Narrativa e romanzi

Quest for Sita

Maurice Collis · 1947 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, The John Day Company, 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of Maurice Collis's retelling of 'The Ramayana', illustrated by Mervyn Peake. The first U.S. edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A beautifully illustrated re...

Exploits and Wonders

A. W. Mathews [ed.]; John Dunton · 1926 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Fair Oak, Hants, The Grayhound Press, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce limited, privately published edition of four early eighteenth century extracts. A very scarce limited edition, privately published work.This copy is number 15 of 106 copies produced.This vo...

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces

Angela Carter · 1974 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,361)

London, Heinemann, 1974 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Angela Carter's first short story collection, inspired by her years spent living in Japan. With a publisher's review slip loosely inserted. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher'...

Causeries Du Lundi

C. A. Sainte-Beuve · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,275.00 (€1,528.27 | $1,684.46 | ¥268,901)

Paris, Garnier Freres, c1850-1880. Vellum. A fifteen volume set of the Causeries du Lundi or "Monday Chats" of French literary critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, in the original French. French. Complete in fifteen volumes. Mixed edition with volume fifteen being a first edi...

The Pirate

Sir Walter Scott · 1822 · Rooke Books

£129.00 (€154.63 | $170.43 | ¥27,206)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co. 1822 . Leather. The second edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, loosely based on the life of the notorious pirate, John Gow, complete in three volumes. The second edition. Published the same year as the first. Complete in th...

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel · 2012 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)

London, Fourth Estate, 2012. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition, first impression, of Hilary Mantel's second novel tracing the life of Thomas Cromwell. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original u...

The Pilgrim&Apos;S Progress

John Bunyan · 1837 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

Glasgow , Blackie and Son, 1837. Leather. A smart copy of this important theological fiction, complete with notes, a memoir of John Bunyan and very scarce illustrations, including a folding plate. Bound in half calf, with marbled boards. Undated, dated from a copy held instit...

Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe

Walter De La Mare · 1930 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London; New York, Faber and Faber Limited; The Fountain Press, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first and limited edition of Walter de la Mare's exploration of the trope of deserted islands in fiction, signed by the author. The limited first edition, of six hundred and fif...

The Novels of Lord Lytton

Lord Lytton · 1877 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,267)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1877-1878. Leather. A pleasing twenty-six volume set of novels from English writer and politician, Edward Bulwer-Lytton. A handsome set of twenty-six volumes.Containing the novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, an English writer and politician who ...

Vingt Ans Apres

Alexandre Dumas · 0 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Paris, Calmann-Levy, c1890. Leather. Two volumes of this novel acting as a sequel to the Three Musketeers, bound in one volume. In the original French. French. Complete in two volumes, bound in one. From Oeuvres Completes D'Alexandre Dumas. The second book of The D'A...

The Professor. To Which Are Added the Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell: Now First Collected.

Currer Bell [Charlotte Bronte] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1860 . Cloth. An early edition of the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte, alongside a selection of poetry from all three Bronte sisters. An early edition of the work. First published in 1857. Published as part of Smith, Elder & Co's new and...

Letters on Several Subjects

Martin Sherlock · 1781 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, J. Nichols, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, H. Payne, N. Conant, 1781. First edition. Leather. A scarce collection of sixty-three letters on various literary subjects by Martin Sherlock, the first edition. The first edition of this scarce work.Complete in two volumes.Half-title ...

Our Street.

Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [William Makepeace Thackeray] · 1848 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1848. Leather. The second edition of this charming volume by M. A. Titmarsh, a pseudonym of famed Victorian era author William Makepeace Thackeray. The second edition, published in the same year as the first.Illustrated with a hand coloured frontispie...

Cruikshank at Home a New Family Album

Robert Cruikshank [Isaac Robert Cruikshank] · 1840 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, W. Kidd, 1840 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of the third series of Robert Cruikshank's charmingly illustrated anthology volume of humorous poems and tales. The scarce third series of this work.The work of Isaac Robert Cruikshank, the less well-k...

Difficulties of a Bridegroom

Ted Hughes · 1995 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Faber and Faber, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A superb first impression of one of Ted Hughes' anthologies of short stories. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This work features nine short stories written by English poet, tra...

The Jefferson Letters

John Ballinger · 2001 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Virginia, The Dietz Press, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this exciting novel on the purchase of some of the letters of Thomas Jefferson, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Letters written by Thomas Jefferson...

Moby Dick, or, the Whale

Herman Melville · 1930 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

New York, Random House, 1930. Cloth. Rockwell Kent's illustrated edition of one of the most popular American novels ever published. The first U.S. trade edition of 'Moby Dick' to be illustrated by Rockwell Kent.Illustrated with head and tail pieces, and the occa...

The History of Sandford and Merton

Thomas Day · 1815 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Gainsborough, Henry Mozley, 1815. Cloth. Thomas Day's incredibly popular educational work for children, a novel guiding children on proper conduct. Thomas Day's incredibly popular children's book, a series of stories which tell the history of Sandford and Merton...

The End of the Affair

Graham Greene · 1951 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London, William Heinemann, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of Graham Greene's celebrated novel, reviewed by Evelyn Waugh as 'singularly beautiful and moving&apos. The first edition, first impression of Greene's work, in the publi...

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

James McNeil Whistler · 1904 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, William Heinemann, 1904. Cloth. The third edition of Whistler's controversial response to John Ruskin after their famous libel suit. The third edition of this work.A scandalous work by James McNeill Whistler, written part in response and part a transcript of his l...