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The Rise and Fall of the Late Projected Excise, Impartially Consider&Apos;D
Anonymous · 1733 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London, J. Peele, 1733. First edition. Disbound. A scarce first edition pamphlet questioning the proposed tariff on wine and tobacco, an interesting essay by Matthew Concanen. The scarce first edition of this pamphlet.ESTC citation number T63487.Half-title is present.An interest…
Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter. The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houédard
Dom Sylvester Houédard 278702 · 2012 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV
€195.00 ($214.93 | £162.66 | ¥34,326)
Occasional Papers, 2012, Paperback, 191, Dom Pierre-Sylvester Houédard (1924 – 1992), also known by the initials dsh, was a British Benedictine priest, theologian and noted concrete poet. Houédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines…
Selected Poems
Louis Simpson · 1966 · Rooke Books
£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)
London, Oxford University Press, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A collection of Louis Simpson's poetry. First thus, the first edition of this particular collection. The majority of poems to this work have been previously published before this collection. Held in original, pric…
The Journals, Letters, & Verses of Marjory Fleming in Collotype Facsimile from the Original Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland
Marjory Fleming; edited by Arundell Esdaile · 1934 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London , Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1934. Cloth. A limited edition copy of Fleming's journals, letters and verses. Number 60 of 550 copies, 525 of which were printed for sale. With a portrait frontispiece, and plates throughout. Marjorie Fleming (15 January 1803 Â 19 Decembe…
The Book of Lyonne
Burgess Drake · 1952 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)
London, The Falcon Press, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this children's novel by Burgess Drake, colourfully illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake. The first edition. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. In the original unclippe…
The Essays of Elia
Charles Lamb · 1910 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1910. Vellum. A smartly bound copy of this brightly illustrated edition of Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia. Illustrated with twenty-four colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of essays first published in book form in 1823, with titles includin…
The Baviad, and Maeviad
William Gifford · 1797 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, J. Wright, 1797 . Leather. Illustrated with a charming engraved frontispiece, this volume includes the two major satires of popular satirist and controversialist William Gifford. A 'new edition, revised' of this work, the first edition to feature both works in …
The Heroines of History
Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen [Emily Owen] · 1858 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
London, G. Routledge & Co. 1858. Cloth. A smart new edition of this collection of writings on the heroines of history, with illustrations from Sir John Gilbert. New edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. A collection of writing…
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith · 1904 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1904. Cloth. An illustrated copy of this work of fiction by Oliver Goldsmith with colour illustrations by C. E. Brock, in the original gilt cloth. Illustrated with a full colour frontispiece, illustrated title page and 23 colour plates by C. E. Brock. Co…
Democracy of the Arts
Rupert Brooke; Geoffrey Keynes · 1946 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this previously unpublished essay by Rupert Brooke, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Written in 1910, this essay was delivered to the University Fabian Society while Brooke was an u…
The Flower of Peace
Katharine Tynan · 1914 · Rooke Books
£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)
London , Burns and Oats Ltd. 1914. Vellum. A collection of devotional poetry by Katharine Tynan, 'The Flower of Peace&apos. 'The Flower of Peace' is a selection of devotional poetry by the poet and author Katharine Tynan. The overarching theme of this collection c…
Lawrence: The Last Crusade
Selden Rodman · 1937 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
New York, The Viking Press, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this dramatic narrative poem on T. E. Lawrence and the Arabian Revolt, signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition. Sign…
Under the Red Dragon
James Grant · 1822 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London & New York, George Routledge and Sons, c1875. Leather. A charming copy of this novel by Scottish historian James Grant. James Grant (1822-1887) was a Scottish novelist and a distant relation of celebrated poet, Sir Walter Scott. He wrote around ninety books, including fif…
Beauty and the Beast
Charles Lamb; Roland Gant · 1955 · Rooke Books
£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)
London, The Rodale Press, 1955 . Cloth. Charles Lamb's very scarce poetical adaptation of this classic fairy tale, featuring colour illustrations, and in the exceedingly scarce glassine wraps. Very scarce. In the publisher's original quarter-cloth binding, with the exc…
The Hand Organ Man
Elias Lieberman · 1930 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
New York, Saga Press, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed presentation copy of this work of illustrated poetry by Elias Lieberman, in the scarce unclipped original dust wrapper. A signed presentation copy of this collection of poetry by Elias Lieberman.Signed and inscri…
The Christian: A Story
Hall Caine · 1899 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, William Heinemann, 1899. Leather. A smartly bound fourth impression of this popular novel from British novelist Hall Caine. Fourth impression. The first novel in Britain to have sold over one million copies. Mainly set in Victorian London, it is the story of Glory Quayle…
The Sisters, a Tragedy
Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1892 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
London, Chatto and Windus, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first edition copy of this short tragedy by noted nineteenth-century English writer Algernon Charles Swinburne. A short tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne titled The Sisters, which tells the story of twin si…
Tales of the Hall
Rev. George Crabbe · 1819 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, John Murray, 1819 . Leather. An extra-illustrated, early edition of this smartly bound collection of poetry by the Rev. George Crabbe. A new edition. Published the same year as the first. Complete in two volumes. Bound in a smart half calf with paper-covered boards. With…
Sonnets of the Empire
Archibald T. Strong · 1915 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Macmillan, 1915 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed presentation copy of the first edition of Archibald Strong's collection of sonnets regarding the British Empire prior to and during the First World War, in the vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. The scarce first …
The Road of Life
Ianthe Jerrold · 1915 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, Erksine Macdonald, 1915 . First edition. Paperback. Very scarce first-edition early poetry collection from prominent crime writer Ianthe Jerrold as part of S. Gertrude Ford's The Little Books of Georgian Verse series. Very scarce first edition.Publisher's origi…