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THE LAZARUS TREE - signed, dated copy
Richardson Robert · 1992 · Fantastic Literature
£17.95 (€21.52 | $23.71 | ¥3,787)
Gollancz 1st edition. SIGNED, dated. Gus Maltravers plumbs the connection between the strange behavior of his friend's stepdaughter and the murder of a famous London poet underneath a legendary tree in a picturesque English village. fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper.
Towards the Sun. Poems and photographs.
GLYN HUGHES. · 1971 · Clearwater Books
£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)
Harry Chambers, 'Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Special' series, Manchester, 1st Edition, First edition. 25pp. 8vo. Stapled card wrappers, slightly chafed and marked. Eight poems accompanied by eleven photoghraphs, plus a further portrait photograph of the poet. [A light item, UK postag…
The Bent Wire & Other Poems. (SIGNED)
Thackray, Brian · 1972 · Inno Dubelaar Books
$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)
Alive Press, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 0919568122. Signed by Author(s). First printing. 8vo, card covers. Fine copy with slight darkening of white card covers. SIGNED on the front cover. Scarce book by this Canadian poet Near Fine.
The Epping Hunt
Thomas Hood · 1829 · Rooke Books
£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)
London, George Tilt, 1829. First edition. Leather. A very smart first edition of this hunting poem by Thomas Wood, illustrated by George Cruikshank. First edition. Illustrated with six engravings on wood, with tissue guards for plates. Collated complete. An exciting poem about h…
Christ the Hunter
John Lehmann · 1965 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A lovely limited edition of Lehmann's spiritual prose poem, signed by the author. This work was first broadcast in 1964 on the BBC Third Programme, and is autobiographical and spiritual in nature.John Lehmann (1907-19…
Herbert the Elephant
Ivor Cutler · 1984 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Walker Books, 1984 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce copy of the first edition of this charmingly illustrated children's book by Ivor Cutler. The very scarce first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial hardback binding. The story follows a you…
Chasing the Hoopoe
John Weston · 2005 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
Cornwall, Peterloo Poets, 2005. First edition. Paperback. A very pleasing first edition volume of this poetry collection from English writer John Weston, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. A remarkable first c…
Peronnik the Fool
George Moore · 1926 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
New York, William Edwin Rudge, 1926. First edition. Hardback. A limited edition copy of this short story from George Moore's 'Heloise and Abelard', designed by Bruce Rogers. One of 785 limited edition copies of this work in the original decorative boards, designed…
The 12. Moneths
Nicholas Breton · 1941 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
Westport, The Redcoat Press, 1941. Cloth. A smart limited edition of this charming work on the months of the year from English Renaissance writer, Nicholas Breton. Limited to two hundred and ten copies of which this is number one hundred and twenty-seven. Scarce work. A collecti…
The Voyage Home
Richard Church · 1964 · Rooke Books
£46.00 (€55.14 | $60.77 | ¥9,705)
London, Heinemann, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of 'The Voyage Home' by Richard Church. Richard Thomas Church (26 March 1893 ? 4 March 1972) was an English writer, known as poet and critic; he also wrote novels and verse plays, and three well-received vo…
The Comic Annual
Thomas Hood · 1832 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, Charles Tilt, 1832. Cloth. A smart and scarce annual volume of humorous work written and edited by Thomas Hood. Early edition. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece, vignette, and forty-eight plates, with many in-text images. Collated complete. The Comic …
The High Tower
Frances Horovitz · 1970 · Rooke Books
£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)
London, New Departures 6 , 1970. First edition. Paperback. A very smart first edition book of poems with original dust wrapper cover, and a hand-written poem, signed. A very smart first edition. Signed to front blank, beneath a hand-inscribed additional poem entitled 'Solst…
The Double Tongue
William Golding · 1995 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Faber and Faber, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression, of this posthumously published work from British novelist William Golding. First edition, first impression. A short novel found in draft form after the author's death and published…
The Daffodil Mystery
Edgar Wallace · 1930 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London , Ward, Lock & Co, 1930. Cloth. An early edition of The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace. The Daffodil Mystery by Edgard Wallace follows the discovery of the death of Mr. Thornton Lyne a minor poet and the contradictory clues surrounding his death. Edgar Wallace was a Br…
The Bell-Boy
James Hamilton-Paterson · 1990 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, Hutchinson, 1990 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this novel by James Hamilton-Paterson, set in the imaginary Asian holy city of Malomba. The first edition. In the publisher's original black cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.…
THE DAINTY MONSTERS
ONDAATJE, Michael · 0 · Charles Agvent
$1,187.50 (€1,077.41 | £898.85 | ¥189,628)
[Toronto]. [Coach House Press]. First Edition. His uncommon first book, copy #495 of only 500 numbered clothbound copies. SIGNED by the author on the title page in his later scrawl. This copy belonged to Canadian poet Dennis Lee who has SIGNED the front endpaper. Lee was the co-…
The Shadow Boxer
HEIGHTON, STEVEN · 2000 · Kalamos Books
$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)
New York, A.A.Knopf. 2000, ARC/Advance Reading Copy. (ISBN: 0676971938) Soft cover. Book, The Shadow Boxer..gives literary life to the Northern Ontario landscape of "the Soo", and the demanding, muscular life of Lake Superior where giant ore-barges make their way over the grave …
The Wandering World
BATES, RONALD · 1959 · Kalamos Books
$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)
Toronto, Macmillan of Canada. 1959, 1st Can Ed. Paper Covered Boards. Book, Ronald Gordon Nudell Bates (1924-1995), a poet, literary critic and Professor of English was born in Regina Saskatchewan in 1924. He earned a B.A. (1948), at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and …
The Raggedy Man
RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB (AUTHOR); BETTS, ETHEL FRANKLIN (ILLUSTRATIONS) · 1907 · Bluebird Books
$42.00 (€38.11 | £31.79 | ¥6,707)
Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, Publishers, 1907. Hardcover. "O the Raggedy Man! He works fer Pa; An' he's the goodest man ever you saw!" American poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem is intended to be enjoyed by children. With illustrations in full color and in black & whi…
The Praise Singer
RENAULT, MARY · 1978 · Bluebird Books
$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)
New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394502736. A later printing of Mary Renault's novel, set in ancient Greece during the time of Homer. This is the story of Simonides, a lyric poet who studies under various notable poets. Despite the dearth of source material avai…