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Edward St. Aubyn Works: At Last and Lost for Words

Edward St Aubyn · 2011 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Picador , 2011-2014. First edition. Cloth. The signed first editions of At Last, the final installment in the Patrick Melrose series, and Lost For Words, a biting satire on literary awards. The signed first editions of At Last and Lost For Words, written by English aut...

14 Vols Post-War and Cold War British Fiction First Editions

Various · 1956 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Various, 1956-1988. First edition. Cloth. An extensive fourteen-volume collection of post-war and Cold War British first and first UK editions, featuring authors such as Graham Greene, Angus Wilson, and Lawrence Durrell, complete with the original dust wrappers. In the...

Writers & Lovers

Lily King · 2020 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London , Picador, 2020. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of the captivating novel by Lily King, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work, signed by the author to the half title page. In publisher's original red cloth binding, in t...

Sugar and Other Stories

A.S Byatt · 1987 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London , Chatto & Windus, 1987 . First edition. Cloth. A marvelous signed first edition of 11 captivating short stories by Booker Prize winning author A.S. Byatt. The first edition of the work.Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. In publisher's original black...

Biggles Goes to War; Biggles in Borneo; Biggles Hits the Trail; Biggles Flies West; Biggles in Spain; Biggles in the South Seas

Captain W. E. Johns · 1951 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1951-1953. Cloth. A smart collection of Biggles novels from this 'Flying Jacket' series of editions. All complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Offering six volumes from Captain W. E. Johns' popu...

Don Juan: Cantos I. To V.

Lord Byron · 1822 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, W. Benbow; Sudbury [printers], 1822 [1824]. Paperback. An uncommon Benbow pirated edition of Cantos I-V of Lord Byron's 'Don Juan&apos. A personalised copy from the library of Arts and Crafts architect Norman Jewson. A later state of this early pirated editio...

The Works of Nigel Balchin: Six Selected Novels

Nigel Balchin · 1949 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Collins; Collins and the Book Society, 1949-1967. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of six gripping thriller novels by author and psychologist Nigel Balchin, praised for his sense of humour and realism. The first editions of six thriller novels by Nigel Balchin,...

Sinister Service, the Adventures of Lance Lovell, Counter-Espionage Officer

Captain W. E. Johns · 1942 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Oxford University Press, 1942 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling WWII novel from 'Biggles' author W. E. Johns, following the adventures of a British counter-espionage officer. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a col...

The Garrick Year; the Needle&Apos;S Eye; the Ice Age; a Natural Curiosity; the Gates of Ivory; the Peppered Moth.

Margaret Drabble · 1964 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Viking, 1964-2000. First edition. Cloth. Varied collection of first-edition Margaret Drabble novels, including a signed copy of The Garrick Year. All copies are first editions.The Garrick Year is signed to the title page with the inscription, "...

The Tor Hill

Horace Smith · 1826 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this historical novel from Horace Smith, complete in three calf-bound volumes. First edition. Complete in three volumes. Uniformly bound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards. A novel of the ...

5 Vols Works by Maurice Hewlett

Maurice Hewlett · 1901 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London; Westminster , Macmillan and Co. Limited; Archibald Constable & Co, Ltd. 1901-1905. Leather. A smartly bound five-volume collection of first editions and reprints by Maurice Hewlett, in full green crushed morocco, a signed binding by Hatchards. In a smart full green cru...

Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood

Henry Gilbert · 1912 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Edinburgh & London , T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1912. Cloth. A delightful retelling of the classic Robin Hood Tale, with a frontispiece, illustrated title page, and 15 colour plates by Walter Crane. The first edition of this retelling of the classic Robin Hood Tale. In publisher'...

Patchwork Quilt: Poems by Decimus Magnus Ausonius

Decimus Magnus Ausonius · 1930 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Fanfrolico Press , 1930. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition anthology of Decimus Magnus Ausonius' poems, from the Fanfrolico Press. Decorated by Edward Bawden. Limited edition of 400 copies, of which this is number 59. In the original blind-stamped clo...

La Dame de Monsoreau

Alexandre Dumas · 1891 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1891. Leather. An 1891 French edition of Alexandre Dumas' La Dame de Monsoreau complete in two volumes, in a beautiful half calf binding with paper-covered marbled boards. An 1891 edition of Alexandre Dumas' La Dame de Monsoreau complete in tw...

Four Quartets

T.S. Eliot · 1944 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.95 | $1,182.62 | ¥188,871)

London , Faber and Faber, 1944. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this set of four poems by influential Modernist poet T.S. Eliot, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original beige cloth binding. In the original u...

The Family Reunion Poems of Dedication What Is a Classic? an Address Delivered Before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944

T.S. Eliot; Stephen Spender · 1939 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London , Faber and Faber, 1939-1947. First edition. Cloth. - The first editions of the works. In publisher's original cloth bindings. A three volume collection of poetical works published by Faber and Faber including:1939 The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot, a modern verse p...

Gerald Gould (the Augustan Books of English Poetry)

Gerald Gould; Humbert Wolfe [ed.] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Ernest Benn Ltd , 1926. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce anthology of Gerald Gould's poetry, issued for the second series of the 'Augustan Books of English Poetry&apos. First edition of this collection.Number twenty from the 'Augustan Books of English...

The Poems of Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell · 1923 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Burns, Oates & Washbourne Ltd. 1923. Cloth. A smart first complete edition of the poetry of British writer, editor, and suffragist, Alice Meynell. Complete edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The collected poetry of Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell, a British write...

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain · 1880 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1880. First edition. Cloth. A smart example of the second printing of the first UK edition of Mark Twain's account of his journey through central and southern Europe. The second impression of the first UK single volume edition of this work, with t...

Jane Austen&Apos;S Letters to Her Sister Cassandra and Others

Jane Austen; R. W. Chapman [ed.] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout, this is the uncommon two volume first edition of the collected personal correspondence of Jane Austen. With this copy belonging to an Austen scholar, Chris Viveash. The uncommon first edition of t...