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The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd
The Ettrick Shepherd [James Hogg]; Thomas Thomson · 1870 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Blackie & Son, 1870. Leather. Containing the works of Scottish writer James Hogg, the illustrated centenary edition complete in two volumes. The collected works of James Hogg, known as the 'Ettrick Shepherd&apos. Scottish poet and novelist, he is best known for his …
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1901 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, George Routledge & Sons, 1901. Vellum. A smart copy of this renowned collection of essays from American polymath Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior. A collection of essays originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858 before being collected in book form. The e…
Dark Halo
Burrs, Mick · 1993 · Books on the Web
$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)
Regina: Coteau Books, 1993. As new. Paper bound, 103pp. Inscribed and signed by author on front fly. Tight and unmarked - a fine copy. 220 grams.
Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire; Illustrative of the Works of Rober Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed, a Memoir of the Poet's Life By E. W. Brayley .
BRAYLEY, E. W. (EDWARD WEDLAKE BRAYLEY 1773-1854) [ BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT ] . · 1806 · Chilton Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London: Published By Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, Poultry; Darton And Harvey, Gracechurch Street; and J. Storer and J. Greig, Engravers, Chapel Street, Pentonville, April 1806 . 0. First edition, large paper copy. A very good later quarter calf binding. 4to. 10.0" x 6.25". pp.55. Br…
THE BEND FOR HOME.
Healy, Dermot · 1996 · Foundling Books
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1996. First US Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0151003041. DJ, orange boards, orange cloth binding, NEW book, unused, unread, back cover slight vertical crease, so slightly bowed, very light soiling to page edges, light shelf wear to DJ. …
WORDS FOR THE WIND
ROETHKE, Theodore · 1957 · Charles Agvent
$937.50 (€850.59 | £709.61 | ¥149,707)
London. Secker and Warburg. First Edition. Precedes the American edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet to a student "with affection (and respect).". Student's name on the front endpaper with his small ink stamp at the bottom of that page and one text page. About Fine in a Fi…
Hours with the Muses
PRINCE, JOHN CRITCHLEY · 1857 · Godley Books
£7.25 (€8.69 | $9.58 | ¥1,530)
Hyde, G Booth. 1857. Hard Cover, 7.5 x 4.5 inches. Label removal marks to front board and inside front board. Finger-marks and dustiness throughout the book. Very dusty page edges. No creasing to covers. Boards with gilt lettering to spine and minor bumping to corners. 179pp. Po…
The Poetry of Crabbe.
Haddakin, Lilian · 1955 · Hessay Books
£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)
Chatto & Windus, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover, 176pp, including Index. Complete dustjacket, sun darkened to the spine, in a removeable plastic sleeve. Internally very clean. A pioneering book on the poetry of George Crabbe, the poet who wrote Peter Grimes, his narrative metho…
THE IDES OF MARCH..
Thornton Wilder · 1948 · Libreria Bacbuc – Studio bibliografico Coisson di Giova
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
New York, Harper, 1948. First edition. Un volume (20,5 cm) di VIII-246 pagine. Legatura editoriale in tutta tela blu con titolo al dorso. No dust jacket. First edition M-W. Il libro venne dedicato da Wilder a Lauro De Bosis “Roman poet, who lost his life marshaling a resistence …
The Sense of Movement
GUNN, THOM · 1968 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books
€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)
London, Faber and Faber. 1968, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 12mo. 62pp. Illustrated card wraps. First paperback edition in fine condition of Thom Gunn's second collection, which includes his famous work: "On the Move". As a poet, Gunn disturbed many people with his fascinati…
The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart · 1791 · Rooke Books
£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)
Reading; London, Smart and Cowslade; F. Power and Co, 1791. Leather. A very scarce anthology of the poetical works of Christopher Smart, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. A very scarce work.Complete in two volumes.An anthology of the poetical works of Christopher Smart.I…
The Future of the World
Charles David Ley · 1955 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
Tunbridge Wells, Peter Russell, 1955 . First edition. Paperback. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce limited edition science fiction play. A presentation copy of this very scarce work, inscribed 'To Hilary Gardner with best wishes for this Christmas season and th…
The Kiss of the Stars
John Waller · 1948 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)
London, William Heinemann, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this vanishingly scarce poetry collection from John Waller, inscribed to his friend and colleague G. S. Fraser. The vanishingly scarce first edition, first impression of th…
Physiognomy; or, the Corresponding Analogy between the Conformation of the Features and the Ruling Passions of the Mind
J. C. Lavater · 1844 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Thomas Tegg, 1844. Cloth. A very scarce and pleasing copy of this work of nineteenth century scientific study, discussing the then popular practice of Physiognomy. Translated from the original work into English. Twentieth edition. Bound in the publisher's original c…
THE PILGRIMS OF THE SUN; A Poem
HOGG, James · 1815 · Charles Agvent
$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)
London & Edinburgh. John Murray and William Blackwood. First Edition. Octavo (6" x 9-1/8") bound in later 3/4 burgundy morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Complete with half-title page. Dedicated, in verse, to Lord Byron. Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist. Will…
The Human Inheritance, the New Hope, Motherhood
William Sharp · 1882 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London , Elliot Stock, 1882. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition collection of poetry by Scottish poet and writer William Sharp. A first edition copy of this work. This is a wonderful poetry anthology of William Sharp, including the poems within the title as well as Th…
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth & the Poetical Works of Longfellow
William Wordsworth; Thomas Hutchinson [editor]; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1911 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London, Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1911-1913. Cloth. Two smart volumes of poetry from William Wordsworth and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Two volumes. Oxford edition. This set contains: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 1911. A collection of the poetry of Willi…
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare , from the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed
William Shakespeare; Nicholas Rowe · 1825 · Rooke Books
£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)
London, Jones and Co. 1825. Leather. A scarce single volume edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works with a critique on his genius from Nicholas Rowe. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece and portrait. The collected dramatic works of William Shakespeare, an English pla…
The English Poetical Works of Evan Maccoll; with a Biographical Sketch of the Author
MacColl, Ewen and MacKenzie, A · 1883 · Creaking Shelves Books
£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)
Unter, Rose & Co, 1883. Hardcover. Evan MacColl (Scottish Gaelic: Eóghann MacColla; 1808-1898) was a Scots-Canadian Gaelic poet who also produced poems in English. He is commonly known in his native language as Bàrd Loch Fìne (the Poet of Loch Fyne). Later he became known as the…
Late Sowings
ISAAC JOEL SHLEIEN · 1996 · Mike Long Books
$44.75 (€40.60 | £33.87 | ¥7,146)
Scinta Publishing. 1996. Hard Cover. Hardcover dj/pub.1996/VG condition/68 pages - This text is a reflectin of the authors courage, his substance and the blossoming of his late years. He died in Hollywood having made the long journey fro m a family with deep and strong roots in …