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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…

The Marlowe Papers; Shtum; the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers; Cleanness

Ros Barber; Jem Lester; Samuel Burr; Garth Greenwell · 2012 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, Orion; Picador; Sceptre , 2012-2024. First edition. Hardback. A lovely set of powerful modern titles, all signed. Including Ros Barber's award-winning historical novel 'The Marlowe Papers&apos. All signed by their respective author. In the original cloth board…

The Works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, Kt.

Sir Philip Sidney · 1724 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.63 | $422.84 | ¥67,529)

London, E. Taylor; A. Bettesworth; et al. 1724-1725. Leather. London: E. Taylor; A. Bettesworth; et al. 1724-1725. Leather. Very Good. [6], 419; [2], 401-881; [10], 32, 184, [8] pp. None. The three-volume collected edition of Sir Philip Sidney"s major prose and poetry, including…

General Piesc or the Case of the Forgotten Mission

[Gaberbocchus Press]. Themerson, Stefan. · 1976 · Fahrenheit 451

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

London, Gaberbocchus Press, 1976, 1st ed., 54 pag., printed in black and red, original glazed wrappers in red and black by Stefan Themerson (21 x 13,7 cm.). = Gaberbocchus Press was a London publishing house founded in 1948 by the artist couple Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. …

Three little Waltzes for the Pianoforte. No. 3. Allegretto gracioso.

Cyril Scott · 1906 · The Victoria Bookshop

£8.82 (€10.57 | $11.65 | ¥1,861)

London, Elkin, 1906. First Edition. Paperback. 5pp Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, and poet Tears to spine Fair.

Poems: The Empty Purse with Odes to the Comic Spirit to Youth in Memory and Verses

George Meredith · 1892 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1892. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of Meredith's poems. First Edition. George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. In a cloth binding. Externally, very smart …

Poems of the Confederacy, Being Selections from the Writings of Major Henry T. Stanton of Kentucky

Stanton, Henry T. · 1900 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$70.00 (€63.51 | £52.98 | ¥11,179)

Louisville, John P. Morton & Company, 1900. Hardcover. Two-tone cloth, white and gray; Silver titling to front cover; 46 pp.; BW frontispiece with tissue overlay. A collection of poems by Kentucky's poet laureate; Published in conjunction with the Tenth Confederate Reunion; Incl…

The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Tenth Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria

David Hume · 0 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, George Virtue, c1848. Leather. A comprehensive work the history of England, from the invasion of Julius Ceasar to the tenth year of Queen Victoria. Vol I-III of III as published at the time. Volume I - From the invasion of Julius Ceasar to the end of the reign of James I…

The Well of the Saints. A Play in Three Acts.

J. M . Synge · 1905 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Dublin, A. H. Bullen, 1905. First edition. Leather. A handsomely rebound copy of Synge's play, with original pictorial paper wraps bound in. The Well of the Saints is a three-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge, first performed at the Abbey Theatre by the Irish…

[Guide Book] [Louis XIV] A Day in Versailles. Illustrated Guidebook of The Museum, The Park, The Chateau, The Trianons.

[MAURICHEAU-BEAUPRÉ, Charles; CUNARD, Nancy (translates?)] · 1950 · Fine Editions Ltd

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.84 | ¥19,804)

Paris Braun & Co. First Impression First English language edition of this Cunard curiosity, as she purportedly translated this guide book. Foolscap 8vo: 64pp, with 32 full-page illustrations from photographs and 8 plans. Original greyish-beige perfect-bound wrappers printed in g…

Ode Occasion&Apos;D by the Death of Mr. Thomson

William Collins · 1927 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Oxford , Clarendon Press; Humphrey Milford , 1927. Paperback. A scarce limited printing facsimile of this commemorative ode to the poet James Thomson, written by William Collins. Limited to 550 copies, of which 500 are for sale. In the publisher's original marbled wraps.A …

Kisses; A Poetical Translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius. With the Original Latin, and An Essay on his Life and Writings. The Third Edition, with Additions. and the Epithalamium translated.

NICOLAIUS (Joanes Secunds): · 1778 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Printed by D. Bond...for J. Bew..., 1778. Large 8vo, 232 x 141 mms.,pp. x, [11] - 238 [239 adverts, 240 blank] including half-title printed in red, title-page in red and black, engraved frontispiece by Bartolozzi after Mortimer, with an additional engraved title-page a…

The Alteration

Kingsley Amis · 1977 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, Viking Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A first U.S edition of this alternative history novel by Kingsley Amis. Bookplate to the front pastedown for Rolland L Comstock, a successful attorney from Missouri and renowned book collector. Comstock had a two-story library …

Lays of the Hertfordshire Hunt and Other Sporting Verses

George Robins · 1912 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Arthur L Humpreys, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of sporting verses from English poet George Robins. First edition. Uncommon work. A collection of sporting verses, including: Ivinghoe Hill, Bulls Green, To An Old Hunting Diary, Pony…

The Laureate of Pessimism: A Sketch of the Life and Character of James Thomson ("B.V. ")

Bertram Dobell · 1910 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Published By The Author, 1910. First edition. Cloth. Three different first edition issues of Bertram Dobell's brief biography on the life of his friend, James Thomson. A set of three first editions of 'The Laureate of Pessimism: A Sketch of the Life and Charact…

The Nights of Straparola, the Novellino, & Ser Giovanni

W. G. Waters [translator] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, Lawrence & Bullen Ltd. 1894-1897. First edition. Cloth. The first translated editions of these limited edition volumes, illustrated throughout. Five volumes. First thus. Translated by William George Waters, a British scholar, biographer, and historian of the Italian Rena…

Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION); REILLY, BERNARD; REAVES, WENDY WICK; AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART; ELMHURST ART MUSEUM; NAPLES MUSEUM OF ART (NAPLES, FLA.) · 2002 · Mike Long Books

$64.75 (€58.75 | £49.00 | ¥10,341)

Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns. 2002. (ISBN: 0295982675). Hard Cover. Gd. condition - Portrait Drawings on exhibition ..... (TA1). Good.

The Blue Moon

Laurence Housman · 1904 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, John Murray, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A whimsical collection of short stories by the progressive playwright, with beautiful woodcuts which immerse readers into realms of fantasy. The first edition of The Blue Moon, a charming collection of fantasy short stories, writt…

For the Unfallen

Geoffrey Hill · 1959 · Rooke Books

£1,750.00 (€2,097.96 | $2,312.38 | ¥369,302)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1959 . First edition. Paperback. An exceptionally unique proof copy of Geoffrey Hill's poetry anthology, containing amendments written in the author's own hand, all of which came to fruition in the first edition which was published later in the s…

The White Stone

Anatole France; Charles E. Roche [trans.] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London , John Lane, The Bodley Head , 1910. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first English translation of Anatole France's philosophical rebuttal to the "yellow peril" fever of the time. The first English translation of this work. From a series of English-translated work…