Narrativa e romanzi

The Legend of the Silver Cup and Other Stories for Children

Rev. G. Critchley · 1898 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, S. W. Partridge and Co, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this magical short-story collection for children, with illustrations. The very scarce first edition. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. An imaginative selection...

Irony in the Medieval Romance

D. H. Green · 1979 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Cambridge , Cambridge University Press, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this unique analysis of irony in medieval literature, written by a leading authority on the subject, D. H. Green. The first edition of this work. With the publisher's origin...

Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles

David Seale · 1982 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Croom Helm, 1982. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this interesting examination into Sophocles' underrated use of stagecraft. The uncommon first edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. In this study of Greek theatre,...

The White Stone

Anatole France; Charles E. Roche [trans.] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London , John Lane, The Bodley Head , 1910. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first English translation of Anatole France's philosophical rebuttal to the "yellow peril" fever of the time. The first English translation of this work. From a series of English-translated wo...

Lawful Issue

James Blyth [Henry James Catling Clabburn] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London, Eveleigh Nash Company, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this very scarce novel from British author James Blyth. First edition. Very scarce. Less than two years married, with a child not yet a year old, Joseph Tyler had moved to a farm with his wife Elsie ...

Other Seas

Robert Gathorne-Hardy · 1933 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Collins, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce work from British writer Robert Gathorne-Hardy, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Very scarce. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Three stori...

The New Crusade

Anthony Gibbs · 1931 · Rooke Books

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

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1931. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this science fiction novel from British author Anthony Gibbs. First edition. Very scarce work. A near future novel in which society is transformed by a millionaire who believes humans should live as ...

The Pogo Party

Walt Kelly · 1956 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1956. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this humorous comic from American animator and cartoonist Walter Kelly Jr. First edition. A comic strip set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, following the adventure...

Deborah&Apos;S Life

James Blyth [Henry James Catling Clabburn] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, Eveleigh Nash Company, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this very scarce novel from British author James Blyth. First edition. Very scarce. Following the life of a young woman named Deborah, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Deborah is a strong-wille...

The Irrevocable and Other Stories

James Blyth [Henry James Catling Clabburn] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, Digby, Long & Co. 1907. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this collection of short stories from British author James Blyth. First edition. Very scarce. A collection of short stories, including: The Irrevocable, The Craven, The Legend of The Lake, The...

Respectability: A Novel

James Blyth [Henry James Catling Clabburn] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, F. V. White & Co. Ltd. 1913. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this very scarce novel from British author James Blyth. First edition. Very scarce. Following a group of Scottish luggers battling a storm towards the end of the second week of November 1911. Disheve...

The Heptameron

Marguerite de Navarre; Queen of Navarre · 1886 · Rooke Books

£680.00 (€815.08 | $898.38 | ¥143,414)

London, Privately Printed, 1886. First edition. Leather. An impressive edition of Marguerite of Navarre's collection of short stories, this being an extra-illustrated copy bound in two volumes by Ritter. An extra illustrated copy, bound in two volumes.The first edition of...

Pearson&Apos;S Magazine

Walter Besant; W. J. Gordon; Archibald Forbes; Various · 1896 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1896. Cloth. The first number of 'Pearson's Magazine' to ever be published, a very scarce Royal Edition, with Walter Besant's bookplate. A very scarce number of 'Pearson's Magazine', for January 1896, a str...

The Gowk Storm

N. Brysson Morrison · 1934 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Collins, 1934. Cloth. A scarce novel on the lives of three sisters by Nancy Brysson Morrison. A scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 'The Gowk Storm' follows three sisters who live in a secluded clergy house, in which modernity has never enter...

Changing My Mind

Zadie Smith · 2009 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Hamish Hamilton; Penguin Books, 2009. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon to see signed copy of this anthology of essays by Zadie Smith The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title, uncommon to see signed.An anthology of essays by Zadie Smith....

The Prince of Mull, or, Glimpses of Royal Life

[Mary Ellis Smith] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

Chicago, A. N. Marquis & Company, 1884. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this very scarce satire on the British Royal Family, signed by the author. The first edition of this very scarce work.Signed by the author to the title page, "Presented by the Author, Mary E...

The Centenarian; or, the Two Beringhelds

Horace de Saint-Aubin [Honoré de Balzac]; George Edgar Slusser [trans.] · 1976 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

New York, Arno Press, 1976. Cloth. A fine English translation of Balzac's seminal contribution to early science fiction. The first thus edition of the English translation of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Part of the Arno Press collection of sup...

The Works of James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper · 1888 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1888-1889. Cloth. Eighteen uniformly bound volumes from the Leather-Stocking Edition of the works of James Fenimore Cooper. A set of eighteen works uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the fro...

The Green Isle of the Great Deep

Neil M. Gunn · 1944 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this important work, exploring themes such as of knowledge without wisdom and published during the Scottish Renaissance. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher'...

The Apparition. A Poem.

Abel Evans · 1710 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, H. Hills, 1710 . Unbound. A piracy of Abel Evans's poetic attack on Mathew Tindal, formulated as a response to Tindal's 'The Rights of the Church Asserted&apos. Published in the same year as the first edition.Foxon E521The first published poem of Abel E...