Narrativa e romanzi

The Tales of the Spanish Boccaccio Count Lucanor or the Fifty Pleasant Stories of Patronio

don Juan Manuel, James York (Translator) · 1888 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London , Pickering and Chatto, 1888. Cloth. A collection of short stories by medieval writer Don Juan Manuel. Don Juan Manuel was a Spanish prince, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile. Manuel wrote thirteen books in total, eight of which survive today. Translated into English by Ja...

Eric Brighteyes

H Rider Haggard · 1893 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1893. Cloth. The third edition of this work by H Rider Haggard. With illustrations by Lancelot Speed, a Victorian book illustrator best known for his illustrations of Andrew Lang's fairy stories. Eric Brighteyes is an epic Viking adventure ...

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...

Let&Apos;S Go Somewhere.

John Miller · 1968 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Rolvenden , Unknown, 1968. Paperback. A very scarce uncorrected proof copy of the BBC Announcer by John Miller. The story begins with Miller's birth in a theatre to his various jobs in radio and broadcasting. Throughout the work sections have been cut and pasted over othe...

When London Burned a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire

G. A. Henty · 1832 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

London , Blackie and Son, c1895. Cloth. A historical novel by G. A. Henty, with black and white illustrations. With dramatic illustration to frontispiece depicting a firey scene. George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902), was a prolific English novelist and a s...

Of English Literature in the Reign of Victoria

Henry Morley · 1881 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,280)

Leipzig , Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1881. Cloth. A profile of English literature in the Nineteeth Century. Written by Henry Morley, the work has forty pages of facsimiles signatures of authors featured in this edition, from their correspondence with the publisher Baron Tauchnitz. A ...

Johnsonia Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D. By Mrs Piozzi, Richard Cumberland, Bishop Percy and Others Together with the Diary of Dr Campbell and Extracts from That of Madame D&Apos;Arblay

Robina Napier · 1884 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,979)

London , George Bell and Sons, 1884. Cloth. A limited collection of anecdotes on the life of Dr Samuel Johnson. Robina Napier was a British translator and antiquarian. With engraved frontispiece and half-title. Bookplate of Sir Chas. E. H. Chadwyck Healey to front pastedown. N...

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...

A China Cup and Other Stories for Children.

Felix Volkhovsky · 1892 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London , T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Cloth. A scarce edition of the revolutionary Volkhovsky's series of children's stories. Illustrated frontispiece of a woman killing a fowl with numerous illustrations throughout, all by Malischeff. Includes the stories, The Tiny Screw,...

Waste Not, Want Not

Mrs Sherwood · 0 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Houlston and Sons, c1840. Cloth. A complete edition of all four parts of Mrs Sherwood's Waste Not Want Not. With an illustrated frontispiece. Undated to title page, dated from copac. Appears to be the first edition containing all four parts. In a beautiful decorat...

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...

The Storks the False Prince

Elizabeth Still Harrington · 1875 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,652)

London , Henry Sotheran and Co, 1875. Cloth. An extremely scarce translation of these German children's tales. Including The Storks and The False Prince. In a green cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with some dampstaining to the boards. Front hinge strained. Intern...

Lena Rivers

Mary Jane Holmes · 0 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,325)

London , Milner and Co. c1900. Cloth. A scarce UK edition of this novel by American author Mary Jane Holmes. Portraying domestic life in small town and rural settings, Holmes examined gender relationships, as well as those of class and race. She also dealt with slavery and the...

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...

Lothair

Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli · 1870 · Rooke Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

London , Longmans, Green, and Co. c1880. Hardback. A copy of Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli. Lothair (1870) was a late novel by Benjamin Disraeli, the first he wrote after his first term as Prime Minister. It deals with the comparative merits of the Catholic and Anglican churche...

A Sequel to the Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life

Harriet Corp · 1809 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

London , Williams and Smith, 1809. Hardback. A scarce copy of Harriet Corp's didactic fictional work. 'Containing a further account of Mrs. Placid and her daughter Rachel&apos. Half-title is present. The Miseries of Human Life was written by James Beresford (1764–18...

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Laurence Sterne · 1910 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

New York, G P Putman's Sons, 1910. Cloth. An uncommon 1910 edition of Sterne's third and final novel, lavishly illustrated with full-colour plates by Everard Hopkins. Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was a novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is ...

Ask Mamma

R.S. Surtees · 1899 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Bradbury, Agnew and Co. Ltd, 1899. Cloth. A presumed limited edition of Surtees' "Ask Mamma". Matching the pagination of other limited editions, the status implied rather than written explicitly through the edition pages. The work is illustrated throughout with wo...