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Yevgeny Yevtushenko · 1981 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Macmillan, 1981. First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof copy of the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko's first novel. Yevgeny Yevtushenko was one of the most famous post-Stalin generation of Russian poets, as well as a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, pu...

Anglo-American First Editions Part Two: West to East

I.R. Brussel · 1936 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Constable and Co Ltd, 1936. Hardback. A lovely copy of the second part of J. T. Brussel's extensive catalogue of British and American first editions. Comprehensively detailing the first editions of American authors whose books were published in England before in A...

The Shadow of Arvor: Legendary Romances and Folk-Tales of Brittany

Edith Wingate Rinder · 1896 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

Edinburgh, Patrick Geddes, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A handsome first edition collection of short folk tales and romances taken from Brittany. Includes stories such as 'Ronan the Silent' and 'Gwennolaik', translated and retold by Edith Wingate Rinder. In ...

Latterday Symphony

Romer Wilson · 1927 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Romer Wilson. With a decorative title page. Bound with publisher's advertisements to the rear of the text. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book c...

Our Humble Friends and Fellow Mortals Friends in Wood and Field

William Gordon-Stables · 1892 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1892. Cloth. A very scarce edition of the third and final volume in William Gordon-Stables' 'Our Humble Friends and Fellow Mortals' series: 'Friends in Wood and Field&apos. William Gordon-Stables was a doctor ...

The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Arnold Bennett · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Methuen & Co, 1912. Cloth. A collection of Arnold Bennett Fiction Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film. With twenty two stor...

Astrophel and Other Poems

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1894 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London , Chatto & Windus, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wro...

The Orphan of Pimlico and Other Sketches, Fragments and Drawings

William Makepeace Thackeray; Edited by Anne Isabella Thackeray · 1876 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , Smith Elder and Co. 1876. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology of writings and drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray Copiously illustrated throughout with many plates by Thackeray. With some notes by Anne Isabella Thackeray, the author's da...

A Day with the Sea Urchins

Helen M. Burnside · 1893 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London , Frederick Warne and Co. 1893. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated children's tale. Illustrated by Alfred Cooper with songs set to music by Myles Birket Foster. In paper covered boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed with bumping to extremities. Loss to head and tail of ...

The Signature of Pain and Other Poems

Alan Porter · 1930 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London , Cobden-Sanderson, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this book of poetry by Alan Porter. Most of the poems included here have appeared in The Spectator, The Observer, The New Age, G. K.'s Weekly, Oxford Poetry, The London Mercury and other periodicals...

Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925 for the Spring 1926 with a Hand-List of Books Hitherto Published by the Press

Nonesuch Press · 1925 · Rooke Books

£29.00 (€34.77 | $38.32 | ¥6,120)

London , Nonesuch Press, 1925. Cloth. A publishers' catalogue A catalogue of book published by the Nonesuch Press. Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera Mendel, and David Garnett. Their first book, a volume of John ...

The Testament of Beauty a Poem in Four Books

Robert Bridges · 1929 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Oxford , The Clarendon Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, sixth impression, of The Testament of Beauty by former Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. For this long philosophical poem Bridges received the Order of Merit. With publisher's note bound to the rear of...

The Vision of Don Roderick

Sir Walter Scott · 1811 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.91 | $85.88 | ¥13,715)

Edinburgh , John Ballantyne and Co. 1811. Leather. An early edition of this poem by Sir Walter Scott. It celebrated the recent victories of the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War, and proceeds of its sale were to raise funds for Portugal. It is based on an account gi...

The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar

George Farquhar [edited by Alex Charles Ewald] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London , John C. Nimmo, 1892. Cloth. A limited edition, two-volume set of The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar. Including a biography of Farquhar by Alex Charles Ewald, the volumes contain some of the Irish dramatist's best known work, including The Recruiting Officer an...

Lapsus Calami

J.K.S. [James Kenneth Stephens] · 1891 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Cambridge, Macmillan and Bowes, 1891. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this collection of poetry. James Kenneth Stephen was an english poet and tutor to Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales In a blue cloth binding. Externally, sound with some r...

Fisherman&Apos;S Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things

Henry van Dyke · 1899 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Cloth. A collection of essays on numerous topics from Henry van Dyke. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates. Including titles such as Fisherman's Luck, Talkability, A Norwegian Honeymoon and many others. In a decorative c...

Life Mosaic the Ministry of Song Under the Surface

Frances Ridley Havergal · 1879 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, James Nisbet and Co, 1879. Cloth. A collection of poetry by Frances Ridley Havergal. Illustrated throughout. The second edition, in original cloth binding. Frances Ridley Havergal was an English religious poet and hymn writer. In original pictorial cloth binding with g...

Chatterbox Weekly One Halfpenny

Various · 1903 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Wells Gardner Darnton & Co, 1903. Cloth. The complete collection of the "Chatterbox" halfpenny weekly paper, for the year 1903. New series, No. 1 through to No. 52. Illustrated throughout, featuring several coloured plates. Founded and edited by John Erskine Clarke, w...

Inscape

Mollie Selby · 1968 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London , The Mitre Press, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of this collection of poetry from Mollie Selby. Inscribed by the author, 'With gratitude and affection', to the front free-endpaper. In a black cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Exte...

Restoration Love Songs

John Hadfield · 1950 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

Preston , Cupid Press, 1950. Cloth. A charming anthology comprising of lyrics dedicated to love from the period of 1660 to 1714. Limited first edition of 650 copies of which this is number 586. Illustrated throughout, featuring decorative head and tail pieces by Rex Whistler, ...