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Early Children&Apos;S Books and Their Illustration
Gerald Gottlieb; J. H. Plumb; Charles Ryskamp · 1975 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library; Oxford University Press, 1975. First edition. Cloth. a First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.Featuring 225 illustrations, including fifty-four plates, in both colour and black and white. Col...
Maud: A Monodrama
Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1922 · Rooke Books
£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1922. Cloth. Beautifully colour illustrated, decorative-cloth edition of Tennyson's chivalric epic. In publisher's original decorative cloth binding.Prize bookplate of Holmewood School, London, dated 1924.Featuring eight colour plat...
The Dome: A Quarterly Containing Examples of All the Arts
Ernest J. Oldmeadow [ed.]; Various · 1897 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, The Unicorn Press, 1897. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of the first issue of 'The Dome', an illustrated late 19th-century literary periodical edited by Ernest J. Oldmeadow. First trade edition of No. 1 of The Dome.In the publisher's paper bo...
Meriden; or, Memoirs of Matilda
Mrs. [Ann] Brettell · 1819 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)
London, Richard Edwards , 1819. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this moral memoir from Mrs. Ann Brettell. The first edition of this very scarce title. One previous record of it in auction in 2011.Bound in half faux leather, with paper covered boards. Bound with contemporary endpa...
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (Vol. VII, No. V)
Harriet Monroe [ed.]; W. B. Yeats; F. S. Flint; William Laird et. al. · 1916 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
Chicago , Ralph Fletcher Seymour , 1916. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce issue from the influential 'Magazine of Verse', including contributions from W. B. Yeats, F. S. Flint and others. Volume VII, No. V (February, 1916) of this leading monthly poetry journa...
Plays and Controversies; Essays; the Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats; Wheels and Butterflies; the Herne&Apos;S Egg and Other Plays
W. B. Yeats · 1923 · Rooke Books
£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)
London; New York , Macmillan and Co. 1923-1938. First edition. Cloth. Five works from renowned Irish poet and dramatist, W. B. Yeats, including one true first and three U.S. firsts. This set offers one true first edition, three first US editions and one new and revised US edit...
3vols the Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales; the Love Books of Ovid; Ten Droll Tales
Richard Garnett; T. E. Lawrence [Intro.]; Ovid; J. Lewis May [Trans.]; Honoré de Balzac; André Maurois [Intro.] · 1924 · Rooke Books
£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)
London , John Lane The Bodley Head Limited , 1924-1926. Cloth. A uniform trio of lavishly illustrated 1920s classics of Garnett, Ovid, and Balzac in first and limited editions, complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers and vibrant Art-Deco era plates. In the publisher...
Letters to the New Island
William Butler Yeats; Horace Reynolds [ed.] · 1934 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally lovely association copy of the first collected edition of these essays by W. B. Yeats. From the library of Yeats scholar Marion Witt, and with contextual annotations throughout. The first ...
The Green Helmet, a Heroic Farce
W. B. Yeats · 1911 · Rooke Books
£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)
Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, 1911 . First edition. Paperback. An attractive example of the first theatre edition of W. B. Yeats's entertaining short play in which three Irish heroes complete for the titular 'Green Helmet&apos. The 'first theatre ...
The Tables of the Law; & the Adoration of the Magi
William Butler Yeats · 1914 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1914. Cloth. A fine example of the second published edition of these two interlinked tales from Yeats. A limited edition work. Wadw 26. The second published edition of this work, following a privately printed edition and the fir...
The Brown Fairy Book
Andrew Lang [ed.] · 1904 · Rooke Books
£330.00 (€395.61 | $436.05 | ¥69,640)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1904. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this captivating Fairy Book from Andrew Lang, adorned with colour plates and engravings by H. J. Ford. The first edition of this enchanting anthology of fairy tales.In the publisher's origin...
The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White
Henry Kirke White · 1830 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, William Pickering , 1830. Leather. A beautifully bound collection of Henry Kirke White's poems - the first Aldine edition. The first Aldine edition, issued as part of the Aldine Edition of the British Poets series.Beautifully bound in full red crushed morocco and ...
Callipaediae, or an Art How to Have Handsome Children; Callipaedia: Or, the Art of Getting Beautiful Children, a Poem, in Four Books
Claude Quillet; Nicholas Rowe [trans.] · 1718 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)
London, J. T.; W. Feales , 1718-1733. Leather. The scarce second and third English editions of Claude Quillet's popular poem about child rearing, bound together. The second English edition (1718) and third English edition (1733) bound together. Though the second edition&a...
The Victim
Saul Bellow · 1948 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
London, John Lehmann, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first UK edition of Saul Bellow's second novel, 'The Victim', with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First UK edition.Complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. The thoug...
Crooked House
Agatha Christie · 1949 · Rooke Books
£480.00 (€575.44 | $634.25 | ¥101,294)
London, The Crime Club by Collins , 1949. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling familial murder-mystery - a standalone from Agatha Christie. First edition. Preceded by the U.S. first published two months prior.Complete with the publisher's unclipped du...
At Bertram&Apos;S Hotel
Agatha Christie · 1965 · Rooke Books
£158.00 (€189.42 | $208.78 | ¥33,343)
London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of Christie's intriguing Miss Marple mystery set at Bertram's Hotel, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. With the publisher's original...
Norman Mailer Works: Barbary Shore, the Deer Park, an American Dream
Norman Mailer · 1952 · Rooke Books
£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)
London, Jonathan Cape; Wingate; Andre Deutsch, 1952-1965. Cloth. The early novels written by the prolific American author and pioneer of New Journalism, commenting on the ideals and politics of Cold War America. The first UK editions of three early novels written by prolific t...
3 Vols the Spy; a Tale of the Neutral Ground; Referring to Some Particular Occurrences During the American War: Also Pourtraying American Scenery and Manners
[James Fenimore Cooper] · 1823 · Rooke Books
£1,750.00 (€2,097.96 | $2,312.38 | ¥369,302)
London, G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1823. Leather. A complete three-volume second edition of Cooper"s popular Revolutionary War novel, inspired by John Jay"s espionage experiences in Westchester"s "Neutral Ground". In a half calf binding with marbled paper boards.Second edition. ...
1817 the Pilgrim"S Progress; from This World to That Which Is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. With Copious Explanatory Notes. Also Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and a Race for Eternal Life.
John Bunyan · 1817 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)
Burslem , J. Tregortha, 1817. Leather. A provincial Staffordshire printing of Bunyan"s Pilgrim"s Progress, issued with extensive explanatory notes and the accompanying Grace Abounding and A Race for Eternal Life. In a contemporary full calf binding, sympathetically rebacked in...
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1920 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1920 . Leather. A collection of essays by philosopher and leader of the transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson. A later edition, first printed in 1883.A collection of the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, containing both the first and sec...