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Peter Duck & the Picts and the Martyrs

Arthur Ransome · 1983 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1983-1995. Cloth. Two smart copies of volumes from Ransome's adventure series Swallows and Amazons. Two volumes. Revised edition. Illustrated throughout. The Swallows and Amazons series is a series of twelve children's adventure novels set in t...

Little Songs of Long Ago

Alfred Moffat · 1912 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London; New York, Augener LTD; A. & C. Black; G. Schirmer, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this colourfully illustrated anthology of children's poems put to music. The first edition of this work.A collection of children's poems and songs set to music...

Pique-Nique Chez Babar

Laurent de Brunhoff · 1949 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

Paris, Hachette, 1949. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in the original French of Laurent de Brunhoff's second book in the charming Babar series, started by his father, colourfully illustrated, The first edition.In the original French.A lovely tale from the beloved...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.] · 0 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)

London, Hodder & Stoughton , c1920. First edition. Cloth. Edward FitzGerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's collection of poetical quatrains, adorned with Edmund Dulac's fantastic colour plates, and in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The Edmund Dulac illu...

The Old Cryes of London

Sir Frederick Bridge · 1921 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Novello and Company, Limited , 1921. First edition. Paperback. A scarce volume exploring the origins and contexts of Old Cryes of London, charmingly illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original wraps. This fascinating work ...

Virgil the Georgics in English Hexameters

C. W. Brodribb · 1928 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Ernest Benn Limited , 1928. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this rendition of Virgil's 'Georgics', decorated with woodcuts by Maud Reed-Cooper. The uncommon first edition of this work. With the publisher's scarce unclipped dust wr...

Again Sanders; Sanders of the River; the Sinister Man

Edgar Wallace · 1935 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Hodder and Stoughton; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited , c1935. Cloth. Three thrilling adventure works from Edgar Wallace, complete here with the publisher's unclipped dust wrappers. New popular editions of these works, including a film tie-in edition of 'Sanders of ...

The Edgar Wallace Police Van: Four Complete Police Novels in One Volume; the Four Adventures of Richard Hannay

Edgar Wallace; John Buchan · 1930 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930-1935. Cloth. Two smart omnibus volumes offering the works of Edgar Wallace and Richard Hannay, the latter complete with the very scarce dust wrapper. Comprising the first impression of the Edgar Wallace omnibus edition, and the sixth impressi...

Selections from the Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1911 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, Chatto and Windus , 1911. Leather. A most charmingly bound collection of Algernon Charles Swinburne's poems. A new impression of this poetical collection. Bound in full tree calf, with decorative gilt to the boards, spine and dentelles. Offering the poems of Eng...

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (Oxford Edition)

Robert Burns; J. Logie Robertson [ed.] · 1917 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1917. Leather. An attractive Oxford Edition of this Robert Burns poetical collection, bound in full decorative tree calf. The Oxford Edition of this collection of poems, edited by literary scholar James Logie Robertson. In a ...

The Works of G.J. Whyte-Melville

G. J. Whyte-Melville; Sir Herbert Maxwell [editor] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, W. Thacker & Co. 1899-1900. Cloth. Two smart volumes of the twenty-four-volume limited edition set of the works of Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. Two volumes of a twenty-four volume set. Limited to one thousand and fifty copies, printed by Morrison and Gibb L...

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio; J. M. Rigg [translator] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1955. Cloth. A smart two volume set of this classic collection of short stories from Boccaccio, from the Everyman's Library. Complete in two volumes. Everyman's Library, romance collection volumes 845 and 846. With the vanishingly scarc...

British Dramatists

Graham Greene · 1942 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, William Collins, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated study of British dramatists from English writer Graham Greene. First edition. Illustrated with eight colour plates and twenty-six black-and-white images. Collated complete. ...

All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches

E. OE. Somerville; Martin Ross [Violet Florence Martin] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1903. Cloth. A third impression of this illustrated collection of Irish sketches from cousins Edith OEnone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin. Third impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates. Collated complete. A charming c...

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Robert Southey · 1844 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844-47. Leather. An anthology of the collected poetical works of Romantic Poet Laureate Robert Southey. Complete in ten volumes.An anthology of the poetry of Robert Southey.Illustrated with a frontispiece and engraved title page to...

Hadrian the Seventh

Fr. Rolfe; Frederick Rolfe · 1904 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.38 | $2,576.22 | ¥411,389)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1904. First edition. Leather. The first edition, first issue, of the best known work of Frederick Rolfe, a rumination on the Catholic Church. The first edition, first issue, with the original cloth restored to the endpapers, the original front board wi...

The Works of Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne · 1798 · Rooke Books

£700.00 (€839.06 | $924.80 | ¥147,678)

London, J. Johnson; G. G. and J. Robinson; et al, 1798. Leather. A complete set of the works of Laurence Sterne, collecting together his fiction and non-fiction, each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece. Complete in ten volumes.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each vol...

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Gaskell · 1866 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1866. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel, a smartly bound set. The very scarce first Tauchnitz edition, published in the same year as the first U.K. edition in book form.Complete ...

Soames and the Flag

John Galsworthy · 1930 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, William Heinemann LTD, 1930. Vellum. A signed limited edition novella, part of the 'Forsyte Saga', by John Galsworthy. A limited edition of one thousand and twenty-five copies, of which this is numbered one-hundred and thirty-eight.Signed by the artist to the...

Selected Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1817 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

Edinburgh, James Ballantyne and Co for Archibald Constable and Company, 1817-1819. First edition. Leather. A collection of twenty-one volumes of the works of Scottish novelist, poet and historian Sir Walter Scott, in full calf bindings. Including the first edition of the secon...