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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Robert Browning · 1917 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Frederick Warne and Co Ltd, c1920. Hardback. A beautifully illustrated children's book written by Robert Browning and illustrated by the celebrated illustrator Kate Greenaway. A later edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and full colour vignettes and ful...

The New Argonautica: An Heroic Poem in Eight Cantos of the Voyage Among the Stars of the Immortal Spirits of Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Francis Drake, Ponce de Leon & Nunez Da Vaca

W. B. Drayton Henderson · 1928 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , Jonathan Cape, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A lovely series of poems inspired by the connection between famous voyages and the desire to seek the heavens, bound in original decorative cloth. A first edition copy with the original clipped dust wrapper.Publisher's o...

Bayete! "Hail to the King": A Novel

G. H. Nicholls · 0 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, c1923. Cloth. A smart copy of this very scarce work from G. Heaton Nicholls. Very scarce work. Written in the wake of the First World War, this novel explores the events that occur when a brooding spirit settles on the lands of Kodje Mountain. Wri...

Pomes Penyeach

James Joyce · 1952 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Faber & Faber, 1952. Paperback. The second published collection of poems by the pioneering author James Joyce. A popular collection of thirteen short poems, containing fewer than one-thousand words in total, from pioneering Irish modernist writer James Joyce.Joyce&apos...

Tales

George Crabbe · 1812 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, J. Hatchard, 1812. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this collection of poetry by the Reverend George Crabbe, bound in half paper vellum. The first edition. Bound in half paper vellum with gilt details to the spine and marbled paper to the boards. Bound w...

King Solomon&Apos;S Mines

H. Rider Haggard · 1912 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1912. Cloth. A smart copy of this brightly illustrated adventure novel from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. With a colour frontispiece, one folding colour plate, and three colour plates. Title page states "with eight illustrations...

The Golden Age

Kenneth Grahame · 1915 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head , 1915 . Cloth. A bright copy of Kenneth Grahame's collection of short stories, with charming illustrations by R. J. Enraght-Moony. First thus, being the first to contain illustrations by R. J. Enraght-Moony.Bound in the publisher's...

Don Juan, Cantos I and II

Lord Byron · 1819 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

Paris, Galignani, 1819. First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first Paris edition of Cantos I and II of Lord Byron's celebrated epic, 'Don Juan&apos. The very scarce first Paris edition of the first two cantos of Lord Byron's satirical epic poem, following t...

The Murder of the Night Club Lady

Anthony Abbot · 1934 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd , 1934. Cloth. The fourth impression of this scarce crime novel by Anthony Abbot. The fourth impression of the first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Part of the 'Collins Crime Club&apos. This crime novel was written by ...

Cleopatra

H. Rider Haggard · 1926 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London , George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. 1926. Cloth. A smart reprint H. Rider Haggard's historical fantasy novel, with scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A 1926 reprint of H. Rider Haggard's historical fantasy novel. First published by George G. Harrap & Compa...

Fungus the Bogeyman

Raymond Briggs · 1977 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London , Hamish, 1977. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this brightly illustrated book from Raymond Briggs. First edition. Illustrated with forty pages of colour images, by Raymond Briggs. A day in the life of Fungus the Bogeyman, a working class bogeyman with the...

When the World Shook: Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot

H. Rider Haggard · 1919 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this exciting adventure novel from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with two leaves of black and white star charts. Collated, complete. Following the adven...

Smith and the Pharaohs and Other Tales

H. Rider Haggard · 1920 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd, 1920. Cloth. An early edition of this short story collection from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. T. Werner publishing information pasted over the original J. Arrowsmith details to the title page. A collection of short s...

Finished

H. Rider Haggard · 1879 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, c1925. Cloth. A smart copy of this thrilling novel from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The last in the trilogy on the Zulu Kingdom, including Marie and Child of Storm. Set against the bac...

Mr. Meeson&Apos;S Will

H. Rider Haggard · 1933 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1933. Cloth. A smart illustrated edition of this adventure novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and many in-text figures. Collated comple...

Lost Civilizations: Three Adventure Novels by H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard · 1953 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York, Dover Publications, 1953 . Cloth. An excellent copy of this trio of H. Rider Haggard adventure novels, bound as one, comprised of 'Montezuma's Daughter', 'Eric Brighteyes' and 'Cleopatra&apos. First thus, being the first time these three...

Temple Tower

Sapper [H. C. McNeile] · 1940 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1940 . Cloth. The sixth installment to H. C. McNeile's Bulldog Drummond series, with the scarce, original dust wrapper. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth, with the original, unclipped, very scarce dust wrapper.Seventeenth impre...

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Sapper [H. C. McNeile] · 1940 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1940 . Cloth. An early impression of the penultimate novel in H. C. McNeile's Bulldog Drummond series, in the original, scarce dust wrapper. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth, with the original, unclipped, very scarce dust wrap...

Kemlo and the Star Men

E. C. Eliott; [Reginald Alec Martin] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons LTD, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of this popular Kemlo novel, part of the children's science fiction series. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper.The seventh n...

The Scapegoat

Jocelyn Brooke · 1948 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, The Bodley Head, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this novel ruminating on childhood by Jocelyn Brooke, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this post-war novel exploring themes of childhood and masculinity. This work, w...