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Seneca · 1682 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Venice, Appresso Giouanni Cagnolini, 1682. Hardback. An Italian edition of Seneca the Younger's collection of essays discussing morals and gifts, 'De Beneficii', illustrated with a woodcut vignette to the title. In Italian. This work is a duodecimo, with the sig...

Gladys of Harlech. An Historical Romance

Anonymous · 1858 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Charles J. Skeet, 1858. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition copy of this historical romance in the original cloth binding; complete in three volumes. Often incorrectly attributed to the popular English novelist and poet Anne Beale (due to Beale's pub...

The Drums of the Fore and Aft; without Benefit of Clergy

Rudyard Kipling · 1899 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

New York, Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899. First edition. Cloth. A lovely two volume set of the work of Rudyard Kipling, both first U.S. editions. This set features two fictional works by Kipling, 'Without The Benefit of Clergy' and 'The Drums of Fore and Af...

Berlin Game

Len Deighton · 1983 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Hutchinson, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of the first novel in the 'Game, Set and Match' trilogy by Len Deighton, best known as one of the top three spy novelists of his generation. This work is the first novel in the first of three...

A True Copy of the Last Will and Testament of Her Grace Sarah, Late Duchess Dowager of Marlborough with the Codicil

Sarah, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough; · 1744 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, M Cooper, 1744. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the last will and testament of the influential courtier, formidable character, and close friend of Queen Anne, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Malborough. The first edition of this work. Several printings were is...

The Story of a Life

Moyle Sherer · 1825 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. Leather. Two volumes bound as one of this novel by Moyle Sherer, describing the life of a man who is down on his luck. The first edition of this work. Complete with two volumes bound as one. The protago...

Barnaby Rudge Sketches by Boz Christmas Books

Charles Dickens · 1849 · Rooke Books

£600.00 (€719.20 | $792.68 | ¥126,581)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1849-52. First edition. Leather. A smartly rebound collection of Charles Dickens' novels, with 'Sketches of Boz' and 'Christmas Book's being the first cheap editions, all volumes illustrated with a frontispiece. 'Sketches...

Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home a New Edition [with] a Diary [with] Nature and Art [with] Two Years Before the Mast [with] Narrative of the Mutiny of the Bounty [with] the Complete English Tradesman [with] Picciola

Miss Sedgwick et al. · 1841 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, Edward Moxon, 1841. Leather. A sammelband of nineteenth century publications. Being a variety of topics from travelogues to adventure novels, to a diary on every day life through the eyes of an early feminist. Six of the works to this volume have the same typographical...

The Book of Nonsense

Edward Lear · 1905 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1905. Cloth. A charming copy of Edward Lear's profusely illustrated and much-loved work, The Book of Nonsense. Collated complete from copac. Profusely illustrated by Lear throughout. Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author an...

The Good Apprentice

Iris Murdoch · 1985 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1985. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Irish author, Iris Murdoch. 'The Good Apprentice' is Murdoch's 22nd novel in her extensive bibliography. It follows the story of Edward Baltram's path to redemption an...

The Good Apprentice

Iris Murdoch · 1985 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1985. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Irish author, Iris Murdoch. 'The Good Apprentice' is Murdoch's 22nd novel in her extensive bibliography. It follows the story of Edward Baltram's path to redemption an...

Nuns and Soliders

Iris Murdoch · 1980 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

New York, The Viking Press, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A First U.S Edition of Murdoch's 'Nuns and Soldiers' dedicated and signed. First thus, First U.S Edition. Set in England, the novel opens with Guy Openshaw on his deathbed. A story of life and death, love a...

My Enemy&Apos;S Enemy

Kingsley Amis · 1962 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A collection of short stories by popular humorous novelist Kingsley Amis. The first edition of this short story collection. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. Sir Kingsley Amis was a popular English novelist, poet, criti...

My Enemy&Apos;S Enemy

Kingsley Amis · 1962 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A collection of short stories by popular humorous novelist Kingsley Amis. The first edition of this short story collection, held in original price-clipped dustwrapper. Sir Kingsley Amis was a popular English novelist, poet, ...

Girl, 20

Kingsley Amis · 1971 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1971. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K edition of this novel by Kingsley Amis. This novel is a dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s. It follows the antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a conductor and composer who is a pillar of the establishmen...

Max Fritz and Hob a Tale of Adventure

C R Coleridge · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, National Society's Depository, c1892. First edition. Cloth. A late nineteenth century novel, illustrated throughout by W S Stacey. Believed first edition. Undated. dated using Copac and inscription to the recto of half-title page. With a publisher's catalogue...

Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs

Lafcadio Hearn · 1902 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition a beautifully illustrated collection of folk tales and insightful studies which enlighten Western audiences on Japanese culture. The first edition of Kotto: Being Japanese Curios with Sundry Cobwebs...

Broad Grins; Eccentricities for Edinburgh

George Colman the Younger · 1839 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, H. G. Bohn, 1839. Leather. Two humorous collections of verse by the witty British dramatist, bound in one attractive quarter calf volume. The eighth edition of Broad Grins, with New Additional Tales in Verse, and the first edition of Eccentricities for Edinburgh, with ...

Rhymes without Reason

Mervyn Peake · 1944 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944 . First edition. Cloth. A desirable first edition of Peake's eccentric of nonsense verse, illustrated with sixteen colour illustrations by Peake, and complete with the scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's origin...

The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy

George Colman; David Garrick · 1766 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, T. Becket, P.A. De Hondt; R. Baldwin; R. Davis; T. Davies, 1766. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of the scarce first edition of Colman and Garrick"s comedy of secret marriage, manners, and social ambition, first performed at Drury Lane in 1766. Rebound in a modern r...