Poesia

Rhymes and Vowlymes

Fuller Miller · 1915 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Not Stated, Fuller Miller, [1915]. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this lovely collection of self published poetry by Fuller Miller. The very scarce first edition of the work.In publisher's original green cloth binding.A self published work, by author...

Sonnets and Other Poems

John Kennair Peel · 1916 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Charles H. Kelly, [1916] . Paperback. Very scarce presentation copy of the delightful poetry collection from British scholar and poet John Kennair Peel. Very scarce.In publisher's original binding.Author's presentation copy. Inscription "Given by the Author" ...

Laughs and Whifts of Song

Theodore Maynard · 1915 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Erskine MacDonald, 1915 . First edition. Paperback. Scarce signed first-edition poetry collection from Theodore Maynard. Scarce first edition.In the publisher's original binding.Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper, dated 1917.From influenti...

Petri Rodellii Horatius Ad Serenissimum Galliarum Delphinum

[Horace] · 1683 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.53 | ¥60,107)

Tolosae , Guill. Ludovicum Colomerium, & Ieronymum Posuel, 1683. Vellum. A 17th-century vellum-bound collected edition of Horace's works, edited by Jesuit Pierre de Rodelle. A collection of the works of leading Roman lyric poet, Horace, including his Odes, Satires and Epi...

Wordsworth - with an Introduction by William Macneile Dixon Sir Walter Scott - with an Introduction by Oliphant Smeaton Byron - with an Introduction by Charles Whibley Robert Herrick - with an Introduction by Canon Henry C. Beeching Alfred Lord Tennyson - with an Introduction by H.J. C. Grierson

Oliphant Smeaton [ed.] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Caxton Publishing Co. 1907. Cloth. A very good five-volume set of the popular edition of Caxton's 'Golden Poets' series, illustrated beautifully in colour throughout. A set of the popular edition of Caxton's 'Golden Poets' series, in five ...

The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin Seamus Heaney New Selected Poems 1966-1987 the Faber Book of Modern Verse Edited by Michael Roberts Revised by Peter Porter Omeros by Derek Walcott Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984 Sylvia Plath Collected Poems Edited by Ted Hughes

Philip Larkin; Seamus Heaney; Michael Roberts [ed.]; Peter Porter [ed.]; Derek Walcott; Sylvia Plath; Ted Hughes [ed.] · 1964 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Faber and Faber, 1964-1992. Paperback. A collection of critically acclaimed poetic works across 6 volumes, in excellent condition Faber and Faber covers. An incredibly smart collection of poetic titles, bound in bright and stylish faber and faber covers.Includes three ...

Marionettes

F. L. Lucas · 1930 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1930. First edition. Vellum. Lovely first edition of F. L. Lucas' Marionettes in quarter paper vellum. First edition. In quarter paper vellum with red cloth boards.From writer, scholar and critic Frank Laurence Lucas OBE. Lucas was a...

6 Vols the Poetical Works of Lord Byron

Lord Byron · 1879 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.04 | ¥80,143)

London, John Murray, 1879 . Leather. A smart new edition of Byron"s complete poetical works, elegantly bound in full calf with an engraved frontispiece portrait. Bound in a handsome full calf binding.New edition.  The first volume is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece e...

The Vinedresser and Other Poems

T. Sturge Moore [Thomas Sturge Moore] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, The Sign of the Unicorn, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the prolific Thomas Sturge Moore's classical poetry anthology. The first edition of Thomas Sturge Moore's The Vinedresser and Other Poems, published by the Sign of the Unicorn in 1899.I...

Poems of Love

John Donne; Kingsley Hart · 1958 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, The Folio Society, 1958. Cloth. A pleasing Folio Society collection of the love poetry of influential English writer John Donne, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. With a frontispiece. A collection of the love poetry of John Donne, an English poet, scholar, sold...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

Sir Walter Scott · 1855 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1855. Leather. A smartly bound complete collection of the poetical works of Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, with his original introductions and notes. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, illustrated title page, a folding facsimile of ...

The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1904 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.44 | $1,519.32 | ¥242,538)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1904 . Leather. A wonderful six volume collection of the poetry of the extraordinary Victorian era writer Algernon Charles Swinburne, uniformly bound in half calf. Complete in six volumes, handsomely bound in half calf, with cloth covered boards.A beau...

An Italian Garden: A Book of Songs

A. Mary F. Robinson [Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux] · 1897 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1897 . First edition. Leather. Beautifully bound in a crushed morocco binding by Otto Schulze, this is the first edition of A. Mary F. Robinson's limited edition collection of poems about the gardens of Italy. A limited edition, first ed...

Gesang Des Deutschen

Friedrich Holderlin · 1925 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Frankfurt, Bauersche Foundry, 1925. Paperback. A very scarce limited edition of this poetical work from German poet and philosopher Holderlin, in the original German. German. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number eighty. A ode to the country of Germa...

A Witness Tree

Robert Frost · 1943 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1943. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this poetry collection from American writer Robert Frost, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First UK edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A poetry collection, most of which are short lyric, awar...

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1910 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, George G. Harrap, 1910. Cloth. A very scarce edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning"s Sonnets from the Portuguese, complete with 18 sepia photogravures by pioneering photo-illustrator Adelaide Hanscom Leeson. In the publisher's original green cloth binding.Original...

The Great Hunger: A Poem

Patrick Kavangh · 1966 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, MacGibbon and Kee, 1966. Paperback. A fantastic third printing of this evocative poem on Irish rural life by Patrick Kavanagh. The third printing of this poem. First published in 1942 by Cuala Press. In the original stapled wraps, laid in with the unclipped dust wrapp...

The Deserted Village

Oliver Goldsmith · 1909 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,912)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1909. Cloth. The first W. Lee Hankey's illustrated edition of Oliver Goldsmith's celebrated poem, The Deserted Village. First Hankey illustrated edition. Illustrated with forty tipped in colour plates. Collated complete, with plate ...

The Image and Other Selections

Thomas Traherne; Mary Andere · 1974 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Hereford, Express Logic Ltd, 1974. First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce first limited edition, this volume showcases Thomas Traherne"s meditative poetry in its original spelling. In the publisher's original purple cloth binding.This is a first limited edition, be...

Idylls of the King

Alfred Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, Edward Moxon, 1859. Leather. A smartly bound second issue copy of this cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. First edition, second issue, with imprint of Bradbury and Evans to the verso of the title. Written by Alfred Tennyson, 1st ...