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Sympathy and Other Poems. Including Landscapes in Verse and Cottage-Pictures

Mr. Pratt [Samuel Jackson Pratt] · 1807 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Richard Phillips, 1807. Leather. Charmingly illustrated with engraved plates, this is a scarce revised and corrected edition of Mr. Pratt's philosophical poem which 'strongly tended to promote the interests of benevolence and virtue&apos. First published in 178…

English Odes

Edmund W Gosse · 1881 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, C Kegan Paul & Co. 1881. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this critical work by Edmund Gosse, featuring the poetry of numerous celebrated English poets. First Edition. In a signed J Ramage and Co Binding. This anthology consists of a variety of poetry from se…

Mcaroni Ballads and Other Verses

T. A. Daly · 1919 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1919. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon presentation copy of this first edition book of American poetry. An uncommon presentation copy of this work.A first edition copy, bound in original quarter cloth black and green pictorial boards, with ne…

Rhyme and Reason

H. S. Mackintosh · 1956 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956 . First edition. Cloth. Presentation copy of delightful ballads and other poems from highly regarded Scottish poet H. S. Mackintosh. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.Presentation copy. Signed by…

Poesies Nouvelles 1836-1852

Alfred de Musset · 1896 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

Paris, Charpentier, 1896. Leather. A collection of Alfred de Musset's poetry. In original French. This edition includes 'Rolla', 'La Nuit de Mai', 'Sur La Paresse', 'Le 13 Juillet' and 'A Mon Frere' as well as several other …

First Symphony, a Sonnet Sequence

Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer · 1935 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon signed first edition of Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer's sonnet sequence, retaining the original dust wrapper. With a presentation inscription from the author to the front free endpaper, rea…

Le brouillard et le soleil (fable) • Poème inédit autographe signé

Jules BRETON · 1890 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

s. d. | 23 x 10.60 cm | une feuille | Fragment autographe inédit signé du peintre Jules Breton, intitulé Le brouillard et le soleil (fable). Un feuillet.  De formation académique, peintre réaliste puis naturaliste, Jules Breton fut l'un des premiers artistes du monde paysan et u…

L'initiation d'un homme 1917 - Exemplaire de Maurice Saillet

John DOS PASSOS · 1925 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

F. Rieder & Cie | Paris 1925 | 12 x 19 cm | broché | Edition originale de la traduction française, un des 300 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin Lafuma. Rare envoi autographe de John Dos Passos, en anglais et daté de 1945, au pataphysicien Maurice Saillet. À vingt-trois ans, Mauric…

Oeuvres

Jean-Baptiste-Louis GRESSET · 1772 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

Chez Edouard Kermaleck | à Londres 1772 | 9.50 x 16.50 cm | relié | Nouvelle édition. Reliure en pleine basane brune marbrée et glacée. Dos à nerfs orné. Pièce de titre et de tomaison en maroquin rouge. Un manque en tête du tome II. Bon exemplaire. Cette édition contient les let…

[Sette of Odd Volumes] A Riverside Walk : An Easy-Going Essay by a Peripatetic Philosopher [Unopened]

TODHUNTER, John (1839-1916) · 1898 · Fine Editions Ltd

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.08 | ¥13,735)

London Imprynted at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21, Bedfordbury Limited Edition, no. 117 of 250 copies printed for private circulation only. Foolscap 8vo (145 x 116mm): 43,[1]pp, with frontispiece (Low Water in Mortlake Reach) and list of Sette club members. Publisher's blue-grey…

Collected Poems

Noyes, Alfred · 1913 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Frederick A. Stokes, . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable set, complete in three volumes, the first two having been published in 1913, the final volume in 1920. Handsomely bound in blue cloth over boards, genero…

Phaedri Augusti Liberti, et Avieni Fabulae Cum adnotationibs Davidis Hoogstratani. Accedunt Fabulae Graecae Latinis respondents, et Homeri Batrachomyomachia cum expositione singulorum verborum accratissima.Naples, Angeli Carfora, 1742. 8vo. With frontispiece by Filippo da Grado, Title printed in red and black with woodcut ornament, some woodcut initials and tailpieces. Vellum over boards.

PHAEDRUS - AVIANUS. · 1658 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

[6], 256, [4] pp.One of the many early 18th-century Naples editions of the 94 Aesop fables in Latin verses with notes underneath, and the 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius, together with the extended and scholarly notes and…

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a Poem.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld · 1812 · Rooke Books

£8,900.00 (€10,669.61 | $11,760.12 | ¥1,878,163)

Philadelphia, Anthony Finley, 1812 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first American edition of this important poem from Barbauld, offering a stark criticism of the involvement of Britain in the Napoleonic wars. The very scarce first American edition of this poem from Engl…

Riding Recollections

G. J. Whyte-Melville · 1879 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

Leipzig , Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1879. Leather. A nice copy of Whyte-Melville's thoughts on horse riding, dating from the mid nineteenth century. Copyright Edition. With a bookseller's label for D. Nutt, London, to the rear pastedown. With a bookbinder's stamp for La…

Louis XV Et Madame de Pompadour

Pierre de Nolhac · 1903 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

Paris , Goupil & Cie. 1903 . First edition. Leather. A beautifully illustrated, limited edition of Pierre de Nolhac's biographical study of Louis XV written in the original French, bound by Riviere in half morocco. Limited edition. Number 755 of 800: "Huit Cents Exemplaires…

A Collection of Novels by Anatole France

Anatole France · 1899 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1899-1900. Leather. A uniformly bound collection of three prose works from French writer Anatole France, in the original French. French. Three volumes. Written by Anatole France, a French poet, journalist, and novelist considered in his day the ideal French …

Greenland and Other Poems

James Montgomery · 1819 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1819. First edition. Leather. The first edition of an enchanting anthology containing a titular poem on the Moravian Church in Greenland, celebrated for its imagery. The first edition of Greenland and Other Poems, a charming antholog…

Contes de la Decadence Romaine

Jean Richepin · 1898 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Paris, Bibliotheque-Charpentier; Eugene Fasquelle, 1898. First edition. Hardback. A first edition copy of this French retelling of accounts of Roman life and luxury, in marbled boards. A first edition of this French title. A volume of engaging and cautionary tales of 'Roman…

Ann at Highwood Hall Poems for Children

Robert Graves · 1964 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A lovely blue cloth first edition of this 1964 children's classic, with original, illustrated dust wrapper. A lovely 1964 first edition of 7 poems by influential author and poet Robert Graves.A beloved collecti…

Make- Believe

H D Lowry · 1896 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.95 | $1,189.23 | ¥189,927)

London, John Lane, 1896. First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound and illustrated first edition of this work by H D Lowry. Henry Dawson Lowry was an English journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet. Bound by Riviere and Son for Sotheran. First edition, illustrated th…