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Hilda Cowham&Apos;S Blacklegs and Others

Hilda Cowham · 1911 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,303)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of children's poetry and illustrations from Hilda Cowham. First edition. Illustrated with colour frontispiece, fifteen colour plates, and many in-text and ful...

Edward Fitzgerald

A. C. Benson · 1905 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A presentation copy of this first edition biographical sketch of Edward Fitzgerald. First edition. Presentation copy with embossed stamp. A biographical sketch of English poet and writer, Edward Fitzgerald, as part...

This Way to Arcady

A. Bonnet Laird · 1926 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of A. Bonnet Laird's work with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. Written under the name A. Bonnet Laird which, according ...

Black Heart and White Heart and Other Stories

H. Rider Haggard · 1900 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1900. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first printing of H. Rider Haggard's second collection of short stories, illustrated by Charles Kerr and F.H. Townsend. The first edition, first printing of this work in the publisher's ori...

When the World Shook: Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot

H. Rider Haggard · 1919 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1919. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of one of H. Rider Haggard's popular novels from the 'Lost World' genre, in the first state binding. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original brown cloth bin...

The Poets&Apos; Pleasaunce: Or, Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers

Eden Warwick · 1847 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this beautifully designed work exploring the relationship of English poets with flowers. A scarce first edition, in which artist Henry Noel Humphreys uses thirty repeating fu...

Benita

H Rider Haggard · 1906 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited , 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of H Rider Haggard's illustrated ovel concerned with the clairvoyant heroine Benita. The first edition of this work, with frontispiece, sixteen illustrations by Gordon Browne, title page as...

William - the Explorer; William and the Pop Singers

Richmal Crompton · 1960 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, George Newnes Limited , 1960-5. First edition. Cloth. Two first editions from the 'Just William' series b y Richmal Crompton enclosed in the original dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression of each volume. Two of thirty-eight books in the 'Jus...

The Air Record Breakers

John F. C. Westerman · 1937 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this exciting story for children, with illustrations throughout. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece and two plates. Collated complete. An exciting children's s...

The Corsair, Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, and Lara

Lord Byron · 1814 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, John Murray, 1814. Leather. A collection of three poetical works of Byron bound in one volume, a smart calf bound collection of early editions. A collection of three early edition Lord Byron poems bound in one volume.'The Corsair', the 7th edition. Bound with...

Lovely Is the Lee

Robert Gibbings · 1945 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1945 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this novel from Irish artist Robert Gibbings, illustrated throughout by the author himself. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Part personal...

The Clocks

Agatha Christie · 1963 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, The Crime Club, by Collins, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling Hercule Poirot detective novel, by the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wr...

1839 Widow Barnaby

Frances Trollope · 1839 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Richard Bentley, 1839 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this humorous early Victorian era novel by Fanny Trollope. The three volume first edition of this very scarce work.With the title pages and half titles of volumes I and III supplied in fac...

English Verse 1701-1750

D. F. Foxon · 1975 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this comprehensive catalogue on 18th Century verse. Complete in two volumes in the original slipcase. An extensive reference work on 18th century English poetry. Volume one is a catalog...

The Manuscript of Milton&Apos;S Paradise Lost Book 1

John Milton; Helen Darbishire · 1931 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1931. First edition. Cloth. An interesting first edition copy of the manuscript of the first book of the epic poem Paradise Lost. This volume contains the manuscript of Book 1 of Paradise Lost, with an elaborate study of the characteristics of ...

The Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth; Nowell Charles Smith [ed] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London , Methuen & Co , 1908. First edition. Cloth. A complete three volumes set of the poetical works of Romantic poet William Wordsworth. A first of this edition, complete in three volumes. William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic Ag...

The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.21 | $779.47 | ¥124,472)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1860-64. First edition. Leather. Consecutive first ten volumes of the popular literary magazine edited by William Makepeace Thackeray in striking uniform signed bindings. Volumes I to X of The Cornhill Magazine, monthly Victorian magazine and liter...

Assorted Works

Various · 1950 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Various, 1950-1970. Cloth. A group of nine volumes containing poetical works and studies of English authors including George Crabbe and Chaucer. Comprised of the following:1950-1 2vol 'Introduction to English Literature, vols. I and III, second revised editions. D...

An Innocent Grows Up

Norman Hancock · 1947 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. 1947. First edition. Cloth. An autobiographical period piece by Norman Hancock, with the atmospheric lithograph by John Piper to the dust wrapper and title page. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, wit...

Poems of Charles Cotton, 1630-1687

Charles Cotton; John Beresford [ed.] · 1923 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this collection of the poetical works of Charles Cotton, with the scarce dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original and sca...