Poesia

The Rape of Lucrece & Venus and Adonis

William Shakespeare · 1948 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Winchester Publications Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. Two copies of these insightful works from William Shakespeare with illustrations throughout. Two volumes. First thus. This set contains: The Rape of Lucrece, 1948. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty p...

Poems

Clere Parsons · 1932 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Faber & Faber, 1932. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce anthology of poems by Clere Parsons, the first edition of this posthumously published anthology. The first edition of this very scarce work.This is the only published anthology of poems by Clere Parsons, an E...

The White Stones

J. H. Prynne · 1969 · Rooke Books

£1,195.00 (€1,432.40 | $1,578.76 | ¥252,108)

Lincoln, Grosseteste Press, 1969. Paperback. A very scarce limited edition collection of poetry by J. H. Prynne, an important and sought after volume. A limited edition of 477 copies, of which this is numbered 194.'The White Stones' is a very scarce and sought after ...

Pansies

D. H. Lawrence · 1929 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Martin Secker, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this later anthology of the brilliant poetry of D. H. Lawrence. The first trade edition of this work.A poetical anthology by the noted modernist English author D. H. Lawrence, published late in his c...

The Dispossessed

John Berryman · 1948 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

New York, William Sloane Associates, INC, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this early anthology of poems by John Berryman, an early example of his confessional pieces. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An anthology of poems b...

Flowering Cypress

Edward Lowbury · 1986 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Pointing Finger Press, 1986 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this charming limited edition poetry volume from Edward Lowbury. Signed by Lowbury and his illustrator, Kenneth Lindley. A very scarce limited edition, first edition.No. 22 of 50 num...

The Palisades of Fear

Ronald Bottrall · 1949 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Editions Poetry London, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Ronald Bottrall's publication of a selection of poems written between May 1945 and March 1948. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Wit...

The Collected Poetry of Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson · 1913 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Cloth. A limited edition collection of poetry by Francis Thompson, previously owned by author Helen de Guerry Simpson. The 'Royal Octavo' edition, limited to two thousand five hundred copies. Previously owned by Helen de Guerry Si...

Collected Poems

Anna De Bary · 1947 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, The Mitre Press, [1947]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry by Anna De Bary. The first edition. A very scarce collection of poetry. This collection of poetry was written by Anne De Bary, and is her last volume of poetry. ...

Mountains and Molehills

Frances Cornford · 1934 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

Cambridge, University Press, 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poetry by Frances Cornford, with illustrations by Gwen Raverat and in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original...

Reconstruction: Six Poems

Randall Swingler · 1933 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1933. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry from English writer Randall Swingler. First edition. Very scarce. A collection of six poems, including: New Year, Ode to a Plane Above the City, Sunse...

Briggflatts

Basil Bunting · 1966 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London, Fulcrum Press, 1966. Paperback. A smart second edition of this long poem from British modernist writer Basil Bunting. Second edition, entirely reset. Published the same year as the first edition. Subtitled "An Autobiography", this long poem is noted for its use of soun...

Modern Love and Other Poems

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

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948. Cloth. A delightful mid twentieth century edition of Meredith's celebrated sonnet sequence. A lovely 1948 edition of Meredith's 'novella in verse' about the failure of a marriage. The tale is told in a sequence of fifty sonn...

Sir Thomas Wyatt: A Literary Portrait

Sir Thomas Wyatt; H. A. Mason · 1986 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Bristol, Bristol Classical Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this literary portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt with notes and commentaries by Harold Andrew Mason, the author's own copy. First edition. Scarce work. The author's corrected copy. A lit...

The Year&Apos;S Poetry 1936: A Representative Selection

Denys Kilham Roberts; John Lehmann · 1936 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this third annual publication of the poems of the year, compiled by Denys Kilham Roberts and John Lehmann. First edition. Third annual publication. An anthology containing a representati...

Carmen Saeculare, for the Year 1700. To the King.

[Matthew Prior] · 1700 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1700 . First edition. Disbound. An extremely scarce, first edition of Matthew Prior's verse in celebration of the arrival of King William III from Holland. The first edition. Vanishingly scarce. Written anonymously, although attributed to eighteenth-...

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Others

Geoffrey Chaucer; Walter W. Skeat · 1905 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London; Oxford, Alexander Moring, Limited; The De La More Press; Henry Frowde; Oxford University Press, 1905. Cloth. A limited edition facsimile of the important 1532 folio collecting together the works of Chaucer. A limited edition of one thousand copies, of which this is num...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell; Rev. W. A. Hill [ed.] · 1854 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Edward Moxon, 1854 . Cloth. A charmingly posthumously published illustrated edition of Thomas Campbell's poetry, with a biography of the author from Rev. W. A. Hill. Illustrated with thirty-seven vignette woodcuts from designs by 'Harvey', but lacking th...

Poems

John Cowper Powys · 1899 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, William Rider & Sons, 1899 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this collection of poetry from John Cowper Powys. A first edition.Signed by the author to the front free endpaper, to English poet Anna Bunston de Bary, with 'A. ...

Robert Herrick: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers

Robert Herrick; Alfred Pollard [ed]; A. C. Swinburne · 1898 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd, 1898. Cloth. A two volume set of poetry by Robert Herrick, including his 'Hesperides' and 'Noble Numbers&apos. The 'Muses Library' revised edition. A complete two volume set. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece ...