Narrativa e romanzi

The Book and the Brotherhood

Iris Murdoch · 1987 · Rooke Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this novel from Irish and British novelist Iris Murdoch, considered to be among her best work. First edition. The story of a circle of Oxford University graduates in 1980s England. The eponymous...

Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae

Publius Terentius Afer; Terence · 1772 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

Birmingham, Johannis Baskerville; John Baskerville, 1772. First edition. Leather. The first John Baskerville edition of this volume of Terence's six surviving classical plays. The first John Baskerville edition. In the original Latin.This volume includes Terence's s...

A Child&Apos;S Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1908 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1908. Cloth. A pleasing illustrated edition of this influential volume of children's poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, with colour plates. The first large paper edition with colour plates. This illustrated edition first published in 1895....

Fables from Aesop and Others

Aesop · 1944 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New York, Transatlantic Arts, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated collection of fables attributed to Aesop and others. First edition illustrated by Arnrid Johnston. With the vanishingly scarce original price-clipped dust wrapper. Illu...

The Lesson of the Master, the Spoils of Poynton, the Finer Grain, the Ivory Tower, the Aspern Papers

Henry James · 1892 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Macmillan and Co; William Heinemann; Methuen & Co, LTD; W. Collins Sons & Co LTD, 1892-1922. First edition. Cloth. A set collecting together five titles by Henry James, including two novels and three volumes of novellas. A nice set of five works by the eminent Anglo-Am...

Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists in Three Books

R. Dodsley [Richard Dodsley]; Esop [Aesop] · 1761 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.59 | $2,378.05 | ¥379,744)

Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1761. First edition. Leather. The renowned first Robert Dodsley edition of Aesop's fables, published by Baskerville, adorned with wood engravings, and beautifully bound in vellum and crushed morocco, with a uniform cloth slipcase and chemise....

The Fables of Aesop and Others, Translated Into Human Nature

Aesop · 1857 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.48 | $508.64 | ¥81,223)

London, W. Kent & Co, 1857 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Charles H. Bennett's distinctive Victorian-era interpretation of Aesop"s classic fables, illustrated throughout with hand-coloured plates by Bennett himself. A very scarce first edition.In...

The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb · 1910 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1910. Vellum. A smartly bound copy of this brightly illustrated edition of Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia. Illustrated with twenty-four colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of essays first published in book form in 1823, with titles includ...

The Affecting History of the Duchess of C**

Madame de Genlis; Maria Josepha · 1782 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, Dean and Munday, c1820. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce English translation of a short tale from Madame de Genlis' 'Adele et Theodore', illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece. A vanishingly scarce work.Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece...

Under Drake&Apos;S Flag

G. A. Henty · 1883 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, Blackie & Son, 1883 [1882]. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this sixteenth century adventure novel by Henty, complete with plates. The scarce first edition, dated 1883 to the title page, though this work was published on the 31st August 1882, as state...

Bouquinistes Et Bouquineurs. Physiologie Des Quais de Paris Du Pont Royal Au Pont Sully

Octave Uzanne · 1893 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

Paris, Librairies-Imprimeries Reunies May et Motteroz, 1893. First edition. Paperback. A limited edition work on the bookseller and bookworm communities in Paris, a lovely illustrated work by Octave Uzanne. The first and limited edition of 1,600 copies, of which this is one of...

Ayesha: The Return of She

H. Rider Haggard · 1905 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated gothic fantasy novel from the popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. The first edition, With the following misprints as per the first edition: p.49 - "Khublighan" for "Khubi...

Reminiscences of J.L. Toole Related by Himself and Chronicled by John Hatton

Joseph Hatton; J. L. Toole · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, George Routledge and Sons Limited, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A signed edition of Joseph Hatton's biography on J. L. Toole, the English actor and theatrical producer, with a presentation inscription from J. L. Toole. The cheap edition.J. L. Toole's presentat...

The Edge of Madness

Michael Dobbs · 2008 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Simon and Schuster, 2008. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this Harry Jones thriller from British author Michael Dobbs, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Cyber-warfare: the kin...

A Collection of Studies on the Life and Works of Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell; Richard Fifoot; Geoffrey Elborn; Richard Greene [editor] · 1963 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London; New York, Rupert Hart-Davis; Sheldon Press; Peter Owen; Sinclair-Stevenson Peter Lang; Virago Press, 1963-1997. First edition. Cloth. A collection of smart volumes on the life and works of British poet and critic Edith Sitwell, with one signed volume. Six volumes. A co...

A Collection of First Edition Novels by Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin · 1999 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Orion, 1999-2022. First edition. Cloth. A very smart collection of nineteen first edition volumes from Scottish crime writer Sir Ian James Rankin. Nineteen volumes. First editions. Written by Sir Ian James Rankin, a Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known ...

Edward Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam

Holbrook Jackson · 1899 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)

London; Liverpool, David Nutt; The Liverpool Booksellers' Co Limited, 1899. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this critical work on Edward Fitzgerald by Holbrook Jackson, a touching copy inscribed by the author to his mother. The first edition.Author's p...

A Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay

J. Sheridan Le Fanu; Herbert van Thal · 1947 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Home and Van Thal, 1947. Cloth. A brilliant gothic ghost story by Sheridan le Fanu, a nice copy in the original dust wrapper, and Felix Kelly frontispiece. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A gripping and darkly romantic story by the master writer of gothic ghost ...

Cuthbert Hartington: A Tale of Two Sieges

G. A. Henty · 1899 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, S. W. Partidge, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first retitled edition of G. A. Henty's thrilling work of historical fiction, in a charming pictorial cloth binding. The very scarce first retitled edition of 'Cuthbert Hartington: A Tale of Two Sieg...

Rhymes of Childhood

James Whitcomb Riley · 1891 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Indianapolis, The Bowen-Merrill Co. 1891. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of children's verses from American writer James Whitcomb Riley. First edition, second state. The first being in a full maroon cloth binding. With a frontispiece. A col...