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Paved with Gold or the Romance and Reality of the London Streets

Augustus Mayhew · 1858 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1858. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of Augustus Mayhew's novel 'Paved with Gold', with numerous illustrated plates by the renowned artist H. K. Browne. Augustus Septimus Mayhew was a renowned English journalist and author...

Favourite English Poems of Modern Times

Various · 1862 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

London, Sampson, Low, Son, and Co. 1862. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of this scarce work, containing an impressive collection of renowned English poems; copiously illustrated throughout and rebound in a signed Hayday and Co. binding. Described as containing a ...

Les Sept Entretiens Satiriques D&Apos;Aloisia

Nicolas Chorier · 1681 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,996.61 | $3,302.86 | ¥527,257)

Cologne, Ignace le Bas, 1681. Leather. A very scarce work of seventeenth century erotica by Nicolas Chorier. This is a very early French translation of the work, which is one of the earliest pieces of erotica in Latin. Two parts in one, as called for. 'Satiriques D'A...

Quentin Durward

[Sir Walter Scott] · 1823 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co, 1823. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical French novel 'Quentin Durward', complete in three volumes. The first edition of this work. Complete in three volumes. Each volume bound with t...

Wee Willie Winkie

Rudyard Kipling · 1890 · Rooke Books

£620.00 (€743.16 | $819.11 | ¥130,760)

London, A. H. Wheeler & Co, 1890-92. First edition. Loose Pages, Articles. A collection of four volumes of Rudyard Kipling's short stories, with four volumes bound as one, one of the collections, 'The City of Dreadful Night' being the first edition. A collection...

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels

Thomas Ingoldsby · 1906 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)

London, Macmillan and Co Ltd. 1906. Leather. A charmingly illustrated edition of this noted collection of short stories, bound by Hatchards in a handsome half morocco binding and featuring illustrations from noted illustrators such as Cruikshank and John Leech. Profusely illus...

My Satire and Its Censors

Alfred Austin · 1861 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, George Manwaring, 1861. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Alfred Austin's response to criticisms on his work, illustrated with a portrait tipped in to the front endpaper. The first edition of this work. This work is a response to the critics who had writt...

Mantissa

John Fowles · 1982 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1982. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Fowles' novel 'Mantissa', held in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition second impression of this work. Held in the original unclipped dustwrapper. 'Mantissa' ...

Forty Nine Ladies

Patrick R. Chalmers · 1929 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this collection of verses on fox-hunting by Patrick R. Chalmers. Containing the following works, that originally appeared 'at one time or another' in "Punch": Forty Nine Ladies To a Fo...

The Dream

John Masefield · 1922 · Rooke Books

£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,967)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of this poetical work by John Masefield. Illustrated throughout by Judith Masefield. With the bookplate of William Marchbank to the front pastedown. This particular edition is numbered 415 and...

Electricity for Young People

Tudor Jenks · 1908 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1908. Leather. A nicely bound copy of Tudor Jenks' informative work on electricity for children, illustrated throughout. A children's work. This work looks at electricity, discussing how mankind first came to find the new power,...

Trilby: A Novel

George du Maurier · 1895 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Osgood, McIlvaine and co. 1895. Vellum. A limited first thus edition copy of George du Maurier's 'Trilby' in a quarter vellum binding and signed by the author. George du Maurier's second novel, 'Trilby' was one of the best selling novels o...

Two Poems

Vivian de Sola Pinto · 1946 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

Nottingham, The Blue House Sutton Passeys Crescent, 1946. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, limited edition pamphlet containing two poems by D H Lawrence scholar, Vivan de Sola Pinto. These two poems, 'Memory' and 'Six Oclock News' were published as ...

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Anatole France; Lafcadio Hearn (Trans.) · 1931 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London; New York, John Lane The Bodley Head LTD.; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. Cloth. The first illustrated edition of Anatole France's work 'The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard&apos. In the publisher's original cloth bidning, with gilt detail to the spine and front...

Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes

Walter de la Mare · 1920 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Constable and Co Ltd. 1920. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition second impression copy of this charming poetry collection by Walter de la Mare. Walter de la Mare was the prolific author of many volumes of poetry, short stories and novels, including one of the ...

The English Garden a Poem in Four Books a New Edition Corrected to Which Are Added a Commentary and Notes

W Mason; W Burgh · 1783 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.77 | ¥67,489)

York, A Ward; JJ Dodsley et al , 1783. Leather. A lovely late eighteenth century copy of this well known gardening poem by William Mason. A first thus, the first edition with a commentary and notes by W Burgh. This is also the first collected edition of this poem. William Maso...

A Collection of Poems: Viz. The Temple of Death: By the Marquis of Normanby. An Epistle to the Earl of Dorset: By Charles Montague, Lord Halifax. The Duel of the Stags: By Sir Robert Howard. With Several Original Poems, Never Before Printed by the E. Of Roscommon, the E. Of Rochester, the E. Of Orrery, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, Mr. Granville, Mr. Stepney and Mr. Dryden, &C.

Various · 1701 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.20 | $779.48 | ¥124,433)

London, Daniel Brown, 1701. First edition. Leather. A interesting and important selection of poetry, this being a new and enlarged edition. Featuring the work of numerous important poets, and include several first printings of many notable works. First, thus. First published i...

Contes Et Nouvelles En Vers Par M. De la Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine · 1874 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.09 | ¥200,358)

Lyon, N. Scheuring, 1874 - 1875. Leather. A beautiful copy of this illustrated collection of Jean de la Fontaine's fables, limited edition works in the half crushed morocco signed binding by Bumpus. In a lovely condition. In the original French. Limited edition, with the ...

An Essay on Punctuation

Joseph Robertson · 1785 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.86 | ¥158,177)

London, J Walter, 1785. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of this critical work regarding punctuation and sentence structure by Anglican priest Joseph Robertson. Robertson's work was one of the earliest on this topic to be used for popular reading. He discuss...

The Works of the Late Aaron Hill Esq in Four Volumes Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects and of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious with an Essay on the Art of Acting.

Aaron Hill · 1753 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.37 | $1,585.38 | ¥253,084)

London, For the Benefit of the Family, 1753. First edition. Leather. The first collected edition of Aaron Hill's writings, posthumously published. Scarce to find all four volumes together. With a subscriber's list to the start of volume I. This work is a collection o...