Letteratura

Platform, Press, Politics & Play

T. H. S. Escott · 1895 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this collection of stories and sketches of contemporary celebrities. First edition. Scarce work. A collection of sketches on contemporary celebrities around the south of England, including: B...

The Jackdaw of Rheims

Thomas Ingoldsby [Richard Harris Barham] · 1870 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Richard Bentley, 1870. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of this legend by Thomas Ingoldsby, or Richard Harris Barham. Illustrated with twelve coloured images. Collated complete. This book features the story of the Jackdaw of Rheims, who steals a cardinal's...

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse

Beatrix Potter · 1919 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Frederick Warne & Co. LTD, 1919. Hardback. A very early reprint of one of the charming and beloved tales of Beatrix Potter, complete with her original colourful plates. A very early printing of the first edition, with no date to the title page, first edition endpapers ...

Diana: The Sonnets and Other Poems of Henry Constable

Henry Constable · 1859 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , Basil Montagu Pickering, 1859. Cloth. A copy of Diana: The Sonnets and Other Poems of Henry Constable. Henry Constable was an English poet best known for Diana, which is one of the first English Sonnet sequences. This volume contains the renowned Diana and other sonn...

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith; Austin Dobson · 1904 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1904. Leather. Oliver Goldsmith's celebrated novel in a prize binding signed Mudie, beautifully illustrated by Hugh Thomson. One of the most popular novels among Victorians, The Vicar of Wakefield was originally published in 1766, and concerns fa...

The Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; William Aldis Wright [ed.] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London and New York, Macmillan and Co. 1894-1895. Cloth. A lovely collection complete in nine volumes of the Wright edition of Shakespeare's works. Reprint edition of The Works of William Shakespeare edited by William Aldis Wright in the original publisher's cloth bi...

The Region of the Summer Stars

Charles Williams · 1944 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Editions Poetry, 1944. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this work of poetry by Charles Williams. First edition. A work of poetry from the calling of Taliessin, to the Queen's servant and the prayers of the Pope. Written by Charles Williams, a British no...

A Maggot

John Fowles · 1985 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1985. First edition. Paperback. An uncommon to see uncorrected proof copy of this sixth major novel of John Fowles, a fine copy of this postmodern novel. An uncorrected proof copy.'A Maggot' is an intriguing postmodern novel by John Fowles, tol...

A Maggot

John Fowles · 1985 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the sixth major novel of successful postmodernist author John Fowles. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original dust wrapper, clipped and re-priced...

Alarms and Diversions

James Thurber · 1957 · Rooke Books

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

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first edition anthology of short stories and essays by James Thurber, inscribed by the author. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Ins...

A Maggot

John Fowles · 1985 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. A specially bound signed Limited Edition of the first edition of John Fowles's postmodern historical novel, set between May 1736 and February 1737, in which Fowles examines historiography, the nature of history, and crim...

The Fudge Family in Paris

Thomas Brown · 1818 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1818. Leather. A smart second edition copy of The Fudge Family in Paris. A second edition copy. The Fudge Family in Paris is a verse satire by Thomas Brown, the younger. The verses were intended to be a comedic c...

English Prose Selections

Henry Craik · 1893 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1893-1922. Leather. Four leather bound volumes of Henry Craik's English Prose Selections. The first four of five volumes of English Prose Selections, edited by Henry Craik. The first volume is a first edition copy and the other three copies are...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

Dr J. C. Mardrus; Powys Mathers [trans.] · 1982 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Bibliophile Books, 1982-83. Cloth. A bright later printing of this Bibliophile edition of the celebrated tales known as 'Arabian Nights' rendered into English by Powys Mathers. The celebrated stories known as One Thousand and One Night in four volumes in the ...

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain · 1880 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Toronto, Belford & Co. 1880. Cloth. An unrecorded Canadian edition of this work of travel literature by Mark Twain. Unrecorded Canadian edition. First published 1880. Illustrated throughout with in-text and full page sketches. A mixture of autobiography and fictional events, t...

The Monk. A Romance.

M. G. Lewis [Matthew Lewis] · 1795 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London , Privately Printed [B. Fawcett and Co.], c1890 . Leather. A scarce limited edition of Mathew Lewis's infamous and celebrated gothic novel, in beautiful half crushed morocco Zaehnsdorf bindings. A scarce late nineteenth century Limited Edition of Lewis's gothi...

The Works of Thomas Moore Vol. VI

Thomas Moore · 1819 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Paris , Galignani, 1819. First edition. Leather. A first Galignani edition of this volume of works by Thomas Moore. Volume VI from the Works of Thomas Moore. This volume includes Odes of Anacreon-Little's Poems, being the first Galignani edition. Thomas Moore was an Iri...

The Golden Treasury Series: Selections from the Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough; Poems of Shelley; the Golden Treasury: Second Series

Arthur Hugh Clough; Percy Shelley; Francis Turner Palgrave · 1894 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1894-1902. Leather. A beautiful group of three volumes from the 'Golden Treasury Series' of verses in exquisite uniform prize bindings. Three volumes from Macmillan's 'Golden Treasury Series&apos. With half titles, vignette illustr...

The Red Chipmunk Mystery

Ellery Queen · 1948 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

London, Collins, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated first edition of this children's novel by Ellery Queen. First edition. Illustrated with drawings by E. A. Watson. Written by Ellery Queen, the pseudonym of American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay...

Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars.

Samuel Butler · 1761 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, D. Browne; C. Hitch; L. Hawes; J. Shuckburgh; et al, 1761. Leather. A Hogarth illustrated edition of this important long narrative poem by Samuel Butler, this being the second Hogarth edition. The second Hogarth edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, five folding pla...