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Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Gaskell · 1866 · Rooke Books

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

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1866. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel, a smartly bound set. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition, published in the same year as the first U.K. edition in book form.Complete ...

Selected Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1817 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Edinburgh, James Ballantyne and Co for Archibald Constable and Company, 1817-1819. First edition. Leather. A collection of twenty-one volumes of the works of Scottish novelist, poet and historian Sir Walter Scott, in full calf bindings. Including the first edition of the secon...

Mary and Charles Lamb: Poems, Letters, and Remains

W. Carew Hazlitt · 1874 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1874 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this charmingly illustrated biographical study of English writers and siblings Charles and Mary Lamb. A scarce first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates, including a f...

&Apos;Midst the Wild Carpathians

Maurus Jokai [Mór Jókai] · 1940 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Everybody's Books, c1940 . Paperback. A very scarce 1940s copy of Maurus Jokai's historical novel set in seventeenth century Transylvania, rebound in paper wraps in a wartime "Save Paper" campaign. An uncommon novel in all contemporary English language editio...

The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq.

John Dryden · 1760 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, J. and R. Tonson, 1760 . First edition. Leather. The scarce four volume first comprehensive collected edition of the poetry, translations and literary writings of England's first Poet Laureate, John Dryden. A first edition, complete in four volumes.This was the fi...

Clio

Anatole France · 1900 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

Paris , Calmann Levy , 1900. First edition. Leather. A sought after first edition of Anatole France's novel, 'Clio', complete with Alphonse Mucha's beautiful colour plates. The first edition of this work. Handsomely bound in quarter crushed morocco with ma...

A Tarot Deal and Other Poems

Eric W. White · 1962 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Scorpion Press, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this scarce collection of poetry from British writer Eric W. White. First edition. Scarce work. A collection of poetry including a sequence of verses based on the symbolism of the Tarot cards, as...

Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta

Pablo Neruda; Ben Belitt [translator] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Alcove Press, 1973. First edition. Paperback. A smart first UK edition of this play from Chilean poet-diplomat Pablo Neruda, a review copy with original reviews. Dual language book with both the original Spanish text and translation into English. First UK edition. Revi...

There Is a Valley

John H. F. McEwen · 1950 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Edinburgh, C. J. Cousland and Sons, Ltd. 1950. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from British author John H. F. McEwen, signed by the author in presentation to a friend. First edition. Scarce work. Signed and inscribed by the author to th...

The Doctor &C.

Robert Southey · 1836 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1836 . First edition. Leather. The first US edition of Robert Southey's celebrated prose anthology, complete with two volumes bound in one, in a smart half calf binding. Complete in two volumes, bound in one. Bound in a lovely half calf with ...

The Man Who Died

D. H. Lawrence · 1931 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Martin Secker, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this short novel by D. H. Lawrence, printed in a limited run of 2000 copies. The first English edition. This work had previously been published in Paris as a limited edition in 1929 under the title...

Puss in the Corner

Edith Francis Foster · 1904 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Boston, Dana Estes & Company, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming children's tale about a group of kittens, authored and illustrated by Edith Francis Foster. The very scarce first edition of this work.A delightful children's work from auth...

Shakespeare&Apos;S Comedy As You Like It

William Shakespeare · 1909 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of Hugh Thomson's charmingly illustrated edition of Shakespeare's beloved comedy, illustrated with colour plates. The first trade edition of Thomson's edition.Illustrated with forty...

Gazette Des Enfants, Journal Hebdomadaire

Leon Guerin [ed.] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

Harlem, Emrik & Binger, 1892-1893 . First edition. Paperback. A wonderful collection of sixty-nine issues of the charming children's periodical 'Gazette des Enfants', beautifully illustrated with chromolithographic plates. In the original French.Sixty-nine issue...

The Complete Works of Doctor Francois Rabelais: Abstractor of the Quintessence Being an Account of the Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua, and of the Heroic Deeds, Sayings and Marvellous Voyages of His Son the Good Pantagruel

Francois Rabelais · 1927 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.60 | $455.87 | ¥72,805)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1927. Cloth. A limited edition set containing the complete works of French writer, Francois Rabelais, strikingly illustrated by Frank C. Pape. This edition, illustrated by Frank C. Pape and complete in two volumes, limited to 4,300 numbered ...

Everybody&Apos;S Lamb: Being a Selection from the Essays of Elia, the Letter, and the Miscellaneous Prose of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb; A. C. Ward [editor] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of writings from English essayist Charles Lamb, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original price-clipped dust wrapper. Illu...

The Child World

Gabriel Setoun [Thomas Nicoll Hepburn] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of poetry for children from Gabriel Setoun. First edition. The author's first published volume. Illustrated throughout. A charming collection of verses f...

Cranford & Our Village

Mrs. Gaskell; Mary Russell Mitford · 1892 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1892-1893. First edition. Cloth. Two smart volumes of these illustrated novels from English writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Russell Mitford. Two volumes. Both illustrated throughout with in-text images from Hugh Thomson, an Irish illustrat...

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. The first edition, first impression of Charles Dickens' renowned novel set in his classic dreary setting, illustrated by Phiz with all plates present. The first edition of this work, being bound from the parts, wit...

Enoch Arden

Alfred Tennyson · 1864 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1864. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The first edition of this work. Bound without the adverts, so the issue is unclear.The titular poem concerns the principle in law that after...