Poesia

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Roy Campbell · 1950 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Cape Town, Paul Koston, 1950. Leather. The first illustrated edition of Roy Campbell's notable poetry collection, with illustrations by the author. The first illustrated edition of this work in a half calf binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated wit...

Going-to-the-Sun

Vachel Lindsay [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay] · 1923 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first edition of Nicholas Lindsay Vachel's charmingly illustrated volume of poetry. The first edition of this work, flat signed by the author to the front free endpaper.With vignette illu...

Prairie Songs: Being Chants Rhymed and Unrhymed of the Level Lands of the Great West

Hamlin Garland · 1893 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Cambridge and Chicago, Stone and Kimball, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poems about the Wild West of America by Hamlin Garland. The first edition of this work, with first edition notice to colophon.With vignette illustrations throughout f...

Love&Apos;S Crucifix, Nine Sonnets and a Canzone from Petrarch

Petrarch; Agnes Tobin; Alice Meynell [preface] · 1902 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, William Heinemann, 1902 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this scarce collection of poetry from Petrarch, illustrated with plates by Graham Robertson. The first edition of this scarce work.Six sonnets and a canzone by Petrarch are translated by Agnes Tobi...

The Verses of John Blewitt Jenkins

John Blewitt Jenkins; Reginald Arthur Blewitt Jenkins [ed] · 1919 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Swansea, Ernest Davies & Co. Ltd [printers], 1919. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce collection of poetry by John Blewitt Jenkins, collected and published by his son in tribute to his father, bound in full calf. The first edition. A vanishin...

The Poem of Job Rendered Into English Metre

John Tattersall · 1897 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)

London, Bernard Quaritch, 1897. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce rendition by John Tattersall of the Book of Job into English metre, the first edition of this adaptation. The first edition of this very scarce adaption of the Book of Job, the text of the Bible here rende...

Songs by Lord Byron

Lord Byron · 1872 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Virtue & Co, 1872 . Leather. A very scarce late nineteenth century edition of the poetical works of Lord Byron. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, and with a small number of vignette illustrations.A scarce edition of Byron's poetry, 'published by expr...

Lyrics & Ballads

Margaret L. Woods · 1889 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1889 . Cloth. An excellent copy of Margaret L. Wood's anthology of poetry, inscribed by the publisher to fellow author Lucy Clifford. The first edition. Inscribed by the publisher, George Bentley of Richard Bentley & Son, to English novelist...

Modern Love

George Meredith; C. Day Lewis [intro.] · 1948 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948 . Cloth. A delightful mid twentieth century edition of Meredith's celebrated sonnet sequence, from the library of science-fiction author Brian Aldiss. A lovely 1948 edition of Meredith's 'novella in verse' about the failure o...

Poems

Matthew Arnold · 1895 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1895 . Leather. An elegantly bound collection of poetry by Matthew Arnold, complete in three volumes, in a Bickers prize binding. Bound by Bickers in a full morocco prize binding, with the motif for Repton School to the front cover. A striking binding...

Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems

Felicia Hemans · 1830 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood; T. Cadell, 1830. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of poetry by Felicia Hemans, one of her later collections. The first edition.An anthology of sixty-one poems of Felicia Hemans, including 'A Spirit...

The Iliad of Homer

Homer; Alexander Pope · 1767 · Rooke Books

£2,300.00 (€2,756.91 | $3,038.62 | ¥485,229)

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1767. Leather. A pocket-sized edition of Pope's important translation of this monumental Greek epic poem. Two volumes bound in one.Robert and Andrew Foulis' 1767 pocket-sized edition of Alexander Pope's important translation of...

The Inheritors: Poems 1948-55

Richard Church · 1957 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Heinemann, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition copy of Richard Church's later poetry collection 'The Inheritors', from the library of W. A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's o...

Skylines and Horizons

DuBose Heyward · 1924 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetical volume by DuBose Heyward, collecting together his brilliant poems. The first edition.An early anthology of poetry by DuBose Heyward, the noted American author who is best known for ...

Poets, Farewell!

Edmund Wilson · 1929 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this book of poetry by literary critic and poet Edmund Evans. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking the scarce dust wrapper. This book of poetry was written ...

The Kentish Garland

Julia H. L. De Vaynes; J. W. Ebsworth · 1881 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Hertford , Stephen Austin & Sons, 1881-2 . First edition. Leather. A presentation copy of this uncommon collection of Kentish ballads, gifting this first edition copy to John Mercer, with additional inserts from the illustrator. The first edition. Complete in two volumes. Boun...

Casualty Ward

Robert Conquest · 1974 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Poem-of-the-Month Club Ltd. 1974. First edition. Loose Pages, Articles. A fine first edition of this broadside poem from the Poem-of-the-Month Club, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author. From the Poem-of-the-Month Club set of broadside printed poem...

Collected Poems 1897-1907

Henry Newbolt · 1897 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c1907. Leather. A leatherbound copy of this collection of poetry from English writer Sir Henry John Newbolt. A collection of poetry written between 1897 and 1907, with titles including: Drake's Drum, Admirals All, The Bright Medusa, Northumbe...

Lunchtime

Dannie Abse · 1974 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Poem-of-the-Month Club Ltd. 1974. First edition. Loose Pages, Articles. A fine first edition of this broadside poem from the Poem-of-the-Month Club, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author. From the Poem-of-the-Month Club set of broadside printed poem...

The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer

Ebenezer Elliott · 1840 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

Edinburgh; London, William Tait; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1840. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this collected volume of Ebenezer Elliott's poetical works, in which he vehemently fights against the Corn Laws. The first edition of this anthology of the poet...