Narrativa e romanzi

Friendship&Apos;S Offering; and Winter&Apos;S Wreath: A Christmas and New Year&Apos;S Present, for 1838

Various · 1838 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1838. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this literary annual for the year 1838, advertised as a Christmas and New Year present. With a frontispiece, engraved title page, and nine plates. Collated complete. A literary annual for the year 1838. Friends...

Appendix. Evidences Relating to the Estates of Henry Smith Esquire, Sometime Alderman of the City of London

Joseph Gwilt · 1828 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.08 | ¥125,487)

London, George Woodfall, 1828. First edition. Leather. A very scarce account of the estates left behind by Henry Smith, by Joseph Gwilt, the author's own copy. A very scarce work, only twenty-five copies were printed.The author's own copy, with his bookplate to the f...

The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story

Clara Reeve · 1823 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

Chiswick, Press of C. Whittingham, 1823 . Leather. A charming copy of the 1823 Chiswick Press edition of Clara Reeve"s pioneering Gothic novel, linking early supernatural fiction and the moral Gothic tradition. Bound in full-calf binding with gilt and blind stamping.The Old En...

Jeremy and Hamlet; Wintersmoon; Farthing Hall; All Souls&Apos; Night

Hugh Walpole; J. B. Priestley · 1923 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,707)

London, Cassell and Company; Macmillan & Co, 1923-1933 . First edition. Cloth. First edition of four early 20th century works of literature from prolific English novelist Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, each in the original dust wrapper. First edition, first impressions of four work...

Brown on Resolution

C. S. Forester · 1946 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1946. Cloth. A pleasing copy of this WWI nautical novel from C. S. Forester, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The fourth impression of the second edition. First published in 1929. With the publisher's original unclipp...

Count Belisarious

Robert Graves · 1938 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this historical novel from English poet and soldier Captain Robert von Ranke Graves. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three maps at the rear of the text. Collated complet...

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

H. G. Wells · 1904 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. A handsome example of the first edition of this entertaining and thought provoking science fiction novel by the father of the genre, H. G. Wells. The first edition, first issue.Currey's priority A binding, variant 1, ...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop · 0 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Germany, Not Stated, c1900. Cloth. A smartly bound copy of this very scarce collection of fables attributed to Aesop. Very scarce work. Designed in England, printed in Germany. Illustrated throughout with four chromolithograph pages. A collection of the fables attributed to Ae...

Traduction Et Examen Critique Des Fables de Phãƒâ¨Dre Comparãƒâ©Es Avec Celles de la Fontaine

Phedre; Fontaine; M. Beuzelin · 1826 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

Paris , Belin-Mandar, 1826 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce, first edition of this comparative work on the fables of Phedre and Fontaine, bound in a striking half crushed morocco by Eric Sweet. First edition. Very scarce work. Bound in a striking half crushed morocco, ...

Six G.A. Henty Novels

G. A. Henty · 1897 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

London, Blackie & Son Limited, 1897-1903. First edition. Cloth. A set of six first edition novels by G. A. Henty, all captivating and riveting historical adventure novels. A set of six exciting adventure and historical fiction, novels by G. A. Henty, all of which are first edi...

Chwedlau Neu Ddammegion Aesop; Wedi Eu Cyfieithu O&Apos;R Argraffiadau Goreu Yn Yr Iaith Seisonig

Glan Alun · 0 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

Wrexham, Argraffwyd a Chyhoeddwyd, gan R. Hughes & Son, c1840. Cloth. A charming illustrated Welsh edition of Aesop's Fables by Thomas Jones. A scarce Welsh copy of Aesop's fables, "translated from the best editions in the English language." In the original cloth bi...

A Hundred Fables of Aesop from the English Version of Sir Roger L&Apos;Estrange

Aesop; Sir Roger L'Estrange; Kenneth Grahame · 1924 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1924. Leather. A beautifully bound volume of Aesop's Fables, decorated throughout with illustrations by Percy J. Billinghurst. A handsome later impression of this illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables, including 'The Lion a...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop · 0 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1900. Paperback. Two very scarce illustrated volumes of fables attributed to Aesop. Complete in two volumes. Very scarce editions. Illustrated with numerous in-text images. A collection of the fables attributed to Aesop, a Greek fabulist and storytelle...

The Fables of Aesop

Aesop; Samuel Croxall · 1848 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

Manchester, Thomas Johnson, 1848. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated collection of fables attributed to Aesop, with instructive moral applications from Samuel Croxall. Illustrated with one hundred engravings, including a folding frontispiece and title vignette. The engrav...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop; F. C. Tilney · 0 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London; New York, J. M. Dent & Sons Limited; E. P. Dutton & Company, c1920. Cloth. A charming edition of Aesop's Fables in the publisher"s original pictorial paper illustration, featuring eight vibrant colour illustrations. In the publisher's original cloth binding w...

2 Vols Salar the Salmon; Tarka the Otter

Henry Williamson · 1949 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, Penguin; Faber & Faber, 1949. Leather. Two volumes bound as one, of Williamson"s naturalist classics Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon, capturing the wild rivers of Devon in evocative early 20th-century prose. This copy contains two volumes, bound as one, tête-bêc...

The Loved One (Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art Vol. XVII No. 98)

Evelyn Waugh · 1948 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,443)

London, Horizon, 1948. Paperback. A smart copy of Evelyn Waugh's comic novel's first unrevised appearance in 'Horizon' literary magazine. The first appearance in its unrevised form before the first UK edition from Chapman and Hall. In the publisher's ...

Tell England: A Study in a Generation

Ernest Raymond · 1935 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1935. Leather. A smartly bound fifteenth edition of this important novel written by British novelist Ernest Raymond. Fifteenth edition. "You must write a book and tell 'em, Rupert, about the dead schoolboys of your generation." A best-s...

The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier; W. Garrrett Horder [editor] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Henry Frowde, 1898. Vellum. A smartly bound complete edition of this collection of poetry from American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Complete edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of the poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier, an American Quake...

Aesop Redivivus

Aesop; Mary Boyle · 1890 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Field & Tuer, 1890. Leather. A scarce volume reimagining Aesop's classic fables through a Victorian lens, richly illustrated with woodcuts and penned by Mary Louisa Boyle, close friend of Dickens and Tennyson. Rebound in half calf with red cloth boards.This is a s...