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The Tree of Hands

Ruth Rendell · 1984 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1984. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling suspense novel from Ruth Rendell. First edition. A suspense novel following the story of Benet and his mother, Mopsa, who had tried to stab him when he was a child. A recent death in t...

The Farmer&Apos;S Boy; Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs. Wild Flowers; or Pastoral and Local Poetry

Robert Bloomfield · 1851 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

Halifax, Milner and Sowerby, 1851. Cloth. A smart copy of this collection of rural poetry from English labouring-class writer, Robert Bloomfield. With a frontispiece, vignette title page, and many in-text images. A collection of rural and pastoral poetry including: Market Nigh...

The Works of George Borrow

George Borrow; Clement Shorter [editor] · 1923 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.44 | $634.25 | ¥101,294)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1923. Cloth. A smart limited edition set of the works of English writer, George Borrow. With the original dust wrappers. Ten volumes of a sixteen volume set. Lacking volumes eleven to sixteen. Limited to seven hundred and seventy-five copies ...

Poetry London X

Various; Tambimuttu [ed.] · 1944 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Nicholson & Watson, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Volume 2, Number 10, of this brightly illustrated and highly regarded literary magazine Poetry London. The first edition of this work, Volume 2, Number 10, of Poetry London, in the publisher'...

The Fall of Jerusalem: A Dramatic Poem

Rev. H. H. Milman · 1821 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, John Murray, 1821 . Hardback. An early edition of Henry Hart Milman's dramatic poem, in the publisher's original boards. An early edition of this dramatic poem, which was first published the year prior.A dramatic play, written in poetic form, from professor o...

The Dolly Dialogues

Anthony Hope · 1894 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Westminster Gazette, 1894. Cloth. An early edition of this fictional work by Anthony Hope, and the first book to be fully illustrated by the legendary Arthur Rackham, bound in quarter straight grain morocco with the original paper wraps bound in. The twentieth thousand...

La Vie de Caserne

Georges Courteline · 1896 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Paris, Emile Testard, 1896. Leather. A smart copy of this illustrated satire from French writer Georges Courteline, in the original French. French language. Illustrated with six colour plates and many in-text images. Collated complete. A charming satire from Georges Courteline...

H.M. S. Ulysses, the Guns of Navarone, & South by Java Head

Alistair MacLean · 1955 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Collins, 1955-1958. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first edition volumes from Scottish novelist, Alistair MacLean. Three volumes. First edition. Written by Alistair MacLean, a Scottish novelist of popular thrillers and adventure stories. This set includes the author...

The Life and Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb · 1899 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1899-1900. Leather. A smart complete set of this limited edition de luxe series of works by Charles Lamb, with the author's life. Complete in twelve volumes. Edition de Luxe. Limited to six hundred and seventy-five copies. The life and w...

The Cocktail Party

T. S. Eliot · 1950 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Faber and Faber LTD, 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the most successful play of T. S. Eliot, a verse drama following the troubled relationship of a husband and wife. The first edition, first impression, with the misprinting to page 29 'You shall ...

Twelve to Twelve

Jeni Couzyn; Various · 1970 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Poets Trust, 1970. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this poetical anthology commissioned by Camden Festival, including poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. The first edition of this work.Review slip loosely inserted. An anthology of poetry compiled by ...

The English Illustrated Magazine

Various · 1884 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1884-1891. First edition. Leather. Eight leather-bound volumes of the 'The English Illustrated Magazine' from October 1883 to September 1891. The first editions of these eight volumes in a half calf binding. Ink inscription to the first blan...

Four Volumes of First Edition Novels by Howard Spring; There Is No Armour a Sunset Touch These Lovers Fled Away Time and the Hour

Howard Spring · 1948 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Collins, 1948-57. First edition. Cloth. Four first edition fiction novels by Howard Spring, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition to all. Four Volumes.In the publisher's original cloth to all but 'Time and the Hour' and 'These ...

The Mind of the English Speech Delivered at the Meeting of the Royal Society of St. George, London, St. George"S Day, 1920.

Rudyard Kipling · 1921 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

New York , Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this very scarce transcribed speech by Rudyard Kipling, in the original binding and the original glassine dust wrapper. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original quarter paper vel...

The Miniature

Eden Phillpotts · 1926 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

London, Watts & Co, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this fantastical novel by Eden Phillpotts, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Inscribed by the ...

Maidlin to the Rescue: A Story of the Abbey Girls

Elsie Jeanette Oxenham · 1934 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, W. & R. Chambers, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of the sixteenth work in Elsie J. Oxenham's Abbey series The first edition, first impression of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates from Rene Cloke. Collated, complete...

Doctor Therne

H. Rider Haggard; Andrew Lang · 1898 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this exciting science fiction novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Following a smallpox epidemic that sweeps across England. Written as an attack on the anti-v...

King Solomon&Apos;S Mines

H. Rider Haggard · 1961 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1961. Cloth. A smart copy of this popular novel from H. Rider Haggard, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with one plan and two plates. Collated complete. Telling of Allan Quatermain and his group of adventurers in an unex...

Heu-Heu or the Monster

H. Rider Haggard · 1972 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Hutchinson Library Services, 1972. Cloth. A very smart reprint of this monster story from English writer H. Rider Haggard. Reprint, originally published 1924. Featuring a legend about a giant gorilla monster in Rhodesia, to which young women are sacrificed, told by All...

A Collection of Harry Potter Diaries and Address Books

Warner Bros. · 2001 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Warner Bros.; Bloombury, 2001-2003 . First edition. Hardback. A pristine collection of diaries and address books surrounding the magical world of Harry Potter. Very scarce. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial boards. This interesting and scarce collection ...