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Franc-Nohain · 1910 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1910. First edition. Leather. A limited edition copy of Franc-Nohain's uncommon novel. Published in French. A limited edition copy of Franc Nohain's novel. Published in French. The present copy is one of fifteen numbered copies printe...

Debita Flacco: Echoes of Ode and Epode

E. H. Pember · 1891 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Privately printed, 1891. First edition. Leather. A limited edition of this collection of poems, inscribed by the author to the Earl of Strafford. No. 51 of 250 limited edition copies of this work in a quarter calf binding. Inscribed by the author to the first blank pag...

L&Apos;Homme de Champs, Ou Les Georgique Francoises

Jaques Delille · 1800 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Strasbourg, Levrault, 1800 . First edition. Leather. A first French translation of the Georgics by Jacques Delille, with a frontispiece. A first edition of this French translation of Virgil's Georgics.Jacques Delille came to national prominence with this translation of th...

Dawn

H. Rider Haggard · 1887 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, John and Robert Maxwell, 1887. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel in one volume by H. Rider Haggard. First edition in one volume. The first edition was 1884 in three volumes. With frontispiece. Inspired by "a singularly beautiful and pure-faced young...

Tristram of Blent: An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House

Anthony Hope · 1901 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, John Murray, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Anthony Hope's novel centred around legitimacy and family secrets. A first edition of Anthony Hope's novel. Predominantly remembered for his late nineteenth century works The Prisoner of Zenda and it...

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

William Barnes · 1863 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, John Russell Smith, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition copy of the third collection of poems in the Dorset dialect by William Barnes, celebrating rural life. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplates to the fro...

And Call It Accident

Mrs. Belloc Lowndes · 1939 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London , Hutchinson & Co. 1939. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, signed copy of the novel And Call it Accident by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. A first edition copy. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Marie Belloc Lowndes was a prolific English novelist who had a r...

Alphabet Series

Sue Grafton · 1991 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London; New York, Macmillan; G Putnam's Sons; Henry Holt , 1991-2013. First edition. Cloth. Five bright first editions, first impressions from Sue Grafton's 'alphabet series' featuring the investigator Kinsey MIllhone, each in the original dust wrapper. Sue...

A Collection of Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, the Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, & Sketches by Boz

Charles Dickens · 1839 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.72 | $2,576.65 | ¥411,508)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1839-1877. Leather. A beautiful and very clean and bright set of first editions (one later) of works by renowned author Charles Dickens. In a tree calf Mansell binding. Five volumes. From the renowned English writer and social critic, Charles Dickens....

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. A half calf bound first edition copy of one of Charles Dickens' popular novels, complete with the original illustrations by Phiz, including the dark plates. The first edition first issue of this work, being bound f...

The Way Through the Woods

Colin Dexter · 1992 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, Macmillan, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the tenth novel in the Inspector Morse Series. Found in the price clipped dust wrapper. A first edition of the tenth novel in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series. Found in the price clipped dust wrapper. ...

The Mary Jane and Other Stories

Joan E. Cass · 1958 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, The Educational Supply Assocation, 1958. First edition. Paperback. A first edition of this scarce collection of illustrated children's stories, signed by the author Joan E. Cass. A first edition of The Mary Jane and Other Stories, signed by author Joan E. Cass to ...

Collected Works of Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon · 1930 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York; London , Faber and Faber; The Viking Press, 1930-1946. Cloth. Three volumes of work by war author and poet Siegfried Sassoon. Three volumes of works by war poet Siegfried Sassoon. This includes:A first edition copy of Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) which is a...

The Forbidden Zone

Mary Borden · 1929 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, William Heinemann, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of Mary Borden's semi-autobiographical novel, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, of this work from the Chicago born socialite Mary Borden, who...

The Epping Hunt

Thomas Hood · 1829 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, George Tilt, 1829. First edition. Leather. A very smart first edition of this hunting poem by Thomas Wood, illustrated by George Cruikshank. First edition. Illustrated with six engravings on wood, with tissue guards for plates. Collated complete. An exciting poem about...

The L-Shaped Room

Lynne Reid Banks · 1960 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Banks's first novel, The L-Shaped Room. First edition. Following the story of a young woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the b...

The Collected Tales of A.E. Coppard

A. E. Coppard · 1951 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this collection of outstanding short stories from A. E. Coppard. A first edition copy of this collection of tales by A. E. Coppard. This volume contains thirty-eight works by A. E. Coppard which w...

The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces

William Golding · 1965 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Faber and Faber, 1965 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of essays by the well renowned British novelist William Golding. First edition of The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces by William Golding in the original publisher's cloth bind...

Up the Junction

Nell Dunn · 1963 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1963. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from Nell Dunn. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A collection of short stories that depict contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham...

A Day of Dwarfs

Peter Everett · 1962 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Neville Spearman, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this uncommon novel by Peter Everett. Found in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition of Peter Everett's debut novel, found in the original dust wrapper. In order to bring the intensity...