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The Christmas Box

Francis Brett Young · 1938 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London , William Heinemann Ltd. 1938. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Francis Brett Young's The Christmas Box in original dustwrapper. Francis Brett Young (1884 – 1954) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and composer. With 36 illustrations by Kay Ambrose...

The Alabaster Box

Walter Besant · 1900 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Thomas Burleigh, 1900. First edition. Cloth. The Alabaster Box, one of Walter Besant's final novels before his death in 1901. First edition. A scarce work bound in the publisher's original cloth binding. Written by Walter Besant a noted novelist and historian...

St Stephen&Apos;S, a Poem

Unamed · 1860 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Edinburgh, Blackwood & Sons, 1860. Cloth. A very scarce poetical work which was originally published in Blackwood's Magazine. Blue cloth hardback with blind embossed covers, there are gilt titles on the spine. There is a half title page and title page followed by a Dedica...

Bramble

Margery Colman · 1945 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London , Faber and Faber, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A charming work of children's fiction, illustrated throughout with coloured lithographs. First edition. Complete with the original illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated by the author. In original pictorial cloth binding...

Victorious Troy or the Hurrying Angel

John Masefield · 1935 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London , William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by John Masefield. John Edward Masefield, OM (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as t...

A Selection of Plays and Miscellaneous Pieces

Various · 1819 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Edinburgh and Paris, Henry Colburn et al. 1819-1839. Cloth. A scarce anthology of Georgian theatrical pieces as well as the first edition of "Massaniello; or a The Revolt of Naples" by Sir John Dean Paul. Includes the third edition of "Mirandola" a tragedy by Barry Cor...

A Protegee of Jack Hamlin&Apos;S

Bret Harte · 1894 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A collection of short stories by Bret Harte. The first UK edition , published the same year as the true first American edition. With a 32 page publisher's catalogue to the rear dated Feb 1894, (Sadleir 1155). Illustra...

Confidence

Henry James · 1880 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1880. Cloth. A first thus edition of this novel by Henry James. Henry James was an Anglo-American writer who spent the bulk of his career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. In a cloth binding. Ext...

Winter Visitors

McCarthy · 1970 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this short story by Mary McCarthy. Taken from a later novel Birds of America published 1971. This first edition was issued as a New Year's gift by publisher's Harcourt Brace Jovano...

Juvenile Poems

Chandos Leigh · 1815 · Rooke Books

£790.00 (€947.08 | $1,043.88 | ¥166,713)

London , Printed for W. Lindsell, 1815. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of Juvenile Poems by Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh (1791 - 1850) who was a British landowner and poet. With a preface by the author to front dated 1817. First edition. Leigh was Lord Byron's...

The Well of the Saints

John M. Synge · 1911 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

Dublin , Maunsel and Company, Ltd, 1911. Vellum. A 1911 edition of The Well of the Saints. Written by John M. Synge, a noted Irish playwright who earned notoriety with his subequent play The Playboy of the Western World, the play focusses on a group of beggars in 'some lo...

Berkshire Ballads and Other Papers

John A. Brain · 1904 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Reading , Thomas Thorp, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A posthumously published collection of the papers and lectures of John A. Brain. The volume commences with the title lecture and then follows a series of lectures on various figures; An Evening with Thomas Noon Talfourd; and ...

Lays and Legends of the West

Frank Curson · 1846 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Whittaker and Co. 1846. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of poetry and miscellanea. 'A series of papers on some of the less known of our local traditions with minor poems of a miscellaneous character' A collection of short legen...

Gastronomic Pleasures a Literary Retrospect of a Few Notable Feasts

Graham Reynolds · 1950 · Rooke Books

£33.99 (€40.75 | $44.91 | ¥7,173)

London , Art and Technics, 1950. Cloth. A charming pocket-sized anthology on the delights of eating and drinking. First edition, first printing. "Ranging from Samuel Pepys to James Joyce". Illustrated throughout and featuring the original dustwrapper. In original paper covered...

Edmund Dulac&Apos;S Picture Book for the French Red Cross

Edmund Dulac · 1916 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London , Hodder and Stoughton, [1916]. Cloth. A collection of songs and stories from popular culture, illustrated by Edmund Dulac. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe children's book market shrank he turned to magazine illustr...

The Satires of Juvenal

Juvenal · 1807 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , T. Bensley, 1807. Cloth. Francis Hodgson's translation of the satirical poems of Roman poet, Juvenal. The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD. Francis Hodgson (1781 – 1852), (...

Romance of a Midshipman

W. Clark Russell · 1898 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London , T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. First edition. Cloth. Romance Of A Midshipman is a novel by William Clark Russell. First English edition. William Clark Russell (1844 - 1911) was an English writer best known for his nautical novels. At the age of 13 Russell joined the Merchant ...

The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok Complete in One Volume

Reginald Heber, Felicia Hemans and Robert Pollok · 1832 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London , John Grigg, 1832. Cloth. The collected poetical works of Reginald Heber, Felicia Hemans and Robert Pollok. Including a Memoir of Heber followed by his poetical works, The Course of Time, A Poem in Ten Books by Pollok and The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans. Thre...

The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior

Matthew Prior · 1835 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London , William Pickering, 1835. Cloth. Two volumes of Matthew Prior's poetry. With an engraved frontispiece of Prior to the first volume. Published as a part of the Aldine Edition of the British Poets by William Pickering. Matthew Prior was an English poet and diplomat....

Jungle Tales of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1919 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Chicago , A.C. McClurg, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Tales of Tarzan. A collection of twelve loosely connected short stories concerning the eponymous character, they ran monthly in the American publication Blue Book Maga...