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The Good Apprentice

Iris Murdoch · 1985 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Chatto & Windus; The Hogarth Press, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of Iris Murdoch's celebrated novel about morality. A limited edition, with this being no. 178 of 250 numbered and specially bound copies, flat signed by Murdoch herself....

Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

Richard Morris · 1864 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Trubner & Co, 1864. Cloth. The second edition of this unique collection of 14th century alliterative poetry. The second edition, revised.Rebound in full green cloth with renewed endpapers. This work contains early English alliterative poetry, specifically using the We...

The Clerkenwell Tales

Peter Ackroyd · 2003 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Chatto and Windus, 2003. First edition. Cloth. An excellent signed copy of this truly immersive historical gothic novel set during the Lollard movement of the late 1390s. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.The Clerkenwell Tales is a h...

Songs Before Sunrise

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1896 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1896. Cloth. A smart new edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Algernon Charles Swinburne. New edition. Scarce. A collection of poems relating to Italy, and particularly its unification, dedicated to Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini,...

The Vagrants

Yiyun Li · 2009 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Fourth Estate, 2009. Paperback. A smart uncorrected proof of this award winning debut novel from Chinese-born American writer Yiyun Li. Uncorrected proof. The author's debut novel. One day in the Spring of 1979, a twenty-eight-year-old woman is executed for her lo...

The Folklore of Fairy-Tale

Macleod Yearsley · 1924 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Watts & Co. 1924. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Macleod Yearsley's wonderful critical study of the origins of fairy tales and folklore. First edition. With chapters dedicated to the theme of the 'outcast child' and Cinderella, the '...

The Quickening of Caliban: A Modern Story of Evolution

J. Compton Rickett · 1893 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, [1893]. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of J. Compton Rickett's only science-fiction novel, surrounding the evolution of a new species of human. The first edition of this scarce work.In the publisher's original green ...

The Return of Doctor O&Apos;Grady

Andre Maurois; Gerard Hopkins · 1951 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, The Bodley Head, 1951. Paperback. A proof copy of Andre Maurois' second volume of discourses between Doctor O'Grady and Aurelle. A proof copy.'The Return of Doctor O'Grady', published in French as 'Nouveaux Discours du Docteur O'Grady...

Waiting for Sheila

John Braine · 1976 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Eyre Methuen, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A smart review copy of this first edition novel from English writer John Braine. First edition. Review copy with request from publisher. Outwardly, Jim Seathwaite appears the hero of a success story, but inside he is nursing a ...

A Woman of the Ice Age

L. P. Gratacap · 1906 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

New York, Brentano's, 1906. First edition. Hardback. A scarce science fiction novel set in the Ice Age by Louis Pope Gratacap, the first edition of this thought provoking work. The first edition of this scarce work.'A Woman of the Ice Age' is a science fiction n...

Silvertip&Apos;S Search

Max Brand · 1945 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1945 . Cloth. A very scarce early edition of Max Brand's thrilling tale, the eighth work in his Silvertip Western series. An early edition of Max Brand's popular Western, published in the same year as the first edition.Billed to the front ...

The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh: A Historical Edition

Michael Rudick [edited] · 1999 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Tempe, Arizona , Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Renaissance English Text Society , 1999. Cloth. An uncommon historical edition containing the poems attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh. A very smart historical edition of this collection of poems from Sir Walte...

Sacred Country: A Novel

Rose Tremain · 1992 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this award-winning novel from English author Rose Tremain, limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition. Limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author...

Tell It Me Again

John Fuller · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this exciting novel from English writer John Fuller, limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition. Limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author, of whic...

Beau Sabreur

Percival Christopher Wren · 1927 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Cloth. A Photoplay edition of this popular adventure novel by P. C. Wren, with plates from the 1928 film. A Photoplay edition, with plates depicting scenes of the 1928 Paramount Picture starring Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent.Illustrated with a ...

Theocritus, Translated Into English Verse

C. S. Calverley [Charles Stuart Calverley] · 1869 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Cambridge, Deighton, Bell, and Co. 1869. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of this collection of Theocritus' Idylls, epigrams and epitaphs, translated into English verse by the notable wit Charles Stuart Calverley. The first edition of this work in the pub...

A Fringe of Leaves

Patrick White · 1976 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of this novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust w...

Army Boys in France; or, from Training Camp to Trenches

Homer Randall · 1918 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Cleveland; New York, The World Syndicate Publishing Co, c1919 . Cloth. A lovely example of this thrilling children's novel about life on the French front in the First World War. An early edition of this work, which was first published in 1918 by George Sully & Company.In ...

Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns · 1992 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1992. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the unfinished sequel to the popular 'Cold Sassy Tree' by Olive Ann Burns, published after the authors death, in the original unclipped dust wrapper, with a letter from the publisher. The fi...

L" Is for Lawless

Sue Grafton · 1995 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this Kinsey Millhone detective fiction with a very scarce signed insert by the author. The first edition of this work.With a very scarce signed 'Kinsey Millhone' insert. In the publi...