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Sharp Scorpions: Poems
Wrey Gardiner · 1941 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, Grey Walls Press, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A scarce and excellent first edition copy in its unclipped dustwrapper of this collection of poems by Wrey Gardiner. The first edition of this work in the scarce, unclipped dustwrapper. Comprising a selection of sixty one p...
The True Story Book
Andrew Lang · 1893 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1893. First edition. Cloth. A very bright first edition of Andrew Lang's children's anthology, 'The True Story Book&apos. Illustrated, with numerous vignettes and full page illustrations by a variety of popular artists such as L ...
Doctor Therne
H. Rider Haggard · 1898 · Rooke Books
£107.00 (€128.26 | $141.36 | ¥22,574)
London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. A first edition about this science fiction novel by prolific and celebrated author H. Rider Haggard. 'Doctor Therne' is a piece of science fiction and narrates the story of a plague as i...
Grobo
E. H. W. Meyerstein · 1925 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Cecil Palmer, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first U.K. edition of this interesting novel, combining English and Spanish society in the interwar period. The very scarce first U.K. edition of this work.'Grobo' follows a sophisticated London noblem...
A Midsummer Night&Apos;S Dream
William Shakespeare; William Heath Robinson · 1914 · Rooke Books
£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)
London, Constable and Co, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A very smart example of William Shakespeare's famous play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream&apos. Scarce in the original dustwrapper. Very scarce in the original dustwrapper, which is in a lovely condition with only...
Solo, a James Bond Novel
William Boyd · 2013 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, Jonathan Cape, 2013. First edition. Hardback. A pristine copy of Boyd's best-selling James Bond continuation novel. William Boyd is a prolific Scottish novelist and short story writer, known for 'A Good Man in Africa' and 'Any Human Heart' as w...
Palmyra and Other Poems
Thomas Love Peacock · 1806 · Rooke Books
£1,300.00 (€1,558.26 | $1,717.48 | ¥274,260)
London, T. Bensley; W. J. and J. Richardson, 1806. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of Thomas Love Peacock's poetry collection, illustrated here with a romantic frontispiece. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.'Palmyra' is a col...
The Genius of the Thames
Thomas Love Peacock · 1810 · Rooke Books
£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,388)
London, T. Hookham, 1810. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Peacock's poetical study of the River Thames, a loving poem on the central river of England. The first edition of this work.Half-title is present.'The Genius of the Thames' is an ode to the ...
Sir Hornbook; or, Childe Lancelot&Apos;S Expedition
[Thomas Love Peacock] · 1843 · Rooke Books
£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)
London, John Cundall, 1843. Hardback. A very scarce reprint of this satirical Thomas Love Peacock poem about Lancelot, illustrated beautifully throughout. Very scarce illustrated edition.A new edition of this work, published thirty years after the equally scarce first edition....
Melincourt
Thomas Love Peacock · 1817 · Rooke Books
£9,250.00 (€11,087.59 | $12,220.54 | ¥1,951,463)
London, T Hookham, 1817. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of Thomas Love Peacock's noted novel 'Melincourt&apos. It is Love Peacock's second novel. In a contemporary quarter calf binding with paper covered boards.The premise of this novel is L...
The Nurse, a Poem
Luigi Tansillo; William Roscoe · 1804 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
Liverpool, Cadell and Davies, 1804. Leather. An English translation of Luigi Tansillo's nursing-themed poem, illustrated with engravings. The third edition of this translation.'The Nurse, a Poem' is an intriguing poem, written to encourage women to breastfeed th...
The Task
William Cowper · 1817 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, John Sharpe, 1817. Leather. A finely bound early edition of William Cowper's noted blank verse poem 'The Task&apos. With an illustrated title page, and engraved title page to each of the six books of this poem.In a more recent binding. The six books are call...
The Mansfield Mystery
J. C. Lenehan · 1932 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, Herbert J, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this tense and readable murder mystery novel, scarce to find in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work.A scarce work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.'The Mansfield M...
El Jimmy, Outlaw of Patagonia
Herbert Childs · 1936 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)
London, Hutchinson & Co. 1936. Cloth. A scarce first English edition of this biography of James Radburne set in Patagonia, presented in a clam shell box. Herbert Childs (1904-1971) was an American writer and magazine editor. He took his wife to Patagonia on a year-long honeymo...
The Shepherd&Apos;S Calendar
Edmund Spenser; ed. W. L. Renwick · 1930 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, The Scholartis Press, 1930. Cloth. A pastoral verse by early English poet Edmund Spenser, with a rare dust wrapper. 'The Shepheardes Calender' was first published in 1579, and emulates ancient poet Virgil's 'Eclogues&apos. It contains the first use ...
Corridors of Power
C. P. Snow · 1964 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, Macmillan and Co LTD, 1964. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the ninth book in C P Snow's series of political novels, following an MP's attempts to influence government policies about nuclear weapons. The first edition of this work.In the original u...
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold · 1890 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1890. Leather. A Bumpus bound collection of Matthew Arnold's sage poetry, illustrated with a frontispiece, in a morocco binding. In a Bumpus binding.A collection of Matthew Arnold's poetry, containing his early poems, narrative poems, sonnet...
Flashman and the Mountain of Light
George MacDonald Fraser · 1990 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Collins Harvill, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A near fine first edition of this adventurous Flashman novel by George MacDonald Fraser, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.Part of t...
Midsummer Holidays at Briar&Apos;S Hall, or, Summer Mornings Improved
Anonymous · 1828 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Harvey and Darton, 1828. First edition. Leather. A lovely first edition of this piece of children's fiction. This is a piece of children's fiction, published anonymously in 1828. The preface states that its purpose is to imprint the motto that 'Virtue is...
Oeuvres
Lewis Carroll · 1990 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Paris, Gallimard, 1990. Leather. A French collection of the works of Lewis Carroll in a slipcase. This is a French translation of the works of Lewis Carroll, including 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 'Sylvie and Bruno' and 'The Hunting of the ...