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The Dons Sight Devon

Jack Lindsay · 1941 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, Oxford University Press, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. The charmingly illustrated first edition of Jack Lindsay's 'story of the defeat of the invincible Armada&apos. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Il...

The Literary Year Book 1897 the Literary Year Book 1901 the Literary Year Book 1908

F. G. Aflalo · 1897 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, George Allen; Routledge, 1897-1908. Cloth. A scarce first edition of the very first Literary Year Book produced in 1897, and two later copies from 1901 and 1908. In the original binding, a scarce first edition of the 1897 Literary Year Book, published for the first tim...

A Stranger Is Watching

Mary Higgins Clark · 1978 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Collins, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A bright first UK edition of Mary Higgins Clark's gripping suspense novel, with the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK edition of this work. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A bestse...

Before the Frost

Henning Mankell · 2004 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, The Harvill Press, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first UK edition of Henning Mankell's first and only instalment to this follow-up crime series, with the daughter of popular fictional police inspector, Kurt Wallander. The first UK edition, first impression ...

The Girl in a Swing

Richard Adams · 1980 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Penguin Books, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this popular novel by English writer Richard Adams. The first edition, second state. With the female protagonist being named 'Karin Forster'; the name was changed from 'Kathe Geutne...

Ourselves, Our People, Our Work. Six Addresses Given in the Divinity Schools, Cambridge

E. T. Leeke · 1891 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce volume containing six lectures by Edward Tucker Leeke, given at Cambridge, signed by the author. The first edition of this very scarce work.Signed by the author to the verso of the fro...

Three Tales: A Simple Heart; the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller; Herodias

Gustave Flaubert; Mervyn Savill [trans.] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Arthur Barker Ltd. 1950. Cloth. Flaubert's short story collection, the first edition to be translated by Mervyn Savill. A first thus edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Flaubert's shor...

The Cocktail Party

T.S. Eliot · 1950 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

London, Faber & Faber, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the most successful play of T. S. Eliot, a verse drama following the troubled relationship of a husband and wife. The first edition, first impression.A later state, with the page 29 miss print corrected, ...

Picture of Nobody

Philip Owens · 1936 · Rooke Books

£1,750.00 (€2,097.65 | $2,311.99 | ¥369,196)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Philip Owens's vanishingly scarce novel in which Shakespeare is born in 1930s London. A vanishingly scarce work from Owens, who fought in the Second World War and died in 1945.The first edition,...

Limits and Renewals

Rudyard Kipling · 1932 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional first edition of this entertaining anthology of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the publisher's original unclipped dus...

The Male Response

Brian Aldiss · 1963 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Dennis Dobson, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Brian Aldiss's satirical and controversial novel about post-colonial Africa. The first UK edition, first impression. This novel was first published two years earlier as a paperback in the US. This...

Slay-Ride

Dick Francis · 1973 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Michael Joseph, 1973. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Dick Francis's thrilling murder mystery, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.When a champion jockey disappears sh...

Lieutenant Hornblower

C. S. Forester · 1952 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Michael Joseph, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of C. S. Forester's seventh published Horatio Hornblower novel, the second in the series chronologically. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Thi...

Enemies at Home

Lindsey Davis · 2014 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2014. First edition. Cloth. Set in Ancient Rome, Private Investigator Flavia Albia solves a robbery and murder. A first edition of this work, with a dedication from the author to the title: 'To dear Loyd, lovely to meet you at Sloane and Rome, ...

Poems

F. B. Money. Coutts · 1896 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this collection of poetry by Francis Money Coutts, in the original cloth binding. The very scarce first edition. With an illustrated title page. This scarce collection of poetry w...

Hard Labor and Other Poems

John Carter · 1911 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

New York, Baker & Taylor Company, 1911. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this scarce collection of poetry on imprisonment, by John Carter. The first edition. A scarce work. In the publisher's original hardback. This collection of poetry was written by John...

Essays in Memory of Michael Parkinson and Janine Dakyns: Norwich Papers, IV

Christopher Smith [ed]; James Casey, et al. · 1996 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

Norwich, School of Modern Languages and European Studies, 1996. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this very scarce collection of essays on language, literature and culture from the University of East Anglia, created in memory of Michael Parkinson and Janine Dakyns...

Petrone

Jerome Doucet · 1902 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Paris, A Ferroud, 1902. First edition. Paperback. A scarce limited edition of Doucet's French translation of the Petronius' poems, in the original dust wrapper and Illustrated by Louis-Edouard Fournier with etchings by Xavier Lesueur. The limited edition. Number 116 ...

Mantis Poets

Guy Butler; Patrick Cullinan · 1978 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Cape Town, David Philip, 1978. First edition. Cloth. An inscribed first edition of this very scarce book of poetry by Patrick Cullinan and Guy butler, in the original dust wrapper and inscribed by Cullinan. The first edition. Inscribed by one of the author, Patrick Cullinan, ...

Cyril Ashley and the Silver Casket

A. L. O. E [Charlotte Tucker] · 1885 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, Ltd, 1885-6. Cloth. Two Christian allegorical novels by the prolific English author Charlotte Maria Tucker, in their original decorative cloth bindings. A later edition to 'Silver Casket', first published in 1863, and an early edition of &...