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The Agents of Civilization
William Maccall · 1848 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, John Green, 1848. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce series of lectures by William Maccall on contemporary society. The first edition, signed by the author. The first edition of this very scarce work.Author's signature, from a letter dated 12th October 1870, tipped…
Pray to the Earth
Evelyn Eaton · 1946 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1946. Cloth. A very scarce first UK edition of this novel by Canadian novelist, Evelyn Eaton. This is the first UK edition of the work, in original publisher's brown cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The novel was firs…
The Poetical Robert Browning
Robert Browning · 1906 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, Smith Elder and Co , 1906. Leather. A smartly bound set of noted Victorian Robert Browning's poetry. Two volumes, in uniform half calf bindings by Bickers and Son. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. These volumes contain a selection of Browning's poet…
The Blue Poetry Book
Andrew Lang [ed.] · 1891 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1891 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charmingly illustrated collection of poetry from notable writers compiled by Andrew Lang. The first edition. In the publisher's original decorative blue cloth binding. Illustrated with a …
The Vigil of Venus
Lewis Gielgud · 1952 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
London, Frederick Muller, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of Lewis Gielgud's English translation of this Latin poem, illustrated with decorative woodcuts by George Buday. The limited edition of this first translated to English by English scholar Lewis …
Idylls of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books
£496.00 (€594.62 | $655.40 | ¥104,671)
London, Edward Moxon & Co. 1859. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue of Alfred Lord Tennyson's ambitious Arthurian poem, presented here in a fine cloth rebind. The first edition, first issue. Without imprint to the verso of the title page. In a modern clot…
The Maxims of Methuselah
Gelett Burgess · 1907 · Rooke Books
£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)
New York, Frederick A Stokes Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this humorous novelette by American poet, Gelett Burgess. A humorous rendition, in scriptural verse, of the great patriarch Methuselah's views on the wiles of women. Methuselah was a b…
With the Living Voice
John Masefield · 1925 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, William Heinemann, 1925 . First edition. Vellum. A signed limited edition of John Masefield's thought provoking speech on voice and poetry, in the original binding with unclipped dust wrapper. A limited edition work, limited to two hundred and sixty five numbered co…
The Spring Anthology 1968
Various · 1968 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, The Mitre Press, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A scarce anthology of modern poetry presented by contributor Lydia Pasternak-Slater. With two loosely inserted original poems by Pasternak-Slater. Lydia Pasternak-Slater was a Russian poet and translator, the sister of 'D…
The Book of Nonsense
Edward Lear · 0 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)
London, Frederick Warne and co, c1880. Cloth. An early edition of Edward Lear's charmingly illustrated and much-loved work, The Book of Nonsense. The twenty-fifth edition. Collated, complete. The binding is somewhat compromised to this copy, but the pages remain extremely b…
The Anti-Death League
Kingsley Amis · 1966 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)
London, Victor Gollancz, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this novel by Kingsley Amis. With a tipped in signature of the author to the title page. The first edition of this work. Held in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Critically, this intellectual thril…
The Gamester. A Tragedy
Edward Moore · 1753 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, R. Francklin, 1753 . Leather. The scarce first edition of Edward Moore"s influential tragedy, a cautionary tale of gambling and ruin originally starring David Garrick. Rebound in a modern quarter morocco binding with cloth boards, endpapers renewed. First edition. A …
The Chase, a Poem
William Somerville; J. Aikin · 1800 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, Printed for T. Cadell , 1800. Leather. A calf-bound new edition of William Somerville's famous poem on hunting, adorned with six engraved plates. A new edition of this popular hunting poem, to which is prefixed a critical essay by John Aikin. Bound in full speckled…
The Princess a Medley
Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1872 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London, Strahan and Co, 1872. Leather. A lovely copy of this poem by Tennyson. 'The Princess' is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem. The work tells the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women-only university. At the time of th…
The Adventures of Ulysses
Charles Lamb · 1827 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827 . Leather. Smart quarter-morocco copy of Charles Lamb's children's supplement to The Adventures of Telemachus. In publisher's original quarter-red-morocco binding.Featuring the illustrated title page by Richard Corbould, eng…
The Duke of Berwick
Belgian Hare; [Lord Alfred Douglas] · 1899 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
London, Leonard Smithers & Co, [1899]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce satirical poem by Lord Alfred Douglas, complete with colourful plates. The first edition of this scarce work.A nonsense poem about the Duke of Berwick, an uptight Duke, a comical and en…
The Milk of Paradise
Forrest Reid · 1946 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, Faber and Faber, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Forrest Reid's thoughts on poetry, in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, in the original bright blue cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Printed on pale blue pap…
The Hill of Kronos
LEVI,PETER · 1980 · Kalamos Books
$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)
New York, Dutton. 1980, 1st.US Ed.. (ISBN: 0525124950) Hardcover. Ill.: Illustrations by George Murray. Book, In "The Hill of Kronos", Peter Levi paints a radiant portrait of the Greece he came to know through a lifetime of exploration. As a young scholar he sought out its ancie…
The Hill of Kronos
LEVI,PETER · 1980 · Kalamos Books
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
New York, Dutton. 1980, 1st.US Ed.. (ISBN: 0525124950) Hardcover. Ill.: Illustrations by George Murray. Book, In "The Hill of Kronos", Peter Levi paints a radiant portrait of the Greece he came to know through a lifetime of exploration. As a young scholar he sought out its ancie…
The Hill of Kronos
LEVI,PETER · 1980 · Kalamos Books
$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)
London, Collins. 1980, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0002161621) Hardcover. Ill.: Illustrations by George Murray. Book, In "The Hill of Kronos", Peter Levi paints a radiant portrait of the Greece he came to know through a lifetime of exploration. As a young scholar he sought out its an…