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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier · 2000 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

New York, Dutton, 2000. Cloth. A lovely signed first American edition of this historical novel from American-British writer Tracy Chevalier. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper boards.First published in the UK by HarperCollins in 1999, this is the...

The Eyre Affair; Lost in a Good Book; the Well of Lost Plots; Something Rotten

Jasper Fforde · 2001 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001-2004. First edition. Cloth. A vibrant four-volume run of Fforde"s first-issue "Thursday Next" novels in unclipped wrappers, flat-signed by the author to the title pages. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. The first editions, firs...

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Books 2-4 Spirit Walker Soul Eater Outcast

Michelle Paver · 2005 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London , Orion, 2005-2007. First edition. Cloth. An exciting three volume set of book 2-4 in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series by Michelle Paver, in the orignal unclipped dust wrappers. An exciting three volume set of books 2-4 in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness ser...

Daniel and the Disappeared (Hardback); Daniel and the Disappeared (Paperback); Daniel in Downder an Dor.

M. E. Warner · 2004 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Saltash, Cornwall, Chough Books, 2004. First edition. Hardback. A set of three signed first editions of M. E. Warner's fantastical Cornish children's adventure series. All copies first editions.All copies signed by author to title page.In three volumes, consisting of...

Poems

Thomas Gray · 1928 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Privately Printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society Limited, 1928. Leather. Privately printed collection of credited writer and scholar Thomas Gray's poetry for Eton College. In full vellum, signed by headmaster Cyril Alington. Bou...

The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside · 1845 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, William Pickering , 1845. Leather. A calf-bound anthology of Mark Akenside's poems, including his chief work 'The Pleasures of the Imagination&apos. An anthology of works from English poet Mark Akenside. In a signed full calf binding by Andrew Grieve, Edinbu...

Shadowmancer; Wormwood; Tersias; Shadowmancer Comic; Shadow-Mania

G. P. Taylor · 2003 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Faber and Faber, 2003-2005. First edition. Cloth. A varied five-volume collection of G. P. Taylor works and ephemera, including two signed special editions, a signed Limited Edition Collectors Book, and the Shadowmancer comic, complete with the original Shadow-Mania pr...

Kate Greenaway&Apos;S Birthday Book for Children

Kate Greenaway; Mrs. Sale Barker · 1880 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1880. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this popular and charming birthday book by Kate Greenaway, beautifully and colourfully illustrated throughout. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eleven colour plates, and in-...

The Poems of Heine, Complete

Heinrich Heine; Edgar Alfred Bowring [translator] · 1859 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. Cloth. An early translated edition of this scarce collection of poetry from German writer Heinrich Heine, signed by the translator Edgar Alfred Bowring. Early edition, first published in 1858. Very scarce work. Signed...

The Nurse, a Poem. Translated from the Italian of Luigi Tansillo.

Luigi Tansillo; William Roscoe [trans.] · 1798 · Rooke Books

£1,350.00 (€1,618.19 | $1,783.54 | ¥284,808)

Liverpool, J. McCreery for Cadell and Davies, 1798 . First edition. Leather. A signed presentation copy of the very scarce first edition of William Roscoe's translation of Luigi Tansillo's didactic poem, handsomely bound in straight grain morocco. The very scarce fir...

Child of the Deep: An Autobiographical Narrative

Joan Lowell · 1929 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1929. First edition. Leather. The first UK edition Joan Lowell's largely fabricated autobiography, handsomely bound here in polished calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The first UK edition of this work.Bound in signed half polished calf by Sang...

Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor · 1955 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Cleveland , The World Publishing Company , 1955. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel concerning the Andersonville prisoner of war camp. One of one thousand signed copies of the first edition, of which five hundred are fo...

Never Fully Concentrated Anywhere: A Second Commonplace Book

Various; Ian Rogerson [Compiler] · 2012 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Manchester , Rossendale, 2012. First edition. Paperback. An exceptionally scarce first edition of Rogerson"s second commonplace book, privately printed for family, friends, and select libraries, featuring eclectic excerpts, personal observations, and a signed postcard from the...

Turning Wheels

Stuart Cloete · 1937 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Collins, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of the author's debut novel, from South African writer Stuart Cloete. From the author's own library with hand-signed bookplate. First UK edition. From the author's own library with his own hand-si...

The Book-Hunter Etc.

John Hill Burton · 1862 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons, 1862 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the first edition of John Hill Burton's delightful account of the history of bibliophilia, gathered together from previously published articles. The first edition of this work in bo...

The Innocent Voyage

Richard Hughes; Louis Untermeyer [intro.] · 1944 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

New York, The Heritage Press, 1944 . Leather. Illustrated throughout in colour and in a signed half morocco binding, this is a lovely example of Richard Hughes's thrilling tale. A delightful 'Special Edition' of the Richard Hughes novel which in the UK was title...

The John Buchan Journal and Catalogues of His Works

John Buchan; Kenneth Hillier; The John Buchan Society · 2002 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, The John Buchan Society; Greenmantle Press, 2002-18. First edition. Paperback. A fantastic collection of works related to the renowned Scottish author, John Buchan, including three volumes of 'The John Buchan Journal' and two catalogues of his works, one bein...

Plaisir de Bibliophile: Gazette Trimestrielle Des Amateurs de Livres Modernes

Various · 1925 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1925. Paperback. A collection of the four complete issues of Plaisir De Bibliophile for the year 1925, in the original French. French. Complete in four volumes. The four first issues of Plaisir De Bibliophile, a French gazette for modern book lovers publ...

Alice and the Lost Novel

Sherwood Anderson · 1929 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. First edition. Hardback. A superb limited first edition of this autobiographical volume of two essays by Sherwood Anderson, signed by the author. The limited first edition, limited to five hundred and thirty copies, of which this is number...

The Play Is Ended

Mary Grew · 0 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, The Fortune Press, c1953. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce anthology of poems by Mary Grew, the first edition, signed by the author. The first edition of this very scarce work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper.In the original unclipped dust wra...