Letteratura

The Italian Novelists Selected from the Most Approved Authors in That Language: From the Earliest Period Down to the Close of the Eighteenth Century: Arranged in an Historical and Chronological Series. Translated from the Original Italian. Accompanied with Notes, Critical and Biographical

Thomas Roscoe [ed., trans.] · 1825 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

London, Septimus Prowett, 1825. First edition. Fine Binding. A first edition of Thomas Roscoe's translations of popular Italian works. Complete in four volumes. Four volumes of popular Italian works compiled and translated by Thomas Roscoe. A first edition of this transla...

The Lessing Murder Case

Sydney Horler · 1935 · Rooke Books

£94.00 (€112.69 | $124.21 | ¥19,837)

London, Collins, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, signed copy of this thrilling mystery novel by best-selling author, Sydney Horler. The scarce first edition, second impression. Published in the same month as the first. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding...

Paradise Regain&Apos;D. A Poem, in Four Books.

John Milton; Thomas Newton · 1760 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1760 . Leather. A smart mid eighteenth century edition of the second part of Milton's epic, in Baskerville type. A smart Baskerville edition of Milton's poem.Baskerville was an innovative and pioneering type d...

The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith in One Volume

Oliver Goldsmith · 1842 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Leipzig , Bernhard Tauchnitz , 1842. Leather. A volume of works by writer Oliver Goldsmith. A volume of works by Oliver Goldsmith. This volume contains The Vicar of Wakefield, poems including The Deserted Village and dramas including The Good-Natured Man by Oliver Goldsmith.Â...

Poems by Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson · 1848 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.72 | $1,453.50 | ¥232,133)

London, Edward Moxon, 1848. Leather. A beautiful fifth edition of this anthology of verses by Alfred Lord Tennyson, in a signed White morocco binding and featuring a stunning fore-edge painting. Collection of poetry by the famous English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureat...

A Prospect of the Sea

Dylan Thomas · 1955 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1955. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of short stories and essays by Dylan Thomas. First edition, first impression. Edited and arranged by Daniel Jones. Illustrated frontispiece. Includes: 'A Prospect of the Sea&apos...

My First Horse

Siegfried Sassoon; Lionel Edwards; A. F. Tschiffely; Cynthia Asquith; Laurian Jones; Vic Oliver · 1947 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Peter Lunn, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this collection of reminiscences from many authors. First edition. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and nineteen in-text drawings and sketches. Thoughts on Horses and Hunting by Si...

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. The first edition, first impression of Charles Dickens' renowned novel set in his classic dreary setting, illustrated by Phiz with all plates present. The first edition of this work, being bound from the parts, wit...

Knowledge and Life

William Arkwright · 1930 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1930. Cloth. An uncommon limited edition work of philosophical tales by William Arkwright, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The uncommon memorial edition. Limited to 100 copies. In a smart full cloth binding. With a portrait ...

Monsignor Quixote

Graham Greene · 1982 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, The Bodley Head , 1982. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Graham Greene's entertaining pastiche of 'Don Quixote&apos. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, clipped dust wrapper. A pastiche of the clas...

Island Nights&Apos; Entertainments

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1893 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London , Cassell and Company, 1893. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this charming collection of short stories by writer Robert Louis Stevenson, with illustrations throughout. This is a copy of the first UK edition, first impression with the price facing the half-ti...

Shakesperiana Catalogue of All the Books, Pamphlets, Etc Relating to Shakespeare

Shakespeare; John Wilson · 1827 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London , John Wilson, 1827. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this catalogue of Shakespeare's works. A first edition volume of Shakesperiana Catalogue of all The Books, pamphlets, et relating to Shakespeare. To which are subjoined an account of the early quarto ...

The Poetical Works of William Collins; with the Life of the Author by Dr Johnson; Observations on His Writings by Dr Langhorne; and Biographical and Critical Notes by the Rev Alexander Dyce

William Collins · 1827 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, William Pickering, 1827. Leather. The collected poetical works of William Pickering in full morocco binding. A new edition of the collected poetry of William Collins, an uncommon 1827 edition featuring a biographical sketch of the author by Dr Johnson, observations by ...

Uneasy Relations

John Haylock · 1993 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London & Chester Springs, Peter Owen, 1993 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by John Haylock, signed, inscribed and dated by the author. First edition of Uneasy Relations by John Haylock in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wr...

Souvenir of King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr As Presented at the Lyceum Theatre, 12th January, 1895 by Henry Irving

J. Comyns Carr · 1895 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1895. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce collection of illustrations as based on Comyns Carr's play King Arthur. First edition. Scarce work. With thirteen plates. Collated complete. A souvenir for those attending the play 'King Arthur&...

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Tom Wolfe · 1966 · Rooke Books

£129.00 (€154.65 | $170.46 | ¥27,223)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1966. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this first collection of essays by Tom Wolfe, the first British edition. The first UK edition, preceded by the true first US edition of 1965. An anthology of essays by Tom Wolfe originally published in Esquir...

Short Studies on Great Subjects

James Anthony Froude · 1898 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. Leather. Essay collections by James Anthony Froude in beautiful uniform half calf bindings. Vols I and II of this collection of short essays concerned with a variety of topics, from history, to culture, philosophy, religion, literature, a...

The Wood Beyond and Killing the Lawyers

Reginald HIl · 1996 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996-1997 . First edition. Cloth. Two first edition, first impression works by crime fiction writer Reginald Hill. Two works by Reginald Hill in the original publisher's cloth binding and dust wrappers. The first editions, first impressio...

Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Signor Rozelli

[Abbe Olivier] · 1713 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.90 | $2,378.45 | ¥379,853)

London, J. Morphew and J. Woodward, 1713. Leather. A vanishingly scarce comical novel following the life and adventures of Signor Rozelli, this volume being the second edition. The second edition, a vanishingly scarce work.ESTC citation number T139041.Illustrated with a fronti...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; [Edward Fitzgerald trans.] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,997.08 | $3,303.40 | ¥527,574)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1907. Leather. A sumptuously bound copy of this noted work, presented here in a highly decorative Bumpus binding, with exquisite gilt detail and watered silk pastedowns. The 1907 edition of the work. First published in this form by Quaritch i...