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Essays and Tales

John Sterling; Julius Charles Hare [editor] · 1848 · Rooke Books

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

London, John W. Parker , 1848. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this collection of short pieces by John Sterling, complete in two volumes. Complete in two volumes. First edition. With a frontispiece to each volume. A collection of essays and short stori...

An Essex Harvest and Other Poems

H. H. Abbott · 1925 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Chatto and Windus , 1925 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this scarce collection of poetry from Harold Henry Abbott, in the original, very scarce dust wrapper. The first edition. Inscribed by the author, 'To Prof. D. E. Noya, with best wishes from the auth...

To Have and Have Not

Ernest Hemingway · 1937 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1937 . Cloth. An early Grosset and Dunlap edition of this novel set in the US, by Ernest Hemingway, published the same year as Scribner's first edition. An early Grosset & Dunlap edition, published by arrangement with Charles Scribner's, w...

American Earth

Erskine Caldwell · 1935 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, Martin Secker, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first UK edition of Erskine Caldwell's collection of stories depicting life in America in the 1920s and 1930s, this copy presented in the original dust wrapper. The very scarce, first UK edition. First pub...

Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow Catalogue of Fine Antiquarian and Other Important Books

1968 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Glasgow, Morrison, McChlery & Co, 1968. First edition. Leather. A very scarce catalogue of an auction held of the books held at the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow. A very scarce first edition.Bound by Donn & Wilson LTD.A catalogue of antiquarian books sold at auction ...

Armata

Lord Thomas Erskine · 1817 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Murray, 1817. Hardback. The first edition of the first part of Thomas Erskine's sci-fi novel, in which a man discovers a mysterious planet. The first edition.Part I of this poem, Part II was published separately later in 1817.'Armata' is a proto-sci...

Dickens Positively the First Appearance

F. J. Harvey Darton · 1933 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

London, The Argonaut Press, 1933. First edition. Hardback. The first edition, first impression of this illustrated centenary review with a bibliography of Sketches by Boz, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work. With four mon...

Cynthia&Apos;S Bonnet Shop

Rosa Mulholland · 1901 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London Glasgow and Dublin, Blackie and Son Limited, [1901]. Cloth. This scarce edition of Rosa Mulholland's Cynthia's Bonnet Shop, namely: the first thus illustrated by Gertrude Demain Hammond. In prize binding, with handsome, pictorial boards. Undated, and with no e...

The Man from Barbarossa

John Gardner · 1991 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, BCA [by arrangement with Hodder and Stoughton Ltd], 1991. Cloth. An excellent early edition of John Gardner's eleventh James Bond novel, of which he has stated to be his personal favourite. The Book Club Associates edition of this work, published in the same year ...

M.T. B. Captain: A Sea Yarn

Rowland Walker · 1943 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, A. & C. Black Ltd , 1943. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this thrilling story concerning the Motor Torpedo Boats, with the scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The scarce first edition. With the publisher's unclipped wartime economy dust wrapper, als...

The Moon Is Down

John Steinbeck · 1942 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, The Viking Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of John Steinbeck's insightful military novella written and published during World War II. The first edition, later state. With large period on p.112 omitted, and with the following two lines added a...

Plays One: The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land, Dogg&Apos;S Hamlet and Cahoot&Apos;S Macbeth

Tom Stoppard · 1996 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Faber and Faber, 1996. Paperback. A very scarcely signed copy of this collection of Tom Stoppard's plays. Signed by the author to the first page. A new collection of plays, with introductions by the author. In the publisher's original paperback. This colle...

How to Be Topp

Geoffrey Willans; Ronald Searle · 1954 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Max Parrish, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Geoffrey Willans' comical children's novel based around the terror Nigel Molesworth, illustrated throughout by Ronald Searle. First edition. A satirical children's novel, featuring the popular...

The Poetical Works of Sir Alexander Boswell

Sir Alexander Boswell; Robert Howie Smith [editor] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Glasgow, Maurice Ogle & Company, 1871. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of the poetical works of Sir Alexander Boswell, with a memoir of the author. First edition. Scarce work. The collected poetry of Sir Alexander Boswell, a Scottish poet, antiquary, a...

Limits and Renewals

Rudyard Kipling · 1932 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this entertaining anthology of short stories and verses by Rudyard Kipling. First edition. A collection of short stories and poems including: 'Dayspring Mishandled', 'The Chu...

Traffics and Discoveries

Rudyard Kipling · 1904 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from English writer Rudyard Kipling. First edition. A collection of short stories and verses, including titles such as: The Captive, The Bonds of Discipline...

Murder Off Miami

Dennis Wheatley · 1936 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) LTD, 1936. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of Dennis Wheatley's unique crime dossier, a mystery novel told through a series of documents for the reader to solve the murder. The first edition.A unique crime dossier by Dennis...

Mrs. Craddock

William Somerset Maugham · 1902 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, William Heinemann, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel on late Victorian society and a woman's place in it by W. Somerset Maugham. The first edition, first impression.'Mrs. Craddock' follows an attractive and rich young woman who ...

Poems on Several Occasions

William Hamilton · 1760 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

Edinburgh, W. Gordon, 1760 . Leather. A mid-seventeenth century volume of poems written by William Hamilton, a poet and officer in the Jacobite uprisings. With a preface from Adam Smith, who edited the work early in his career. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.First pu...

Gad&Apos;S Hill Place and Charles Dickens

Edwin Harris · 1910 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Roschester, Edwin Harris & Sons, 1910 . First edition. Leather. The scare first edition of Edwin Harris' wonderful study of Dickens' association with Gad's Hill Place, with a signed letter from the author to the founder of the American Dickens' Fellowship. ...