Thomas, Edward

A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea

Thomas Bell; Robert F. Tomes; Edward Richard Alston · 1874 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, John Van Voorst, 1874 . Cloth. The preferred second edition of Thomas Bell's history of British quadrupeds, illustrated with woodcuts throughout. The second edition of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding. A charming history of British quadru...

Goethe&Apos;S the Story of Reynard the Fox

J. W. Von Goethe; Thomas James Arnold; Edward Lazarre · 1954 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

New York, The Heritage Press, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A charming copy of Goethe's Reynard the Fox translated by Thomas James Arnold, with a new introduction by Edward Lazare, and 25 striking wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. In the publisher's original quarter...

Oxford

Edward Thomas · 1903 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1903. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Edward Thomas and John Fulleylove's charming celebration of the city of Oxford. First edition. Illustrated with sixty colour plates from watercolours, each retaining the original captioned tissue g...

Reviews of Tales in Prose and Verse, and Dramas

Thomas Edward Heath · 1906 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, King, Sell, & Olding, 1906. Cloth. A very scarce and unique scrapbook containing clippings of reviews for the posthumously published anthology of tales by Thomas Edward Heath. A very scarce unique blank volume containing cuttings of reviews for the 1906 publication &ap...

Rest and Unrest

Edward Thomas · 1910 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Duckworth & Co. 1910 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of short stories by prolific British writer Edward Thomas. The first edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding.  A work by Edward Thomas, a British writer of English...

Oxford

Edward Thomas · 1903 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, A. & C. Black, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated limited edition de luxe of this narrative history of the city of Oxford. A limited edition de luxe, published alongside the first trade edition, being one of three hundred copies signed by the publish...

Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years Book One of the Memoirs of Eleanor Farjeon

Edward Thomas; Eleanor Farjeon · 1958 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, Oxford University Press, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of the letters of Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon from the last four years of his life. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. A ...

Some British Birds

Edward Thomas [ed.]; et al. · 1908 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of wonderfully illustrated study of British birds, edited by Edward Thomas. First edition.Very scarce. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth, rebacked. Edited by British wri...

A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides

John Alexander Harvie-Brown; Thomas Edward Buckley · 1892 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1892. First edition. Cloth. An interesting work about the animals of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides. With 15 illustrations and a colour folding map. A fascinating work about the animals of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides by naturalists John Alexander Har...

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels

Thomas Ingoldsby Esq. [Richard Harris Barnham]; Mrs. Edward A. Bond [editor] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1894. Cloth. A smart set of Richard Harris Barham's popular collection of fantastical short stories, illustrated throughout. Complete in three volumes. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page, and twenty-five pla...

The Prose of Edward Thomas

Edward Thomas; Helen Thomas; Roland Gant [Ed.] · 1948 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, The Falcon Press Limited, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this compilation of the prose of Edward Thomas, with an introduction by Helen Thomas, his widow. First edition, in the original bright green cloth binding, with the original dust wrapper. Compile...

The Woodland Life

Edward Thomas · 1897 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.23 | $759.66 | ¥121,307)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1897. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Edward Thomas' first book - Woodland Life. Scarce. Thomas was just 19 when it was published. Second and only normally seen state of the cover with the decorative panel. Phil...

(1970) a Voyage Towards the South Pole; (1971) Daughter of Tibet; (1991) the Expedition on Hms Dido; (1996) Narrative of an Expedition; (2001) a River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell; (2011) an Empire of Ice; (2013) Mutiny and Aftermath.

James Weddell; Rinchen Dolma Taring; Henry Keppel; R. H. W. Reece; W. M. Carron; Donald Worster; Edward J. Larson; James Morrison; Vanessa Smith; Nicholas Thomas · 1970 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Devon; London; Singapore; Bundaberg; New York; New Haven & London; Honolulu, David & Charles Limited; John Murray; Oxford University Press; Corkwood Press; Yale University Press; University of Hawai'i Pres, 1970-2013. First edition. Cloth. Devon; London; Singapore; Bundab...

The Rhymed Chronicle of Edward Manlove, Concerning the Liberties and Customs of the Lead Mines Within the Wapentake of Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Edward Manlove; Thomas Tapping [Ed.] · 1851 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Shaw and Sons , 1851. Cloth. A scarce reissue of Edward Manlove"s rhymed chronicle of the liberties, laws, and customs governing the lead mines of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Rebound in a quarter navy cloth binding with blue cloth boards. Second edition.A scholarly reissue...

8 Vols Our Beautiful Homeland

Walter Jerrold; R. Murray Gilchrist; Sidney Heath; Arthur L. Salmon; Charles Edwards; F. D. How; George Morley; Edward Thomas; Canon Danks; George Benson; A. G. Bradley; G. E. Mitton; J. A. Nicklin; John Geddie; George Eyre Todd · 0 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd. c1921. Cloth. A beautiful illustrated eight volume collection of works from the Our Beautiful Homeland Series. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings.These copies are undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies hel...

The History of London, and, Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles Round London

William Gray Fearnside; Thomas Harral; William Edward Trotter · 1838 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Orr and Co; Simpkin Marshall and Co, 1838-39. Cloth. Two topographical volumes on London and its surrounding areas bound in one, an extensively illustrated volume. Two volumes bound in one.These two volumes offer a vivid history of London, looking at the great capital ...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; the Christmas Book of Carols and Songs; Rural England; Faust; the Story of Patient Griselda; Rosalynde

Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.]; W. H. Anson [ed.]; Washington Irving; Thomas Lodge; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Anna Swanwick [trans.]; Geoffrey Chaucer; · 1904 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 1904-1907. Cloth. Six beautifully illustrated literary works from Routledge's Photogravure Series. Six works in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front boards.Ink inscription to the front free end ...

The Hills and the Vales

Richard Jefferies; Edward Thomas · 1909 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Duckworth, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed work of nature writing from Richard Jeffries. First edition. A collection of essays on sport, nature and wildlife, with chapters including: choosing a gun, birds of spring, vignettes from nat...

Poems

Edward Thomas · 1917 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Selwyn & Blount, 1917. Hardback. A lovely early edition of this posthumous collection of war poetry from Edward Thomas. Early edition, published just one month after the first.    In the publisher's original paper-backed boards.   Featuring a portrait frontispiece...

Last poems.

Thomas, Edward · 1918 · Aucott & Thomas

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Selwyn & Blount, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in paper covered boards, boards and spine partially tanned, a couple of letters worn from spine label, paper tanned and edges rough cut, final page (95/96) has minor loss at top corner but text uneff...