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The Man Who Never Died. A Play About Joe Hill.
STAVIS, BARRIE. · 1972 · Chilton Books
£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)
South Brunswick and New York: A.S.Barnes and Company, 1972. 0498075389. Revised edition with introduction by Pete Seeger. "Joe Hill was shot by the State of Utah on November 19, 1915. He had been found guilty on the charge of murder. Yet no connection was ever made between Joe H…
Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1825 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, Taylor and Hessey, 1825. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of moral and religious aphorisms by the renowned poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The first edition of this work. 'Aids to Reflection' is a collection of moral and religious aphori…
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet
Sir Walter Scott · 1830 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
Edinburgh, Cadell and Co, 1830. Leather. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet with engraved frontispiece and illustrated title to each volume. In eleven volumes complete. With an introduction to each work and notes to the end of each work. Poetical works included are:…
The Union, or Select Scots and English Poems
[Thomas Warton] (Editor) · 1759 · Rooke Books
£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)
London, R Baldwin, 1759. Leather. A compilation of several famous Scottish and English poets With works of many poets such as Tobias Smollett and James Hammond. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizabeth Greenly, born at …
The Warrior&Apos;S Return and Other Poems
Mrs. Opie [Emilia Alderson Opie] · 1808 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. Leather. The second edition of a scarce Romantic poetry collection from prolific author, Blue Stocking member and social advocate Amelia Opie. The second edition of the scarce The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems, written by Ro…
A History of the Earth and Animated Nature
Oliver Goldsmith · 1855 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
Glasgow, Blackie and Son, 1855-1856. Leather. Oliver Goldsmith's lavishly illustrated history of the natural world, complete in two calf-bound volumes. A new edition of this richly illustrated natural history work from Oliver Goldsmith, with numerous notes from the works of…
A Collection of the Works of Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle · 0 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
London, Chapman & Hall, c1880. Cloth. A collection of five volumes from Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle. Five volumes. Written by Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher known as the "sage of Chelsea". He occupied a central position in Victo…
The Cabinet of Modern Art, and Literary Souvenir
Alaric A. Watts · 1836 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, Publisher for the Proprietor by Whittaker & Co. 1836. Leather. An illustrated volume of this rich literary and artistic periodical, in quarter calf. An uncommon copy of the second series. Rebound in quarter calf, with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated throughout, feat…
The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman
H. Halliday Sparling · 1924 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interesting in-depth study of the founding and production of the Kelmscott Press, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.A fascinating study on the founding of the Kelmscott …
The Works of Mr Thomson in Two Volumes
James Thomson · 1738 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, A. Millar, 1738-44. Leather. The incredibly scarce, combined works of poet and playwright James Thomson, including The Tragedy of Sophonisba. The second edition, published in 1744 by A. Millar in 1744 (ESTC T43321). First published in 1738. The title page of Volume II re…
Pot-Luck or the British Home Cookery Book
May Byron · 1915 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. Cloth. The scarce second edition to May Byron's home cookery book, containing 1097 recipes of "good pain cooking" from across Britain. The scarce second edition of May Byron's Pot-Luck of The British Home Cookery Book, published by H…
8 Love Poems. First Edition of the Broadside
Crosby, Harry; (1898-1929); · 1947 · Wittenborn Art Books
$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)
Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress in red on slate paper. 40.5 x 30.2cm. Marginal tears.. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Harry Crosby - self indulgent socialite, tortured poet, wealthy mystic .. a playboy who lived his life with reck…
Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd
Charlotte Peacock · 2017 · Winkles Books
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
Book Very Good Very Good 1st Edition Galileo Publishers Cambridge 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Name in pen on the first end paper. The dust jacket has just a hint of edge wear. In the 1930s, the writer and poet, Nan Shepherd was one of North-East Scotland's best known literati. T…
Les Pisseuses: Poã¨Me [the Pissers: A Poem]
Perceau, Louis [sometimes also Alexandre de Verineau · 1934 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$480.00 (€435.50 | £363.32 | ¥76,650)
Paris, France , Self-published, 1934. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An extraordinary exemplar of this French-language collection of seven erotic poems, Les Pisseuses, by the French poet and raconteur, publicist and activist, gadfly and erotophile. From the person…
Poems. [Comprising:] A traveller's thoughts; The victim; Sandal in the olden time; Henry Clifforde and Margaret Percy; Siege of Grenada; Emilia Monteiro; Strafford. A tragedy; Oliver Cromwell. A drama.
LEATHAM, William Henry. · 1843 · John Turton
£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Wakefield: Illingworth and Hicks, 1843. 16cm. Various pagings. Contemporary half calf gilt, raised bands, decorated compartments, maroon calf gilt spine label, marbled sides, eps and leaf-edges, integral silk place-marker. Extremes ve…
The Warwick Woodland or Things As They Were There Twenty Years Ago My Shooting Box the Deerstalkers or Circumstantial Evidence a Tale of the South-Western Counties
Frank Forester · 1846 · Rooke Books
£485.00 (€581.35 | $640.75 | ¥102,320)
New York; Philadelphia, Carey and Heart, 1846-1851. First edition. Leather. An excellent collection of three very scarce illustrated works by Frank Forester, bound together in a handsome morocco binding by A. L. Day. Very scarce. My Shooting Box and The Deerstalkers are both the…
The Eagle a Magazine, Supported by Members of St John&Apos;S College
St. John's College Members · 1871 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Cambridge, W. Metcalfe and Sons, 1871-73. Leather. Two volumes of the Cambridge-based periodical, The Eagle. Containing: Volume VII, Volume VIII The poet Thomas Ashe founded The Eagle in the year in which he graduated from St John's. with the help of a college fellow, Josep…
Parallel Currents: Highlights of the Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection of Latin American Art
Pau-Llosa, Ricardo (text), and Charles Loving (curator) · 2010 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
Notre Dame, Indiana, Snite Museum of Art, 2010. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps, unpaginated, profuse color images. Essay on Art and the Diasporic Imagination (El Arte y la Imaginacion Diasporica) by Pau-Llosa given in English and Spanish. A thick book with many, many works of …
The Garden That I Love. By Alfred Austin. [signed limited edition, 134/250] .
AUSTIN, ALFRED · 1905 · Chilton Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London: Adam And Charles Black, 1905 . 0. First limited edition. Number 134/250 . This is a very good copy. Original white cloth covered boards with green leaf decorative border to the front panel, with rubbed gilt titles. Gilt titles to the spine, some fraying of the cloth. Lig…
Photograph of Queen Elizabeth Meeting the Ambassador from Ghana on Her Arrival in Germany
Montfort, Michael · 1965 · Wittenborn Art Books
$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)
1965. Original platinium photograph. 20 x 30 cm. Image from the 1965 State Visit of Queen Elizabeth to Germany. Most with the Montfort's studio stamp on the rear. and with dates, manuscript annotations and often the name of the publication.. Provenance: The Estate of Michael Mon…