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Distant Homes; or, the Graham Family in New Zealand

Mrs. J. E. Aylmer · 1888 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1888 . Cloth. A lovely example of Mrs. Aylmer's scarce novel about the lives of British settlers adapting to life in colonial New Zealand. First published in 1862, this work is scarce in all editions.Illustrated with a frontispiec...

A Group of Noble Dames

Thomas Hardy · 1891 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, James R. Osgood, 1891. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Thomas Hardy's anthology of short stories following ten historic noble dames. The first edition, first impression, in the original cloth binding designed by Charles Ricketts. An anthology of storie...

The Lust of Hate

Guy Boothby · 1898 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1898. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Guy Boothby's exciting adventure novel, illustrated with plates from Stanley L. Wood. The first edition. Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood with a monochrome frontispiece and four monochrome p...

Hood&Apos;S Own: Or, Laughter from Year to Year

Thomas Hood · 1873 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, E. Moxon, Son, & Company, 1873. Leather. A smartly bound new edition of this selection of pieces from Hood's comic annual, with illustrations. Complete in two volumes. Being the first and second series. New edition. Illustrated throughout, with a portrait frontisp...

The Night-Watchman and Other Longshoremen: Fifty-Seven Stories

W. W. Jacobs · 1932 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from English author William Wymark Jacobs, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition of this collection of stories. With the scarce original pr...

In Search of Elsie Piddock: An Echo of Eleanor Farjeon

Denys Blakelock · 1967 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, The Favil Press, 1967 . First edition. Hardback. An inscribed, first edition of this delightful account of the author's quest exploring the places and references of Eleanor Farjeon's work, with a sketch by Edward Ardizzone. First edition. Bound in the publish...

A Final Reckoning

G. A. Henty · 1887 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, Blackie & Son, 1887 [1886]. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition copy of this exciting G. A. Henty adventure novel set in Australia. The very scarce first edition, with the 1887 date to the title page, though the work was published on the 8th June 1886, as...

Platitudes in the Making, Precepts and Advices for Gentlefolk

Holbrook Jackson · 1911 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, D. J. Rider, 1911. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce volume of precepts by Holbrook Jackson, a first edition copy inscribed to the author's brother. The first edition.A very scarce work.Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endp...

The Lion of the North; with Clive in India

G. A. Henty · 1884 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Blackie & Son, 1884 [1883] -1886 [1885] . First edition. Cloth. The first editions of two scarce thrilling G. A. Henty children's historical adventure novels, illustrated throughout and in the publisher's decorative cloth bindings. Two first edition historica...

The Bravest of the Brave: Or with Peterborough in Spain

G. A. Henty · 1887 · Rooke Books

£249.00 (€298.51 | $329.02 | ¥52,546)

London, Blackie & Son, 1887 [1886] . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this thrilling historical adventure by G. A. Henty, following a young British soldier fighting in the War of the Spanish Succession. The scarce first edition of this work, correctly dated 18...

Eight G.A. Henty Novels

G. A. Henty · 1894 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Blackie & Son; Partridge, 1894-1902. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful collection of eight thrilling adventure novels from G. A. Henty, illustrated throughout and in the publisher's original decorative cloth bindings. A collection of eight first edition G. A. Hent...

City, Sea & Countryside

Arthur L. Salmon · 1925 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1925 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this charming collection of poetry, in the scarce original 1925 dust wrapper. The uncommon first edition of this work, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper ...

The Ebb-Tide, a Trio and Quartette

Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne · 1894 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, William Heinemann, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling and terrifying adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. The first edition, first impression of this novel written in a collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson ...

The Holy Flower

H. Rider Haggard · 1915 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Ward, Lock & Co, 1915 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the first edition of this thrilling Allan Quatermain novel by H. Rider Haggard, illustrated throughout. The first edition in book form of this novel, which was first serialised in The Windsor Magazine fr...

A Celebration for Edith Sitwell

Jose Garcia Villa [ed.] · 1948 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

New York, New Directions, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming celebration of Edith Sitwell's 1948 tour of the United States alongside her brothers. The first edition of this work.The less common issue of this work, in a cloth binding, and with ...

A Little Book of Alphabets for Little Folks

Anonymous · 1907 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Sands & Compy. 1907 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Tom R. Rigby's delightfully illustrated Edwardian juvenile work, used for teaching children the alphabet. The first edition of this very scarce children's work, aiming to teach them the alphabet...

The Music from Behind the Moon, an Epitome

James Branch Cabell · 1926 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, The John Day Company, 1926 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this lovely illustrated work of short fiction by James Branch Cabell, limited to 3000 copies, and illustrated by Leon Underwood. A first edition, with this being one of 3000 copies produced.Wi...

The Oxen

Thomas Hardy · 1915 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Hove, [E. Williams], 1915 . First edition. Paperback. A lovely example of the first trade edition of this charming Christmas poem by celebrated poet and novelist Thomas Hardy. The first trade edition of this work, which was first published in 'The Times' on December ...

Harrius Potter Et Philosophi Lapis

J. K. Rowling; Peter Needham [translator] · 2003 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Bloomsbury, 2003. Cloth. An early impression of this Latin translation of the beloved first Harry Potter novel, complete with the unclipped dust wrapper. The sixth impression of this Latin translation by Peter Needham. With the publisher's original unclipped dust...

Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin · 1964 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.78 | $2,510.59 | ¥400,956)

London, Michael Joseph, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of essays from Baldwin, following on from his first collection Notes of a Native Son, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the dedic...