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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...

Mr. Sponge&Apos;S Sporting Tour

Robert Smith Surtees · 1853 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of R. S. Surtees' complete Mr. Sponge story in book form, with thirteen coloured plates engraved on steel and numerous woodcut illustrations by John Leech. The first edition of R. S. Surtees' M...

Trevelyan

Lady Caroline Lucy Scott · 1833 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Leather. A complete three-volume first edition set of Trevelyan by Lady Caroline Lucy Scott, a society novel of love, class, and morality, smartly bound in full calf. Bound in a full calf binding. First editions. This is a comple...

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith · 1929 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)

London, George G. Harrap & Co, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of Arthur Rackham's beautifully illustrated edition of Oliver Goldsmith's popular mid eighteenth century novel, illustrated with colour plates and retaining the original dust wrapper....

The Highland Jaunt: A Study of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson

Moray McLaren · 1954 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Jarrolds, 1954 . Leather. Beautifully bound in full crushed morocco and illustrated throughout, Moray McLaren offers a comparative study of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson's accounts of their Hebridean Tour. The second impression of this work, published five mont...

Tanglewood Tales; Stories from the Arabian Nights; the Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne; Laurence Housman; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · 1938 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. Cloth. A delightful selection of children's fairy tales, folk tales and myths, all of which are adorned with colour plates by Edmund Dulac. This set offers three beautifully illustrated children's anthologies, comprising retellings...

Montague Park: Or, Family Incidents

A. Selwyn · 1829 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Thomas Tegg, 1829. Hardback. A very scarce copy of this familial novel from lesser-known children's author A. Selwyn. Very scarce work. With a frontispiece and three engraved plates. Collated complete. Montague Park opens, as many novels close, with the triumphal ...

Little Women and Little Women Wedded or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

Louisa May Alcott · 1869 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, c1912. Cloth. Two novels from popular American novelist Louisa May Alcott, being her renowned Little Women, and its sequel Little Women Wedded. Two parts complete in one volume, with Little Women forming chapters one to twenty-three and ...

R. Caldecott&Apos;S Second Collection of Pictures and Songs

Randolph Caldecott · 1895 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1895. Cloth. A vibrantly illustrated collection of eight beloved children's verses from Randolph Caldecott, his second collection. The second collection of children's nursery rhymes beautifully illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. Illust...

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Robert Southey · 1850 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850. Leather. Two smartly bound volumes containing the poetical works of English writer of the Romantic school, Robert Southey. Complete in two volumes. Originally complete in one volume and here bound in two. With a portrait front...

Over the Reefs; Coming Down the Seine; Lovely Is the Lee

Robert Gibbings · 1948 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1948-1954 . Leather. A handsomely rebound three-volume set of Robert Gibbings" later River Books, richly illustrated with his own woodcut vignettes. Handsomely rebound in a half green crushed morocco with cloth boards and marbled endpapers.These ...

Cecily Parsley&Apos;S Nursery Rhymes

Beatrix Potter · 1922 · Rooke Books

£540.00 (€647.37 | $713.54 | ¥113,956)

London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1922 . First edition. Hardback. A wonderful example of the first edition of Beatrix Potter's collection of traditional English nursery rhymes, charmingly illustrated throughout in colour. The first edition, first impression of this work....

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Washington Irving · 1882 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1882. First edition. Leather. A delightfully illustrated limited edition of Washington Irving's popular collection of short stories and essays, including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle". An Edition de Luxe, with this being...

Sammelband of Seven Eighteenth Century Plays

David Garrick; Isaac Bickerstaff; Thomas Hull; et al. · 1766 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

London, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt; W. Griffin; et al. 1766-7. First edition. Leather. A collection of seven plays bound together, including David Garrick's dramatic play 'Cymon', bound in half calf. Seven volumes bound together,  This volume contains; "The M...