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The Personal History of David Copperfield

Charles Dickens · 1850 · Rooke Books

£680.00 (€815.21 | $898.53 | ¥143,500)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound first edition of Charles Dickens's celebrated Victorian bildungsroman, with illustrations throughout from Phiz. The first edition in book form of this work.A mixed issue, with the following first ...

La Colombe

Alexandre Dumas · 1850 · Rooke Books

£3,800.00 (€4,555.56 | $5,021.17 | ¥801,912)

Bruxelles , Librairie du Pantheon, 1850. First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce first edition of this slim volume from Alexandre Dumas, preceding the first publication in France. The first edition, preceding the book's first publication in France under the title Hi...

Clues or Leaves from a Chief Constable&Apos;S Note Book

William Henderson · 1889 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

Edinburgh , Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier , 1889. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this rare collection of detective's anecdotes, highlighting late 19th-century crime in industrial cities. Author's presentation copy, with his inscription ...

Gazooka and Other Stories

Gwyn Thomas · 1957 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition collection of short stories by Gwyn Thomas, in original unclipped dust wrapper. A very scarce first edition of the short story collection by influential Welsh writer, dramatist and radio broad...

The King&Apos;S Messengers and the Distant Hills

Rev. William Adams · 1898 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, George Newnes, Limited, 1898. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this collection of two Christian allegories by Oxford theologian, Rev. William Adams. In the publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt. First edition. Illustrated with a fro...

The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke · 1979 · Rooke Books

£255.00 (€305.70 | $336.95 | ¥53,813)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1979 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Clarke"s Hugo Award–winning novel of grand engineering ambition and humanity"s next great leap into space, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original b...

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John Wyndham · 1979 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.46 | $155.92 | ¥24,901)

London, Michael Joseph, 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Wyndham"s tense survival tale of a remote island expedition confronting a hostile subterranean organism, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original green cloth bin...

Uncle Stephen

Forrest Reid · 1945 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1945. Cloth. An early edition of Forrest Reid"s sensitive novel of a lonely boy and the quiet, formative bond with his uncle, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. First publishe...

Pere Goriot: Scenes from Parisian Life

Honore de Balzac · 1887 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1887. Leather. A handsome limited edition of Balzac"s Père Goriot, the great Parisian novel of ambition, sacrifice, and social climbing, bound in a half morocco binding by Geo. Winstanley. Bound in a half morocco binding with marbled paper b...

Jane Austen

B.C. Southam; Sheila Kaye-Smith; G.B. Stern; Robert Liddell; Mary Lascelles; Constance Pilgrim; Joan Rees; George Holbert Tucker · 1944 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London; Manchester, Routledge & Kegan Paul; Cassell and Company Ltd; Longmans; Oxford University Press; William Kimber; St. Martin's Press; Carcanet, 1944-1983. Cloth. London; Manchester: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Cassell and Company Ltd; Longmans; Oxford University Press; ...

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse; a New Version of an Old Story Arranged As a Play for Mummers

Thomas Hardy · 1923 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this this play for amateurs in one act by Thomas Hardy. A one-act play by Thomas Hardy, one of the only two pieces of drama written by this author.The first edition.In the original green cl...

Rain: A Volume of Poems

Jean Kenward · 1946 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, W. H. Allen & Co, 1946 . First edition. Paperback. Signed by the author, this is a bright example of the very scarce first edition of Jean Kenwards' illustrated poetry collection. A very scarce first edition, first impression, flat signed by the author to a front ...

Country Comets

Cecil Day Lewis · 1928 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Martin Hopkinson, 1928 . First edition. Hardback. An exceptionally lovely example of the first edition of Cecil Day Lewis's early poetry collection, with much emphasis placed on his major relationship in this period. An exceptionally bright first edition.An early ...

The Halt in the Garden

Robert Hillyer; Arthur Machen [Intro.] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Elkin Matthews, 1925 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of the scarce first edition of this collection of poems from Robert Silliman Hillyer, with an introduction from Arthur Machen. A scarce first edition.An early volume of poems from American poet and profes...

Lettres Originales de Mirabeau

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau · 1792 · Rooke Books

£365.00 (€437.57 | $482.30 | ¥77,026)

Paris, Garnery, 1792 . First edition. Leather. The complete four volume first edition of Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau's letters to his mistress, Marie Therese de Monnierm, written when he was imprisoned in Vincennes. In the original French.The first edition o...

The Gentle Lover: A Comedy of Middle Age

Forrest Reid · 1913 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Edward Arnold, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. An association copy of the first edition of Forrest Reid's very scarce novel about a middle aged couple rediscovering their love for one another. With a 'Presentation Copy' stamp to the title page. The very sca...

Selected Bab Ballads

W. S. Gilbert; Hesketh Pearson [Intro.]; Philip James [A Note on the Illustrator] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Oxford, Allen Lane/University Press, 1955 . First edition. Cloth. A beautiful limited edition of W. S. Gilbert's delightful 'Bab Ballads', with a handwritten letter from Hilary Jenkinson to Philip James, contesting James's interpretations of Gilbert's ...

The Virgin and the Gipsy

D. H. Lawrence · 1930 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. In the original dust wrapper, this is the first US edition of D. H. Lawrence's posthumously published novel about a young woman's romance with a free-spirited gipsy. The first US edition, first printing of this ...

Our Own Pompeii: A Romance of to-Morrow

Samuel Middleton Fox · 1887 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887 . First edition. Cloth. Inscribed by the author to his own mother, this is the very scarce first edition of Samuel Middleton Fox's entertaining science fiction novel about a society's failure to run a futuristic pleasure ci...

Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 1948 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Paul Elek Publishers Ltd, 1948. First edition. Cloth. First edition of the Camden Illustrated Classics printing of Mark Twain's classic adventure novel, delightfully illustrated throughout by Edward Burra. First Paul Elek edition for the "Camden Illustrated Classi...