Beerbohm, Max

The Happy Hypocrite

Max Beerbohm · 1897 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.64 | $185.70 | ¥29,674)

New York and London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1897. First edition. Paperback. The first edition in book form of this comical reimagining of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Max Beerbohm. The first edition in book form.In a smart custom cloth chemise, in a fine condi...

Rossetti and His Circle

Max Beerbohm · 1922 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.77 | $119.38 | ¥19,076)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first edition copy of this collection of caricatures and drawings of famous artists, writers, and poets by Max Beerbohm. Drawn by parodist Max Beerbohm, an nineteenth and twentieth-century English essayist, c...

The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill

Max Beerbohm · 1928 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.61 | $198.96 | ¥31,794)

London, William Heinemann, 1928. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Max Beerbohm complete with a full colour frontispiece illustration by the author. The wonderful tale of a dragon meeting the locals of Hay Hill.Written by Max Beerbohm (1872-1956), an English essay writer...

2 Vols Around Theatres

Max Beerbohm · 1930 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.35 | $331.61 | ¥52,989)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 . Leather. The first American edition of Beerbohm"s collected theatre criticism, complete in two volumes and handsomely bound in half morocco by T. Lloyd. Uniformly bound in a handsome half morocco binding with marbled paper boards by T. Lloyd....

(1941) British Birds on Lake, River and Stream; (1943) Fishes of Britain&Apos;S Rivers and Lakes; (1943) the Poet&Apos;S Corner; (1944) English Ballet; (1944) Children As Artists; (1945) the Leaves of Southwell; (1945) the Bayeux Tapestry; (1945) Poisonous Fungi; (1946) Flowers of Marsh and Stream; (1947) Russian Icons; (1947) English Book Illustration: 1800-1900; (1947) a Selection of Engravings on Wood by Thomas Bewick; (1948) British Military Uniforms; (1948) Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer; (1948

Phyllis Barclay-Smith; J. R. Norman; Sir Max Beerbohm; Janet Leeper; R. R. Tomlinson; Nikolaus Pevsner; Eric Maclagan; John Ramsbottom; Iolo A. Williams; David Talbot Rice; Philip James; John Rayner; James Laver; T. D. Barlow; C. H. Gibbs-Smith · 1941 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.53 | $238.76 | ¥38,152)

London and New York, Penguin Books Limited, 1941-1957. Hardback. An attractive and highly illustrated collection of King Penguin Books, sixteen of which are first editions and five of which retain their original dust wrappers. A delightful collection of twenty-one "King Pengui...

Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet

Max Beerbohm · 1931 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.49 | $258.65 | ¥41,332)

London, Leadley, 1931. First edition. Vellum. One of 900 copies of Max Beerbohm"s folio caricature series, depicting the stars of Noel Coward"s operatta "Bitter Sweet", complete with five fine colour plates. This is number 663 of the edition of 900 copies of the portfolio of "...

Rossetti and His Circle

Max Beerbohm · 1922 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.78 | $112.75 | ¥18,016)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a collection of amusing caricatures on Gabriel Rossetti and his fellow pre-Raphaelites, created by eminent caricaturist Max Beerbohm. The first edition of Rossetti and His Circle, a collection of caric...

Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story

Max Beerbohm · 1911 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.55 | $232.12 | ¥37,092)

London, William Heinemann, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Max Beerbohm's first and only novel, a satirical tale surrounding the titular character's experiences at Oxford University. The first edition. Rebound in a striking striped cloth.'Zulei...

The Poets&Apos; Corner

Max Beerbohm · 1904 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.66 | $172.44 | ¥27,554)

London, William Heinemann, 1904 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Max Beerbohm's humorously illustrated collection of satirical caricatures of famed poets. A first edition.Illustrated with twenty colour lithograph plates by Beerbohm. Extra-illustrated with l...

Seven Men

Max Beerbohm · 1919 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.67 | $64.99 | ¥10,386)

London, Heinemann, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of five short stories by English caricaturist and writer Max Beerbhom. The first edition of this collection of five tales described by Virginia Woolf as 'a little masterpiece&apos.This co...

Zuleika Dobson

Max Beerbohm; Francis Hackett [intro] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.75 | $126.01 | ¥20,136)

New York, The Modern Library, 1926. Cloth. A satire of undergraduate life at Oxford University, the only novel of essayist Max Beerbohm. An early edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper, which lists 278 book...

A Survey

Max Beerbohm · 1921 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.79 | $106.11 | ¥16,957)

London, William Heinemann, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lovely collection of caricatures and satirical cartoons. First edition of A Survey by Max Beerbohm in the original publisher's red cloth binding. A lovely collection of caricatures and satir...

The Poets&Apos; Corner

Max Beerbohm · 1904 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.79 | $106.11 | ¥16,957)

London, William Heinemann, 1904. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of Max Beerbohm's celebrated The Poets' Corner, illustrated with twenty witty colour lithograph caricatures of notable poets. In the publisher's original printed paper wrappers. First e...

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford Love Story

Max Beerbohm · 1911 · Rooke Books

£255.00 (€305.34 | $338.24 | ¥54,049)

London, William Heinemann, 1911. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Beerbohm's significant satire in the original "A" binding. The first edition, first impression. In the publisher's original plain, brown cloth. Gallatin's "A" binding, one of only 2150 c...

Catalogue of Another Exhibition of Caricatures

Max Beerbohm · 1925 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.71 | $145.91 | ¥23,315)

London, Ernest Brown & Phillips, 1925. Paperback. A very scarce catalogue of a caricature exhibition by essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. A very scarce booklet cataloguing a variety of caricatures, including those of H. G. Wells, Lord Balfour, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad,...

Seven Men

Max Beerbohm · 1919 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.68 | $165.80 | ¥26,495)

London, William Heinemann, 1919. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Beerbohm's popular collection short stories, scarcely seen in it's original dust wrapper. The first edition of this short story collection by celebrated caricaturist and parodist, Ma...

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford Love Story

Max Beerbohm · 1911 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.48 | $265.29 | ¥42,391)

London, William Heinemann, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Max Beerbohm's first and only novel, a satire of Edwardian undergraduate life at Oxford University. The first edition, first impression. Gallatin's binding A in plain cloth, one of only 2150...

Fifty Caricatures

Max Beerbohm · 1913 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.90 | $53.06 | ¥8,478)

London, William Heinemann, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of caricatures from English parodist and caricaturist Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm. First edition. Illustrated with forty-eight tipped in plates and two standard plates. The fifty ...

Mainly on the Air

Max Beerbohm · 1946 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.81 | $99.48 | ¥15,897)

London, William Heinemann LTD, 1946. Cloth. A series of essays and radio broadcasts by Max Beerbohm, a review copy, given by T. R. Fyvel to Roy Fuller An early issue, in the very scarce green dust wrapper, with the publisher's name slightly blurred to the tail of the spin...

The Female Approach with Masculine Sidelights

Ronald Searle; Max Beerbohm · 1949 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.78 | $112.75 | ¥18,016)

London, MacDonald, 1949. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this highly entertaining and amusing collection of drawings by the renowned illustrator Ronald Searle. First edition, first impression. The second of the St. Trinian's School works. An amusing an...