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Ape and Essence

Aldous Huxley · 1949 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Ape and Essence, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Ape and Essence (1948...

The Book of Animal Tales

Stephen Southwold · 1929 · Rooke Books

£46.00 (€55.15 | $60.78 | ¥9,707)

London, George G. Harrap & Co Limited, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A delightful, first edition, copy of this collection of children's stories regarding animals, with numerous illustrations throughout. The scarce first edition. Held institutionally in only four British lib...

Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists

Washington Irving; Charles Lamb; Thomas de Quincey et al. · 1886 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Bickers and Son, 1886 . Leather. A smart anthology of prose pieces by leading essayists of the nineteenth century, complete with twelve photographic portrait plates. A series of twelve abridged prose pieces by leading essayists of the 1800s, including works from Irving...

Warblin&Apos;S Fro&Apos; an Owd Songster

Samuel Laycock · 1893 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1893. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, illustrated copy of Samuel Laycock's dialect poems. Samuel Laycock was a dialect poet who recorded the vernacular of the Lancashire cotton workers. This volume contains a s...

Dead Souls; Set in Darkness; the Falls; Resurrection Men; Beggars Banquet; a Question of Blood; Fleshmarket Close; Rebus: The St Leonard&Apos;S Years

Ian Rankin · 1999 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Orion, 1999-2004. First edition. Cloth. A bright collection of eight first editions by celebrated crime author Ian Rankin. Eight first editions, first impressions. Novels by Ian Rankin, Scottish crime author known for his series set in Edinburgh featuring the character...

The Wooden Shepherdess

Richard Hughes · 1973 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Richard Hughes' popular novel set in prohibition era America, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original ...

Death Comes As the End

Agatha Christie · 1947 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1947. Cloth. A lovely copy of the third impression of this unique historical fiction mystery novel by Agatha Christie. The third impression, published in 1947. The first impression was published in 1945.In the original unclipped dust wrapper....

Waltzburg: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

[Frances Rose] · 1833 · Rooke Books

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

London, Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. 1833. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce nineteenth-century novel by Frances Rose, a presentation copy from the author to members of her family, with the family bookplate to the front pastedown. A fascinating early nin...

Rainbows End in Tears

David Fletcher · 1984 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London, Macmillan, 1984. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition of this crime fiction novel by David Fletcher, scarce in its unclipped dust wrapper. First edition of this scarce crime novel by David Fletcher, sequel to Rainbow in Hell, which concerns the murder of Martin ...

Year After Year: A Tale

1858 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, Saunders and Otley , 1858. First edition. Leather. Very scarce leather bound first edition of this tale by Caroline Clive. The first edition of this novel by "the author of 'Paul Ferroll' and 'IX Poems by V.'" Tale written by Caroline Clive, highly ...

First Impressions: Or Trade in the West

Horace Smith · 1813 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Printed for Thomas Underwood, 1813. First edition. Unbound. Scarce first edition of this comedy in five acts by Horatio Smith. The first edition of this work. A comedy in five acts by Horatio Smith, English novelist and poet. A scarce pamphlet containing the play as pe...

Miscellaneous Poems

Henry Francis Lyte · 1868 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Rivingtons, 1868. First edition. Cloth. Very scarce first edition of this miscellany of poems by Henry Francis Lyte. A very scarce first edition of this miscellaneous anthology of the poems by Henry Francis Lyte, Anglican divine and hymnodist; his lyrics were universal...

The Parson&Apos;S Home: A Poem

An English Vicar [John Myers King] · 1849 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Francis & John Rivington, 1849. First edition. Cloth. Very scarce first edition of this poem by John Myers King. Very scarce poem, held by four institutional libraries only, first edition of this work. Published anonymously under 'an English Vicar', i.e. John...

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Ermoor

R. D. Blackmore · 1910 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company , 1910. Cloth. Dulverton edition of this romance by Richard D. Blackmore featuring coloured plates. A romance by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, one of the most famous English novelists of the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1869...

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1913 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

London, Chapman and Hall , c1870. Leather. Early edition of this social novel by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Phiz. A social novel following Amy Dorrit, who was born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors prison, where Dickens' own father was imprisoned. Dickens satirise...

The Miser and Coxcombs in Petticoats

Moliere; George Graveley · 1953 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

St. Albans, W. Cartmel & Sons, 1953. Cloth. Two short plays by French playwright Moliere, translated by George Graveley. A signed presentation copy from the translator to British stage actress Edith Evans. Two comedies by seventeenth-century French playwright Jean-Baptiste Poq...

Green Arras

Laurence Housman · 1896 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)

London; Chicago, John Lane at The Bodley Head; Way and Williams, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this poetry anthology by Laurence Housman, illustrated by the author himself. Illustrated by Housman with a woodcut frontispiece and title page and five plat...

Mr Sammler&Apos;S Planet

Saul Bellow · 1970 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Saul Bellow's award winning novel in the original dust wrapper. First UK edition of Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow in the original publisher's binding and unclipped dust wr...

The Collected Poems of Gerald Gould

Gerald Gould · 1929 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London , Victor Gollancz, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing collection of poems by English poet Gerald Gould. A first edition, second impression of this work published just a month after the first impression in October 1929. Gerald Gould was an English writer, essay...

Poems Epigrams and Sonnets

R.E. Egerton-Warburton · 1877 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1877. First edition. Leather. Scarce first edition of this collection of poems by Rowland Egerton-Warburton. The first edition of this work. A scarce copy of this anthology of the poems of R.E. Egerton-Warburton, English landowner and poet of ...