Narrativa e romanzi

London Irish, a Prayer for Fair Weather, & the Rose Tree

John Broderick · 1979 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Barrie & Jenkins; Marion Boyars, 1979-1985. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of three first edition novels from Irish writer John Broderick, signed and inscribed by the author. Three volumes. First edition. Each volume is signed and inscribed by the author to t...

The Canons of Criticism

Thomas Edwards · 1758 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, C. Bathurst, 1758. Leather. Thomas Edwards' somewhat controversial critical work on William Warbuton's edition of Shakespeare. A volume of literary criticism on Shakespeare.Subtitled as a 'supplement to Mr. Warburton's edition of Shakespear', t...

Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean Genet; B. Frechtman [trans.] · 1949 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)

Paris, Editions Paul Morihien, 1949. First edition. Cloth. The scarce, limited edition, first English language edition of Jean Genet's celebrated debut novel, following the lives of drag queens, petty criminals, and prostitutes in the Parisian underworld. The first Englis...

The First Part of the Life and Achievements of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Peter Motteux [trans.] · 1946 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

New York, The Illustrated Modern Library, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The first Salvador Dali illustrated edition of Cervantes's classic work, illustrated with vibrant colour plates by the Spanish surrealist. The first Salvadore Dali illustrated edition of this work.In t...

The Comic Album: A Book for Every Table

Laman Blanchard; Bon Gaultier; et al. · 1844 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1844. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this very scarce collection of humorous stories and caricatures from the likes of Alfred Crowquill. The first edition. The work was only published in the years 1843 and 44. Illustrated with a monoc...

Crowns

Katharine Hull; Pamela Whitlock · 1947 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this story following a group of four young cousins, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A story following four quite nice, but also quite nasty, children. T...

The Edgar Wallace Police Van: Four Complete Police Novels in One Volume; the Four Adventures of Richard Hannay

Edgar Wallace; John Buchan · 1930 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930-1935. Cloth. Two smart omnibus volumes offering the works of Edgar Wallace and Richard Hannay, the latter complete with the very scarce dust wrapper. Comprising the first impression of the Edgar Wallace omnibus edition, and the sixth impressi...

British Dramatists

Graham Greene · 1942 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, William Collins, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated study of British dramatists from English writer Graham Greene. First edition. Illustrated with eight colour plates and twenty-six black-and-white images. Collated complete. ...

All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches

E. OE. Somerville; Martin Ross [Violet Florence Martin] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1903. Cloth. A third impression of this illustrated collection of Irish sketches from cousins Edith OEnone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin. Third impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates. Collated complete. A charming c...

Hadrian the Seventh

Fr. Rolfe; Frederick Rolfe · 1904 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.36 | $2,576.23 | ¥411,261)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1904. First edition. Leather. The first edition, first issue, of the best known work of Frederick Rolfe, a rumination on the Catholic Church. The first edition, first issue, with the original cloth restored to the endpapers, the original front board wi...

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Gaskell · 1866 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.74 | ¥137,087)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1866. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel, a smartly bound set. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition, published in the same year as the first U.K. edition in book form.Complete ...

Selected Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1817 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

Edinburgh, James Ballantyne and Co for Archibald Constable and Company, 1817-1819. First edition. Leather. A collection of twenty-one volumes of the works of Scottish novelist, poet and historian Sir Walter Scott, in full calf bindings. Including the first edition of the secon...

Mary and Charles Lamb: Poems, Letters, and Remains

W. Carew Hazlitt · 1874 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1874 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this charmingly illustrated biographical study of English writers and siblings Charles and Mary Lamb. A scarce first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates, including a f...

&Apos;Midst the Wild Carpathians

Maurus Jokai [Mór Jókai] · 1940 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Everybody's Books, c1940 . Paperback. A very scarce 1940s copy of Maurus Jokai's historical novel set in seventeenth century Transylvania, rebound in paper wraps in a wartime "Save Paper" campaign. An uncommon novel in all contemporary English language editio...

The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq.

John Dryden · 1760 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.71 | ¥56,944)

London, J. and R. Tonson, 1760 . First edition. Leather. The scarce four volume first comprehensive collected edition of the poetry, translations and literary writings of England's first Poet Laureate, John Dryden. A first edition, complete in four volumes.This was the fi...

Clio

Anatole France · 1900 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.30 | ¥92,797)

Paris , Calmann Levy , 1900. First edition. Leather. A sought after first edition of Anatole France's novel, 'Clio', complete with Alphonse Mucha's beautiful colour plates. The first edition of this work. Handsomely bound in quarter crushed morocco with ma...

The Doctor &C.

Robert Southey · 1836 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1836 . First edition. Leather. The first US edition of Robert Southey's celebrated prose anthology, complete with two volumes bound in one, in a smart half calf binding. Complete in two volumes, bound in one. Bound in a lovely half calf with ...

The Man Who Died

D. H. Lawrence · 1931 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Martin Secker, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this short novel by D. H. Lawrence, printed in a limited run of 2000 copies. The first English edition. This work had previously been published in Paris as a limited edition in 1929 under the title...

Gazette Des Enfants, Journal Hebdomadaire

Leon Guerin [ed.] · 1892 · Rooke Books

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

Harlem, Emrik & Binger, 1892-1893 . First edition. Paperback. A wonderful collection of sixty-nine issues of the charming children's periodical 'Gazette des Enfants', beautifully illustrated with chromolithographic plates. In the original French.Sixty-nine issue...

The Complete Works of Doctor Francois Rabelais: Abstractor of the Quintessence Being an Account of the Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua, and of the Heroic Deeds, Sayings and Marvellous Voyages of His Son the Good Pantagruel

Francois Rabelais · 1927 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.53 | $455.80 | ¥72,762)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1927. Cloth. A limited edition set containing the complete works of French writer, Francois Rabelais, strikingly illustrated by Frank C. Pape. This edition, illustrated by Frank C. Pape and complete in two volumes, limited to 4,300 numbered ...