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The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
Frances Trollope · 1840 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Henry Colburn, 1840 . First edition. Leather. A smart copy of the first single volume edition of Frances Trollope's novel about nineteenth century child labour, illustrated throughout. The first single volume edition of Frances Trollope's 'damning expose...
Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children
Kate Greenaway · 1878 · Rooke Books
£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)
London, George Routledge & Sons, [1878]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue of Kate Greenaway's beautifully colour illustrated collection of rhymes for children. The first edition, second issue. With the 'End of Contents' to pp. 14 and the ill...
The Complete Stalky & Co.
Rudyard Kipling · 1929 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of school stories from English writer Rudyard Kipling. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated complete. A novel about adoles...
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1885 · Rooke Books
£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)
London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1916. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated edition of this popular children's novel. Illustrated throughout with twenty-six in-text drawings. A popular Victorian story for children, originally written as a serial in 'St. Nicholas Magazine ...
Poetical Miscellanies
Richard Steele; Various · 1714 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)
London, Jacob Tonson, 1714. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this anthology of poems collected by Richard Steele, including pieces by Alexander Pope. The first edition, with the date misprinted to the title as 'MDDCXIV&apos.An anthology of poetical miscellany,...
Jocko, the Brazilian Ape
Madame de Chatelain [Clara de Chatelain] · 1865 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, A. N. Myers, 1865 . First edition. Cloth. The second UK edition of this very scarce children's work, originally published in German. Illustrated with vibrant colour plates. The second UK edition, first published in the UK five years prior.Adapted from the German b...
The Moon Is Down
John Steinbeck · 1942 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
New York, The Viking Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel fashioned for theatre adaptation from American writer John Steinbeck. First edition. Second state with correction to page 112. With the original price-clipped dust wrapper. The story of...
Idylls of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)
London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1859. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue, of this Arthurian poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, focusing on the story of King Arthur and Guinevere. The first edition, second issue of this work, with the printer's imprint to the vers...
Selecta Poemata Archibaldi Pitcarnii; Poems in English and Latin, on the Archers, and the Royal-Company of Archers
Archibald Pitcairne · 1726 · Rooke Books
£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)
Edinburgh, Not Stated, 1726-1727 . First edition. Leather. Two very scarce first edition of early eighteenth century works of poetry. bound together in a modern quarter morocco binding. In both Latin and English.Two very scarce works of poetry bound together.The first of these...
The Outcry
Henry James · 1911 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, Methuen and Co, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry James's entertaining final completed novel, 'The Outcry&apos. The first edition. Originally conceived as a three-act play, this work was converted into a novel in 1911 and was the last no...
The Shropshire Racket
Stephen L. Robertson · 1937 · Rooke Books
£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)
London, Sheed & Ward, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this parody of the work of A. E. Housman by Stephen L, Robertson, with illustrations by Thomas Derrick. The first edition, first impression. Illustrated by Thomas Derrick with monochrome vignettes. This v...
The Backward Shadow
Lynne Reid Banks · 1970 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)
London, Chatto and Windus, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this sequel to Lynne Reid Banks' 'The L-Shaped Room', with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped du...
Wet Magic
Edith Nesbit · 1923 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, T. Fisher Unwin LTD, 1923. Cloth. An uncommon to see copy of one of Edith Nesbit's popular children's fantasy novels, an illustrated mermaid adventure. The first edition to be published by T. Fisher Unwin, having previously been published by T. Werner Laurie....
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
D. H. Lawrence · 1914 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Duckworth & Co, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this drama told in three acts by D. H. Lawrence, a dramatisation of his earlier short stories 'Odour of Chrysanthemums&apos. The first U.K. edition of this work, this is one of 500 copies published u...
Deliverance
James Dickey · 1970 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of James Dickey's debut novel, about a group of four middle-aged men who encounter danger in the backwaters of Georgia. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrappe...
The Terrible Threshold: Selected Poems 1940-1970
Stanley Kunitz · 1974 · Rooke Books
£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)
London, Secker and Warburg , 1974. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first UK edition of Stanley Kunitz's collected poems. The first UK edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A series of selected poems written bet...
Chaucer&Apos;S Dream-Poems
James Winny · 1973 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study of three of Chaucer's early poems, a review copy with publisher's request. First edition. A review copy with the original request from the publishers. A study of three of Chaucer...
The Stories That Little Breeches Told
Charles Bennett · 1863 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
London, Sampson Low, Son, and Co, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming tale for children by Charles Bennett, illustrated with hand-coloured plates. The first edition, this is the scarcer issue with hand-coloured plates.Illustrated with ten hand-colour...
The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1911 · Rooke Books
£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Cloth. A lovely copy of Sheridan's successful comedy of manners, with delightful colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson. An illustrated work in the publisher's original decorative cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board...
The Legacy, the Testament, and Other Poems of Francois Villon
Francois Villon; Peter Dale [trans] · 1973 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)
London, Macmillan, 1973. First edition. Leather. A collection of poetical works by Francois Villon, translated by Peter Dale and bound in a quarter morocco binding. The very scarce first UK edition of this translated collection of Villon's works. In the publisher's ...