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The Beginning of Wisdom
Stephen Vincent Benét · 1921 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this Stephen Vincent Benét's semi-autobiographical work, from the library of the American bibliophile Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. The first edition of this work in the publisher's or…
The Bird of Night
Susan Hill · 1972 · Rooke Books
£149.00 (€178.63 | $196.88 | ¥31,443)
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition novel by Susan Hill, signed by the author, in the original scarce Whitbread Award wraparound band. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dust…
The Fables of Flora
Dr. Langhorne [John Langhorne] · 1794 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
London, T. Rickaby, for E. and S. Harding, 1794. Leather. A charming collection of moral fables in verse, blending Enlightenment ethics with the allegorical language of flowers and nature, illustrated with hand-coloured vignettes. In a quarter calf binding with marbled paper boa…
The India We Served
Sir Walter Roper Lawrence; Rudyard Kipling [introduction] · 1929 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1929. Cloth. A smart copy of the cheap edition of this account of the author's own life and experiences in India. Cheap edition. The life and experiences of the author in India, with reference to the voyage, life in Hazara, snake charmers…
The Lewis Carroll Handbook
C L Dodgson; Sidney Herbert Williams; Falconer Madan; Roger Lancelyn Green · 1962 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, Oxford University Press, 1962. Cloth. An illustrated guide to the work of the beloved children's writer. With 15 full plate illustrations and photographs. Collated, complete.A revised version of the 1931 edition, brought up to 1960 by Roger Lancelyn Green.A guide to…
Artist Among the Missing
Olivia Manning · 1949 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
London, William Heinemann, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of the very scarce first edition of British novelist, poet, writer, and reviewer Olivia Manning's novel, set in Jerusalem. The very scarce first edition, first impression of this work.In the publish…
Poems by the Professionals
Terry Parnham [ed.] · 1988 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
England , Mainstone Publications , 1988. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce compilation of poetry written by former professional boxers, previously owned by the first president of the Ex-Boxers Southern Federation. The first edition of this very scarce poetical collection.Â…
All the Puck Stories
Rudyard Kipling · 1935 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first collected edition of the Puck stories of Rudyard Kipling, a wonderful collection illustrated throughout. First collected edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thirty-two plates. Collated compl…
The Animal Story Book
Andrew Lang [ed.] · 1896 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1896 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of children's tales about animals by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H.J. Ford. The first edition. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. With sixty-seven …
The Ferryman: William Monk
Beasley, Mark and Suzanne Hudson, et al. · 2023 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)
New York, Pace Publishing, 2023. Paperback. Colorfully illustrated wraps with white lettering; 184 pp.; richly illustrated in color. William Monk (born 1977) is known for his semiabstract, atmospheric and vibrant paintings that feature mysterious and otherworldly forms. Engaged …
The Roots of Miro
Gimferrer, Pere · 1993 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)
Barcelona, Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A. 1993. Hardcover. Charcoal gray cloth boards with white spine lettering. Glossy black and color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering in matching hardshell slipcase. 435 pp. 285 full colopr illustrations and 1,276 in BW. "By comparing S…
The Ghosts Of Heaven
Marcus Sedgwick · 2015 · Book Haven
NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)
Hachette Children's Group 2015 Paperback. Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2016, this mesmerising and mysterious novel by Printz Award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick is written in four cleverly interlinked parts and can be read in 24 different ways. Spanning thousands of…
The Less Deceived. Poems.
PHILIP LARKIN. · 1955 · Clearwater Books
£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)
The Marvell Press, Hessle, 1st Edition, First Edition, first issue with the flat spine. The misprint "floor" for "sea" in the first line of the poem 'Absences'. Slim 8vo. 43pp + [ii] list of subscribers. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on Abbey Mills antique …
The Silvae of Statius.
Statius, Publius Papinius · 2004 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2004. Paperback. 256 pp. English text. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Publius Papinius Statius lived from the 40s to the mid-90s C.E. Born in Naples, he was the son of a professi…
The Arena. January, 1898
Flower, B.O.; Campbell, Helen; Ridpath, John Clark; Abbott, Rosa G., et al. · 1898 · Mare Booksellers
$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)
Boston, The Arena Company, Publisher, 1898. Wraps. Printed wraps. 144 pp. plus ads. A single issue of this magazines. Includes: an article by B.O Flower on the poet James G. Clark, 'James G. Clark, the American Laureate of Labor,' examining his treatment of labor and poverty iss…
The Select Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott; Comprising the Lay of the Minstrel; Marmion, a Tale of Flodden Field; the Lady of the Lake; Ballads, Lyrical Pieces, &C.
Sir Walter Scott · 1839 · Rooke Books
£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)
Glasgow, Richard Griffin and Company, 1839. Leather. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott. This volume is half bound in brown leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe …
The Politics of Paradise: A Vindication of Byron
FOOT, MICHAEL · 1989 · Kalamos Books
$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.81 | ¥4,392)
New York, Harper & Row. 1989, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0060390913) Hardcover. Book, "a major new analysis of this freedom-loving poet, who was at once the most admired and the most vilified artist of his age." 424p. bibliography. index.As new except for remainder marl. Near Fiine/…
The Poetry and Poetics of Jorge Luis Borges
CHESELKA, PAUL · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books
€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)
New York, Peter Lang. 1987, Signed First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [viii] 197 (3) pp. Illustrated glossy boards. An excellent association copy of this insightful study of Jorge Luis Borges's career as a poet by Borges specialist Paul Cheselka. As new. Fine/No jacket as issu…
The Testament of Beauty, a Poem in Four Books
Robert Bridges · 1930 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1930. Vellum. An early edition of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges' final and most successful poetical work, bound in quarter vellum. With a tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece. Originally published before the author's death in 1929,…
Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe
Hervey Allen · 1927 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Brentano's Ltd. 1927 . First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume set of the scarce UK first edition of this illustrated biographical account of renowned romantic and gothic poet Edgar Allan Poe. Complete in two volumes. The scarce UK first edition. In the publishe…