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Night Cargoes: A Smuggling Story

Nicholas Cavanagh · 1946 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Peter Lunn , 1946. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this thrilling smuggling story set in the 18th century. A very scarce first edition of this work. With the publisher's original price-clipped dust wrapper.An exciting young adult fiction ab...

Reconstruction: Six Poems

Randall Swingler · 1933 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press, 1933. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry from English writer Randall Swingler. First edition. Very scarce. A collection of six poems, including: New Year, Ode to a Plane Above the City, Sunse...

Sir Thomas Wyatt: A Literary Portrait

Sir Thomas Wyatt; H. A. Mason · 1986 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Bristol, Bristol Classical Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this literary portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt with notes and commentaries by Harold Andrew Mason, the author's own copy. First edition. Scarce work. The author's corrected copy. A lit...

Playhours and Half-Holidays or Further Experiences of Two Schoolboys

Rev. J. C. Atkinson · 1892 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of short stories following the adventures of two schoolboys, from English author and priest John Christopher Atkinson. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven pla...

The Dream and the Business

John Oliver Hobbes [Pearl Mary Teresa Richards] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this brilliant novel from Anglo-American novelist John Oliver Hobbes. First edition. A brilliant novel exploring the distinctive personalities found in Society life and life on the stage. Following two fas...

Celandine & Winter Wood

Steve Augarde · 2005 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, David Fickling Books, 2005-2008. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition from the Touchstone Trilogy by British author and artist Steve Augarde, Celandine is signed by the author. Two volumes. First edition, first impression. Volumes two and three of the Touchsto...

Dragon Rider

Cornelia Funke; Anthea Bell [translator] · 2004 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Somerset, The Chicken House, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first translated English edition of this illustrated children's adventure story from German author Cornelia Funke. First UK edition. Illustrated throughout with a colour pop-up/fold out map. Collated co...

The Year&Apos;S Poetry 1936: A Representative Selection

Denys Kilham Roberts; John Lehmann · 1936 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this third annual publication of the poems of the year, compiled by Denys Kilham Roberts and John Lehmann. First edition. Third annual publication. An anthology containing a representati...

Carmen Saeculare, for the Year 1700. To the King.

[Matthew Prior] · 1700 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1700 . First edition. Disbound. An extremely scarce, first edition of Matthew Prior's verse in celebration of the arrival of King William III from Holland. The first edition. Vanishingly scarce. Written anonymously, although attributed to eighteenth-...

The Collected Satires of Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Douglas · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, The Fortune Press, 1926 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this work collecting the satires of Lord Alfred Douglas, bound in quarter morocco. The first edition, limited to 550 copies. Bound in quarter morocco with marbled paper-covered boards. The collected...

The Romance of Lohengrin

Bernard Capes · 1905 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Dean & Son, Ltd. 1905 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of this romance novel based on Wagner's Opera, written by Bernard Capes. The first UK edition. Uncommon work. Bound in the publisher's tan cloth variant. Written by prolific Victorian a...

The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book

Randolph Caldecott · 1882 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, George Routledge & Sons, [1882]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of nursery rhymes, brightly illustrated throughout by Randolph Caldecott. The first edition. Dated using Jisc from copies of the work held at the University of Oxford l...

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit · 1906 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. 1906 . First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce and sought-after first edition of E. Nesbit's beloved children's tale, with the original, charming illustrations by C. E. Brock. The first edition. With no later editions stated. I...

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Others

Geoffrey Chaucer; Walter W. Skeat · 1905 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London; Oxford, Alexander Moring, Limited; The De La More Press; Henry Frowde; Oxford University Press, 1905. Cloth. A limited edition facsimile of the important 1532 folio collecting together the works of Chaucer. A limited edition of one thousand copies, of which this is num...

Seven Types of Ambiguity

William Empson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this important work of literary criticism by William Empson, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. First state binding, with the title in gilt.In the original unclipped dus...

The Rock: A Pageant Play

T. S. Eliot; E. Martin Browne · 1934 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Faber & Faber, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, second impression of T. S. Eliot's pageant play, written in collaboration with director E. Martin Browne and R. Webb-Odell. The first edition, second impression of this work in the original boards, with t...

Love Among the Haystacks

D. H. Lawrence · 1930 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of this posthumously published collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence, in the original dust wrapper. A limited edition first edition, with this copy being no. 533 of 1,600 copies produced.In the o...

The Pilgrim on the Earth

Julian Green · 1929 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, The Blackamore Press; Harper and Brothers, 1929 . First edition. Vellum. A richly illustrated limited edition of Julian Green's mysterious tale, with colour wood engraved plates by Rene Ben Sussan. A first edition thus.No. 230 of of 375 copies for sale, being one ...

Poems

John Cowper Powys · 1899 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, William Rider & Sons, 1899 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this collection of poetry from John Cowper Powys. A first edition.Signed by the author to the front free endpaper, to English poet Anna Bunston de Bary, with 'A. ...

Wheels

Oliver Hill; Hans Tisdall · 1946 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Pleiades Books Ltd, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this vibrantly illustrated children's book about vehicles with wheels. A scarce first edition.The work of Oliver Hill and Hans Tisdall.Illustrated with twenty full colour plates, and a sm...