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Tennyson: Aspects of His Life, Character and Poetry & Byron: The Last Journey April 1823 - April 1824
Harold Nicolson · 1923 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1923-1924. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes of these works on Tennyson and Byron from British biographer Sir Harold George Nicolson, with compliments of the author. Two volumes. First edition. Includes a "with the author's compliment…
Works of the English Poets with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical & Index to the English Poets
Dr. Samuel Johnson · 1779 · Rooke Books
£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)
London, J. Nichols, 1779-1781. Leather. Forty-three volumes of the sixty-eight volume set of The Works of the English Poets, with prefaces and biographies by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Forty-three volumes of sixty-eight volume set. Scarce collection. Written by Dr. Samuel Johnson, an E…
contributes his hitherto unprinted three-verse poem 'Thochts During a Music Festival' to the third issue of the short-lived periodical 'Platform'. Edited by Frederick Woods.
ROBERT GARIOCH · 1953 · Clearwater Books
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
Platform, London, winter 1953/54, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. 40pp stapled into lettered card wrappers. The staples just a little rusted and with a trace of dust soiling to the wrappers. A very good copy. Other contributors to this issue include Elizabeth Jennings (her poem…
Shelley. A Biography in Two Volumes.
WHITE, NEWMAN IVEY. · 1947 · Chilton Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London: Secker & Warburg, 1947. 1st edition. "This is the first biography to make use of the diary of Shelley's first sweetheart, Harriet Grove; a number of letters bearing on his wife; basic information on a domestic tragedy whose effects on his work during 1818 have been almos…
On the Poems of Henry Vaughan. Characteristics and Intimations. With his principal Latin poems carefully translated into English verse.
BLUNDEN, Edmund · 1917 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)
€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)
London, Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1917. Brown cloth with (worn) spine ticket. 64 p. Photographic frontispice. With review slip inserted. 1st edition. About the 17th century poet.
Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: With Historical and Traditional Notices Relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry
Robert Hartley Cromek [ed.]; Allan Cunningham · 1810 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)
London, T Cadell and W Davies, 1810. First edition. Leather. A collection of Scottish folk ballads, accompanied by humorous accounts of peasant traditions and superstitions. The first edition of this work, edited by and with an engraved title page from Robert Hartley Cromek, an …
The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story. Translated by William Marshall from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.
WALPOLE, Horace (under pseudonym of Onuphrio Muralto). · 1791 · Fahrenheit 451
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
Parma, Printed by Bodoni for J. Edwards, Bookseller of London, 1791, 6th ed., 4 (of 6),XXXII,245 pag., engraved frontispiece view of the Castle of Otranto by Barlow, printed in 300 copies only, contemporary longgrained red morocco with gilt fillet line along edges, spine gilt wi…
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton. To which are added, The Naturalist's Calendar; Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and Poems
White, Gilbert · 1813 · Pemberley Natural History Books
£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)
Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co. London x, [2], 587, [1], folding frontis, 8 plates (1 hand-col), 3 vignettes. . HB. 4to (276x211mm), later green half morrocco by R.H. Porter, raised bands to spine, gt.; edges uncut; extremities lightly scuffed; marbled endpapers. Original p…
Rump: Or an Exact Collection Of the Choycest Poems and Songs relating to the Late Times. By the most Eminent Wits, from Anno 1639 to Anno 1661.
[BROME (Alexander), editor]: · 1662 · John Price Antiquarian Books
£1,650.00 (€1,977.79 | $2,179.88 | ¥348,099)
London, Printed for Henry Brome...., and Henry Marsh..., 1662. 8vo, 165 x 95 mms., pp. [viii], 376, 72, 83-200, including vertical half-title leaf, engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, finely bound in 19th century dark green crushed morocco, panelled in gilt on covers,…
2 Vols Shakespear Illustrated: Or, the Novels and Histories, on Which the Plays of Shakespear Are Founded
[Charlotte Lennox] · 1753 · Rooke Books
£2,800.00 (€3,356.24 | $3,699.19 | ¥590,713)
London, A. Millar, 1753 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Charlotte Lennox's pioneering study of Shakespeare's literary sources, combining translations of his source texts with her insightful critical commentary. Uniformly bound in speckled contemporary ca…
The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley
Mr Abraham Cowley · 1710 · Rooke Books
£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)
London , Tonson et al. 1710-1711. Leather. Three volumes of Abraham Cowley's works. With separate title pages for 'The Mistress', 'Pindarique Odes', 'Davideis' (1707) and 'Cutter of Coleman-Street' but with continuous pagination, as c…
The Works of G.J. Whyte-Melville
G. J. Whyte-Melville; Sir Herbert Maxwell [editor] · 1898 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
London, W. Thacker & Co. 1898-1902. Cloth. Nine smart volumes of the twenty-four-volume limited edition set of the works of Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. Nine volumes of a twenty-four volume set. Limited to one thousand and fifty copies, printed by Morrison and Gibb L…
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
Lord Byron · 1851 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)
London, John Murray, 1851. Cloth. A pleasing chronological set of poetry from major Romantic movement figure, Lord Byron. Complete in ten volumes. Uniformly bound in the original cloth.Each volume is decorated with a frontispiece and title page engraving. With some volumes draw…
Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition.
MOUL, Victoria, · 2015 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity
€29.50 ($32.51 | £24.61 | ¥5,192)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015. 1st paperback ed. 248p. Paperback. 'This study sets out to highlight the pervasive influence of Horace on Jonson. Horace, Moul argues, was a lens through which other authors, ancient and modern, were refracted: ‘even when Jonson uses…
Select fables from Gulistan, or the bed of roses. Translated from the original Persian of Sadi.London, J. Ridley, 1774. 8vo. Modern half calf (period style), gold-tooled spine.
SA'DI SHIRAZI and Stephen SULIVAN (translator). · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
V, [1 blank], 139, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the first English translation of the Gulistan (or Golestan), written by the Persian poet Sa'di (1210-1291/1292), "probably the single most influential work of prose in the Persian tradition" (Encyclopædia Iranica). It opens with a…
Essays and Introductions Ideas of Good and Evil the Cutting of an Agate Later Essays and Introductions
W. B. Yeats · 1961 · Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books
$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)
New York:, Macmillan, 1961. Hardcover. First American Edition Good+ Hardcover Good+ Dust Jacket New York: Macmillan, 1961 Stated "First Edition"light Wear and Tear on jacket in the form of small tears and rubs but whole. NOT Price Clipped. Clean Pages Free of Underlines. But own…
Information Report. Translated from the Italian with an introduction and notes by William Alexander.
ROBERTO SANESI. · 1970 · Clearwater Books
£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)
Cape Goliard Press, London, 1st Edition, The first full-length English-language edition of Sanesi's lengthy twenty-section poem. With two photographs. Tall 8vo. Unpaginated. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. Spine ends rubbed, and the top edge very lightly spotted. Ve…
The Ghost of Tim Bobbin: A Tale in Rhyme for Christmas Time
George Richardson · 1850 · Rooke Books
£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)
Manchester, Abel Heywood, 1850. Paperback. A very scarce tale in rhyme from George Richardson, inscribed by the author. Scarce work. In presentation from the author, inscription reads: "With G. Richardson's thanks." Illustrated with two sketched scenes. A novelty story told…
The Notebook Poems 1930-1934. Edited with an introduction by Ralph Maud.
DYLAN THOMAS. · 1989 · Clearwater Books
£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1st Edition, The definitive edition, significantly revised from the original edition, 'Poet in the Making' (1968), to give the poems themselves centre-stage. 8vo. xvi, 288pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Holograph manuscript reproduc…
A Love Affair with Australian Literature, the Story of Tom Inglis Moore
ALEXANDER PACITA AND PERKINS ELIZABETH · 2004 · Little Lane Books
A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,705)
Ginninderra Press, Australia. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 1740272552) Pictorial Card Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, "This is the story of Tom Inglis Moore, controversial crusader for Australian writers, himself a poet, journalist, teacher and scholar. It dispels longst…