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A Link with the River

Desmond Hogan · 1989 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of a collection of short stories relating to the Emerald Isle, written by a novelist praised for his poetic imagery. The signed first edition of A Link With the River, short stories by Desmond...

Tunnel

Stanley Johnson · 1984 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Heinemann, 1984. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of Stanley Johnson's political thriller dramatising the construction of the Channel Tunnel. The signed first edition of The Tunnel, a thriller written by writer and former Conservative Member of Parli...

H Kainh Diatheke, Novum Testamentum

John Mill [ed.] · 1794 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

Londini, Johannes Nichols, 1794 . Leather. A scarce example of John Mill's important Greek language translation of the New Testament, in a contemporary calf binding. A Greek language edition of the New Testament, with some preliminary material in Latin.Edited by English t...

Biggles Breaks the Silence; Another Job for Biggles; Biggles Flies East; Biggles - Air Commodore; Biggles - Secret Agent; Biggles of the Interpol; Biggles and the Black Raider; Biggles and the Black Raider; Biggles Goes Alone; Orchids for Biggles; Biggles Flies South

Captain W. E. Johns · 1949 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Hodder and Stoughton; Children's Book Club; Brockhampton Press; Oxford University Press , 1949-1963. Cloth. A smart mixed-edition selection of W. E. Johns' popular air-adventure series, four of which are first impressions. This set offers eleven titles from t...

Icelandic Legends

Jon Arnason [collected]; George E. J. Powell; Eirikur Magnusson [trans.] · 1864 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,562)

London, Richard Bentley , 1864. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first UK edition of this Icelandic folktale collection from Jon Arnason, adorned with engraved plates and vignettes. The first UK edition of the first series. Very scarce. Compiled by Jon Arnason, an auth...

The Persian Lady a Woodland Mystery

Charles Burrard Nelson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Figurehead, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated first edition, in lovely condition, with original dust wrapper. A first edition of this charming publication, bound in its original grey cloth pictorial boards, with original, unclipped dust wrapper.A gri...

Turner&Apos;S Liber Studiorum, a Description and a Catalogue

W. G. Rawlinson · 1878 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1878. First edition. Leather. A pleasing copy of the first edition of this catalogue raisonné of the engravings of English Romantic painter William Turner in a half morocco binding. The 1878 first edition bound in half blue morocco with marbled paper...

Right Royal

John Masefield · 1920 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, William Heinemann, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. Number thirty-six of five hundred limited edition copies signed by the author, in the publisher's original quarter paper vellum. Number thirty-six of five hundred limited edition copies with hand-made paper. Signed b...

2 Vols John Sherman and Dhoya; Makar&Apos;S Dream and Other Stories

Ganconagh [W. B. Yeats]; None Stated; [Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko]; [F. Volkhovskii] · 1891 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.74 | ¥137,087)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1891-1892. Paperback. An interesting pair from T. Fisher Unwin"s Pseudonym Library, uniting early prose by Yeats with satirical Russian moral stories in their original paper wraps. In the publisher's original paper wraps.A charming two-volume coll...

Barchester Towers: Volume I an Autobiography Can You Forgive Her? Volume I Can You Forgive Her? Volume II

Anthony Trollope; [ed.] Michael Sadleir, [ed.] Frederick Page; · 1948 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London , Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1948-1953. Cloth. A wonderful 4 volume set of works by English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era Anthony Trollope, with numerous plates, in their original dust wrappers A wonderful 4 volume set of works by...

Grass for His Pillow: Tales of the Otori Book Two

Lian Hearn [Gillian Rubinstein] · 2003 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London , Macmillan , 2003. First edition. Cloth. A smart signed first edition of the second novel in the historical fantasy trilogy, Tales of Otori. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work. Signed by the author to half title pag...

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: Minor Poems Faerie Queen

Edmund Spenser; [Ed.] Ernest De Selincourt; [Ed.] J.C. Smith · 1966 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,543)

Oxford, At The Clarendon Press, 1966-1968. Cloth. A lovely three volume set of the poetical works of influential poet Edmund Spenser, in the original dust wrappers. A complete three volume set of The Poetical Works of English poet Edmund Spenser, who is recognized as one of th...

The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb · 1901 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London , Grant Richards, 1901. Leather. A delightful collection of conversational essays by Charles Lamb, bound by Hatchards in quarter morocco. This collection of essays were first published in book form in 1823, and first printed in the World's Classics in April 1901, w...

Walt Disney&Apos;S Fantasia

Deems Taylor; Leopold Stokowski [forword] · 1940 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1940 . First edition. Cloth. The exceptionally vibrantly illustrated first edition of Deems Taylor's novelisation of Walt Disney's animated film 'Fantasia', a beautiful volume with tipped in colour plates. The first edition, fi...

Stories & Fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen; H. Oskar Sommer [trans.] · 1893 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.30 | ¥92,797)

London, George Allen, 1893. First edition. Hardback. Charmingly illustrated throughout by Gaskin, this is a wonderful example of the two volume first English language translation of Andersen's tales by H. Oskar Sommer. The first edition of H. Oskar Sommer's English l...

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff · 2004 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Penguin Books, 2004. First edition. Cloth. First-edition signed copy of Meg Rosoff's award-winning dystopia about a 21st-century war in rural England. First edition. With unclipped dust wrapper.Signed by the author to title page. Winner of the British Guardian Ch...

Mumfie&Apos;S Magic Box; Mumfie&Apos;S Uncle Samuel

Katharine Tozer · 1938 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, John Murray, 1938-1939. First edition. Cloth. Two charming first edition Mumfie books from Katharine Tozer, including a very scarce first edition of 'Mumfie's Magic Box&apos. The first editions of 'Mumfie's Uncle Samuel' and 'Mumfie's...

The Dream

John Masefield · 1922 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.44 | $155.90 | ¥24,887)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of this ode by John Masefield's, illustrated by his daughter, Judith. A signed limited edition, being number 157 of 800 copies printed. Signed by both John and Judith Masefield to the ti...

Vernon God Little a 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death

D B C Pierre · 2003 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, Faber and Faber, 2003. First edition. Hardback. A signed, first edition, first impression copy in excellent condition, with original unclipped dust wrapper. A first impression, with complete number line, of the first edition. Complete with the original unclipped dust w...

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson; Sidney Colvin [ed.] · 1901 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,593)

London, Methuen and Co. 1901. Cloth. A nice set, complete in two volumes, of the letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited and with an introduction by his friend, Sir Sidney Colvin, with two portrait frontispieces to each volume. Complete in two volumes.With two monochrome por...