Letteratura

The Clock Winder a Novel

Anne Tyler · 1941 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Chatto and Windus, c1973. First edition. Hardback. A scarce edition of this novel by Anne Tyler. Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. "This novel, Miss Tyler's fourth, is beautifully literate, a deft triumph in a diffic...

The Open Mind

Georges Bernanos · 1945 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.88 | $118.91 | ¥18,991)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Georges Bernanos. Bernanos (1888 – 1948) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thoug...

Copper, Gold and Treasure

David Williams · 1982 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

London, Collins, 1982. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this detective novel David Williams. David Williams (8 June 1926 – 26 September 2003) was an advertising executive who became a crime writer after suffering a stroke. In a red cloth binding. Externally, smart. ...

The Death of Daddy-O a Marty Land Mystery

David Alexander · 1960 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, T. V. Boardman and Company Limited, 1960. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this mystery novel from David Alexander. 'When the body that had been lying in the street had been carried away, the fat old many, carrying a bible, a parrot and an old phonogr...

Aphrodite in Aulis

George Moore · 1930 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.88 | $118.91 | ¥18,991)

London, William Heinemann, 1930. First edition. Vellum. A signed limited edition of George Moore's Aphrodite in Aulis. Bound in vellum with gilt lettering and decoration and bevelled. A nice clean copy. First edition. Signed. Limited edition, number 305 of 1825. George Au...

The Playfellow the Crofton Boys. A Tale

Harrier Martineau · 1841 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Charles Knight, 1841. Leather. A scarce edition of The Crofton Boys. A Tale by Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876) an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. First edition. Martineau wrote thirty-five books and a multitude of e...

The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John&Apos;S College, Cambridge

Henry Kirke White; edited by Robert Southey · 1823 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. Leather. A collection of poetic fragments from Henry Kirke White. With an account of White's life by Robert Southey. Including a frontispiece of White to the first volume. Tenth edition. Complete in two volumes. In deco...

The Essays of Elia Edited by Alfred Ainger

Charles Lamb; Alfred Ainger · 1910 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1910. Fine Binding. A smart copy of Lamb's famous essays, in a Bumpus binding. Reprint of 1883 First Edition. Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Las...

London Society Volumes XXVII and XXVIII

Various Authors · 1875 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, Crown Buildings, 1875. Leather. A scarce two volume set of London Society, in attractive leather binding. Described as a "illustrated magazine of light and amusing literature for the hours of relaxation", the volumes contain plates throughout, with serialised stories a...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood; William Michael Rossetti, Ed. · 1799 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Ward, Lock and Co, c1880. Leather. A Moxon's Popular Poets First Series edition of The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Thomas Hood, 1799 –1845, was a British humorist and poet. After working in a counting h...

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1903 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1903. Leather. A nice example of the first in Holmes' Breakfast-Table series. First edition thus. With an introduction by Leslie Stephen. Bound by J. W. Meyer and Co. With a frontispiece showing a portrait of the author. In a half morocco binding...

Verses

F W W Pattenden · 1891 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Clarke and Co, 1891 . First edition. Vellum. A scarce privately printed collection of poetry by F. W. W. Pattenden. A large number of these verses were written for amusement. With a memoir and prefatory note to front. First edition. Frederick William Waldebrand Pattend...

The Lord of the Isles; a Poem

Walter Scott · 1815 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

Edinburgh, James Ballantyne and Co, 1815. Leather. Third edition of the rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott, written in 1815. In six cantos. In stunning narrative poetry, the story begins during the time when Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick has been hunted out o...

The Smuggler a Tale Volumes I & III Only

John Banim · 1831 · Rooke Books

£189.99 (€227.77 | $251.05 | ¥40,094)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition. Leather. First edition of John Banim's The Smuggler. Bound in half roan leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering and decoration. First edition. Volumes I and III only. John Banim (1798 - 1...

The Spanish Libertines: Or the Lives of Justina, the Country Jilt; Celestina, the Bawd of Madrid; and Estevanillo Gonzales, the Most Comical of Scoundrels. To Which Is Added a Play Call&Apos;D an Evening&Apos;S Adventure All Four Written by Eminent Spanish Authors, and Now First Made English by Captain John Stevens

Captain John Stevens · 1707 · Rooke Books

£1,133.99 (€1,359.46 | $1,498.41 | ¥239,305)

London, Samuel Bunchley, 1707. First edition. Leather. Contains 3 Spanish stories and a play translated into English by John Stevens. The Spanish works are attributed to Francesco Lopez de Ubeda and Andres Perez de Leon, Fernanso Rojas, Gonzales and Juan de Avila. Full calf le...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens · 1839 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition. Leather. The first edition in book form of Charles Dickens' third novel. First edition in book form, very early issue. With first state issue points such as the important 'latter for letter' to page 160, 'Inscr...

The Pilgrim on the Earth

Julian Green · 1929 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, Blackamore Press, 1929. First edition. Leather. A handsome volume bound in three quarteers vellum with blue cloth. This is an illustrated Limited First Edition by Julien Green. This is an edition limited to 375 copies. This volume is number 369. Julien Green (1900-98) ...

The Masked Venus a Story of Many Lands

Richard Henry Savage · 1893 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1893. First edition. Leather. A first UK edition of Richard Henry Savage's The Masked Venus. First thus. Richard Henry Savage was a military officer and and author. Drawing on his own experiences, Savage wrote of over 40 adventure and myst...

Linford Green

Cecilia Selby Lowndes · 1886 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, Frederick Warne & Co. 1886. First edition. Leather. A hardback copy of Cecilia Selby Lowndes' romantic work, Linford Green. The first edition. Cecilia Selby Lowndes was an author known for her works of religious sentiment. Set in the countryside, Linford Green is ...

Uncle Tom in England or a Proof That Black&Apos;S White an Echo to the American &Apos;Uncle Tom&Apos; and Venetia

Anon and B Disraeli · 1852 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, Houlston and Stoneman, 1852-3. Leather. Two interesting novels bound as one. The first, Uncle Tom in England appears to be an english novel which draws a parallel to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The author is not attributed, although to the rear...