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Myth and Poetry in Lucretius.

GALE, M.R., · 1994 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Cambridge University Press, 1994. XIV,260p. Original blue gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Plastic library cover. Library marks to cover, upper edge and free endpaper. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. 'Why Lucretius should have written a major poem propounding Epicurean do…

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R.S. Thomas · 1978 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Macmillan, 1978 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy this collection of twentieth century poetry by Welsh poet R.S. Thomas, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. In the oriignal uncli…

Bühnenbearbeitung Äschyleischer Tragödien. Erster Teil. Zweiter Teil.

BÖHME, R., · 1956 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€29.50 ($32.52 | £24.61 | ¥5,193)

Benno Schwabe, Basel / Stuttgart, n.d.(>1956/59). 2 vols. 138,159p. Sewn. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Title hand written on spine. (Rare). 'Dr. Böhme (...) suggests that when a later poet (...) received from the archon a chorus for a play of Aeschylus …

Lontananze. Liriche. (Signed and Inscribed Copy)

Messori-Roncaglia Mari, Maria Teresa · 1956 · Parigi Books

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

Firenze, Casa Editrice Marzocco, 1956. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 53pp. Original wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to a fellow poet in the year of publication. A near fine copy. Text in Italian.; Octavo; Signed by Author. .

Easter a Play for Singers

John Masefield · 1929 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.70 | ¥5,063)

London , William Heinemann, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetic play by John Edward Masefield. Masefield (1878 – 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as the aut…

Ninfa Revisited

Kathleen Raine · 1968 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Enitharmon Press, 1968. First edition. Paperback. A signed limited edition of this uncommon poetry work, together with the original wraparound band. First edition. No. 244 of a limited edition of 325 copies. In the publisher's original soft covers with the original …

Enoch Arden

Alfred Tennyson · 1864 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1864. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The first edition of this work. Bound without the adverts, so the issue is unclear.The titular poem concerns the principle in law that after b…

Satan. A Poem

Robert Montgomery · 1837 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Saunders and Otley, 1837. Leather. An early edition of one of the best known poems of Bath-born minister and poet Robert Montgomery. The fourth edition of this scarce work in a half calf binding with marbled boards.Previous ink inscription to the front paste down and to …

High and Low

John Betjeman · 1966 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, John Murray, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this collection of poetry from the beloved Poet Laureate John Betjeman, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-c…

Carmina Varietate Lectionis Et Perpetua Adnotatione

C. Valerii Catulli [Gaius Valerius Catullus] · 1820 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, R. Priestley, 1820. Leather. A smartly bound collection of poetical lessons from Latin neoteric poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, in the original Latin. Latin. Scarce edition. An anthology of poems with a variety of lessons, in a range of lengths, set in six sections: Natali…

Me Again: Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith · 1982 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. Paperback. A very smart uncorrected proof of this collection of writings from English poet and novelist Stevie Smith, with illustrations by herself. Uncorrected proof. Illustrated throughout. A collection of previously unpublished stori…

John Dryden a Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana

Hugh MacDonald · 1939 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Oxford , The Clarendon Press, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this bibliography by MacDonald. With a Frontispiece portrait of Dryden, from a painting by Kneller. John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playw…

Letters from America

Rupert Brooke · 1916 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1916. Cloth. Pleasing collection of letters from prominent English poet Rupert Brooke written during his tour of America. Third impression.In publisher's original cloth binding.With a frontispiece portrait of the author and an introduction b…

Wild Earth: A Book of Verse

Padraic Colum · 1909 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Dublin , Maunsel and Co. Limited , 1909. Cloth. A smart second edition of this collection of verses from notable Irish poet and collector of folklore, Padraic Colum. The second edition, with additions. In the publisher's original quarter cloth, with paper covered boards. …

Sir Walter Scott

John Buchan · 1932 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Buchan's biography of the famous Romantic poet Sir Walter Scott. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplate to t…

A Hidden Well: Lyrics and Sonnets

Louis How · 1916 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Boston, Sherman, French & Company, 1916 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce signed presentation copy of this collection of lyrics and sonnets by American poet Louis How, with a frontispiece. The very scarce first edition of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the…

Poems

Edward Thomas · 1917 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, Selwyn & Blount, 1917. Hardback. A lovely early edition of this posthumous collection of war poetry from Edward Thomas. Early edition, published just one month after the first.    In the publisher's original paper-backed boards.   Featuring a portrait frontispiece f…

André du Bouchet. Poetic forms of attention.

BOUCHET,ANDRÉ DU. Wagstaff,Emma. · 2020 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.39 | ¥12,322)

Leiden & Boston, Brill Rodopi, [2020]. VIII,229 pp. 1 b./w. plate. Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Collection monographique Rodopi en littérature française contemporaine, vol. 58). [ISBN: 978-90-04-42714-3]. - New unused copy.In this work Emma Wagstaff provides the first book-le…

LONG ISLAND LIGHT. POEMS AND A MEMOIR

HEYEN, William · 0 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

New York. The Vanguard Press, Inc.. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith in 1979 in Brockport: "William, inscribed for you/with admiration, and with/thanks for many kindnesses,/always--/Bill.". Slight dustspotting to the top edge of the text. Fine in …

"Du Hast Alles, Was Mir Fehlt" : Gottfried Keller Im Briefwechsel Mit Paul Heyse

Keller, Gottfried - Heyse, Paul & Stähli, Fridolin [editor] · 1990 · Eastleach Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Th Gut & Co, Stäfa Zürich 1990 1st edition. Paperback, dj, VG/VG. 313pp, spine of the glassine dustjacket yellowed, otherwise a nice copy. The correspondence between Gottfried Keller [ 1818 - 1890 ] the Swiss poet and writer of German literature, and Paul Heyse [ 1830 - 1914 ]…