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The Tor Hill

Horace Smith · 1826 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this historical novel from Horace Smith, complete in three calf-bound volumes. First edition. Complete in three volumes. Uniformly bound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards. A novel of the ...

5 Vols Works by Maurice Hewlett

Maurice Hewlett · 1901 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London; Westminster , Macmillan and Co. Limited; Archibald Constable & Co, Ltd. 1901-1905. Leather. A smartly bound five-volume collection of first editions and reprints by Maurice Hewlett, in full green crushed morocco, a signed binding by Hatchards. In a smart full green cru...

Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood

Henry Gilbert · 1912 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Edinburgh & London , T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1912. Cloth. A delightful retelling of the classic Robin Hood Tale, with a frontispiece, illustrated title page, and 15 colour plates by Walter Crane. The first edition of this retelling of the classic Robin Hood Tale. In publisher'...

Waverley Novels

Sir Walter Scott · 1829 · Rooke Books

£1,895.00 (€2,271.79 | $2,503.98 | ¥399,901)

Edinburgh, Cadell and Company , 1829-1833. Leather. The complete "Magnum Opus" collected edition of Sir Walter Scott's 'Waverley' novels. The complete and authoritative Robert Cadell edition of the Waverley Novels, regarded as the definitive collection edition o...

Patchwork Quilt: Poems by Decimus Magnus Ausonius

Decimus Magnus Ausonius · 1930 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Fanfrolico Press , 1930. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited edition anthology of Decimus Magnus Ausonius' poems, from the Fanfrolico Press. Decorated by Edward Bawden. Limited edition of 400 copies, of which this is number 59. In the original blind-stamped clo...

La Dame de Monsoreau

Alexandre Dumas · 1891 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1891. Leather. An 1891 French edition of Alexandre Dumas' La Dame de Monsoreau complete in two volumes, in a beautiful half calf binding with paper-covered marbled boards. An 1891 edition of Alexandre Dumas' La Dame de Monsoreau complete in tw...

Songs and Verses Selected from the Works of Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller · 1902 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Sussex, Pear Tree Press, 1902. Hardback. A charming limited Pear Tree Press edition of Edmund Waller"s Songs and Verses, elegantly produced with decorations by Pickford Waller. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with grey paper covered boards.A limite...

At the Gate: Poems

Robert Graves · 1974 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Bertram Rota Ltd, 1974 . Cloth. A bright, signed limited edition of Robert Graves"s At the Gate, a late collection of his poems. In the publisher's original vibrant red cloth binding. Flat signed by the author to the limitation page. This copy is a limited editi...

Four Quartets

T.S. Eliot · 1944 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.95 | $1,182.62 | ¥188,871)

London , Faber and Faber, 1944. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this set of four poems by influential Modernist poet T.S. Eliot, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original beige cloth binding. In the original u...

The Family Reunion Poems of Dedication What Is a Classic? an Address Delivered Before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944

T.S. Eliot; Stephen Spender · 1939 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London , Faber and Faber, 1939-1947. First edition. Cloth. - The first editions of the works. In publisher's original cloth bindings. A three volume collection of poetical works published by Faber and Faber including:1939 The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot, a modern verse p...

The Life of Margaret Godolphin; the Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems; the Vision of Piers the Plowman

William Morris; John Evelyn; Robert Steele [ed.]; William Langland · 1904 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

London, Aexander Moring LTD. The De La More Press, 1904-1905. Vellum. A delightful collection of three volumes of poetry and biography from the 'King's Classics' series, uniformly bound in quarter vellum. A collection of three volumes from the series 'The K...

Salammbo

Gustave Flaubert · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

Paris, G. Charpentier, 1880. Leather. A smartly bound limited edition of Gustave Flaubert's popular historical novel, with beautiful hand drawn and illustrated vignettes, and bound in full crushed morocco by Emile Rousselle. A limited edition, being number 5 out of 100 pu...

Gerald Gould (the Augustan Books of English Poetry)

Gerald Gould; Humbert Wolfe [ed.] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Ernest Benn Ltd , 1926. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce anthology of Gerald Gould's poetry, issued for the second series of the 'Augustan Books of English Poetry&apos. First edition of this collection.Number twenty from the 'Augustan Books of English...

The Poems of Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell · 1923 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Burns, Oates & Washbourne Ltd. 1923. Cloth. A smart first complete edition of the poetry of British writer, editor, and suffragist, Alice Meynell. Complete edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The collected poetry of Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell, a British write...

The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

Charles Kingsley · 1904 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. Leather. A smartly bound collection of retold Greek myths and legends from Charles Kingsley, written for children with illustrations. Later edition. Illustrated throughout. A collection of retold Greek myths and legends written for chil...

Authorised Murder

Isaac Asimov · 1976 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1976 . First edition. Cloth. The UK first edition, first impression of one of Isaac Asimov's crime novels, in the publisher's original red cloth binding in its bright, unclipped dust wrapper. The UK first edition, first impression in the ...

16vols the Works of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens; H. C. Dent · 1930 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, Odhams Press Limited, c1930-33. Cloth. A complete sixteen-volume set of the Odhams edition of Charles Dickens"s works, with illustrations by the original artists throughout. In the publisher's original red cloth bindings. A smart sixteen-volume set of Dickens"s c...

Routledge&Apos;S Every Boy&Apos;S Annual an Entertaining Miscellany of Original Literature

Ed. Edmund Routledge · 1866 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London , George Routledge & Sons, 1866. Cloth. A delightful collection of stories, puzzles and articles released annually for the Christmas period, with a colourful frontispiece, numerous illustrations and publisher's advertisements. In publisher's scarce original de...

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain · 1880 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1880. First edition. Cloth. A smart example of the second printing of the first UK edition of Mark Twain's account of his journey through central and southern Europe. The second impression of the first UK single volume edition of this work, with t...

Jane Austen&Apos;S Letters to Her Sister Cassandra and Others

Jane Austen; R. W. Chapman [ed.] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout, this is the uncommon two volume first edition of the collected personal correspondence of Jane Austen. With this copy belonging to an Austen scholar, Chris Viveash. The uncommon first edition of t...