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Talma on the Actor&Apos;S Art

Francois Joseph Talma; Henry Irving [preface] · 1883 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Roorbach & Company, 1883 . First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first English language translation of celebrated French actor François-Joseph Talma's discussion of the 'Actor's Art&apos. This first edition thus was translated at the suggestion of S...

Down There on a Visit

Christopher Isherwood · 1962 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1962 . First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical novel about loneliness and isolation. The first US edition, first printing of this work.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.The ...

Souvenir Book of Coronation Pageantry

Anonymous · 1953 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, Raphael Tuch & Sons, 1953 . First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first edition of this charming children's celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, illustrated with colour figures that can be cut out. A scarce first edition.Illustrated with four c...

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism

T. S. Eliot · 1950 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Methuen and Co Ltd , 1950. Cloth. An excellent copy of these poetical essays by T. S. Eliot, complete with the unclipped dust wrapper. The seventh edition. First published in 1920. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This volume includes essays o...

A Collection of Rupert Adventure Series Books

0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Watford, Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd. c1955. Paperback. A charming collection of four issues of the Rupert Adventure Series from the Daily Express. Four volumes. Rupert Adventure Series. A collection of delightful stories following Rupert Bear, a well-known British children&apo...

The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock; David Garnett [editor] · 1948 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.25 | ¥18,564)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948. Cloth. A smart copy of this collection of novels from English writer Thomas Love Peacock, published here in one volume. The seven novels of Thomas Love Peacock, including: Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Maid Marian, The Misfortunes...

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

Lord Byron · 1889 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1889. Leather. A smartly bound collection of the poetical works of British poet Lord Byron, with illustrations. The Lansdowne Poets series. With a portrait frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. The poetical works of George Gordon Byr...

Featherland or How the Birds Lived at Greenlawn

George Manville Fenn · 1866 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Griffith and Farran, 1866 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first edition of this delightfully illustrated, highly imaginative children's book set in a hidden realm, written by George Manville Fenn. First edition. Scarce work. Bound in the publisher's de...

What Is This? What Is That?

Vernon Barrett · 1903 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Dean's Rag Book Co, c1905. Cloth. A scarce, and delightful, children's book from the early twentieth century, printed on cloth. A charming early production from Dean's Rag Book Co. Founded in 1903 as an offshoot of Dean & Son, Dean's Rag Book Compan...

Pelham or Adventures of a Gentleman

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton · 1849 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1849. Leather. A smart copy of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's breakthrough novel, bound in half calf. A new edition of this work. First published in 1828. Bound in half calf, with a decoratively stamped spine and marbled boards. With an engraved fronti...

The Ingoldsby Legends; the Queen&Apos;S Maries

Richard H. Barham; G. J. Whyte-Melville · 0 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Collins' Clear-Type Press, c1910. Leather. A pleasing pair of works from Collins' illustrated pocket classics, uniformly bound in very smart limp morocco. A pleasing pair of works from Collins' illustrated pocket classics series: 'The Ingoldsby Lege...

A Collection of Wycliffe Novels from W.J. Burley

W. J. Burley · 1987 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987-1990. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first editions of these Wycliffe novels from Cornish crime writer William John Burley. Three volumes. First edition. Gollancz Crime. Written by William John Burley, a Cornish crime writer, best known for...

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman

Louis de Bernieres · 1992 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel from English writer Louis de Bernieres, the last of his Latin American trilogy. First edition. The last of the author's Latin American trilogy, following on from The War of Don Emman...

Rupert Brooke: Fragments Now First Collected Some Being Hitherto Unpublished

Rupert Brooke; R.M.G. Potter · 1925 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

Hartford, at the press of the Finlay Brothers, 1925 . First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of this limited edition publication of the juvenilia and fragments of Rupert Brooke. Number 54 of 99 limited edition copies of this work.Edited by Brooke's first b...

A Collection of Novels from Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell · 1989 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, MacDonald; Little ,Brown and Company; Headline, 1989-1995. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of five volumes from English horror fiction writer Ramsey Campbell. Five volumes. First edition or first thus. Written by Ramsey Campbell, an English horror fiction writ...

The Rescue & the Shadow Line

Joseph Conrad · 1933 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1933-1934. Cloth. Two smart volumes from Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, being part of The New Adelphi Library. Two volumes. The New Adelphi Library. This set contains: The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows, 1933. One of Conrad's work...

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Philadelphia, The Blakiston Company , 1940 . Cloth. The first Blakiston edition of Ernest Hemingway's celebrated novel set during the Spanish Civil War, with this edition being published the same year as the first due to a collaboration with Charles Scribner's Sons. ...

The Ultimate Island: A Strange Adventure

L. De Giberne Sieveking · 1925 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.69 | ¥137,122)

London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1925 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this very scarce science-fiction novel focusing on the discovery of an Archipelago leading to Atlantis, written by Lance Sieveking. The first UK edition. Very scarce work. Bound in th...

Incarnate Isis

Shaw Desmond · 1941 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.50 | ¥60,123)

London, Hutchinson, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Shaw Desmond's thrilling 1941 novel, a tale of reincarnation set in Ancient Egypt. In the charmingly illustrated original dust wrapper. The very scarce first edition, first impression.In the...

The Blue Spider

Arthur Mills · 1929 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, W. Collins Sons & Co, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Arthur Mills's thrilling novel about a secret society and a collection of priceless emeralds that have been stolen. The very scarce first edition, first impression.Described by the...