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Gray&Apos;S Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard

Thomas Grey; Christopher Sandford [foreword.] · 1946 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. Cloth. A lovely, limited edition of this cornerstone of 18th-century English poetry, reflecting on death, obscurity, and rural life, with engravings throughout. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with marbled paper b...

Dylan Thomas: Letters to Vernon Watkins

Dylan Thomas; Vernon Watkins [intro, editor] · 1957 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; Faber and Faber Ltd. 1957 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this work, revealing 20 years of revealing correspondence between Dylan Thomas and fellow poet and close friend, Vernon Watkins. In the publisher's original green cl...

Twenty-Five Aesop&Apos;S Fables Eight Volumes Bound As One

Aesop; Shogo Hirata [Contributor] · 1991 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Unknown, Joie, Inc. 1991. First edition. Cloth. Eight vibrantly illustrated volumes of Aesop"s Fables, skillfully rebound into a single volume. Rebound in brown cloth with charming gilt star decoration.This edition comprises eight volumes, each containing a selection of fables...

The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior

Matthew Prior · 1779 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, W. Strahan, T. Payne, J. Rivington et al, 1779 . First edition. Leather. Shakespearean scholar Isaac Reed's personal copy of the two volume first edition of this collected edition of Matthew Prior's poetry, with tipped in notes from Reed throughout. The first...

Aesop at Court; or, the Labyrinth of Versailles

Charles Perrault; Daniel Bellamy · 1768 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.54 | $1,651.70 | ¥263,787)

London, Printed for ye editor, 1768 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Daniel Bellamy's translation of this satire about Aesop navigating the 'labyrinth' of the French court, illustrated with engraved plates by George Bickham. A very scar...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop · 1908 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1908. Cloth. The very scarce first Lucy Fitch Perkins illustrated edition of the popular fables of Aesop, with her fantastic colour plates throughout, and in the original early dust wrapper. The first Lucy Fitch Perkins illustrated editio...

Aesop without Morals: The Famous Fables and a Life of Aesop

Lloyd W. Daly · 1961 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, Thomas Yoseloff, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this newly translated and 'uncensored' collected of Aesop's fables. First edition. With the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.This collection of Aesop's fables is ...

The Big Book of Fables

Walter Jerrold [ed.] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Blackie and Sons Limited , 1912. First edition. Leather. A striking copy of this anthology of fables, lavishly illustrated with colour plates and bound by collector and typographer, Eric Sweet. The first trade edition of this delightful book of fables edited by Walter ...

The Orchard Book of Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop; Michael Morpurgo · 2004 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Orchard Books, 2004. First edition. Hardback. A very smart first edition, first impression of this collection of the fables of Aesop, retold for children, with bright illustrations throughout. First edition, first impression. Illustrated in colour throughout. A collect...

The Poems of Nizami

Laurence Binyon · 1928 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, The Studio Ltd, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this description of the poems of twelfth-century poet Nizami Ganjavi, with colour plates. First edition. Illustrated with sixteen colour plates. Collated complete. A description of five of the poems o...

Shakespeare to Hardy: An Anthology of English Lyrics

A. Methuen; Robert Lynd · 1922 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1922. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this anthology of English poetry. First edition. An anthology of English poetry and verse from Shakespeare to Hardy, with selections from authors including: Matthew Arnold, Walter De La M...

Twenty Four Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists

Aesop; Sir Roger l'Estrange · 1928 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Ernest Benn, Limited, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of fables and myths adorned with lovely illustrations after Marcus Gheeraerts. Twenty-four fables of Aesop and others collected into one volume, the first trade edition. Illustra...

Westward Ho!

Charles Kingsley · 0 · Rooke Books

£117.00 (€140.26 | $154.60 | ¥24,690)

London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co. c1900. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this historical novel from British author Charles Kingsley. With a frontispiece. A historical novel beginning in Bideford in North Devon during the reign of Elizabeth I. The novel follows the adven...

Salome

Oscar Wilde · 1906 · Rooke Books

£1,750.00 (€2,097.96 | $2,312.38 | ¥369,302)

London; New York, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1906. First edition. Hardback. The first U.K. trade edition of Oscar Wilde's tragic play about Salome and John the Baptist, in the original dust wrapper. The first U.K. trade edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, desi...

Lions and Lobsters and Foxes and Frogs

Ennis Rees · 1971 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Reading, Massachusetts , Young Scott Books, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A colourful collection of Aesop"s fables adapted into verse, illustrated by Edward Gorey, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With the publisher's...

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Ruth Manning · 1977 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Angus & Robertson, 1977 . First edition. Hardback. A charming illustrated edition of Aesop"s timeless fable The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, brought to life by Harold Jones"s whimsical illustrations In the publisher's original pictorial hardback. This edition...

The Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author

Aesop · 1865 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1865 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry Walker Herrick's illustrated edition of the classic moral fables of Aesop. A charming mid-nineteenth century American edition of the fables of Aesop. This is a first edition thus, being ...

Fables D&Apos;Esope

Aesop · 1913 · Rooke Books

£690.00 (€827.19 | $911.74 | ¥145,610)

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of this signed limited edition of the fables of Aesop, the first French language edition of these fables to feature the illustrations of Arthur Rackham. A signed limited edition, with this being number 15...

A Hundred Fables of Aesop

Aesop; Sir Roger L'Estrange [trans.]; Kenneth Grahame [intro.]; George Beal · 1899 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head; Angus & Robertson, 1899-1977. First edition. Cloth. Two scarce editions of Aesop's fables, including the very scarce first edition of the Percy J. Billinghurst illustrated edition, and a late twentieth century edition also featuring his ...

Aesop&Apos;S Animal Fables Picture and Story

Aesop · 1947 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Juvenile Productions Ltd. c1947. Leather. Two copies of a charmingly illustrated mid-twentieth century juvenile edition of the fables of Aesop, vibrantly illustrated in colour by E. H. Davie. Present here are two copies of this children's edition of the animal fab...