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Tragaldabas Acts and Verse

Auguste Vacquerie · 1875 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Paris , Michel Levy Freres, 1875 . Cloth. A copy of Tragaldabas, with five acts, and verse. With an inscription to one of the front endpapers, signed by the author. Auguste Vacquerie (1819-1895) was a French journalist and man of letters. In the year of his death, the rue Augu...

A Printer of Shakespeare

Edwin Eliott Willoughby · 1934 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,210)

London , Philip Allan, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work on Shakespeare. Uncommon with the dustwrapper. Edwin Willoughby was a librarian and academic who established himself as an internationally renowned scholar on the printing of Shakespeare and the hi...

Formal Poems

Anthony Conran · 1960 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Christopher Davies Ltd, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of 'Formal Poems' by Anthony Conran. Signed by the author to the title page. First Edition. Tony Conran was an Anglo-Welsh poet and translator of the modernist style and influenced by Welsh poe...

Les Femmes Ecrivains: Oeuvres Choisies

M. F. Lhomme · 0 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

Paris , Librairie de L'Art, c1900. Leather. An interesting selection of works from female writers in French. Featuring a frontispiece and several portrait illustrations throughout. In a signed binding of R. Carswell and Son, Belfast, label to front pastedown. In a half ca...

The Works of Henry Fielding in Ten Volumes

Henry Fielding · 1784 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.99 | $1,981.71 | ¥316,453)

London, W. Stragan et al, 1784. Leather. Scarce complete set of this edition of Henry Fielding's brilliantly humourous and satirical works. A New Edition. With an essay on the life and genius of the author, and to which is now added, The Fathers; or, The Good-natured Man....

Saint James&Apos;S or the Court of Queen Anne an Historical Romance

William Harrison Ainsworth · 1844 · Rooke Books

£2,900.00 (€3,476.11 | $3,831.31 | ¥611,810)

London, John Mortimer, Parry, Blenkarn and Co. 1844. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Ainsworth's romance. A presentation copy, signed by the author and addressed to the illustrator of Ainsworth's portrait frontis, Daniel Maclise. Direct from the library ...

From the Shiffolds

R. C. Trevelyan · 1945 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Dorking , [A. A. Tanner & Son], 1945-1950. First edition. Paperback. A terrific selection of Christmas poetry pamphlets gifted by R. C. Trevelyan, each one with a signed inscription. Four issues of R. C. Trevelyan's 'From the Shiffolds', a series of Christmas pa...

The Troubadour and Other Poems

Dora Sigerson Shorter · 1910 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition. Cloth. A presentation copy of this scarce anthology from Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter. Presentation copy, with blind stamp to the title page. First edition.In the publisher's quarter cloth binding. A scarce early 20...

Time and Memory

F. L. Lucas · 1929 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929 . First edition. Hardback. A wonderful example of this very scarce early poetry collection from F. L. Lucas, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their press. The very scarce first edition, first impression of...

Wolfert&Apos;S Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected

Washington Irving · 1855 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

New York, G. P. Putnam & Co. 1855. First edition. Leather. The first edition, third printing of this Irving anthology, bound in full crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, with lovely gilt dentelles. First edition, third printing. Publisher's address in the title imprint is ch...

Wolf Brother; Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

Michelle Paver · 2004 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Orion, 2004 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition copy of the first book in the fantastic series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver, with Ottakar's promotional booklet. The first edition of the work.Signed by the author to the title page.In ...

The Poems of Thomas Sturge Moore: Collected Edition

T. Sturge Moore [Thomas Sturge Moore] · 1931 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1931-1932. Cloth. Volumes I and II of the collected edition of the literary works of Thomas Sturge Moore, signed by the poet to prolific English aristocrat Lady Ottoline Morrell. The signed poems of the accomplished poet, playwright and writer T. Stur...

The Inner Harbour

Wilbert Snow · 1926 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

New York, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce anthology, written and signed by American poet and influential educator and political figure in Connecticut Wilbert Snow. The Inner Harbour, a very scarce poetic anthology, written and signed by Am...

Songs and Poems

John Jay Chapman · 1919 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of an attractive poetic anthology, written by prominent American moralist and writer John Jay Chapman. The signed first edition of Songs and Poems, a poetic anthology written by promin...

Hollow Sea: A Novel

James Hanley · 1938 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. A smart signed first edition of Hanley"s maritime novel "Hollow Sea", drawn from his seafaring experience. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author...

La Belle France

David Irving Janes · 1919 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

New York, Duffield and Company, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce first edition of Janes"s WWI poetic cycle, a presentation copy inscribed by the author, reflecting on the war"s devastation through three solemn, interconnected cantos. In the publisher's or...

Harvest of Youth

Edward Davison · 1926 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New York; London, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this collection of poetry by Scottish poet Edward Davison. The first edition of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, dated 1927.In pub...

Years Following After; Poems

Joseph Leftwich · 1959 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, James Clarke & Co. Ltd. 1959 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce presentation copy of this collection of poetry by British critic Joseph Leftwich. A very scarce first edition of the work.A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpap...

Ebony Flame

Vincent Starrett · 1922 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Chicago , Covici-McGee, 1922 . Cloth. A signed limited edition presentation copy of this collection of poetry by Sherlock Holmes biographer Vincent Starrett. A limited edition copy of the work, with three hundred and fifty copies being printed, of which this is number 278.Sign...

Sous le Ciel D&Apos;Allemagne Sonnets D&Apos;Un Prisonnier de Guerre

Emile Moussat · 1921 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

Paris, Les Editions Francaises Les Gemeaux, 1921 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce presentation copy of this collection of wartime poets by prisoner of war Emile Moussat. A very scarce work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the half title page, 'a mon excellen...