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Portraits Et Paysages
Francis Norgelet · 1818 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
Paris, Rieder & Cie, 1818 . First edition. Paperback. A wonderful signed presentation copy of the scarce first edition of this volume of verse by Francis Norgelet, featuring an original handwritten poem from the author. In the original French.A signed presentation copy of the sc…
Californian Verses
Chas. Henry Phelps · 1882 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)
San Francisco , The California Publishing Company , 1882 . First edition. Cloth. A very scare collection of poetry from Californian author Charles Henry Phelps, all of which surround his home state of California, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to "Mr E…
Golden Treasury Series: Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold · 1908 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1908. Leather. A lovely copy of the selected poems of Matthew Arnold, handsomely bound in half calf by Riviere & Son. A 1908 edition of this work from the Golden Treasury series, in a half calf binding. All edges gilt. Binder's stamp of Riviere & S…
Wandering Words
Sir Edwin Arnold · 1894 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1894. First edition. Leather. A first edition in book form of Sir Edwin Arnold's travel articles, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work in a half calf binding, with the gilt crest of St. John's College, Lancashire to th…
Choix de Poemes
Ãmile Verhaeren · 1927 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Paris, Mercure, 1927. Leather. An attractive, leather bound volume of Ãmile Verhaeren's poetry. An attractive, leather bound collection of Ãmile Verhaeren's poetry. Published in French. As well as being nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature six times, the Belgi…
From Grave to Gay
Various · 1933 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)
London, Printed Privately for G Noble, 1933. First edition. Leather. A fine, scarce poetry anthology prepared as a gift book. Once belonging to Alban Dobson, the son of English poet Austin Dobson. Dobson's poem 'The Cure's Progress' is present to this volume.…
Seven Men
Max Beerbohm · 1919 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, William Heinemann, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Beerbohm's Seven Men, five short stories by English caricaturist and writer Max Beerbohm, praised by Virginia Woolf as "a little masterpiece." In the publisher's original blue cloth b…
Poems
Samuel Rogers; Samuel Sharpe · 1860 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Edward Moxon, 1860. Cloth. An attractively bound copy of poetry by Romantic writer Samuel Roger. An illustrated collection by Romantic poet Samuel Rogers. Although Rogers was highly celebrated in his own life time, his fame has since been eclipsed by his friends William …
Angling Songs
Thomas Tod Stoddart · 1889 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this charming book on songs for fishing, written by Thomas Tod Stoddart. Including a memoir by Anna M. Stoddart, the author's daughter. Thomas Tod Stoddart (1810Â1880) was a Scottish…
Lewis Carroll
Walter de la Mare · 1932 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
London, Faber & Faber, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. A publisher's review copy of the first edition of Walter de la Mare's study of the works of Lewis Carroll, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher…
Cotswold Characters
John Drinkwater · 1923 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1923. Hardback. A presentation copy of John Drinkwater's charming rural sketches, with two wood engravings by Paul Nash. The author's presentation copy of the second impression of this work. In the publisher's original speckled …
Poetical Works
Robert Browning · 1910 · Rooke Books
£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)
London, Smith, Elder, and Co. 1910. Leather. An beautiful complete two volume set of poems written by Robert Browning (May 1812 December 1889), an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Browning is often known …
Moore&Apos;S Irish Melodies
Thomas Moore · 0 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, c1800. Fine Binding. An exquisite, illustrated edition of Moore's Irish Melodies. Illustrated by D. Maclise. From the Preface: "Whatever merit there may be in interpreting the voice that spoke in my country's music, le…
Sleeping Beauty & Other Favourite Fairy Tales
Angela Carter · 1982 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this beautifully illustrated collection of fairy tales chosen by Angela Carter, signed by the illustrator Michael Foreman. The first edition.Signed by the illustrator, Michael Foreman, to the title…
Selected Works of George Moore
George Moore · 1920 · Rooke Books
£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,523)
London, William Heinemann, 1920-1924. Paperback. A five volume set of the works of George Moore. All volumes limited edition and signed by the author. Volumes are: The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis & Chloe Conversations in Ebury Street In Single Strictness The Apostle The Coming of …
Angeli Politiani et Aliorum virorum illust Epistolae cum praefatione in Suet. expositionem.
POLIZIANO (Angelo): · 1644 · John Price Antiquarian Books
£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)
Amstelodami, pud Joan. Janssonium, 1644. 12mo, 123 x 68 mms., pp. [xxiv, including engraved title-page], 610, later calf, rebacked, gilt rules across spine, red morocco label; old end-papers from an incubabulum, armorial bookplate of Joseph Pickford, Junr. on front paste-down e…
All That I Am
Anna Funder · 2011 · Book Haven
NZ$21.50 (€10.77 | $11.87 | £8.99 | ¥1,896)
Viking-Penguin 2011 Paperback, 369pp. 'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was a Monday afternoon .' Ruth Becker, defiant and cant…
A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson · 2018 · Book Haven
NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)
Black Swan 2018 Paperback, 548pp. WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD 'A God in Ruins' relates the life of Teddy Todd – would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy…
All That I Am
Anna Funder · 2011 · Book Haven
NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)
Hamish Hamilton 2011 Paperback, 384pp. 'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was a Monday afternoon .' Ruth Becker, defiant and can…
Haiga Ho^
(Ehon) Nakamura Fusetsu & Kawahigashi Hekigoto^ · 1909 · Boston Book Company
$675.00 (€612.42 | £510.92 | ¥107,789)
1909. (EHON) NAKAMURA Fusetsu & KAWAHIGASHI Hekigoto. HAIGA HO. Tokyo: Kokado, 1909. 23 x 15.4 cm. String-bound Japanese style in flexible covers with stamped title. This visual and textual examination of the relationship between "haiga", haiku drawings, and the the haiku themse…