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The Friendly Story Book an Alderman Book

Anonymous · 0 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , James and Jonathan, c1939. Cloth. A very scarce copy of The Friendly Story Book An Alderman Book by Anonymous With '32 Easy to read pages and over 100 colour pictures&apos. An Alderman Book. In original paper wraps. Stories include: Clementine, Holiday, Rainy Pic...

Milton&Apos;S L&Apos;Allegro and IL Penseroso

John Milton · 1855 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,382)

London , David Bogue, 1855. Cloth. An elegantly illustrated edition of Milton's poetry. In a gutta percha binding. Illustrated with etchings on steel by Birket Foster. In original decorative cloth binding. Externally, lightly rubbed with wear to extremities and slight fad...

Burns, Ramsay, Tennant, Rogers and Schiller Select Poetical Works

Various · 1838 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

Edinburgh , William and Robert Chambers, 1838. Cloth. A collection of the poetry of Burns, Ramsay, Tennant, Rogers, and Schiller bound together in one volume. Each poet's section contains a memoir or introductory note, followed by a selection of their writings. A lovely s...

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...

Songs and Fantasies

L. Ffolliott · 1909 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London , A. C. Fifield, 1909. Cloth. A scarce copy of this magical work of fantasies told in verse. Presentation copy "With the author's compliments" dated 30th June 1909. With publisher's original advertisements to the rear. In original half buckram binding with pap...

The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry

Various · 0 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London , Ernest Benn Ltd. c1930. Cloth. A smartly bound collection of eight issues from the Augustan Books of Modern Poetry. Edited by Edward Thompson. Containing the works of Laurence Binyon, Hilaire belloc, Edmund Gosse, John Drinkwater, Harold Monro, Rose Macaulay, Arthur W...

Songs and Verses on Sporting Subjects

R. E. Egerton-Warburton · 1887 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.37 | ¥4,850)

London , Ellis and Scrutton, 1887. Cloth. A collection of sporting poetry Songs and Verses on Sporting Subjects by R. E. Egerton-Warburton. Second edition. Poems include: Vive La Chasse!, The Man with One Hunter, An Australian Stag-Hung, A London Ballad and On the Death of the...

Confidence

Henry James · 1880 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1880. Cloth. A first thus edition of this novel by Henry James. Henry James was an Anglo-American writer who spent the bulk of his career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. In a cloth binding. Ext...

King Henry the Second an Historical Drama

Sir Arthur Helps · 1843 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , William Pickering, 1843. Cloth. An early edition of King Henry the Second by Sir Arthur Helps. Sir Arthur Helps, KCB, DCL (10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875), was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council, youngest son of Thomas Helps, a London merchant, was born in ...

The Ogilvies a Novel

Dinah Maria Craik · 1826 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London , Richard Edward King, c1880. Cloth. The Ogilvies is a novel by Dinah Maria Craik, with a black and white plate to frontispiece and decorative head and tail pieces. Dinah Maria Craik (1826 - 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She was determined to obtain a liveliho...

Winter Visitors

McCarthy · 1970 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this short story by Mary McCarthy. Taken from a later novel Birds of America published 1971. This first edition was issued as a New Year's gift by publisher's Harcourt Brace Jovano...

The Poems and Ballads of Schiller

Edward Bulwer Lytton · 1844 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1844. Cloth. A two volume set of the poems of Schiller. Complete in two volumes. Translated by Edward Bulwer Lytton, an English novelist, poet and playwright who was popular for his best selling novels. In cloth bindings. Exter...

Juvenile Poems

Chandos Leigh · 1815 · Rooke Books

£790.00 (€946.94 | $1,043.70 | ¥166,665)

London , Printed for W. Lindsell, 1815. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of Juvenile Poems by Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh (1791 - 1850) who was a British landowner and poet. With a preface by the author to front dated 1817. First edition. Leigh was Lord Byron's...

The Well of the Saints

John M. Synge · 1911 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

Dublin , Maunsel and Company, Ltd, 1911. Vellum. A 1911 edition of The Well of the Saints. Written by John M. Synge, a noted Irish playwright who earned notoriety with his subequent play The Playboy of the Western World, the play focusses on a group of beggars in 'some lo...

Berkshire Ballads and Other Papers

John A. Brain · 1904 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Reading , Thomas Thorp, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A posthumously published collection of the papers and lectures of John A. Brain. The volume commences with the title lecture and then follows a series of lectures on various figures; An Evening with Thomas Noon Talfourd; and ...

The Forest Lovers a Romance; and Rest Harrow a Comedy of Resolution in Two Volumes

Maurice Hewlett · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1912. Cloth. Two volumes of Maurice Hewlett's work. Both with a black and white Frontispiece. Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861–1923), was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry G...

Ixion in Heaven and Endymion

Benjamin Disraeli and William Edmondstoune Aytoun · 1927 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London , Scholartis Press, 1927. Cloth. A short novel and poem written by Benjamin Disraeli and William Edmondstoune Aytoun respectively, bound into one volume and bearing the sub heading "Disraeli's Skit and Aytoun's Burlesque". A limited edition of 525 copies, this...

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...

Lays and Legends of the West

Frank Curson · 1846 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Whittaker and Co. 1846. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of poetry and miscellanea. 'A series of papers on some of the less known of our local traditions with minor poems of a miscellaneous character' A collection of short legen...

Gastronomic Pleasures a Literary Retrospect of a Few Notable Feasts

Graham Reynolds · 1950 · Rooke Books

£33.99 (€40.74 | $44.91 | ¥7,171)

London , Art and Technics, 1950. Cloth. A charming pocket-sized anthology on the delights of eating and drinking. First edition, first printing. "Ranging from Samuel Pepys to James Joyce". Illustrated throughout and featuring the original dustwrapper. In original paper covered...