Letteratura

Selecta Poemata Archibaldi Pitcarnii; Poems in English and Latin, on the Archers, and the Royal-Company of Archers

Archibald Pitcairne · 1726 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

Edinburgh, Not Stated, 1726-1727 . First edition. Leather. Two very scarce first edition of early eighteenth century works of poetry. bound together in a modern quarter morocco binding. In both Latin and English.Two very scarce works of poetry bound together.The first of these...

The Outcry

Henry James · 1911 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Methuen and Co, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry James's entertaining final completed novel, 'The Outcry&apos. The first edition. Originally conceived as a three-act play, this work was converted into a novel in 1911 and was the last no...

The Shropshire Racket

Stephen L. Robertson · 1937 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London, Sheed & Ward, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this parody of the work of A. E. Housman by Stephen L, Robertson, with illustrations by Thomas Derrick. The first edition, first impression. Illustrated by Thomas Derrick with monochrome vignettes. This v...

The Works of Honore de Balzac

Honore De Balzac · 0 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London, The Home Library Book Co, c1915. Cloth. A twenty volume collection of the literary works of the noted French novelist Honore de Balzac, with etchings by W. Boucher. Illustrated with monochrome frontispieces to all, and three plates to all volumes engraved by W. Boucher...

The Backward Shadow

Lynne Reid Banks · 1970 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this sequel to Lynne Reid Banks' 'The L-Shaped Room', with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped du...

The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Works of Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope; Michael Sadleir · 1929 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press by Basil Blackwell, 1929. Cloth. A smart limited set of thirteen volumes of work by English novelist, Anthony Trollope. Thirteen volumes. Lacking An Autobiography. Limited to five hundred and twenty-five copies. The Shakespeare Head edition. ...

Wet Magic

Edith Nesbit · 1923 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, T. Fisher Unwin LTD, 1923. Cloth. An uncommon to see copy of one of Edith Nesbit's popular children's fantasy novels, an illustrated mermaid adventure. The first edition to be published by T. Fisher Unwin, having previously been published by T. Werner Laurie....

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

D. H. Lawrence · 1914 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Duckworth & Co, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this drama told in three acts by D. H. Lawrence, a dramatisation of his earlier short stories 'Odour of Chrysanthemums&apos. The first U.K. edition of this work, this is one of 500 copies published u...

Deliverance

James Dickey · 1970 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of James Dickey's debut novel, about a group of four middle-aged men who encounter danger in the backwaters of Georgia. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrappe...

The Terrible Threshold: Selected Poems 1940-1970

Stanley Kunitz · 1974 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Secker and Warburg , 1974. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first UK edition of Stanley Kunitz's collected poems. The first UK edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A series of selected poems written bet...

The Home Affections Pourtrayed by the Poets

Charles Mackay [editor] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1873. Cloth. A profusely illustrated collection of poetry on the subject of love, edited by Scottish author Charles Mackay. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one hundred engravings, many of which are full-page. A collection of poetry on the s...

Chaucer&Apos;S Dream-Poems

James Winny · 1973 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study of three of Chaucer's early poems, a review copy with publisher's request. First edition. A review copy with the original request from the publishers. A study of three of Chaucer...

The Chapbook (a Yearly Miscellany)

Harold Monro; Various · 1925 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1925. Hardback. An illustrated literary journal edited by Harold Monro, containing a selection of pieces by authors such as Aldous Huxley and Leonard Woolf. A yearly miscellany, this being Number 40, for the year 1925.In the original unclipped dust wrapp...

The Stories That Little Breeches Told

Charles Bennett · 1863 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Sampson Low, Son, and Co, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming tale for children by Charles Bennett, illustrated with hand-coloured plates. The first edition, this is the scarcer issue with hand-coloured plates.Illustrated with ten hand-colour...

Hogarth Living Poets: No. 13, Cambridge Poetry, 1930

Various; John Davenport [ed.]; Hugh Sykes [ed.]; Michael Redgrave [ed.] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1930. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this volume from Hogarth's Cambridge Poetry series, including contributions from Julian Bell. The first edition of this work in the original paper boards. Previous owner's ink inscription to...

The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1911 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Cloth. A lovely copy of Sheridan's successful comedy of manners, with delightful colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson. An illustrated work in the publisher's original decorative cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board...

The Legacy, the Testament, and Other Poems of Francois Villon

Francois Villon; Peter Dale [trans] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Macmillan, 1973. First edition. Leather. A collection of poetical works by Francois Villon, translated by Peter Dale and bound in a quarter morocco binding. The very scarce first UK edition of this translated collection of Villon's works. In the publisher's ...

The Princess: A Medley

Alfred Tennyson · 1860 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Edward Moxon, 1860. Cloth. An illustrated edition of Tennyson's poem about a heroic princess, with many engravings and bound in a decorative cloth binding. An illustrated edition. First published in 1847. Illustrated with twenty-six monochrome vignettes, engraved...

Charles O&Apos;Malley: The Irish Dragoon

Charles Lever · 1899 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, James Nisbet and Co. Limited, 1899. Cloth. A smart copy of this skillful military romance novel from Irish writer and raconteur, Charles Lever, with illustrations from Arthur Rackham. A later edition of this novel. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illust...

Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Series One and Series Two

Robert Browning · 1887 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Smith, Elder, and Co, 1887. Leather. An attractively bound new edition of these selected volumes of Robert Browning's poetry. A new edition of this selection. Complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in half crushed and marbled morocco. These two volumes contain...