Letteratura

The Mission Song

John Le Carre · 2006 · Rooke Books

£43.00 (€51.54 | $56.81 | ¥9,072)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of John Le Carre's thriller set in the East Congo. This work is a thriller, detailing the planning of a Western-backed coup in Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It painted a detailed pict...

Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal · 1992 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1992. Cloth. A signed first British edition of Gore Vidal's irreverent parody of the New Testament. This work parodies the New Testament, narrating the travels of Saint Timothy and Saint Paul as they encounter a hacker from the future who seeks to &...

Selected Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: Soldiers Three, in Black and White, Under the Deodars, Phantom Rickshaw, Wee Willie Winkie

Rudyard Kipling · 1889 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,388)

Allahabad, A.H. Wheeler & Co, 1889-90. Leather. A decorative anthology of five of Rudyard Kipling's noted short stories in half morocco binding with marbled paper boards. Presenting this collection of short stories by noted English author Rudyard Kipling. This anthology i...

Mary

Vladimir Nabokov; Michael Glenny [trans.] · 1971 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971. First edition. Cloth. The first edition English translation of this Nabokov novel, initially published in the Russian language under a pen name in 1926. The first English language, UK edition, of Nabokov's debut novel, initially pub...

Miscellaneous Songs, Poems, &C. Partly in the Scottish Dialect, with a Copious Glossary

Ebenezer Picken · 1813 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

Edinburgh, Printed for James Sawers; Brash & Reid; et al. 1813. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce collection complete in two volumes of Ebenezer Picken's collection of miscellaneous poems and song. The first 1813 edition. A complete collection in two volume containin...

Cyril&Apos;S Promise: A Tale

William J. Lacey · 1906 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, T. Nelson and Son, [1906]. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition comprising a tale following the story of Cyril by William J. Lacey. The first edition of this uncommon volume by William J. Lacely. Lacey tells the story of Cyril, a young men who arrives at hi...

Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt · 1819 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,523)

London, Taylor and Hessey, 1819. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of these fantastic eight literary essays by William Hazlitt, discussing various comical writers in English history. The first edition of this work.A selection of eight essays by William Hazlitt, studyi...

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1916 · Rooke Books

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

New York, Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1916. First edition. Cloth. The first edition thus of 'The Water-Babies', the first edition to be illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, replete with beautiful colour plates. In the original very scarce publisher's box. The first...

&Apos;Stand at Ease!&Apos; Mark Harvey, the Engine Driver, and Other Stories of Cornish Methodism

E. C. Rundle-Woolcock; W. Jago · 1892 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Charles. H. Kelly, 1892-96. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition copies of two popular Victorian works, military and Methodist stories with engravings throughout. 'Stand at Ease!' is the very scarce first edition, 'Mark Harvey' the scarce ...

The Meeting of the Gallants at an Ordinarie

James Orchard Halliwell (ed.) · 1841 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, The Percy Society, 1841. Paperback. A scarce account of the great plague, originally published in 1604. A reprint of a scarce 1604 tract of which only one original copy is known to exist, preserved in the Bodleian library.Edited by Shakespearian scholar James Orchard H...

The Poetical Works of Edward Young, the Poetical Works of James Thomson and Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

James Thomson; Edward Young; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Lewis Filmore (trans.) · 1700 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1880. Leather. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust bound together with the poetical works of Edward Young and James Thomson. Three volumes bound together in a half calf binding with cloth covered boards and decorative gilt detailing. All three work...

A Little Book

Eliza Grove · 1861 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Not Stated, 1861. First edition. Cloth. A delightful and rare illustrated first edition collection of short rhymes for children. A rare first edition, with frontispiece, decorative title-page and illustrations throughout. Collated, complete. This small collection of rh...

Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1924 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Methuen and Co. 1924. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first UK edition of one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' adventure novels featuring the popular character of Tarzan. The uncommon first UK edition of one of the adventure novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs featuring the...

The Empire Annual for Girls

Dorothea Moore; Lucy Laing; Doris Pocock; et al. · 0 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Religious Tract Society , c1920. Cloth. A charming magazine with many short stories mostly by women authors, designed for women. Richly embellished with various plates throughout. A charming volume of this magazine for women by Dorothea Moore, Lucy Laing, and others. ...

The Hope of the Katzekopfs

William Churne [Frances E. Paget] · 1846 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Joseph Masters , 1846. Leather. The second edition of this charming fairy tale by Francis Edward Paget. The second edition of this fairy tale by William Churns, being Francis Edward Paget's pseudonym used in the first edition. With an introduction by William Chur...

The Tale of Frithiof

Esias Tegner · 1872 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, John Murray, 1872. Cloth. The first English edition of Tegner's Swedish epic poem based upon Icelandic legend, in a charming full cloth binding. Frithiof's Saga is an Icelandic legendary saga dating to circa 1300, set in eight century Norway. it follows Frith...

England, England

Julian Barnes · 1998 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition copy of this satirical Julian Barnes novel, inscribed by the author to the title page. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dust...

The Life and Adventures of Aloysius O&Apos;Callaghan

Thomas Washington-Metcalfe · 1932 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, William Heinemann, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of Thomas Washington Metcalfe's novel concerning the character of Aloysius O'Callaghan in the scarce dust wrapper. The first edition of this novel by Thomas Washington Metcalfe. This book ...

Illyrion

Adelaide Eden Phillpotts · 1916 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Cecil Palmer and Hayward , 1916. First edition. Hardback. A lovely first edition inscribed by the author of Adelaide Eden Phillpott's first published book of poems. The first edition of Adelaide Eden Phillpotts-Ross's first published book of poems. A scarce v...

Lord Geoffrey&Apos;S Fancy

Alfred Duggan · 1962 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Faber and Faber, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A superior copy the first edition of Alfred Duggan's historical novel, complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. Narrated by a knight, this work is set during one of the Crusader kingdoms in Greece. The narrator is the c...