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Lays of Ancient Rome with Ivry and the Armada

Lord Macaulay · 1904 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1904. Leather. A new edition of Lord Macaulay's popular illustrated book of narrative poems. A new edition of this noted collection of pomes by Thomas Babington Macaulay. The illustrated edition. In prize binding from Wallasey Grammar Scho...

Poems by the Late William Cowper with Some Accounts of the Author

William Cowper · 1818 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Printed for John Bumpus , 1818. Leather. Anthology of poems of William Cowper in full tree calf binding. An anthology of William Cowper's poetry. An uncommon edition printed for John Bumpus.Cowper was a famed English poet and hymnodist. He was a great influence on...

Tell Me a Story

Doris Palmer · 1931 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Cecil Palmer, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of tales and verses from Doris Palmer. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with four coloured plates and in-text decorations. Collated complete. A...

The Pleasures of Inefficiency: A Poem, in Two Cantos

Harold Bagley Forster · 1936 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Winchester, Privately printed, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scarce work by Harold Bagley Forster, in the original glassine wrapper. The first edition of this scarce work in a quarter cloth binding with marbled boards and the original glassine wrappe...

The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier; W. Garrett Horder [ed.] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

London, Henry Frowde; Oxford University Press, 1911 . Cloth. A delightful edition of the works of American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. In a charming faux-morocco cloth binding, with delightful gilt floral detailing to the front board.Illustrated with ...

Eight Tales of Fairyland

Louise B. Poirez · 1887 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)

London , The Leadenhall Press, 1887. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this book of fairy tales, with illustrations. A first, scarce volume of eight fairy tales by Louise B. Poirez. The fairy tales that appear in this volume are Down the Dahlia Walk, Puddle...

The Vultures; the Velvet Glove

Henry Seton Merriman [Hugh Stowell Scott] · 0 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, George Newnes, c1905. Paperback. Two scarce Newnes sixpenny illustrated editions of The Vultures and The Velvet Glove by Henry Seton Merriman. Two scarce Newnes sixpenny editions of The Vultures and The Velvet Glove by Henry Seton Merriman. With eight plates by Scottis...

Reminiscences of Childhood with Reflections of Riper Years. Forming a Miscellany of Moral and Religious Poetry

W. Pringle · 1867 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Durham, Andrews and Co, 1867. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this very scarce volume of poetry designed to inculcate compassion and mercy in its readers. A first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry by Reverend W. Pringle. Little is known about the author...

The Radium Terrors

Albert Dorrington · 1912 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Dorrington's uncommon thriller novel 'The Radium Terrors&apos. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Albert Dorrington (1874-1953) was an Eng...

Ashenden or the British Agent

W. Somerset Maugham · 1928 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London , William Heinemann , 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Ashenden or the British Agent by William Somerset Maugham. A first edition, first impression copy. William Somerset Maugham was an English writer known for his plays, novels and short stories. ...

Works by Miles Burton

Miles Burton · 1946 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London , Collins Crime Club , 1946-1952. Cloth. Two Desmond Merrion crime novels by Miles Burton. Two Collins Crime Club editions of works by Miles Burton. Situation Vacant (1946) and Early Morning Murder (1952)Miles Burton was one of the pen names Cecil John Charles Street u...

Magnum Bonum or Mother Carey&Apos;S Brood

Charlotte M Yonge · 1879 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1879. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Charlotte M Yonge's novel in three volumes. The first edition of this work, complete in three volumes. With two advertising leaves to rear vol. III. Complete with half titles.Continuous pagination....

The Silkworm

Robert Galbraith · 2014 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Great Britain, Sphere, 2014 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the second novel from the Cormoran Strike series by J. K. Rowling using her pseudonym. First edition of The Silkworm in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. By J. K. Ro...

The Spectator

[Joseph Addison]; [Richard Steele]; [Various] · 1711 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, c1753. Leather. A complete set of the popular short-lived periodical by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, complete with a frontispiece to each volume. Complete in eight volumes.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume.'The Sp...

Sylvie and Bruno

Lewis Carroll · 1889 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1889. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Lewis Carroll's final novel, with forty six illustrations by Punch illustrator Harry Furniss. A first edition of Lewis Carroll's final novel, with forty six illustrations by Punch illustrator H...

An Unofficial Rose

Iris Murdoch · 1962 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of Iris Murdoch's sixth novel, 'An Unofficial Rose&apos. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Iris Mur...

The Triumphs of Temper, a Poem: In Six Cantos

William Hayley · 1817 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, William Mason for T. Cadell et al, 1817 . Leather. A bright copy of this uncommon 'New Edition' of William Hayley's popular moral poem, featuring a vibrant colour copper-plate frontispiece. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece from a drawing by George ...

Mary Fenwick&Apos;S Daughter

Beatrice Whitby · 0 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London , Hurst and Blackett, c1900 . Paperback. A scarce edition of Mary Fenwick's Daughter by Beatrice Whitby. A scarce edition. Mary Fenwick's Daughter is a novel by Beatrice Whitby an English novelist and short story writer. With adverts to the front and rear of...

September Roses

Andre Maurois; Gerard Hopkins [trans.] · 1958 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, The Bodley Head, 1958 . Cloth. The first UK edition of this translation of Andre Maurois's novel in the original dust wrapper. First UK edition and English translation of September Roses by Andre Maurois in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped...

A Note in Music

Rosamond Lehmann · 1930 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1930 . Cloth. The scarce first Services Library edition of Rosamund Lehmann's second novel in the original dust wrapper. Early edition of A Note in Music by Rosamond Lehmann in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper...