Letteratura

1913 Conte Sous-Marin. Papillon, Roi de Ruthie. Fanfreluche. Annette Et Doric.

Laure Hovine · 1913 · Rooke Books

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

Bruxelles, Industrielle et Financiere, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this very scarce limited edition French children's work, charmingly illustrated throughout. In the original French.A very scarce work, in the very scarce original dust wrapper.Inscribed b...

Five Somewhat Historical Plays

Philip Moeller · 1918 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1918. First edition. Hardback. // The first edition of this scarce work. In a very scarce binding of decorated boards. This book contains five plays by Philip Moeller with often humorous historical ties with its characters and plots. Includes a co...

Baxter&Apos;S Second Innings: Specially Reported for the School Team

Henry Drummond · 1893 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

New York, James Pott & Co. 1893. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this charming story about cricket. First US edition. A charming story following a young boy named Baxter. Following his first great cricket match, he intends to get better with the help of the t...

The World and the Artist

John Drinkwater · 1922 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, The Bookman's Journal, 1922. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon limited edition essay on artists by John Drinkwater, signed by the author. A limited edition of 140 copies, of which this is numbered 131, an uncommon work here first published in book form.Signed by t...

1927 the Golden Book, the Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking - Past & Present

Douglas C. McMurtrie · 1927 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Chicago, Pascal Covici, 1927. First edition. Cloth. The first and limited edition of Douglas McMurtrie's work exploring the history of bookmaking. The first edition, limited to only two thousand copies.A brilliant book about books, exploring fine books and bookmaking acro...

Money Magic

Hamlin Garland · 1907 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A popular novel by Hamlin Garland, an illustrated novel on the American Dream in the Midwest, a smart signed first edition copy. The first edition.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endp...

Jennie Gerhardt

Theodore Dreiser · 1911 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this brilliant novel by Theodore Dreiser, illustrated with a frontispiece. The first edition, first printing, first state, with "is" for "it" to page 22 line 30.'Jennie Gerhardt' i...

The Culprit Fay and Other Poems

Joseph Rodman Drake · 1835 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

New York, George Dearborn, 1835. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this important anthology of poetry by Joseph Rodman Drake, posthumously published. The first edition.In a custom cloth chemise.An anthology of poems by the early American poet Joseph Rodman Drake.Drake...

Keramos and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1878 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of the poetry and translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the first edition of this work. The first edition, in the first state binding, with 'Houghton, Osgood, & Co' to the tail of the...

Poems and Ballads by Hermann Hagedorn

Hermann Hagedorn · 1912 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of Hagedorn's poetry collection, once owned by the American poet and publisher Scofield Thayer. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's origin...

The Funny Bone

J. Maclaren-Ross [Julian Maclaren-Ross] · 1956 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Elek Books, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition, first impression of this collection of stories, sketches and essays by British author and famous dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's origina...

Horace Walpole: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1960, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis · 1960 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

New York, Bollingen Series, Pantheon Books, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this biography of Horace Walpole, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work, one of an unspecified number produced for private distribution....

Five Nights

Victoria Cross [Annie Sophie Cory] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, John Long, 1908 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of Victoria Cross's charming adventure romance, set in Alaska, London and San Francisco. The uncommon first edition.Set in contemporary Alaska, London and San Francisco, this work is narrated in th...

Wayside Courtship

Hamlin Garland · 1897 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Hamlin Garland's novel about courtship between classes in late nineteenth century America. The first edition of this work.Inscribed by the author in two locat...

The New Gulliver

Wendell Phillips Garrison · 1898 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Jamaica, Queensborough, New York, The Marion Press, 1898 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Wendell Phillips Garrison's satirical lost race satire, with an additional signed dust wrapper. The first trade edition of this work, one of three hundred copies...

The Quest of Heracles and Other Poems

Hugh McCulloch Jr. · 1894 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Cambridge; Chicago, Stone and Kimball, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. A limited edition collection of poetry from Hugh McCulloch Jr, published when he was only twenty-five years old. The first edition of this limited edition, with notice reading 'this first edition, on smal...

Phil-O-Rum&Apos;S Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres: Two Poems

William Henry Drummond · 1898 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Toronto; London, The Musson Book Co, 1898 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first Canadian edition of this attractive volume of two poems by William Henry Drummond. The very scarce first Canadian edition of this work, published in the same year in the US.Illustrated wi...

Who Was Paul Grayson?

John Habberton · 1881 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1881 . First edition. Cloth. A smart example of the first edition of John Habberton's novel about small-town life in America, from the library of renowned book collector Estelle Doheny. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontis...

The Slippers of Cinderella and Two Other Plays

W. Graham Robertson · 1919 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, William Heinemann, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this collection of three children's plays by W. Graham Robertson, retaining the original dust wrapper. The very scarce first edition of this work, in the publisher's original pri...

Pinkie and the Fairies

W. Graham Robertson · 1909 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, William Heinemann, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this fairy play in three acts, written by W. Graham Robertson. First performed in 1908 at His Majesty's Theatre, London, starring Ellen Terry. With an illustrated title page, six plates, a...