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Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

Alain Rene Le Sage · 1813 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.53 | ¥60,107)

Paris , A. Belin , 1813 . Leather. A beautifully bound copy of Alain-Rene Lesage's popular picaresque novel, written in the original French, complete in four volumes. Bound in a full calf with gilt tooling. Written in the original French. Stereotype D'Herhan. Complet...

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving · 1905 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London; New York, William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1905. Cloth. Arthur Rackham's strikingly illustrated edition of this popular tale by Washington Irving. The second impression of this Rackham edition, published two months after the first impression in November 1...

An Otter&Apos;S Story

Emil E. Liers · 1953 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

New York, The Viking Press, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming novel about otters by "the otter man" Emil Liers, signed by the author. The first edition, first printing.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper.'An Otter's St...

Maigret Chez le Coroner

Georges Simenon · 1949 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1949. First edition. Paperback. A first edition of this unusual Maigret novel, in which the detective witnesses a coroner's inquest in Tucson, Arizona; with the original dust wrapper. An uncommon first edition copy of this work in the publisher...

L&Apos;Ours En Peluche

Georges Simenon · 1960 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

Paris, Presses de la Cite, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A rare first trade edition copy of one of Simenon's 'romans durs', a semi-autobiographical novel, in the very scarce dust wrapper designed by J. Jacquelin. A very scarce first trade edition of this work in t...

Cupid & Psyche

Joyce Carol Oates · 1970 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

New York, Albondocani Press, 1970. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A lovely limited edition copy of Joyce Carol Oates's modern retelling of Cupid and Psyche, signed by the author. No. 6 of 200 limited edition copies, printed on Hayle paper in Palatino type, in the publi...

Private Job Muggleston: Or, Fun&Apos; I&Apos; Th&Apos; Army

Walter Hampson · 1917 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

London, William Nicholson & Sons, 1917 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce signed limited edition of Walter Hampson's illustrated comic novel. No. 17 of 30 copies of this limited edition 'Author's Edition', signed by the author to the bookplate t...

Les Gens Chics

GYP [Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Paris, G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, 1895 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this entertaining novel by Gyp, the pseudonym of Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau. Illustrated with colour plates. In the original French.The first edition of this work from Sibylle Aimée Ma...

Toad of Toad Hall

A. A. Milne · 1929 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

London, Methuen & Co, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of A. A. Milne's dramatic adaptation of beloved children's novel 'The Wind in the Willows', in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's origin...

Leaves from a Missionary&Apos;S Notebook

Stephen Tennant · 1929 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The beautifully illustrated and scarce first trade edition of Stephen Tennant's highly amusing work on the adventures faced by a missionary sent to the tropics. The scarce first trade edition of this work, which was i...

Tales of War

Lord Dunsany · 1918 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Dublin; London, The Talbot Press Ltd; T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Lord Dunsany's collection of remarkable short stories on war, mixing the tough realities of war and death with the fantasy elements he is best known for. The fir...

Graziella

A. de Lamartine · 1929 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Cloth. A charmingly bound limited English edition of this novel from French author Alphonse de Lamartine. The first thus of this illustrated English translation, limited to 1,600 copies. This copy is number 371. In the publisher's origin...

Thorns

Robert Silverberg · 1969 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,912)

London, Rapp and Whiting , 1969. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first UK edition of this gritty science fiction novel from American author Robert Silverberg. The first edition. Complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This dark science fiction ...

Somewhere a Voice

Eric Frank Russell · 1965 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Dennis Dobson, 1965. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this gripping science-fiction anthology from celebrated writer of the genre, Eric Frank Russell. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper...

Stephen Morris

Stephen Morris · 1961 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Heinemann, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this book of two linked novellas about the pioneer flying days following WWI. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This work com...

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

Daniel Defoe; H. Halliday Sparling [ed.] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Walter Scott, 1887. Cloth. A very scarce 'Camelot Series' edition of Daniel Defoe's novel, with notes by British journalist H. Halliday Sparling. This edition published for the 'Camelot Series', edited by Welsh-English writer and founding edito...

Seeker: The First Book of the Noble Warriors Trilogy & Signed Promotional Flyer

William Nicholson · 2005 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

London, Egmont, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A fantastic signed first edition of William Nicholson's first book in his 'Noble Warriors' trilogy, together with very scarce promotional flyer. Signed by the author to the book's title page and to the flyer. The...

The Sweet Shop Owner

Graham Swift · 1980 · Rooke Books

£137.00 (€164.21 | $181.00 | ¥28,894)

London, Allen Lane, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderfully bright, first edition of Graham Swift's debut novel, surrounding the owner of a South London sweet shop, presented here in the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. An excel...

Holidays at Home. Written for the Amusement of Young Persons.

Charlotte Sanders · 1806 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

London, J. Mawman, 1806 . Leather. The second edition of this very scarce collection of amusing moral tales for children, written by Charlotte Sanders. Second edition. First published in 1803. Bound in full calf, rebacked and with a contemporary spine. Illustrated with a front...

The Blind Child, or Anecdotes of the Wyndham Family. Written for the Use of Young People.

[Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard] · 1793 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, E. Newbery, 1793 . Leather. The second edition of this scarce moral tale intended for the instruction of children, the best-known novel written by Elizabeth Pinchard. Second edition. First published in 1791. Scarce in any early edition. Bound in full calf.The first and...