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Anne of Greierstein; or the Maiden of the Mist

Sir Walter Scott · 1829 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Edinburgh, Cadell and Company, 1829. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this historical novel from Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, in three volumes. Complete in three volumes. First edition. One of the Waverley Novels. Set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, sh...

The Humorist

Theodore Hook [Ed.] · 1837 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

Philadelphia, E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1837 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition thus of Theodore Hook's humorous collection of short stories and poetry, a very scarce work, bound in the publisher's original boards. The first edition thus of these collected wor...

Marie la Fille de L&Apos;Aveugle, Ou, Ce Que Dieu Fait Est Bien Fait

Madame de Civrey · 1827 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Paris, Eug. Balland, 1827. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce French novel follows a young girl named Marie, an illustrated work by Madame de Civrey. The scarce first edition.In the original French.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and engraved title.A tou...

The Triumph of Drake; or, the Dawn of England&Apos;S Naval Power

R. Grymbald Bigsby · 1839 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London; Nottingham, Hamilton, Adams, and Co; C. Tilt, 1839. First edition. Leather. A very scarce poem by R. Grymbald Bigsby celebrating the triumphs of Francis Drake, the first edition. The first edition of this very scarce work.A poem lauding the triumphs of Francis Drake, a...

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

William Barnes · 1863 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, John Russell Smith, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Barnes' third collection of poems written in the Dorset dialect. The first edition of the third collection. In the publisher's original cloth binding.William Barnes wan English poly...

A Handful of Leather

Will H. Ogilvie · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of equine poems, illustrated with bright tipped in colour plates from Lionel Edwards. First edition. Illustrated with eight tipped-in colour plates. Collated complete. A charmin...

Joy Street Poems: School Edition

Rose Fyleman; Marian Allen; Edith Sitwell · 1927 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1927 . Cloth. The 'School Edition' of this charmingly illustrated 1920s volume of poems for children. The 'School Edition' of this work, published in the same year as the first edition.An anthology of jolly poems from authors includ...

The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, William Heinemann, 1906-1908. Cloth. Eight volumes of the copyright edition of this collection of works from Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Eight volumes of an eleven volume set. Containing volumes I, II, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and XI only. Copyright edition. The co...

Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady

H. G. Wells · 1927 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Ernest Benn, Limited, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel written by prolific English author H. G. Wells. First edition. Set in an Italian villa in early 1926, this novel is divided into two books. In the first book, Cynthia and Philip Rylan...

The Week-End Book

1932 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1932. Leather. A smartly bound new edition of this illustrated anthology of poetry, plays, and meditations on leisure activities. New edition. First published in 1924, going through numerous editions due to its immense popularity. Illustrated throug...

Buffs and Boy, or, the Isles of Innocence

Amy Sims · 1908 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, T. Sealey Clark & Co. Ltd., 1908. First edition. Cloth. A scarce Edwardian fantasy novel for children, a charming and illustrated tale by Amy Sims. The first edition of this scarce and charming fantasy novel for children by Amy Sims, set in Hertfordshire. 'Buffs a...

John Wyndham or the Gospel Among the Fishermen

Rev. George Shaw · 1878 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1878. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and decoratively cloth-bound Christian novel with themes of sailing and fishing, written by the Reverend George Shaw. The first edition. A very scarce work.In the publisher's original decorative c...

Winter Frost

R. D. Wingfield · 1999 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Constable, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of this fifth gripping Detective Inspector Jack Frost novel by R. D. Wingfield. First edition, first impression. The fifth Jack Frost novel. A thrilling murder mystery following the slo...

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro · 1986 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)

London, Faber & Faber, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue, of Ishiguo's award winning novel set in post Second World War Japan. The first edition, second issue of Kazuo Ishiguro's Whitbread Book of the Year winning second novel.In the publis...

Hornblower in the West Indies

C. S. Forester · 1958 · Rooke Books

£105.00 (€125.86 | $138.71 | ¥22,150)

London, Michael Joseph, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the C. S. Forester's final Hornblower novel, in the original illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The final nov...

Joan la Romee: A Drama

Frank Harris · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

Nice/New York, Imprimerie Nicoise/Frank Harris Publishing Co. 1926. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this play from Irish-American editor and writer Frank Harris. First edition. A little-known play following the life of Joan of Arc, a patron saint of France, ...

Perversite

Francis Carco · 1925 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Paris, J. Ferenczi et Fils, 1925. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this mystery story from French author Francis Carco, in the original French. French. First edition. Set in the underworld of the Paris slums, this mystery story follows the life of a young pro...

Odtaa: A Novel

John Masefield · 1926 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, William Heinemann, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel from English writer John Edward Masefield, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. An adventure novel which opens with establishing narrative describing the fictional na...

Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson · 1993 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, HarperCollins, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression, of Kim Stanley Robinson's second novel in his vast 'Mars' science fiction trilogy. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper....

Montes the Matador

Frank Harris · 1910 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first U. S. edition of this brilliant collection of five stories by Frank Harris, signed by the author. The first U. S. edition, first printing. This first U. S. edition was published ten years after the first Londo...