James, Henry

Horace

Horace; Philip Francis [trans.]; Henry James Pye · 1827 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.60 | $257.60 | ¥41,140)

London, J. F. Dove, 1827 . Leather. A charming edition of the works of Roman lyric poet Augustus, in a full calf binding. A delightful and scarce edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and engraved title page, with a further vignette illustration to the centre of...

Watch and Ward

Henry James Jr. · 1878 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€832.56 | $918.10 | ¥146,629)

Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition in book form of Henry James's debut novel. The first edition in book form of this work, in Edel & Laurence binding a, retaining final blank. A6.One-thousand copies of this first edition w...

Italian Hours

Henry James · 1909 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.69 | $198.15 | ¥31,646)

London, William Heinemann, 1909. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated book of travel writing from Henry James. Early edition. Illustrated with a colour tipped-in frontispiece and sixty-three plates, thirty-one of which are in colour tipped-in. Collated complete. A collection of es...

William Wetmore Story and His Friends

Henry James · 1903 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.66 | $217.97 | ¥34,811)

London , William Blackwood and Sons, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume set of this biography of sculptor William Wetmore Story by Henry James, in the first edition. First edition copies, complete in two volumes. William Wetmore Story was an American sculptor, ...

The Outcry

Henry James · 1911 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.76 | $151.92 | ¥24,262)

London, Methuen & Co. 1911. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry James's novel, The Outcry. First edition. Originally conceived as a three-act play, this work was converted into a novel in 1911 and was the last novel completed by James before his death in 1916...

The Book of Wonderful Characters Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in All Ages and Countries

Henry Wilson, James Caulfield · 1874 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.18 | $521.80 | ¥83,336)

London , John Camden Hotten, 1874. Cloth. A thoroughly illustrated copy of this volume of eccentric biographies. A later edition of this scarce work. This volume is a collection of biographies of remarkable and eccentric people, including Francis Battalia the stone-eater, Jac...

An International Episode, the Pension Beaurepas, the Point of View

Henry James · 1883 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.70 | $64.73 | ¥10,338)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1883. Leather. Three popular short stories from the renowned American-British writer, Henry James. A new edition. Rebound in smart quarter morocco with gilt detail. Three popular short stories by the renowned American-British writer Henry James. Compr...

Pedigrees of the Family of James of Culgarth, West Auckland, and Barrock, and Their Kinsfolk, Corrected As Far As Possibly Up to June, 1913

[Sir Henry Evan Murchison James] [William Ashton James] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.50 | $317.04 | ¥50,634)

Exeter, William Pollard & Co LTD, 1913. Vellum. A history of the James family of Culgarth, West Auckland, and Barrock, illustrated throughout with many folding plates. In a half vellum binding. A very scarce work. An interesting look at the family of James that has lived in Cu...

Stories Revived: First Series

Henry James · 1885 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.60 | $257.60 | ¥41,140)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1885 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the first edition of the first series of the 'revived' short stories of Henry James, including "Pandora" and "A Day of Days". The first edition of the first series of this work, which extended...

The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End

Henry James · 1898 · Rooke Books

£1,550.00 (€1,856.79 | $2,047.56 | ¥327,014)

London, William Heinemann, 1898. First edition. Cloth. One of 1500 copies of the first impression of Henry James' two novellas, including his iconic ghost story 'The Turn of the Screw', in the original cloth. The first edition, first impression consisting of 150...

The Poetic of Aristotle

Aristotle; Henry James Pye · 1788 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€592.98 | $653.90 | ¥104,433)

London, John Stockdale, 1788 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Henry James Pye"s English Aristotle, in a contemporary full calf binding, issued shortly before Pye"s appointment as Poet Laureate. In a contemporary full marbled calf binding.  First edit...

The Life of Samuel Johnson; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; the Master of Ballantrae: A Winter&Apos;S Tale; Quentin Durward; Nicholas Nickleby; Les Miserables; the Tenant of Wildfell Hall; the Count of Monte-Cristo: Volume II; the Compleat Angler; the Imitation of Christ; the Greatest Thing in the World.

James Boswell; Robert Louis Stevenson; Sir Walter Scott; Charles Dickens; Victor Hugo; Anne Bronte; Alexandre Dumas; Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton; Thomas à Kempis; Henry Drummond · 1920 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.75 | $158.52 | ¥25,317)

London and Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press, c1920. Leather. A lovely illustrated collection of Collins classics, including the likes of Dickens, Stevenson and Scott, smartly presented in red, predominantly morocco, bindings. Collection comprised of:The Life of Samuel Johnson...

The Month and Catholic Review

Henry James Coleridge · 1874 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.83 | $105.68 | ¥16,878)

London , Simpkin Marshall and Co, Burns and Oates, 1874. Leather. A collection of all issues of The Month from the year 1874 across three volumes. The Month was a long-running monthly periodical which was in print for 139 years from 1864-2001. For the majority of its history t...

Forty-Five Years of Sport

James Henry Corballis; Arthur T. Fisher [ed.] · 1891 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.81 | $118.89 | ¥18,988)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A very smart guide to a handful of sports practised by the author, including golf, falconry and fishing. The first edition, first impression of this work. In the publisher's original gilt-decorated cloth. With...

The Spoils of Poynton

Henry James · 1897 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.54 | $290.62 | ¥46,415)

London, William Heinemann, 1897. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant novel by Henry James, following the fate of a family and their country house, in the scarce first state binding. The first edition in the first state binding, with four irises to the fro...

The Ivory Tower

Henry James · 1917 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.40 | $129.46 | ¥20,676)

London, W. Collins Sons & Co, 1917 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry James's unfinished novel, set in the American Gilded Age. The first edition, first impression. Only 2,000 copies of the first edition were produced.An unfinished novel of the Gilded Age....

The Reverberator

Henry James · 1888 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.81 | $118.89 | ¥18,988)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1888. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. one volume edition of this comical novel by Henry James. The first U.K. one volume edition.'The Reverberator' is a comical novel by Henry James, following a family who find their lives in disarray w...

The Finer Grain

Henry James · 1910 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.40 | $129.46 | ¥20,676)

London, Methuen & Co, 1910 . Cloth. The first UK edition of this collection of five short stories from celebrated novelist Henry James. The first UK edition of this work, of which 1,500 copies were produced.With thirty-one page publisher's catalogue dated September 1910. ...

The Other House

Henry James · 1896 · Rooke Books

£800.00 (€958.34 | $1,056.80 | ¥168,781)

London, William Heinemann, 1896. First edition. Cloth. Henry James' enticing and exciting murder mystery novel, 'The Other House', Volume I being a first edition. Complete in two volumes. Volume I is the first edition, and Volume II is the second edition. Scarce...

Alfred; an Epic Poem, in Six Books.

Henry James Pye · 1801 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.66 | $217.97 | ¥34,811)

London, W. Bulmer and Co. 1801 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Poet Laureate Henry James Pye's epic poem about King Alfred the Great's struggles against the Danes. A scarce first edition. An epic poem about King Alfred the Great and his struggle again...