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Cat and Dog Stories As Told to One Another

Anon · 0 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London , W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. c1880. Cloth. A scarce short story for children about cats and dogs. Illustrated throughout. With Cadbury's Cocoa advert to rear board, and adverts to the pastedowns and endpapers. In paper-covered boards. Externally sound, with some ...

Stories of Boccaccio the Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio · 1906 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London , G Barrie, c1900. Cloth. An English translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. With eleven illustrations from original etchings by French engraver, illustrator and pai...

Which Wins the Prize?

S. S. Pugh · 0 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London , The Religious Tract Society, c1900. Cloth. A scarce copy of this turn-of-the-century children's story from S. S. Pugh. Illustrated with a frontispiece and engraved vignettes. In a decorative cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally, smart, with just a few ma...

The Cruise of the Kingfisher

H de Vere Stacpoole · 1947 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London , Wells Gardener, Darton & Co. 1947. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated work of children's fiction by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. A ship's doctor for more than forty years, Stacpoole was an expert on the South Pacific islands, which feature heavily in this exciting ...

Old French Nursery Songs

Horace Mansion · 0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , George G. Harrap & Co, c1917. Cloth. A nicely illustrated collection of popular French Nursery Songs collected and arranged to music by Horace Mansion. Charming full page illustrations by art nouveau illustrator Anne Anderson. In a cloth binding. Externally sound thou...

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...

The Moon of Much Gladness

Ernest Bramah · 1932 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , Cassell & Company, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Ernest Bramah's fantasy novel, from the Selbourne collection. Kai-Lung is Bramah's fictional Chinese peripatetic storyteller. This book sees his return from earlier Bramah works The novel sati...

English Songs of Italian Freedom

George Macaulay Trevelyan · 1911 · Rooke Books

£33.99 (€40.74 | $44.91 | ¥7,171)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1911. First edition. Cloth. A lyrical collection of English songs regarding the subject of Italian freedom. First edition. Chosen and arranged with an introduction by George Macaulay Trevelyan. With a "Presentation Copy" blind stamp to the titl...

Felix Holt: The Radical.

George Eliot · 1866 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London , William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this social novel by George Eliot focusing on the changes seen in small town rural England as a result of the First Reform Act of 1832. With a publisher's catalogue to the rear of volume I...

Poems: The Empty Purse with Odes to the Comic Spirit to Youth in Memory and Verses

George Meredith · 1892 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1892. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of Meredith's poems. First Edition. George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. In a cloth binding. Externally, very smar...

The Ebb Tide a Trio and Quartette

Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne · 1894 · Rooke Books

£205.00 (€245.72 | $270.83 | ¥43,249)

London , William Heinemann, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A collaborative short novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. This work was written by Stevenson and his step son Lloyd Osbourne. The Ebb Tide was published the same year that Stevenson died. First edition, first issue of this w...

Tales of the Hall. In Two Volumes

George Crabbe · 1819 · Rooke Books

£95.99 (€115.06 | $126.82 | ¥20,251)

London , John Murray, 1819. Hardback. A set of interesting poetical works dating from the Regency period. A 'New Edition&apos. Divided into 22 sections. There is a publisher's advertisement to the rear of Volume II. Complete in two volumes. In the original publisher&...

Ballads and Other Poems

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1884 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,061)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1884. Cloth. A collection of the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Including ballads such as The First Quarrel, The Northern Cobbler, Columbus, De Profundis and many others. In a green cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, though with some bumpi...

M. Or N. "Similia Similibus Curantur.

George John Whyte-Melville. · 1853 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.37 | ¥4,850)

London , Ward, Lock & Bowden, c1870. Cloth. A work of Victorian fiction by the Scottish novelist George John Whyte-Melville. Whyte-Melville published his first novel, Digby Grand, in 1853, which was a huge success. He went onto publish twenty-one novels and became a popular wr...

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 Grove and Other Poems

John Freeman · 1924 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Selwyn & Blount, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetry collection by John Freeman. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. In original cloth binding with a spare spine label tipped in ...

Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

D. H. Lawrence · 1925 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition limited edition copy of this collection of essays by D.H.Lawrence. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Number 39...

Belinda a Tale of Affection in Youth and Age

Hilaire Belloc · 1928 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London, Constable and Company, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Hilaire Belloc titled 'Belinda A Tale of Affection in Youth and Age&apos. First edition. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector ...

My Farm of Edgewood a Country Book

[Donald Mitchell] · 1864 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

New York, Charles Scribner, 1864. Cloth. A work of farming history from rural America, written by the author and essayist Donald Mitchell. Written by the writer and novelist, Donald Grant Mitchell. Many of his works were published under the pen name, Ik Marvel. His works often...

He Knew He Was Right

Anthony Trollope · 1869 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,210)

London, Strahan and Company, 1869. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Trollope's popular novel with numerous plates and illustrations throughout by Marcus Stone. Complete in two volumes. 'He Knew He Was Right' is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollo...