Alexander, William

Connecticut Valley Onion Supply and Distribution

Cance, Alexander E.; Machmer, William L. And Read, Frederick W. · 1916 · Valley Books

$6.00 (€5.37 | £4.50 | ¥953)

Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station 122pp. White Wrappers. Several photos and illustrations. Staple bound. Slight wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Bulletin 169. Amherst, MA Very Good

Life of William Blake

Alexander Gilchrist; William Blake · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,475.00 (€1,762.81 | $1,968.05 | ¥312,530)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1880. Cloth. The second and expanded edition of Alexander Gilchrist's illustrated biography on the life and work of William Blake. The second, expanded edition.Complete in two volumes.An insightful biography on the life and work of William Blake,...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper with Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes; Alexander Pope

William Cowper; Charles Cowden Clarke [editor]; Alexander Pope · 0 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.68 | $86.73 | ¥13,772)

London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1872. Cloth. A complete two volume set of this collection of poetry from William Cowper and Alexander Pope, with a biographical sketch of the authors. Complete in two volumes. Scarce set. With a collection of poetry from William Cowper, an...

Loving Cup

Joan Butler; [Robert William Alexander] · 1948 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.12 | $130.76 | ¥20,765)

London, Stanley Paul & Co. LTD, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce comical novel by Robert William Alexander, written under his pseudonym Joan Butler. The first edition, first impression.A scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Lovin...

A Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testament: Or a Dictionary and Alphabetical Index to the Bible with a Concordance to the Apocrypha, and a Compendium of the Holy Scriptures

Alexander Cruden; William Youngman · 1878 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.59 | $113.41 | ¥18,010)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1872-1878. Leather. A calf bound copy of this volume of eighteenth century Bible concordance by the Scottish author Alexander Cruden. A later edition.  In a half brown calf binding. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Cruden. Collated,...

The Invasion of the Crimea; Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan

Alexander William Kinglake · 1863 · Rooke Books

£2,400.00 (€2,868.30 | $3,202.25 | ¥508,523)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1863-87. First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound first edition set of Alexander William Kinglake's magnum opus, studying the history and causes of the Crimean War. A rare to see full first edition set of this renowned ...

Eothen, or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

Alexander William Kinglake · 1845 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€454.15 | $507.02 | ¥80,516)

London, John Ollivier, 1845 . Leather. Vibrantly illustrated with hand coloured lithographs, this is the second edition of Kinglake's account of his travels in the East. The single volume second edition of this work, bound in two volumes.First published the year prior, in...

Eothen

Alexander William Kinglake · 0 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.71 | $80.06 | ¥12,713)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, c1909. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this very popular work of Eastern travel from writer Alexander William Kinglake. With a frontispiece. A very popular work of Eastern travel in which the author describes a journey he made ten years earlier in ...

General View of the Agriculture in Berkshire, the County of Berwick, & East Lothian

William Pearce; George Buchan-Hepburn; Alexander Lowe · 1794 · Rooke Books

£740.00 (€884.39 | $987.36 | ¥156,795)

London, W. Bulmer and Co.; John Moir; B. Millan, 1794. First edition. Leather. Three scarce illustrated agricultural works from the late 18th century regarding Berkshire, East Lothian, and Berwick, handsomely bound together in half calf. Three interesting agricultural works re...

The Invasion of the Crimea

Alexander William Kinglake · 1863 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€926.22 | $1,034.06 | ¥164,210)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1863-87. Leather. A complete set of Alexander William Kinglake's magnum opus, 'The Invasion of the Crimea', all early editions, complete with illustrations and folding plates. Complete in eight volumes. Handsome...

A Discourse of the Qualities and Worth of Thomas Chalmers

William Lindsay Alexander · 1847 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.71 | $80.06 | ¥12,713)

Edinburgh, John d Lowe, 1847. Cloth. An uncommon work on the teachings of Scottish church leader Thomas Chalmers. The first edition of this work.Written by William Lindsay Alexander, a Scottish church leader. He had published many sermons and pamphlets in addition to larger wo...

The Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Alexander Dyce (ed.) · 1877 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,314.64 | $1,467.70 | ¥233,073)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1877. Fine Binding. A charming nine volume collection of the works of William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) remains one of the most influential and recognisable figures in the history of English literature, seen as the world's great...

Life of William Blake, with Selections from His Poems and Other Writings

Alexander Gilchrist; William Blake · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,434.15 | $1,601.13 | ¥254,261)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1880. Cloth. An exceptional example of the preferred second edition of Alexander Gilchrist's richly illustrated biography of William Blake, in the publisher's wonderfully decorative original cloth. The two volume second edition of this work....

The Plays of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Alexander Chalmers [ed.] · 1826 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,015.85 | $1,134.13 | ¥180,102)

London, Printed for C. and J. Rivington; T Egerton; J. Cuthell; et al. 1826 . Leather. A neatly bound complete eight volume set of plays by William Shakespeare, in full brown morocco. A handsomely bound set of plays by William Shakespeare.William Shakespeare was an English pla...

Eothen

Alexander William Kinglake · 1889 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.68 | $86.73 | ¥13,772)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. Leather. A smart new edition of Kinglake"s Eothen, his celebrated 1844 travel narrative through the Near East, in a full green morocco binding. Bound in a full green morocco binding. New edition.Alexander William Kinglake's first...

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope; Adolphus William Ward [editor] · 1904 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.41 | $160.11 | ¥25,426)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. Leather. A smartly bound copy of the Globe Edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Alexander Pope. The Globe Edition. The collected poetry of Alexander Pope, an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenmen...

Set Fair

Joan Butler [Robert William Alexander] · 1952 · Rooke Books

£117.00 (€139.83 | $156.11 | ¥24,790)

London, Stanley Paul & Co. 1952 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this entertaining novel by Joan Butler, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Written b...

The Cambridge Shakespeare Library

William Shakespeare; Catherine M. S. Alexander [editor] · 2003 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.12 | $240.17 | ¥38,139)

London, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Cloth. A very smart three volume set of Shakespeare criticism and commentary from Cambridge University Press. Complete in three volumes. Representing the best in modern Shakespearean criticism, with one hundred and forty articles arran...

Full House

Joan Butler [Robert William Alexander] · 1947 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.39 | $166.78 | ¥26,486)

London, Stanley Paul and Co, 1947 . First edition. Cloth. 'Full of sparkling humour', this is a smart copy of the first edition of scarce farce from Joan Butler, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. The very scarce first edition, first impre...

The Invasion of the Crimea; Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan

Alexander William Kinglake · 1863 · Rooke Books

£2,000.00 (€2,390.25 | $2,668.54 | ¥423,769)

Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1863-87. First edition. Cloth. A scarce full first edition copy of Alexander William Kinglake's magnum opus, studying the history and causes of the Crimean War. Complete in eight volumes.All volumes are first editions of ths...