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Kazimir Malevich : The Climax of Disclosure
Rainer Crone; David Moos · 1991 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1991. Hardcover. Black cloth with white spine lettering, black glossy color illustrated dustjacket. viii, 230 pp. 155 illustrations, including 50 in color. Kasimir Malevich's (1878-1935) sudden and startling realization of a nonrepresent…
The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis
Jeffrey Meyers · 1980 · Rooke Books
£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of noted author Wyndham Lewis' biography by Jeffrey Meyers. An excellent copy in the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of Jeffrey Meyer's biograp…
The Life of Joseph Wolf, Animal Painter
A.H. Palmer · 1895 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive biography on a pioneering illustrator of wildlife art, considered to be among the best within his field. The first edition of The Life of Joseph Wolf, Animal Painter, a biography written by British author …
The Ship of Death and Other Poems
D. H. Lawrence · 1933 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)
London, Martin Secker, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated poetical collection by D. H. Lawrence, embellished with wood engravings. First edition. With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated by Blair Hughes-Stanton with a fro…
The Land We Love: Poems Chiefly Patriotic
Wendell Phillips Stafford · 1916 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)
Vermont, Arthur F. Stone, 1916 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce, inscribed first edition of Wendell Phillips Stafford"s patriotic First World War poetry, with contemporary ephemera relating to the recipient"s family. In the publisher's original dark cloth bin…
The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels
Thomas Ingoldsby Esq. [Richard Harris Barnham] · 1887 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1887. Leather. A smartly bound copy of the Carmine edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of myths, legends, and ghost stories. The Carmine Edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, engraved title page, nineteen plates, and several wood…
High Island, and, the Price of Stone
Richard Murphy · 1974 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
New York; Winston-Salem, Harper & Row; Wake Forest University Press, 1974-85. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of two anthologies of poems by Richard Murphy, smart copies containing his selected works. Two first U.S. edition anthologies of poems by the Anglo-Irish po…
The Earth for Sale and Other Poems
Harold Monro · 1928 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
New York, Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first US edition of Harold Monro's striking collection of poetry, in the original dust wrapper. The very scarce first US edition, first printing. Published in the same year as t…
The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne
Michael Lord of Montainge; John Florio [translator] · 0 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, George Routledge & Sons, c1900. Cloth. A smart copy of this collection of essays from French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, from the Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books series. Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books series. A collection of essays contained in three bo…
The Life and Adventures of Oliver Godsmith
John Forster · 1848 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Leather. The first edition of a popular biography on the idiosyncratic and celebrated Anglo-Irish Georgian writer, written by accomplished biographer John Forster. The first edition of The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: …
The Little School, a Posy of Rhymes
T. Sturge Moore [Thomas Sturge Moore] · 1905 · Rooke Books
£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)
London, Eragny Press, 1905. Hardback. A very scarce limited edition collection of poetry by Thomas Sturge Moore with woodcuts by the author. A limited edition. One of only 175 printed in paper, with 150 for sale. In the original publisher's hardback with green and yellow d…
The Naval and Military Library of Entertainment
William Maginn; et al. · 1834 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, Henry Colburn, 1834 . First edition. Cloth. A collection of six first editions from The Naval and Military Library of Entertainment, a scarce work compiled by Irish author William Maginn. First editions, in a uniform cloth binding. Six volumes of the series of works from…
A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916
Mark VII [Max Plowman] · 1927 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD. 1927 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of this memoir from poet and pacifist, Max Plowman, written under the pseudonym of Mark VII. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with red motif to the front cover. Lac…
The White Cockade, or, Faith and Fortitude
James Grant · 1822 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London & New York, George Routledge and Sons, c1880. Leather. A lovely rebound yellowback edition of this military fiction novel by James Grant. James Grant (1822-1887) was a Scottish novelist and a distant relation of celebrated poet, Sir Walter Scott. He wrote around ninety bo…
The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins
William Collins · 1771 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)
London, T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1771. Leather. A wonderful collection of the poems of the influential William Collins, the pre-Romantic poet. A collection of astounding poetry of William Collins, an English who was one of the most influential of the eighteenth century, alo…
Max and Sally and the Phenomenal Phone
MACOUREK, MILOS · 1989 · S. Howlett-West Books
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
Chicago, IL: Wellington Publishing, 1989. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Adolf Born. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ To Near Fine - condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition …
An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie
Sir William Forbes; new introduction by Roger J. Robinson · 1996 · Rooke Books
£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)
London , Routledge Theommes Press, 1996. Cloth. A facsimile reprint of the 1806 edition of An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie by Sir William Forbes With new introduction by Roger J. Robinson. Including original frontispiece portrait of Beattie, original introdu…
An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson
Arthur Murphy · 1792 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, T. Longman et al, 1792. First edition. Leather. This is an uncommon first edition of this essay on the life of Samuel Johnson. First Edition. Samuel Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary…
Miscellaneous Poems, Some of which are in the Cumberland Dialect.
STAGG (John): · 1808 · John Price Antiquarian Books
£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)
Wigton, Printed by R. Hetherton, 1808. 12mo (in 6s), 174 x 96 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 256,237 [283 blank], woodcut head- and tail-pieces by Bewick, contemporary quarter plum morocco, title in gilt on spine, marbled boards (rubbed); several leaves foxed. With a note in a la…
The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (Cambridge Edition)
WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF · 1894 · Bluebird Books
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Hardcover. The poetry of the 19th-Century American Abolitionist poet is presented in this handsome volume. In the publisher\'s Cambridge Edition. With tissue-guarded frontis portrait of the author. With indices of first lines and titl…