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Romance and Reality, Essays and Studies

Holbrook Jackson · 1911 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1911. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce series of essays by Holbrook Jackson, from his library with his bookplate. The first edition of this scarce work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, with his bookplate...

Oeuvres Choisies (Third Series)

Christophe von Schmid · 1863 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Tours, France, Mame et Cie, 1863. Cloth. A charmingly bound illustrated copy of Oeuvres Choisies (series III), with woodcut illustrations. This volume is a bound in the publisher's original gilt decorated cloth with blind stamping. This edition is third in the series of a...

The Complete Works of Adelaide A. Procter

Adelaide A. Procter; Charles Dickens [intro.] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1905 . Leather. A beautifully bound example of the poetry of Adelaide A. Procter, one of the most popular female poets of the Victorian period. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Procter.With an introduction from Charles Dickens, a close ...

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison · 1952 · Rooke Books

£3,850.00 (€4,615.50 | $5,087.24 | ¥812,464)

New York, Random House, 1952. First edition. Cloth. The sought after first edition, first printing of Ralph Ellison's monumental award winning novel, his first and only work to be published during his lifetime. The first edition, first printing as stated to the edition pa...

Southward Ho! and Other Essays

Holbrook Jackson · 1914 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1914. First edition. Disbound. The first edition of this uncommon collection of brilliant essays by Holbrook Jackson, the author's presentation copy. The first edition of this uncommon work, part of Dent's 'Wayfarer's Library&...

Adam Hepburn&Apos;S Vow

Annie S. Swan · 1885 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon historical fiction novel set in seventeenth century Scotland, an illustrated novel, signed by the author. The first edition of this uncommon work.Signed by the author to the rect...

The Masque: A Theatre Notebook

Various · 1946 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, The Curtain Press, 1946-1949. First edition. Paperback. A smart complete collection of The Masque, a theatre notebook. With the original two slip cases. Complete in nine volumes, with two of the original three slip cases. First edition. The Masque was a publication des...

The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French

A. T. Quiller-Couch · 1910 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1910]. First edition. Cloth. Edmund Dulac's stunning illustrated edition of the beloved fairy tale 'The Sleeping Beauty', among other famous tales, with Dulac's brilliant colour plates. The first trade edition of this Edmund D...

Tom Brown&Apos;S School Days

An Old Boy [Thomas Hughes] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1894 . Leather. A lovely prize-bound edition of Thomas Hughes's beloved fictionalised account of life at Rugby School, with illustrations from Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall. Thomas Hughes' popular children's novel follows the expl...

Tecumseh: Or, the West Thirty Years Since. A Poem.

George H. Colton · 1842 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1842 . First edition. Hardback. The author's presentation copy of this exceptionally scarce publication containing George H. Colton's best known work, the poem 'Tecumseh&apos. First edition. Very scarce work. The author's present...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens · 1839 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition. Leather. The first edition, first impression, of Charles Dickens' influential 'Nicholas Nickleby', illustrated with beautiful plates by Phiz. The first edition, first issue, with the following issue points; page xii...

The Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth; Thomas Hutchinson [ed.] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Henry Frowde, 1911 . Leather. A beautifully bound edition of the collected poems of William Wordsworth, in half morocco from Hatchards of Piccadilly. Edited and with an introduction and notes from Thomas Hutchinson.In a half morocco signed binding by Hatchards.Illustra...

May We Borrow Your Husband? and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life

Graham Greene · 1967 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, The Bodley Head, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A fine limited edition copy of this anthology of short stories by Graham Greene, signed by the author. A limited edition of five hundred copies published alongside the first edition, of which this is numbered four hundred an...

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1909 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Portland Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Leather. A limited edition of this influential collection of romantic poetry by the renowned Elizabeth Barrett Browning, bound in full calf by Hatchards. The fifth edition, being a limited edition of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. Boun...

Bonsoir Therese

Elsa Triolet · 1949 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Paris, La Bibliotheque Francaise, 1949. Paperback. An uncommon novel by Elsa Triolet, her first in French, signed by the author to her friend, Georges Sadoul. The second edition of this uncommon work.Signed by the author to the half-title, presenting the copy to her friend, Ge...

Celibates

George Moore · 1895 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, Walter Scott, Ltd, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of short stories from Irish novelist and short story writer George Moore, signed by the author. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page, dated June 13th 1895. ...

The Club; or, a Gray Cap for a Green Head. A Dialogue between a Father and Son

James Puckle · 1834 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Chiswick Press; Charles Tilt, 1834 . Leather. An attractively bound and charmingly illustrated example of James Puckle's moral dialogue between a father and son. First published in 1713, this is Puckle's best known work.The author, James Puckle, is best known...

Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe

Walter De La Mare · 1930 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition of Walter De La Mare's exploration of the trope of desert islands in fiction, signed by the author. First edition. Limited to six hundred and fifty copies signed by the author, of which t...

The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog

Sarah Catharine Martin · 1951 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Plymstock, Peacock Press, 1951. Leather. A very scarce limited edition copy of this beloved nursery rhyme, signed by the printer, W. O. Reynolds. A very scarce limited edition, one of 120 copies, this being numbered 1, one of only 6 copies printed on Whatman handmade paper.Sig...

Ode to France

Charles Morgan · 1942 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London; Edinburgh, Macmillan & Co. Ltd; R. & R. Clark, Ltd. 1942. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A fine limited edition copy of Charles Morgan's ode to France, signed by the author, with the original envelope. A signed limited edition of this work in the publisher&apos...