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Cast a Yellow Shadow

Ross Thomas · 1968 · Rooke Books

£54.99 (€65.92 | $72.66 | ¥11,605)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of Cast a Yellow Shadow by Ross Thomas. Ross Thomas (born February 19, 1926, in Oklahoma City – December 18, 1995, in Santa Monica, California) was an American writer of crime fiction. He is best kno...

Six Short Plays

John Galsworthy · 1921 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, Duckworth and Co. 1921. First edition. Leather. A clean first UK edition of Six Short Plays by John Galsworthy. Bound in leather with gilt lettering and border decoration. First UK Edition. Bound by Hatchards. John Galsworthy OM, 1867 – 1933, was an English novelist a...

The Pirate and the Three Cutters

Captain Frederick Marryat · 1854 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Leather. A scarce copy of this novel by Captain Frederick Marryat. Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a British Royal Navy officer and novelist, now known as an early pioneer of the sea story, or nautical fiction. Illustrated with a frontisp...

The Poems of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside · 1772 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772. Leather. An early poetical anthology from the English poet, Mark Akenside. First collected edition, published the same year as the first. Mark Akenside rose from humble beginnings to considerable eminence in medicine and literature. He c...

The Union, or Select Scots and English Poems

[Thomas Warton] (Editor) · 1759 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, R Baldwin, 1759. Leather. A compilation of several famous Scottish and English poets With works of many poets such as Tobias Smollett and James Hammond. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizabeth Greenly, born a...

Self Knowledge, a Treatise Showing the Nature and Benefit

John Mason · 1825 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, C and C Whittingham, 1825. Leather. A handsome pocket sized edition of John Mason's famous and popular work. Treatise on Self-Knowledge was first published in 1745 and went through several editions. This edition is in a pocket-sized format. With an engraved title ...

The School of Man

Francois Genard · 1753 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.88 | $118.91 | ¥18,991)

Dublin, Lockyer Davis, 1753. First edition. Leather. A popular pseudo-courtesy book by Francois Genard. Translated from the French This is the first Dublin edition of this book. To which is prefixed a key to the satyrical characters interspersed in the work. Popular pseudo-cou...

The Poetical Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. A Distant Relation to the Poet of Thebes Advice to the Future Laureat; an Ode the Louisiad, an Heroi-Comic Poem. Canto the Third and Fourth Odes of Importance Etc. Odea to Kien Long, the Present Emperor of China, and a Complimentary Epistle to James Bruce, the Abyssinian Traveller

Peter Pindar · 1790 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

Dublin, William Porter, 1790-93. Leather. A collection of the poetry of Peter Pindar, with details of his life, bound in one volume. Containing: The Poetical Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. A Distant Relation to the Poet of Thebes Advice to the Future Laureat; An Ode The Louisiad,...

Ask Mamma;" or, the Richest Commoner in England

Robert Smith Surtees · 1858 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1858. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this 19th Century novel, by Robert Smith Surtees. First Edition. With illustrations by John Leech: colour plates and black and white vignettes. Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 March 1864) was ...

Marietta a Novel

T. Adolphus Trollope · 1862 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this scarce work by Thomas Adolphus Trollope. Complete in two volumes. Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810 – 1892) was born in Bloomsbury, London on 29 April 1810, was the elder brother of Anthony Trollope,...

Tales of My Landlord Second Series the Heart of Mid-Lothian

Sir Walter Scott · 1893 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.51 | $103.07 | ¥16,460)

London, John C Nimmo, 1893. Leather. A nicely bound copy of Sir Walter Scott's seventh Waverley novel. With bright tartan endpapers of the Scott clan tartan. Bound without title page, date and publisher's information sourced from Copac. The Heart of Midlothian was or...

The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason

ed. Rev John Mitford · 1853 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London, Richard Bentley, 1853. First edition. Leather. A collection of the letters between Thomas Gray and William Mason to which are added some letters addressed by Gray to the Rev. James Browne, D.D. Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. This is a first edition of this work...

Helga a Poem in Seven Cantos

William Herbert · 1815 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London, John Murray, 1815. First edition. Leather. A first edition of William Herbert's poem. William Herbert (12 January 1778 – 28 May 1847) was a British botanist, botanical illustrator, poet, and clergyman. He served as a Member of Parliament for Hampshire from 1806 t...

The Pilgrims of the Rhine

Lord Lytton · 1891 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1891. Leather. A scarce limited 'Edition de Luxe' of The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lord Lytton being number 196 of 500 copies. With twenty- seven engravings on steel from drawings by Roberts, Maclise and other artists including front...

Oberon a Poem; from the German of Wieland

William Sotheby · 1798 · Rooke Books

£515.00 (€617.40 | $680.50 | ¥108,680)

London, Cadell and Davies, 1798. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of Sotheby's translation of Oberon. Translated from the German of Christoph Martin Wieland. The original poem was very popular at the time and Sotheby is noted for translating in to English. W...

Modern Accomplishments: Or, the March of Intellect

Catherine Sinclair · 1838 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London, William Whyte and Co. 1838. Leather. An early copy of this popular novel first published in 1836, in a charming fine binding. Seventh Thousand. Catherine Sinclair (1800-1864) was a Scottish children's writer. She was the fourth daughter of Sir John Sinclair, 1st B...

Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Sidney Colin · 1882 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1882. First edition. Leather. An extensive collection of the works of Landor. First edition. A prize presentation binding by Relfe Brothers, London, with presentation bookplate to front pastedown of St Mark's School, Windsor from the Christmas te...

Poems by Samuel Rogers

Samuel Rogers · 1812 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, T Cadell and W Davies , 1812. Leather. The first collected edition of the poetry of Romantic poet Samuel Rogers, including some of his best-known works such as The Pleasures of Memory, An Epistle to a Friend, and To a Friend on his Marriage. Rogers was in effect a lite...

The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith Containing All His Essays and Poems Including: The Poetical Works of Dr. Goldsmith

Dr. Goldsmith · 1730 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London, A Millar; W Law; R Cater, c1792. Leather. The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith Containing all his Essays and Poems with The Poetical Works of Dr. Goldsmith bound to rear. Two volumes bound in one, the first of essays, second of poems. The first volume has no date. ...

The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius: A Poem

James Beatie · 1771 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, E. & C. Dilly, 1771-4. First edition. Leather. A handsome edition of Beattie's poem, containing both volumes bound as one. Rebound in quarter-leather with gilt lettering and marbled paper-covered boards. The first book is the First Edition; the second book is the ...