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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

Siegfried Sassoon · 1928 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical novel revolving around a huntsman. First edition, first impression. With the original printing references: "A" on the front blank, no author d...

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

Siegfried Sassoon · 1928 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,543)

London, Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical novel revolving around a huntsman. First edition, first impression. With the original printing references: "A" on the front blank, no author d...

Who Killed Robert Prentice?

Dennis Wheatley · 0 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

London, Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) LTD, c1937. Paperback. One of Dennis Wheatley's unique crime dossiers, a mystery novel presented through evidence and documents for the reader the solve. The fiftieth thousand.The second of Dennis Wheatley's brilliant and unique c...

The Ivory Tower

Henry James · 1917 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, W. Collins Sons & Co, 1917 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry James's unfinished novel, set in the American Gilded Age. The first edition, first impression. Only 2,000 copies of the first edition were produced.An unfinished novel of the Gilded Age....

Enoch Arden, Etc.

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1864 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1864 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's mid nineteenth century narrative poem, published during his tenure as Poet Laureate. The first edition of this work, first issue, with advertisements dated August 1864, as...

Essays on Language and Literature

Marcel Proust; Paul Valery; Jean-Paul Sartre; Jean Paulhan; Francis Ponge; Brice Parain; J. L. Hevesi [ed] · 1947 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Allan Wingate, 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of essays on French literature, in the original dust wrapper. The first UK edition, with this being the first time these essays were published in England. In the publisher's original ...

Human Shows Far Phantasies: Songs and Trifles

Thomas Hardy · 1925 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Thomas Hardy's penultimate collection of poetry. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking the original dust wrapper.The penultimate collection of poetry by the n...

Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses; the Years between; the Seven Seas; Departmental Ditties; the Five Nations

Rudyard Kipling · 1916 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Methuen and Co Ltd , 1916-1927. Cloth. A very smart five-volume set of poetry collections from Rudyard Kipling, including a first edition copy of 'The Years Between&apos. A selection of five volumes containing the poetry of Rudyard Kipling.With the first edition, ...

The Reverberator

Henry James · 1888 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1888. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. one volume edition of this comical novel by Henry James. The first U.K. one volume edition.'The Reverberator' is a comical novel by Henry James, following a family who find their lives in disarray w...

Wood Nuts from a Fairy Hazel Bush. Cracked for Little People.

Jean D'Ensinge · 1873 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Hatchards, 1873 . Cloth. Jean D'Ensinge's very scarce collection of fairy tales, charmingly illustrated throughout. First published in 1869, this work is very scarce in all editions.A very charming collection of sixteen fairy tales written by Kentish-based au...

Paths to the River Bank the Origins of the Wind in the Willows from the Writings of Kenneth Grahame

Peter Haining; Kenneth Grahame · 1983 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Souvenir Press, 1983. First edition. Cloth. This scarce first edition, first impression illustrated collection of essays revealing the origins of The Wind in the Willows, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work.With the...

The Parade: An Illustrated Gift Book for Boys and Girls

Gleeson White [ed]; Richard Burton; Barry Pain; et al. · 1897 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, H. Henry & Co ltd, 1897. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of children's stories, with stunning coloured plates. The first edition of this anthology of stories. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, many monochrome vignettes, p...

Poems Dramatic and Lyrical

John Leicester Warren · 1893 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Elkin Mathews, 1893. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition of John Warren's collection of poetry, with illustrations by Charles Ricketts. The first edition, limited to six hundred copies. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and five monochrome plat...

Stephen Hero

James Joyce · 1944 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

New York , New Directions , 1944. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this early version of James Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man&apos. First edition, first printing of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. &apo...

Genevieve

Jacques Lemarchand · 1947 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, John Lehmann , 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this novel following two men in love with the same woman, written by French author Jacques Lemarchand. The first UK edition of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Und...

For Queen and King; or, the Loyal &Apos;Prentice: A Story of Old London

Henry Frith · 1885 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this illustrated tale of old London from Irish writer Henry Frith. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. An exciting historical ...

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Thomas McGreevy · 1931 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1931. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this concise yet insightful study on T. S. Eliot. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A concise biographical and critical study on T. S. Eliot, written by his acquaintance, Thomas...

Professor Philanderpan

G. E. Farrow [George Edward Farrow] · 1904 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, 1904. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming children's fantasy book by George Edward Farrow, with many illustrations by Alan Wright. The first edition. Illustrated throughout by Alan Wright with a monochrome frontispiece and ...

Drivers Wild, More Wild Drivers, Drivers Wildest

Red Daniells · 1961 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Middlesex, Scorpion Press, 1961-3. First edition. Hardback. Three first editions of Red Daniells' humorous illustrated works on his thoughts on motorists, all signed by the publisher. The first editions, first impressions to all, with the emblem of 'The Company of Ve...

Chronicles and Characters

Robert Lytton · 1868 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1868. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this two volume collection of poetry by the 1st Earl of Lytton. The very scarce first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece to 'Volume I&apos. In the publisher's o...