Letteratura

Sketches from St. George&Apos;S Fields. First and Second Series.

Giorgione Di Castel Chiuso [Peter Bayley] · 1820 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Stodart and Steuart; R. and M. Stodart , 1820-1 . First edition. Hardback. A scarce pair of first editions containing the poetry of Peter Bayley, writing under his pseudonym, Giorgione di Castel Chiuso. The First and Second series. The first edition. First and Second s...

Odes Upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters

Thomas More · 1828 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green , 1828 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Thomas More's satirical odes on topical political and economic matters, bound in the publisher's original paper-covered boards. The first edition. Uncommon work. Bound i...

The Heptameron

Marguerite de Navarre; Queen of Navarre · 1886 · Rooke Books

£680.00 (€815.21 | $898.53 | ¥143,500)

London, Privately Printed, 1886. First edition. Leather. An impressive edition of Marguerite of Navarre's collection of short stories, this being an extra-illustrated copy bound in two volumes by Ritter. An extra illustrated copy, bound in two volumes.The first edition of...

Pearson&Apos;S Magazine

Walter Besant; W. J. Gordon; Archibald Forbes; Various · 1896 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1896. Cloth. The first number of 'Pearson's Magazine' to ever be published, a very scarce Royal Edition, with Walter Besant's bookplate. A very scarce number of 'Pearson's Magazine', for January 1896, a str...

The Gowk Storm

N. Brysson Morrison · 1934 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Collins, 1934. Cloth. A scarce novel on the lives of three sisters by Nancy Brysson Morrison. A scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 'The Gowk Storm' follows three sisters who live in a secluded clergy house, in which modernity has never enter...

Changing My Mind

Zadie Smith · 2009 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Hamish Hamilton; Penguin Books, 2009. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon to see signed copy of this anthology of essays by Zadie Smith The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title, uncommon to see signed.An anthology of essays by Zadie Smith....

Observations on Poetry

[Henry Pemberton] · 1738 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, H. Woodfall; J. Brotherton; J. Nourse; R. Dodsley, 1738. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce discussion on poetry, by Henry Pemberton. The first edition of this scarce work.Half-title is present.Errata to the front.An examination on poetry by the G...

The Prince of Mull, or, Glimpses of Royal Life

[Mary Ellis Smith] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Chicago, A. N. Marquis & Company, 1884. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this very scarce satire on the British Royal Family, signed by the author. The first edition of this very scarce work.Signed by the author to the title page, "Presented by the Author, Mary E...

The Centenarian; or, the Two Beringhelds

Horace de Saint-Aubin [Honoré de Balzac]; George Edgar Slusser [trans.] · 1976 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

New York, Arno Press, 1976. Cloth. A fine English translation of Balzac's seminal contribution to early science fiction. The first thus edition of the English translation of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Part of the Arno Press collection of sup...

The Works of James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper · 1888 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1888-1889. Cloth. Eighteen uniformly bound volumes from the Leather-Stocking Edition of the works of James Fenimore Cooper. A set of eighteen works uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the fro...

The Green Isle of the Great Deep

Neil M. Gunn · 1944 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this important work, exploring themes such as of knowledge without wisdom and published during the Scottish Renaissance. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher'...

The Love Family

Mrs. M. H. Spielmann [Mabel Henrietta Spielmann] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, George Allen & Sons, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Spielmann and Moore-Park's charming children's work about the adventures of Cupid and his family. Stamped 'Presentation Copy&apos. A very scarce first edition.With a &apos...

Gnothi Seauton. Know Your Self. A Poem.

John Arbuthnot · 1734 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, J. Tonson, 1734 . First edition. Unbound. The very scarce first edition of the only recorded individually published poem by Scottish physician, satirist and polymath Dr. Arbuthnot. A very scarce first edition. The first and only edition of this work.The title of the wo...

The Apparition. A Poem.

Abel Evans · 1710 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, H. Hills, 1710 . Unbound. A piracy of Abel Evans's poetic attack on Mathew Tindal, formulated as a response to Tindal's 'The Rights of the Church Asserted&apos. Published in the same year as the first edition.Foxon E521The first published poem of Abel E...

Bleinheim, a Poem.

John Philips · 1709 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, H. Hills, 1709 . Unbound. A scarce early edition of John Philips's celebration of Marlborough's victory at the Battle of Blenheim. First published in 1705, this work is scarce in all early editions.This poem commemorates the Duke of Marlborough's victory...

The Kentish Coronal; Consisting of Original Contributions, in Prose and Poetry

H. G. Adams [ed.] · 1841 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Lonon, Simpkin & Marshall, 1841 . First edition. Cloth. H. G. Adams's own copy of the first edition of his very scarce anthology of Kentish poems, illustrated with a frontispiece from murderer Richard Dadd. A very scarce first edition.The editor Henry Gardiner Adams'...

The Newark Bee

Edited by S. Reynolds Hole ; with miscellaneous works from multiple unidentifiable authors. · 1838 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Newark, C, and W. Ridge, 1838-9. Cloth. This very scarce cloth-bound copy of all issues of the Nottinghamshire literary periodical the Newark Bee, from March 1838 to February 1839. This work collects all twelve issues of the Newark Bee periodical, from March 1838 to February ...

The Loop

Nicholas Evans · 1998 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Bantam Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this novel by Nicholas Evans about a woman who is sent to protect a pack of wolves. The first edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. In the publisher's original cloth...

From One Hell to Another

Liz Cowley Donough O'Brien · 2019 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Leicester, Matador; Troubador , 2019 . First edition. Paperback. An inscribed first edition copy of this scarce novel set during Hitler's war on France, written by the husband and wife duo Liz Cowley and Donough O'Brien. The first edition, first impression. Inscribe...

Bucolici Graeci: Recensuit Et Emendavit

Udalricus de Wilamowitz-Moellendorff · 1905 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Oxonii [Oxford], E Typographeo Clarendoniano, [1905]. First edition. Leather. An interesting work on bucolic poetry from ancient Greece, written in Latin by Udalricus de Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, and bound in full crushed Morocco by Bumpus. The first edition. Bound in full cru...