Letteratura

Prayers and Graces with More Prayers and Graces

A M Laing · 1944 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1944 - 1957. First edition. Cloth. Two volumes of these little anthological volumes of poetry. Edited and compiled by Allan M Laing. Illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake. The first edition of both volumes. 'Prayers and Graces' is signed wit...

Quiller Meridian

Adam Hall; Elleston Trevor · 1993 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Headline, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first English edition of 'Elleston Trevor's Cold War thriller, seventeenth in the Quiller series. With illustrated dustwrapper designed by David Bull. The Quiller series focuses on a solitary, highly capable sp...

This Little World

Francis Brett Young · 1934 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, William Heinemann, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this first edition novel by Francis Brett Young. The first edition. Written to the verso of front endpaper is 'The first 25 copies of 'This Little World' taken from the machine have been spe...

The Empress Eugenie

Mrs. Belloc Lowndes · 1938 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Longmans Green and Co, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' play 'The Empress Eugenie&apos. Lowndes was a prolific writer and had her works adapted for screen several times, including by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. This ed...

Wine of Violence

Priscilla J. Royal · 2003 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

London, Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. First edition. Cloth. The first printing of this medieval mystery by Priscilla J. Royal. Signed by the author to the title page. Priscilla Royal was inspired in her writing by Ellis Peters and her character of Brother Cadfael. Some of her othe...

Little Boy Blue

Edward Bunker · 1981 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

New York, Viking, 1981. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Edward Bunker's 'Little Boy Blue&apos. A semi-autobiographical account of a boy's descent into rebelliousness and a life of crime. In a cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Ext...

In Noah&Apos;S Wake

Allan Block · 1972 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Peterborough, William L Bauhan, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this collection of poetry by Allan Block. Inscribed by the author "For Robert Graves in gratitude for poems of his". In a cloth binding in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart wi...

Yellowstone Kelly

Peter Bowen · 1987 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Illinois , Jameson Books, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this heroic cowboy story with letters from the author. Includes two humorous letters from the author to the same reader regarding the signing of the book, others in the 'Kelly' series an...

The Wanderings of Tom Starboard or, the Life of a Sailor

Isabella Jane Towers · 1830 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, John Harris, 1830. Leather. An illustrated copy of this work by Isabella Towers. A work of fiction following Tom Starboard, a sailor who found himself voyaging throughout Asia and the Pacific, this work was a delight amongst the young readership of its time. With a bea...

Comic Dramas in Three Acts

Maria Edgeworth · 1817 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London, R. Hunter, 1817. First edition. Leather. A fantastic first edition of three comic plays by Maria Edgeworth. A very original near fine copy.Bound without publisher's advertisments. Containing her plays Love and Law, The Two Guardians and The Rose, Thistle and Shamr...

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...

The Poems of Edward Edwin Foot, of Her Majesty&Apos;S Customs, London.

Edward Edwin Foot · 1867 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Published by the Author, 1867. Cloth. A scarce copy of Foot's poems; published by Foot himself, and printed by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. With an ink copperplate dedication by Foot: dedicated to a Mr. Tonkin on 21st Jan 1870. In a blue cloth binding with gilt ti...

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 Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters and Poems

Rev T.S. Grimshawe · 1849 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, William Tegg and Co. 1849. Cloth. A scarce edition of this collection of works and biography of poet William Cowper. Taken from Cowper's private correspondence and edited by Rev. T.S. Grimshawe. Presentation copy with the editor's dedication to his sister ins...

The Way of the World an Unexpurgated Edition Including an Original Signed Etching

William Congreve; Malcolm C Salaman · 1928 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, The Haymarket Press, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition print of William Congreve's famous play 'The Way of The World&apos. With a signed engraved frontispiece by A R Middleton Todd. Todd was a painter and etcher of figure subjects and portraits. He was a member ...

The Fortress

Hugh Walpole · 1932 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1932. Cloth. A limited edition of this novel on family conflict by Hugh Walpole, signed by the author. Limited edition. One of three hundred and ten large paper copies. A desirable work, signed by the author himself. Hugh Walpole was an talented write...

Poems

John D. Batten · 1916 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, At the Chiswick Press, 1916 . First edition. Paperback. The vanishingly scarce first edition of artist John D. Batten's poetry collection, including a signed letter from the author to fellow poet and artist Cecil French. A very scarce first edition.With a signed l...

The Sharpe Novel Series by Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell · 1981 · Rooke Books

£5,800.00 (€6,953.23 | $7,663.90 | ¥1,223,971)

London, Collins; HarperCollins, 1981-2006 . First edition. Cloth. A truly impressive set featuring signed first editions of the first twenty-one novels in Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe' series, and with two signed short stories from the author. This wonderful colle...

Woodcuts and Verses

Edward Quillinan · 1820 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

Kent, Printed at the private Press if Lee Priory by John Warwick, 1820 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce limited edition copy of this collection of engraved poems printed privately by the Lee Priory Press. A limited edition copy, with only one hundred copies printed.Pub...

A Singing Soldier

Tom Skeyhill · 1919 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

New York, Knickerbocker Press, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this collection of poetry by Tom Skeyhill, with an additional poem written by Skeyhill inscribed by hand. The first edition. Signed presentation by Tom Skeyhill to t...