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The Poems of John Keats and Arthur Hugh Clough

John Keats; Arthur Hugh Clough; E. De Selincourt; H.F. Lowry; A.L.P. Norrington; F.L. Mulhauser · 1907 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London; Oxford, Methuen and Co.; At the Clarendon Press, 1907-1951. Cloth. A set of two volumes containing the influential poetry of notable writers John Keats and Arthur Hugh Clough. A fantastic two volume set of poetical works.In publisher's original blue cloth bindings.Â…

The Works of Oliver Goldsmith with Life and Notes.

Oliver Goldsmith · 1845 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, Henry Bohn, 1845. Cloth. A four-volume set of the works of Oliver Goldsmith, a well-known novelist, poet and playwright. A four-volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Ink inscriptions to the front paste down and front free end paper of Volume I, and …

The North American Review Volume 154 (January 1892 - June 1892)

Lloyd Bryce, ed · 1892 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, Lloyd Bryce, 1892. Hardcover. 765p. Ex-library; REBOUND. A book that has been rebound in brown leather-textured hardcover. A couple of library stamps inside; pages tanned and foxed. Otherwise a clean, tight book in good reading condition. Volume 154 of THE NORTH AMERIC…

Poems, Essays and Sketches: Comprising the Principal Pieces from Her Complete Works

Janet Hamilton · 1880 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Glasgow, James Maclehouse, 1880. Cloth. A lovely and scarce Memorial Edition of the major works of Scottish poet Janet Hamilton. The scarce Memorial Edition of nineteenth century Scottish poet Janet Hamilton's 1870 work 'Poems, Essays, and Sketches', published fol…

[Poster]: The Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, Department of English, Suny at Buffalo, Announces the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures Given by Robert Duncan

Duncan, Robert · 1979 · Wittenborn Art Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Buffalo, NY: SUNY, 1979. Poster announcing four lectures by poet Robert Duncan: "The Power of Imaginary Persons: The Poem as an Interior Play"; "The Fatefulness of On-going Identifications: The Poem as the Recall and Advenure of Self in Projection"; "'Forth on the godly sea': Th…

The Minor Poems of Schiller of the Second and Third Periods with a Few of Those of Earlier Date

Frederich Schiller, John Herman Merivale (trans) · 1844 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London , William Pickering, 1844. Cloth. The Minor Poems of Schiller of the Second and Third Periods with a Few of Those of Earlier Date translated fro the most part into the same metres with the original by John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), an English barrister and man of let…

The Poetical Works of Adelaide A. Procter. Reprinted from the Latest Revised Edition. With an Introduction by Charles Dickens

Procter, Adelaide; Dickens Charles · 1800 · Mare Booksellers

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

New York, The Arundel Print. Cloth. no date, presumed mid to late 1800s. Green cloth with decorations and titling in gilt. All page edges gilt. 442 pages. A collection of poetry by Adelaide Procter, preceded by an introduction by Charles Dickens that provides a short account of …

The History of England from the Ascension of James the Second with Memoir and Portrait Volumes I - V and the Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay Volumes I & II

Lord Macaulay · 1874 · Rooke Books

£699.99 (€839.05 | $924.78 | ¥147,676)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1874 - 1877. Leather. A bright, uniform set of 'The History of England' and 'Macaulay's Miscellaneous Writings&apos. Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering and spine decoration.Volume V of &…

The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet

Stuart A. Pears M.A. (Ed) · 1845 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.90 | $85.86 | ¥13,711)

London , Pickering, 1845. Cloth. A collection of intimate correspondence between the famous courtier and the radical French reformer. Philip Sidney is most famous as an Elizabethan courtier and diplomat; as well as a poet and a soldier. Here we have his personal correspondence w…

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke with a Memoir

Rupert Brooke · 1931 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1931. Leather. A very neat edition of this collection of poetry by Rupert Brook with a memoir. Twentieth impression. Illustrated with frontispiece and one portrait plate. Collated complete. The memoir of Rupert Brooke, an English poet known for hi…

The Poetical Works of Edward Young in Two Volumes

Edward Young · 1852 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, William Pickering, 1852. Cloth. An uncommon collection of these poetical anthologies from Georgian poet, Edward Young. With a Life of Young to the start of volume one, by Rev. J. Mitford. Featuring a beautifully engraved frontispiece of Edward Young to volume one. Comple…

1887 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems

William Edmondstoune Aytoun · 1887 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. Leather. A full calf edition of William Edmonstoune Aytoun's famous Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. A lovely full calf edition of this work.William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a Scottish poet, lawyer, and professor of rhetoric at Edinbu…

The Seige of Corinth: A Poem. Parisiana: A Poem

[Lord Byron] · 1816 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, John Murray, 1816. Disbound. An uncommon copy of these early nineteenth century poems by Lord Byron. A third edition of two poems by Romantic poet Lord Byron. The Seige of Corinth is a rhymed, tragic narrative inspired the Ottoman massacre of the Venetian garrison attemp…

Firmilian: Or the Student of Badajoz a Spasmodic Tragedy

T. Percy Jones [William Edmonstoune Aytoun] · 1854 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1854. First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of this tragedy in verse by T. Percy Jones. Scarce first edition of this satirical parody of the poems of the Spasmodic poets, written in their form of verse drama. Authored by Scottish poet Wi…

MEMOIRS OF THE NOTORIOUS STEPHEN BURROUGHS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

(FROST, Robert) BURROUGHS, Stephen · 1924 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.11 | £946.15 | ¥199,609)

New York. MacVeagh/The Dial Press. First Edition. Cloth-backed batik boards. Account of an eighteenth century New Englander reprinted from the Albany edition of 1811, this edition with a preface by Robert Frost, his second prose appearance in a book (Crane D2). Howes B1022: "Pic…

MEMOIRS OF THE NOTORIOUS STEPHEN BURROUGHS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

(FROST, Robert) BURROUGHS, Stephen · 1924 · Charles Agvent

$1,062.50 (€964.00 | £804.23 | ¥169,668)

New York. MacVeagh/The Dial Press. First Edition. Cloth-backed batik boards. Account of an eighteenth century New Englander reprinted from the Albany edition of 1811, this edition with a preface by Robert Frost, his second prose appearance in a book (Crane D2). Howes B1022: "Pic…

Little Dinners with the Sphinx and Other Prose Fancies

LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD (RICHARD THOMAS GALLIENNE) · 1907 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, NY: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1907. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners have some light bumping, rubbing an…

The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle. Vol. 1 #10

Snyder, Gary; Sinclair, John et al (authors). levy, d.a. (editor) · 1968 · Mare Booksellers

$216.00 (€195.97 | £163.50 | ¥34,492)

Cleveland, No publisher, 1968. Tabloid. Side folding tabloid newspaper. 15 by 11 ¾ inches. 20 pp. including covers. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Tenth issue of this underground newspaper style work published and created by Cleveland poet d.a. levy, contin…

Winter Evening Tales, Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland

James Hogg · 1820 · Rooke Books

£1,450.00 (€1,738.05 | $1,915.65 | ¥305,905)

Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1820. First edition. Leather. The first edition of James Hogg's collection of atmospheric short stories, evoking a winter evening around a fire in a cottage in Scotland. The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. 'Winter Evenin…

The Poems of John Donne (Vol. I: The Text of the Poems with Appendixes; Vol II: Introduction and Commentary); John Donne: Selected Prose

John Donne; Herbert J. C. Grierson [ed.]; Evelyn Simpson [ed.] · 1963 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Oxford , Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press, 1963-1967. Cloth. A pleasing set offering the poems and prose of John Donne, including a volume of commentary by Herbert J. C. Grierson. Includes a first edition of 'John Donne: Selected Prose' and a later impression o…