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Agatha Christie · 1962 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1962. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this Agatha Christie murder-mystery, featuring amateur detective Miss Marple. The first edition, first impression.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Thi...

The Rambler in Four Volumes

[Samuel Johnson] · 1756 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

London, A. Millar, 1756. Leather. The complete fourth edition of Samuel Johnson's neoclassical periodical, 'The Rambler', the first to be issued in four volumes. A very scarce fourth edition of The Rambler, issued for the first time here in four volumes.Complete...

The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. With a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century.

William Robertson · 1769 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,668)

London, Printed by W. and W. Strahan for W. Strahan, T. Cadell, and J. Balfour, 1769 . First edition. Leather. The first edition three-volume set of Robertson"s landmark Enlightenment history of Charles V, uniformly bound in contemporary calf. Uniformly bound in full contempor...

A Modern Comedy; Caravan the Assembled Tales of John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy · 1928 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London, William Heinemann, 1928-1929. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound two volume set of works by English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy. A two volume set.In full blue morocco bindings, with a gilt to top edges.A set of works by English novelist and playwright ...

Conferences on Books and Men

[Henry Charles Beeching] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1900. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Henry Charles Beeching's literary musings, handsomely bound in full morocco. Very scarce.First edition in book form. Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine.Smartly bound in full morocc...

The Art of Painting: By C.A. Du Fresnoy: With Remarks. Translated Into English with an Original Preface, Containing a Parallel Before Painting and Poetry. As Also a Short Account of the Most Eminent Painters, Both Ancient and Modern: By Richard Graham

Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy; John Dryden [trans.]; Richard Graham · 1750 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,835)

London, Henry Lintot, 1750. Leather. A pleasing eighteenth-century third edition of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, translated by John Dryden with contributions by Richard Graham and Alexander Pope. An excellent third edition of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy&...

When the Green Woods Laugh; a Crown of Wild Myrtle

H.E. Bates · 1960 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Michael Joseph, 1960-1962. First edition. Cloth. A smart two volume set of first edition novels by H.E. Bates, in the original dust wrappers. A two volume set.The first editions.In the original green cloth bindings. In the original dust wrappers.A set of novels by H.E....

Cecily Parsley&Apos;S Nursery Rhymes

Beatrix Potter · 1922 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,707)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1922. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition, first impression of Beatrix Potter's classic nursery rhymes, complete with her signature colour illustrations. First edition, first impression. Quinby No. 26, with endpapers Plate XVI an...

A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands

Various; Robert Dodsley [ed.] · 1758 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, R. and J. Dodsley , 1758. Leather. The complete fifth edition of this best-selling 18th-century poetry anthology, edited by celebrated publisher Robert Dodsley. Fifth edition. Complete in six volumes. First published in three volumes in 1748. In full contemporary cal...

Eternal Helen

Frank Pearce Sturm · 1921 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Oxford , Basil Blackwell, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce poetical volume from Frank Pearce Sturm. Author's presentation copy to one H. E. Powell to the front endpaper, inscribed "There are so few fine men that a writer can send ...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1857 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1857. Leather. The poetical works of the celebrated Scottish literary figure and father of historical fiction, bound in full morocco, with plates illustrated by Turner. A new edition of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, the iconic Scott...

Ballads

W. M. Thackeray · 1856 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Bradbury & Evans , 1856. Cloth. The first edition of Thackeray"s Ballads, a collection of his witty and satirical verse first published in Punch and other periodicals. In a contemporary green cloth binding.First edition, 1856 issue. The work was first published in 1855...

Vanessa; Judith Paris; Rogue Herries; the Fortress

Hugh Walpole · 1935 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1935-1936. Cloth. A four volume set of the original novels in Hugh Walpole's The Herries Chronicle, each with a folding plate. A four volume set.In the original leatherette bindings.A set of works by Hugh Walpole, an English novelist. He...

Hard Times. For These Times

Charles Dickens · 1854 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.20 | ¥146,578)

London, Bradbury and Evans , 1854. First edition. Leather. The first edition in book form of Charles Dickens' 'Hard Times', his only novel set outside of London. Bound in half calf. First edition in book form, [Eckel, pp. 140-141]. With all but one of the intern...

The Pentamerone of Giambattista Basile

Giambattista Basile; Benedetto Croce; N. M. Penzer [ed.] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1932. Cloth. A very good pair of volumes comprising this modern translation of seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet Giambattista Basile in the publisher's original cloth. The first edition thus, transl...

The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales

Various [ed. by Jacqueline Onassis] · 1978 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

New York, Viking Studio, 1978. Cloth. A new copy of a charmingly illlustrated collection of Russian fairy tales, one of the first books Jackie Kennedy edited, in shrink wrap. The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales, edited and with an introduction by former first lady and b...

Correspondence of Lieut. -General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart Relative to His Military Operations in Kaffraria, Until the Termination of the Kafir War, and to His Measures for the Future Maintenance of Peace on That Frontier, and the Protection and Welfare of the People of South Africa

Sir George Cathcart · 1856 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)

London, John Murray, 1856. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Cathcart"s official correspondence on the Cape Frontier War, from the noted Africana library of Ida and F. W. Hosken. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding. Illustrated with two foldin...

Early Recollections; Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, During His Long Residence in Bristol

Joseph Cottle · 1837 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Longman, Rees & Co and Hamilton, Adams & Co. 1837 . First edition. Leather. The scarce inscribed illustrated first edition of Cottle's controversial exposure of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with two volumes bound in one. The first edition.Two volumes in one.Inscribed ...

Suspense

Joseph Conrad; Richard Curle · 1925 · Rooke Books

£67.00 (€80.31 | $88.52 | ¥14,130)

London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd , 1925. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this Napoleonic thriller from Joseph Conrad. An unpublished novel published posthumously. First edition. In the publisher's cloth binding. Monochrome frontispiece of Joseph Conra...

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque · 1929 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥115,997)

London, G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1929. Cloth. An early English edition of this seminal war novel from Erich Maria Remarque, published two months after the first impression. An early impression of this English translation, published May 1929, "completing 60,000". Translated f...