Letteratura

Picciola

X. B. Saintine [Joseph Xavier Boniface] · 1846 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Paris, Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1846. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated scarce edition of this novel from X. B. Saintine, in the original French language. French language. Scarce edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and four plates with tissue guards. Collated complete....

Light and Shade

Maida Stanier · 1953 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Abingdon-on-Thames, The Abbey Press, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of poetry with the author's presentation slip. First edition. Scarce work. With author's presentation slip, inscription reads: With Christmas Greetings A collec...

La Nouvelle Paysanne Parvenue, Ou, L&Apos;Histoire de Jeannette

Pierre-Alexandre Gaillard de la Bataille · 1759 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

La Haye, Henri Scheurleer, 1759. Leather. An uncommon novel set in provincial France by Pierre-Alexandre Gaillard de la Bataille. An uncommon novel.In the original French.Complete with three parts bound in one.Following a farmer as he arrives in a new area in provincial France...

Jaboune

Franc-Nohain · 1910 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1910. First edition. Leather. A limited edition copy of Franc-Nohain's uncommon novel. Published in French. A limited edition copy of Franc Nohain's novel. Published in French. The present copy is one of fifteen numbered copies printe...

IL Morgante Maggiore

Luigi Pulci · 1794 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

Venezia [Venice], Nella Stamperia Palese, 1794. Leather. A four-volume set of Luigi Pulci's famous romantic epic poem Morgante, also referred to as Il Morgante Maggiore, in paper vellum bindings. A four volume set in paper vellum bindings, with decorative gilt to the spin...

Debita Flacco: Echoes of Ode and Epode

E. H. Pember · 1891 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Privately printed, 1891. First edition. Leather. A limited edition of this collection of poems, inscribed by the author to the Earl of Strafford. No. 51 of 250 limited edition copies of this work in a quarter calf binding. Inscribed by the author to the first blank pag...

P. Virgilii Maronis Opera

Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro]; Carolus Ruaeus [Charles de la Rue] · 1735 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Londini, J.J. & P. Knapton, R. Knaplock et al. 1735 . Leather. A beautifully illustrated Latin edition of the collected works of ancient Roman poet Virgil. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, fourteen engraved plates, and a folding map. Collated, complete.The collected ...

La Legende de Saint Julien L&Apos;Hospitalier

Gustave Flaubert · 1947 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Paris, Editions de la Cit, 1947. Hardback. A beautifully illustrated limited edition of Gustave Flaubert's tale about Julian the Hospitaler, illustrated by French artist Louis Bouquet. In the original French.Number 116 of 450 copies printed on Lana, retaining the original...

The Lousiad an Heroic-Comic Poem Canto I

Peter Pindar · 1786 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Dublin, William Porter, 1786 . Disbound. A sixth edition copy of this heroic-comic poem by Peter Pindar. Sixth edition copy. This contains the first canto of the comic-heroic poem Lousiad written by Peter Pindar, or John Wolcot. John Wolcot was an English satirist who uses th...

L&Apos;Homme de Champs, Ou Les Georgique Francoises

Jaques Delille · 1800 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Strasbourg, Levrault, 1800 . First edition. Leather. A first French translation of the Georgics by Jacques Delille, with a frontispiece. A first edition of this French translation of Virgil's Georgics.Jacques Delille came to national prominence with this translation of th...

Dawn

H. Rider Haggard · 1887 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, John and Robert Maxwell, 1887. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel in one volume by H. Rider Haggard. First edition in one volume. The first edition was 1884 in three volumes. With frontispiece. Inspired by "a singularly beautiful and pure-faced young...

The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay

John Wilson · 1845 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1845. Cloth. A scarce new edition of this exciting novel by Scottish author John Wilson. New edition. Scarce edition. An exciting novel following the trials in the life of the protagonist, Margaret Lynsday. Written by John Wilson, a Scott...

Tristram of Blent: An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House

Anthony Hope · 1901 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, John Murray, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Anthony Hope's novel centred around legitimacy and family secrets. A first edition of Anthony Hope's novel. Predominantly remembered for his late nineteenth century works The Prisoner of Zenda and it...

Poems of James Montgomery

James Montgomery; Robert Aris Willmott [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860. Cloth. An illustrated collection of poetry by James Montgomery. Edited by the nineteenth century cleric and author Robert Aris Willmott, this collection of poetry by James Montgomery is accompanied by illustrations by Birket Foster ...

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

William Barnes · 1863 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, John Russell Smith, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition copy of the third collection of poems in the Dorset dialect by William Barnes, celebrating rural life. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplates to the fro...

And Call It Accident

Mrs. Belloc Lowndes · 1939 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London , Hutchinson & Co. 1939. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, signed copy of the novel And Call it Accident by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. A first edition copy. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Marie Belloc Lowndes was a prolific English novelist who had a r...

Alphabet Series

Sue Grafton · 1991 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London; New York, Macmillan; G Putnam's Sons; Henry Holt , 1991-2013. First edition. Cloth. Five bright first editions, first impressions from Sue Grafton's 'alphabet series' featuring the investigator Kinsey MIllhone, each in the original dust wrapper. Sue...

The Betty Book

Betty, Betsy, and Bess · 1921 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1921. Hardback. A scarce edition of this charming children's book with illustrations from Anne Anderson. Early edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with six colour plates. Collated complete. A charming story following the adventures of Betty, Be...

A Collection of Charles Dickens: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, the Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, & Sketches by Boz

Charles Dickens · 1839 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.72 | $2,576.65 | ¥411,508)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1839-1877. Leather. A beautiful and very clean and bright set of first editions (one later) of works by renowned author Charles Dickens. In a tree calf Mansell binding. Five volumes. From the renowned English writer and social critic, Charles Dickens....

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. A half calf bound first edition copy of one of Charles Dickens' popular novels, complete with the original illustrations by Phiz, including the dark plates. The first edition first issue of this work, being bound f...