Letteratura

Bulgy in Wombolia

Roderick Maude-Roxby · 1945 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd. 1945. First edition. Hardback. A scarce copy of this humorous children's story, written and illustrated by the actor Roddy Maude-Roxby. The first edition of this scarce work in the original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper boards...

Jane Austen and Her Art

Mary Lascelles · 1948 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London , Oxford University Press , 1948. Hardback. A fascinating work celebrating the writing of Jane Austen from her popular novels to unfished works. The 1948 Reprint of this work. The first edition was published in 1939. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Very scarce. ...

Selected Poets of Great Britain to Which Are Prefixed Critical Notes of Each Author

William Hazlitt · 1825 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London , Thomas Tegg, 1825 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound collection of poetry and critical notes created by William Hazlitt. The first edition trade edition. First published the year prior, but suppressed due to copyright infringement. Handsomely bound in a con...

Recollections of a Ghost

Colin Murry [John Middleton Murry Jr.] · 1960 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Hutchinson, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this splendidly terrifying work from John Middleton Murry Jr. under the pen name of Colin Murry. First edition. Warwick Sturgess is an ageing author feeling somewhat uninspired. When a young girl names Is...

A Sheaf of Memories Speeches on Various Occasions by Sir Alexander Macdonald of the Isles

Alice Macdonald; Sir Alexander Macdonald · 1933 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, A. Brown & Sons, Limited , 1933. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition presentation copy of this collection of speeches by Alexander Macdonald, lovingly collected and prepared by his wife, Alice Macdonald. The first edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the a...

The Day of the Dog ; on the Outskirts ; Sweet Dreams

Michael Frayn · 1964 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Collins , 1964-1973 . First edition. Hardback. The first editions of a collection of essays and stories by Michael Frayn. The first edition.In the original dust wrapper. The Day of the Dog is in a price-clipped dust wrapper and Sweet Dreams and On the Outskirts is in ...

Sean Dana; le Oisian, Orran, Ulann, &C. Ancient Poems of Ossian, Orran, Ullian &C. Galic Antiquities

John Smith; Various · 1780 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

Edinburgh; London, Charles Elliot; C. Elliot, T. Kay, and Co, 1780-87. First edition. Leather. The first edition of two works by John Smith, both focusing on Gaelic history, with a selection of ancient poetry, and an exploration of the druids. Two first edition works by John S...

The Island of Sheep

John Buchan · 1938 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. 1938. Cloth. The third edition of this novel by John Buchan, with the very scarce original dust wrapper. The third edition. First published in 1936 by the same publisher. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped v...

Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Children&Apos;S Books

Andrew W. Tuer [ed] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.50 | $116.28 | ¥18,571)

London, The Leadenhall Press, 1898-9. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of children's illustrations and stories from various forgotten children's books. The first edition. Illustrated profusely throughout with four hundred monochrome illustr...

The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories Edited and Introduced by David A. Jasen

P. G. Wodehouse · 1980 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York , Continuum , 1980 . First edition. Hardback. A collection of stories and a novella by P. G. Wodehouse published after his death. The first edition. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. The Eight-Carat Kid and Other Stories was first published in 1980 five years af...

Toy Bearkins at School

John Howard Jewett · 1908 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London , Ernest Nister, [1908]. First edition. Hardback. A charming children's story of Toy Bearkins at School. The first edition. Very scarce. Toy Bearkins At School is part of the Little Mother Stories collection. In the original pictorial boards. This charming children...

The Land of Nursery Rhyme

Alice Danglish and Ernest Rhys · 1932 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London , E. P. Dutton , 1932. First edition. Cloth. A charming collection of children's nursery rhymes from the 1930s. The first edition. A very scarce edition of this work from 1932. A charming collection of nursery rhymes, transporting the reader into a world of castles...

Heat & Dust

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · 1975 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, John Murray, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this Booker Prize winning novel by Ruth Pawer Jhabvala. First edition. Winner of the Booker Prize and ranked by the Telegraph as one of the ten all-time greatest Asian novels in 2014. Following a yo...

Rites of Passage

William Golding · 1980 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Faber & Faber, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of William Golding's award winning novel Rites of Passage, with the original dust wrapper. First edition. Written as the journal of a young aristocrat, Edmund Talbot, whose influential godfather has ...

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy · 1997 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Flamingo, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this Booker Prize winning novel by Arundhati Roy. First edition. The author's debut novel, this family drama follows the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by laws ...

A Crooked Sixpence

Murray Sayle · 1960 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

London , MacGibbon and Kee, 1960. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of A Crooked Sixpence By Murray Sayle. Almost all copies were pulped after a libel writ. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. A very rare novel set in 1950...

If This Be Magic

Guy Lyon Playfair · 1985 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London , Jonathan Cape , 1985. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of If This Be Magic a story of moral questions. The first edition.In the original publisher's cloth in the original unclipped dust wrapper. If This Be Magic tells the story of a young hospital docto...

The Four Just Men

Edgar Wallace · 1905 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, The Tallis Press, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this mystery novel from Edgar Wallace which offered a cash prize if the reader could solve the mystery correctly. First edition. With a folding frontispiece. A detective thriller in which four wealt...

Le Neveu D&Apos;Amerique

Paul Sauniere · 1882 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Paris, E. Dentu , 1882. First edition. Leather. A very scarce copy of Le Neveu D'amerique by Paul Sauniere. Very scarce. The first edition. A French novel by Paul Sauniere. Bound in a quarter morocco binding. Paul Sauniere was a French journalist and writer. He is known f...

The Small Back Room

Nigel Balchin · 1943 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London , Collins , 1943. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Nigel Balchin's thriller The Small Back Room. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Written by Nigel Balchin, a psychologist and writer. He is known for his novels written during and a...