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Continual Dew: A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
John Betjeman · 1977 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)
London, John Murray; W. & J. Mackay Limited, 1977 . Cloth. A wonderful facsimile edition of an early collection by Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, illustrated throughout. A facsimile of the 1937 first edition of this work, in the original unclipped dust wrapper.With the publish…
The Spirit of Romance: An Attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the Pre-Renaissance Literature of Latin Europe
Ezra Pound · 1910 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second state of this early publication from influential poet and critic, Ezra Pound. First edition, second state. Undated, with blind-stamped decoration to the front board, gilt top fore-edge and ot…
The Poetical Works of James Thomson
James Thomson; Patrick Murdoch · 1849 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)
London, William Tegg and Co. 1849. Leather. A copy of the poetical works of the Scottish poet, James Thomson. With a frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Includes 'A Life of the Author' by the Reverend Patrick Murdoch. James Thomson (1700-1748) was a Scottish poe…
The Life of James K. Baxter
Frank McKay · 1990 · Book Haven
NZ$23.50 (€11.78 | $12.98 | £9.82 | ¥2,073)
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 Human Dawn. A poem. (INSCRIBED)
J. REDWOOD ANDERSON. · 1934 · Clearwater Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author in June 1943 to fellow poet E.H.Visiak "to thank him for his [verse collection] Medusa". A subsequent note inked t…
The Works of the Rev. George Crabbe
George Crabbe · 1823 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, John Murray, 1823. Leather. An attractively bound five volume edition of the works of poet, surgeon, and clergyman George Crabbe, in full calf bindings with gilt detailing. Complete in five volumes.George Crabbe is best remembered for his realist depictions of working an…
At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald · 1871 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, Blackie & Son, c1890. Cloth. A scarce early edition of MacDonald's classic children's fairy tale, with illustrations throughout by Arthur Hughes. The new edition. A scarce early edition, published c1890 by Blackie and Son, first published in book form in 1871.…
The School for Scandal and the Rivals
Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Augustine Birrell · 1896 · Rooke Books
£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)
London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1896. Cloth. 'The School for Scandal' and 'The Rivals' by Sheridan, the first edition illustrated by Edmund Sullivan and with an introduction by Augustine Birrell. First edition thus. Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751 - 181…
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1856 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. Leather. A complete four volumes set of this detailed chronicle of the history of England from Thomas Babington Macaulay. Complete in four volumes. Eleventh edition. A history of England covering the seventeen-year period from 1…
The Satyrs of Persius
Persius; Thomas Sheridan [trans.] · 1728 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
Dublin, George Grierson, 1728. Leather. Persius' satire criticising his contemporaries, here translated by Irish divine, essayist, poet and translator, Thomas Sheridan for the first time. This edition of Persius' six Satires translated by Thomas Sheridan (1687-1738), a…
Idylls of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1859. First edition. Leather. The first edition, second issue, of this Arthurian poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, focusing on the story of King Arthur and Guinevere. The first edition, second issue of this work, with the printer's imprint to the vers…
Idylls of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)
London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1859. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue, of this Arthurian poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, focusing on the story of King Arthur and Guinevere. The first edition, second issue of this work, with the printer's imprint to the verso …
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. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated, two volume edition 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. 790 of 1000 copies printed in this editi…
The Traveller, a Poem
Oliver Goldsmith · 1774 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, T. Carnan and F. Newbery Junior, 1774. Disbound. The ninth edition of this Augustan heroic poem about happiness and unhappiness, written by the noted poet Oliver Goldsmith, illustrated with an engraving to the title page. The ninth edition of this work. Edition statement…
In the Green Tree
Alun Lewis; A. L. Rowse, Gwyn Jones, Vernon Watkins · 1948 · Rooke Books
£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of letters by the Welsh war poet Alun Lewis in the original dust wrapper. First edition of In the Green Tree in the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrappe…
The Poems of Wordsworth
William Wordsworth; Thomas Hutchinson · 1926 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford , 1926. Leather. A collection of the poetical works of William Wordsworth in one volume, in a smart prize binding. A collection of the poems by William Wordsworth, in one volume. Numerous poems by the notorious English Romantic p…
With the Living Voice
John Masefield · 1925 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, William Heinemann, 1925. First edition. Vellum. The first edition of this speech given by John Masefield. 'With The Living Voice' is an address given at the First General Meeting of the Scottish Association for the Speaking Verse on the 24th October 1924. First…
Idylls of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books
£315.00 (€377.58 | $416.16 | ¥66,455)
London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1859. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this Arthurian poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, focusing on the story of King Arthur and Guinevere. The first edition, first impression of this work, without a imprint to the verso of the title page.'I…
The Chiswick Shakespeare
W Shakespeare ;John Dennis · 1899 · Rooke Books
£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)
London, George Bell and Sons, 1899-1902. Leather. This is an attractive set of the works of William Shakespeare. One of two hundred copies bound in Japanese vellum, though this set is unnumbered. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor widely regarded as t…
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. · 1915 · Rooke Books
£57.00 (€68.32 | $75.30 | ¥12,025)
London, J M Dent and Co. 1915. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this famous work by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Professor is the second of Holmes' breakfast-table series which take the form of one-sided dialogues with several characters at a New England boarding house. It wa…