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Crotchet Castle

Thomas Love Peacock · 1831 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

London, T. Hookham, 1831 . First edition. Disbound. A smart first edition of Thomas Love Peacock's satirical 1831 Gothic novel. The first edition of this humorous and satirical Gothic novel from Thomas Love Peacock, with page 154 numbered 54, as called for.Peacock's ...

Corker&Apos;S Freedom

John Berger · 1964 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London , Methuen & Co , 1964. First edition. Cloth. An affectionate, intimate portrait of the dreamer William Corker by award-winning author John Berger. This is a smart first edition copy of John Berger's tender and bittersweet novel. The novel comically follows William ...

Jesus Christs

A. J. Langguth · 1968 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Victor Gollancz , 1968. First edition. Cloth. Bright first edition of this novel by A. J. Lungguth's debut novel exploring the life of Jesus Christ. The first edition of this work. An uncommon novel, debut of A. J. Langguth. Here the author sees Jesus as a human b...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; Edward FitzGerald (translator) · 1909 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1909. Leather. Pocket sized edition of this famous collection of Persian verses, with illustrations by Herbert Cole. Complete with its scarce dust wrapper. Pocket sized edition of the popular collection of Persian poems, the Rubaiyat by Omar ...

Almoran and Hamet, an Oriental Tale

Dr. John Hawkesworth · 1780 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Harrison and Co, 1780. Leather. Both volumes of Dr. Hawkesworth's tragic 'oriental tale' bound together in a lovely quarter morocco binding, and illustrated with two engraved plates. With both volumes bound in one, and with the title page to volume I onl...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Gregory Rabassa · 1970 · Rooke Books

£1,450.00 (€1,738.31 | $1,915.97 | ¥305,993)

New York, Harper and Row , 1970. First edition. Cloth. A stunning first American edition, second state copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's widely acclaimed novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, translated into English and in the original unclipped dustwrapper. A stunning copy...

Little Portia

Simon Gray · 1967 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Faber & Faber, 1967. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical novel by Simon Gray, enclosed in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A compelling novel about two children who are orphaned following a car accident after the celebrations of VE-Day, and t...

Poems

Jean Ingelow · 1867 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1867 . First edition. Leather. The first illustrated edition of the charming volume of poems from Jean Ingelow. Engraved by The Brother's Dalziel, and in a signed binding from H. Sotheran. The first illustrated edition of this del...

Life of Pi

Yann Martel · 2002 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Edinburgh, Canongate, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A seventh impression copy of this work of fiction by Yann Martel, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First UK Edition, eighth impression. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Th...

A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads

1860 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, W. Kent & Co. 1860. First edition. Leather. First edition of this picturesque collection nineteenth century ballads enriched with numerous beautiful engravings. The first edition of this work. A large paper volume containing favourite English ballads in the nineteenth ...

Sources of Unrest

Peter Vansittart · 1962 · Rooke Books

£57.00 (€68.33 | $75.32 | ¥12,029)

London, The Bodley Head, 1962. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this perceptive and emotional novel by Peter Vansittart, in the original nicely illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A perceptive novel by Peter Vansittart, ...

Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century and St. Ronan&Apos;S Well

Sir Walter Scott; Rev. P. Hately Waddell (Ed) · 1885 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo & Co.; W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1885. Leather. A leather-bound copy containing two of Scott's 'Waverley Novels', with frontispieces and vignette title engravings to both volumes, as well as notes from P. Hately Waddell. 1885 Firs...

Kindergarten

P. S. Rushforth · 1979 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this moving retelling of 'Hansel and Gretel' by P. S. Rushforth, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this short and disturbing novel, a grim retelling of the popular...

The Cuckoo

Rudolf Nassauer · 1962 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Peter Owen LTD , 1962. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this uncommon first edition novel by Rudolf Nassauer, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. Second novel by Rudolf Nassauer, concerning the dying relationship of a man and his wife, with perceptive descripti...

The Earthly Paradise: A Poem Part IV

William Morris · 1871 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Roberts Brothers , 1871. First edition. Cloth. First US edition of part IV of William Morris' epic poem. The Earthly Paradise by William Morris, part IV containing the December, January, and February parts. The epic poem is complete in twelve parts, each represent...

Thomson&Apos;S Poetical Works

James Thomson; Rev. George Gilfillan · 1853 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Edinburgh, James Nichols , 1853. Leather. The poetical works of James Thomson in one volume, first thus edited by George Gilfillan. An anthology of the poems of James Thomson, eighteenth century Scottish author known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, an...

The Essays of Elia: First Series and Second Series

Charles Lamb · 1840 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Edward Moxon, 1840. Leather. Charles Lamb's collection of essays 'The Essays of Elia' and 'The Last Essays of Elia' in one volume. These essays first appeared in The London Magazine between 1820 and 1825, published in book form in 1823 with a...

Doctor Dolittle&Apos;S Return

Hugh Lofting · 1933 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this first edition children's book in the 'Doctor Dolittle' series by Hugh Lofting, complete with the vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. The first edition of this ninth book in Hugh Lofting's...

Death of an Expert Witness

P. D. James · 1977 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Faber and Faber, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of one of the detective novels within the Adam Dalgliesh series, published by P. D. James, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First Edition. In the original unclipped dust-wrapper. This is a lovel...

The Spire

William Golding · 1964 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Faber and Faber, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this popular novel from William Golding, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this novel from Nobel Prize for Literature winning author W...