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The Last Days of a Condemned

Victor Hugo · 1840 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1840. Cloth. An English translation of this story of a condemned prisoner from Victor Hugo. With observations on capital punishment by Sir P. Hesketh Fleetwood. Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. ...

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick

Laurence Sterne · 1927 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Davies, 1927. Cloth. A lovely, illustrated interwar edition of the famous novel from Laurence Sterne. With colourful vignettes, broad, clear margins, and large text, this is a charming keepsake From a limited run of two thousand copies for sale, with illustrations by t...

The Story of a Feather

Douglas William Jerrold · 1844 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Punch Office, 1844. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Douglas William Jerrold. With a frontispiece and vignette title page. Held in a fine slipcase and a brodart wrap. In the original brown cloth with gilt stamped pictorial boards. Douglas Willia...

The Loving Eye

William Sansom · 1956 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1956. First edition. Cloth. The Loving Eye A Novel by William Sansom (1912 - 1976) a British novelist, travel and short story writer known for his highly descriptive prose style. First edition. After the war, Sansom became a full-time writer. In 1946...

Poems

Edward MacLysaght · 1928 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A charming limited edition collection of poetry by Edward MacLysaght. The first edition, limited to 950 copies. Scarce, and held in only three institutions on Copac. Edward MacLysaght was an Irish poet, novelist and fore...

The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet

The Brothers Grimm · 1945 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1945. Cloth. A pleasingly illustrated edition of this classic German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Alternatively called The Pack of Ragamuffins, The Vulgar Crew, A Pack of No-goods, Riffraff, and The Pack of Scoundrels, it tells the sto...

The Rovings of a Restless Boy

Katharine B. Foot · 1896 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, Cassell and Company , c1892. Cloth. A heart wrenching work of fiction adapted from the true tales of a run-away homeless boy. Illustrated throughout, featuring a frontispiece by L. L. Roush. Includes a facsimile of a hand written review of the work. From the author of ...

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 ...

Minnow Among Tritons Mrs S.T. Coleridge&Apos;S Letters to Thomas Poole 1799 - 1834

S. T. Coleridge; Stephen Potter · 1934 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition copy of 'Minnow Among Tritons: Mrs S.T. Coleridge's Letters to Thomas Poole 1799 - 1834&apos. This work details the correspondence between Sara Coleridge, Samuel Coleridge's daughter, and Thom...

Bob Son of Battle

Alfred Ollivant · 1899 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

New York, Doubleday and McClure, 1899. Cloth. A good edition of this children's novel about two sheepdogs. Bob, Son of Battle is a children's classic written by English author Alfred Ollivant. It was published in 1898, and went on to become a popular children's ...

The Owl a Miscellany

Various; Robert Graves · 1919 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Martin Secker, 1919. First edition. Hardback. A scarce poetry periodical edited by Robert Graves, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. The second volume of only two ever published. With contributions by Baring, Beebohn, Bianco, Blunden, de la Mare, Fre...

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith · 1904 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, Methuen and Co, 1904. First edition. Vellum. A first edition of this issue of Oliver Goldsmith's novel, 'The Vicar of Wakefield&apos. After Goldsmith gained renown as a poet, John Newbery finally published 'The Vicar of Wakefield' in March 1766. The...

An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

Dr Goldsmith · 1766 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, George Routledge and Sons, c1879. Cloth. One of popular artist Randolph Caldecott's picture books. No date to title page, dated from Copac. With both colour and non colour illustrated plates and vignettes. This text is an elegy on the death of a mad dog, a poem wr...

The Brushwood Boy

Rudyard Kipling · 1907 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1907. First edition. Cloth. A first thus edition copy of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Brushwood Boy'; copiously illustrated throughout with charmingcoloured plates. This story first appeared in 'The Century Magazine' in 1895 and was...

Warp and Woof or, the Reminiscences of Doris Fletcher

Holme Lee [Harriet Parr] · 1861 · Rooke Books

£95.99 (€115.06 | $126.82 | ¥20,251)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1861. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this charming Victorian novel by the renowned British author Harriet Parr, written under the pseudonym Holme Lee. After gaining considerable popularity after publishing her first work &apos...

The First Volume of the Avon Booklet

Various · 1904 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, J. Thomson, 1904. Paperback. A nice bright copy of this charming volume of works by notable poets and writers. Including the works of Robert Browning, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Makepeace Thackeray. Paper covered boards with printed paper s...

Poems and Translations

Reginald Heber · 1829 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, John Murray, 1829. Hardback. A selection of poems by the writer of Hymns for the Church of England, Reginald Heber. Uncommon. Reginald Heber (1783 – 1826) was a Church of England bishop, now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer. Heber was a pious man of profound learni...

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 ...

The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse

Anonymous [Attributed to Dorothy Kilner] · 1850 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Grant and Griffith, 1850. Cloth. A scarce children's book about the life of a mouse. New edition, with engraved frontispiece. Bookseller's label of Calder to front pastedown. In a cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with some bumping, and some cocking to...

Takings; or, the Life of a Collegian

Thomas Gaspey · 1821 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London, John Warren, 1821. Cloth. An edition of this humourous poetical work by Thomas Gaspey. Thomas Gaspey (1788-1871) was an English writer who was a parliamentary reporter for the Morning Post, as well as a contributor of dramatic reviews, political parodies and reports of...