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The Daydreamer

Ian McEwan · 1994 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1994 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Ian McEwan's children's work, illustrated by Anthony Browne. The first edition, first impression.Signed to the title page 'to Shirley with very best wishes Ian McEwan&apos.Inscribe...

Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island

H. G. Wells · 1928 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Ernest Benn, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of H. G. Wells' novel about a shipwreck on Rampole Island. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. In the unclipped dust wrapper designed by Sir William Orpen, depict...

The Sabbath School Class Book: Comprising Copious Exercises on the Sacred Scriptures

E. Lincoln · 1831 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Boston , Lincoln and Edmands, 1831. Hardback. A very scarce Sabbath school exercise book with questions and prompts for learning the scriptures, signed by the author. With a signed inscription by the author to the front free endpaper, dedicated to Rev. John Dyer.The very scarc...

Le Souper Interrompu: Avec Cinq Dessins Rehausses D&Apos;Aquarelle

Pierre-Jean Toulet · 1922 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Paris, Le Divan, 1922. First edition. Paperback. A limited edition play by the French poet and writer Paul-Jean Toulet, signed and beautifully illustrated with hand enhanced watercolour paintings by Louis Suire, and in the original, very scarce glassine dust wrapper. A limited...

The Sight of Blood

John Hampson · 1931 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Bloomsbury , Ulysses Bookshop, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this vanishingly scarce short story, published due to interest shown by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, housed in the original slipcase. The first edition in book form. Originally published in Desmond Mac...

The Bomb

Frank Harris · 1920 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, Published By The Author, 1920. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of the first illustrated edition of his novel on the Haymarket Affair. Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, dated 1920. The first illustrated edition, comple...

Selected Poems of Robert Haven Schauffler

Robert Haven Schauffler · 1922 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology of poems by Robert Haven Schauffler, signed by the author. The first edition.Inscribed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, "For Lady Sykes, with greetings from Robert Haven...

With the Living Voice

John Masefield · 1925 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, William Heinemann, 1925 . First edition. Vellum. A signed limited edition of John Masefield's thought provoking speech on voice and poetry, in the original binding with unclipped dust wrapper. A limited edition work, limited to two hundred and sixty five numbered ...

Vestigia Pulchra Quaerentis

Charles Francis Mason · 1940 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Framingham, Mass, Lakeview Press, 1940 . Cloth. A signed, limited edition of this collection of poetry from the bursar of Harvard College, Charles F. Mason. The second printing, enlarged. A limited print run of fifty copies, with this one being number forty-eight.A collection ...

Montes the Matador & Other Stories

Frank Harris · 1906 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Alexander Moring, 1906 . Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the second edition of Frank Harris's short story collection. The second edition of this work, first published in 1900.Flat signed by the author to the half title with the inscription 'to John Ward ...

Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories

Theodore Dreiser · 1927 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

New York, Boni & Liveright, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first edition of Theodore Dreiser's second collection of short stories, containing fifteen tales from the American novelist. A flat signed copy of the first trade edition of this work.Inscribed ...

The Jonson-Allusion Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Johnson from 1597 to 1700

Jesse Franklin Bradley; Joseph Quincy Adams · 1922 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this vanishingly scarce study of allusions to Ben Jonson in the seventeenth century. The very scarce first edition of this work.Authored by Jesse Franklin Bradley and Joseph Quincy Ada...

Dominique

Eugene Fromentin · 1916 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Paris, Librairie Plon, 1916. Leather. A pleasing leather-bound copy of this poetic French novel from Eugene Fromentin. A later edition of this French work. In signed half crushed morocco binding by Louis Conard, with marbled endpapers. This novel, originally published in 186...

The Family from One End Street and Some of Their Adventures

Eve Garnett · 1937 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, Frederick Muller Ltd. 1937. First edition. Cloth. A very very rare signed first edition of this important children's novel from Eve Garnet with her illustrations throughout First edition. Signed by the author with an inscription to the half title. Very scarce in t...

The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1908 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1908. Leather. A collection of classic Sheridan plays, from the library of English film and stage actor, David Horne. The forth impression of this Macmillan Library of English Classics edition. In signed full calf binding by Bickers and Son...

Real Pictures for Imaginary Children

Peter Hellings · 2007 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Pontefract, Pontefract Press, 2007. Cloth. A very scarce and unique limited edition set of six accordion fold out birds containing a total of thirty-one poems by Peter Hellings. Vanishingly scarce.A unique limited edition work of an unknown limitation, this work contains the p...

Tales of Life and Adventure

H. G. Wells · 1923 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce collection of twenty-one science fiction short stories by H. G. Wells. From the library of Brian Aldiss, vice-president of the H. G. Wells Society. A scarce volume, being a first edition thus.The first ap...

The Inheritors

William Golding · 1955 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Faber and Faber, 1955 . First edition. Cloth. Brian Aldiss's copy of the first edition of William Golding's second novel, a work of prehistoric fiction following the extinction of a Neanderthal tribe. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher'...

The Undying Fire: A Contemporary Novel

H. G. Wells · 1919 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Cassell and Company, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of H. G. Wells's literary retelling of the story of Job, in the scarce original dust wrapper. From the library of Brian Aldiss, vice-president of the H. G. Wells Society. The first edition, first ...

Shame

Salman Rushdie · 1983 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1983. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition copy of Rushdie's work of magic realism, depicting how shame creates violence. The first edition, first impression. Signed to the title page by the author. In the publisher's original cloth ...