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Little Miss Rosenburgh. A Story of Cornwall

Crona Temple · 1886 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, The Religious Tract Society. Cloth. A charming edition of Crona Temple"s captivating children"s tale, "Little Miss Rosenburgh. A Story of Cornwall." Beautifully illustrated with a colour plate frontispiece. A very scarce edition of Crona Temple"s charming children"s ta...

Carr: Being the Biography of Joseph Carr, Manufacturer, of the Village of Carr Foot, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Written by His Grand-Daughter, Mary Elizabeth Carr

Phyllis E. Bentley · 1929 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Ernest Benn Limited , 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this novel by Phyllis E. Bentley, fictional biography of Joseph Carr. The first edition of this work, a scarce copy. A novel by Phyllis E. Bentley, telling of life in West Riding of  Yorksh...

The Comedians

Graham Greene · 1966 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, The Bodley Head, 1966. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this popular political novel by Graham Greene, an exciting work by the important author. The first edition, first printing of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Comedians' is...

Le Lys Dans la Vallãƒâ©E; Grandeur Et Decadence de Cesar Birotteau; Honorine; la Peau de Chagrin; Petites Miseres de la Vie Conjugale

Honoré de Balzac · 1857 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres; Librairie Nouvelle , 1857-63. Leather. Ten novels in five volumes from the complete works of Honore de Balzac, uniform bindings in the original French. Ten novels in five volumes by Honoré de Balzac in uniform bindings, from the 'Complete Works...

Looking-Glass Annual

Various Contributors · 0 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Not Stated , Middleton Publications LTD. c1930. Hardback. A scarce annual for boys and girls containing moving pictures, complete with the red and green spectacles. A scarce annual for boys and girls containing numerous adventure, fairy, and other stories and illustrations, so...

Mascot for a Month

Wallace Carr · 0 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London, John Crowther , c1945. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon wartime novel by Wallace Carr, complete with the rare unclipped dust wrapper. An undated work, dated from the same copy on Copac. A short story for girls, humorous and entertaining, telling of the thrilling adven...

Contes Choisis

Guy de Maupassant; M. Marcel Prevost · 0 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Paris, Societe d'Editions Litteraires et Artistiques , c1900. Fine Binding. A handsomely bound copy of this collection of short stories written by noted French author, Guy de Maupassant, the children's edition of this work. An engaging collection of tales from the ac...

Rejected Addresses: Or, the New Theatrum Poetarum

[James Smith]; [Horace Smith] · 1812 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, John Miller, 1812. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the brothers James and Horace Smith's parodical work on the popular authors of Georgian England. A collection of parodies of authors of Georgian England. The work was written after an announcement in ...

Poems

Stephen Phillips · 1901 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London and New York, John Lane, 1901. Cloth. An attractive example of the eleventh edition of Stephen Phillips' popular poetry collection, containing many of his most popular works, including Marpessa andThe Woman with the Dead Soul. A lovely example of this popular poetr...

Tales of Irish Life and Character

Mrs. S. C. Hall [Anna Maria Hall] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London and Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1913 . Cloth. A charming collection of short stories about Irish country life, illustrated with tipped in colour plates after Erskine Nicol. Illustrated throughout with tipped in colour plates after Scottish figure and genre painter Erskine ...

Josephine&Apos;S Birthday

Mrs H. C. Cradock · 1920 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Glasgow, and Bombay, Blackie and Son Limited, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition copy of Cradock's children's book, with a range of illustrated plates by Honor C. Appleton. First Edition.Illustrations include a frontispiece, seven colour pl...

The Enchanter

Vladimir Nabokov · 1987 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Picador, 1987. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Nabokov's 'long lost novel', published posthumously by his son and presented in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First UK Edition, First Impression. In the original unclipped dust wrapper....

The Tunnel

Bernhard Kellermann · 1915 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of Kellerman's 'Der Tunnel', which was one of the most successful books during the first half of the 20st century. First UK Edition. In the publisher's cloth binding. Orig...

Oeuvres de Crebillon

Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon · 1815 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Paris, Stereotype D'Herhan de l'imprimeries d' A. Egron, 1815. Leather. Pocket sized copies of the complete works of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon in the original French, in three uniform volumes. Three volumes of the complete works of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillo...

Oeuvres Completes de Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre; L. Aimé-Martin · 1818 · Rooke Books

£1,295.00 (€1,552.49 | $1,711.16 | ¥273,283)

Paris, Mequignon-Marvis, 1818. Leather. A complete collection of the works of Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, some lovely uniform bindings in the original French. Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a French author known for his 1788 novel Paul and Virginie; ...

Carte Blanche

Jeffrey Deaver · 2011 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2011. First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed first impression of this novel by Jeffrey Deaver, a James Bond continuation after the character created by Ian Fleming. The first edition, first impression of this work. A James Bond novel written by Jeffr...

Le Second Livre de la Jungle

Rudyard Kipling · 1937 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Paris, Librarie Delagrave, 1937. Fine Binding. A near fine, handsomely bound copy of this lavishly illustrated French edition of Rudyard Kipling's classic sequel, including the very scarce original dust wrapper. A beautiful copy of the sequel to Rudyard Kipling's cla...

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

Iris Murdoch · 1974 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of Iris Murdoch's Whitbread Novel Award winner novel, the first impression complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. A favourably received novel dealing wi...

Appleby at Allington

Michael Innes [J. I. M. Stewart] · 1968 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1968 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of this country house murder mystery novel from Michael Innes, following John Appleby as he solves a murder at a grand country estate. The first edition, first impression of the twentieth Detecti...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Complete in One Volume

Thomas Moore · 1865 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865. Leather. A beautiful collection of poetry by Thomas More, complete in one volume and bound in full-morocco by Bickers & Son, with a frontispiece and vignette title page. Bound in full-morocco by Bickers & Son.Illustrated...