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Poems of Sentiment

Ella Wheeler Wilcox · 1910 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Gay and Hancock, 1910. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of poetry from American author Ella Wheeler Wilcox, signed by the author. Signed by the author to the half title. A collection of sentimental poetry with titles including: Never Mind, A Warning, Swim…

Mountains and Molehills

Frances Cornford · 1934 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

Cambridge, University Press, 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poetry by Frances Cornford, with illustrations by Gwen Raverat and in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original u…

Eidola

Frederic Manning · 1917 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, John Murray , 1917. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of Frederic Manning's first collection of poems after his return from the war. An excellent copy. Frederic Manning was an Australian poet who fought in France during World War One. Upon his return, he …

Oeuvres de Sully Prudhomme: Poesies 1872-1878

Sully Prudhomme · 1872 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, c1890. Vellum. A smart collection of the poetical works of French writer Sully Prudhomme between the years of 1872 and 1878, in the original French. French. A collection of the poetry written by René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme, a French poet and…

Memoirs of My Dead Life

George Moore · 1906 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, William Heinemann, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this autobiography from Irish novelist and short story writer George Moore. First edition. The wistful, melancholic, and graceful autobiography of George Augustus Moore, an Irish novelist, short-stor…

Zen Inspirations / Essential Meditation's and Texts

Miriam Levering · 2004 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Duncan Baird. 2004; Hardcover met stofomslag; goed exemplaar / good copy. A Beautiful And Contemplative Introduction To The Profound Key Concepts Of The Zen Masters Zen Inspirations Offers Of The Great Zen Texts That Bring Insight And Contemplation To Busy, Modern, 21St Century …

Latitudes Of Exile: Poems 1965-1975

Michael Jackson · 1976 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

J. McIndoe 1976 Stapled, 40pp. Latitudes of Exile is a selection of work from 1965 to 1975, and the acknowledgments show that most of the poems that had previously been published had their first printing in New Zealand periodicals. Jackson organized his first volume, as he did h…

Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England

Matthew Giancarlo · 2007 · Winkles Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Book New New 1st Edition Cambridge University Press Cambridge 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England investigates the relationship between the development of parliament and the practice of English poetry in the later fourteenth and early fif…

Library of English Prose: Volume Two Last Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb · 1905 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1905. Hardback. A smart copy of the second volume of Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia, the Last Essays of Elia. Volume two only. Library of English prose. A collection of essays first published in 1833, with titles including: Poor Relations, The Old Ma…

Decamerone in Three Volumes

Giovanni Boccaccio · 1825 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, William Pickering, 1825. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition set of 'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio, illustrated with ten plates by the famous English illustrator and engraver Thomas Stothard. Collated: Complete in three volumes with the 10 Stoth…

Collage original réalisé sur une photographie originale de Robert Doisneau • enrichi d'un envoi autographe signé de Jacques Prévert

Jacques PRÉVERT - Robert DOISNEAU · 1955 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

s. l. • (Paris) s. d. [1955] | 18.70 x 27 cm | une photographie | Photographie originale de Robert Doisneau en tirage argentique d'époque représentant Jacques Prévert, devant le fronton d'une église, sur laquelle le poète a collé une gravure ancienne figurant un oiseau et qu'il …

Reading Catullus.

GODWIN, J., · 2008 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€19.50 ($21.49 | £16.27 | ¥3,433)

Phoenix Press, Bristol, 2008. XII,138p. Paperback. Series: Greece and Rome Live. Of all the Roman poets Catullus is the most accessible for the modern reader. His poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to …

Quest for Sita

Maurice Collis · 1947 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, The John Day Company, 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of Maurice Collis's retelling of 'The Ramayana', illustrated by Mervyn Peake. The first U.S. edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A beautifully illustrated rete…

Poems of William Cowper

William Cowper · 1808 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, J. Johnson, 1808. Leather. A two-volume stereotype edition of this William Cowper anthology, bound in full mottled calf. The Stereotype Edition. Complete in two volumes.Uniformly bound in full mottled calf.Comprising the works of influential poet and hymnwriter, William …

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald · 1979 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London , Collins, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A very smart copy of Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize winning novel Offshore, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition first impression copy of this work. Offshore is a novel that explores the emotional restl…

Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems

Edmund Blunden · 1932 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from Blunden. First edition. A collection of poetry from English poet, author, and critic, Edmund Blunden. A friend of Siegfried Sassoon, he often wrote of his experiences of…

Mistress Joy: A Tale of Natchez in 1798

Grace MacGowan Cooke; Annie Booth McKinney · 1901 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

New York, The Century Co. 1901. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated novel from American authors Grace MacGowan Cooke and Annie Booth McKinney. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and five plates. Collated complete. The debut novel of Grace …

Letters of Travel

Rudyard Kipling · 1920 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this first edition travel journal from Rudyard Kipling's experiences in America, Canada, and Egypt. First edition, first impression. Containing a series of letters from the author's travels,…

Hark to These Three Talk About Style by Sturge Moore

Sturge Moore · 1915 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London , Elkin Mathews , 1915. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition of a prose composition by Sturge Moore. The first edition. A very scarce work of prose composition. Written by Sturge Moore the British author, poet, artist and long time correspondent of W. B. …

Gray Selected Poems

Thomas Gray; Edmund Gosse [ed] · 1885 · Rooke Books

£33.00 (€39.56 | $43.60 | ¥6,964)

Oxford , Clarendon Press, 1885. Hardback. A collection of poetry by Thomas Gray, edited by Edmund Gosse and bound in full paper vellum. From the Clarendon Press series, intended for the use of schools.Bound in full paper vellum. This work features a collection of poetry by the c…