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The Collected Satires of Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Douglas · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, The Fortune Press, 1926 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this work collecting the satires of Lord Alfred Douglas, bound in quarter morocco. The first edition, limited to 550 copies. Bound in quarter morocco with marbled paper-covered boards. The collected...

The Romance of Lohengrin

Bernard Capes · 1905 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Dean & Son, Ltd. 1905 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of this romance novel based on Wagner's Opera, written by Bernard Capes. The first UK edition. Uncommon work. Bound in the publisher's tan cloth variant. Written by prolific Victorian a...

The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book

Randolph Caldecott · 1882 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, George Routledge & Sons, [1882]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of nursery rhymes, brightly illustrated throughout by Randolph Caldecott. The first edition. Dated using Jisc from copies of the work held at the University of Oxford l...

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit · 1906 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

London, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. 1906 . First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce and sought-after first edition of E. Nesbit's beloved children's tale, with the original, charming illustrations by C. E. Brock. The first edition. With no later editions stated. I...

Monthly Maxims

Robert Dudley · 1882 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Thos. de la Rue & Co, [1882]. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated anthology of seasonal poems by Robert Dudley. An anthology of poems on each month of the year, a seasonal collection lauding the benefits of each month, as well as their zodiacs.Illustrated colourfully thro...

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Others

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

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)

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...

Seven Types of Ambiguity

William Empson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this important work of literary criticism by William Empson, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. First state binding, with the title in gilt.In the original unclipped dus...

The Sacred Wood Essays on Poetry and Criticism

T. S. Eliot · 1928 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Methuen & Co LTD, 1928. Cloth. The second edition of this collection of essays on poetry by leading poet T. S. Eliot. The second edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A series of critical essays on poetry by T. S. Eliot.Across these seventeen essa...

The Rock: A Pageant Play

T. S. Eliot; E. Martin Browne · 1934 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Faber & Faber, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, second impression of T. S. Eliot's pageant play, written in collaboration with director E. Martin Browne and R. Webb-Odell. The first edition, second impression of this work in the original boards, with t...

Love Among the Haystacks

D. H. Lawrence · 1930 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of this posthumously published collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence, in the original dust wrapper. A limited edition first edition, with this copy being no. 533 of 1,600 copies produced.In the o...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

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

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

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...

The Pilgrim on the Earth

Julian Green · 1929 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, The Blackamore Press; Harper and Brothers, 1929 . First edition. Vellum. A richly illustrated limited edition of Julian Green's mysterious tale, with colour wood engraved plates by Rene Ben Sussan. A first edition thus.No. 230 of of 375 copies for sale, being one ...

Poems

John Cowper Powys · 1899 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

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. ...

Wheels

Oliver Hill; Hans Tisdall · 1946 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Pleiades Books Ltd, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this vibrantly illustrated children's book about vehicles with wheels. A scarce first edition.The work of Oliver Hill and Hans Tisdall.Illustrated with twenty full colour plates, and a sm...

Piers Plowman the C-Text and Its Poet (1966), and, Medieval Literature and Antiquities Studies in Honour of Basil Cottle (1987).

E. Talbot Donaldson ; Niall Rudd et al., and, Myra Stokes and T. L. Burton [editors] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London ; Cambridge, Frank Cass and Company Ltd ; D. S. Brewer, 1966-1987. Hardback. These uncommon, fascinating works of twentieth-century Medieval literary criticism, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression of Medieval Literature and Anti...

Amazement

James Blyth · 1907 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

London, John Long, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce novel by James Blyth about a lost young woman who is taught about the world of music and art. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. A vanishingly scarce novel. T...

Robert Herrick: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers

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

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

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 ...

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rudolf Erich Raspe; Thomas Seccombe [intro] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Rudolf Raspe's novel about the adventures of a fictional German nobleman, with illustrations by William Strang and J. B. Clark. An illustrated edition. First published in 1785. Illustrated wit...

Attacks of Taste

Evelyn B. Byrne [ed]; Otto M. Penzler [ed] · 1971 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.97 | $1,981.72 | ¥316,354)

New York, Gotham Book Mart, 1971. Cloth. A signed limited edition of this collection of essays by a host of popular authors such as Agatha Christie and J. R. R. Tolkien on their early literary influences, with this copy being presented to the celebrated queen of crime, Agatha ...

The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1859 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, W. Kent and Co, 1859. Cloth. A decoratively bound collection of poetry from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, adorned with vignettes. A charming collection of poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.In the original red decorative cloth binding. Illustrated throughout with nume...