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Gleanings from the Works of Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne · 1796 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, T. Wills, [1796]. First edition. Leather. A scarce pocketsized collection of the works of Laurence Sterne, with a charming engraved frontispiec.e The first and only edition of this particular collection of Sterne"s works. ESTC Citation No. T14804. Duodecimo. Undated. D...

Pictures from the Life of Nelson

W. Clark Russell · 1897 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, James Bowden, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this uncommon biography work, illustrated throughout and penned by celebrated writer Clark Russell. An uncommon first edition biography, in smart original green pictorial boards. With only one record on Jisc. Fe...

Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children

Kate Greenaway · 1878 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, George Routledge & Sons, [1878]. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition, second issue of Kate Greenaway's beautifully colour illustrated collection of rhymes for children. The first edition, second issue. Bound in the publisher's original quarter clot...

Crack of Dawn

Leslie Ford [Zenith Jones Brown] · 1945 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1945 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first UK edition of Leslie Ford's thrilling murder mystery set in Washington high society, and involving a double murder. The very scarce first UK edition, first impression of this work, which...

The Valley of Adventure; the River of Adventure; the Castle of Adventure; the Island of Adventure

Enid Blyton · 1955 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1955-1957 . Cloth. Four volumes from the Adventure Series by popular children's novelist Enid Blyton, illustrated by Stuart Tresilian. A four volume set. Mixed editions, including a first. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bind...

Broad Grins: My Nightgown and Slippers and Other Humorous Works, Prose and Poetical, with Life and Anecdotes of the Author

George Colman the Younger [ed. by George B. Buckstone] · 1881 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1881. Cloth. A collection of the humorous poetry and stories of English dramatist George Colman the Younger, with a short biography to the beginning. Broad Grins: My Nightgown and Slippers and other Humorous Works, Prose and Poetical, a collection of t...

The Works of Horace, Translated Into Verse

Christopher Smart · 1767 · Rooke Books

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

London, W. Fleyney; T. Caslon, 1767 . First edition. Leather. In full tree calf bindings, this is the very scarce complete four volume first edition of Christopher Smart's verse translation of Horace's 'Odes&apos. The very scarce first edition of this work, comp...

The Keepsake for Mdcccxlii

Marguerite Gardiner, The Countess of Blessington · 1842 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1842 . First edition. Cloth. The beautifully illustrated and scarce first edition of this literary annual for the year 1842, with engraved plates throughout. The scarce first edition of The Keepsake for the year 1842. Illustrated wit...

The Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray; Rev. John Mitford · 1816 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, J. Mawman, 1816 . First edition. Leather. The uncommon two volume first edition of the collected poetry and correspondence of Thomas Gray, in handsome half calf bindings. The first edition, complete in two volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. The wo...

The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot

Dr. [John] Arbuthnot · 1751 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Glasgow, James Carlile, 1751. Leather. The second edition of this scarce posthumous anthology of the works of London polymath, John Arbuthnot. The second edition, with additions. Complete in two volumes, with reverse calf boards.  'A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works...

Endless Night

Agatha Christie · 1967 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, The Crime Club [Collins], 1967. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of one of Agatha Christie's favourites of her works, a darker tale that reminds readers of her mastery in suspense. The first edition of Endless Night, a doom-laden story, written by the Queen...

2 Vols the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill: Envoy Extraordinary from the Court of St. James to the Duke of Savoy, from July 1703 to May 1706.

Richard Hill; W. Blackley [Ed.] · 1845 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, John Murray , 1845. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Richard Hill"s diplomatic correspondence, complete in two volumes, documenting Britain"s role in the War of the Spanish Succession and the politics of Savoy, Piedmont and the Vaudois. In the publisher'...

Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. And Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages of Prose, Book Third & Fourth.

Vicesimus Knox [Ed.] · 1801 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, J. Johnson , 1801. Leather. Three smart, tree calf volumes of this popular, nineteenth-century miscellany of passages; designed for the improvement of young persons. The seventh edition of the Elegant Extracts of Verse and Prose. edited by Vicesimus Knox. Knox's ...

Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists

R. Dodsley [Richard Dodsley]; Esop [Aesop] · 1788 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Willm Osborne & Jn Mozley, c1788 . Leather. A 'New Edition' of the Robert Dodsley edition of Aesop's fables, with vignette woodcut illustrations throughout. A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales w...

Kim; the Light That Failed; Traffics and Discoveries; Puck of Pook&Apos;S Hill; Life&Apos;S Handicap; Debts and Credits

Rudyard Kipling · 1902 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1902-1926. First edition. Cloth. Six works from the prolific Rudyard Kipling, including the first edition of Traffics and Discoveries, early impressions and illustrations. Six volumes from the works of prolific British author Rudyard Kipling, includin...

Cecily Parsley&Apos;S Nursery Rhymes

Beatrix Potter · 1922 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, c1933 . Hardback. A wonderful example of Beatrix Potter's collection of traditional English nursery rhymes, charmingly illustrated throughout in colour. First published in 1922, this charming later example of this work features Quinby pl...

The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

Beatrix Potter · 1906 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1906 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue of this charmingly illustrated Beatrix Potter title, bound in a charming panorama format that was only used for two of her works. The first edition, first issue of this work. Quinby 12, w...

The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse

Thomas Hardy · 1920 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1920-1926. Cloth. Thirteen volumes of the Wessex edition of Thomas Hardy's collected prose and verse works, in the publisher's original cloth stamped with gilt to the spines.  The Wessex edition of Thomas Hardy's collected prose and ve...

Contes D"or de Ma Mãƒâ¨Re-Grand

Charles Robert-Dumas · 1929 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Paris, Boivin & Cie, Editeurs, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated first edition of Robert-Dumas"s Grandmother"s Golden Fairy Tales, illustrated with numerous tipped-in coloured plates by prominent French illustrators. A first edition of this charming collecti...

The Suffolk Garland: Or, a Collection of Poems, Songs, Tales, Ballads, Sonnets and Elegies, Legendary and Romantic, Historical and Descriptive, Relative to That Country; and Illustrative of Its Scenery, Places, Biography, Manners, Habits and Customs

Multiple authors · 1818 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. First edition. Leather. A full calf first edition copy of this collection of poems, songs, tales, ballads, sonnets and elegies on the county Suffolk. The first edition. Bound in full calf.With a monochrome vignette illustrat...