Letteratura

Poems of the Wye and Hertfordshire District

T.H.Chetwynd · 1959 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,181)

Birmingham , Cornish Brother Limited, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A first edition collection of poems concerning the River Wye and Herefordshire. Written by T.H Chetwynd, the author such poems as Little Dorothy and Fleeting Vision, this collection presents a particularlyt idyl...

English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire

Lord Byron · 1810 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

London , James Cawthorn, 1810. Cloth. A third edition of English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire by Lord Byron. With a variant title-page. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is a satirical poem written by Lord Byron. It was first published, anonymously, in March 1809; th...

Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Colerdige

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1835 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,508)

London , John Murray, 1835. Cloth. A first edition of the recorded discourse of the English poet and critic. Table talk is a particular literary genre: it consists of the sayings of a particular person, recorded for posterity. It has its roots in classical literature, where th...

The Pirate and the Three Cutters

Captain Marryat · 1851 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,181)

London , Henry G Bohn, 1851. Cloth. The second edition of these two popular adventure novels. Illustrated with twenty full page plates from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield of the Royal Academy. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book colle...

The Sea Fogs

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1907 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

London , Paul Elder and Co, 1907. Cloth. A limited first edition of this work by Robert Louis Stevenson. With illustrations by Albertine Randall Wheelan. This edition was limited to 1000 copies. In a quarter vellum binding in protective plastic slipcase. Externally, very smart...

Water over Stone

Frances Horovitz · 1980 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,803)

London , Enitharmon Press, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of poetry by Frances Horovitz. Scarce in dustwrapper. Frances Horovitz was an English poet and broadcaster influenced by Haiku. In a cloth binding in original unclipped dustwrapper. Exter...

Esther Waters an English Story

George Moore · 1928 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,216)

New York, Brentano's, 1928. Cloth. Esther Waters An English Story is a novel by George Moore first published in 1894, with an Epistle Dedicatory to T. W. Rolleston to front. Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor wo...

The Privateer&Apos;S-Man One Hundred Years Ago in Two Volumes

Captain Marryat · 1846 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.53 | $455.80 | ¥72,762)

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. First edition. Cloth. A scarce set of first editions from English Royal Navy officer, and novelist, Captain Frederick Marryat. Captain Frederick Marryat is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known parti...

A Stitch in Time or Pride Prevents a Fall

James Laver · 1927 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,090)

London , The Nonesuch Press, 1927. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of James Laver's pastiche poem. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. In original paper wrap. Limited edition, number 994 of 1525 cop...

Tales of All Countries

Anthony Trollope · 1861 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,267)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1861-63 . Cloth. The first collected edition of this collection of short stories from Anthony Trollope. First and second series (1861 and 1863). Including La Mere Bauche, The Courtship of Susan Bell, Relics of General Chasse, Returning Home and others...

Seafaring

Captain George P. Boughton · 1926 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,325)

London , Faber and Gywer Limited, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A collection of semi-autobiographical seafaring stories from the 1920s. First edition. Illustrated throughout with many coloured plates. Including decorative endpapers. In a cloth binding. Externally, sound, though ...

Jephthah&Apos;S Daughter and Other Poems

Edward Henry Pember · 1904 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.90 | $85.86 | ¥13,707)

London , Printed at the Chiswick Press for Private Circulation, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce edition of Jephthah's Daughter and Other Poems by Edward Henry Pember and unnumbered limited edition a signed presentation copy by the author. 'To Brooks' C...

Poems of Men and Hours

John Drinkwater · 1911 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,216)

London , David Nutt , 1911. First edition. Hardback. An anthology of poetry from prolific poet John Drinkwater. First edition, with poems reprinted from periodicals such as Country Life, The English Review, The Englishwoman, The Nation, The Spectator, The Thrush, The Tramp, Th...

Tomaso&Apos;S Fortune and Other Stories

Henry Seton Merriman · 1904 · Rooke Books

£14.99 (€17.97 | $19.80 | ¥3,161)

London , Smith Elder and Co. 1904. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of short stories by Henry Seton Merriman, the pseudonym of Hugh Stowell Scott. Inlcuding Tomaso's Fortune, On the Rocks, The Mule, and others. In a blue cloth binding. Externally s...

Beatrice Tyldesley

William Harrison Ainsworth · 1878 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.77 | ¥67,489)

London , Tinsley Brothers, 1878. First edition. Cloth. A scarce complete edition of Beatrice Tyldesley, one of William Harrison Ainsworth's last novels. First edition. Three volumes bound in one. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 - 1882) was an English historical novelist....

Autumn and Winter

W Beach Thomas and A K Collet · 1913 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

London and Edinburgh, T.C & E.C Jack, [1913]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of nature writings. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Illustrated, with eleven tipped in colour plates f...

The Ledge on Bald Face

Charles G. D. Roberts · 1918 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,325)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. 1918. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this collection of short animal stories. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates. Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer...

A Writer&Apos;S Notes on His Trade

C. E. Montague · 1930 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London , Chatto and Windus, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition, being number 3 of 700, signed by H. M. Tomlinson, author of the introductory essay. With a woodcut portrait of C. E. Montague to title page by Percy Smith and with a prefatory note by M. Montague, the w...

Queechy

Elizabeth Wetherell (Susan Bogert Warner) · 1852 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,803)

London, James Nisbet & Co; Hamilton Adams & Co, 1852. First edition. Cloth. First English edition of Queechy widely admired for its depiction of rural American life. Complete in two volumes. Elizabeth Wetherell was the pseudonym of the writer, Susan Bogert Warner. Susan Bogert...

A Printer of Shakespeare

Edwin Eliott Willoughby · 1934 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,179)

London , Philip Allan, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work on Shakespeare. Uncommon with the dustwrapper. Edwin Willoughby was a librarian and academic who established himself as an internationally renowned scholar on the printing of Shakespeare and the hi...