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The Green Above the Red: More Blarney Ballads
Charles L. Graves · 1889 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1889. Cloth. A beautiful and lavishly illustrated collection of Blarney ballads in a charming pictorial binding. This work comprises a number of humorous verses titled 'Blarney Ballads&apos.Charles L. Graves (1856-1944) was a British author...
Five Science Fiction Novels
Martin Greenberg · 1952 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
New York, Gnome Press, 1952. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this fantastic collection of science fiction novels, with works by van Vogt, Leiber and Norman L. Knight. Contains 'The Chronicler' by A. E. van Vogt, 'Destiny Times Three' by Fritz Leibe...
The Black House
Paul Theroux · 1974 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this popular Paul Theroux novel, signed by Theroux to the title page. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper, with publi...
The Rye House Plot
George W M Reynolds · 1857 · Rooke Books
£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)
London, John Dicks, 1857. First edition. Cloth. A scarce penny dreadful by an important author in this field of literature, George William MacArthur. Based on the infamous Rye House Plot in 1683 to assassinate Charles II due to his Catholic sympathies. Written by the noted Vic...
Unnatural Death
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1956 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1956. Cloth. A superior copy in its original, unclipped dustwrapper of this scarce edition of Unnatural Death by the great author Dorothy Sayers. A later impression of this work. The cheap edition. A mystery novel by Dorothy Sayers, English crime w...
The Lion and the Unicorn: A Play in Three Acts
Clemence Dane [Winifred Ashton] · 1943 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1943. Hardback. An excellent limited edition copy, signed by the author, of this illustrated play by Clemence Dane. A limited edition printed to one thousand copies signed by the author, this volume being number two hundred and ten in the series....
Space Platform
Murray Leinster; [William Fitzgerald Jenkins] · 1953 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this exhilarating young adult sci-fi novel by Murray Leinster. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.A young...
Lies of Silence
Brian Moore · 1990 · Rooke Books
£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)
London, Bloomsbury, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A lovely limited edition of Brian Moore's novel 'Lies of Silence', signed by the author and complete with a glassine dust wrapper. 'Lies of Silence' is a 1990 novel focusing on the effects that The Troubl...
Christ the Hunter
John Lehmann · 1965 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A lovely limited edition of Lehmann's spiritual prose poem, signed by the author. This work was first broadcast in 1964 on the BBC Third Programme, and is autobiographical and spiritual in nature.John Lehmann (1907-...
Self&Apos;S the Man
John Davidson · 1901 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, Grant Richards, 1901. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this tragi-comedy by John Davidson. This is a tragi-comic play featuring a Roman cast, set on the outskirts of Pavia in Italy.John Davidson (1857-1909) was a Scottish playwright, poet and novelist. His poetry great...
The Portreeve
Eden Phillpotts · 1906 · Rooke Books
£600.00 (€719.30 | $792.82 | ¥126,618)
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1906. Cloth. An author's presentation copy of his novel, in which he has written a length inscription lamenting and criticising the work. Like many of Phillpotts' works, this novel was set in Devon.Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) was an e...
According to Queeney
Beryl Bainbridge · 2001 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)
London, Little, Brown and Company, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this exciting historical fiction novel about Samuel Johnson, and his friendship with Queeney Thrale. The first edition, first impression, of this work.Signed by the author to the title pag...
Swords of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1948 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
California, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, 1948. Cloth. A lovely 1948 reprint of the eighth Barsoom novel, an exciting science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A 1948 reprint of this work, though 1936 is stated to the edition page; this is the 1948 reprint as the cloth is a t...
The Saracen&Apos;S Head
Osbert Lancaster · 1948 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)
London, John Murray, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of this charming little book by Osbert Lancaster, illustrated. The first edition of this work. A charming little book following the adventures of a young British nobleman on the Crusades. Osbert Lancaster ...
The Attache; or, Sam Slick in England
[Thomas Chandler Haliburton] · 1843 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, Richard Bentley, 1843. First edition. Leather. Thomas Chandler Haliburton's satricial novel about mid-nineteenth century British society, an entertaining work. Volume I is the first edition, Volume II is the second edition, both published in the same year.Half-tit...
The Edwardians
Vita Sackville West · 1931 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1931. First edition. Paperback. The first Tauchnitz edition of this novel by Vita Sackville-West, two volumes, one for German and one for Swiss publication. The first edition of this work, part of the 'Collection of British and American Authors...
The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1908 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, Grant Richards, 1908. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Longfellow's epic poem containing Native American characters, in a decorative binding. 'The Song of Hiawatha' was first penned in 1855, and is an epic relating the fictional adventures of ...
Reflex
Dick Francis · 1980 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, Michael Joseph, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this exciting crime novel by Dick Francis. Dick Francis (1920-2010) was a British crime writer and former jockey whose works mostly handle crime in the horse-racing world. Over forty of his novels we...
St Andrews: Two Poems
Rudyard Kipling; Walter de la Mare · 1926 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, A. & C. Black, 1926. Hardback. A richly illustrated edition of these two memorial poems, written by Rudyard Kipling and Walter de la Mare to benefit St Andrews University. Kipling was the rector of St Andrews University between 1922 and 1925; these poems were both writ...
The Genius of the Thames Palmyra and Other Poems
Thomas Love Peacock · 1812 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)
London, T. Hookham Junior, 1812. Hardback. The second edition of this charming topographical poem by Thomas Love Peacock, here bound with one of his other popular poems. The second edition of this work.'The Genius of the Thames' is an ode to the River Thames; during ...