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Gone Away

Frederick Cotton · 1888 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1888. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this exciting foxhunting novel, a signed very scarce first edition. The first edition of this very scarce work.Author's presentation copy, with his inscription to the rec...

A Piece of My Mind Reflections at Sixty

Edmund Wilson · 1956 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

New York, Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Edmund Wilson's essays, written when he was sixty, looking at a various of pressing global topics of the time. Inscribed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper, the name ...

Saul

Robert Browning · 1890 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Boston, L Prang and Co, 1890. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first Prang edition of Robert Browning's poem 'Saul,' profusely illustrated by Frank O Small. The first Prang edition of this work. Profusely illustrated throughout by astonishing illustrat...

Peacock Pie

Walter De La Mare · 1924 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Constable and Company Ltd, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this title, comprising a series of poems by acclaimed author Walter de la Mare. Colourfully illustrated throughout by C. Lovat Fraser. The first edition of this work, with new old-rhymes for th...

Humphrey Bold His Chances and Mischances by Land and Sea a Story of the Time of Benbow

Herbert Strang [George Herbert Ely, Charles James L'Estrange] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition copy of this fictional work by Herbert Strang. With gorgeous and colourful illustrations by W. H. Margetson. The first edition of this work. An exciting novel by Herbert Strang followi...

Mountolive

Lawrence Durrell · 1958 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Faber and Faber, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this novel by Lawrence Durrell in its original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. The third of a quartet of novels known as the Alexandria Quartet, published before th...

Awake! and Other Poems

W. R. Rodgers · 1941 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Secker and Warburg, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this volume with selected poems by W. R. Rodgers, the first edition as the first 1940 printing was entirely destroyed by enemy attack during the war. The first edition of this work. First printing thus as...

Scenes from Married Life

William Cooper · 1961 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1961. First edition. Cloth. A very smart copy of the first edition of this entertaining novel by William Cooper. In the original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work by William Cooper. An entertaining novel following the married life...

Work Suspended and Other Stories Written Before the Second World War

Evelyn Waugh · 1948 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1948. Cloth. A good copy of this collection of short stories by acclaimed author Evelyn Waugh. An early edition, published in 1948, six years after the first limited and signed edition. A collection of short stories by Evelyn Waugh. This collection ca...

Memoirs of Hecate County

Edmund Wilson · 1946 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

New York, Doubleday and Company, 1946. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this novel by Edmund Wilson, banned in America for over a decade after its first publication. The first edition of this fictional work by Edmund Wilson. An exciting first American e...

The Freedom of Poetry

Derek Stanford · 1947 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, The Falcon Press, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A first edition signed by the author of this literary study on modern verse by Derek Stanford. The first edition of this work in its original, unclipped dustwrapper. A study on the modern verse by Derek Stanford. The author...

The Men of the Rocks

Adam Drinan [Joseph Macleod] · 1942 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, The Fortune Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon and excellent first edition in its original, unclipped dustwrapper, of this fascinating collection of poems by Adam Drinan. Undated. Dated from the same copy institutionally held at the National Library of Scot...

Trial by Terror

Paul Gallico · 1952 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Michael Joseph, 1952. First edition. Cloth. A fantastically preserved first edition of Paul Gallico's crime novel, in an unclipped dust wrapper. This work follows the tale of Jimmy Race, an American reporter based in Paris, as he tries to get to the bottom of a cr...

A Delicate Truth

John Le Carre · 2013 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Viking, 2013. First edition. Cloth. An exceptional first edition of this classic spy novel by John Le Carre. This spy novel was described by John Le Carre as being more autobiographical than some of his previous works; it follows an undercover mission undertaken by Bri...

Fragrant Harbour

John Lanchester · 2002 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Faber, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this moving novel set in Hong Kong during troubling times, signed by the author to the title page. The first edition, second impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original...

The Black Buddha

Lady Chitty · 1926 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1926. First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce first edition of this mystery novel by Lady Chitty. Issued as a part of Herbert Jenkins' '7/6' series, with the original unclipped dustwrapper. An extremely scarce adventure novel set in In...

Histoire de Peau D&Apos;Ane

Charles Perrault · 1902 · Rooke Books

£2,450.00 (€2,936.71 | $3,236.79 | ¥516,874)

London, The Eragny Press, 1902. Hardback. A very scarce edition of this popular tale, limited to two hundred and thirty copies and illustrated by T. Sturge Moore. A limited edition copy of two hundred and thirty printings of this work. A very scarce volume. Comprising a popula...

Blood of Victory

Alan Furst · 2002 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A pristine first edition copy of this novel by Alan Furst, signed to title page. The first edition, first impression of this work. A historical fiction set in the 1940s background, following I.A Serbin  as he is rec...

Lysbeth

H. Rider Haggard · 1901 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co. 1901. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of H. Rider Haggard's historical novel containing a number of illustrations. 'Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch' is a historical novel set in the Netherlands durin...

The Water Witch; or, the Skimmer of the Seas

[James Fenimore Cooper] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,210)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this American historical fiction novel, following a group of sea smugglers in New York, an exciting novel. The first British edition of this work, first published in Dresden. The Britis...