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Legend of St Swithin a Rhyme for Rainy Weather

George Davidson · 1861 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London , Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1861. First edition. Cloth. A poem of St Swithin, with the wonderful illustrations of John Faed. First edition. John Faed, R.S.A. (31 August 1819 – 22 October 1902) was a Scottish painter. His paintings, popular in Victorian Britain, can today...

Ulick and Soracha

George Moore · 1926 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London , Nonesuch Press, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of George Moore's novel Ulick and Soracha. Limited edition, number 637 of 1250 copies printed on japon vellum for the Nonesuch Press. With scarce original dustwrapper in a complete and fine condition. ...

The Death of Oenone, Akbar&Apos;S Dream and Other Poems

Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1892 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1892. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of poetry by Tennyson. Including June Bracken and Heather, Kapiolani, The Dreamer, St. Telemachus and many others. In a green cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with some bumping and...

Haphazard

Gina Harwood · 1933 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

London , Elkin Matthews & Marrot, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A volume of poetry and epitaphs by Gina Harwood. A collection of various poems which originally appeared in The Spectator, Country Life and the Oxford Magazine. First edition. Uncommon. In a quarter cloth binding wi...

The Cruise of the Kingfisher

H de Vere Stacpoole · 1947 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

London , Wells Gardener, Darton & Co. 1947. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated work of children's fiction by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. A ship's doctor for more than forty years, Stacpoole was an expert on the South Pacific islands, which feature heavily in this exciting ...

The Moon of Much Gladness

Ernest Bramah · 1932 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Cassell & Company, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Ernest Bramah's fantasy novel, from the Selbourne collection. Kai-Lung is Bramah's fictional Chinese peripatetic storyteller. This book sees his return from earlier Bramah works The novel sati...

English Songs of Italian Freedom

George Macaulay Trevelyan · 1911 · Rooke Books

£33.99 (€40.75 | $44.91 | ¥7,173)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1911. First edition. Cloth. A lyrical collection of English songs regarding the subject of Italian freedom. First edition. Chosen and arranged with an introduction by George Macaulay Trevelyan. With a "Presentation Copy" blind stamp to the titl...

Felix Holt: The Radical.

George Eliot · 1866 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London , William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this social novel by George Eliot focusing on the changes seen in small town rural England as a result of the First Reform Act of 1832. With a publisher's catalogue to the rear of volume I...

Poems: The Empty Purse with Odes to the Comic Spirit to Youth in Memory and Verses

George Meredith · 1892 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1892. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of Meredith's poems. First Edition. George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. In a cloth binding. Externally, very smar...

The Ebb Tide a Trio and Quartette

Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne · 1894 · Rooke Books

£205.00 (€245.76 | $270.88 | ¥43,261)

London , William Heinemann, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A collaborative short novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. This work was written by Stevenson and his step son Lloyd Osbourne. The Ebb Tide was published the same year that Stevenson died. First edition, first issue of this w...

M. Or N. "Similia Similibus Curantur.

George John Whyte-Melville. · 1853 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.38 | ¥4,852)

London , Ward, Lock & Bowden, c1870. Cloth. A work of Victorian fiction by the Scottish novelist George John Whyte-Melville. Whyte-Melville published his first novel, Digby Grand, in 1853, which was a huge success. He went onto publish twenty-one novels and became a popular wr...

Nine Little Poems

Richard Harris · 1877 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London , E. J. Francis and Co. 1877. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce early edition of Nine Little Poems by Richard Harris. An author's presentation copy with an ink dedication to verso of front free endpaper. With decorative pieces and capitals throughout. First editi...

The Grove and Other Poems

John Freeman · 1924 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London, Selwyn & Blount, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetry collection by John Freeman. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. In original cloth binding with a spare spine label tipped in ...

Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

D. H. Lawrence · 1925 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition limited edition copy of this collection of essays by D.H.Lawrence. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Number 39...

Belinda a Tale of Affection in Youth and Age

Hilaire Belloc · 1928 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

London, Constable and Company, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Hilaire Belloc titled 'Belinda A Tale of Affection in Youth and Age&apos. First edition. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector ...

He Knew He Was Right

Anthony Trollope · 1869 · Rooke Books

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

London, Strahan and Company, 1869. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Trollope's popular novel with numerous plates and illustrations throughout by Marcus Stone. Complete in two volumes. 'He Knew He Was Right' is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollo...

The Masque of Poets

Edward J. O'Brien (Ed) · 1918 · Rooke Books

£86.00 (€103.10 | $113.64 | ¥18,149)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A first edition work collating a large collection of works by numerous poets, and signed by the editor. First edition. Signed by the editor, Edward O'Brien and dated March 25 1918. An important anthology of poe...

A Collection of Poems Chiefly Manuscript and from Living Authors

Joanna Baillie · 1823 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First edition. Hardback. A first edition anthology of poetry, written by a variety of notable poets. Collected and arranged by Joanna Baillie, a Scottish poet and dramatist. The first edition. This work contains work by Scott...

The Wandering Jew a Poem

Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1887 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London , For the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First edition. Hardback. The first separate edition of Shelley's The Wandering Jew. From a limited print-run of five hundred copies as stated to the recto of the leaf prior to the title page. With 24 pages of pu...

Quintessence of Ibsenism

G Bernard Shaw · 1891 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.31 | $101.74 | ¥16,249)

London , Walter Scott, 1891. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this popular essay by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw championed Ibsen's plays when many theatregoers regarded him as outrageous. Therefore, his Quintessence of Ibsenism remained a classic throughout the 20...