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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley; Harry Buxton Forman · 1876 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, Reeves and Turner, 1876-77. Leather. An illustrated set of the collected poetical works of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In three volumes, being Volumes II, III, and IV of a total of IV volumes, lacking Volume I.A set of the collected poetical works of Percy Bysshe…
The Rider of Mendip and Other Poems
Alan C. Tarbat; Elizabeth Goudge · 1939 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
Great Britain, Arrowsmith, 1939 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this collection of poetry in the original 1930s dust wrapper. First edition of The Rider of Mendip and Other Poems by Alan C. Tarbat in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped d…
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels
Richard Harris Barham; Thomas Ingoldsby · 1866 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, Richard Bentley, 1866 . Leather. A well presented copy of this collection of myths, ghost stories, fables and poetry by R. H. Barham under his pseudonym, Thomas Ingoldsby. This work is in a smart, contemporary binding of half morocco with red cloth boards. With the coat …
Carnal Spirit / The Revolutions of Charles Péguy
Matthew W. Maguire · 2019 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner
€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)
University of Pennsylvania Press. 2019, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy. <p>It is rare for a thinker of Charles Péguy's considerable stature and influence to be so neglected in Anglophone scholarship. The neglect may be in part because so much about Péguy is contestable an…
The Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour: In a Canadian Canoe, the Nine Muses Minus One, and Other Stories
Barry Pain · 1891 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Henry and Co. 1891. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scarce collection of amusing stories by writer and journalist Barry Pain. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Illustrated with a portrait frontispi…
The Country Minister, A Poem, in Seven Cantos: Containing The First and Second Parts of the Original Work, with Additional Poems and Notes. A Second Edition.
BRETTELL (Jacob): · 1827 · John Price Antiquarian Books
£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)
London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker..., 1827. 8vo (in 4s), 172 x 98 mms., pp. [ii], 200 [201 notice from author, 202 Errata], contemporary hard grain morocco, title in gilt on spine; ex-library bookplate of County Borough of Warrington Municipal Library on front paste-do…
King Coals Levee, or Geological Etiquette, with Explanatory Notes; and the Council of the Metals. To which is added, Baron Basalts Tour.
[SCAFE (John)] · 1819 · Forest Books
£102.13 (€122.42 | $134.93 | ¥21,546)
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Third edition, 12mo, [10], 119, [1]pp., half calf, marbled boards, corners rubbed. A poetic work by John Scafe that blends humorous verse with geology, personifying minerals and rocks in a mock-heroic court. It i…
A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field
Michael Field · 1923 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
[London], The Poetry Bookshop, 1923. First edition. Hardback. A wonderful poetry collection from Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper writing under the pseudonym of "Michael Field", neatly presented in the very scarce, original dust wrapper. First edition. Â In the pu…
Jane Seton, or, the King&Apos;S Advocate
James Grant · 1822 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London & New York, George Routledge and Sons, c1880. Leather. A wonderful copy of this historical romance by Scottish writer James Grant. James Grant (1822-1887) was a Scottish novelist and a distant relation of celebrated poet, Sir Walter Scott. He wrote around ninety books, in…
Genevieve; or, the History of a Servant Girl.
Alphonse De Lamartine; trans. by A.R. Scoble · 1850 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London , Henry G. Bohn, 1850. Leather. A scarce English translation of this lyrical French novel of romance and betrayal by key Romantic figure Alphonse De Lamartine. The first edition of this translation from French by A.R. Scoble.In half red calf with marbled boards. Written …
The Dial August 1924 Volume LXXVII Number 2
Scofield Thayer [editor] · 1924 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
New Jersey, The Dial Press, 1924. Paperback. A scarce copy of this issue of the political review and literary criticism magazine The Dial. Volume LXXVII, Number 2. Scarce issue. With a colour tipped in plate from Picasso and five black-and-white plates. Collated complete. The Di…
The Sacred Wood Essays on Poetry and Criticism
T. S. Eliot · 1928 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Methuen & Co LTD, 1928. Cloth. The second edition of this collection of essays on poetry by leading poet T. S. Eliot. The second edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A series of critical essays on poetry by T. S. Eliot.Across these seventeen essays…
Works by T.R. Glover of the Cambridge Miscellany
T. R. Glover · 1932 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1932-1937. Cloth. Three smart volumes from the series The Cambridge Miscellany with works by classical lecturer T. R. Glover. Three volumes by T. R. Glover from The Cambridge Miscellany series, containing numbers v, ix and xii. The Influen…
The Web of Life, a Book of Poems
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson · 1908 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, The Samurai Press, 1908. Cloth. A lovely Samurai Press limited edition collection of poetry by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, one of his early volumes. Limited edition, limited to three hundred copies.A collection of poetry by the Georgian poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, comprising …
Letters, Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman
Elizabeth Hamilton · 1806 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 . Leather. In full tree calf bindings, this is the second edition of Elizabeth Hamilton's conduct manual for young women of the aristocracy, offering advice on morality and religion. The second edition of this work, complete in two volu…
The Cotter&Apos;S Saturday Night: A Poem
Robert Burns · 1759 · Rooke Books
£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)
Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, c1872. Cloth. A lovely richly illustrated edition of Robert Burns' poem, first published a century prior to this edition. Robert Burns (1759-1796) was active in the second half of the eighteenth century, and is widely celebrated as being the n…
Rumbo Rhymes; or, the Great Combine: A Satire
Alfred C. Calmour · 1911 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, Harper & Brothers, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated animal story from British writer Alfred C. Calmour. First edition. Illustrated with a double-page colour title, twenty-two colour plates and numerous decorations. Collated c…
An Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol Spring
William Whitehead · 1751 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)
London, R. Dodsley, 1751. First edition. Disbound. An uncommon first edition of this charming poem by William Whitehead, being an ode to the River Avon, illustrated with three engraved vignettes. The first edition of this work. Collated, complete. Half-title and final advertisem…
The Works of C Churchill in Four Volumes
Charles Churchill · 1774 · Rooke Books
£570.00 (€683.24 | $753.05 | ¥120,252)
London, John Churchill, 1774. Leather. A collection of works by Charles Churchill, an English poet and satirist. The fifth edition. Complete in four volumes. In the personal binding of General Lambert Richard Loveday, a General in the Bengal army. Frontispiece to volume I and en…
The Life and Death of Jason, a Poem
William Morris · 1869 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, F.S. Ellis, 1869. Leather. A fourth edition copy of William Morris' poem following mythological hero Jason, handsomely bound in full morocco by MacLehose in Glasgow. Penned by acclaimed textile designer and poet William Morris (1834-1896). Morris is credited with re…