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The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

D. H. Lawrence · 1914 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

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 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

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 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

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 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

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 | ¥8,439)

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 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

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 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

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 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

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 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

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 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

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 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

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 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

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 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

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...

Portrait of Mimosa

David Arkell · 1958 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, W. H. Allen, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of this pleasant novel of romance and mystery, written by Reginald Arkell's son, David Arkell. The first edition of this scarce work. With the publisher's very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. Set within ...

Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses

Adelaide Anne Procter; Charles Dickens · 1882 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1882. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of verses from English poet Adelaide Anne Procter. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of verses from Adelaide Anne Procter, an English poet and philanthropist whose literary career beg...

The Liberty of Love

James Blyth [Henry James Catling Clabburn] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, F. V. White & Co. Ltd. 1909. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this very scarce novel from British author James Blyth. First edition. Very scarce. Opening on a conversation between a General and his wife, sharing their concerns for their daughter Millicent, a se...

The Progress of Love. In Four Eclogues.

[George Lyttelton] · 1732 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, L. Gilliver, 1732 . First edition. Disbound. The first edition of George Lyttelton's poem in four eclogues, exploring the nature of love relating to 'Uncertainty', 'Hope', 'Jealousy' and 'Possession&apos. The first edition. Disbo...

The Kit-Cats, a Poem and St. James&Apos;S Park: A Satyr.

Sir Richard Blackmore; James Browne · 1709 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, H. Hills, 1709 . Paperback. Two very scarce works early eighteenth century works of poetry, from poets and physicians Richard Blackmore and Joseph Browne. Two very scarce works bound together and held in paper wraps.The first of these works is a 1709 edition of Sir Ric...

The Green Mare

Marcel Ayme · 1938 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, The Fortune Press, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition in English of this entertaining novel by Marcel Ayme. A variant of this edition, issued without plates. An unusual issue of the first edition in English of this work.'The Green Mare', originall...

The Persian Adventurer: Being the Sequel of "the Kuzzilbash

J. B. Frazer [James Baillie Fraser] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830 . First edition. Leather. The scarce three volume first edition of James Baillie Fraser's thrilling romance 'The Persian Adventurer&apos. The scarce first edition of this work, complete in three volumes.The work of Scot...