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Those Fabulous Flying Machines

Seymour Reit · 1985 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1985. First edition. Hardback. A very smart first edition of this pop-up book on flying machines, with a punch-out model plane. First edition. Illustrated with six pop-up folding pages. Collated complete with all features in perfect working...

Readings for the Young from the Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1854 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1854. Cloth. Two smart volumes of this collection of writings from Sir Walter Scott, for young readers. Volumes I and III only. Two volumes, volume I and III only. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title, and ten plates...

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece

Evelyn Waugh · 1957 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this work from English author Evelyn Waugh. First edition. When the author had the disconcerting experience of a brief attack of hallucinations, he soon learnt that this was not nearly as rare as he s...

Lyrics & Ballads

Margaret L. Woods · 1889 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1889 . Cloth. An excellent copy of Margaret L. Wood's anthology of poetry, inscribed by the publisher to fellow author Lucy Clifford. The first edition. Inscribed by the publisher, George Bentley of Richard Bentley & Son, to English novelist...

Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island

H. G. Wells · 1928 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Ernest Benn, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of H. G. Wells' story surrounding a shipwreck on Rampole Island, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth with the highly pictorial d...

Modern Love

George Meredith; C. Day Lewis [intro.] · 1948 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948 . Cloth. A delightful mid twentieth century edition of Meredith's celebrated sonnet sequence, from the library of science-fiction author Brian Aldiss. A lovely 1948 edition of Meredith's 'novella in verse' about the failure o...

Poems

Matthew Arnold · 1895 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1895 . Leather. An elegantly bound collection of poetry by Matthew Arnold, complete in three volumes, in a Bickers prize binding. Bound by Bickers in a full morocco prize binding, with the motif for Repton School to the front cover. A striking binding...

The Dickens Advertiser

Bernard Darwin · 1930 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of advertisements, originally appearing in the early publications of Charles Dickens' works. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial clot...

Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems

Felicia Hemans · 1830 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood; T. Cadell, 1830. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of poetry by Felicia Hemans, one of her later collections. The first edition.An anthology of sixty-one poems of Felicia Hemans, including 'A Spirit...

The Iliad of Homer

Homer; Alexander Pope · 1767 · Rooke Books

£2,300.00 (€2,757.31 | $3,039.13 | ¥485,368)

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1767. Leather. A pocket-sized edition of Pope's important translation of this monumental Greek epic poem. Two volumes bound in one.Robert and Andrew Foulis' 1767 pocket-sized edition of Alexander Pope's important translation of...

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens · 1848 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Charles Dickens's popular novel, illustrated throughout and including the first published example of a dark plate. With all but one first issue point. The first edition, bound from the parts wi...

The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais: Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel. Together with the Patagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and Response of the Bottle

Mr. Francis Rabelais · 1921 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Navarre Society Limited , 1921. Cloth. A complete set of the works of French satirist Francis Rabelais, with an array of unique illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. A smart set of the works from notable French Renaissance writer, Francois Rabelais. Complete in two volum...

The Pump House Gang

Tom Wolfe · 1968 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of essays from American author and journalist Thomas Wolfe. First edition, first printing. A collection of essays and journalism exploring various aspects of the countercu...

Le Morte D&Apos;Arthur; Arthurian Chronicles

Thomas Malory; Eugene Mason; Lucy Allen Paton [intro.]; Ernest Rhys [ed.] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1906-1912 . Cloth. Three volumes of Arthurian legend, including the famous 'Le Morte D'Arthur' and 'Arthurian Chronicles', edited by Ernest Rhys as part of Everyman's Library. Three volumes in the publisher's or...

The Silence in the Garden

William Trevor · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, The Bodley Head, 1988. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this Irish novel set in County Cork from reputable author William Trevor. The first edition, first impression of this novel.In the publisher's original unclipped binding. This nov...

As I Was Going Down Sackville Street: A Phantasy in Fact

Oliver St. J. Gogarty · 1937 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Rich & Cowan Ltd. 1937. Cloth. An early revised edition of this extended prose work from Irish author Oliver St. J. Gogarty, signed by the author. Revised edition, published the same year as the first edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page to Wil...

The English Agent: A Tale of the Peninsular War

F. L. Lucas · 1969 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Cassell, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this fictionalised military history novel from English scholar Frank Laurence Lucas. First edition. At the height of the Andalusian summer of 1808, Captain Hugh Vivien landed from HMS Brazen at the Seagate o...

The Mystery of Ladyplace

Christian Lys; [Percy Brebner] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, [1900]. First edition. Cloth. A scarce science fiction novel by Percy Brebner, following an evil scientist, the first edition of this work. The first edition of this scarce work, the plain cloth variant.'The Mystery of Ladyplace' featu...

Again the Three Just Men

Edgar Wallace · 1933 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

New York, The Crime Club Inc by Doubleday & Company Inc, 1933. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of Edgar Wallace's final 'Four Just Men' novels, a gripping thriller novel. The first U.S. edition, first printing.'Again the Three Just Men' is...

A Masque of Dead Florentines

Maurice Hewlett · 1895 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1895. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming tale in verse by Maurice Hewlett, an illustrated historical tale set in Florence. The first edition.In the first issue coarse brown cloth binding with black titles.'A Masque of Dead Fl...