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9vols the Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1892 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1892-1902 . Leather. A smart nine-volume Macmillan set of Tennyson"s works bound in half calf, complete with frontispiece plates throughout, bringing together his major poetry and plays. Bound in a smart half calf binding with marbled paper board...

Eragon

Christopher Paolini · 2004 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London, Doubleday, 2004 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart UK first edition of the first book of the fantasy tetralogy The Inheritance Cycle. A smart UK first edition, first impression.Originally published in the US in 2002.In the original blue cloth binding. In the original...

The Golden Bowl

Henry James · 1905 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, Methuen & Co, 1905 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition, first issue of Henry James's celebrated and claustrophobic study of marriage and adultery. The scarce first UK edition of this work, published shortly after the US first edition.Edel & Laurence, A60b...

Selected Poems of Robert Haven Schauffler

Robert Haven Schauffler · 1922 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of these selected poems from American writer Robert Haven Schauffler. With early drafts of two more poems inserted. The author's presentation copy, with a signed inscription to the front fre...

Songs of a Miner

James C. Welsh · 1917 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited , 1917. First edition. Cloth. A charming presentation copy of this poetical collection from miner and politician, James C. Welsh. With a hand-written poem by the author. The author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the front f...

Hecuba in Camden Town and Other Poems

Horace Shipp · 1920 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, The Bloomsbury Press, 1920. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition presentation copy volume of poetry. A very scarce first edition copy of this book of verse.In original paper binding, with author's presentation inscription to the front free endpape...

Lyrics of War and Peace

William Dudley Foulke, LL. D. · 1916 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London; Edinburgh; New York; Toronto; Melbourne; Bombay, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition book of American verse, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. A very scarce first edition volume of verse b...

Ode to France

Raymond Weeks · 1917 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York, Oxford University Press, 1917. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition presentation copy of poetry by American linguist and professor Raymond Weeks. A very scarce first edition presentation copy of this volume of American verse.In original blue cloth, with ...

Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious

R. D. · 1930 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Peter Davies, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A captivating illustrated book of playful prose, in its first edition. A lively and amusing collection of short verse themed around the natural world.Illustrated with frequent vignette monochrome images by a variety of unlisted...

The Hanging of the Parson&Apos;S Son and Other Crimes

Sol. L. Long · 1916 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Kansas City, S. W. Anderson Ptg. Co. 1916. First edition. Cloth. An incredibly scarce first edition volume of American poetry, signed and inscribed by the author. An incredibly scarce first edition volume of poetry, in original green cloth pictorial boards.A selection of poetr...

The Undertaker&Apos;S Garland

John Peale Bishop; Edmund Wilson Jr. · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce presentation copy of the first edition of this reflection on death, across prose and poetry, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. A very scarce example of a presentation copy of this first edition title.Illustr...

Collected Poems and Epigrams

G. Rostrevor Hamilton · 1958 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London; Melbourne; Toronto, Heinemann, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce presentation copy of this first edition, in original unclipped dust wrapper. An incredibly scarce example of a presentation copy of this first edition work. Inscribed and signed in ink by the auth...

Poems 1902-1925

Edward Thompson · 1926 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Selwyn & Blount, Ltd. 1926. First edition. Hardback. An incredibly scarce first edition volume of poetry, featuring an inscription by the author. A very scarce first edition volume of poetry by poet Edward Thompson.A presentation copy, inscribed to the front free endpa...

The Return and Other Poems

Remsen Du Bois Bird · 1919 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

San Francisco , The Periodical Press, 1919 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this scarce collection of poetry by Remsen Du Bois Bird, in the original unclipped dust wrapper, signed by the author to the front endpaper. The first edition in the publisher's ori...

Poems of War and Peace

Robert Underwood Johnson · 1916 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1916 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of war poetry by Robert Underwood Johnson, signed by the author to the front endpaper.  The first edition in the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper-covered boards...

A Friendship and the Spirit of France: Signed Poetry

Charles Lewis Slattery; V.H. Friedlaender · 1919 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London; New York, Country Life; Macmillan Company, 1919-1923. First edition. Cloth. Two signed poetic anthologies, written by prominent suffragette writer Violet Helen Friedlaender and episcopal bishop Charles Lewis Slattery. The signed first editions of poetic anthologies bas...

Poems for the People

Thomas M. Walker · 1922 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Govan, Glasgow, John Cossar, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and personal anthology, written and signed by Glaswegian poet Thomas M. Walker. The signed first edition of Poems for the People, a very scarce personal anthology, written by Scottish poet Thomas M. Walker....

The Land We Love: Poems Chiefly Patriotic

Wendell Phillips Stafford · 1916 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Vermont, Arthur F. Stone, 1916 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce, inscribed first edition of Wendell Phillips Stafford"s patriotic First World War poetry, with contemporary ephemera relating to the recipient"s family. In the publisher's original dark cloth b...

Vision of War

Lincoln Colcord · 1915 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1915 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition presentation copy of Colcord"s reflective wartime poem, inscribed to Nathan Haskell Dole and accompanied by a 1916 authorial letter on his ongoing literary work. In the publisher's original red ...

The Battle Fiends

E. H. Visiak [Edward Harold Physick] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Elkin Mathews, 1916. First edition. Paperback. A scarce early poetry collection from E. H. Visiak, warmly inscribed by the author and accompanied by a loosely inserted signed letter. In the publisher's original paper wraps.First edition. A presentation copy signe...