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Tales of the Hall. In Two Volumes
Rev. George Crabbe · 1819 · Rooke Books
£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)
London, John Murray, 1819. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this collection of Crabbe's poetry, dating from the early nineteenth century. First Edition. Complete in two volumes. With the armorial bookplates of John Blenkinsopp Coulson to the front pastedowns. Geor…
Menelik, Rey. First Edition of the Broadside
Leite George (1920-1985) · 1947 · Wittenborn Art Books
$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)
Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress in red on paper. 23 x 13cm. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby.. George Leite was an American author, poet, publisher and bookstore and gallery owner active in California"s San Francisco Bay Area in the 1…
The Plays of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare; Mr Rowe; Dr Johnson · 1824 · Rooke Books
£539.99 (€647.36 | $713.52 | ¥113,954)
London, Otridge & Rackham, 1824. Leather. An important edition of the sought after Steevens Shakespeare in a really nice original diced calf binding. Priced to be a part set. (i.e. about 1/3 price of a full set) Eight leatherbound volumes with gilt titles to the spines. William …
Critical Essays on the Dramatic Excellencies of the Young Roscus
J Bisset · 1805 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)
Birmingham; London, Knott and Lloyd; J Johnson, 1805. First edition. Leather. A well bound, very scarce first edition of this tract looking at the dramatic talents of William Henry West Betty, or 'The Young Roscius&apos. Rebound, in a stunning half calf binding with marbled…
The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books
Robert Bridges · 1929 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)
Oxford , Clarendon Press, 1929. First edition. Hardback. A pleasing first edition of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges' last great work, complete with the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of 'The Testament of Beauty', a poem told in four "boo…
Songs of the Sea Nymphs: Scenes in Fairy Land
T. Miller · 1832 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, Simpkin and Marshall , 1832. Leather. A very scarce copy of this collection of fantasy verses from English poet Thomas Miller. Very scarce work. A collection of songs and verses from Fairy Land, being extracts from unpublished poems on the theme of mystical sea creatures…
Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. In Three Volumes
Sir Walter Scott · 1828 · Rooke Books
£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)
Edinburgh , Cadell and Co , 1828. Leather. A smart three volume, second series, set of The Chronicles of Canongate written by the classic novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott. This is a smart three volume set of The Chronicles of Canongate in the second series written by Sir Walte…
The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books
Robert Bridges · 1930 · Rooke Books
£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)
Oxford , Clarendon Press, 1930. Hardback. An early edition of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges' final work, bound in quarter vellum. In quarter vellum binding with marbled boards.With a tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece of Robert Bridges. An early printing of this poetry boo…
Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade
Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1876 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1876. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this political essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne, in which he attacks the politics of Thomas Carlyle. The first edition of this lesser known work by poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, an essay in which…
Firmilian: Or, the Student of Badajoz: A Spasmodic Tragedy
T. Percy Jones; [William Edmonstoune Aytoun] · 1855 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
New York, Redfield, 1855. Cloth. An early American edition of this satirical parody of the work of the Victorian era school of Spadmodic poets. The second US edition of this dramatic verse from Scottish poet and lawyer William Edmonstoune Aytoun, writing under the pen name T. Pe…
The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the Xviiith Century
Austin Dobson · 1892 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1892. First edition. Cloth. A later impression of this delightful collection of poems by Austin Dobson, with lovely illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A first edition, later impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth bind…
The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the Xviiith Century
Austin Dobson · 1892 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1892 . Cloth. A smart second edition copy of this collection of charmingly illustrated eighteenth-century verses by Austin Dobson. The second edition. In the publisher's original decorative red cloth binding. Featuring fifty illus…
A New Song of the Bishop of London and the City Churches
J. C. Squire · 1924 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Manning Pike, 1924. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated verse from English writer Sir John Collings Squire, signed by the author. Signed by the author to the front endpaper. Illustrated throughout. A charming poem on the churches of the city of London which reference…
The Serious Poems of Thomas Hood; the Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood · 1868 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, E. Moxon, Son, & Company, [1868]. Cloth. Lovely two-volume pocket edition of Thomas Hood's "Serious" and "Comic" poems. 1868 new pocket edition. With a preface from Thomas Hood the Younger.In two volumes.Bound in publisher's original red cloth with gilt detail.…
The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century
Austin Dobson · 1892 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, Kegan Paul, 1892. Cloth. A limited edition copy of this poetical work by Austin Dobson, illustrated by Hugh Thompson. A limited edition, large paper edition. Number 140 out of 1250 copies for England and 200 copies for America.Illustrated by Hugh Thompson with an illustr…
The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the Xviiith Century
Austin Dobson · 1892 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A decoratively-bound collection of eighteenth-century poems from Austin Dobson, with lovely illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A first edition, later issue of this work in the publisher's original de…
The Gospel as Epic in Late Antiquity. The Paschale Carmen of Sedulius.
SPRINGER, C.P.E., · 1988 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity
€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)
Brill, Leiden (...), 1988. XI,168p. Original blue gilt titled cloth. A few rust stains to right upper corner upper edge. Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume II. 'Sedulius is, to stay with the common cliché, a poet between two worlds, and one of the strong points…
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas · 1971 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, J. M. Dent and Sons , 1971. First edition. Cloth. A delightful set containing both the uncorrected proof and first edition of this collection of Dylan Thomas" poems. Both volumes complete with the publisher"s original unclipped dust wrapper. Uncorrected proof in the publ…
Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard Kipling · 1893 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1893. Cloth. A smart third edition of Kipling's first collection of short stories. Third edition. Kipling's first collection of short stories. A total of forty short stories including the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hauks…
The World of Wonderful Reality
E. Temple Thurston · 1919 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful signed presentation copy of the first edition of E. Temple Thurston's delightful novel about how romantic hopes confront material challenges. The scarce first edition, first impression of this work.With …