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The High Tower

Frances Horovitz · 1970 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

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, doubly signed. A very smart first edition. Signed by the author to title page. Additionally signed to front blank, benea…

The Epping Hunt

Thomas Hood · 1829 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

London, Charles Tilt, 1829. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Thomas Hood's hunting poem, 'The Epping Hunt', illustrated with five detailed plates by George Cruikshank. The first edition of this work.The original front wrap is bound in.'The Epping …

With the Years

Cecil French · 1927 · Rooke Books

£128.00 (€153.45 | $169.13 | ¥27,012)

London, The Richards Press, 1927 . First edition. Hardback. A limited edition, signed copy of this work of poetry by Cecil French. Illustrated with woodcuts by the author. A scarce limited edition. Number 125 out of 500. Signed by the author to the limitation page. In the publ…

The Burning Glass

John Franklin Bardin · 1950 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Bardin's work of fiction, which is about the creation of a poem, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First Edition, uncommon. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 'The Burning Glass…

The New Schoolmaster

FOURTH FORM · 1913 · Lincolnshire Old Books PBFA

£27.00 (€32.37 | $35.68 | ¥5,698)

Smith, Elder & Co. 1913, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, Scarce title. Normal wear to extremities with some grazing along the top edge of the back board & just slightly down the leading edge of this board. A few light marks only. Internally complete with …

The RED ROMANCE

Mendès, Catulle [1841 - 1909]. Dingman, Marie B. - Translator · 1899 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.87 | ¥26,352)

London / Chicago / New York: F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher, 1899. 1st Edition in English. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION by the Translator, on the ffep, in the year of publication. Original publisher's red cloth binding with siver stamped lettering. 212, [12 (publisher adverts)] pp. 8vo.…

Robert Lowell: The First Twenty Years.

ROBERT LOWELL. Hugh B. Staples. · 1962 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 137pp. Red cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. Top edge fractionally dust soiled, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first full-length study of the celebrated US poet, p…

WALKING THE BOUNDARIES. POEMS 1957 - 1974

DAVISON, Peter · 0 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

New York. Atheneum. First American Edition. Galleys consisting of 7" x 9" loose sheets stapled in the upper left corner. An uncommon format, likely existing in just a handful of copies, this from the library of poet William Meredith, though there are no ownership notations.. Nea…

The Complete Works Of François Villon

Villon, François & Bonner, Anthony [translator] · 1960 · Eastleach Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Bantam Books, New York 1960 1st edition. Paperback, VG. xxvi+228pp, b/w frontis, pages tanned & edges rubbed, otherwise a nice copy. Parallel French English text. Bantam Classics series. The poems of the French poet & vagabond François Villon [ 1431 - 1463 ] who whilst underst…

Pindar's Mythmaking. The Fourth Pythian Ode.

SEGAL, Ch., · 1986 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1986. XIII,208p. Original orange cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. 'Inspite of all the ingenuity and learning that went into its making, Segal's study, which is a 'negative paradeigma' for the necessity of respecting the text, is of little …

Loren Maciver: The First Matisse Years

Frankenberg, Lloyd · 2002 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, Alexandre Gallery, 2002. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. Unpaginated. Profuse bw and color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 2002 exhibition of works by American artist Loren MacIver (1909-1998). With an essay by her poet husband, Lloyd Frankenberg (mis-credited as Lloy…

The Complete Poems Of Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington · 1948 · Dodman Books

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,693)

London, Allan Wingate, 1st Edition, Stock rather toned to edges, commensurate with post war paper quality, but otherwise all in VG internal order for this collection, introduced by the poet himself. Light foxing to endpapers. Neat gift inscription to fep. Blue boards lightly wor…

The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina

Elisabeth Luther Cary · 1902 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York, The Knickerbocker Press, 1902. 4th printing. Hardcover. 310p. A burgundy cloth hardcover book in fine condition, having lightly rubbed edges and being otherwise clean and tight. Biographies of Dante Rossetti (the painter) and his sister, Christina (the poet). Contains …

The Way of Poetry An Anthology.

Drinkwater, John · 1919 · Hessay Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Collins Clear Type Press, 1111. Full-Leather, The Introduction is dated 1919. 272pp, hand made paper. Soft brown suede leather cover, with some wear to the corners of the turnovers, with a stamped vignette in gold of a man ploughing. Frontispiece sepia photograph of John Drinkwa…

Poems by Shakespeare's Sisters

SHAKESPEARE'S SISTERS · 1980 · Mike Long Books

$29.75 (€26.99 | £22.51 | ¥4,751)

Shakespeare's Sisters Press. 1980. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1980/VG condition/60 pages - These poems are personal, moving, and significant to the way many women live today. [K68973]. Good.

The Sly Cormorant and the Fishes, New Adaptations Into Poetry of the Aesop Fables

Brian Patten · 1977 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Harmondsworth, Kestrel Books , 1977. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated collection of Aesop's fables translated into poetry by Brian Patten. The first edition. In the original cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. With a frontispiece, illustrated title pag…

The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare the Tragedies of Shakespeare the Comedies of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare · 1922 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press , 1922-1924. Leather. An attractive leather bound set of Shakespeare's works in three volumes. This set is bound in signed full calf by Oxford Binding with gilt detailing. A lovely collection of Shakespeare's works in a…

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years and the Later Years

William Wordsworth; Dorothy Wordsworth; Ernest de Selincourt · 1937 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Oxford, At The Clarendon Press, 1937-1939. Cloth. A three volume set of works containing the correspondence of the Wordsworth siblings from 1806-1840. A three volume set. Containing volumes I and II of the middle years (1806-1820), and volume II only of the later years (1831-184…

19 New American Poets of the Golden Gate

Dow, PHilip, Ed · 1984 · Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA ILAB

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

San Diego, Etc. Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1984. xxvi, 468p. b/w illus. dj, SIGNED presentation copy from the editor/poet. .

Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson; Including in Memoriam, Maud the Princess, Idylls of the King, Etc.

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1903 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Edinburgh, W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, [1903]. Vellum. A smartly bound copy of this collection of poems by the notable Alfred Lord Tennyson, in quarter vellum binding. A beautifully bound collection of poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson.In quarter vellum, with blue cloth boards. Incl…