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The Alchemist

[Mary Robson Hughes] · 1818 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, William Darton Jun, 1818. First edition. Leather. A scarce moral novel for young girls by the popular Georgian author Mary Robson Hughes, the first edition, complete with a frontispiece. The first edition of this scarce work.A charming moral tale for children, followin...

The House That Jack Built

1903 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Deans Rag Book CO LTD, c1912. Cloth. A very scarce rag book reproducing a popular nursery rhyme, an intriguing colourfully illustrated volume printed on cloth. A vanishingly scarce work.A curious rag book for children, produced by Dean's Rag Book Company. Founded ...

Fabulous Histories. Designed for the Instruction of Children, Respecting Their Treatment of Animals

Sarah Trimmer · 1811 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, J. Johnson and Co, 1811. Leather. Sarah Trimmer's popular Georgian novel for children, in which she educates on the proper treatment of animals. 'Fabulous Histories' is the most popular work of Sarah Trimmer. First published in 1786, this is the ninth ed...

Hudibras

Samuel Butler; Zachary Grey · 1801 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Vernor and Hood, 1801. Leather. An illustrated edition of this popular long narrative poem by Samuel Butler. Complete in two volumes.'Hudibras' is a long narrative poem which was published four years after Charles II was restored to the throne. The poem follo...

A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments

The Church of England · 1791 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, T. Hodgson, 1791. Leather. The tenth edition of this delightfully illustrated pictorial Bible, featuring countless vignette wood engravings representing Biblical passages. The tenth edition of this wonderful 'Hieroglyphick Bible', featuring passages from both...

Poems

Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D Archbishop · 1886 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co, 1886. Leather. A charming two-volume edition of this anthology of Richard Chenevix Trench's poetry. A new edition of this collection, presented here in two volumes. Uniformly bound in full calf, with decorative gilt to the spine and de...

The Poetical and Prose Works of Oliver Goldsmith with Life

Oliver Goldsmith · 1881 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Edinburgh , Gall and Inglis , 1881. Cloth. An attractively bound collection of Oliver Goldsmith's poetry and prose, complete with eight steel engraved plates. Undated, dated from identical copies held institutionally. With eight engravings on steel, including a frontispi...

A Collection of Short Naval Stories from "Bartimeus

Bartimeus" [Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie] · 1918 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited; Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. Leather. Four smart uniformly bound volumes of naval stories from English writer "Bartimeus". Four volumes. Uniform edition. A collection of naval and wartime stories of adventure and conflict. Inspired by the aut...

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith

D. M. Moir · 1911 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, T. N. Foulis, 1911. Leather. A smartly bound and brightly illustrated copy of Moir's famous work the Life of Mansie Wauch. Illustrated with a colour tipped in frontispiece and fifteen colour tipped in plates. Lacking one plate. A reflection on the life of Mansie W...

The Complete Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton: Rienzi & Kenelm Chillingly

Edward Bulwer Lytton · 0 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, c1895. Leather. A smart volume from The Complete Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, containing Rienzi and Kenelm Chillingly. From The Complete Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates. Collated complete. ...

Fear to Tread

Michael Gilbert · 1953 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this mystery crime thriller from English solicitor and author Michael Gilbert. First edition. Following the gradual discovery by Mr. Wetherall, a middle-aged, mild-mannered headmaster, that even a num...

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Helen Simpson · 1935 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Helen Simpson's historical novel set in 17th-century Hanover, inscribed by famed playwright and actor, Noël Coward. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth. Inscribed by celeb...

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears · 1997 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1997. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical mystery novel, signed by the author and in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression with a complete numberline. Signed by the author to the title page. In the origin...

A Selection of Science Fiction Works

Various · 1975 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

New York; London, Advent; Harper and Row; Nelson Doubleday; Robson Books et al , 1975-1990. First edition. Cloth. A terrific selection of science fiction books, all complete with the publishers' striking unclipped dust wrappers. An attractive collection of fifteen science...

Lyra&Apos;S Oxford

Philip Pullman · 2003 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Oxford , David Fickling Books , 2003. First edition. Cloth. A lovely example of Philip Pullman's novella, featuring heroine Lyra Belacqua from his popular trilogy 'His Dark Materials&apos. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original cloth binding...

The Shadow in the Plate

Philip Pullman · 1986 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Oxford , Oxford University Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this Sally Lockhart mystery from Philip Pullman. The first edition, first impression of this work.With the original unclipped dust wrapper.This is the second Sally Lockhart mystery, taking ...

The Blinding Light: A Tale

Colin Collins · 1910 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Greening and Co. Ltd , 1910. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce science fiction novel centring on the invention of a powerful ray. The first edition of this very scarce title. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This science fiction novel depicts the conse...

Manipulus Vocabulorum: A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language

Peter Levins; Henry B. Wheatley [editor] · 1937 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, The Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, 1937. Cloth. A smart reprint of this English to Latin dictionary believed to be the first English rhyming dictionary. Reprinted from the English English Text Society edition of 1867. An English-to-Latin dictionary ori...

The Kingis Quair Together with a Ballad of Good Counsel

King James I of Scotland; Rev. Walter W. Skeat [editor] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1911. Leather. A smartly bound second edition copy of these two poems attributed to King James I of Scotland. Second and revised edition. The Scottish Text Society. With two folding facsimile plates. Collated complete. Two poems ...

Barbary Shore

Norman Mailer · 1952 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the first UK edition of award winning American writer and journalist Norman Mailer's second novel, 'Barbary Shore&apos. The first UK edition, first impression.In the publisher's original...