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Wild Berries
Yevgeny Yevtushenko · 1981 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, Macmillan, 1981. First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof copy of the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko's first novel. Yevgeny Yevtushenko was one of the most famous post-Stalin generation of Russian poets, as well as a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publ…
Poems
John Cowper Powys · 1899 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, William Rider & Sons, 1899 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this collection of poetry from John Cowper Powys. A first edition.Signed by the author to the front free endpaper, to English poet Anna Bunston de Bary, with 'A. Bu…
Select Prose Works of Milton
John Milton; J. A. St. John · 1836 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, J. Hatchard and Son, 1836. Leather. A scarce complete two volume set of this collection of Milton's works of prose. Bound by Margaret Cole. Complete in two volumes. Scarce complete set of this edition. Including a portrait frontispiece to volume one. A selection of …
Shenstone&Apos;S Miscellany 1759-1763
William Shenstone; Ian A. Gordon [ed.] · 1952 · Rooke Books
£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)
Oxford , Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1952. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this anthology of miscellaneous poems by William Shenstone edited by Ian A Gordon, complete with vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. A miscellany of eighteenth century poetry printed from a manuscr…
Poems by Thomas Hood, Again Illustrated by Birket Foster
Thomas Hood · 1872 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, E. Moxon, Son & Co, 1872. Leather. A beautifully bound copy of the poetry of Thomas Hood, illustrated throughout with engravings by Birket Foster. In a full morocco binding, with extensive gilt detailing.Illustrated with twenty-two engraved plates by British illustrator …
A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes
Various · 1775 · Rooke Books
£725.00 (€869.03 | $957.83 | ¥152,952)
London, J. Dodsley, 1775. Leather. A delightful collection of eighteenth century poetry compiled by Robert Dodsley, illustrated with engraved title pages and headpieces. ESTC Citation Number T144724.A very well known collection. Rarely seen in this pleasing condition. First publ…
Les Contes de Jacques Tournebroche
Anatole France · 1909 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
Paris , Calmann-Levy, Editeurs , 1909. Leather. An early edition of this delicately illustrated short story collection from Anatole France. The second edition of this short story collection from Anatole France. First published in 1908. In contemporary half black morocco, with c…
A feu et à sang
Grisélidis RÉAL · 2003 · Librairie Le Feu Follet
€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)
S. n. | Genève 2003 | 13.50 x 21.50 cm | agrafé | Edition originale imprimée à 500 exemplaires. Grisélidis Réal, écrivain, peintre et prostituée, est une grande figure romantique de la fin du XXème siècle. Amante, militante, combattante et poète, elle bouscula les moeurs de la s…
Chronicles of Lucius Leffing
BRENNAN, JOSEPH PAYNE · 1977 · S. Howlett-West Books
$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Linton. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostl…
Lionel Asbo: State of England
AMIS, MARTIN · 2012 · Peter Austern & Co. / Brooklyn Books
$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)
NY, Knopf. 2012, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780307958082). Hardcover. Book, A savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant saga by a renowned author at the height of his powers. Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Or…
Collected Poems
Norman MacCaig · 1990 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1990 . Cloth. Signed by the author Norman MacCaig this 1990 New Edition celebrates his 80th birthday with nearly 700 poems, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding, complete with the origina…
L&Apos;Esprit Des Races Jaunes: L&Apos;Opium Sa Pratique
Metgioi [Albert de Pouvourville] · 1902 · Rooke Books
£1,750.00 (€2,097.65 | $2,311.99 | ¥369,196)
Paris , Edition de l'Initiation; Societe D'Editions Litteraires et Artistiques , 1902. Paperback. A very rare copy of this affirmative guide to opium, with hints on methods, cultural differences across Europe, and body experiences. Vanishingly scarce, with only one cop…
Pendant la Halte, Poemes de Guerre
Jean Renouard · 1920 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
Paris, Les Gemeaux, 1920 . First edition. Hardback. A bright example of the very scarce first edition of this volume of poems about the Great War, with this copy being personally inscribed to the dedicatee of the work, the author's personal friend Spencer Hurst. In the orig…
Mock Poem or Whiggs Supplication. Part iid.
[COLVILLE (Samuel)]: · 1681 · John Price Antiquarian Books
£1,000.00 (€1,198.66 | $1,321.14 | ¥210,969)
A manuscript volume of 35 leaves, the pages numbered 1 to 70, being a contemporary manuscript of the second part of Colville's popular seventeenth-century poem. The leaves measure 192 x 142 mms., with one blank leaf preceding the numbered leaves, which have manuscript text on bo…
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Ntozake Shange · 1982 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
New York, St. Martin's Press, 1982. First edition. Hardback. The first edition, first printing of this immensely rich novel by the prolific American author Ntozake Shange, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing of the work. With the orig…
Merope. A Tragedy
Matthew Arnold · 1858 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts , 1858. First edition. Cloth. A smart presentation copy of Matthew Arnold's epic poem of Greek mythology, rarely found signed. The author's presentation copy, with a signed inscription to the half title: "with the au…
Joseph. Par M. Bitaube, de L&Apos;Academie Royale Des Sciences Et Belles-Lettres de Berlin, Et de Celle Des Inscriptions Et Belles-Lettres de Paris. Cinquieme Edition.
Paul Jérémie Bitaubé · 1786 · Rooke Books
£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)
Paris, De L'Imprimerie de Didot L'Aine, 1786. Leather. A two volume set works works by the French poet and translator Paul Jérémie Bitaubé. Fifth edition. In the original French. Written by Paul Jérémie Bitaubé. A pleasing copy of this 18th work, bound in a unifo…
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Siegfried Sassoon · 1928 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical novel revolving around a huntsman. First edition, first impression. With the original printing references: "A" on the front blank, no author det…
Nous... De la Guerre
Henri Edmond Jacques [pseud. Henry-Jacques] · 1918 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
Paris, Eugene Fasquelle, 1918. First edition. Paperback. The signed first edition of a First World War veteran's powerful anthology related to their service and experiences. The signed first edition of Nous.. De la Guerre (We.. Of the War), a poignant and thought-provoking …
Dramatic Works
R B Sheridan · 1932 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, Asprey and Co, c1930. Leather. A beautifully bound, pocket sized collection of Richard Sheridan's plays. Sheridan was a famed eighteenth century playwright and owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. With an editor's note on the life of the author as a f…