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The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

1877 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, George Bell & Sons, 1877. Cloth. Classic English ballad by Charles Dickens with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Classic English ballad adorned with charming illustrations by George Cruikshank. An uncommon edition. In the original publisher's full cloth binding...

May the Mare the Life Story of a Horse

George Jennison · 1933 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce reprint edition of this all ages fiction novel told as an autobiography of a horse in the very scarce original dust wrapper. Early reprint edition of May the Mare The Life Story of a Horse by George Jennison i...

Seven Simeons, a Russian Tale

Boris Artzybasheff · 1937 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Cassell and Company Limited , 1937. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful, first edition, copy of this illustrated Russian folktale. The first UK edition, published simultaneously with the American first edition. In the publisher's green cloth binding with the origina...

The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray · 0 · Rooke Books

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

London, Smith, Elder & Company; G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1903. Leather. A truly unique complete set of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, lavishly illustrated. One of twenty five uniform sets prepared by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very scarce Edition Unique of the works ...

What Can You Do with a Shoe?

Beatrice Shenk de Regniers · 1997 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1997. First edition. Cloth. Bright first edition thus of this children's book by Beatrice Shenk de Regniers with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, recoloured. First recoloured edition of this children's book by Beatrice Shenk de ...

The Voyage out

Virginia Woolf · 1927 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, Duckworth, 1927. Cloth. An excellent copy of noted Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out. Cheap edition, being one of 1000 copies printed from the Harcourt Brace sheets, with US imprint on copyright page. Lacking the original dust wrapper....

The Sly Cormorant and the Fishes, New Adaptations Into Poetry of the Aesop Fables

Brian Patten · 1977 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Harmondsworth, Kestrel Books , 1977. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated collection of Aesop's fables translated into poetry by Brian Patten. The first edition. In the original cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. With a frontispiece, illustrated title p...

Dangerous Honeymoon

Axel Kielland; Carolyn Hannay · 1946 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Collins, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A lovely scarce first U.K. edition of this thrilling novel set in Nazi Berlin by Axel Kielland. The scarce first U.K. edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Dangerous Honeymoon' opens in a bomb shattered Berlin, f...

The Village Book

Henry Williamson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London , Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. Vellum. A charming, signed and limited first edition of this collection of nature short stories by Henry Williamson. A first limited edition copy of this work by Henry Williamson. This edition was limtied to five hundred and four co...

Swan Song

John Galsworthy · 1928 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London , William Heinemann , 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited first edition, first impression copy of Swan Song, which is also signed by the author. A limited, first edition, first impression copy of this work by John Galsworthy, with the misprint to page forty-four...

Here&Apos;S Richness! an Anthology of and by James Agate

James Agate; Osbert Sitwell · 1942 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London , George G. Harrap & Co, 1942. First edition. Leather. A lovely signed, limited edition copy of this anthology of James Agate's works. This volume was limited to one hundred copies, of which ninety were for sale. This copy is number number eighty. The volume is als...

The Knave of Diamonds

Ethel M. Dell · 1919 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London , T. Fisher Unwin, 1919. Cloth. A lovely copy of Ethel Dell's romantic novel The Knave of Diamonds, rare in the unclipped dust wrapper. A twenty-first impression of this work, published in 1919. With the extremely scarce dust wrapper. The Knave of Diamonds is a d...

Our Ostriches, a Play of Modern Life in Three Acts

Marie Stopes · 1923 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923 . First edition. Paperback. The scarce first edition, first printing of this play by Marie Stopes. The first edition, first printing of Our Ostriches, A Play of Modern Life in Three Acts by Marie Stopes in the original publisher's ...

Along the Arno

Brian Glanville · 1956 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1956 . First edition. Cloth. The signed scarce first US edition, first impression of this novel by Brian Glanville with the original dust wrapper. The first US edition, first impression of Along the Arno by Brian Glanville in the original ...

What Crime Is It?

Dorothy Gardiner · 1956 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1956 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition, first printing of Dorothy Gardiner's novel with the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of What Crime Is It? by Dorothy Gardiner in the original publisher&ap...

Myra Breckinridge

Gore Vidal · 1986 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Anthony Blond, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of Gore Vidal's satirical novel in the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal in the original publisher's binding and unclipped du...

The Devil&Apos;S Walk and the Devil&Apos;S Visit

Professor Porson; [Robert Southey]; [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] · 1830 · Rooke Books

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

London, Marsh and Miller; William Kidd, 1830. First edition. Leather. A Birdsall bound first edition of two satirical poems about the devil bound together, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey's popular poem 'The Devil's Walk', and illustrat...

London Lyrics

Frederick Locker [Frederick Locker-Lampson] · 1874 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, W. Isbister and Co. 1874 . Hardback. A signed presentation copy of the seventh edition of Frederick Locker's popular volume of verse. A signed presentation copy of the scarce seventh edition of this volume of poetry from English man of letters, bibliophile and poe...

The Princess a Melody

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1884 · Rooke Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1884. Leather. A complete volume of Tennyson's comic narrative poem The Princess A Melody. A 1884 copy of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Princess A Melody. The Princess is a comic blank verse narrative poem that tells the story of a heroic prin...

Mystery in the Channel

Freeman Wills Crofts · 1931 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London , W. Collins Sons & Co, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Freeman Wills Crofts' captivating novel , Mystery in the Channel. First edition of this work. Mystery in the Channel is a wonderful novel from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, featuring Ins...