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The Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers

William Edmondstoune Aytoun · 1881 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1881. Cloth. An illustrated edition of this collection of Scottish Jacobite ballads, written by William Edmondstoune Aytoun. A collection of Scottish Jacobite poems that were first published in 1849. Many of the poems were modell…

The Last Fight of the Revenge

Sir Walter Raleigh; Henry Newbolt · 1908 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1908. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated history following the last battle of the English race-built galleon Revenge. Illustrated with a title vignette, six colour plates, a facsimile of the original title page, and numerous in-text imag…

Field Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

STUART FRIEBERT · 1993 · Mike Long Books

$29.75 (€26.99 | £22.52 | ¥4,751)

Oberlin College Press. 1993. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1993/VG condition/110 pages - A field symposium by a group of poets discussing the works of Miroslav Holub. [KA712127]. Good.

The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats · 1940 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford, Humphrey Milford, 1940. Cloth. A complete collection of poems from the renowned romantic poet, John Keats. The fourteenth impression of this collected edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece.In the publisher's original cloth. A complete collection of p…

The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats · 1886 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London , Suttaby & CO, 1886. Leather. A smart leather bound copy of the poetical works of Romantic poet John Keats. This is a scarce edition, published by Suttaby & Co of The Poetical Works of John Keats. John Keats was an English Romantic Poet, in the second generation of Roma…

The Life of James K. Baxter

Frank McKay · 1990 · Book Haven

NZ$28.50 (€14.28 | $15.74 | £11.91 | ¥2,514)

Oxford University Press 1990 Hardback, 362pp. Widely considered to be the greatest poet New Zealand has produced, James K. Baxter (1926-1972) was full of contradictions: a poet who spent much of his time exercising a concern for society's outcasts; a man with intense loyalty to …

The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier; W. Garrrett Horder [editor] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Henry Frowde, 1898. Vellum. A smartly bound complete edition of this collection of poetry from American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Complete edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of the poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier, an American Quaker …

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1917 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Humphrey Milford, 1917. Leather. A lovely collection of poetry by this popular American poet. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American writer and teacher, known for 'Paul Revere's Ride' and 'Evangeline', as well as being the first A…

The War and the Jew [the Jewish War Front]

JABOTINSKY, VLADIMIR [ZE'EV]; VAN PAASSEN, PIERRE (FOREWORD); PATTERSON, COL. JOHN HENRY (CONCLUSION) · 1942 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$2,950.00 (€2,676.51 | £2,232.92 | ¥471,077)

New York: The Dial Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Jabotinsky "outlines his vision for Jewish involvement in World War II, particularly advocating for a formal Jewish Army to fight alongside the Allies. Discusses the desperate situation of Polish Jews under Nazi occupatio…

The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh Century to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Warton, B.D. · 1802 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, Thomas Tegg; W. Hanwell and J. Parker, 1802-1824. Leather. A wonderful leatherbound history of poetry from the eleventh to eighteenth century, complete in four volumes, along with two volumes of the author's own poetry. First published in three volumes between 1774-…

The Chase

William Somervile · 1896 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, George Redway, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. William Somervile's early georgic poem, featuring the delightful illustrations of Hugh Thomas. The first edition thus of this charming work, reprinted from the original edition of 1735, and with the addition of a memoir on…

The Barony

Anna Maria Porter · 1830 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Miss Anna Maria Porter's work of historical fiction in which she confronts the strained relations between Catholics and Protestants throughout Europe. The very scar…

The Dream

John Masefield · 1922 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.44 | $155.89 | ¥24,894)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of this ode by John Masefield's, illustrated by his daughter, Judith. A signed limited edition, being number 157 of 800 copies printed. Signed by both John and Judith Masefield to the titl…

The Traveller

Walter De La Mare · 1946 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)

London, Faber and Faber, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this philosophical poem from Walter de la Mare, with colour images from John Piper. First edition. Illustrated with four colour plates. Collated complete. A long philosophical poem, full of verbal beau…

The Minstrel

James Beattie · 1858 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, George Routledge & Co. 1858. Cloth. A lovely copy of Beattie's poem The Minstrel; the first edition to be illustrated with designs by Birket Foster. An illustrated work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with blind-stamping and gilt decoration…

The Messiah

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock; Joseph Collyer [trans.]; Mary Collyer [trans.] · 1808 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Bungay, C. Brightly, 1808 . Leather. Illustrated with striking engraved plates, this is an early 19th century English language translation of Klopstock's epic poem about Jesus's salvation of mankind. Translated from the original German by Joseph Collyer and Mary Collye…

The Seasons

James Thomson · 1810 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Frederick-Town, John P. Thomson, 1810. Leather. A US provincial printing of James Thomson's influential poem of the seasons, prefixed with an author's biography. This provincial edition printed for Frederick-Town, Maryland. In a contemporary full calf binding, with red…

The Tapestry

Robert Bridges · 1925 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

London, Privately Printed, 1925. First edition. Leather. A scarce anthology of poems written in Neo-Miltonic Syllabics by Robert Bridges, a limited edition of only one hundred and fifty copies. The scarce first limited edition, limited to one hundred and fifty unnumbered copies.…

The Return

Petersen, Will · 1975 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Ohio: Privately Printed by the Author, 1975. Sidestapled in blue wraps. Title and cover illustration pasted on. Bound with black cloth tape. 8vo. 8-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches. 25 pp. printed on recto only. Printed in an edition of 100, signed and numbered by the author. This copy is nu…

THE NORTH

BECKETT, Samuel · 1972 · Charles Agvent

$3,125.00 (€2,835.28 | £2,365.38 | ¥499,022)

London. Enitharmon Press. First Edition. Folio (11-3/4" x 15") in wraps, loosely housed as issued in a paper folder, cloth chemise, and slipcase. Text printed by Will and Sebastian Carter on paper made by J. Barcham Green. Of a total of 137 numbered copies illustrated with 3 ori…