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The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick; Humbert Wolfe · 1928 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, The Cresset Press Ltd. 1928. First edition. Hardback. A particularly smart, beautifully presented, limited edition set of Robert Herrick's poetry. Held in the original scarce slipcase. First thus, the first edition of this imprint. Numbered 94 of 750 sets that were …

The Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne

Edmund Gosse · 1917 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1917. First edition. Cloth. The advanced review copy of a smart biography on the famous pre-Raphaelite known for his rebellion and complex poetry. The advanced review copy of The Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a charming literary biography on the c…

The Memoirs of John Macmillan Brown.

BROWN, JOHN MACMILLAN · 1974 · Tinakori Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Christchurch, University of Canterbury. 1974, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xxxvi, 224 pages, b/w photos. Dust wrapper has a small hole on the front and two short, closed tears at the bottom. John Macmillan Brown (5 May 1845 ¿ 18 January 1935) was a S…

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon

Whitney, Stanley; Chaffee, Cathleen; Erickson, Ruth; Conaty, Kim; Pys, Pavel S; Cole, Norma; Lubineau, Gregoire; Olowu, Duro; Patsch, Anne; Fanton, Melissa · 2024 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Buffalo, NY; New York, DelMonico Books, 2024. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Matte color insulated boards. 295 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. "To accompany the exhibition, the Buffalo AKG and DelMonico Books will publish the most comprehensive catalog yet dedicated to Stanl…

The Back Bard of North Caolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry

JOAN R. SHERMAN · 1997 · Mike Long Books

$114.75 (€104.11 | £86.86 | ¥18,324)

University of North Carolina Press. 1997. Soft Cover. PB/ pub. 1997/ VG condition/ 157 pages The self-taught Horton was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse and the first black man to publish a book in the South. As a man an d as a poet, his achieve…

The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem. With Ballads and Lyrical Pieces

Walter Scott · 1810 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,523)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810. Leather. A quarto edition of this famed historical poem by Scottish poet, Sir Walter Scott. In a handsome quarter morocco binding. With 'Eighth Edition' stated to the title page. This is a reissue of the large paper copy of …

[Paste-Up] of Those Who Died: A Poem of the Spring of 1945

Charters, Samuel · 1980 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1980. Camera-ready paste-up of type for Charters' book of poems. 20 x 13 inches. Best known as a historian of the blues, Charters was also a musician, photographer, and poet. Paste-up is complete except for cover. Some browning on boards, but all type i…

Scent O&Apos; the Broom and Other Verses

Barbara Ross M'Intosh · 1923 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Edinburgh, David Macdonald Ltd, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce true first edition of Scots and English poetry, by Barbara Ross M'Intosh. A very scarce true first edition of this book of poetry by Scottish poet, or makar, Barbara Ross M'IntoshBound in its ori…

Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers

Rec. Alexander Dyce · 1887 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

New Southgate, H. A. Rogers, 1887. Leather. A limited edition, one of only eight copies printed on handmade paper. A lovely assortment of the recollections of Samuel Rogers.Rogers (1763-1855) was a Romantic contemporary of the likes of Byron, Wordsworth and Coleridge, enjoying e…

The Dial August 1926 Volume LXXXI No. 6

Marianne Moore [editor] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

New Jersey, The Dial Press, 1926. Paperback. A scarce copy of this issue of the political review and literary criticism magazine The Dial. Volume LXXXI, Number 6. Scarce issue. With a colour tipped in plate from Renoir and five black-and-white plates. Collated complete. The Dial…

Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning · 1874 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1874. Hardback. A smart third edition of this collection of poetry from English Victorian writer, Robert Browning. Third edition. A collection of poetry including: My Star, A Serenade at the Villa, Youth and Art, Incident of the French Camp, In a Gond…

Sylvia; or, the May Queen, a Lyrical Drama

George Darley · 1892 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1892. Cloth. A charming limited edition copy of this play by the prolific Irish poet, George Darley. A limited edition, consisting of 500 small and 100 large paper copies. This being number 64 of the small paper copies. In the publisher's original c…

The Unknown Known and a Dozen Odd Poems

T. Sturge Moore · 1939 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Martin Secker: The Richards Press, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this collection of poetry from Thomas Sturge Moore. First edition. Very scarce. A collection of poetry from Moore, including The Unknown Known, a narrative work following the st…

Poems, from the Portuguese of Luis de Cameons

Lord Viscount Strangford · 1824 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Printed for James Carpenter and Son, 1824. Leather. Anthology of poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Cameons by Lord Viscount Strangford. A new edition of this work. Containing a series of poems translated by Lord Viscount Strangford, Percy Smythe, Anglo-Irish diplomat.…

Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth

George Meredith · 1883 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1883. First edition. Cloth. A first edition collection of poems and lyrics that consider the joy of Earth written by the renowned novelist and writer George Meredith. This is a first edition copy of George Meredith's collection of poetry and lyric…

The Poetical Works of George Crabbe with Life

George Crabbe · 1854 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis, 1854. Hardback. A smartly bound copy of this collection of the poetical works of English writer George Crabbe, with a life of the author. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, and six plates. Collated complete. The poetical works of George Cr…

The Child of Pleasure; (Modern Library #98. 1)

D'ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE · 1927 · Bluebird Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York: The Modern Library, [c.1927]. Flexible Leatherette. A Modern Library reprint edition of the first novel by Italy's Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938). This the story of Andrea Sperelli, a Roman aristocrat whose devotion to beauty, erotic conquest and sensation leaves him …

The Poetical Works of Whittier : Life, Notes Etc

Whittier, John Greenleaf · 1894 · Godley Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Frederick Warne & Co Name inside front board and motif to front end paper - both in pencil. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Superb blue buckram front and rear bevelled-edge boards with gilt/black debossing, a little rubbing to ends of very …

The Icelandic Canadian, Volume 61 No 2 (2007)

Lorna Tergesen (managing ed.) · 2007 · Books on the Web

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Winnipeg: Canadian Icelandic Heritage, Inc., 2007. As new! Paper bound, stapled pamphlet, smaller quarto (9.5 x 6.5 inches), approx. 48pp. 120 grams. In new condition. Cover photo: Jonas Hallgrimsson, 1807-1845. Contents of this issue: Editorial by Birna Bjarnadottir; 'Jonas Hal…

THE KING'S HENCHMAN. A Play in Three Acts

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent · 1927 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€567.06 | £473.08 | ¥99,804)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Black cloth-backed blue boards in dustwrapper. This copy of Millay's play in verse is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For/James B and Lisa Mason/From/Edna St. Vincent Millay/February 26, 1927." While the Limi…