Poesia

The Grove and Other Poems

John Freeman · 1924 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Selwyn & Blount, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetry collection by John Freeman. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. In original cloth binding with a spare spine label tipped in ...

The Masque of Poets

Edward J. O'Brien (Ed) · 1918 · Rooke Books

£86.00 (€103.08 | $113.62 | ¥18,143)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A first edition work collating a large collection of works by numerous poets, and signed by the editor. First edition. Signed by the editor, Edward O'Brien and dated March 25 1918. An important anthology of poe...

A Collection of Poems Chiefly Manuscript and from Living Authors

Joanna Baillie · 1823 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First edition. Hardback. A first edition anthology of poetry, written by a variety of notable poets. Collected and arranged by Joanna Baillie, a Scottish poet and dramatist. The first edition. This work contains work by Scott...

Poetic Fillings on the Warp of Trade

Theodore Waterbury Ellis · 1851 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

New York , George F. Nesbitt & Co. 1851. Cloth. A scarce copy of Poetic Fillings on the Warp of Trade by Theodore W. Ellis. Scarce. This book contains three chapters of poetry, of Religious Poems, Songs, and Miscellaneous Poems. Theodore W. Ellis lived, at least for a time, in...

The Wandering Jew a Poem

Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1887 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London , For the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First edition. Hardback. The first separate edition of Shelley's The Wandering Jew. From a limited print-run of five hundred copies as stated to the recto of the leaf prior to the title page. With 24 pages of pu...

Farewell to Poesy

William H. Davies · 1910 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London , A.C. Fifield, 1910 . First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this poetry anthology by W.H. Davies. Known for spending a significant portiion of his life as a homeless worker (a 'hobo' or 'tramp' in the vernacular of his era) in Britain and the ...

Italy: A Poem, in Four Cantos with Notes

John Edmund Reade · 1845 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London , Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845. Cloth. A volume of poetry by the little-known novelist and poet John Edmund Reade. Reade (1800–1870) possessed a remarkable capacity for imitation that often verged on plagiarism. Byron was his chief model, but his poems and p...

An Irish Gathering

Robin Skelton · 1964 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

Dublin , The Dolmen Press, 1964. First edition. Hardback. An attractive collection of Skelton's poetry. A first edition of five hundred copies. Robin Skelton (12 October 1925 – 22 August 1997) was a British-born academic, writer, poet, and anthologist. Born in Easington,...

A Century of Broadside Elegies Being Ninety English and Ten Scotch Illustrating the Biography and Manners of the 17th Century

John W Draper · 1928 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,303)

London, Ingpen and Grant, 1928. Cloth. A collection of elegies from 17th century broadsides. A limited edition work, this is number 104 of 275 copies published. With original dustwrapper. This work comprises of a selection of facsimiles reproducing elegies from 17th century ne...

Poems

Bret Harte · 1871 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this intriguing poetical work by the American author Francis Bret Harte. Francis Bret Harte was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, ...

Poems

Edward MacLysaght · 1928 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A charming limited edition collection of poetry by Edward MacLysaght. The first edition, limited to 950 copies. Scarce, and held in only three institutions on Copac. Edward MacLysaght was an Irish poet, novelist and fore...

The Owl a Miscellany

Various; Robert Graves · 1919 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Martin Secker, 1919. First edition. Hardback. A scarce poetry periodical edited by Robert Graves, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. The second volume of only two ever published. With contributions by Baring, Beebohn, Bianco, Blunden, de la Mare, Fre...

Poems and Translations

Reginald Heber · 1829 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, John Murray, 1829. Hardback. A selection of poems by the writer of Hymns for the Church of England, Reginald Heber. Uncommon. Reginald Heber (1783 – 1826) was a Church of England bishop, now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer. Heber was a pious man of profound learni...

Takings; or, the Life of a Collegian

Thomas Gaspey · 1821 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London, John Warren, 1821. Cloth. An edition of this humourous poetical work by Thomas Gaspey. Thomas Gaspey (1788-1871) was an English writer who was a parliamentary reporter for the Morning Post, as well as a contributor of dramatic reviews, political parodies and reports of...

Poems

Matthew Arnold · 1857 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, George Routledge, c1901. Cloth. An attractively bound collection of poems by Matthew Arnold, a leading poetical figure of the nineteenth century. Matthew Arnold was a poet and critic, who famously served as the headmaster of Rugby School. Ranked among the bets poets of...

Underneath the Bough, a Posie of Other Men&Apos;S Flowers

Theodora Thompson · 1906 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,388)

London, John Lane, c1905. Vellum. A beautifully bound book of poetry. Bound in full vellum by Riviere and Son for the Army and the Navy. A collection of poetical works whose intention is to appeal to the emotions - to bring refreshment, encouragement, inspiration, and hope to ...

Les Musardises

Edmond Rostand · 1921 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1921. Leather. Collection of poetry by poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand. In the original French. Edmond Rostand was a French poet and dramatist associated with the neo-romantic movement and most famous for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. In a qua...

Paradise Regain&Apos;D. A Poem, in Four Books to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes: And Poems Upon Several Occasions

John Milton · 1758 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)

Birmingham, J. and R. Tonson; Baskerville, 1758. Leather. A beautiful edition of Milton's famous theological poem. The first edition of this work to be printed by John Baskerville, and one of the earliest books to be printed in his innovative transitional typeface. Paradi...

L&Apos;Apostolat Positiviste Au Bresil.

Miguel Lemos · 1895 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

Rio-De-Janeiro, Au Siege Central De L'Eglise Positiviste Du Bresil, 1895. Leather. A scarce edition of the fourth annual circular of the Brazilian Positivist Church of Humanity. The author, Miguel Lemos, was the founder of the Positivist Church of Brazil and a Humanity Ap...

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera

Horace; Michel Mattaire (translator) · 1715 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1715. Leather. A scarce edition of this collection of Latin language poetry by Horace, translated by Michel Mattaire. A very scarce edition of this collection of Latin language poetry by Horace. An Ancient Roman lyric poet, Horace's work has been inf...