Narrativa e romanzi

Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron

Sir Egerton Brydges · 1824 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,017)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824. Leather. An attractive edition of this bibliographical works of the poet Lord Byron. Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November 1762 – 8 September 1837) was an English bibliographer and genealogist. He was also Me...

The Pilgrims of the Rhine

E Bulwer-Lytton · 1841 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Frederick Fleischer, 1841. Leather. A new edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Pilgrims of the Rhine. With a preface addressed to Lytton's brother, Henry Bulwer-Lytton. This is volume III from Fleischer's Complete Works of Edward Lytton Bulwer. Bookplat...

Age without Pity

John Prebble · 1950 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

New York, Henry Hold and Company, 1950. First edition. Leather. The first American edition of John Prebble's Age Without Pity. The author's copy with his signature to the title page. First edition, first printing of the American edition of this novel. John Prebble wa...

The Posthumous Papers, Facetious and Fanciful, of a Person Lately About Town

Cornelius Webbe · 1828 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

London, William Sams, 1828. Leather. A scarce first edition of Webbe's illustrated collection of stories. First Edition. Featuring several illustrated plates. In a half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. Some scattered...

Glyn Severn&Apos;S School Days

George Manville Fenn · 1904 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,671)

London, W and R Chambers, 1904. First edition. Fine Binding. A beautifully bound copy, and first edition, of this early twentieth-century novel. First Edition. Featuring an illustrated frontispiece. 'With eight drawings by Charles Pears&apos. In a decorative full morocco ...

Between the Lines

H M Tomlinson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1930. Cloth. The first trade edition, first printing of an address given by H M Tomlinson. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. With half title and publisher&ap...

The White Peacock

D.H. Lawrence · 1911 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

London, Heinemann, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A first edition and first printing copy of D.H. Lawrence's first novel, 'The White Peacock&apos. First UK edition. Preceded by the American edition by one day. With pages 227-230 cancels as is called for. Publisher'...

Lewis Arundel; or, the Railroad of Life

Frank E. Smedley · 1852 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,543)

London , Virtue, Hall, & Virtue, 1852. First edition. Cloth. A first edition in book form of this novel by Frank E. Smedley. With illustrations by "Phiz." Francis Edward Smedley, (4 October 1818 – 1 May 1864) was an English novelist. His name appears in print usually as Frank...

The Love of the Foolish Angel

Helen Beauclerk · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, W. Collins Sons and Co. 1929. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work of fiction from the early twentieth century by Helen Beauclerk. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac this particular copy is bound in the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. First edition whic...

Joan Haste

H Rider Haggard · 1895 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by H Rider Haggard. With 20 plates. Joan Haste is a Victorian melodrama centring on the theme of the fallen woman and social justice. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with some rubb...

A Review of the Missionary Life and Labors or Richard Wright

Richard Wright · 1824 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,870)

London , D. Eaton, 1824. First edition. Cloth. A Review of the Missionary Life and Labors or Richard Wright written by himself. He left another autobiography, in manuscript. First edition. With a notice to the Friends and Supporters of the Unitarian Fund to front followed by a...

Limits and Renewals

Rudyard Kipling · 1932 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London , Macmillan and Co, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Kipling's last collection of short stories. Written shortly after the death of Kipling's son, the stories all feature themes of pain, inner suffering, mental anguish and bereavement. Including ...

More

Max Beerbohm · 1899 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,088)

London and New York, John Lane, 1899. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of More by Max Beerbohm. A collection of essays on various subjects including royalty, actors, Madame Tussaud's, Ouida and the Case of Prometheus. Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (24 August 18...

Joan of the Sword Hand

Samuel Rutherford Crockett · 1900 · Rooke Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. 1900. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this fictional work from Scottish author, Samuel Rutherford Crockett. First edition. Illustrated with several plates throughout. With the success of J. M. Barrie and the Kailyard school of sentimental, hom...

Sir Pulteney: A Fantasy

E. D. Ward (Edward Verrall Lucas) · 1910 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,379)

London, Methuen and Co. 1910. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Lucas's fantastical novel. First Edition. Edward Verrall Lucas (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was a popular English author of nearly one hundred books. He wrote under the pen names EVL, VVV, E. D. W...

The Fortress

Hugh Walpole · 1932 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1932. Cloth. A limited edition of this novel on family conflict by Hugh Walpole, signed by the author. Limited edition. One of three hundred and ten large paper copies. A desirable work, signed by the author himself. Hugh Walpole was an talented write...

Histoire de Gil Blas and de L&Apos;Amour

Alain-René Lesage; Stendhal · 1500 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

Paris, Garnier Freres, c1926 . Leather. Two excellent uniformly bound works by notable French authors in three volumes, both limited editions. Two uniformly bound works by notable French authors. The first two volumes comprise of Alan-Rene Lesage's picaresque novel Gil B...

Saint Francois D&Apos;Assise

Leopold De Cherance; Henri De Grezes; Ubald De Chanday · 1885 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,562)

Paris, E. Plon & Nourrit, 1885. Leather. An illustrated biography of Francis of Assisi. In the original French.An illustrated biography of Francis of Assisi in excellent condition, attractively bound in half morocco. Francis is one of the most famous Roman Catholic saints. He ...

Amor Und Komus

Anon · 0 · Rooke Books

£445.00 (€533.40 | $587.91 | ¥93,852)

Berlin , Padua, with Pietro Tarone, c1790. First edition. Hardback. A scarce and sought after first edition of this German language collection of erotic stories. The title page bears the inscription in Greek "We are all servants of Satan, he holds us in his claws", and the sto...

Sybil; or, the Two Nations

B. Disraeli · 1845 · Rooke Books

£880.00 (€1,054.81 | $1,162.61 | ¥185,595)

London, Henry Colburn, Publisher , 1845. First edition. Leather. The complete first edition of Benjamin Disraeli's working-class novel, handsomely bound in quarter calf. The first edition of this work. Complete in three volumes.Uniformly bound in quarter calf, with cloth ...