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Aunt Louisa&Apos;S Keepsake

Aunt Louisa [Laura Valentine] · 1868 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1868. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated early edition of this collection of nursery rhymes for children, by Laura Valentine. Early edition. Dated using the British Library. Illustrated with twenty-three plates printed in oil colours. Collated mis...

The History of Sandford & Merton: A Work Intended for the Use of Children

Thomas Day · 1818 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, F. C. and J. Rivington; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; et al, 1818. Leather. The incredibly popular children's work of Thomas Day, an educational novel imbued with the ideals of Rousseau. Two volumes bound in one, Volume II is bound without the title page....

Susannah and One Other

E. Maria Albanesi; [Effie Adelaide Rowlands] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. First edition. Cloth. An exciting romance by Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson, found in its original dust wrapper Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson was a prolific writer, publishing over two hundred romance novels and short stories under various ...

Merry Mr. Punch

Hamish Hendry · 1902 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Grant Richards , 1902. First edition. Cloth. A first edition Punch and Judy book, with delightful colour illustrations by Gertrude M. Bradley. A very scarce first edition. Held institutionally in only 5 UK libraries. In a full cloth binding with gilt lettering. With tw...

Peter Duck; Coot Club; Secret Water; the Big Six

Arthur Ransome · 1937 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1937-1951. Cloth. Four works from the popular children's adventure series, 'Swallows and Amazons&apos. Three works from the, 'Swallows and Amazons', series by Arthur Ransome, featuring the first edition of, 'Secret Water&apos. E...

The Poems of John Ruskin: Now First Collected from Original Manuscript and Printed Sources; and Edited, in Chronological Order, with Notes, Biographical and Critical

John Ruskin; W. G. Collingwood · 1891 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, George Allen, 1891. First edition. Leather. A first edition, two-volume set of poetry by the renowned Victorian writer, John Ruskin. With illustrations throughout. The first collected edition, being the first collection of Ruskin's poetry. Complete in two volumes....

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

George Gissing · 1906 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London , Archibald Constable & Co, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, second impression copy of this anthology of short stories by George Gissing. A first edition, second impression copy. George Gissing was an English novelist with some of his best known works reapp...

Lothair

Benjamin Disraeli · 1870 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,375)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1870. Cloth. Two volumes of Lothair, with a signed letter from the author. Two of three volumes of the novel Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli. With letter from the author to Lambert that is dated 1865 before he was in office. The letter states:De...

Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion

G. A. Henty · 1893 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London , Blackie and Son, 1893. Cloth. An early impression of this historical novel by G. A. Henty, with illustrations. An early impression. This volume is an early re-print. Reprints were in the style of the first edition with the date removed from the title page, this is an...

Works of W.W. Jacobs

W. W. Jacobs · 1901 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Methuem; Hodder & Stoughton; Hurst & Blackett; Harpers , 1901-11. First edition. Cloth. A group of eleven collections of short story anthologies by W. W. Jacobs, including some first editions. Eleven volumes of the anthologies of short stories by W. W. Jacobs, English ...

Circus: Zig Zag Board Books

1964 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Hungary , Bancroft & Co. 1964. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of this charming and original 'zig zag board book' concerned with a day at the circus. A very scarce copy. Bright example of this Zig Zag Board Book published by Bancroft, consisting ...

The Folklore of the Sea

Margaret Baker · 1979 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, David & Charles, 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated study of folklore based around the sea. First edition. Illustrated with nine figures in-text and fifteen plates. Collated complete. A collection of writing on folklore of the sea, includ...

Devils in Waiting

Mary Motley · 1960 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New York, The Viking Press, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel following an Englishwoman in French Equatorial Africa. First edition. The personal narrative of a young Englishwoman in an African outpost where the dark world of fetish is ever present. Writ...

The Kickleburys on the Rhine & Doctor Birch and His Young Friends

M. A. Titmarsh [William Makepeace Thackeray] · 1849 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co.; Chapman & Hall, 1849-1850. First edition. Leather. A very smart collection of two of Thackeray's beloved Christmas books. First edition. Two of Thackeray's Christmas books. Written and illustrated by Mr A Titmarsh, or William Makepeace Th...

The Child Set in the Midst by Modern Poets

Modern Poets; Wilfred Meynell [ed.] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, The Leadenhall Press, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this anthology of poems about childhood, with contributions by Blake, Wordsworth, and Browning. First edition. With facsimile of "The Toys" by Coventry Patmore. A collection of poems about children an...

The Tale of Tom Kitten

Bearix Potter · 1907 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.05 | $2,906.51 | ¥464,132)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A first edition Beatrix Potter tale, a charming adventure following three mischievous kittens, in the scarce deluxe binding. The first edition, one of the first three printings, which were indistinguishable from one a...

Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated Into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: With Original Poems

John Dryden · 1734 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Jacob Tonson , 1734. Leather. A scarce new edition of John Dryden's collected fables, in a very smart half morocco binding. The scarce fourth edition. Rebound in handsome half morocco with new endpapers. WIth an engraved frontispiece and some small vignette illust...

Whistle-Binkie or the Piper of the Party, Being a Collection of Songs for the Social Circle

Various · 1878 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Glasgow, David Robertson & Co, 1878. Cloth. A lovely copy of this two volume anthology of poems and songs by a variety of Scottish writers. Containing the works of Ballantine, Grey, Laing, Ferguson, Grant and Kennedy, amongst many others, and with a facsimile signatures of eac...

The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith; Robert Aris Willmott [ed.] · 1859 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Georg Routledge and Co. 1859. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated edition of the coelected verses of Oliver Goldsmith, adorned with colour printings by Birket Foster and H. N. Humphreys. The first book with important pictorial colour printing by Evans. Oliver Goldsmith was...

Shelley

Francis Thompson; George Wyndham · 1909 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Burns & Oates, 1909. First edition. Vellum. A scarce large paper copy in Japanese vellum of this essay on Shelley by Francis Thompson. Literary essay concerned with the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Francis Thompson, English poet and Catholic mystic. With an intro...