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Lyrics of War and Peace

William Dudley Foulke, LL. D. · 1916 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London; Edinburgh; New York; Toronto; Melbourne; Bombay, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition book of American verse, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. A very scarce first edition volume of verse b...

Ode to France

Raymond Weeks · 1917 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

New York, Oxford University Press, 1917. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition presentation copy of poetry by American linguist and professor Raymond Weeks. A very scarce first edition presentation copy of this volume of American verse.In original blue cloth, with ...

The Book of Common Prayer

1826 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

Cambridge, J. Smith, 1826. Leather. A copy from 1826, bound in full red morocco, and including new versions of the Psalms by Nicholas Brady. From 1826.Bound in very smart full red morocco, with gilt page edges.This edition of the Book of Common Prayer also features new interpr...

Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious

R. D. · 1930 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Peter Davies, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A captivating illustrated book of playful prose, in its first edition. A lively and amusing collection of short verse themed around the natural world.Illustrated with frequent vignette monochrome images by a variety of unlisted...

The Hanging of the Parson&Apos;S Son and Other Crimes

Sol. L. Long · 1916 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

Kansas City, S. W. Anderson Ptg. Co. 1916. First edition. Cloth. An incredibly scarce first edition volume of American poetry, signed and inscribed by the author. An incredibly scarce first edition volume of poetry, in original green cloth pictorial boards.A selection of poetr...

The Undertaker&Apos;S Garland

John Peale Bishop; Edmund Wilson Jr. · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce presentation copy of the first edition of this reflection on death, across prose and poetry, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. A very scarce example of a presentation copy of this first edition title.Illustr...

Collected Poems and Epigrams

G. Rostrevor Hamilton · 1958 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London; Melbourne; Toronto, Heinemann, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce presentation copy of this first edition, in original unclipped dust wrapper. An incredibly scarce example of a presentation copy of this first edition work. Inscribed and signed in ink by the auth...

Poems 1902-1925

Edward Thompson · 1926 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Selwyn & Blount, Ltd. 1926. First edition. Hardback. An incredibly scarce first edition volume of poetry, featuring an inscription by the author. A very scarce first edition volume of poetry by poet Edward Thompson.A presentation copy, inscribed to the front free endpa...

The Return and Other Poems

Remsen Du Bois Bird · 1919 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

San Francisco , The Periodical Press, 1919 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this scarce collection of poetry by Remsen Du Bois Bird, in the original unclipped dust wrapper, signed by the author to the front endpaper. The first edition in the publisher's ori...

Poems of War and Peace

Robert Underwood Johnson · 1916 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1916 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of war poetry by Robert Underwood Johnson, signed by the author to the front endpaper.  The first edition in the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper-covered boards...

A Friendship and the Spirit of France: Signed Poetry

Charles Lewis Slattery; V.H. Friedlaender · 1919 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London; New York, Country Life; Macmillan Company, 1919-1923. First edition. Cloth. Two signed poetic anthologies, written by prominent suffragette writer Violet Helen Friedlaender and episcopal bishop Charles Lewis Slattery. The signed first editions of poetic anthologies bas...

Along the Trail to Santa Fãƒâ©

John Friend · 1924 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

New York, Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1924. Cloth. A very scarce and introspective anthology relating to abstract themes and pilgrimage, written by American poet John Friend. Along the Trail to Santa Fé and Other Poems, a very scarce anthology written by American poet John Friend...

Dart, Loveliest of Rivers and Other Devon Poems, and a Pot Pourri of Verse

Leonard Ley; A. Nicholson Tucker · 1929 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Cambridge; Ilfracombe, Leonard Ley [W. Heffer and Sons]; Arthur H. Stockwell , 1929-1952. First edition. Cloth. Two charming anthologies, one written by an East Anglian G.P. and the other celebrating his experiences in the West Country count of Devon. Two charming anthologies ...

Poems for the People

Thomas M. Walker · 1922 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

Govan, Glasgow, John Cossar, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and personal anthology, written and signed by Glaswegian poet Thomas M. Walker. The signed first edition of Poems for the People, a very scarce personal anthology, written by Scottish poet Thomas M. Walker....

The Land We Love: Poems Chiefly Patriotic

Wendell Phillips Stafford · 1916 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

Vermont, Arthur F. Stone, 1916 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce, inscribed first edition of Wendell Phillips Stafford"s patriotic First World War poetry, with contemporary ephemera relating to the recipient"s family. In the publisher's original dark cloth b...

Vision of War

Lincoln Colcord · 1915 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1915 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition presentation copy of Colcord"s reflective wartime poem, inscribed to Nathan Haskell Dole and accompanied by a 1916 authorial letter on his ongoing literary work. In the publisher's original red ...

The Battle Fiends

E. H. Visiak [Edward Harold Physick] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Elkin Mathews, 1916. First edition. Paperback. A scarce early poetry collection from E. H. Visiak, warmly inscribed by the author and accompanied by a loosely inserted signed letter. In the publisher's original paper wraps.First edition. A presentation copy signe...

Young Adventure: A Book of Poems

Stephen Vincent Benet · 1918 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1918 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Benét"s youthful debut collection, inscribed by the author with a playful inscription. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards.First edition. Sig...

Our Pals out There

Private William E. Keating · 1919 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,661)

Philadelphia, The Universal Publicity Bureau Publishers, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce copy of this First World War poetry collection, the first edition, chronicling an American private"s journey from camp to France and home again. In the publisher's o...

Pertinent & Impertinent: An Assortment of Verse

Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler · 1926 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

Ditchling, St. Dominic's Press, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition presentation copy of this abundantly illustrated collection of poems by craftsman Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler. A limited edition copy of the work, of which two hundred copies were print...