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C1906 the Works of Lord Macaulay Vol 1 Literary Essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay · 0 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, George Routledge & Sons, Limited, c1906. Leather. A smart volume of the literary essays of British political figure and historian Thomas Baron Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay. In the publisher's original navy morocco leather binding.This edition is undated. Dated her...

Dylan Thomas: Letters to Vernon Watkins

Dylan Thomas; Vernon Watkins [intro, editor] · 1957 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; Faber and Faber Ltd. 1957 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this work, revealing 20 years of revealing correspondence between Dylan Thomas and fellow poet and close friend, Vernon Watkins. In the publisher's original green cl...

Aesop at Court; or, the Labyrinth of Versailles

Charles Perrault; Daniel Bellamy · 1768 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.31 | $1,651.43 | ¥263,629)

London, Printed for ye editor, 1768 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Daniel Bellamy's translation of this satire about Aesop navigating the 'labyrinth' of the French court, illustrated with engraved plates by George Bickham. A very scar...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop · 1908 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1908. Cloth. The very scarce first Lucy Fitch Perkins illustrated edition of the popular fables of Aesop, with her fantastic colour plates throughout, and in the original early dust wrapper. The first Lucy Fitch Perkins illustrated editio...

Aesop without Morals: The Famous Fables and a Life of Aesop

Lloyd W. Daly · 1961 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

New York, Thomas Yoseloff, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this newly translated and 'uncensored' collected of Aesop's fables. First edition. With the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.This collection of Aesop's fables is ...

The Big Book of Fables

Walter Jerrold [ed.] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,707)

London, Blackie and Sons Limited , 1912. First edition. Leather. A striking copy of this anthology of fables, lavishly illustrated with colour plates and bound by collector and typographer, Eric Sweet. The first trade edition of this delightful book of fables edited by Walter ...

Twenty Four Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists

Aesop; Sir Roger l'Estrange · 1928 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Ernest Benn, Limited, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of fables and myths adorned with lovely illustrations after Marcus Gheeraerts. Twenty-four fables of Aesop and others collected into one volume, the first trade edition. Illustra...

Westward Ho!

Charles Kingsley · 0 · Rooke Books

£117.00 (€140.24 | $154.57 | ¥24,676)

London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co. c1900. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this historical novel from British author Charles Kingsley. With a frontispiece. A historical novel beginning in Bideford in North Devon during the reign of Elizabeth I. The novel follows the adven...

Lions and Lobsters and Foxes and Frogs

Ennis Rees · 1971 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Reading, Massachusetts , Young Scott Books, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A colourful collection of Aesop"s fables adapted into verse, illustrated by Edward Gorey, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With the publisher's...

The Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author

Aesop · 1865 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1865 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry Walker Herrick's illustrated edition of the classic moral fables of Aesop. A charming mid-nineteenth century American edition of the fables of Aesop. This is a first edition thus, being ...

Fables D&Apos;Esope

Aesop · 1913 · Rooke Books

£690.00 (€827.07 | $911.59 | ¥145,523)

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of this signed limited edition of the fables of Aesop, the first French language edition of these fables to feature the illustrations of Arthur Rackham. A signed limited edition, with this being number 15...

A Hundred Fables of Aesop

Aesop; Sir Roger L'Estrange [trans.]; Kenneth Grahame [intro.]; George Beal · 1899 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head; Angus & Robertson, 1899-1977. First edition. Cloth. Two scarce editions of Aesop's fables, including the very scarce first edition of the Percy J. Billinghurst illustrated edition, and a late twentieth century edition also featuring his ...

Aesop&Apos;S Animal Fables Picture and Story

Aesop · 1947 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London, Juvenile Productions Ltd. c1947. Leather. Two copies of a charmingly illustrated mid-twentieth century juvenile edition of the fables of Aesop, vibrantly illustrated in colour by E. H. Davie. Present here are two copies of this children's edition of the animal fab...

Aesopiska Fabler; Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop; Binder, Lafontaine, Rundell; Jean de la Fontaine, and L'Estrange [trans.] · 1875 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)

London; Stockholm, Cassell, Petter and Galpin; Familj-Journalens Boktryckeri-Aktiebolag, 1875 . Cloth. A charming collection of two editions of Aesop's fables, both featuring the striking illustrations of painter and illustrator Ernest Griset. Present here are two 1875 ed...

Baby&Apos;S Own Aesop

Aesop · 1887 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,889)

London, Frederick Warne, 1887 . First edition. Cloth. A vibrant example of the first edition of this charmingly illustrated children's edition of Aesop's moral tales, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work.In the scarce publisher's o...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources

Aesop; Rev. Thomas James · 1848 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)

London, John Murray, 1848 . First edition. Cloth. A vibrantly bound example of the first Thomas James edition of Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by celebrated artist John Tenniel. The first edition of these fables from Rev. Thomas James.Lewis Carroll was so impress...

South Sea Bubbles

The Earl and the Doctor; [The Earl of Pembroke]; [George Henry Kingsley] · 1872 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,017)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1872. First edition. Leather. The first edition of The Earl of Pembroke and G. H. Kingsley's account of their travels through the south seas, including his controversial chapter on missionaries, bound in quarter leather. The first edition,...

Latterday Symphony

Romer Wilson · 1927 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1927. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interwar novella by Romer Wilson, by Nonesuch Press. The first edition, published by Nonesuch.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A novelette following the unusual relationship between a white Bri...

Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield · 1882 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.20 | ¥146,578)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1882 . Leather. The complete Hughenden editions of the works of the former Prime Minister of the UK, Benjamin Disraeli, sumptuously bound in half morocco by Sotheran. The Hughenden Edition of Disraeli's works, complete in eleven volumes.Un...

The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To Which Are Prefixed Two Dissertations. I. On the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe. II. On the Introduction of Learning Into England.

Thomas Warton · 1775 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.53 | ¥60,107)

London, J. Dodsley et al, 1775-1781. First edition. Cloth. A lovely complete set of this pioneering literary history from Thomas Warton, comprising first and early editions. Consisting of the second edition of Volume I (1775), the first edition of Volume II (1778) and the firs...