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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

W Garrett Horder (Ed) · 1898 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Henry Frowde, 1898. Leather. The complete poems of John Greenleaf Whittier. In an attractive Maclehose binding. With a portrait frontispiece. John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet. He was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns and known for his anti-s…

The Portfolio of the Martyr-Student

[Thomas Bradford] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London; Chester, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green; Poole & Boult , 1830 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this exceptionally scarce collection of poetry, a presentation copy, inscribed "with the author's best regards". The first and only edition of the work.…

The Portfolio of the Martyr-Student

[Thomas Bradford] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce copy of this touching book of poetry attributed to Thomas Bradford, who narrates the life of a "Martyr-Student" he discovered in Germany. The first edition of this very rare and anonymous…

The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb

Mervyn Peake · 1962 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,303)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Lt, 1962. Paperback. A scarce advance proof of one of Peake's most striking illustrated poems, set amid the destruction of wartime London, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original brown paper wraps, comple…

The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq.

Sir Walter Scott · 1820 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

London and Edinburgh, Arch. Constable Co. 1820. Leather. A finely-bound twelve-volume set of The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq. The first collected edition. Including The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, Rokeby, and many others. After Scott had foun…

The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World

C.E.M. Joad · 1943 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Faber and Faber, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this illustrated tale of a soldier searching for promised post-war world, illustrated by Mervyn Peake throughout. The first edition, first impression.  In the publisher's original beige clo…

Bill of the U.S. A. And Other War Verses

KENNETH GRAHAM DUFFIELD · 1918 · Mike Long Books

$83.70 (€75.94 | £63.35 | ¥13,366)

Henry Altemus Co. 1918. Hard Cover. Gd. condition - Warfare in verse .. (er1c). Good.

Rosa May: The Search for a Mining Camp Legend

WILLIAMS, GEORGE · 1980 · Mike Long Books

$49.75 (€45.14 | £37.66 | ¥7,944)

Tree By the River Publishing. 1980. (ISBN: 093517401x). Soft Cover. Gd. condition - The legend of Rosa May a mining camp prostitute ... (KE34320ml). Gd.

The Loves of the Angels, a Poem.

Thomas Moore · 1823 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Thomas Moore's somewhat controversial poem about three angels who fall in love with mortal women, this copy being bound in half calf. First edition. Bound in half crushed moro…

Housman's Places

SHAW, ROBIN · 1995 · Godley Books

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,044)

Bromsgrove, The Housman Society. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0904579034) Soft Cover, 9 x 6.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 128pp. The ide…

Summoned by Bells

John Betjeman · 1960 · Rooke Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

Boston; Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first American edition of John Betjeman's autobiography, naturally written in verse. Complete with an unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. The autobiographical poetry of Sir John Be…

The Ina Coolbirth Golden Circle 1957

Jones, Ruth Murray, et al. (ed.) · 1957 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

San Rafael: Andrews Printing Company, 1957. 8vo. 35 pp. Very Good, Soft Cover Chapbook with Faux Gilt Stamping on cover, some sun-fading, minor rubbing & edge wear on covers; shelf wear. Ina Coolbirth was the first Poet Laureate of California. .

THE MAGICAL DILEMMA OF VICTOR NEUBURG

FULLER,J.O · 1990 · Magis Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

., 1990 revised 270pp. Soft covers. Very Good Magican, poet, & seer, Victor Neuburg was the disciple of Aleister Crowley & literary godfather of Dylan Thomas. Neuburg has been Crowley's partner in magical rituals in the desert & in rites even more dangerous and controversial

The Complete Bearded Stranger. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

SUSAN TAYLOR. · 1984 · Clearwater Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Taxvs Press, Durham, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author to fellow poet Jeremy [Hooker] and dated 1991. Slim 8vo. 40pp. Card wrappers. A fine copy. Thirty-four poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].,…

The Penguin Book of Women Poets.

Cosman, Carol, Joan Keefe and Kathleen Weaver, edited by, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Middlesex, England, Penguin, (1979). G PB. Spanning 4,500 years and 40 literary traditions with an introductory note about the poet and the historic and literary. context in which she wrote. Some edge wear and tanning to top fore-edge.

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: The Shorter Novels and Stories of Carson Mccullers

Carson McCullers · 1952 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, The Cresset Press, 1952. First edition. Cloth. The first collected UK edition of these short novels and stories from American writer Carson McCullers. First collected UK edition. A collection of short novels and stories, including: Wunderkind, The Jockey, Madame Zilensky…

The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave · 1907 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, New York, and Toronto, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, [1907] . Leather. Beautifully bound quarter-vellum later edition of Palgrave's prominent anthology of English poetry. Handsomely bound in decorative quarter vellum with cloth boards.Featuring a portrait f…

The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave [ed.] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Humphrey Milford , 1916. Cloth. A pleasing new edition of this poetical and lyrical collection, from Francis Turner Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury&apos. A new edition.In the publisher's original cloth binding with decorative gilt to the spine. This volume fr…

The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holidays Throughout the Year

John Keble · 1877 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1877. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of thoughts and prayers for the Christian Year. A collection of thoughts, prayers, and verses for key dates in the Christian calendar across the year. With writings for Advent, Christmas, Epi…

The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, with the Elegies of Tyrtaeus; Translated from the Greek Into English Verse. To Which Are Added, Dissertations and Notes in Two Volumes. [and] the Work of Tibullus. Translated from the Latin

Rev. Richard Powhele; James Grainger · 1810 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, J Sharpe; Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1810-1812. Leather. Two volumes from the 'Works of British Poets' set.. Volumes fifty-nine and sixty-seven of the 'Works of British Poets', in uniform leather bindings. With four volumes in two, with two frontispiec…