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The Poems of Joseph Fletcher for the First Time Edited and Re-Printed with Memorial Introduction and Notes (the Fuller Worthies&Apos; Library)

Joseph Fletcher; Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [ed.] · 1869 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Blackburn, Lancashire , Printed for Private Circulation, 1869. Cloth. A limited and privately printed copy of Joseph Fletcher's poems, edited with notes by Scottish clergyman Alexander B. Grosart. One of 156 copies printed for private circulation. From the Fuller Worthies...

The Book of Dead Days; the Foreshadowing; My Swordhand Is Singing

Marcus Sedgwick · 2003 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Orion Children's Books , 2003-2006. First edition. Cloth. A delightful trio of signed young adult novels by Marcus Sedgwick, each complete with their original unclipped dust wrapper. The first editions, first impressions of these works. Signed by the author to ea...

Milton&Apos;S Paradise Regained

John Milton; L. C. Martin [editor] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of Milton's Paradise Regained, edited by L. C. Martin. With a portrait frontispiece. Connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, this epic poem in blank verse pro...

The Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1913 · Rooke Books

£1,490.00 (€1,786.26 | $1,968.83 | ¥314,434)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913-1926. Cloth. A smart complete twenty-seven volume set of this limited edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling, signed by the author. Complete in twenty-seven volumes. The Seven Seas edition. Volume one is signed by the author to the ha...

Before I Go to Sleep

S. J. Watson · 2011 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Doubleday, 2011. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of the best-selling debut novel of Steve Watson, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. With the original advertising postcard. Both a Sunday Times...

Sprookjes

Hans Christian Andersen; Jan Van Der Moer · 1919 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Alkmaar, Gebr. Kluitman, 1919. Cloth. A smart third edition of this illustrated collection of fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Jan Van Der Moer in Dutch. Dutch. Third edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight colour plates. Collated complete....

The Rape of Lucrece & Venus and Adonis

William Shakespeare · 1948 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Winchester Publications Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. Two copies of these insightful works from William Shakespeare with illustrations throughout. Two volumes. First thus. This set contains: The Rape of Lucrece, 1948. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty p...

The Golden Bowl

Henry James · 1905 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

London, Methuen & Co, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A scarce to see first U.K. edition of 'The Golden Bowl', published only a few months after the first U.S. edition. The scarce first U.K. edition of this work, first impression, this UK first edition is complete in one...

David

D. H. Lawrence · 1926 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Martin Secker, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biblical drama play by modernist author D. H. Lawrence. The first edition, limited to five hundred copies.A lesser known play by the renowned author D. H. Lawrence, following the early life of David, ...

Poems

Clere Parsons · 1932 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Faber & Faber, 1932. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce anthology of poems by Clere Parsons, the first edition of this posthumously published anthology. The first edition of this very scarce work.This is the only published anthology of poems by Clere Parsons, an E...

Pansies

D. H. Lawrence · 1929 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Martin Secker, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this later anthology of the brilliant poetry of D. H. Lawrence. The first trade edition of this work.A poetical anthology by the noted modernist English author D. H. Lawrence, published late in his c...

The Dispossessed

John Berryman · 1948 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

New York, William Sloane Associates, INC, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this early anthology of poems by John Berryman, an early example of his confessional pieces. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An anthology of poems b...

Winged Princess

Anne Kennington · 1945 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Nicholson & Watson, 1945 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Anne Kennington's very scarce children's tale, inscribed to the prolific theatre director and early suffragette Edith Craig. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher&ap...

Flowering Cypress

Edward Lowbury · 1986 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Pointing Finger Press, 1986 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this charming limited edition poetry volume from Edward Lowbury. Signed by Lowbury and his illustrator, Kenneth Lindley. A very scarce limited edition, first edition.No. 22 of 50 num...

Tom Brown&Apos;S School Days

An Old Boy [Thomas Hughes] · 1869 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1869 . Cloth. The first illustrated edition of Thomas Hughes's beloved fictionalised account of life at Rugby School, with illustrations from Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall. A first edition thus, the first illustrated edition.Thomas Hughes&apo...

The Palisades of Fear

Ronald Bottrall · 1949 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Editions Poetry London, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Ronald Bottrall's publication of a selection of poems written between May 1945 and March 1948. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Wit...

Household Ghosts

James Kennaway · 1961 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Longmans, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of James Kennaway's novel set in the Scottish lowlands, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper. This work was written ...

Collected Poems

Anna De Bary · 1947 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, The Mitre Press, [1947]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry by Anna De Bary. The first edition. A very scarce collection of poetry. This collection of poetry was written by Anne De Bary, and is her last volume of poetry. ...

Mountains and Molehills

Frances Cornford · 1934 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

Cambridge, University Press, 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poetry by Frances Cornford, with illustrations by Gwen Raverat and in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original...

Four Tales

Philip Pullman · 2010 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Doubleday, 2010. First edition. Cloth. A collection of fairy tales by the popular author of the 'His Dark Materials' series, in the original dust wrapper and illustrated by Peter Bailey. The first edition of this omnibus edition. First published separately be...