems

Madalene M. Mills · 0 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

None, None, c1925. Cloth. A very scarce collection of poetry from Madalene M. Mills. Very scarce work. A collection of poetry, including: Friendship, A Mother's Prayer, Meine Leibe, My Dream of Paradise, On a Broken Heart, Love or Pastime, and many others. Written by Mada...

Elaine

Alfred Tennyson · 1867 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London, Edward Moxon and Co. 1867. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in large folio of Alfred Tennyson's narrative poem 'Elaine' with full page illustrations by Gustave Dore. Originally published in 'Idylls of the King' (1859-85). This is the fir...

The Course of Time: A Poem

Robert Pollok · 1879 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1879. Leather. A scarce new edition of this illustrated copy of Robert Pollock's best known poem The Course of Time. Scarce edition. New edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and twenty-three plates. Collated complete. The last and mos...

The Last Blackbird and Other Lines

Ralph Hodgson · 1907 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)

London, George Allen, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A nice first edition copy of the first poetry collection of Ralph Hodgson, including a letter from the author signed to Wilfrid Meynell. The first edition.Inscribed letter from the author tipped-in to the front paste down, &apo...

The Poetical Works of James Hogg

James Hogg · 1822 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co. 1822. First edition. Leather. A first edition four-volume set of poetry by Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg. The uncommon first edition of this set in half calf bindings. Bookplate to the front paste downs. James Hogg (1770-1835) was...

Summoned by Bells

John Betjeman · 1960 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, John Murray, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Betjeman's blank verse autobiography in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Summoned By Bells by John Betjeman, in the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper. A ...

La Muse Au Cabaret

Raoul Ponchon · 1946 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

Paris, La Bonne Compagnie, 1946 . Paperback. A limited edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of poetry by Raoul Ponchan Limited edition of La Muse Au Cabaret by Raoul Ponchan in the original publisher's paper wraps. Limited to one thousand copies of which th...

To Circumjack Cencrastus or the Curly Snake

Hugh M'Diarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in second issue binding of this collection of poetry by Hugh M'Diarmid, inscribed and signed by the author. The first edition of this work, in the second issue light blue clot...

The Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood · 1862 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)

London, Edward Moxon, 1862-1863. Fine Binding. These seven attractive volumes contain the collected works of Victorian poet Thomas Hood. Seven attractive volumes containing the works of Thomas Hood, edited with notes by his son. Chronologically arranged, this set contains all ...

Select Pieces in Verse and Prose

John Bowdler · 1816 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London , G. Davidson, 1816. First edition. Leather. A complete two volume set of Select Pieces in Verse and Prose by John Bowdler. A complete two volume set of Select Pieces in Verse and Prose by John Bowdler. John Bowdler was a campaigner for moral reform in Britain and foun...

Selections from Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning · 1896 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1896. Leather. Two volumes bound in one or Browning's poetical works. New edition. Two volumes bound in one. The selected poetical works of Robert Browning, an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victori...

Hudibras, a Poem, in Three Parts

Samuel Butler · 1827 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Printed for T and J Allman, 1827. Leather. A pocket sized edition of Samuel Butler's famous satirical poem, complete in one volume. Pocket sized edition of this work. Originally published in three parts between 1663 and 1678. Featuring all three parts in one volum...

The Complete Angler

Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton · 1826 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

London, C. and C, Whittingham , 1826. Cloth. Two volumes in one of The Complete Angler, with illustrations. Two volumes in one of The Complete Angler or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and fishing by Izaak Walton and Charles ...

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning · 1910 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London , Smith, Elder & Co. 1910-1913. Leather. A complete set of The Poetical works of Robert Browning, in Hatchards Binding. A complete set of The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, edition in 17 volumes across the four books. Robert Browning was an English poet and playwri...

Illustrations to the Works of Lord Byron

Charles Heath · 1830 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

London, A. Fullarton and Co. 1830. First edition. Leather. Pictorial edition of the poems of Lord Byron engraved under superintendence of Charles Heath, first edition. Charles Heath's illustrations to the works of Lord Byron from drawings by the first artists including Ch...

The Cooke&Apos;S Pocket Book of the Original and Complete Works of Selected British Poets

T. Smollett; Thomas Gray; William Falconer · 1795 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,443)

London, C. Cooke, 1795-1797. Leather. Three volumes of Cooke's collection of select works by British poems, including works by T. Smollett, Thomas Gray, and William Falconer Three volumes. Cooke's Pocket Book. Illustrated with nine plates in volume one, seven plates ...

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, Translated and Annotated

Sir Richard Burton; Dhan Gopal Mukerji · 1931 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

Philadelphia, David McKay Company , 1931. Cloth. Richard Burton's famous pseudo-translated poem on Sufi philosophy, signed and inscribed by the illustrator, Willy Pogany. A new edition. In the publisher's full cloth binding with gilt detail. Inscribed by the illustra...

The Lord of the Isles; a Poem

Sir Walter Scott · 1815 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

Edinburgh, James Ballantyne for Archibald Constable; and Longman, Hurst et al. 1815. Leather. A very smart copy of the scarce second edition of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem about Robert the Bruce. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the fir...

Broad Grins

George Colman (the Younger) · 1809 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809. Hardback. A bright copy of this anthology of humorous tales in verses by George Colman the Younger, the fourth edition. The fourth edition of this work. Featuring tales previously published under the title 'My Night-Gown ...