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Specimens of the British Poets
Thomas Campbell [ed.] · 1819 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)
London, John Murray, 1819 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this delightful seven volume collection of the works of famous and obscure British poets, from 1400 to 1805. The first edition, complete in seven volumes.Edited by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, chiefly remem…
Jack and the Bean-Stalk
Hallam Tennyson · 1886 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)
London, Macmillan, 1886 . First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound copy of the first edition of Hallam Tennyson's 'Jack and the Bean-Stalk', in a half morocco Zaehnsdorf binding, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. This classic English fairy-tale first appeared …
The Works of Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope · 1788 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)
London, C. Bathurst et. al. 1788. Leather. Late eighteenth-century illustrated editions of the works of Alexander Pope, uniformly bound in contemporary calf. A smart set of various works of noted seventeenth and eighteenth-century poet, translator, and satirist, Alexander Pope.Â…
The Shepheard&Apos;S Calender
Edmund Spenser · 1898 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)
London, Harper, 1898. Cloth. A delightful edition of the Elizabethan poet's first major work, illustrated throughout by Walter Crane. A decorative edition of Edmund Spencer's first major work, originally published in 1579. There is one full page illustration for each m…
The Works of Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore; J. W. Lake · 1823 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
Paris, A. and W. Galignani, 1823. Leather. Four volumes of the set of Thomas Moore's poetry, uniformly bound in half morocco. Volumes I to IV of the set, uniformly bound in half morocco bindings with marbled boards, end papers and edges.Four volumes of the works of Irish po…
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Gustave Flaubert, [trans. and int. by Lafcadio Hearn] · 1910 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
New York, The Alice Harriman Company, 1910. Cloth. A translated edition of Fluabert's classic work on the famous biblical tale, signed by Alice Harriman, known to be the world's first female publisher. A translated American edition of The Temptation of St. Anthony, the…
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett · 1783 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)
London, T. Longman and G. Robinson, 1783. Cloth. A three volume set of Tobias Smollett's picaresque novels 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker' 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker' was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered…
The Shepheard&Apos;S Calender
Edmund Spenser · 1898 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)
London , Harper & Brothers, 1898. Cloth. A decorative edition of the Elizabethan poet's first major work, illustrated throughout by Walter Crane. A decorative edition of Edmund Spenser's first major work, originally published 1579. There is one full page illustration f…
The Works of Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood · 1869 · Rooke Books
£370.00 (€443.57 | $488.90 | ¥78,081)
London, E. Moxon, Son, & Co, 1869-72. Leather. Ten uniformly bound volumes of the short stories and poetry of Thomas Hood, illustrated throughout. A collection of the poetry and works of Thomas Hood, noted early nineteenth-century English poet and humourist, who regularly wrote …
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald [trans.] · 1859 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)
London, George G. Harrap & Company, c1920. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of Omar Khayyam's noted collection of poetry titled 'The Rubaiyat', colourfully illustrated by Hungarian artist Willy Pogany. An early twentieth-century edition of Omar Khayyam's &apo…
Hath the Rain a Father?
Frances Bellerby · 1946 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Peter Davies, 1946. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Frances Bellerby's moving and humorous novel dealing with belief and religion, 'Hath the Rain a Father?', here in the scarce original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. In t…
The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie
Montgomerie, Alexander; James Cranstoun (editor.) · 1887 · Bookbarrow
£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)
Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh, 1887. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons & rebound in dark blue cloth with a 45-page introduction & contents list to the front & a large section of notes to the poems to…
UNDER THE EILDON TREE. A Poem in XXIV Elegies.
SMITH. SYDNEY GOODSIR. · 1948 · Paul Foster Books
£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)
Serif Books. Edinburgh. 1948 FIRST EDITION. Limited to 350 copied, this one of 300, the other 50 being numbered and signed. Large 8vo. (9.9 x 7.4 inches). Multiple corrections and notes in the Author's hand to the text and pages of translations at the rear of the book. Author's …
Diana: The Sonnets and Other Poems of Henry Constable
Henry Constable · 1859 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London , Basil Montagu Pickering, 1859. Cloth. A copy of Diana: The Sonnets and Other Poems of Henry Constable. Henry Constable was an English poet best known for Diana, which is one of the first English Sonnet sequences. This volume contains the renowned Diana and other sonnet…
Memoir of the Hartley Colliery Accident and Relief Fund.
FORSTER T E [ED] · 1912 · Castle Hill Books
£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)
Newcastle ON Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1912. . Hardcover. . The Hartley Colliery disaster was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England that occurred on Thursday 16 January 1862 and resulted in the deaths of 204 men. Viii + 133pp, illustrated, foxing, bound in original blue clo…
A Year in the Bull-Box. A Poem Sequence.
GLYN HUGHES. [Simon Armitage]. · 2011 · Clearwater Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
Arc Publications, Todmorden, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 63pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. Wells-next-the-Sea Poetry Festival founder Alan Byford's copy, with his name inked to the front pastedown. A len…
With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825
Macrae, James · 1972 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller
$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)
Honolulu: Petroglyph Press, 1972. reprint, Light soiling to wrappers (covers) otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)/ no dust jacket. 8vo., George Anson, the seventh Lord Byron (and first cousin to the famous poet)…
Frederic and Pharamond or the Consolations of Human Life
LANGHORNE, JOHN . · 1769 · Chilton Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London: Printed for T. Becket, and P.A. De Hondt, 1769 . 0. 8vo. First edition. 16.2cm x 10cm x 1.5cm. 4/157pp/1p(advert). Clean text. Endpapers lightly toned. Contemporary full tan calf. Hinges and corners carefully strengthened (using archival standard materials). A good copy …
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian, and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal; with an Historical View of the Stage During His Own Time
Colley Cibber · 1740 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)
London, Printed by John Watts for the Author, 1740 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Cibber"s celebrated theatrical autobiography, a personal memoir offering insight into the English stage from the Restoration to the early 18th century. In a contemporary full mottle…
The Thing About Joe Sullivan, Poems 1971-1977
Roy Fisher · 1978 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
Manchester, Carcanet, 1978 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition, first impression of this collection of poetry by Roy Fisher, signed and dated by the author. First edition, first impression of this poetry anthology by Roy Fisher in the original publisher's paper wr…