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The Story of Sylvie and Bruno
Lewis Carroll · 1926 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1926. Cloth. A very smart later edition of this illustrated novel from Lewis Carroll. Later edition, originally published by Macmillan in 1904. Illustrated with a frontispiece and many in-text and full-page images. The novel has two main plots:…
The Poetical Works of William Cowper
William Cowper; Robert Aris Willmott · 1863 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London and New York, Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863 . Leather. An early edition of this collection of poetry by William Cowper with illustrations by Birket Foster. A new edition of The Poetical Works of William Cowper in full morocco binding. Edited by the Rev. Robert Ari…
The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell · 1853 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, Edward Moxon, 1853 . Cloth. An exceptionally smart copy of the collected works of Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, published nine years after his death. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, retaining the original tissue guard.A 'new edition', including perhaps…
The Poetical Works of Professor Wilson
John Wilson · 1858 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)
London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. Leather. An anthology of the poetry of the Scotsman John Wilson, including all of his most beloved poems. A collection of the poetical works of the Scottish poet, Professor John Wilson.Wilson was known for writing under the pseudonym Chr…
The Ian Hamilton Finlay Printed Archive
Ian Hamilton Finlay · 1994 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
Richmond, The Worthington Miro Archive Ltd, 1994. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition catalogue of work by Hamilton Finlay, with unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition catalogue of works, and art by Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener Ian Hamilton Finla…
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope · 1819 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, J. Walker, 1819. Leather. A smartly bound collection of poetry from English Enlightenment writer Alexander Pope. With a frontispiece and title vignette. A collection of the poetical works of Alexander Pope, an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment e…
The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood · 1876 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London , E. Moxon, Son, & Co, 1876. Leather. A richly illustrated volume of Thomas Hood's comic poems. A new and complete edition of the comic poems of Thomas Hood, with a preface by Thomas Hood the Younger. This volume has been enriched with the addition of a large number …
The Ox-Bow&Apos;S Heath
Adam Thorpe · 1999 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
Not Stated, Ulysses, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and uncommon copy of the limited edition, scarce in this beautiful marbled binding. Bound in striking marbled blue cloth. One of a limited edition run, limited to 100 signed and handsewn in wrappers. This copy is one …
The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels
William Golding · 1971 · Rooke Books
£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)
London, Faber and Faber, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of novellas from British writer William Golding. First edition. A collection of three novellas - two of which had never before been published - includes 'The Scorpion God', se…
The Course of Time: A Poem
Robert Pollok · 1879 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)
London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1879. Leather. A scarce new edition of this illustrated copy of Robert Pollock's best known poem The Course of Time. Scarce edition. New edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and twenty-three plates. Collated complete. The last and most …
Kelly and the Three-Toed Horse
Peter Bowen · 2001 · Rooke Books
£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)
New York, St Martin's Press, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Peter Bowen. Peter Bowen is an American writer born in 1945. He lives in Livingston, Montana and has worked as a cowboy, hunting and fishing guide, folksinger, poet, essayist, and nove…
The Cornish Ballads and Other Poems
Rev. R. S. Hawker · 1869 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
Oxford , James Parker and Co, 1869. Cloth. A bright first edition of this poetical collection from British Anglican priest, poet and antiquarian Robert Hawker. The first edition thus. Including a second edition of 'The Quest of the Sangraal', originally published in 18…
The Shorter Poems of John Milton
John Milton · 1889 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
London, Seeley & Company, 1889. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated collection of poetry from John Milton. First thus. Scarce edition. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated complete. An illustrated edition of this collection of shorter poems from John …
The Brook Kerith a Syrian Story
George Moore · 1916 · Rooke Books
£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)
Edinburgh, Printed for T. Werner Laurie LTD, 1916. Leather. An early copy of George Moore's controversial The Brook Kerith. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Fourth edition. George Augustus Moore (1852 Â1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story write…
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
WILDE, OSCAR · 1976 · Bluebird Books
$35.50 (€32.21 | £26.87 | ¥5,670)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1976. Leather. A deluxe edition presenting all 14 short stories by the Irish-born playwright and poet Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Includes a publisher's preface and an introduction by Robert Gorham Davis. With illustrations from paintings by …
Plato's Poetics. The Authority of Beauty.
PARTEE, M.H., · 1981 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity
€37.00 ($40.78 | £30.86 | ¥6,513)
University Press Utah, Salt Lake City, 1981. XII,223p. Cloth wrps. Plato, a master poet himself and of all philosophers one of the greatest lovers of poetry, struggles mightily with the seductive Muse - then banishes her fro mhis ideal Republic. Beauty in language presents a dan…
The Oxford Book of English Verse
RICKS, CHRISTOPHER (ED) · 1999 · Little Lane Books
A$47.00 (€28.89 | $31.84 | £24.10 | ¥5,086)
UK, Oxford University Press. 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Book, Oxford University Press, London, this book in great order. Dust Jacket condition VG bar a small closed tear at rear top edge. 690pp, index of authors & first lines & titles- a kilo to post. Black colour…
The Criminal Conversation Of Mrs Norton
Diane Atkinson · 2013 · Book Haven
NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)
Arnold Thomsen 2013 Paperback, 486pp. Caroline Norton, born in 1808, was a society beauty, wit, poet, pamphleteer and blue stocking. Married to a boorish minor aristocrat at 19, who accused her, for his own political ends, of an affair, 'Criminal Conversation', with Lord Melbour…
The Brighter Side Of Banking [SIGNED]
Arnold Wilkes · 1958 · Dodman Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
Widnes, Swale, 1st Edition, Poet and former banker Wilkes penned this book of 'confessions' on retirement while wishing he could have written another book of poetry instead ("but nobody seems to like, or read, poetry these days, or to try to understand it. Not my type of poetry…
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas
Thomas, Dylan · 2001 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)
London, J.M. Dent and Sons, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Born in 1914 in Swansea, England, the poet Dylan Thomas wrote a considerable number of love letters to, among others, Pamela, his first love, to Caitlin, his first wife, his subsequent lovers an…