Letteratura

Enoch Arden, Etc.

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1865 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Edward Moxon, 1865. Leather. A celebrated anthology in which Tennyson aspired to become the 'people's poet', bound in lovely purple decorative full calf. An early edition of Enoch Arden Etc. originally called Enoch Arden and Other Poems, an anthology wri...

Tolstãƒâ¶I&Apos;S Works Anna Karenina, 3vols. War and Peace, 6vols. Resurrection, 2vols. Essays, Letters, Miscellanies, 2 Vols. The Invaders. Master and Man & Kreutzer Sonata. Cossacks & Sebastopol. Russian Proprietor the Long Exile Boyhood Youth What Is to Be Done? My Confession & My Religion. What Is Art? Kingdom of God. Ivan Ilytch.

Count Lyof N. Tolstoi · 1898 · Rooke Books

£3,750.00 (€4,495.62 | $4,955.11 | ¥791,361)

New York, E. R. DuMont, 1898-1899. Cloth. An exquisite early US edition of the complete works of Leo Tolstoy, in twenty-four matching volumes. An excellent twenty-four volume set of Leo Tolstoy's complete works. Published as The Emancipation Edition by E. R. DuMont of New...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Baronet: With a Biographical and Critical Memoir

Sir Walter Scott; Francis Turner Palgrave · 1906 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906 . Leather. A prize binding of this collection of poetry by acclaimed Victorian writer Sir Walter Scott. A later edition, first published in 1866.In a full green calf prize binding, for Marlborough College.A collection of the works of Sir...

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

Beatrix Potter · 1903 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, 1903. First edition. Hardback. A delightful first edition of this early Beatrix Potter tale about Nutkin the troublesome squirrel. The first trade edition, first or second issue of this work, without 'Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit&apos...

3 Vols the Persian Adventurer: Being the Sequel of "the Kuzzilbash

J. B. Frazer [James Baillie Fraser] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.58 | $475.69 | ¥75,971)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830 . First edition. Hardback. The scarce three-volume first edition of this adventure novel set in Persia by the noted traveller and author James Baillie Fraser, sequel to his popular work The Kuzzilbash. In a contemporary quarter p...

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks. Vol. XX, No. 3. January 1893.

Rudyard Kipling; Helen Gray Cone; Et al. · 1898 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

New York, The Century Co. 1898 . Paperback. A scarce copy of the January 1893 issue of the celebrated monthly children"s magazine St. Nicholas, featuring the first appearance of Rudyard Kipling"s story "The Potted Princess," profusely illustrated throughout. In the publisher&a...

The Eagle&Apos;S Prophecy; the Blood of Rome

Simon Scarrow · 2005 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Headline, 2005-2018. First edition. Cloth. Two lovely signed first impressions from Simon Scarrow's popular Roman Empire series, 'Eagles of the Empire&apos. Signed by the author to both works, to the title pages. The first edition, first impression.With the ...

Knights of Araby: A Story of the Yaman in the Fifth Islamic Century

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1917 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Collins, 1917. First edition. Cloth. The scarce review copy of an intriguing historical fiction based around the First Crusades, written by a noted novelist and Islamic scholar. The scarce review copy of Knights of Araby: A Story of the Yaman in the Fifth Islamic Centu...

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Len Deighton · 1978 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1978. First edition. Hardback. A rare, signed first edition of Deighton's spy thriller, complete with the promotional stamps. This a signed first edition of Deighton's alternative historical fiction. Rarely seen completed with the stamp set, is...

5 Vols John le Carrãƒâ© Espionage Novels

John Le Carre [David Cornwell] · 1977 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

New York , Alfred A. Knopf; Scribner, 1977-2008. Cloth. A bright five-volume collection of first American editions of espionage novels by John le Carré, complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers and including a signed copy of Single & Single. In the publisher"s origi...

(1921) Mary Stuart; (1922) Preludes 1921-1922; (1932) Napoleon: The Hundred Days by Benito Mussolini and Giovacchino Forzano; (1935) Abraham Lincoln.

John Drinkwater; Benito Mussolini; Giovacchino Forzano · 1921 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1921-1935. First edition. Cloth. Author's own copies of these four historical plays by prominent poet and playwright John Drinkwater, each clad in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Handsome collection of four historical plays by promine...

Two Forsyte Interludes: A Silent Wooing, Passers by

John Galsworthy · 1927 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1927. Paperback. An excellent first edition of John Galsworthy's two interludes to his famous Forsyte Saga. First trade edition, published the same year as a signed limited edition.In the original orange wraps. John Galsworthy - English no...

Life at the Top

John Braine · 1962 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode , 1962. First edition. Cloth. A handsome first edition of John Braine's sequel to 'Room at the Top', centring around the ambitious yet disillusioned Joe Lampton ten years later. First edition.With the publisher's clipped dust w...

Dead Man&Apos;S Folly

Agatha Christie · 1956 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, The Crime Club by Collins , 1956. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of Agatha Christie's 'Dead Man Folly', a mystery featuring Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver. First edition.With the publisher's clipped dust wrapper.Dead Man"s Folly se...

Sweet Tooth Saturday

Ian McEwan · 2005 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2005-2012. First edition. Cloth. Two fine first edition, first impression signed novels by Ian McEwan in the original unclipped dust wrappers, signed by the author to the title pages. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Signed by the author to the t...

Centurion

Simon Scarrow · 2007 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Headline, 2007 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart signed and inscribed first edition copy of book eight in the acclaimed Eagles of the Empire series by Simon Scarrow. The first edition.Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page.In the publisher's orig...

Tales of the Night

Peter Høeg; Barbara Haveland · 1997 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, The Harvill Press, 1997 . First edition. Cloth. Lovely first English edition of the short-story collection from prominent Danish writer Peter Høeg. First English edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.Translated from the origin...

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse

Beatrix Potter · 1918 · Rooke Books

£1,395.00 (€1,672.37 | $1,843.30 | ¥294,386)

Londo[n], Frederick Warne and Co. 1918. First edition. Hardback. A scarce first impression of this beloved children's tale from Beatrix Potter. First edition, first impression, with the dropped "N" from London on the imprint. Quinby, No. 25, endpapers Plate XV as called ...

The Joker

Edgar Wallace · 1926 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited , c1933. Cloth. A contemporary printing of this 'Elk of Scotland Yard' crime novel from Edgar Wallace, with the publisher's very scarce dust wrapper variant. An undated edition of this work, circa dated from gift inscription ...

Works on Lytton Strachey, Gertrude Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf

Lytton Strachey; Michael Holroyd [intro]; Vita Sackville-West; Harold Nicolson; Nigel Nicolson [ed.]; H.V.F. Winstone; James King · 1971 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Heinemann; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Jonathan Cape; Hamish Hamilton, 1971-1994. Cloth. A very smart set of four first edition volumes on notable figures Lytton Strachey, Gertrude Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf. A four volume set of works on...