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Five Novels by Hugh Walpole

Hugh Walpole · 1925 · Rooke Books

£248.00 (€297.31 | $327.70 | ¥52,335)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited; Cassell and Company LTD, 1925-41. First edition. Cloth. A set of five brilliant novels by Hugh Walpole, all first editions in their original dust wrappers. A set of five first edition novels by Hugh Walpole.Each volume is in the original dust...

Bloomfield&Apos;S Farmer&Apos;S Boy, Rural Tales, Ballads, Songs & Wild Flowers

Robert Bloomfield; Capel Lofft [Preface] · 1847 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Halifax, W. Milner, 1847 . First edition. Cloth. A charming, very scarce, pocket-sized, first thus edition of a collection of Bloomfield"s beloved pastoral poems, with illustrations throughout. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding with blind stamping.This editi...

Gulliver&Apos;S Travels Into Lilliput and Brobdingnag

Jonathan Swift · 1920 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

William Heinemann, London, 1920. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Jean De Bosschere's charmingly illustrated edition of 'Gulliver's Travels', in a half morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf. The first Jean De Bosschere illustrated edition of this work.I...

The Young Enchanted: A Romantic Story

Hugh Walpole · 1921 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Hugh Walpole's charming novel about the romance of two young people in post-war London. A signed first trade edition, first impression of this work of literature from p...

Divine and Moral Songs in Easy Language for the Use of Children

Isaac Watts · 1896 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Madgwick, Houlston and Co. 1896. Cloth. A very smart illustrated edition of Isaac Watt's popular children's poem collection. A very scarce Madgwick, Houlston & Co. illustrated edition. In the original cloth binding. Undated, dated from an identical copy hel...

The Earthly Paradise

C. S. Forester · 1940 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Michael Joseph , 1940. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this from author of the 'Horatio Hornblower' series, C. S. Forester. First edition.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. With an ex library revised price label to the spine...

Randall and the River of Time

C. S. Forester · 1951 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Michael Joseph , 1951. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this sweeping World War I novel from C. S. Forester. First edition, first impression. With the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper. C. S. Forester (Cecil Louis Troughton Smith) was an...

La Chronique Scandaleuse

[Guillaume Imbert] · 1785 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Paris, Dans un coin d'ou l'on voit tout, 1785. Hardback. A volume of the anecdotes of French society by Guillaume Imbert, an insight into the country in the years before the Revolution. Volume I only, of a total of four volumes. This work was first published in one v...

Tamerlane, the Fair Penitent, Ulysses, the Tragedy of Jane Shore, the Royal Convert

Nicholas Rowe · 1735 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1735-36. Leather. A sammelband containing five of the brilliant plays of Nicholas Rowe, illustrated with frontispieces. A sammelband of five plays by Nicholas Rowe bound in one.Rowe was a noted dramatist, and is generally considered to be the first editor...

The Farmer&Apos;S Boy; a Rural Poem

Robert Bloomfield · 1800 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Vernor and Hood; T. Bensley, 1800. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this incredibly popular pastoral poem by Robert Bloomfield. The first edition, large paper issue.Half-title is present.Two pages of adverts to the rear.With engravings throughout. Collated,...

The Fables of Aesop, and Others

Aesop · 1818 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

Newcastle , E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son; Longman and Co, 1818 . First edition. Leather. Thomas Bewick scholar Thomas Hugo's own copy of the Royal 8vo edition of Bewick's Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout with vignette engravings. One of 500 copies on Ro...

Men Like Gods

H. G. Wells · 1923 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Cassell and Company, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of H. G. Wells's 1920s 'science fantasy', a novel set in a Utopian parallel universe to our own. The first edition, first issue of this work, in the first issue Currey 'A' bind...

The African Queen

C. S. Forester · 1936 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, William Heinemann, 1936 . Cloth. The scarce 'cheap edition' of C.S. Forester's thrilling novel about the adventures of a Christian missionary and a steamer captain who travel up a treacherous river in German East Africa. The scarce 1936 cheap edition of ...

Payment Deferred

C. S. Forester · 1926 · Rooke Books

£430.00 (€515.50 | $568.19 | ¥90,743)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A handsome example of the first edition of C. S. Foreser's psychological crime novel, a departure from his usual tales of naval adventure. The first edition, first impression.A thrilling crime novel from Fore...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop · 1912 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first of this illustrated edition of Aesop's fables, adorned with colour plates by Charles Folkard. The first edition with Charles Folkard's illustrations. In the publisher's charming pictorial clo...

Al Baghdadi: Tales Told by the Tigris

Edward F. Madaras · 1936 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

New York, Jesuit Mission Press, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of stories from Edward F. Madaras, with the original dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated throughou...

Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabulae

Phaedri; S. A. Phillippe [Ed.] · 1754 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Paris , Joseph Barbou, 1754 . Leather. A scarce mid eighteenth-century edition of the fables of Phaedrus, strikingly illustrated with vignettes and a frontispiece from Durand. Scarce work. Beautifully bound in contemporary calf, housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase. ...

Beeton&Apos;S Christmas Annual

Various · 1872 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, Weldon & Co; S. O. Beeton; Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1872-76. Leather. Four seasons of the Beeton 'Christmas Annual' profusely illustrated annuals collecting together entertaining tales and poems. Four seasons of 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' bound ...

Gleanings from the Pastures of Tekoa, and, Mrs. Dubosq&Apos;S Bible

Robert William Forrest; William Gilbert · 1876 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington; Strahan and Company Limited, 1876-79. First edition. Cloth. Two very scarce first edition religious works bound in one, one being a series of lectures on the Book of Amos, and the other a novel revolving around a 1650 Geneva B...

C1906 the Works of Lord Macaulay Vol 1 Literary Essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay · 0 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, George Routledge & Sons, Limited, c1906. Leather. A smart volume of the literary essays of British political figure and historian Thomas Baron Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay. In the publisher's original navy morocco leather binding.This edition is undated. Dated her...