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Human Shows Far Phantasies, and Late Lyrics and Earlier
Thomas Hardy · 1922 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1922-5. First edition. Cloth. Two excellent first edition collections of poetry from the renowned Thomas Hardy. The first editions. A two volume set. Two collections of poetry from Thomas Hardy Thomas an English novelist and poet who wrote wi…
Odes Upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters
Thomas More · 1828 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green , 1828 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Thomas More's satirical odes on topical political and economic matters, bound in the publisher's original paper-covered boards. The first edition. Uncommon work. Bound in …
Florenz
Camille Mauclair [Séverin Faust] · 1914 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
Munich, Georg Muller, 1914. Leather. A German translation of Camille Mauclair's interesting work on Florence. A limited edition copy, with eighty four illustrations. In this limited edition travelogue, Camille Mauclair offers insights about the city of Florence. Translated …
Early English Watercolours and Some Cognate Drawings by Artists Born Not Later Than 1785
Iolo A. Williams · 1970 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
Bath, Kingsmead Reprints, 1970. Cloth. A exemplary look into the early history of English Watercolour painting, by Iolo A. Williams. Profusely illustrated to the rear of the volume. A 1970's reprint copy of this work by Iolo A. Williams original published in 1952. Williams …
Absalom, a Chronicle Play in Three Acts
Thomas Sturge Moore · 1903 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this play by Thomas Sturge Moore, in a glassine dust wrapper. This play is set in Jerusalem, with the King of Israel a primary character along with his sons Absalom and Solomon.Thomas Sturge Moore…
Thelyphthora; or, a Treatise on Female Ruin. Volume II Only.
Martin Madan · 1781 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, J. Dodsley, 1781 . Leather. The second volume of the second edition of this English clergyman's controversial support of the social benefits of polygamy. The second volume only of the three volume second edition of this work from English barrister, clergyman and wri…
Holiday Songs
Mrs. Alexander; Lady Arthur Hill · 1885 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London & New York, Novello, Ewer & Co. 1885. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this collection of songs and verses for the holiday period from Cecil Frances Alexander and Annie Jessie Fortescue Harrison. Very scarce work. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and colour title page. …
Scott-King&Apos;S Modern Europe
Evelyn Waugh · 1947 · Rooke Books
£62.00 (€74.32 | $81.91 | ¥13,080)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novella by famous author Evelyn Waugh, complete with the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this novella by the noted author Evelyn Waugh. Published for the first time in an abridged fo…
Rosemary and Pansies
Bertram Dobell · 1904 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, By the Author, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. A rather unique, first edition of this poetry collection from Bertram Dobell, with an additional handwritten poem from the author to the front endpaper. First edition. Inscribed by the author with a handwritten poem entitled "F…
Oeuvres Completes de Moliere in Three Volumes
Moliere · 0 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
Paris, Garnier Freres, c1878 . Leather. New and revised edition of this collection of the Complete Works of Moliere, complete in three volumes. Early new edition of Oevres Completes De Moliere by M. Felix Lemaistre complete in three volumes in quarter calf binding. Full title an…
An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Entituled Character of a Popish Successor
Anon · 1681 · Rooke Books
£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)
London, Nathaniel Thompson, 1681. First edition. Cloth. A fine, very scarce political and religious tract written at the peak of the Popish Plot, and therefore ant-Catholic hysteria in England and Scotland. A very scarce pamphlet. ESTC reference no R19980. This is setting A refe…
Milton&Apos;S Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books
John Milton · 1762 · Rooke Books
£470.00 (€563.37 | $620.94 | ¥99,155)
Edinburgh, A. Donaldson, 1762. Leather. An 18th-century Edinburgh edition of Milton's epic acclaimed epic, with a life of the poet and engraved plates. This Edinburgh edition published by A. Donaldson. With a prefactory discussion of the pieces and a Life of Milton. In cont…
Father and Son Biographical Recollections
ANONYMOUS (EDMUND GOSSE) · 1907 · S. Howlett-West Books
$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the …
Simply By Sailing in a New Direction: Allen Curnow: a Biography
Terry Sturm · 2017 · Book Haven
NZ$49.50 (€24.80 | $27.34 | £20.69 | ¥4,366)
Auckland University Press 2017 Hardback, 732pp. Allen Curnow (1911-2001) is widely recognised as one of the most distinguished poets writing in English in the twentieth century. For seventy years from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001) Curnow's poetry…
Letters from Skokholm. With illustrations by C. F. Tunnicliffe.
R. M. LOCKLEY. C. F. Tunnicliffe. · 1947 · Clearwater Books
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 243pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small Tunnicliffe decoration gilt-stamped to the upper board. With decorated endpapers, a frontispiece, a title page decoration, one ma…
Bewick's Birds: A Selection
Tessimond [Arthur Seymour John Tessimond] · 1952 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)
London, England, Hutchinson, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Still colorful teal cloth over boards, with still sharp and distinct black lettering to spine. Printed, illustrated paper dust wrapper protected by Brodart, chipping along bottom edge, price-cl…
Translating desire in medieval and early modern literature
Berry, Craig & Hayton, Heather · 2005 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)
Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 254 pp. Hardcover. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - For medieval and early modern poets, philosophers, and political subjects, to articulate desire was to stake out t…
Letters and More Letters of Edward Fitzgerald
Edward Fitzgerald; William Aldis Wright [preface] · 1894 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1894-1901. First edition. Cloth. A uniformly bound three-volume set of the letters of Edward Fitzgerald, best known for his translation of 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam&apos. A three-volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings; all f…
Select Poems Divine and Humane
Thomas Beedome · 1928 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Vellum. A smart limited edition collection of the seventeenth century poems of Thomas Beedome, a nice work from the Nonesuch Press. A limited edition, limited to 1250 copies, of which this is numbered 871.The poetry of Thomas Beedome, a seventee…
William Morris in Private Press and Limited Editions: A Descriptive Bibliography of Books by and About William Morris
John Walsdorf · 1983 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
Phoenix, Oryx Press, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comprehensive work of bibliography concerning works associated with the artist William Morris. The first edition of this work, with the publisher's original slipcase.John Walsdorf's extensive bi…