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St Andrews

Rudyard Kipling; Walter de la Mare · 1926 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, A. & C. Black, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A volume of two memorial poems on St Andrews by Rudyard Kipling and Walter de la Mare. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Two poems, written by Rudyard Kipling and Walter de la Mare, publishe...

The Balloon Travels of Robert Merry and His Young Friends, over Various Countries in Europe

Peter Parley [Samuel Griswold Goodrich] · 1855 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York, J. C. Derby & Co, 1855 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming novel about the travels of a group of characters across Europe in a balloon. The first edition of this work, by American author Samuel Griswold Goodrich, written under the pseudonym Pet...

Bracebridge Hall: Or, the Humourists

Washington Irving · 1896 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896 . Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Washington Irving's episodic novel, in the original decorative cloth bindings, and scarce protective cloth dust wrappers. A two volume first edition thus, being the first edition of Irvi...

The Fall of Jerusalem and the Martyr of Antioch

Rev H. H. Milman (Henry Hart) · 1820 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, John Murray, 1820-22. First edition. Leather. Two first edition dramatic poetry works by Henry Hart Milman bound in one volume in full morocco. The first edition. Two works in one volumes. Bound in full morocco. This work features two dramatic poems by Henry Hart Mi...

Creezy

Felicien Marceau; J.A. Underwood [trans] · 1970 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York , Orion, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The first American edition of this novel by the French author Felicien Marceau about a Parisian model named Creezy. The first U.S edition and the first edition in English. Translated from the original French by J.A. Underwood. Wi...

The Tree of Hands

Ruth Rendell · 1984 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1984. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling suspense novel from Ruth Rendell. First edition. A suspense novel following the story of Benet and his mother, Mopsa, who had tried to stab him when he was a child. A recent death in t...

Poetry London X

Various; Tambimuttu [ed.] · 1944 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Nicholson & Watson, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Volume 2, Number 10, of this brightly illustrated and highly regarded literary magazine Poetry London. The first edition of this work, Volume 2, Number 10, of Poetry London, in the publisher'...

H.M. S. Ulysses, the Guns of Navarone, & South by Java Head

Alistair MacLean · 1955 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Collins, 1955-1958. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first edition volumes from Scottish novelist, Alistair MacLean. Three volumes. First edition. Written by Alistair MacLean, a Scottish novelist of popular thrillers and adventure stories. This set includes the author...

The Cocktail Party

T. S. Eliot · 1950 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Faber and Faber LTD, 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the most successful play of T. S. Eliot, a verse drama following the troubled relationship of a husband and wife. The first edition, first impression, with the misprinting to page 29 'You shall ...

Twelve to Twelve

Jeni Couzyn; Various · 1970 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Poets Trust, 1970. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this poetical anthology commissioned by Camden Festival, including poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. The first edition of this work.Review slip loosely inserted. An anthology of poetry compiled by ...

The English Illustrated Magazine

Various · 1884 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1884-1891. First edition. Leather. Eight leather-bound volumes of the 'The English Illustrated Magazine' from October 1883 to September 1891. The first editions of these eight volumes in a half calf binding. Ink inscription to the first blan...

Four Volumes of First Edition Novels by Howard Spring; There Is No Armour a Sunset Touch These Lovers Fled Away Time and the Hour

Howard Spring · 1948 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Collins, 1948-57. First edition. Cloth. Four first edition fiction novels by Howard Spring, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition to all. Four Volumes.In the publisher's original cloth to all but 'Time and the Hour' and 'These ...

The Mind of the English Speech Delivered at the Meeting of the Royal Society of St. George, London, St. George"S Day, 1920.

Rudyard Kipling · 1921 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

New York , Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this very scarce transcribed speech by Rudyard Kipling, in the original binding and the original glassine dust wrapper. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original quarter paper vel...

The Miniature

Eden Phillpotts · 1926 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

London, Watts & Co, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this fantastical novel by Eden Phillpotts, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Inscribed by the ...

Maidlin to the Rescue: A Story of the Abbey Girls

Elsie Jeanette Oxenham · 1934 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, W. & R. Chambers, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of the sixteenth work in Elsie J. Oxenham's Abbey series The first edition, first impression of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates from Rene Cloke. Collated, complete...

Doctor Therne

H. Rider Haggard; Andrew Lang · 1898 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this exciting science fiction novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Following a smallpox epidemic that sweeps across England. Written as an attack on the anti-v...

Red Snow

F. Wright Moxley · 1931 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Jarrolds Publishers, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first UK edition of this vanishingly scarce science-fiction novel by Frank Wright Moxley. First UK edition, published the year following the US edition. Scarce to see the first UK edition.Bound in the publ...

A Demigod

[Edward Payson Jackson] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this science fiction novel which looks into eugenics, an uncommon work written by Edward Payson Jackson. The first edition of this uncommon work.'A Demigod' follows aa Eugenics programmes f...

De Vliegenvanger

John Steinbeck · 1946 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Amsterdam, Van Holkema & Warendorf N. V. 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first Dutch language trade edition of Steinbeck's novel 'The Moon is Down', about the military occupation of a town in Northern Europe. The scarce first Dutch trade edition of this ...

Les Robinsons Lunaires

G. Le Faure · 1893 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Paris, E. Dentu, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling late nineteenth century science fiction novel about a lunar voyage, illustrated throughout by Fernand Fau. In the original French.The first edition of this science fiction novel, in which a famil...