Poesia

The Cabinet of Poetry, Containing the Best Entire Pieces to Be Found in the Works of the British Poets

Various · 1808 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, Richard Phillips, 1808. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce complete set collecting the poetical works of some of the best British authors. The first edition.Scarce as a complete set.Complete in six volumes.A striking set collecting together some o...

Paradise Regain&Apos;D. A Poem. In Four Books.

John Milton · 1713 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, J. Tonson, 1713 . Leather. An attractive example of the fifth edition of John Milton's 'Paradise Regain'd', illustrated throughout with engraved plates. The fifth edition of this work, which was first published in 1671.Illustrated with a frontispiec...

The History of Reynard the Fox

William J. Thoms · 1844 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Percy Society; T. Richards, 1844. Leather. A smart Ramage bound edition of this medieval German fable, published for the Percy Society. Bound by Ramage. An English translation of this medieval German fable following an anthropomorphic trickster red fox. The classic fa...

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With a Memoir

Rupert Brooke · 1919 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1919. Leather. A sixth impression of this collection of the poetry of war poet Rupert Brooke, with a memoir. Sixth impression. With a portrait frontispiece and one portrait plate. Collated complete. The collected poetry of Rupert Chawner Brooke,...

A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres

George Gascoigne · 1926 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1926. Cloth. A smart copy of this collection of poetry attributed to English writer George Gascoigne, based on the first edition. From the original edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, two portrait plates and numerous in-...

Childe Harold&Apos;S Pilgrimage. A Romaunt.

Lord Byron · 1853 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, John Murray, 1853 . Leather. A strikingly illustrated edition of Lord Byron's narrative poem 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', the important work that launched Byron's poetical career. An illustrated edition. Bound in full calf. Illustrated with a ...

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1912 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912 . Leather. A beautifully bound, second edition of Rudyard Kipling's celebrated anthology of verse. Second edition. First published in 1907.In an elegant half morocco binding with cloth boards. A charming collection of verses written by En...

The Victorians

Geoffrey Grigson; Various · 1950 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul LTD, 1950. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first edition of this brilliant anthology of poems, collecting the best examples of Victorian writers. The first edition.Finely bound with a cityscape motif in gilt to the front board.An anthology...

The Angel in the House

Coventry Patmore · 1858 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, John W. Parker and Son, 1858. Vellum. A smart second edition of this narrative poem from English writer and critic Coventry Patmore. The scarce second edition. A narrative poem being an idealised account of Patmore's courtship of his first wife, Emily Augusta Andr...

The Works of John Milton in Verse and Prose

John Milton · 1851 · Rooke Books

£1,650.00 (€1,977.79 | $2,179.88 | ¥348,099)

London, William Pickering, 1851. Leather. A collection of poetry and prose by the renowned English poet John Milton, bound in full calf. A collected edition.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and two folding plates to 'Volume One&apos. A complete eight volume set...

Poems

Thomas Gray · 1894 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Eton, The Eton College Press , 1894. Leather. A collection of poems from the renowned Thomas Gray, in an elegant full calf Eton College prize binding by Ingalton Drake. The Eton College edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, illuminated letters, head and tail pi...

New Poems & It Depends: A Poet&Apos;S Notebook

Eugenio Montale · 1976 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

New York, New Directions, 1976-1980. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first US editions of these collections of poetry from Italian writer Eugenio Montale. Two volumes. First US edition. Written by Eugenio Montale, an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, who was t...

Poetical Works of John Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain&Apos;D, the Mask of Comus, L&Apos;Allegro, and IL Penseroso.

John Milton · 1804 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, W. Suttaby, 1804-5 . Leather. A charming, pocket-sized edition of John Milton's poetry, comprising his celebrated Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd, alongside Comus, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. Bound in full calf. A collection of works by celebrated 17...

Sailing to an Island

Richard Murphy · 1963 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London; New York, Faber and Faber; Chilmark Press, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A charming set containing the true first and first US edition of this poetry collection by Richard Murphy, one of which is signed. This set offers both the true first UK edition and the first US edi...

See You in the Morning; Cloth of the Tempest; Red Wine and Yellow Hair; But Even So

Kenneth Patchen · 1947 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

New York , Padell; New Directions , 1947-1968. Cloth. A wonderful set of works from experimental poet Kenneth Patchen, including a volume of his picture poems. A pleasing set of four works offering the poems of Kenneth Patchen, including the second edition of 'Cloth of th...

A Year of Japanese Epigrams

William N. Porter [translator] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of Japanese hokku, with illustrations from Japanese painter Ishibashi Kazunori. First edition, in the beige cloth variant. Illustrated with colour endpapers, a co...

Concerning Man

Gil Orlovitz · 1947 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New York, The Banyan Press, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition of the first collection of poetry from American writer Gil Orlovitz. First edition. Limited to three hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number seventeen. Uncommon work. The author's fi...

Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas: Keys to Transformation

Dylan Thomas; Richards Burns · 1981 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, The Enitharmon Press, 1981. First edition. Cloth. A lovely set including the cloth-bound and paperback first edition of this work, examining Dylan Thomas' 'Collected Poems' and Ceri Richards' drawings. A set of two volumes, including both the paperb...

Poems from Belmont; Three Journeys

A. E. Dodd · 1955 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, The Fortune Press, 1955-1958. First edition. Cloth. Two first editions of the poems of A. E. Dodd, one of which is signed by the author, in the original dust wrappers. The first editions of these two works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the origi...

Afternoons of April: A Book of Verse

Grace Hazard Conkling · 1915 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1915. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition of American writer Grace Hazard Conkling's first published volume of verses. First edition. Very scarce. The author's first published collection of verses,...