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Poems on Several Occasions

Mr. John Gay · 1720 · Rooke Books

£465.00 (€557.46 | $614.43 | ¥98,129)

London, Jacob Tonson; Bernard Lintot, 1720 . First edition. Leather. Attractively bound in half calf, this is the first collected edition of the poetry of John Gay, illustrated with two plates by William Kent. The first collected edition of Gay's poetry, published in order …

All Passion Spent

Vita Sackville West · 1931 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of one of Vita Sackville-West's best known, and most loved, novels. The first edition, first impression of this novel.A work by by English poet, novelist and horticultura…

A Collection of Works by Paul Bourget

Paul Bourget · 1891 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1891. Leather. Four very smart volumes of works from French Nobel Prize nominee, Paul Bourget, in the original French language. French language. Four volumes. Written by Paul Charles Joseph Bourget, a French poet, novelist, and critic nominated for the N…

P.D. James Omnibus

P. D. James · 1982 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Faber and Faber, 1982. Cloth. A very smart collection of three P. D. James novels, with unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of three novels by P. D. James - the psuedonym of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park.  James is most known for the creat…

Sermons

Charles Churchill · 1765 · Rooke Books

£167.99 (€201.39 | $221.98 | ¥35,451)

Dublin, A Leathley, J Hoey et al. 1765. Leather. A bright copy of the scarce Sermons by Charles Churchill, published posthumously. Bound in leather with gilt lettering. Includes The Dedication, an unfinished poem to William Warburton, bishop of Gloucester. Information from the O…

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope; Edith Sitwell · 1930 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1930. Cloth. A limited edition of this critical study, re-evaluating the form and precision of Alexander Pope's poetry, signed by the author, Edith Sitwell. In the publisher's original yellow cloth, housed in a vibrant green paper cover…

L&Apos;Annee Terrible; Quatrevingt-Treize

Victor Hugo · 1889 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Paris, J. Hetzel & Cie, c1872-1889. Leather. A lovely three volume set, containing two novels, from the noted French Romantic author Victor Hugo. A three volume set. Containing two novels. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original half and quarter red morocco bindings. Fr…

Hans van Draanen:Twee Tweelingen. SIGNED.

Draanen, Hans van (1931-1987) - Roland Holst, A. & Willem Jan Hendrikse. · 1964 · Antiquariaat Berger & De Vries

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

Bergen Bergensche Boekhandel Half cloth carboard box with black ties, 43,5 x 33 x 2,5 cms., containing (14) leaves including 7 etchings by Hans van Draanen, all signed and dated in pencil, loose as issued. Rare publication issued in 100 hand-numbered copies, signed by Willem Jan…

Do not erase : mathematicians and their chalkboards.

Wynne, Jessica & Wilkinson, Alec. · 2021 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021. Hardcover. 227 pp. 21x29 cm. Ills. Upper right corner bit bumped. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns, wrote the British mathemati…

Selected Poems 1910-1960

Cecil Roberts; Lord Birkett [Preface] · 1960 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Hutchinson of London, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition poetry collection gathering fifty years of Cecil Roberts" verse, with a presentation inscription from the author and complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's origin…

Paradise Regain&Apos;D. A Poem. In Four Books.

John Milton · 1713 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, J. Tonson, 1713 . Leather. An attractive example of the fifth edition of John Milton's 'Paradise Regain'd', illustrated throughout with engraved plates. The fifth edition of this work, which was first published in 1671.Illustrated with a frontispiece …

Human Life a Poem

Samuel Rogers · 1920 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, John Murray, 1920. Leather. A reflective poem by a celebrated but largely forgotten poet of the Romantic Period. A smart copy in full calf of the 1820 second edition of Samuel Rogers's reflective poem 'Human Life&apos. His literary output was notoriously slow, …

Mr. Charles King of England Cromwell a Character Study

John Drinkwater · 1929 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, 1929; [1927] (Dated from author&apos. Cloth. London: Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, 1929; [1927] (Dated from author's ink inscription). Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". None. A very smart, very scarce signed pair of biographies of histo…

Poems and Plays

Jane West · 1799 · Rooke Books

£1,275.00 (€1,528.51 | $1,684.74 | ¥269,063)

London, T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799. Leather. A scarce copy of poems and plays by the conservative author, Jane West. Bound in calf with gilt lettering and spine decoration. Complete in Two Volumes. "West's reputation in her own day was for the clear didacticism of her t…

Poems and Plays

William Hayley · 1788 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London, T Cadell, 1788. Fine Binding. A scarce, and very smart set of William Haley's poems and plays. Complete with their half-titles. A lovely copy in uniform straight grained morocco bindings. Comprising of numerous works by the poet such as his Essay on Painting, Ode to…

Imaginary Conversations

Walter Savage Landor · 1883 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883. Leather. A limited edition set featuring Walter Savage Landor's collection of interesting imaginary dialogues with noted historical figures, bound in half calf. A limited edition of five hundred copies. Bound in half calf with marbled pap…

Design for three theatre costumes. [Swordmen].

Pogédaieff, G. A. de · 1930 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€3,700.00 ($4,078.17 | £3,086.34 | ¥651,308)

Paris, unpublished, ca. 1930. Oblong cardboard (35.8 x 44.7 cm). Gouache, watercolour, and pencil, heightened with silver. = An original design by the great illustrator, set and costume designer, painter and poet, Georges de Pogédaieff (Grigory Anatolyevich Pozhydaev - or Pozhi…

Dramas, Translations, and Occasional Poems

Barbarina Brand · 1821 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, John Murray, 1821. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of Barbarina Brand's privately printed poetry and play anthology, a lovely work showing her intellectual accomplishments. The first edition of this work. This work was privately printed.A very s…

Swift

Leslie Stephen · 1908 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1908. Leather. A bright clean biography of Swift by Leslie Stephen. Beautifully bound in leather with gilt lettering and decoration. With an armorial binding from Heddon Court. From the 'English Men of Letters' series. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – …

Songs and Poems

John Jay Chapman · 1919 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of an attractive poetic anthology, written by prominent American moralist and writer John Jay Chapman. The signed first edition of Songs and Poems, a poetic anthology written by prominen…