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Poems for the People

Thomas M. Walker · 1922 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Govan, Glasgow, John Cossar, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and personal anthology, written and signed by Glaswegian poet Thomas M. Walker. The signed first edition of Poems for the People, a very scarce personal anthology, written by Scottish poet Thomas M. Walker. P…

The Life of Nelson

Robert Southey · 1849 · Rooke Books

£46.00 (€55.14 | $60.77 | ¥9,705)

London, Printed for the Late John Murray and William Tegg and Co. 1849. Leather. The tenth edition of Robert Southey's celebrated biography of Horatio Lord Nelson. This biography of Horatio Lord Nelson by Robert Southey has rarely been out of print since its first publicati…

The Novellino of Masuccio

Masuccio Salernitano; W. G. Waters [trans.] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. Hardback. A beautifully illustrated, limited edition, two volume of the short stories of this fifteenth century Italian poet. Translated into English by W. G. Waters, and here in two illustrated volumes, this is No. 20 of 210 copies printed on …

The Horkey: A Ballad

Robert Bloomfield · 1882 · Rooke Books

£46.00 (€55.14 | $60.77 | ¥9,705)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1882. First edition. Hardback. A delightful book of children's verse by Robert Bloomfield, with George Cruikshank's colourful illustrations throughout. First edition. Rebacked, with the original pictorial boards. Renewed endpapers, retaining …

The Song of Renny

Maurice Hewlett · 1911 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1911. First edition. Cloth. A bright, clean first edition of Hewlett's The Song of Renny with original dustwrapper. First edition. Original 1911 dustwrapper. Maurice Henry Hewlett, 1861 – 1923, was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist…

The Craft of Fiction

Percy Lubbock · 1924 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1924 . Cloth. Cecil Day Lewis' own copy of Lubbock's significant writing on the Modernist novel. In the publisher's original quarter-cloth binding with paper-backed boards.Previously owned by the eminent British poet Cecil Day-Lewis, Poe…

The Life of Nelson

Robert Southey · 1883 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Bickers and Son, 1883 . Leather. A smart, leather-bound edition of Southey's popular biography of Horatio Lord Nelson. In a contemporary full morocco binding. Illustrared with a frontispiece. A detailled account of the life of Horatio Lord Nelson, widely regarded as…

Closing the Ring [Signed]

KUMIN, Maxine (1925-2014); Barnard Taylor (Illustrates) · 1984 · Fine Editions Ltd

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

Lewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University : Press of Appletree Alley Limited Edition First Edition, No. 27 of 28 copies printed on mould-made Rives, from a total edition of 150. Royal 8vo (261 x 174mm): 47,[1]pp, with linoleum engravings in color by Barnard Taylor. Publisher's tan quar…

Black Venus

Angela Carter · 1985 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this collection of short stories from noted feminist writer Angela Carter, best known for her 1979 collection, 'The Bloody Chamber&apos. The first edition, first impression of this collectio…

The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1871 . Leather. A smart complete two volume set of Lord Macaulay's praised historical account of England, in signed bindings by Riviere. Complete in two volumes.  The new edition.  In full brown calf bindings with marbled fore edge…

The Silver Casket; or the World and Its Wiles

A.L.O.E. [Charlotte M. Tucker] · 1897 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1897. Cloth. A scarce illustrated work by Charlotte Maria Tucker. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece and six plates. A collection of moral tales. Written by Charlotte Maria Tucker, a prolific English writer and poet who wrote under the pseudon…

The Students of Snow

Flanders, Jane · 1982 · Valley Books

$7.50 (€6.80 | £5.68 | ¥1,198)

Univ. Of Mass. Press 57pp. The 8th winner of The Juniper Prize, given by The Umass Press in honor of Robert Francis, renowned Amherst poet, who small house in N. Amherst is named Fort Juniper. Laid-in is a three page typed essay, with some handwritten corrections, about Flanders…

THE SUN MY MONUMENT

LEE, Laurie · 0 · Charles Agvent

$62.50 (€56.71 | £47.31 | ¥9,980)

London. The Hogarth Press. First Edition. Publisher's light yellow boards with green lettering on the spine. Lee's first book, a slim volume of verse, part of The New Hogarth Library. Poet Douglas Newton's ownership signature dated 29 November 1946 at the bottom of the front end…

THE TOWN OF HILL

HALL, Donald · 0 · Charles Agvent

$62.50 (€56.71 | £47.31 | ¥9,980)

Boston. Godine. First Edition. A thin chapbook of 44 pages bound in black-and-white patterned boards. The title poem is about a town in New Hampshire erased by a flood, although another town of the same name was built not far from the original. SIGNED by the poet on the title pa…

Nostalgia For The Present

Andrei Voznesensky · 1978 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1st Edition, Excellent collection from the highly regarded Russian poet, edited by Vera Dunham and Max Hayward, with forewords by Edward M Kennedy and Arthur Miller. All in VG+, crisp, clean and bright internal order. Black paper-covered boards …

Talking at the Boundaries

Antin, David · 1976 · Mare Booksellers

$38.00 (€34.48 | £28.76 | ¥6,068)

New York, New Directions, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. Beige textured cloth in unclipped jacket. 276 pp. A collection of eight talk poems that were previously only performed spontaneously, by American poet and performance artist, David Antin. GOOD condition. Modera…

Van Morrison : Too Late to Stop Now

TURNER, STEVE · 1994 · Godley Books

£6.95 (€8.33 | $9.18 | ¥1,466)

London, Bloomsbury Books. 1994. (ISBN: 0747518246) Paperback, 11.75 x 9 inches. No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 192pp. The story of singer and poet George Ivan Morris…

The Antiquary

Sir Walter Scott, Bart · 1854 · Rooke Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1854. Cloth. A Gothic novel by the popular and prolific author and poet, Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during…

The Seasons

THOMSON, JAMES · 1758 · Round Table Books, LLC

$200.00 (€181.46 | £151.38 | ¥31,937)

London: A. Millar, 1758. Reprint. 1. Hard Cover. Professionally quarter bound in leather over original boards, new endpapers. Illustrated with four engraved plates, one for each season. James Thomson (1700-1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his masterpiece "The …

The Quest of the Golden Stairs

Arthur Edward Waite · 1927 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

London, The Theosophical Publishing House, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this fantasy novel from British poet and scholarly mystic A. E. Waite. The first edition, first impression of this very scarce work, in the publisher's original unclippe…