Narrativa e romanzi

The Orphan of Pimlico and Other Sketches, Fragments and Drawings

William Makepeace Thackeray; Edited by Anne Isabella Thackeray · 1876 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,491)

London , Smith Elder and Co. 1876. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology of writings and drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray Copiously illustrated throughout with many plates by Thackeray. With some notes by Anne Isabella Thackeray, the author's da...

Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925 for the Spring 1926 with a Hand-List of Books Hitherto Published by the Press

Nonesuch Press · 1925 · Rooke Books

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

London , Nonesuch Press, 1925. Cloth. A publishers' catalogue A catalogue of book published by the Nonesuch Press. Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera Mendel, and David Garnett. Their first book, a volume of John ...

The Holy Rose Etc

Walter Besant · 1890 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London , Chatto and Windus, 1890. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Walter Besant. With a frontispiece by Fred Barnard. Publisher's catalogue to rear, dated October 1889. Sir Walter Besant was a novelist and historian In a cloth covered binding. Exter...

Mark Twain a to Z the Essential Reference to His Life and Writings

R. Kent Rasmussen · 1995 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

The United States of America, Facts on File, Inc. 1995. First edition. Cloth. A near fine first edition of Mark Twain A to Z: The Essential Reference to his Life and Writings. As written in the synopsis, "Until now, tracking down information on Mark Twain's complex life a...

The Biglow Papers

James Russel Lowell · 1859 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London , Trubner and Co, 1859. Cloth. This fascinating fictional work in verse presents three main characters each representing different aspects of American life, and using authentic American dialects in their dialogue. Described by the Grolier Club as "the most influential b...

Island Nights&Apos; Entertainment

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1893 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London , Cassell & Company, 1893. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue, of three Stevenson short stories in the original binding. The first edition, with the visible revision of price from 5/- to 6/-. With the bookplate of Angus Alexander Colles Heron to the fr...

Doings and Dealings

Jane Barlow · 1913 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A bright, scarce, first edition by Doings and Dealings by Jane Barlow. First Edition. Scarce. Jane Barlow, 1857 – 1917 was an Irish poet and writer. Barlow was educated at home and is said to have been frail and slight. T...

From Wisdom Court

Henry Seton Merriman and Stephen C. Tallentyre · 1893 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London , William Heinemann, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of this selection of essays by Henry Seton Merriman First edition. Illustrated throughout by E. Corbin. With essays on matrimony, the sea, visitors, women and many more. In a red cloth binding. Externally s...

The Rambles of a Rat

A.L.O.E. (Charlotte Maria Tucker) · 1871 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1871. Leather. A smart copy of this novel in which anthropomorphised rats tell the tales of their lives and travels. Featuring a number of plates, including a frontispiece. Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893) was an English children's writer and...

Les Travailleurs de la Mer

Victor Hugo · 1866 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Paris, Librairie Internationale, 1866. Leather. A set of Les Travailleurs de la Mer by Victor Hugo. A set of Les Travailleurs de la Mer by Victor Hugo. Two of the complete three volumes. The set consists of volumes II and III, and is missing volume I. Eighth edition. The book ...

Oeuvres Du Comte Antoine Hamilton

Comte Antoine Hamilton · 1812 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

Paris, Antoine-Augustine Renouard, 1812. Leather. Antoine (or Anthony) Hamilton (1646 – 21 April 1720) was an Irish classical author of near Scottish ancestry, who wrote in French. In imitation and satiric parody of the romantic tales which Antoine Galland's translation ...

Les Chansons Des Rues Et Des Bois

Victor Hugo · 1866 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Paris, Librairie International, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1866. First edition. Leather. The first Parisian edition of 'Les Chansons des Rues et des Bois', from Victor Hugo, in a decorative calf binding. Whilst the Brussel's edition is stated 1865, it see...

The Constable de Bourbon

William Harrison Ainsworth · 1866 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1866. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this novel by the prolific William Ainsworth Not seen at auction since 1978. In the publisher's original cloth. Ainsworth had intended to be a lawyer, but found that it held no attraction for hi...

The Wallypug in London

G. E. Farrow · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Methuen & Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this 'Wallypug' book, a whimsical story in the tradition of Lewis Carroll which follows the King of Why on a trip to London. The first edition of this uncommon children's fantasy novel. ...

Fables

Walter Brown · 1884 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, S. Grosvenor , 1884. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Walter Brown's fables, with Thomas Bewick's delightful woodcut embellishments. First edition. Bound in full burgundy cloth. Bound with the original blanks, half title, and renewed endpapers....

The Sorrows of Jupiter

Julius · 1904 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Greening & Co. Limited , 1904. First edition. Cloth. A curious volume of spoof lectures, blending fantasy and science fiction to narrate tales of ancient Greek gods. "Two addresses delivered at the British Society for Mythological Research".First edition. Uncommon.In ...

Trouble with Lichen

John Wyndham · 1960 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Michael Joseph, 1960. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Wyndham's science fiction novel about the slowing of the ageing process, and the consequences this has on society, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's orig...

So Here Then Cometh Pig-Pen Pete or Some Chums of Mine

Elbert Hubbard · 1914 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New York, Roycrofters, 1914 . First edition. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this charming tale of the author's sheepdog, with 4 plates. The first edition.In a full brown soft leather binding.With 4 plates, an illustrated title page, and in text illustrations. A work by...

The Lovely Lady; a Modern Lover; the Woman Who Rode Away; St. Mawr

D. H. Lawrence · 1925 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, Martin Secker, 1925-1934 . First edition. Cloth. Each in the original dust wrapper, this is a wonderful collection of four first edition short story and novella collections from D. H. Lawrence, author of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover&apos. A wonderful set of the f...

Cat Among the Pigeons

Agatha Christie · 1959 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, The Crime Club by Collins , 1959. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this thrilling Agatha Christie mystery set in a prestigious all-girls school. First edition, first impression.With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. Late one night, two te...