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Sounds of a Cowhide Drum
OSWALD MBUYISENI · 1975 · Mike Long Books
$64.75 (€58.75 | £49.01 | ¥10,340)
Oxford University Press. 1975. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1975/Fair condition/71 pages - The author wastes no time invoking windy political slogans or the customary abstractions. [KI523879]. Good.
The Poetical Works of John Langhorne in Two Volumes
John Langhorne; The Rev. J. T. Langhorne · 1804 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, Printed for J. Mawman, 1804. Leather. A scarce volume of poetry by clergyman and translator John Langhorne, bound in half calf. A scarce compilation title of the work of English clergyman, poet, editor, translator and author John Langhorne. Langhorne, along with his brot…
The English Agent: A Tale of the Peninsular War
F. L. Lucas · 1969 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Cassell, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this fictionalised military history novel from English scholar Frank Laurence Lucas. First edition. At the height of the Andalusian summer of 1808, Captain Hugh Vivien landed from HMS Brazen at the Seagate of …
The Mother; Brunel&Apos;S Tower; the Three Brothers
Eden Phillpotts · 1927 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1927. Vellum. A three volume set of the Widecombe editions of Eden Phillpott's novels, each illustrated with a frontispiece. Three volumes of the Widecombe edition of Eden Phillpotts's Dartmoor novels in twenty volumes. In the publi…
Couriers of the Clouds: The Romance of Air Mail
Edward Shenton · 1930 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
Philadelphia, MacRae Smith Company, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this scarce story of air mail from American author Edward Shenton, with colour plates. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eight colour plates, and numer…
The Return of Arthur: A Poem of the Future
Martyn Skinner · 1966 · Rooke Books
£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1966. First edition. Cloth. An assembled and expanded edition of this epic poem about the return of King Arthur to a post-Orwellian England. First thus, assembled and expanded edition. Volumes of verse, written over fifteen years, on the return of King Ar…
The Witness of Art or the Legend of Beauty
Wyke Bayliss · 1878 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, Hardwicke and Bogue , 1878 . Cloth. The scarce second edition of this collection of meditations on art by Wyke Bayliss. The second edition of this work, scarce in all editions. Concerned with the arts and the aesthetic, with essays on the antique, modern, landscape art i…
The Invisible Play-Mate: A Story of the Unseen
William Canton · 1894 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Isbister & Co. 1894. First edition. Cloth. An excellent copy of this scarce first edition children's book written by William Canton about his daughter Winifred Vida. Originally published as 'An Enigma' in Good Words, May 1893. The present copy first editio…
The Parisians
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Lord Lytton) · 1875 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1875. Cloth. An illustrated two volume collection of "The Parisians" from English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. A very smart Knebworth edition of this work. Two volume collection of "The Parisians" from English novelist, poet, playwright, and …
The Sword
G. O. Warren [Gretchen Osgood Warren] · 1919 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, B. H. Blackwell, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the very scarce first UK edition of American actress and singer Gretchen Osgood Warren's charming early 20th century poetry collection. The first UK edition of this work, which was first pub…
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio; J. M. Rigg [translator] · 1955 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1955. Cloth. A smart two volume set of this classic collection of short stories from Boccaccio, from the Everyman's Library. Complete in two volumes. Everyman's Library, romance collection volumes 845 and 846. With the vanishingly scarce …
The Etonian
[W. M. Praed; W. Blunt.] · 1824 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Henry Colburn, 1824. Leather. A smartly bound fourth edition set of this collection of issues from The Etonian. Complete in three volumes. Fourth edition. The Etonian was a paper containing articles and fictional works, projected and edited by Winthrop Mackworth Praed an…
The Seasons
James Thomson · 1859 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, James Nisbet & Co. 1859. Cloth. A vastly illustrated edition of James Thomson's best known poems The Seasons. Illustrated with four vignette titles and forty in-text engravings. Collated complete. A series of four poems, the first part, Winter, was first published i…
The Seasons
James Thomson; Percival Stockdale [ed.] · 1793 · Rooke Books
£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,578)
London, A Hamilton, 1793 . First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of James Thomson's popular four part Romantic poem, the first with Percival Stockdale's critical notes. An illustrated edition of James Thomson's famous poem, 'The Seasons&apos…
The Jews
BELLOC, HILAIRE · 1922 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines
$795.00 (€721.30 | £601.75 | ¥126,951)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. First American Edition. Hardcover. Deals with "the relation between the Jews and the nations around them. I suggest that if the Jews and ourselves will drop convention and make a principle of discussing the problem in terms of reality, we …
The Collected Poems of Drummon Allison
Drummond Allison; Stephen Benson [editor] · 1943 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
Chippenham, Privately Printed, c1994. Cloth. A very smart limited edition of this collection of poetry from English war poet John Drummond Allison. Limited to three hundred copies. Very scarce work. A collection of poetry from John Drummond Allison, an English war poet of the Se…
The Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell
Thomas Parnell · 1833 · Rooke Books
£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)
London, William Pickering , 1833 . Leather. A collection of poetry by Anglo-Irish poet Thomas Parnell, in a full morocco binding. The Aldine edition. In a full red morocco binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece.A collection of poems by Thomas Parnell, an Anglo-Irish poet and…
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
John Dryden · 1668 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, George Routledge and Sons, c1862. Leather. A handsome calf-bound volume of poems by John Dryden, illustrated with engravings. An anthology of works from John Dryden, an English poet, literary critic and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1…
The English Garden; a Poem. Book the First
William Mason · 1772 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, R. Horsefield, 1772. Disbound. A good second edition of this gardening poem, by the gardener William Mason, a long georgic poem that ponders on Whiggism and Anglicanism. The second edition of this work. Half-title and final leaf of publisher's adverts are present. C…
The Last Generation; a Story of the Future
J. E. Flecker · 1908 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)
London, The New Age Press, 1908. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this scarce novella by James Elroy Flecker; a dystopian imagining of apocalyptic Britain. The first edition. Bound in the original publisher's pictorial wraps, exceptionally vivid. James Elroy F…