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The Masque of Poets

Edward J. O'Brien (Ed) · 1918 · Rooke Books

£86.00 (€103.08 | $113.62 | ¥18,143)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A first edition work collating a large collection of works by numerous poets, and signed by the editor. First edition. Signed by the editor, Edward O'Brien and dated March 25 1918. An important anthology of poe...

A Collection of Poems Chiefly Manuscript and from Living Authors

Joanna Baillie · 1823 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First edition. Hardback. A first edition anthology of poetry, written by a variety of notable poets. Collected and arranged by Joanna Baillie, a Scottish poet and dramatist. The first edition. This work contains work by Scott...

Poetic Fillings on the Warp of Trade

Theodore Waterbury Ellis · 1851 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

New York , George F. Nesbitt & Co. 1851. Cloth. A scarce copy of Poetic Fillings on the Warp of Trade by Theodore W. Ellis. Scarce. This book contains three chapters of poetry, of Religious Poems, Songs, and Miscellaneous Poems. Theodore W. Ellis lived, at least for a time, in...

The Headsman a Tale

James Fenimore Cooper · 1858 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, George Routledge and Co , 1858. Cloth. A political fictional piece from prolific and popular American writer James Fenimore Cooper. New edition. Featuring an illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Written by the American novelist, James Fenimore Cooper, this work ...

The Wandering Jew a Poem

Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1887 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London , For the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First edition. Hardback. The first separate edition of Shelley's The Wandering Jew. From a limited print-run of five hundred copies as stated to the recto of the leaf prior to the title page. With 24 pages of pu...

A Peep Behind the Scenes

Mrs. O. F. Walton · 1849 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London , The Religious Tract Society, c1950. Cloth. An attractive edition of this story-book by Mrs. O. F. Walton. Amy Catherine Walton, better known as Mrs. O. F. Walton, was a British author of Christian children's and teenage books, mainly but not exclusively fiction. ...

Quintessence of Ibsenism

G Bernard Shaw · 1891 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.30 | $101.73 | ¥16,245)

London , Walter Scott, 1891. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this popular essay by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw championed Ibsen's plays when many theatregoers regarded him as outrageous. Therefore, his Quintessence of Ibsenism remained a classic throughout the 20...

Farewell to Poesy

William H. Davies · 1910 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London , A.C. Fifield, 1910 . First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this poetry anthology by W.H. Davies. Known for spending a significant portiion of his life as a homeless worker (a 'hobo' or 'tramp' in the vernacular of his era) in Britain and the ...

Sea-Waif

Silas K. Hocking · 1850 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London , Frederick Warne and Co, c1887. Cloth. An early edition of this novel from Silas K. Hocking. Illustrated throughout with numerous engravings. Silas Kitto Hocking (24 March 1850 – 15 September 1935) was a Cornish novelist and Methodist preacher. In a decorative cloth b...

Every Boy&Apos;S New Monthly March to September 1890 No. 1, Volumes 1 - 7

Edgar R. Hoadley, William Murray Graydon and George H. Coomer · 1890 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London , W. H. Baldwin, 1890. Cloth. Seven issues of Every Boy's New Monthly from 1890, bound in one volume. Containing many interesting stories and articles for young boys on subjects such as sailing, hunting and cycling. With numerous black and white illustrations and d...

England&Apos;S Darling

Alfred Austin · 1896 · Rooke Books

£16.99 (€20.37 | $22.45 | ¥3,584)

London , Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1896. Cloth. England's Darling is a play by Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913) an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Fourth edition. With a preface by the author to front. On Tennyson&apos...

Light and Shade, or the Young Artist, a Tale

Anna Harriet Drury · 1853 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London , William Pickering, 1853. Cloth. A scarce copy of this novel by Anna Harriet Drury. Bookplate or Bernard Warrington to front pastedown. In a red cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with some marks and bumping. Spine slightly cocked. Internally, binding strained in...

On the Wings of the Wind

Percy F. Westerman · 0 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London and Glasgow, Blackie and Son Ltd , c1910. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated copy of Percy Westerman's "On the Wings of the Wind". Illustrated throughout by W. Edwrad Wigfull. From the author of "Sea Scouts All", "Captain Blundell's Treasure", "The Junior Cadet" ...

Italy: A Poem, in Four Cantos with Notes

John Edmund Reade · 1845 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London , Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845. Cloth. A volume of poetry by the little-known novelist and poet John Edmund Reade. Reade (1800–1870) possessed a remarkable capacity for imitation that often verged on plagiarism. Byron was his chief model, but his poems and p...

The Sowers

[Henry Seton Merriman] Hugh Stowell Scott · 1896 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London , Smith, Elder, and Co. 1896. Cloth. A fictional work from English novelist Hugh Stowell Scott, under his renowned pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman. Seventh edition. Featuring the original publishers' advertisements to the rear. In original cloth binding, with gilt l...

An Irish Gathering

Robin Skelton · 1964 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

Dublin , The Dolmen Press, 1964. First edition. Hardback. An attractive collection of Skelton's poetry. A first edition of five hundred copies. Robin Skelton (12 October 1925 – 22 August 1997) was a British-born academic, writer, poet, and anthologist. Born in Easington,...

The Camerons of Niddry

Mrs Stacy Waddy · 1906 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c1906. Cloth. 128pp. 16pp. publishers ads Featuring a monochrome frontispiece. With an inscription to front pastedown presenting the volume to one Reginald Eade, dated 1906. Scarce. In a pictorial cloth binding. Externally, s...

Simple Susan and Other Tales

Maria Edgeworth · 1858 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,382)

Halifax, Milner and Sowerby, 1858. Paperback. An uncommon copy of 'Simple Susan and Other Tales' by Maria Edgeworth. With an engraving to frontispiece and vignette title. In original paper wraps with embossed title tipped in to front. Maria Edgeworth (1768 - 1849) wa...

A Century of Broadside Elegies Being Ninety English and Ten Scotch Illustrating the Biography and Manners of the 17th Century

John W Draper · 1928 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,303)

London, Ingpen and Grant, 1928. Cloth. A collection of elegies from 17th century broadsides. A limited edition work, this is number 104 of 275 copies published. With original dustwrapper. This work comprises of a selection of facsimiles reproducing elegies from 17th century ne...

Poems

Bret Harte · 1871 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this intriguing poetical work by the American author Francis Bret Harte. Francis Bret Harte was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, ...