Poesia

Poãƒâ©Sie 39-45: An Anthology

Pierre Seghers [ed.]; Various · 1947 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Editions Poetry , 1947 . First edition. Cloth. A bilingual anthology compiled by Pierre Seghers, presenting powerful French wartime poetry from 1939–1945 that embodies the spirit of resistance and resilience. In the publisher's original cloth binding.First editio...

Robert Lowell Poems 1938-1949

Robert Lowell · 1964 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London , Faber and Faber, 1964. Cloth. A lovely collection of poems by famed author Robert Lowell, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The third impression of the work, first published in 1950. In publisher's original red cloth binding. With the original unclipped d...

Q. Horatii Flacci Operum Pars Prima; Q. Horatii Flacci Sermonum Seu Satyrarum

Horace; Eduardus a Zurck [ed.] · 1696 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

Harlemi, Ex typographia Nicolai Braau. Prostant apud eundem, uti & Wilhelmum a Kessel, 1696 . First edition. Leather. Handsomely bound in contemporary panelled calf, present here is the very scarce first edition of Horace's poetry to be edited by Eduard van Zurck, complet...

A Book of Verse

Lilian Le Mesurier · 1935 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, John Murray, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this very scarce anthology of Lilian Le Mesurier's poetry, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Author's presentation copy, with a signed dedication to the front free endpaper.First editi...

Marina and Other Poems

Boscawen Trevor Griffith · 1859 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Whittaker & Co. 1859. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this collection of poetry from British writer Boscawen Trevor Griffith, with the author's inscription to the front endpaper. First edition. Very scarce. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front fre...

Poems of Thomas Hood Illustrated by Birket Foster

Thomas Hood · 1871 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

London , E. Moxon, Son & Co. 1871. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this decoratively bound volume of Thomas Hood's poetry, with 22 beautiful plates by Birket Foster. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original decorative red cloth binding. Includes...

A Universal Prayer; Death; a Vision of Heaven; and a Vision of Hell;

Robert Montgomery · 1829 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London , Printed for Samuel Maunder, 1829. Leather. The very scarce second edition of this volume of religious poetry, in half green calf with marbled boards. The very scarce second edition of the work, originally published the year prior.In half green calf with marbled boards...

La Gerusalemme Liberata

Torquato Tasso · 1823 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Firenze, Presso Il Magheri, 1823. Leather. Two smartly bound volumes containing the epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata from Italian poet Torquato Tasso, in the original Italian. Italian. Complete in two volumes. With a portrait frontispiece to volume one. An epic poem first publis...

Poetae Bucolici Graeci Sive Theocriti, Bionis Et Moschi Quae Supersunt: Cum Notis Variorum Et Suis

Thomas Briggs · 1821 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Cambridge, Cantabrigiae; John Smith, 1821. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Briggs"s Poetae Bucolici Graeci, a vanishingly scarce Cambridge critical edition of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. Bound in full calf, rebacked with new calf while retaining the original sp...

The Farmer&Apos;S Boy; Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs

Robert Bloomfield · 0 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)

London, J. F. Dove, c1830. Leather. A finely rebound full-calf edition of Robert Bloomfield"s The Farmer"s Boy, the celebrated pastoral poem inspired by rural Suffolk life. Rebound in full calf.Illustrated with a frontispiece and title vignette. This copy is undated. Dated he...

Poems by Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1887 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Chiswick Press, 1887. Leather. A finely bound Eton College prize copy of Thomas Gray"s poetry by Riviere & Son, illustrated with engraved plates. Bound in signed full armorial calf by Riviere and Son, with gilt detailing to the boards and dentelles. An Eton College pr...

The Works of Walter Scott, Esq.

Sir Walter Scott · 1812 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

Edinburgh, Longman, Hurst, Rees et al; A. Constable and Co; James Ballantyne, 1812-1815 . Leather. A wonderful collection of early editions of eight poetical works from Sir Walter Scott, uniformly bound in handsome diced calf bindings. Present here are early editions of two of...

1915 the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book

George Goodchild [ed.] · 1915 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Jarrold and Sons , 1915. Cloth. A very smart illustrated gift book of poetry and prose, published to collect profits for St. Dunstan's Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. In the original decorative clot...

The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

[Charles Dickens] · 1851 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, David Bogue, 1851 . Cloth. The third edition of this charming ballad collaboration between Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank, complete with the latter's amusing cartoons. The third edition. Illustrated with eleven plates. In other copies, one of the plates is ...

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser · 1839 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, William Pickering, 1839. Leather. A smart set of the Aldine edition of Spenser's poetical works, containing his most important and highly influential 'Faerie Queene&apos. Complete in five volumes.In full calf with gilt detail to spine. With an engraved front...

M. Annaeus Lucanus de Bello CIVILI, Cum Hug. Grotii, Farnabii

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus; C. Schrevelio [Ed.] · 1818 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, R. Priestley, 1818. Leather. A scarce volume of Luncan's epic poem describing the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate, published in Latin. Smartly bound in full calf. In a full calf binding.This volume is the new edition of this work...

The Poetical Works of John Dryden

John Dryden; John Warton [ed.]; Joseph Warton [ed.] · 1811 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, F. C. & J. Rivington et al, 1811. Leather. A handsomely bound complete four volume edition of the collected poetical works of lauded Poet Laureate John Dryden. A wonderful collection of the poetical works of Dryden, complete in four volumes. Illustrated with a portrait...

L.E. L. A Mystery of the Thirties

D. E. Enfield · 1928 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of D. E. Enfield's scarce work on Letitia Elizabeth Landon's life, work and mysterious death. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece. A biographical account of the l...

The Testament of Beauty, a Poem in Four Books

Robert Bridges · 1930 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1930. Vellum. An early edition of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges' final and most successful poetical work, bound in quarter vellum. With a tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece. Originally published before the author's death in 192...

The Undying One, and Other Poems.

Mrs Norton · 1830 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley , 1830 . Leather. A neatly bound, second edition of Caroline Norton's second publication, the poetical romance 'The Undying One', alongside her other poetry. The second edition, published the same year as the first. Very...