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Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens · 1848 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Leather. The first edition of one of the popular novels of Charles Dickens, complete with the original illustrations by Phiz, including the first published example of a dark plate. The first edition, first issue, bound from the ...

A Kind of Loving

Stan Barstow · 1960 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Michael Joseph, 1960. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the celebrated debut novel of Stan Barstow, following a young man from Yorkshire has he falls in love and gets married. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust ...

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels

Thomas Ingoldsby [Richard Harris Barham] · 1882 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Richard Bentley, 1882 . Leather. The illustrated 'Carmine Edition' of Richard Harris Barham's 'Ingoldsby Legends', in an attractive full morocco binding. Illustrated with an engraved title page and frontispiece, alongside a further sixteen plat...

Don"T Call Me by My Right Name and Other Stories

James Purdy · 1956 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

New York, The William-Frederick Press, 1956. First edition. Paperback. A very smart signed copy of this short-story collection from James Purdy. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. First edition, first printing. Bound in the publisher's wraps.James Purdy was...

Bishop Jeremy Taylor: His Predecessors, Contemporaries and Successors

Rev. Robert Aris Willmott · 1847 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, John W. Parker , 1847. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this study of the life and times of Bishop Jeremy Taylor, inscribed by the author. First edition. Very scarce work. With an ink inscription from the author to the front endpaper in presenta...

A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present

Richard Chenevix Trench · 1859 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, John W. Parker and Son, 1859. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this glossary of English words from Anglican archbishop and poet Richard Chenevix Trench. First edition. A detailed and comprehensive glossary of words and phrases that aims to enrich the reader&a...

Mrs. Caudle&Apos;S Curtain Lectures

Douglas Jerrold · 1866 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Bradbury, Evans & Co. 1866. First edition. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated first edition copy of Douglas Jerrold's satirical domestic comedy Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and numerous in-text images. A co...

The Dial August 1924 Volume LXXVII Number 2

Scofield Thayer [editor] · 1924 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New Jersey, The Dial Press, 1924. Paperback. A scarce copy of this issue of the political review and literary criticism magazine The Dial. Volume LXXVII, Number 2. Scarce issue. With a colour tipped in plate from Picasso and five black-and-white plates. Collated complete. The ...

Young Men Waiting

Chapman Mortimer [William Charles Chapman Mortimer] · 1954 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

New York, Grove Press, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this scarce novel from Scottish novelist Chapman Mortimer. First US edition. Scarce work. Following a group of young male artists in Paris during the mid-1920s. This novel explores the drama of thei...

The Farmers Hotel, a Family Party, & and Other Stories

John O'Hara · 1951 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

New York , Random House, 1951-1968. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first edition volumes from American writer John Henry O'Hara, with the original dust wrappers. Three volumes. First edition. Written by John Henry O'Hara, an American writer who became one of Ameri...

Ganymede & Bacchus

Roden Noel · 2010 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Portsmouth, Callum James Books, 2010. First edition. Paperback. A very smart limited edition of these illustrated poems from English writer Roden Noel. First thus, reprinted from Noel's Collected Poems with illustrations. Limited to fifty copies of which this is number se...

Lives of the Poets & City of God

E. L. Doctorow · 1984 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

New York, Random House, 1984-2000. First edition. Cloth. Two smart copies of novels from American writer Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, one being the first edition second printing and the other being a review copy of the uncorrected proof. Two volumes. Written by Edgar Lawrence Doct...

The Sheltering Sky

Paul Bowles · 1949 · Rooke Books

£2,250.00 (€2,697.37 | $2,973.06 | ¥474,817)

London, John Lehmann, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition, second impression of Paul Bowles' compelling novel set in North Africa following World War Two, complete with the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, second impression of t...

The Works of Richard Savage, Esq. Son of the Earl Rivers. Volume II Only.

Richard Savage; Samuel Johnson · 1775 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, T. Evans, 1775 . Leather. A rather uncommon collection of poetry from seventeenth-century poet, Richard Savage, the second volume only out of a two-volume set. Volume II only, lacking volume I. Bound in full tree calf.A collection of poetry from English poet, Richard S...

L&Apos;Ile Rose

Charles Vildrac · 1924 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Paris, Tolmer, 1924. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this early children's novel by Charles Vildrac, a colourful volume in the original French. The first edition.In the original French.In the original glassine. 'L'Ile Rose' is considered to ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell · 1949 · Rooke Books

£2,995.00 (€3,590.50 | $3,957.48 | ¥632,034)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition. Leather. The first U.K. edition of George Orwell's important and culture defining dystopian novel, a superb finely bound copy. The first UK. edition, with 'First published 1949' stated to the copyright page.Finely b...

The Pool of Vishnu

L. H. Myers · 1940 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York , Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1940. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first US edition of L. H. Myers' last novel set in India in the Age of Akbar. The uncommon first American edition of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. L. ...

The Book of Lights

Chaim Potok · 1981 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1981. Paperback. The very scarce uncorrected proof of this psychological novel from Chaim Potok. A very scarce uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. In the publisher's wraps. With a hand-typed synopsis and author biography stapled to th...

The Order of Chance

Tom Pickard · 1971 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Fulcrum Press , 1971. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed limited edition of this poetry collection by Tom Pickard. Of this first edition, 75 copies were specially bound, numbered and signed by the author. This copy is number 62. Signed by the author to the limitation...

Incident at Vichy

Arthur Miller · 1942 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Secker and Warburg, c1965. Paperback. A very scarce uncorrected proof of this one-act play by Arthur Miller. The very scarce uncorrected proof of the first edition. In the publisher's wraps, with the proof's original unclipped dust wrapper. 'Incident a...