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Elegiacs

John Mander · 1972 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

N/A, John Mander, 1972. Cloth. A limited edition of poetry by John Mander. An author's presentation copy, given to the Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis. Inscribed by the author to front blank. This copy hand-numbered 46 of 100 and signed by the author. In paper wraps with or...

The Raid of the Kers

The Ettrick Shepherd [James Hogg] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.67 | $376.59 | ¥60,143)

London , Privately Printed , c1888. Cloth. A delightfully illustrated and rare copy of James Hogg's The Raid of the Kers. Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine, December 1830. The last v pages comprise notes on the Armorial Bearings of the Family of Ker. Desig...

The Election

George Brittaine · 1840 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

Dublin , Richard Moore , 1840 . Cloth. A scarce copy of this fictional work, focusing on political issues of the victorian era. Inscribed to the title page "With the author's affectionate regards". From the author "Recollections of Hyacinth O'Gara", and "Confessions ...

Contes de la Vie Intime

Andre Theuriet · 1890 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Paris, N. Martinet, c1890. Leather. A collection of short stories, offering an insight in people's private lives. In the original French. In a signed binding by Birdsall and Son. Andre Theuriet gives natural, simple pictures of rustic and especially of woodland life, and ...

Le Jardin D&Apos;Amour Ou le Vendangeur Poeme Traduit Litteralement de L&Apos;Italien de L Tansillo

C F Mercier · 1798 · Rooke Books

£1,300.00 (€1,558.48 | $1,717.77 | ¥274,338)

Paris, Chez Les Marchands de Nouveautes, 1798/VI. First edition. Leather. C F Mercier's translation of L Tansillo's famous work. With a charming frontispiece of the grape harvest of Nole in 1550. A male grape picker is surrounded by three women. Signed by Mercier. Pr...

Face to Face

Nadine Gordimer · 1949 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.54 | $1,651.70 | ¥263,787)

Johannesburg, Silver Leaf Books, 1949. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this collection of short stories by South African author, Nadine Gordimer. Signed by the author to the title page With the scarce original dustwrapper. Including 'A Commonplace Story&apos...

The Allies&Apos; Fairy Book

Edmund Gosse [intro.] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, William Heinemann, 1916. First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated with colour plates by Arthur Rackham, this is the first trade edition of this wartime fairy tale anthology, gathering short stories native to the Allied powers. The first trade edition of this work....

Choice Poems from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1883 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Paris & New York, Cassell & Company, Limited, [1883]. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this delightful poetry collection by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated from paintings by his son. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding.With the prize ...

Oswald Bastable and Others

E. Nesbit · 1905 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. 1905. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this witty collection of Nesbit"s Edwardian stories, illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock and Harold Robert Millar. In the publisher's original red cloth binding.First edition. A charming c...

The Country Wife

William Wycherley · 1934 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Hutchinson & Co Ltd, 1934 . Hardback. Limited edition of Wycherley's popular Restoration satire, profusely illustrated in colour. Signed by renowned illustrator Steven Spurrier. Limited edition. No. 328 of 1000 copies.In publisher's original quarter-cloth bin...

1914

C.W. · 1914 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Cambridge , W. Heffer and Sons Ltd. 1914. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce signed limited edition copy of this poem on the Great War. A very scarce limited edition work.With only one hundred and twenty large paper editions printed, with this being number 60, signed by the a...

Legendes de la Guerre de France

Saint-Georges de Bouhelier · 1917 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Paris, Charpentier, 1917 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound signed presentation copy of the uncommon first edition of this volume of war poems by Saint-Georges de Bouhelier, inscribed to French translator Rene Puaux. In the original French.A signed presentation copy,...

War

Ernest McGaffey · 1937 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

Los Angeles , Graphic Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A signed vanishingly scarce book of war poetry from Chicago lawyer Ernest McGaffey, being one of only twenty-one copies. A limited edition, being one of only twenty-one copies printed. This copy is number 20.With the aut...

Poems

L. D'O. Walters [Lettice D'Oyly] · 1922 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, C. W. Daniel, Ltd. 1922. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce book of poetry by Lettice D'Oyly Walters, in original paper binding. A very scarce first edition copy of this volume of poetry, in original blue paper binding.Signed and inscribed by the author to th...

Jutland: A Fragment of Epic

Shane Leslie · 1930 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Ernest Benn Ltd. 1930 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of this poetical work by Shane Leslie, in the original cloth and signed by the author to the half title page. In the publisher's original cloth. Signed by the author to the half titl...

As the Spirit Moved Me

Major Alan H. Burgoyne · 1918 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of a personal anthology, written and signed with Christmas inscription by writer and politician Major Alan H. Burgoyne. The scarce first edition of As The Spirit Moved Me, a poetic anthology, wri...

The King&Apos;S High Way

John Oxenham [William Arthur Dunkerley] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Methuen and Co. 1916. Cloth. A charmingly traditional anthology filled with rousing Christian poems, signed by bestselling poet and author William Arthur Dunkerley under the pseudonym John Oxenham. The signed third edition of The King's High Way, written by Englis...

Caravan

Witter Byner · 1925 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First edition. Hardback. The signed first edition of a fascinating anthology written by prolific American poet Witter Bynner, signed to American composer Rosamond Johnson. The signed first edition of Caravan, a anthology, written by prolific Am...

Invocations to Angels and the Happy New Year

Edgell Rickword · 1928 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Wishart & Company, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A striking first edition of Rickword"s early modernist poetry, signed and inscribed by the author, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with patterned p...

Lyrical Poems by Charles Richard Cammell

Charles Richard Cammell · 1917 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Geneva, Kundig, Editor, 1917. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this limited edition of this First World War-era poetry collection by the British author, journalist and occult historian Charles Richard Cammell, signed and inscribed by the author. In the publisher's origina...