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Real Sailor-Songs

John Ashton · 1891 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, The Leadenhall Press, 1891. Vellum. A collection of nautical songs and poems, collected by John Ashton. With two hundred woodcut illustrations throughout. Including sections on Sea Fight, Press-gang, Disaster, Ashore and Love. Including poems entitled The Battle of Tra...

Gilbert; or, the Young Carrier. An Amatory Rural Poem, in Four Books.

James Templeman · 1808 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, H. D. Symonds, 1808. First edition. Leather. A first edition of a scarce rural poem, illustrated with plates and a fold-out map. Bound in leather with gilt lettering and decoration. With two engraved plates, and a fold-out map. The fold-out map is missing the top third...

Age without Pity

John Prebble · 1950 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Henry Hold and Company, 1950. First edition. Leather. The first American edition of John Prebble's Age Without Pity. The author's copy with his signature to the title page. First edition, first printing of the American edition of this novel. John Prebble wa...

Catalogue of the Herald&Apos;S Visitations; with References to Many Other Valuable Genealogical and Topographical Manuscripts in the British Museum

Anon · 1825 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, James Taylor, 1825. Leather. An extremely scare genealogical reference book organised by area. Second Edition. Armorial bookplate of Henry Thomas Ellacombe to front pastedown. In a half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally sound although rubbed. Internally, fir...

The Posthumous Papers, Facetious and Fanciful, of a Person Lately About Town

Cornelius Webbe · 1828 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, William Sams, 1828. Leather. A scarce first edition of Webbe's illustrated collection of stories. First Edition. Featuring several illustrated plates. In a half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. Some scattered...

Glyn Severn&Apos;S School Days

George Manville Fenn · 1904 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

London, W and R Chambers, 1904. First edition. Fine Binding. A beautifully bound copy, and first edition, of this early twentieth-century novel. First Edition. Featuring an illustrated frontispiece. 'With eight drawings by Charles Pears&apos. In a decorative full morocco ...

The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem and Ballads and Lyrical Pieces

Sir Walter Scott · 1805 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London and Edinburgh, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Ballantyne, 1805. Leather. The Second Edition of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem bound with the First Edition of his Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. Bound without half titles and advertisments. From the library of the Ti...

Poems of Owen Meredith (the Earl of Lytton).

Owen Meredith · 1897 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Walter Scott, 1897. Leather. Selected poems from Owen Meredith, in a personalised Hatchard's binding. Owen Meredith was the pen name of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, the 1st Earl of Lytton. He published his his first volume of poems at the age of twenty five and went on t...

Between the Lines

H M Tomlinson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1930. Cloth. The first trade edition, first printing of an address given by H M Tomlinson. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. With half title and publisher&ap...

Penelope&Apos;S English Experiences Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton

Kate Douglas Wiggin · 1900 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , Gay and Bird, 1900. Cloth. A very attractive copy of Kate Douglas Wiggin's stories of the adventurous Penelope. Wiggin (1856 – 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybr...

The White Peacock

D.H. Lawrence · 1911 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Heinemann, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A first edition and first printing copy of D.H. Lawrence's first novel, 'The White Peacock&apos. First UK edition. Preceded by the American edition by one day. With pages 227-230 cancels as is called for. Publisher'...

Easter a Play for Singers

John Masefield · 1929 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.70 | ¥5,063)

London , William Heinemann, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetic play by John Edward Masefield. Masefield (1878 – 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as the a...

Lewis Arundel; or, the Railroad of Life

Frank E. Smedley · 1852 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London , Virtue, Hall, & Virtue, 1852. First edition. Cloth. A first edition in book form of this novel by Frank E. Smedley. With illustrations by "Phiz." Francis Edward Smedley, (4 October 1818 – 1 May 1864) was an English novelist. His name appears in print usually as Frank...

All at Sea a Social Tragedy in Three Acts for First-Class Passengers Only

Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell · 1927 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.70 | ¥5,063)

London , Duckworth , 1927. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this theatrical work, designed for the higher classes. To which is added "A Few Days in an Author's Life", a humorous autobiographical account, used as an introduction to his play, and full of satirical p...

The Love of the Foolish Angel

Helen Beauclerk · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, W. Collins Sons and Co. 1929. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work of fiction from the early twentieth century by Helen Beauclerk. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac this particular copy is bound in the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. First edition whic...

The Three Fountains: A Faery Epic of Euboea with Other Verse

George Spencer Cautley · 1869 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1869. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of The Three Fountains: A Faery Epic of Euboea With Other Verse by George Spencer Cautley (1807 - 1880). First edition. A collection of poetry including: The Three Fountains, Ruined Greek Temple, S...

Joan Haste

H Rider Haggard · 1895 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by H Rider Haggard. With 20 plates. Joan Haste is a Victorian melodrama centring on the theme of the fallen woman and social justice. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with some rubb...

Last Poems

George Meredith · 1909 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Constable & Company, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A volume of poetry by the English novelist and poet George Meredith. Last Poems was his eleventh poetic publication and includes the works 'The Wild Rose', 'Youth in Age' and 'The Call&apos. Firs...

A Review of the Missionary Life and Labors or Richard Wright

Richard Wright · 1824 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London , D. Eaton, 1824. First edition. Cloth. A Review of the Missionary Life and Labors or Richard Wright written by himself. He left another autobiography, in manuscript. First edition. With a notice to the Friends and Supporters of the Unitarian Fund to front followed by a...

Fairyland in 1918 and Other Poems

E L Thomas · 1919 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

London , T Werner Laurie Ltd, 1919. First edition. Cloth. A scarce limited edition of poems by E L Thomas. Limited to 500 copies, printed on hand-made paper. First edition. The poems were written while Thomas was on active service in France. Though childlike in subject, the po...