Rook Alan (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small 8vo. 59 pages. Author's third book. Series on lower jacket cover: Broadway House Poetry. A very good copy in very good- dust jacket with a few small nicks, slight tape markings and rubbing to jacket; slight wrinkling to endpapers; slight internal browning to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Approx. 5 1/8' wide by 7 1/2". Bookplate of Kenneth A. Lohf on the front endpaper. ; 59 pages.

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 123 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good.

softcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw in clear protective plastic wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Copy is not price-clipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 59 pages; Physical description. : 59 p. ; 19 cm. Notes: Poems. "First published.1945." Subject: World War, 1939-1945 - Poetry. Poetry Great Britain Second World War verse poems by individual authors. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Slim 8vo. 39pp. Original pale green boards backed with red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed to edges of boards. US$9.

First Edition. WW2 Poetry. Buff boards with red cloth spine. VG.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw in clear protective plastic wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Copy is not price-clipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 59 pages; Physical description. : 59 p. ; 19 cm. Notes: Poems. "First published.1945." Subject: World War, 1939-1945 - Poetry. Poetry Great Britain Second World War verse poems by individual authors. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. World War II Poet. 43 pages. Card covers. Name on front endpaper. Scarce.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No dustwrapper, plain green card covers with no titles thereon. A good clean tight copy, with no creasing to green card covers, of this slim soft-cover collection of twenty-five poems by the author. The first of three collections by the author published during the War, he was one of the "Cairo Poets". This one contains eight War poems, including his "Dunkirk Pier", the others are grouped under the headings "Part I: Oxford" and "Part II: The Clouds Darken". 43pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

First edition. Octavo. 39 pages, Poems of the Second World War. Cloth-backed boards. Dent to bottom edge of front cover.Very small contemporary (1943) ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Very good indeed in very good, slightly chipped and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper a bit rubbed and faded at the spine.

First edition. Small octavo. 42 pages. Wrappers. The author's first book, containing poems relating to the war.Very good in very good dustwrapper a little rubbed at spine and edges.

Cloth Backed Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cloth Backed Boards. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 39 pages. World War II War Poetry: "a series of snapshots." Boards marked and dusty. UNCOMMON.

Condition: Poor. Ex-library with associated stamps/labels etc. No dustjacket. Dark marks/tanning to cover & bumps/scuffs to edges. Some tears to hinges. Creasing to pages. Tear to p.27/28, minor impact on content. Text good.

1st ed. War Poetry. "Some of the poems in this book have appeared in John O' London's Weekly; Life and Letters Today; Poetry (London); Poetry Quarterly; The Times Literary Supplement; in several Anthologies; and in Magazines in the Middle East." 19.5cms x 13cms. Pp.59, toning to pages. Black cloth spine with gilt title, blue paper covered boards. VG.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Light blue wraps, lettered in brown. Minor handling wear, 1/2" closed tear along top front cover edge. Contents a bit toned. 63 pp. Scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 0.0.

First Edition. His third volume during wartime. Warm and rather cryptic gift inscription to the front endpaper dated 1950.Gg in price clipped jacket which has a chip to the front corner and wear to spine.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2 (1946, 1947). Two volumes (all published?), bound respecitvely in light blue wraps lettered in brown, red wraps lettered/illus. in white. Both show minor handling wear; No. 1 has 1/2" closed tear along top front cover edge. Contents a bit toned. 63 + 52 pp. Scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Wrappers. First Edition. Very nice copy in dust-wrapper The author's first book.

First Edition. Very nice copy in slightly darkened and chipped dust-wrapper. From the library of Roy Fuller with his antipathetic autograph notes on the verso of the loosely inserted review slip, including "R's poems suffer from a ferocious dullness".