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Little Mr. Bouncer and His Friend, Verdant Green

Cuthbert Bede [Edward Bradley] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, James Blackwood and Co, 1873. Cloth. An attractive copy of this charming illustrated sequel to the author's popular work, 'The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green&apos. The "tenth thousand" edition. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.In the or...

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillante

M. Le Sage [Alain-Rene Lesage] · 1771 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Paris , Chez Les Libraires Associes , 1771 . Leather. A new edition of Alain-Rene Lesage's highly popular picaresque novel, richly illustrated with plates, complete in four volumes. A new edition. Bound in a full mottled calf. Written in the original French. Complete, wit...

Memoires Et Oeuvres de Madame de Staal, Ecrits Par Elle-Meme.

Madame de Staal [Marguerite de Launay] · 1767 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Londres [Paris], Chez Rozet, 1767 . Leather. A very scarce new edition of the works and autobiography of Marguerite de Launay, Barronne de Staal, the first three volumes out of a four volume set. The Nouvelle Edition. First published in 1755.Bound in full calf. A collection o...

Eight Children&Apos;S Works from Juliana Horatia Ewing

Juliana Horatia Ewing; Horatia K. F. Gatty · 1884 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884-1887 . First edition. Hardback. Eight charmingly illustrated works by and about celebrated Victorian era children's author Juliana Horatia Ewing. A lovely collection of works from English writer of children's st...

Histoire de Toto le Minet

Beatrix Potter; M. A. James [trans.] · 1960 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1960 . Hardback. A lovely French language edition of Beatrix Potter's beloved children's work, 'The Tale of Tom Kitten&apos. A French language edition, translated by M. A. James.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappe...

The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy

Frances Trollope · 1840 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Henry Colburn, 1840 . First edition. Leather. A smart copy of the first single volume edition of Frances Trollope's novel about nineteenth century child labour, illustrated throughout. The first single volume edition of Frances Trollope's 'damning expose...

The Sensitive Plant

Percy Bysshe Shelley; George Goodchild [editor] · 1920 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Jarrold & Sons, No date [c. 1920]. Paperback. This very scarce Jarrold & Sons' Miniature Classics edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's beloved poem The Sensitive Plant, with Ode to the West Wind also included to the rear of the work. This edition of Percy Bysshe...

Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children

Kate Greenaway · 1878 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)

London, George Routledge & Sons, [1878]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue of Kate Greenaway's beautifully colour illustrated collection of rhymes for children. The first edition, second issue. With the 'End of Contents' to pp. 14 and the ill...

Poems

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1853 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1853. Leather. The third edition of this significant poetical collection from one of the most prominent English Victorian poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The third edition of this work, complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in full calf. This ...

In Mischief Again

L. C. Silke · 1896 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited , 1896. Cloth. A very scarce Victorian children's book about a mischievous boy under the concerned watch of his grandparents. The sixth impression of this very scarce volume. With a contemporary prize bookplate to the front pastedown,...

The Complete Stalky & Co.

Rudyard Kipling · 1929 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of school stories from English writer Rudyard Kipling. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated complete. A novel about adoles...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1885 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1916. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated edition of this popular children's novel. Illustrated throughout with twenty-six in-text drawings. A popular Victorian story for children, originally written as a serial in 'St. Nicholas Magazine ...

Les Veillees Du Chateau

Madame de Genlis · 1784 · Rooke Books

£800.00 (€959.07 | $1,057.09 | ¥168,824)

Paris, Libraires Associes, 1784. Leather. A novel containing a series of moral tales for children by Madame de Genlis, in the original French. In the original French.Complete as three volumes bound in six.An anthology of moral tales for children by Madame de Genlis.The tales i...

Poetical Miscellanies

Richard Steele; Various · 1714 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1714. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this anthology of poems collected by Richard Steele, including pieces by Alexander Pope. The first edition, with the date misprinted to the title as 'MDDCXIV&apos.An anthology of poetical miscellany,...

The Evergreen. A Collection of Superior Poetry, by the First Authors

Byron; Mrs. Hemans; John Malcolm; Hartley Coleridge et al. · 1809 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Henry Lacey, c1809 . Cloth. A vanishingly scarce miniature poetry anthology, including works from such poets as Lord Byron, and Felicia Hemans. A very scarce work.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece.A charming anthology with a wealth of short poems. The authors o...

Jocko, the Brazilian Ape

Madame de Chatelain [Clara de Chatelain] · 1865 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, A. N. Myers, 1865 . First edition. Cloth. The second UK edition of this very scarce children's work, originally published in German. Illustrated with vibrant colour plates. The second UK edition, first published in the UK five years prior.Adapted from the German b...

The Works of John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy · 1923 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Cloth. A limited edition set featuring the works of the Nobel Prize winning author, John Galsworthy. The Manaton edition. Limited to seven hundred and eighty sets for the United States of America, with this being number 419. Illus...

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Sir Walter Scott · 1834 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Orr and Smith , 1834. Cloth. A smart pocket book edition of Sir Walter Scott's popular narrative poem in six cantos. A charming pocket book edition of Walter Scott's poem told in six cantos, set in the Scottish Borders in the mid-16th century. In the origina...

The Moon Is Down

John Steinbeck · 1942 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

New York, The Viking Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel fashioned for theatre adaptation from American writer John Steinbeck. First edition. Second state with correction to page 112. With the original price-clipped dust wrapper. The story of...

Idylls of the King

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1859. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue, of this Arthurian poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, focusing on the story of King Arthur and Guinevere. The first edition, second issue of this work, with the printer's imprint to the vers...