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The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew

Mrs. Dinah Craik · 1913 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Dinah Craik's beautifully bound and vibrantly illustrated volume of fairy tales, with plates by Warwick Goble. The first edition of this charming work.Illustrated with thirty-two colour plates by ...

Haustochterchens Kochschule Fur Spiel Und Leben

Anna Jager · 1900 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

Ravensburg, Otto Maier, c1900 . Cloth. An early edition of Anna Jager's charming children's cookery work, in the vanishingly scarce publisher's original dust wrapper. In the original German, printed in black letter type. A circa 1900 edition of this work, in the...

Casualty Ward

Robert Conquest · 1974 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Poem-of-the-Month Club Ltd. 1974. First edition. Loose Pages, Articles. A fine first edition of this broadside poem from the Poem-of-the-Month Club, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author. From the Poem-of-the-Month Club set of broadside printed poem...

Collected Poems 1897-1907

Henry Newbolt · 1897 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c1907. Leather. A leatherbound copy of this collection of poetry from English writer Sir Henry John Newbolt. A collection of poetry written between 1897 and 1907, with titles including: Drake's Drum, Admirals All, The Bright Medusa, Northumbe...

Lunchtime

Dannie Abse · 1974 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Poem-of-the-Month Club Ltd. 1974. First edition. Loose Pages, Articles. A fine first edition of this broadside poem from the Poem-of-the-Month Club, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author. From the Poem-of-the-Month Club set of broadside printed poem...

Gold the Man

Joseph Green · 1971 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first UK edition of Joseph Green's second novel, a science-fiction tale surrounding aliens from neighbouring planets. The first UK edition, published the same year as the US edition. With the original, un...

The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer

Ebenezer Elliott · 1840 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Edinburgh; London, William Tait; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1840. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this collected volume of Ebenezer Elliott's poetical works, in which he vehemently fights against the Corn Laws. The first edition of this anthology of the poet...

Sara

Restif de la Bretonne; R. C. M. · 1927 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, John Rodker, 1927. Leather. A Hatchards bound episode of the scandalous memoirs of Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, in which he discusses his love for a young girl named Sara. A limited edition of one-thousand copies, of which this is numbered five.Bound by Hatchards.&ap...

The Terribly Wild Flowers

Gerald Kersh · 1962 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Heinemann, 1962. Paperback. A proof copy of this uncommon anthology of nine short stories by Gerald Kersh. The uncorrected proof copy of this uncommon work.An anthology of nine short stories by the noted British-American author Gerald Kersh, known for his stories writt...

Valleys Branches; What You Hear

Larry Eigner · 1969 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Edible Magazine; Big Venus, 1969-1972 . First edition. Paperback. Two bright volumes of poetry by Larry Eigner, with one volume featuring two pencil corrections in the hand of the author, and the other being a limited edition work. Two volumes from American poet Larry ...

A Test of Poetry

Louis Zukofsky · 1952 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first UK edition of Louis Zukofsky's comparative study of poetry, from Homer to the mid 20th century. The scarce first UK edition, first impression of this work.Zukofsky worked on this volume through...

An American Emperor: The Story of the Fourth Empire of France

Louis Tracy; M. P. Shiel · 1897 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, 1897 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Louis Tracy's thrilling future war science fiction novel, illustrated by E. S. Hope. The first edition of this exciting novel.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates by E. S. Hope. Col...

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd &Apos;St Michael&Apos; Book of Rupert Favourites

Mary Tourtel · 1978 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Purnell Books (for Marks and Spencer), 1978-80. First edition. Hardback. Three volumes of Marks and Spencer's Rupert anthologies, containing colour illustrated short stories about the beloved comic strip character, Rupert Bear. The first edition of the 'St Mi...

Red Ike

J. M. Denwood; S. Fowler Wright; Hugh Walpole · 1931 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1931. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this classic tale from Denwood and Fowler Wright, with the original pictorial dust wrapper. First edition. In 1883 Cumberland, England, Red Ike and his friend Will Moffatt must persevere through grea...

Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling · 1893 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1893. Cloth. A smart third edition of Kipling's first collection of short stories. Third edition. Kipling's first collection of short stories. A total of forty short stories including the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hau...

You Can Call It a Day, and, Lady, Behave!

Peter Cheyney · 1950 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Collins; The Book Club, 1950. Cloth. Two exciting murder mystery thriller novels by Peter Cheyney, each featuring his private detective Johnny Vallon. Two of Peter Cheyney's gripping Johnny Vallon thriller novels, following the hard-drinking former army officer tu...

Paolo & Francesca

Stephen Phillips · 1900 · Rooke Books

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

London and New York, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1900. Leather. A tragedy portraying the affair of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta, bound by the Guild of Women Binders. An unsigned binding by the Guild of Women Binders.The Guild of Women Binders were formed at the turn...

Harlequin Phoenix, or, the Rise and Fall of a Bergamask Rogue

Thelma Niklaus · 1956 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, The Bodley Head, 1956. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this curious history of the Harlequin character, an illustrated volume, including with colour plates. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Mervyn Peake....

Hawthorne Reading: An Essay

Julian Hawthorne · 1902 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Cleveland, The Rowfant Club, 1902 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Julian Hawthorne's limited edition guide to the works of his father, Nathaniel Hawthorne. With a loosely inserted signed letter by the author. Loosely inserted is a handwritten signed letter fr...

Bury the Dead

Peter Carter · 1986 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this mystery novel by Peter Carter, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This mystery nove...