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Michaela Gwythr · 1978 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Melbourne, Spectrum Publications, 1978. First edition. Paperback. A scarce collection of poetry from Michaela Gwythr, signed by the author. First edition. Scarce work. Signed by the author to the front endpaper, dated 1979. Illustrated with eighteen full-page images. A collect...

To-Day the Sun and Other Poems

Raymond Tong · 1946 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, The Fortune Press, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce first edition from twentieth century poet Raymond Tong. Inscribed to the front free endpaper 'with every good wish from Mariana and Raymond Tong, June: 1947&apos.In the ...

Master Humphrey&Apos;S Clock

Charles Dickens · 1840 · Rooke Books

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

London, Chapman and Hall , 1840-41. First edition. Leather. The first book form edition of Charles Dickens's 'Master Humphrey's Clock' complete in three volumes. From the time of the first issue until the end of 'Barnaby Rudge', this was published...

Brick Lane

Monica Ali · 2003 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, Doubleday, 2003 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Monica Ali's debut novel in the original dust wrapper. First edition, first impression of Brick Lane by Monica Ali in the original publisher's cloth binding...

Ballads of Old Bristol

Rose E. Sharland · 1914 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith, c1914. Paperback. A very scarce, signed copy of Rose E. Sharland's collection of old Bristol ballads. Anthology of ballads by Rose E. Sharland concerned with Old Bristol city. Titles include 'Avon Gorge,' 'The Metal Worker,' ...

Summerwater

Sarah Moss · 2020 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Picador, 2020. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this bittersweet novel by Sarah Moss, signed by the author. First edition. Exclusive edition, signed by the author. Summerwater is a devastating story told over twenty-four hours in the Scottish highlands, and a...

Darker Than You Think; the Fury; the Penetrators; Star King; the Ice People; the Jesus Factor; the Mote in Time&Apos;S Eye; the Humanoid Touch; Wildeblood&Apos;S Empire; the City of the Sun; Balance of Power

Jack Williamson; Henry Kuttner; Anthony Gray; Jack Vance; Rene Barjavel; Edwin Corley; Gerard Klein; Brian M. Stableford · 1963 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York; London; Toronto, Lancer; Mayflower-Dell; Mayflower; Granada; Bantam; Dell; DAW, 1963-1981. Paperback. A collection of eleven science-fiction paperbacks by American, British and French authors. Includes a signed copy of Brian Stableford's The City of Sun A collec...

The Infernal Marriage

Benjamin Disraeli · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, William Jackson (Books), 1929. Vellum. A beautiful illustrated edition of this novel by Benjamin Disraeli, limited to 800 copies for sale. Eighth novel by Benjamin Disraeli, first published in 1834 before he became Prime Minister of Great Britain, following Pluto whisk...

Songs and Verses

G. J. Whyte-Melville · 1872 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1872. Leather. Anthology of poems by G.J. Whyte-Melville, handsomely bound in half morocco signed Hatchards. The second edition of this work. An anthology of songs and verses by G.J. Whyte-Melville, Scottish novelist and poet of the nineteenth century...

The Mortal Sickness

Andrew Taylor · 1995 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

England, Scorpion Press, 1995. Leather. A fine limited edition of this novel in the Lydmouth series, signed by the author. Limited edition. Number 40 of 75 copies in a special binding signed by the author. This is the second work in Taylor's Lydmouth series, following Det...

Tom Merry&Apos;S Schooldays, Levison&Apos;S Return, and the Removal of Horace Coker

Frank Richards · 1976 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Howard Baker Press, 1976-1980. Hardback. A charming set of signed collectors edition Magnet issues. 3 volumes. All signed by publisher. Volumes for the dedicated collector of the most rare assemblage of pre-war magazines. Highly illustrated throughout. Tom Merry's...

The Last Detective

Peter Lovesey · 1991 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Bristol, Scorpion Press, 1991. First edition. Leather. The limited first edition of this award-winning mystery, in fine condition, signed by the author Peter Lovesey. Number 26 of 99 limited first edition copies signed by the author, in the special quarter morocco binding with...

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonesse a New Version of an Old Story Arranged As a Play for Mummers in One Act Requiring No Theatre or Scenery

Thomas Hardy · 1923 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1923. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition of this play in one act by Thomas Hardy, enclosed in its uncommon dust wrapper. A one-act play by Thomas Hardy, one of the only two pieces of drama written by this author. This play was designed to be p...

101 Dalmations

1986 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Leicester , Brown Watson, 1986. Hardback. A pop-up book of Walt Disney's children's tale '101 Dalmatians&apos. Pop-up edition of '101 Dalmatians' designed by Robert Watson, first thus. Featuring seven pop-ups in bright colour. Movable pop-up of window ...

Over to You: 10 Stories of Flyers and Flying

Roald Dahl · 1946 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first UK edition of Roald Dahl's first published book for adult readers, a collection of ten short stories, including 'Beware the Dog&apos. A signed first UK edition, first impression of this work. First ...

Lord Ramage Series and Convoy

Dudley Pope · 1965 · Rooke Books

£955.00 (€1,144.88 | $1,261.90 | ¥201,533)

London, The Alison Press; Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Secker & Warbung; et al. 1965-89. First edition. Cloth. A complete first edition collection of Dudley Pope's Lord Ramage series and his novel 'Convoy&apos. A complete series in eighteen volumes of Dudley Pope's &...

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith · 1914 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Constable & Co. 1914. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Vicar of Wakefield', a limited edition copy signed by the illustrator, Edmund J. Sullivan. A beautifully illustrated edition of Oliver Goldsmith's most well-kn...

The Legend of Lohengrin and Other Poems

Will Foster · 1894 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this collection of poetry by Will Foster in the original publisher's binding signed by the author. First edition of The Legend of Lohengrin and Other Poems by Will Foster in the original publ...

Verses of a Prose-Writer

James Ashcroft Noble · 1887 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Edinburgh , David Douglas, 1887. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this collection of poems, signed by the author. A first edition of this work that is signed by the author. Some of the poems within this collection had previously been published in various so...

No Quiet Tear

Emil Weitzner · 1959 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

New York, Privately printed, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A charming and vanishingly scarce collection of poetry by Emil Weitzner, signed by the author. In the original cloth binding. This copy is inscribed to "Miss Alicia Markova" by the author to the front free end paper, dat...