Search results for: 'BROOKE, Rupert.'
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FOLK DANCE - BROOKE, Rupert. Autograph Letter Signed to Sydney Cockerell.1908
A rare autograph letter signed "Rupert Brooke" to the newly appointed director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Sydney Cockerell, discussing date arrangements for a performance of folk dance by Mary Neal's Espérance Club in the Victoria Assembly Rooms.
The letter reads: "Dear Cockerell, The Victoria Assembly Rooms now at present keeping both Jan 30... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 146111
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BROOKE, Rupert. [The Dead.][c.1917]
A rare wartime issue of part of Rupert Brooke's best-known poems, "The Dead", printing on a large single sheet the first stanza, beginning "Blow out, you bugles... ". The sheet is signed below on two printed lines over the legend "War Command" Lieutenant-General Sir Fenton Aylmer (1862-1935), recipient of the Victoria Cross and commander of the Tigris... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 127049
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BROOKE, Rupert. Rupert Brooke: fragments now first collected some being hitherto unpublished.Hartford : 1925
First edition, number 67 of 99 copies, of this collection of Brooke's fragmentary works. The collection mostly comprises verses written by Brooke into books that subsequently fell into the publisher's hands, "the publication was not authorized by Mrs. Brook" (Keynes). Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 129591
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BROOKE, Rupert. Poems.London : 1911
First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies issued. Poems was Brooke's first collection, his previous poetry having been written for school competitions and printed solely for private distribution. Brooke developed a fatal case of blood poisoning from an insect bite while anchored off Skyros; he died on 23 April 1915 aboard a hospital ship, just... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 125916
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BROOKE, Rupert. Works.London : 1916-8
First UK editions, first impressions. An attractively bound set of Brooke's works:
i) John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama first written by Brooke in 1911-2 for the fellowship at King's College, Cambridge, John Webster was first published in the US four days before its UK publication.
ii) Letters from America the first US edition... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 121533
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BROOKE, Rupert. The Collected Poems.New York : 1945
A handsomely bound copy of Rupert Brooke's collected poetry, first published in 1915. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 147568
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BROOKE, Rupert. Democracy and the Arts.London : 1946
First edition, trade issue. According to Geoffrey Keynes's recollections, Rupert Brooke probably read his paper, "Democracy and the Arts", to fellow members of the Fabian Society while he was its president, in spring or summer 1910. There was also a limited edition of 240 copies printed on part-rag paper and specially bound in niger leather with marbled... Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 102885
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BROOKE, Rupert. Democracy and the Arts.London : 1946
First edition. Number 10 of 240 copies printed on part-rag paper and specially bound in niger leather with marbled paper made by Douglas Cockerell & Son. According to Geoffrey Keynes's recollections, Rupert Brooke probably read his paper, "Democracy and the Arts", to fellow members of the Fabian Society while he was its president, in spring or summer... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 125816
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BROOKE, Rupert. The Poetical Works.London : 1959
Handsomely bound copy of Brooke's poetry. Ninth impression of this edition, first published in 1946. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 140505
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BROOKE, Rupert. The Collected Poems.London : 1960
A handsomely bound copy of Brooke's poems, the collection first published in July 1918. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 139862
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BROOKE, Rupert. The Collected Poems.London : 1928
Second edition, revised and reset. A handsomely bound copy. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 121618
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BROOKE, Rupert - DE QUINCEY, Thomas. Essays from de Quincey.London : 1900
The copy of the poet Rupert Brooke, with his pencilled initials to the half-title, and with extensive marginal emphases and notations by Brooke, in De Quincey's essay "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth". These notations are chiefly stylistic observation, but also include a marginal line and cross seemingly corroborating De Quincey's scorn for "the... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 142636
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CORNFORD, Frances. Poems.Hampstead : [1910]
First edition, first impression, of Cornford's second book, following the rare Holtbury Idyll (1908), and first poetry collection, including her poem "Youth", later titled "On Rupert Brooke", as well as the notorious "To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train", which became a much anthologized (and parodied) piece.
Frances Cornford (1886-1960, née Frances... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 144493
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ADCOCK, A. St John. For Remembrance.London : 1918
First edition, first impression, of Adcock's memorial volume, giving biographies and poetical excerpts for 44 "Soldier Poets", 20 of which are portrayed. This book is uncommonly found, especially so in such good condition and with the jacket.
The dust jacket, which was designed by Eugene Hastain, bears on the front flap an advertisement ("It... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144555
