Letteratura

The Boys of St. Elmo&Apos;S

Alfred Thomas Story · 1911 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, James Nisbet & Co. Limited, 1911. Cloth. An adventure story bound in colourful decorative cloth, from the Schoolboy Series. An exciting adventure novel for juveniles, set across the high seas.Alfred Thomas Story (1842-1934) was an English writer, known for producing a ...

The Road to Corlay

Richard Cowper · 1978 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Richard Cowper's exciting science fiction novel, the first novel in a series, in the iconic original yellow Gollancz dust wrapper. Set a thousand years into the future, Britain has become seven ...

Under the Water

Maurice Noel · 1886 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1886. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition Victorian children's novel, following two children who get stuck in the underwater world. Illustrated beautifully by E. A. Lemann. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work.An exciting...

Nebula Award Stories

Brian W. Aldiss; Harry Harrison; Roger Zelazny; James Blish; et al. · 1967 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, Gollancz, 1967-1972. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce, assorted collection of science fiction novels, award winners and runners-up for the Nebula Award from 1966 to 1971, in the unclipped dust wrapper. Volumes 2, 3, and 5 to 7 of the Gollancz...

The Man with the Golden Gun

Ian Fleming · 1965 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Ian Fleming's final novel in the Jame's Bond series, published posthumously. 'The Man with the Golden Gun' is the best-selling final novel of Fleming's Bond series. The work fo...

The Mother&Apos;S Recompense: A Sequel to Home Influence

Grace Aguilar · 1900 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, George Routledge and Sons , [1900]. Cloth. A lovely illustrated copy of this novel by Grace Aguilar, the posthumous sequel to 'Home Influence: A Tale for Mother and Daughter.' Grace Aguilar wrote Home Influence and its sequel, the present volume, when she w...

Late Lyrics and Earlier

Thomas Hardy · 1922 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1922. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Thomas Hardy's poetry collection. This collection of Hardy's poetry is more musical than his other work, often fondly recalling past memories in ballad format. It opens with an Apology in ...

The Queen Bee or Harlequin and the Fairy Hive

W Barrymore · 1828 · Rooke Books

£1,275.00 (€1,528.51 | $1,684.74 | ¥269,063)

London, W Kenneth, 1828. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce nineteenth century play written and produced by William Barrymore for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Disbound, as issued.This play was invented and produced by William Barrymore, with the overture and musi...

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1922 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1922. Cloth. A beautifully and colourfully illustrated edition of Charles Kingsley's popular children's fairy tale, illustrated in colour by Harry G. Theaker. 'The Water-Babies' is a children's fairy tale that was extr...

The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison · 1761 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.95 | $1,189.23 | ¥189,927)

London, J and R Tonson, 1761. Leather. A very smart first Baskerville edition of Joseph Addison's works. Comprising his works of fiction and non-fiction. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and three engraved plates to volume I. An additional six plates of medals to volume I...

Devon Holiday

Henry Williamson · 1935 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A diverting 1935 first edition in which four friends walk and tell tales while hiking over moors A first edition in the scarce original dustwrapper, unclipped. A light hearted narrative in which Henry Williamson intended to ev...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald · 1891 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1891. Vellum. An excellent translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the 'Astronomer-Poet of Persia&apos. 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' refers to Edward Fitzgerald's 1859 translation of a selection of Persian quatrains attributed t...

Tales from Shakspeare

Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb · 1921 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Constable & Company, 1921. Cloth. An illustrated later impression of Charles and Mary Lamb's famous collection of Shakespearian tales for children. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an essayist and poet, who along with his sister Mary Lamb (1764-1847) composed this wor...

The Phasian Bird

Henry Williamson · 1948 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Faber and Faber , 1948. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this novel by Henry Williamson recounting the story of a game bird. The first edition of this fictional work by Henry Williamson recounting the story of a game bird, a hybrid pheasant, dur...

Original Double Acrostics: Amusing and Instructive

[Anne Bowman] · 1866 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1866. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition collection of acrostics by Anne Bowman, a popular trend of Victorian society. The very scarce first edition of this work.Anne Bowman's selection of original puzzling and educational...

A Mine of Serpents

Jocelyn Brooke · 1949 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, The Bodley Head, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the second work in Brooke's Orchid trilogy, complete with a superior unclipped dust wrapper and illustrated throughout. Handling the themes of childhood, soldiering and travelling, this semi-autobiogr...

The Old Lion

Walter de la Mare · 1945 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Faber and Faber, 1945. Cloth. A lovely collection of short stories for children, illustrated by Irene Hawkins and penned by Walter de la Mare. Containing four of de la Mare's stories: The Old Lion', 'Maria-Fly', 'The Lord Fish' and 'S...

Unconditional Surrender

Evelyn Waugh · 1961 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1961. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of the conclusive novel for Men at Arms and Officers and Gentleman by the popular author Evelyn Waugh, in the original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. The conclusion to Evely...

Shepherd Songs of Elizabethan England

Adelaide L. J. Gosset · 1912 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1912. Leather. A scarce collection of Elizabethan shepherd verses, in a leather binding. This work details all manner of the verses recited by shepherds during the reign of Elizabeth I.Contains verses by Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Ben...

Gunmen&Apos;S Holiday

Charles Maxwell Knight · 1935 · Rooke Books

£3,400.00 (€4,076.03 | $4,492.63 | ¥717,500)

London, Philip Allan, 1935. First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce first edition copy of Charles Maxwell Knight's detective fiction novel 'Gunmen's Holiday&apos. With fascinating association. Accompanied by a hand-painted wooden diorama of a dalmation and chi...