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Le Contrat de Mariage - la Grenadiere - Gobseck

Honore de Balzac · 1925 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1925 . Leather. A lovely volume collecting three works by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac: Le Contrat de Mariage, La Grenadiere, and Gobseck In the original French.A delightful collection of three works by the noted nineteenth century ...

Red Sap

John Easton · 1930 · Rooke Books

£138.00 (€165.44 | $182.35 | ¥29,122)

London & New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce 'Lost Race' sci-fi novel by John Easton, a murder mystery science fiction novel. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.Signed by the auth...

The Last Blackbird and Other Lines

Ralph Hodgson · 1907 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, George Allen, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A nice first edition copy of the first poetry collection of Ralph Hodgson, including a letter from the author signed to Wilfrid Meynell. The first edition.Inscribed letter from the author tipped-in to the front paste down, &apo...

The Man Behind the Chair

Winifred Graham · 1935 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Hutchinson & Co. [1935]. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of Winifred Graham's thriller, The Man Behind the Chair. With a letter typed and signed by the author tipped in. A signed copy of this thriller by Winifred Graham, with a typeset letter signed in ink by ...

Shadowmancer

G.P. Taylor · 2002 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Whitby, Mount Publishing Ltd, 2002 . First edition. Paperback. A fine, signed copy of the self-published first edition of G.P. Taylor's children's fantasy novel, a work of Christian allegory. Housed in a lovely cloth covered, felt-lined clamshell box. Taylor wrote th...

To Circumjack Cencrastus or the Curly Snake

Hugh M'Diarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in second issue binding of this collection of poetry by Hugh M'Diarmid, inscribed and signed by the author. The first edition of this work, in the second issue light blue clot...

True Stories; or, Interesting Anecdotes of of Young Persons: Designed Through the Medium of Example to Inculcate Principles of Virtue and Piety

[Elizabeth Frank] · 1820 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Leather. A third edition of this charming volume comprised of forty eight stories to amuse and inculcate virtuous behaviour in Victorian children. The third edition of Elizabeth Frank's scarce story book for children. W...

Mervyn Clitheroe

William Harrison Ainsworth · 1858 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 . Leather. An early edition of this novel by William Harrison Ainsworth two volumes in one. Early edition of Mervyn Clitheroe by William Harrison Ainsworth in Sotheran signed half calf binding and marbled boards. Two volumes bound as one. Th...

Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse

Aubrey Beardsley · 1913 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1913. Cloth. The second edition of the collected literary works of the leading artist Aubrey Beardsley, complete with plates. The second edition.The collected prose, poems, and essays of Aubrey Beardsley. Including 'Dedication to "Under ...

Jackanapes; the Story of a Short Life; Daddy Darwin&Apos;S Dovecot

Juliana Horatia Ewing · 0 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , c1890. Leather. Three illustrated children's tales by Juliana Horatia Ewing charmingly in prize binding from Queen's School of Chester. Dated via Jisc. Containing two children's stories in one volume, rebacked ...

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, Translated and Annotated

Sir Richard Burton; Dhan Gopal Mukerji · 1931 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Philadelphia, David McKay Company , 1931. Cloth. Richard Burton's famous pseudo-translated poem on Sufi philosophy, signed and inscribed by the illustrator, Willy Pogany. A new edition. In the publisher's full cloth binding with gilt detail. Inscribed by the illustra...

Beau Geste

Percival Christopher Wren [P. C. Wren] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

London, John Murray, 1927 . Cloth. Illustrated throughout by Helen McKie, this is an excellent copy of the Limited Edition signed Edition de Luxe of P. C. Wren's celebrated adventure novel. An exceptionally bright copy of the signed Edition de Luxe of Percival Wren's...

New Cautionary Tales

H. Belloc · 1930 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, Duckworth, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second impression of this charming illustrated children's work by Hilaire Belloc, a presentation copy signed by the author to his friend, fellow writer D.B. Wyndham Lewis. New Cautionary Tales is a charming...

Ring in the New

Richard Whiteing · 1906 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Hutchinson, 1906 . First edition. Cloth. Richard Whiteing's own copy of his very scarce 1906 novel, concerned with the women's suffrage movement. The very scarce first edition of this political novel from the start of the twentieth century. The author's ...

The Golden Butterfly

Walter Besant; James Rice · 1906 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1906. Leather. Bright new impression of this novel by Walter Besant and James Rice in a smart Hatchards signed binding. A new impression of this novel, written by the celebrated literary partnership of Walter Besant and James Rice, authors of 'Rea...

By Bizarre Hands

Joe R. Lansdale · 1989 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Shingletown, Mark V Ziesing, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A stylized illustrated and limited first edition of this collection of short stories by Joe R Lansdale, singed by the author. First edition. Limited Edition. Number 406 of 500 limited copies signed by Joe R. Lansdale, J....

Reynard the Fox, or, the Ghost Heath Run

John Masefield · 1919 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, William Heinemann, 1919 . Leather. An excellent copy of the third impression of John Masefield's popular narrative poem, in a bright half calf signed binding by Hatchards. The December 1919 third impression of this work, first published in October of the same year...

The December Boys

Michael Noonan · 1963 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Melbourne and Toronto, Heinemann, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Michael Noonan's family drama novel, signed by the author. First edition of The December Boys by Michael Noonan in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped ...

The Essays of Elia with Introduction and Notes by Alfred Ainger

Charles Lamb · 1921 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1921. Leather. Charles Lamb's popular and charming Essays of Elia, in a lovely half calf prize binding. In a half calf prize binding, with the gilt crest of Liverpool College to the front board and a decorative gilt spine. Top edge gilt. Binding ...

Songs in a Minor Key a Small Volume of Verse

William C. Hall · 1889 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Dublin, Sealy, Bryers & Walker , 1889. Cloth. A scarce, signed collection of verses by William C. Hall. A scarce volume of verse by William C. Hall, who was a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford. This small volume includes a collection of sonnets, songs, ballads and serenades ba...