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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Gregory Rabassa · 1970 · Rooke Books

£1,450.00 (€1,738.05 | $1,915.65 | ¥305,905)

New York, Harper and Row , 1970. First edition. Cloth. A stunning first American edition, second state copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's widely acclaimed novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, translated into English and in the original unclipped dustwrapper. A stunning copy...

Little Portia

Simon Gray · 1967 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Faber & Faber, 1967. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical novel by Simon Gray, enclosed in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A compelling novel about two children who are orphaned following a car accident after the celebrations of VE-Day, and t...

Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee · 1959 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,375)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second impression of Laure Lee's semi-autobiographical novel. Retaining the suppressed statement, and in the publisher's original dust wrapper. A very unusual second impression of the first ed...

Poems

Jean Ingelow · 1867 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1867 . First edition. Leather. The first illustrated edition of the charming volume of poems from Jean Ingelow. Engraved by The Brother's Dalziel, and in a signed binding from H. Sotheran. The first illustrated edition of this del...

Life of Pi

Yann Martel · 2002 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Edinburgh, Canongate, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A seventh impression copy of this work of fiction by Yann Martel, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First UK Edition, eighth impression. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Th...

Basil: A Story of Modern Life

William Wilkie Collins · 1856 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London , James Blackwood , 1856 . Leather. A scarce very early edition of William Wilkie Collins's second novel Basil.  Rare to see in a single volume this edition published four years after the first of 1852.The novel follows Basil who falls in love with a woman below h...

Oeuvres de Jean Racine

Jean Racine · 1813 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Paris, Stereotype D'Herhan de l'Imprimerie de A. Belin, 1813. Leather. Complete collection of these charming pocket sized editions of the works of Jean Racine, in uniform full calf bindings. The complete theatrical works of J. Racine, complete in five uniform leather...

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. To Which Is Prefixed, Some Account of His Life and Writings

Oliver Goldsmith · 1801 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Printed for J. Johnson, G. and J. Robinson, W. J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son; et al. 1801. Leather. A new edition complete in four uniform volumes of the miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith. Oliver Goldsmith was an important and prolific Anglo-Irish auth...

A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads

1860 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, W. Kent & Co. 1860. First edition. Leather. First edition of this picturesque collection nineteenth century ballads enriched with numerous beautiful engravings. The first edition of this work. A large paper volume containing favourite English ballads in the nineteenth ...

The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith · 1887 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1887. Cloth. An excellent copy of the collected poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith. Oliver Goldsmith was an important Anglo-Irish author in the eighteenth century. A later impression of his collected poems and plays, with the addition of his mo...

Sources of Unrest

Peter Vansittart · 1962 · Rooke Books

£57.00 (€68.32 | $75.30 | ¥12,025)

London, The Bodley Head, 1962. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this perceptive and emotional novel by Peter Vansittart, in the original nicely illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A perceptive novel by Peter Vansittart, ...

Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century and St. Ronan&Apos;S Well

Sir Walter Scott; Rev. P. Hately Waddell (Ed) · 1885 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo & Co.; W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1885. Leather. A leather-bound copy containing two of Scott's 'Waverley Novels', with frontispieces and vignette title engravings to both volumes, as well as notes from P. Hately Waddell. 1885 Firs...

Kindergarten

P. S. Rushforth · 1979 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this moving retelling of 'Hansel and Gretel' by P. S. Rushforth, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this short and disturbing novel, a grim retelling of the popular...

The Cuckoo

Rudolf Nassauer · 1962 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Peter Owen LTD , 1962. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this uncommon first edition novel by Rudolf Nassauer, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. Second novel by Rudolf Nassauer, concerning the dying relationship of a man and his wife, with perceptive descripti...

The Earthly Paradise: A Poem Part IV

William Morris · 1871 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Roberts Brothers , 1871. First edition. Cloth. First US edition of part IV of William Morris' epic poem. The Earthly Paradise by William Morris, part IV containing the December, January, and February parts. The epic poem is complete in twelve parts, each represent...

Thomson&Apos;S Poetical Works

James Thomson; Rev. George Gilfillan · 1853 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Edinburgh, James Nichols , 1853. Leather. The poetical works of James Thomson in one volume, first thus edited by George Gilfillan. An anthology of the poems of James Thomson, eighteenth century Scottish author known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, an...

The Essays of Elia: First Series and Second Series

Charles Lamb · 1840 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Edward Moxon, 1840. Leather. Charles Lamb's collection of essays 'The Essays of Elia' and 'The Last Essays of Elia' in one volume. These essays first appeared in The London Magazine between 1820 and 1825, published in book form in 1823 with a...

Our Street

M. A. Titmarsh [William Makepeace Thackeray] · 1848 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1848. Hardback. The second edition of this charming book by William Makepeace Thackeray, with sixteen hand-coloured plates. The second edition of this little book by William Makepeace Thackeray, one of five published under pseudonym M. A. Titmarsh. T...

The Kickleburys on the Rhine

M. A. Titmarsh; [William Makepeace Thackeray] · 1866 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1866. Cloth. A wonderful early edition of one of novels within William Makepeace Thackeray's 'Christmas Books', containing colour plates and 'An Essay on Thunder and Small Beer' as the preface. Early Edition. Illustrated wi...

The Pilgrim&Apos;S Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come

John Bunyan · 1678 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, James Blackwood & Co, c1870. Cloth. A nicely illustrated copy of John Bunyan's religious allegory, containing a frontispiece and several other illustrated plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrations include a frontispiece and three illus...