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Cymbeline

William Shakespeare · 1904 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Glasgow , David Bryce and Son, 1904. Hardback. A charming miniature edition of William Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline', bound in suede. This tiny book contains one of William Shakespeare's later plays, 'Cymbeline', set in Ancient Britain and based on le...

A Collection of Science Fiction Novels from Pan Books

Robert Heinlein; Poul Anderson; Clifford Simak; Mark Clifton; Frederik Pohl; Angela Carter; John Burke · 1963 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Pan Books Ltd. 1963-1970 . Paperback. A collection of science fiction novels from Pan Books Ltd. Nine volumes. A collection of exciting science fiction novels and novellas. This set contains: The Man Who Sold the Moon, 1963. Written by Robert Anson Heinlein, an America...

Songs of the Sea Nymphs: Scenes in Fairy Land

T. Miller · 1832 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Simpkin and Marshall , 1832. Leather. A very scarce copy of this collection of fantasy verses from English poet Thomas Miller. Very scarce work. A collection of songs and verses from Fairy Land, being extracts from unpublished poems on the theme of mystical sea creatur...

St. Ronan&Apos;S Well

Sir Walter Scott · 1824 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co. 1824. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of Sir Walter Scott's novel St. Ronan's Well, in three volumes. Complete in three volumes. First edition. Bound with the half titles. From the Waverley Novels. Set in a f...

The Wild Body: A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories

Wyndham Lewis · 1927 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from British writer Wyndham Lewis. First edition. A collection of eleven short stories, including: A Soldier of Humour, The Cornac and His Wife, and The Meaning of th...

Galapagos

Kurt Vonnegut · 1985 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Kurt Vonnegut's thrilling science-fiction novel, set against the backdrop of a fictional Galapagos Island, on which a group of people find themselves shipwrecked. The first UK edition. Published t...

Season of Anomy

Wole Soyinka · 1973 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Rex Collings, 1973 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poignant novel from Nobel-winning Nigerian author, Wole Soyinka, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the ...

Self Condemned

Wyndham Lewis · 1954 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Methuen & Co. 1954 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of Wyndham Lewis' popular novel surrounding a Professor's intellectual journey, commencing with his resignation and emigration from England. The first edition, first impression. Bound in th...

The Bankside Shakespeare the Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies of Mr. William Shakespeare As Presented at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres, Circa 1591-1623

William Shakespeare; Appleton Morgan [ed.]; Albert R. Frey; William Reynolds; B. Rush Field; et al. · 1888 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.45 | $2,510.17 | ¥400,841)

New York, The Shakespeare Society of New York, 1888-1891. Leather. An attractive fifteen volumes of the limited edition Bankside Shakespeare, edited by Appleton Morgan, and uniformly bound in half calf. One of 500 limited edition copies of the Bankside Shakespeare. Fifteen vol...

Peeps Into Fairyland

Horace J. Knowles · 1924 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

London, Thornton Butterworth, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Horace J. Knowles' magnum opus, a beautifully illustrated work depicting the magical world of fairyland. The scarce first edition.Beautifully illustrated with a colour frontispiece, an i...

The Jaded Hero

Douglas Garman · 1927 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Wishart and Co, 1927. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce book of poetry from Douglas Garman, a socialist and editor of the quarterly literary review, 'Calendar of Modern Letters&apos. The first edition of this very scarce work. In the original quarter cloth b...

Poems

Michael Heseltine · 1913 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Elkin Mathews , 1913. First edition. Hardback. A vanishingly scarce pocket book of poetry from Michael Heseltine, with personal depictions of London and Oxford. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work. In the original boards. A poetical pocket book, with a ...

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom · 2003 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Macmillan, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of C. J. Sansom's opening instalment to his 'Shardlake' series, with the scarce original wrap-around band. The first edition, first printing of this work. In the publisher's unclipp...

Lovel the Widower

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1861 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1861. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this touching novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, complete with his plates. The first edition.Bound by J. Larkins.A poignant novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, following a middle-aged man, Lov...

The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1849 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1849. First edition. Vellum. A smartly bound copy of this illustrated novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first edition in book form. The first edition in book form. A short and sombre novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, following a man who f...

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1852 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Smith, Elder, & Company, 1852. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this brilliant example of historical fiction, by William Makepeace Thackeray. The first edition.Complete in three volumes.Half-title present to Volume I.Bound without half-titles to Volumes II ...

The Virginians

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59. First edition. Leather. A smart first issue copy of one of the popular novels of William Makepeace Thackeray, complete with his original illustrations. The first edition, first impression of this work. Issue points as follows; 'actresses...

A Master of Our Time: A Study of Wyndham Lewis

Geoffrey Grigson · 1951 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1951. First edition. Paperback. A scarce copy of Geoffrey Grigson's study of the co-founder of the Vorticist movement, Wyndham Lewis. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. A study of the ma...

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843 · Rooke Books

£4,850.00 (€5,813.49 | $6,407.53 | ¥1,023,199)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1843 . Cloth. The second edition of Charles Dickens's festive novella, illustrated by John Leech and in the publisher's original cloth binding. The scarce second edition of this iconic work.The first run of 6,000 copies sold out entirely betwe...

In Jeopardy and Other Stories

George Manville Fenn · 1906 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1906. Cloth. George Manville Fenn's vanishingly scarce collection of short fiction stories about characters in perilous situations, in the original early dust wrapper. A new impression. First published in 1889. In the original publisher's ...