Letteratura
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172632 libri in Letteratura
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier · 1999 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1999 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Tracy Chevailer's popular novel, a fictional account of the context in which Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' was produced. The first edition, first impressi...
The Dark Mile
D. K. Broster · 1949 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, Heinemann, 1949 . Cloth. A bright example of D. K. Broster's third historical novel set during the eighteenth century Jacobite rebellion. In the scarce publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The third novel in English by novelist and short-story wr...
The Bat That Flits
Norman Collins · 1952 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling novel about a scientist at a Government Station for research into bacteriological warfare. The first edition, first impression, of this novel, in the publisher's original p...
The Pic Nic Papers
Charles Dickens; Various · 1841 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)
London, Henry Colburn, 1841. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound second issue of this story anthology edited by Charles Dickens, published for the benefit of the widow of Dickens' first publisher. The first edition, second issue, with the corrected state of 'youn...
Benito Cereno
Herman Melville · 1926 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Cloth. A smart limited edition copy of this novella from Herman Melville, with hand-coloured illustrations throughout. Limited edition of 1650 copies, of which this is number 1243. Reproduced from that of the first edition of The Piazza Tales,...
Winter Harvest
Andrew Young · 1933 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1933. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this book of poetry by Andrew Young, published by the Nonesuch Press. The first edition. Private Press. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper to the boards. This work was writte...
The Adoration of the Soldiers (L&Apos;Adoration Des Soldats)
Emile Cammaerts; Tita Brand-Cammaerts [Trans.] · 1916 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1916 . First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this play by Emile Cammaerts, alongside the English translation by Tita Brand-Cammaerts. First edition, in the publisher's smart white cloth binding, with gilt detaili...
The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier · 1894 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Leather. The Cambridge edition of this collection of the complete poetical works of the American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The twenty-fifth edition of this work, the first Cambridge edition printed by The Riverside Press ...
Officers and Gentlemen
Evelyn Waugh · 1955 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of the second book of Evelyn Waugh's brilliant semi-autobiographical wartime trilogy. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-cli...
Unconditional Surrender
Evelyn Waugh · 1961 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A nice first edition copy of Evelyn Waugh"s conclusion to his "Sword of Honour" trilogy, in the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclippe...
Helena
Evelyn Waugh · 1950 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the Uniform Edition of Evelyn Waugh's only historical novel. The first impression of the Uniform Edition of this work, published the same year as the first edition, in the publisher's origi...
But It Still Goes on: An Accumulation
Robert Graves · 1930 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Robert Graves's autobiographical work 'But It Still Goes On&apos. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the line &a...
Poems 1926-1930
Robert Graves · 1931 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, William Heinemann, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Robert Graves's 1931 volume of poetry, retaining the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The poetry in this collec...
Chivalry
James Branch Cabell · 1909 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of stories from American fantasy author, James Branch Cabell. First edition. Illustrated with twelve colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of short...
The Plays of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare; Samuel Johnson; George Steevens · 1793 · Rooke Books
£2,880.00 (€3,452.14 | $3,804.88 | ¥607,591)
London, T. Longman; B. Law and Son; C. Dilly; et al, 1793. Leather. The sought after Johnson-Steevens edition of the collected plays of Shakespeare, a nice set complete with illustrations, including folding plates. Complete in fifteen volumes.The fourth edition of this set. A...
Opere Di Monsignor Giovanni Della Casa
Giovanni della Casa; Pier Caterino Zeno · 1728 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
Venezia, Appresso Angiolo Pasinello, 1728-29. Vellum. A set of the collected works, in the original Italian, of influential sixteenth century figure Giovanni Della Casa. Complete as five volumes bound in four. Volumes I-IV dated 1728, Volume V dated 1729.A brilliant collection...
A House Divided
Pearl S. Buck · 1935 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first Canadian edition of the final novel in Pearl S. Buck's 'The House of Earth' trilogy. The very scarce first Canadian edition, first impression. First published in the same year by J...
The Making of the Royal Pavilion Brighton Designs and Drawings
John Morley · 1984 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Sotheby Publications, 1984. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this profusely illustrated and informative work on the making of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton by John Morley. The first edition. With illustrated endpapers and numerous monochrome and full colour...
Pictures of Fidelman
Bernard Malamud · 1969 · Rooke Books
£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)
New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1969. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fictional work by Bernard Malamud on an art student called Arthur Fidelman, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the original publisher's cloth with the ori...
The Dear Deceit
Christine Brooke-Rose · 1960 · Rooke Books
£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)
London, Secker and Warburg, 1960. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce semi-autobiographical novel by Christine Brooke-Rose in the original dust wrapper. The first edition.Scarce. In the publisher's original cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper....