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The Bird of Paradise and Other Poems

William H. Davies · 1914 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1914. First edition. Hardback. A lovely first edition collection of William H. Davies' collected poems, with the scarce original dust wrapper. First edition. Including poems which previously appeared in The Nation, The New Statesman, The Westmin…

Females of the Species: Semonides on Women

Lloyd-Jones, Hugh · 1975 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Park Ridge, New Jersey, Noyes Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An unusual title indeed, a fine translation from the original Greek of a misogynistic epic poem about women by an ancient Greek poet, Semonides, a poem taking on ten Greek women at a t…

Rejected Addresses: Or, the New Theatrum Poetarum

SMITH, JAMES; HORACE SMITH · 1839 · Round Table Books, LLC

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.83 | ¥19,162)

London: John Murray, 1839. Revised Edition. Nineteenth Printing. Leather. Beautifully bound in custom half green leather over marbled boards (by Harrison & Sons), spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on burgundy label in one compartment, gilt tooli…

Imagined corners : exploring the world's first atlas.

Binding, Paul. · 2003 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

London : Review, 2003. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - A beautifully illustrated history of the world s first atlas. The Theatrum orbis terrarum was a watershed publication; it changed lives an…

The Mint: A Miscellany of Literature, Art and Criticism

Geoffrey Grigson [Ed.] · 1946 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Routledge and Sons Ltd. 1946. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this miscellany of literature and art collated by Geoffrey Grigson. The first edition In the original, full cloth binding with the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. With eight full-page mo…

Perpetual War, the Policy of Mr. Madison. Being a Candid Examination of His Late Message to Congress, So Far As Respects the Following Topicks;... Viz. , the Pretended Negatiations for Peace;... The Important and Interesting Subject of a Conscript Militia;... And the Establishment of an Immense Standing Army of Guards and Spies, Under the Name of a Local Volunteer Force... Original Edition

[Lowell, Jr., John] (1769-1840) · 1812 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Boston. Printed by Chester Stebbins. 1812. Octavo. 120pp. Oriiginal stitched wraps with title printed on page 1. Ex-library with faded "Library of University of Vermont" stamp upper left corner of title page. Light toning and a few scattered spots. Untrimmed edges. Pages 105 to …

The Complete Works of Shakespeare: Revised from the Original Editions with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius

William Shakespeare; Barry Cornwall; Richard Grant White · 1857 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, The London Printing and Publishing Company , 1857-1859. Cloth. A set in five divisions of William Shakespeare's complete works, richly embellished with numerous plates by Kenny Meadows. A collection of works by the national poet William Shakespeare; three volumes ov…

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes

Robert Burns; George Gilfillan · 1856 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1856. Cloth. A complete two volume set of the poetical works of celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns, with a memoir and dissertation. Complete in two volumes.  In the publisher's original blue cloth bindings. A set of the poetical works of Robert …

A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning First and Second Series

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1892 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1892. Leather. A very smart half morocco title, binding much of Barrett Browning's poetic legacy together. A lovely copy binding the first and second series of Browning's poetic works together. Bound in half brown morocco, and decorated with…

The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq. With Remarks on Epistolary Writers

William Cowper; William Hayley · 1809 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Chichester, W. Mason for J. Johnson, 1809 . Leather. An attractively bound four volume edition of William Hayley's account of the life of poet William Cowper, with examples of his own letters. Complete in four volumes, and bound in straight grain morocco with blind tooling.…

Music at Belmont and Other Essays (Signed By Author & (From The Library of Cecil Day Lewis)

Sheppard,J.T. · 1951 · Richard Thornton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Rupert Hart-Davis This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No dust-jacket.This copy has been SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the Author to poet and writer Cecil Day Lewis on the Front Endpaper.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakne…

The Zermatt Dialogues (and) The Oberland Dialogues (both SIGNED COPIES) with letters from the author & other inserts

Fawcett, Douglas · 1931 · Bookbarrow

£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)

Macmillan, London, 1931 & 1939. First Editions, Hardcovers (Original Blue Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jackets. Signed by Author. These two books - "The Zermatt Dialogues: Constituting the Outlines of a Philosophy of Mysticism, Mainly on Problems of Cosmic Import" & "The …

Prince Darling and Other Stories: Based on the Tales in the &Apos;Blue Fairy Book&Apos;

Andrew Lang · 1890 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this collection of short stories taken from Andrew Lang's 'Blue Fairy Book&apos. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work, published the year after the '…

The Spiritual Quixote: Or, the Summer&Apos;S Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A Comic Romance

Richard Graves; Charles Whibley [intro.] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Peter Davies, 1926. Cloth. A limited edition two-volume set containing Richard Graves' most notable novel, 'The Spiritual Quixote&apos. Limited edition, being an unnumbered copy out of the 700 that were for sale. A lovely new edition of this picaresque novel b…

The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron Volume One Volume Two Volume Three Volume Four

Lord Byron · 1815 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, John Murray, 1815. Leather. A four volume set of works by Lord Byron bound in half calf. A four volume set of works by Lord Byron. Complete in four. Bound by Edmund Worrall with a bookbinder's label to the front pastedown.Bound in half calf with cloth to the boards…

The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man&Apos;S Recreation of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton

Izaak Walton; Charles Cotton; John Major [ed.] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited , 1905. Cloth. An illustrated copy of this classic pastoral discourse on the joys of fishing from Izaak Walton. An illustrated copy of this classic treatise on fishing, edited here by John Major and decorated with engravings.In the publ…

From the Piper of a Sleeping Nation: From Charles [Olson], a Proposal for Sheri. (Signed & Numbered)

Malanga. Gerard · 1975 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Hardwicke, Mass.: Four Zoas Press,1975. Broadside with photograph by the poet. 22 x 16 inches. One of 250 signed and numbered impressions. From The Piper of a Sleeping Nation, work-in-progress. Issued in a letterpress edition af 250 numbered & signed copies by The Four Zoas Pres…

Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year 1959, Volume 111

edited by J J Bagley · 1960 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,270)

Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Liverpool, 1960. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean red covers with bright gilt lettering and decoration, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Includes black and white illustrations and maps. Pap…

The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse and Prose

Alexander Pope · 1806 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

London, J. Johnson et al, 1806. Leather. A handsomely bound complete set of the Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by Rev. William Lisle Bowles. Pope (1688 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his us…

De la Necessite Et Des Moyens de Plaire (Two Volumes, Complete) (on the Necessity and the Means of Pleasing)

MONCRIF, FRANçOIS-AUGUSTIN PARADIS DE · 1896 · Round Table Books, LLC

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1896. Third Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Half brown calf over marbled boards, spines in five compartments separate by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tools in remainder, marbled endpapers. François-Augustin Paradis de Moncr…