Letteratura

Tribute to Walter de la Mare on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

Various · 1948 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this birthday tribute to renowned poet and writer Walter De La Mare, containing the work of Graham Greene, T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon and J. B. Priestley. This anthology, published in celebrati...

Original Acrostics

1811 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1811. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition acrostic work, compiling a selection of original poems and puzzles. The very scarce first edition of this work.A selection of entertaining acrostics, all of which had never appeared in print before...

Journey&Apos;S End

R. C. Sherriff · 1929 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. Paperback. A remarkably good example of the scarce first edition of this renowned play set in the trenches during the First World War, penned by R. C. Sherriff. Set towards the end of the First World War, the play is set in the dugout of a Br...

Puck of Pook&Apos;S Hill

Rudyard Kipling · 1906 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Macmillan And Co. Limited, 1906. Cloth. A collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated throughout. First published in 1906, this is a collection of short stories set in various times during English history, with depictions of magic bringing a fantastic e...

Cross and Shrine

Mary Winter Were; Herbert Palmer · 0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Sans & Co, c1942. First edition. Cloth. A signed very scarce first edition of this lyrical collection of poems by Mary Winter Were. The very scarce first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.A selection of the Christian poems of Mary Winter Were,...

Harvest Moon

Rupert Croft-Cooke · 1953 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A superb signed first edition of this popular Rupert Croft-Cooke novel, inscribed by the author. The author's presentation copy, signed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper, 'Inscribed for Jac...

Season and Festival

Herbert Palmer · 1943 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1943. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this beautiful poetry collection by Herbert Palmer. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the half-title, 'For Mary Winter Were signed by Herbert E. Palmer with best wi...

The Goose Cathedral

Jocelyn Brooke · 1950 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon and excellent first edition of this fascinating book, partly fictional and partly autobiographical, by Jocelyn Brooke. The first edition of this work, an uncommon copy.A fascinating volume, neither entirely ficti...

Quite Early One Morning

Dylan Thomas · 1954 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

New York, A New Directions Book , 1954. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this miscellaneous of prose writings by the Welsh author Dylan Thomas. The first edition of this work by Welsh author Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas is mostly known for his poetry; du...

Woffington: A Tribute to the Actress and the Woman

Augustin Daly · 1888 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.46 | $1,519.31 | ¥242,614)

Philadelphia , Privately Printed for Augustin Daly , 1888. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first and limited edition of this charming tribute to Peg Woffington, illustrating her life and career as an actress by Augustin Daly. Signed and inscribed by the author, printed on ...

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene · 1958 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

London, Heinemann , 1958. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this brilliant black comedy novel by Graham Greene. The first edition, first impression of this work by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. A melodrama with undertones s...

Original Sin a Certain Justice

Phyllis D. James · 1994 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Faber and Faber, 1994-1997. First edition. Cloth. A lovely set of two first impression detective novels from the Adam Dalgliesh series by Phyllis D. James. The first edition, first impression of these novels. A set of two detective novels by Phyllis D. James, grouped ...

Closing Time

Joseph Heller · 1994 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Simon and Schuster , 1994. First edition. Cloth. A lovely edition of the sequel to Catch 22, signed by the author to the front endpaper. The first UK edition of this work, in the original, translucent, unclipped dustwrapper.Signed by Joseph Heller to the front free end...

Fables

Walter Brown · 1884 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, S. Grosvenor , 1884. First edition. Hardback. A first edition comprising various fables by Walter Brown, embellished with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. The first edition of this work containing an anthology of fables by Walter Brown.With forty one fables written with the ...

Murder Must Advertise

Dorothy L. Sayers · 1949 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1949. Cloth. A later impression of Sayer's eighth mystery novel to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, complete with an uncommon dust wrapper. First published in 1933, this mystery novel follows Lord Peter Wimsey as he follows a mystery partly set in a...

The Seasons

James Thomson; Percival Stockdale · 1793 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, A. Hamilton, 1793. Leather. A beautifully illustrated edition of James Thomson's romantic rural poem, the first edition to have the notes of Percival Stockdale. This is the first edition with Percival Stockdale's notes.Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignett...

Collected Poems

Austin Dobson · 1899 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co LTD, 1899. Leather. A selection of Austin Dobson's popular poetry, containing a variety of his best known work, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with a frontispieceA selection of the poems by Henry Austin Dobso...

Old Possum&Apos;S Book of Practical Cats

T S Eliot · 1939 · Rooke Books

£2,250.00 (€2,696.98 | $2,972.56 | ¥474,680)

London, Faber and Faber, 1939. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition copy of T S Eliot's famous poetry collection regarding feline psychology and sociology. This anthology forms the basis of Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous 1981 musical 'Cats&apos. Writte...

Malice Aforethought

Francis Iles; Anthony Berkeley Cox · 1931 · Rooke Books

£2,600.00 (€3,116.51 | $3,434.96 | ¥548,519)

London, Mundanus Ltd, Victor Gollancz, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first hardback issue of this important 'inverted detective story&apos. Written by Anthony Berkeley Cox under the pen name Francis Iles. The first edition of this scarce crime fiction novel w...

The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope Hawkins · 1894 · Rooke Books

£1,290.00 (€1,546.27 | $1,704.27 | ¥272,150)

Bristol, J W Arrowsmith, 1894. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A signed first edition copy of Anthony Hope's adventure novel 'The Prisoner of Zenda&apos. With Hope's cut signature loosely inserted. The first edition, third state, as is usual with this work. Wi...