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John Henry Newman · 1868 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Burns, Oates, & Co. 1868. Cloth. An early edition of this collection of poetry and verse from English writer John Henry Newman. Second state with additions, published the same year as the first. The first being xii, 340pp. and the second being xv, 368pp. A collection of …

Islands

Edward Brathwaite · 1969 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Oxford University Press, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the third part of Brathwaite's trilogy of poems, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. The third part of the author's trilogy of poems interweaving the past and pre…

Modern times : temporality in art and politics.

Rancière, Jacques & Elliott, Gregory. · 2022 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

London : Verso Books, 2022. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xi, 126 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - In this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time…

A History of French Literature

Edward Dowden · 1899 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, William Heinemann, 1899. Leather. An historical work regarding French literature. In a prize binding by Relfe Brothers. Their binder's stamp is to the verso of front endpaper. This book was a prize from Thetford Girls' Grammar School as noted by the school cres…

Poems of John Keats

John Keats; G. Thorn Drury [editor] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Lawrence & Bullen Ltd. 1896. Cloth. A smart copy of this collection of poetry from English Romantic writer John Keats, being volume II only. Volume two of two only. The Muse's Library. A collection of the poetry of John Keats, an English poet of the second generatio…

I Can&Apos;T Stay Long

Laurie Lee · 1975 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1975 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart signed first edition copy of this collection of writings by Laurie Lee, signed to the title page. The first edition. Signed by the author to the title page. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. I…

Wee Willie Winkie, Soldiers Three and Other Stories

Rudyard Kipling · 1895 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1895. Cloth. Two collections of stories by the Nobel Prize winning author, Rudyard Kipling. Two volumes. In the publisher's original cloth. This set features two collections of stories by Rudyard Kipling, the celebrated Nobel Prize winning author…

Poetry in Wartime

M.K. Tambimuttu [ed.] · 1942 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Faber and Faber, 1942 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this collection of WW2 poetry, edited by M.J. Tambimuttu, with works by noted authors such as Stephen Spender. The first edition.  In the publisher's original red cloth binding. In the orig…

Poets and Painters

John Milton; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; John Keats; et al. · 1873 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. 1873. Cloth. A delightful and scarce collection of poems and engravings by eminent authors and artists. A scarce work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with a colour plate to the front board. Also known as 'The Fields and The…

Peter Schlemihl

Adelbert von Chamisso; John Bowring [translator] · 1878 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Hardwicke & Bogue, 1878. Leather. A translated edition of this novella from Adelbert von Chamisson, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Illustrated with frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. The tale of Peter Schlemihl who sells his shadow to the Devil f…

King Robert of Sicily

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1807 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London; Paris; New York , Raphael Tuck and Sons, c1894. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated work by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow titles 'King Robert of Sicily&apos. First edition. In the publisher's original binding, this charming volume is profusely…

Just So Stories for Little Children

Rudyard Kipling · 1902 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this charming collection of stories from Rudyard Kipling for young readers, illustrated by the author. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-two plates and the odd in-text image. Collated complete…

Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau

Robert Browning · 1871 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.30 | $101.73 | ¥16,245)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1871. First edition. Cloth. A very smart copy of this long poem from Robert Browning, first published after the end of Napoleon III's reign and never exceeding a first print run. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding…

Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944

W. H. Auden · 1950 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this pleasing collection from prolific and highly acclaimed British-American poet, Wystan Hugh Auden. The first edition of this poetical collection from W. H. Auden.In the original unclipped dust wrapp…

Summoned by Bells

John Betjeman · 1960 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, John Murray, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of John Betjeman's autobiography in blank verse, with the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-cl…

Commentaries / Volume I / Books I-II.

Pius II · 2003 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

I Tatti Renaissance Library / Harvard University Press. 2003, hardcover with dust jacket, book in very good cond., sunning to spine dj. The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius …

[Mont Frumento].

Berthier, P. [M.] · 1863 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

Paris, Paul Berthier, [ca. 1863-1865]. Broadsheet (60.0 x 45.0 cm), with original mounted albumen silver print (36.5 x 25.8 cm). = Paul Marcellin Berthier (1822-1912) is regarded as one of the foremost French photographers of the 19th century, as well as an accomplished impressi…

A Wider Arc

CANE, MELVILLE · 1947 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, NY: Harcourt Brace, 1947. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, on the title page. The book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean…

A Bibliography of Pindar: 1513-1966

Gerber, Douglas E. · 1969 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Cleveland, Ohio, The American Philological Association, by Case Western Reserve University, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition copy, having been the Philological Monographs of the American Philological Association series Number 28. Bound in gr…

True West Magazine: October 1983

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1983 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$99.95 (€90.68 | £75.65 | ¥15,961)

USA: Western Publications Inc, 1983. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Features: How Sears, Roebuck won the West (includes 1902 ad for a 'bust developer' gizmo); Wyatt Earp and the Civil War - he answered the call of distant drums; Repeating rifles on the frontier - more pop…