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The Sacred Cut

David Hewson · 2005 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Macmillan, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first impression of Hewson's third novel from his successful Nic Costa series. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipp...

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy

Len Deighton · 1976 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A well presented first edition of Len Deighton's exciting spy novel. A first edition of the work, in smart, black cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper with decorative endpapers. Len Deighton is a British...

Poetical Illustrations of the Achievements of the Duke of Wellington and His Companions in Arms

Major George Webb de Renzy · 1852 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox, 1852. First edition. Cloth. A collection of poetry surrounding the achievements of the Duke of Wellington and his companions. A scarce first edition of this work in original publisher's binding, with gilt image to front board. This work com...

William Blake: A Critical Essay

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1868 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, John Camden Hotten, 1868 . Leather. A lovely second edition of Swinburne's celebrated biography of artist and poet William Blake, analysing both his life and his works, and illustrated throughout. The second edition of Swinburne's analysis of Blake's wor...

The Poems of Bishop Henry King

Bishop Henry King; john Sparrow [ed.] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925. Hardback. A limited edition of the collected poems of Henry King, edited by John Sparrow. Limited edition of the poems of Henry King, collected poems edited by John Sparrow, published in a large paper, limited to nine-hundred copies, this out ...

Green Outside

Elizabeth Godley · 1931 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Chatto and Windus, [1931]. Cloth. A whimsical collection of poetry illustrated by Rex Whistler. Found in the unclipped dust wrapper. This delightful and whimsical collection of children's poetry by Elizabeth Godley is accompanied by humorous illustrations by Rex W...

The Poems of William Austin

William Austin; Anne Ridler [Editor] · 1983 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Oxford, The Perpetua Press, 1983. First edition. Leather. A limited edition copy William Austin's poetry, signed by the editor. A limited edition copy of the poems of William Austin, signed by the editor Anne Ridler. Only 150 copies of this volume were printed. The presen...

A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go

R. D. Akehurst; T. J. Cowley · 1948 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Guildford, Typography Department of the Guildford School of Art, 1948. Paperback. A scarce poem with illustrations as designed in the Guildford School of Art. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout. A charming poem following a frog as he visits his friend Mrs Mouse. Designed and ...

Without Prejudice One Hundred Letters from Frederick William Rolfe Baron Corvo to John Lane

Frederick William Rolfe; Baron Corvo; John Lane; Cecil Woolf · 1963 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)

London, Allen Lane, 1963. First edition. Hardback. A limited edition collection of one-hundred letters by Baron Corvo to John Lane, including a signed letter from the editor, Cecil Woolf. The first edition of this privately printed work, of which only six hundred unnumbered co...

Little Peter the Great

H. A. Manhood; Henry Williamson · 1931 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, William Jackson; Joiner & Steele, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A smart signed limited edition story by Harold Alfred Manhood, a nice copy with a lovely frontispiece by Rowland Hilder. The first limited edition, limited to 550 copies, of which this is numbered 456.Signed...

The Cold Kiss of Death

Suzanne McLeod · 2009 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London , Gollancz, 2009. First edition. Paperback. A lovely uncorrected proof, signed copy of The Cold Kiss of Death. An uncorrected manuscript proof copy of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. This volume is a supernatural fiction novel which follows a woman wh...

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor · 1955 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.48 | $515.24 | ¥82,278)

London, Neville Spearman, 1955. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first British edition of Flannery O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood, in the original striking Guy Nicholls dust wrapper. The first British edition. First published in the US by Harcourt in 1952. In th...

Little Peter the Great

H. A. Manhood · 1931 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London , William Jackson, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A signed, limited edition copy of this short story by Harold Alfred Manhood. A limited edition copy, with 550 copies being published of which this is number 87. Signed by the author to the limitation page and the front free...

Le Lys Rouge

Anatole France · 1926 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1926 . Leather. An early edition of Anatole France's work of prose fiction in Sotheran leather binding. Early edition of Le Lys Rouge by Anatole France in Sotheran signed half calf binding and marbled boards. First published in 1894, this is a lovely ...

Norman Douglas, Writers and Their Work, No. 82

Ian Greenlees · 1957 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, The British Council; Longmans, 1957 . First edition. Leather. A signed presentation copy of this scarce study of the life and works of British writer Norman Douglas. Ian Greenlees presents a study of popular novelist and travel writer Norman Douglas, best known for the...

Position at Noon

Eric Linklater · 1958 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1958. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition copy of Eric Linklater's, 'Position at Noon', signed by the author and illustrator, and with the original dust wrapper. The first edition. Limited to 250 copies, of which only 200 were for sal...

Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field

Sir Walter Scott · 1855 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1855. Leather. A beautifully bound mid nineteenth century edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical romance in verse, illustrated by Birket Foster and John Gilbert. In a full morocco signed binding by Oldfield.Illustrated with an engraved...

The French Lieutenant&Apos;S Woman

John Fowles · 1969 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,210)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1969 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of John Fowles's celebrated postmodernist Victorian-era romance. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.With the...

Vittoria and the Egoist

George Meredith · 1912 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, The Times Book Club , 1912 . Leather. Two works from the Surrey Edition by George Meredith in Riviere signed half calf bindings. Vittoria Volume I and The Egoist Volume II by George Meredith in Riviere signed half calf bindings and cloth boards. In uniform bindings fro...

Three Works by Minette Walters

Minette Walters · 1993 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Macmillan, 1993-1998 . First edition. Cloth. Three first editions, first impressions of these crime fiction works by Minette Walters. Three first edition, first impression works of crime fiction by Minette Walters in the original publisher's cloth bindings and unc...