Letteratura

Esther Waters

George Moore · 1920 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London , Cumann Sean-Eolais Na H-Eireann [privately printed], 1920. Cloth. A limited edition, privately printed copy of Esther Waters by George Moore. This is number 296 of 750 copies numbered and signed by the author. Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is a...

Passages from Modern Authors for Class-Reading

John Downie · 0 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London , Blackie and Son Limited, c1907. Cloth. A scarce copy of this Talwin Morris designed book of Passages From Modern Authors for Class-Reading. Compiled and edited by John Downie. "This book aims at providing, within a reasonable space, a large and interesting selection o...

Edmund Dulac&Apos;S Picture Book for the French Red Cross

Edmund Dulac · 1916 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London , Hodder and Stoughton, [1916]. Cloth. A collection of songs and stories from popular culture, illustrated by Edmund Dulac. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe children's book market shrank he turned to magazine illustr...

Ulick and Soracha

George Moore · 1926 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London , Nonesuch Press, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of George Moore's novel Ulick and Soracha. Limited edition, number 637 of 1250 copies printed on japon vellum for the Nonesuch Press. With scarce original dustwrapper in a complete and fine condition. ...

Proverbs in Porcelain to Which Is Added &Apos;Au Revoir&Apos; a Dramatic Vignette

Austin Dobson · 1893 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London , Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1893. Cloth. An illustrated collection of poetry by English poet Austin Dobson. With 25 illustrations by Bernard Partridge including a frontispiece and an illustrated title page. John Bernard Partridge was an English illustrator known...

Nine Little Poems

Richard Harris · 1877 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London , E. J. Francis and Co. 1877. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce early edition of Nine Little Poems by Richard Harris. An author's presentation copy with an ink dedication to verso of front free endpaper. With decorative pieces and capitals throughout. First editi...

The Masque of Poets

Edward J. O'Brien (Ed) · 1918 · Rooke Books

£86.00 (€103.08 | $113.62 | ¥18,143)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A first edition work collating a large collection of works by numerous poets, and signed by the editor. First edition. Signed by the editor, Edward O'Brien and dated March 25 1918. An important anthology of poe...

A Modern Comedy

John Galsworthy · 1929 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Heinemann, 1929. Vellum. A signed limited edition of Galsworthy's 'Modern Comedy&apos. With an illustrated plate of the Forsyte Family Tree. This is the 69th copy of 1030 printed which are signed and inscribed by the author. The inscription to this copy is a ...

Emma a Play Founded on Jane Austen&Apos;S Novel

Marion Morse MacKaye · 1941 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this play by Marion MacKaye, based upon the novel by Jane Austen. With a preface by Percy MacKaye. With a portrait frontispiece and three illustrated plates. Inscribed by Percy MacKaye to a ...

Les Marionnettes de Justin Et Les Droits de Coeur

Charles Narrey; Leopole Laluye · 1869 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, 1869 - 1873. Leather. Two uniformly bound plays by eminent French playwrights. 'Les Marionnettes de Justin' by Charles Narrey and 'Les Droits de Coeur' by Leopold Laluye. Both volumes are in the original French. Both volumes appea...

The Professor at the Breakfast Table the Poet at the Breakfast Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. · 1905 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, J M Dent and Co, 1905. Leather. Two finely bound volumes of Oliver Wendell Holmes' popular prose works. In a beautiful half calf binding by Bayntun of Bath. These are both the third edition of J M Dent and Co's publication of the 'Breakfast-Table' s...

Champions Du Monde

Paul Morand · 1930 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1930. Leather. A fine copy of Morand's Champions du Monde. With a dedication by the author. A copy of Morand's Champions du Monde. With a dedication by the author. Paul Morand (1888 1976) was a French author whose short stories and novellas we...

Le Passe Plus Qu&Apos;Imparfait

Aldo Guetta · 1986 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

Paris, Aldo Guetta, 1986. Cloth. A very scarce collection of monetary pastiches by Aldo Guetta, the former director of the Paris International Monetary Fund office. With an inscription to title page, presumably by the author. In English and French In a half cloth binding with ...

Around the Fireside, Being Homely Sketches in Prose and Verse

Rev. T. M'William [McWilliam] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Aberdeen, D. Wyllie & Son, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely example of the scarce first edition of this illustrated poetry collection. A presentation copy, with a signed letter from the author. A signed presentation copy of the scarce first edition of this poetry collecti...

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Charles Dickens · 1850 · Rooke Books

£680.00 (€815.09 | $898.38 | ¥143,459)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound first edition of Charles Dickens's celebrated Victorian bildungsroman, with illustrations throughout from Phiz. The first edition in book form of this work.A mixed issue, with the following first ...

Pere Goriot: Scenes from Parisian Life

Honore de Balzac · 1887 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1887. Leather. A handsome limited edition of Balzac"s Père Goriot, the great Parisian novel of ambition, sacrifice, and social climbing, bound in a half morocco binding by Geo. Winstanley. Bound in a half morocco binding with marbled paper b...

Jane Austen

E.J Sheppard; J.B.E. Turner; Susannah Fullerton [ed.]; Anne Harbers [ed.]; Frederick Bussby; Deirdre le Faye; John Hubback; et. al · 1952 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

London; Bath; Australia; Winchester; Bristol; , Longmans; James Brodie Ltd.; Wellington Lane Press; The Friends of Winchester Cathedral; The Jane Austen Society; John Hubback; , 1952-2007. Cloth. London; Bath; Australia; Winchester; Bristol; : Longmans; James Brodie Ltd.; Well...

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse; a New Version of an Old Story Arranged As a Play for Mummers

Thomas Hardy · 1923 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this this play for amateurs in one act by Thomas Hardy. A one-act play by Thomas Hardy, one of the only two pieces of drama written by this author.The first edition.In the original green cl...

Rain: A Volume of Poems

Jean Kenward · 1946 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, W. H. Allen & Co, 1946 . First edition. Paperback. Signed by the author, this is a bright example of the very scarce first edition of Jean Kenwards' illustrated poetry collection. A very scarce first edition, first impression, flat signed by the author to a front ...

Selected Bab Ballads

W. S. Gilbert; Hesketh Pearson [Intro.]; Philip James [A Note on the Illustrator] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford, Allen Lane/University Press, 1955 . First edition. Cloth. A beautiful limited edition of W. S. Gilbert's delightful 'Bab Ballads', with a handwritten letter from Hilary Jenkinson to Philip James, contesting James's interpretations of Gilbert's ...