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Andre Chenier: Elegies and Camille
Andre Chenier; Levi Robert Lind [trans] · 1978 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
Washington, University Press of America, 1978. Paperback. A bilingual edition of Andre Chenier's elegies, in both French and English, with an inscription from the translator L. R. Lind. The bilingual edition. The translator's presentation copy with an inscription by...
The Mandelbaum Gate; the Public Image; the Takeover; Loitering with Intent; the Only Problem; the Stories of Muriel Spark; Symposium
Muriel Spark · 1965 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, Macmillan; The Bodley Head; Constable , 1965-1990. Paperback. A wonderful set of uncorrected proof copies, comprising six novels and one short-story collection by Scottish author Muriel Spark. A selection of seven uncorrected proof copies for the works of Scottish nove...
Not to Disturb
Muriel Spark · 1971 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Macmillan, 1971. First edition. Cloth. This very smart set offers both the uncorrected proof and first edition of Muriel Spark's gothic comedy. Includes the uncorrected proof copy (bound in the publisher's wraps) and the first edition, first impression (bound...
Twenty Years a-Growing
Dylan Thomas · 1964 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd , 1964. First edition. Cloth. A smart set offering both the uncorrected proof and first edition of Dylan Thomas" film script adaptation of Maurice O"Sullivan"s autobiography. A set of two volumes. Includes the scarce uncorrected proof copy and t...
Ode Occasion&Apos;D by the Death of Mr. Thomson
William Collins · 1927 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Oxford , Clarendon Press; Humphrey Milford , 1927. Paperback. A scarce limited printing facsimile of this commemorative ode to the poet James Thomson, written by William Collins. Limited to 550 copies, of which 500 are for sale. In the publisher's original marbled wraps....
The Three Wartons: A Choice of Their Verse
Eric Partridge [Ed.] · 1927 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
London, The Scholartis Press, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this collection of verse from Thomas Warton the Elder and his sons Thomas Warton the Younger and Joseph Warton, inscribed by the editor Eric Partridge to fellow author Edward Thom...
Public Faces
Harold Nicolson · 1933 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of this sci-fi novel by Harold Nicolson, foreshadowing the events of the World War Two. Signed by the author to the title page. The first U.S. edition, first printing, published t...
The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer
Kenneth Patchen · 1945 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
New York, New Directions, 1945. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comical novel about a shy man, part-time ponographer, by Kenneth Patchen. The first edition, first printing.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.'The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer' ...
The Limerick: A Facet of Our Culture
[Albert Reynolds Morse] · 1944 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
Mexico City, Privately Printed, 1944. Cloth. A scarce privately printed history of the limerick, an out-of-series limited edition. A privately printed work, limited to two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is unnumbered and out of series.A scarce work.This monograph expl...
The American Renaissance Series
Edgar Allan Poe; Washington Irving; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thoreau; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Walt Whitman · 1936 · Rooke Books
£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)
New York City, Powgen Press, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A scarce complete set of Powgen Press' 'The American Renaissance Series', a fantastic selection of writings by eminent American authors. Complete in six volumes, scarce to find as a complete set.Each volum...
The Confidential Clerk
T. S. Eliot · 1954 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Faber & Faber LTD, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue, of this comedy play by T. S. Eliot. The first edition, first issue of this work, with the issue point 'Ihad' for 'I had' on page 7.In the unclipped first issue dust wrapp...
The Mystery of Maata
P. A. Lawlor; G. H. Scholfield · 1946 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Wellington, The Beltane Book Bureau, 1946. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this intriguing essay on Katherine Mansfield and her relation with Maata Mahupuku. The first edition.In the original publisher's scarce unclipped dust wrapper.An intriguing essay on Kath...
The Elder Statesman
T. S. Eliot · 1959 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Faber and Faber LTD, 1959. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of T. S. Eliot"s third play to have been produced at Edinburgh. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper."The Elder Statesman" is a play in verse by T. S. Eliot, concer...
Poetry and Drama
T. S. Eliot · 1951 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Faber & Faber LTD, 1951. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lecture on poetry and drama by T. S. Eliot, given at Harvard in honour of his friend, Theodore Spencer. The first edition, first impression.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.The Theodore ...
Human Shows Far Phantasies
Thomas Hardy · 1925 · Rooke Books
£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of Thomas Hardy"s penultimate collection of poems, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the original publisher"s unclipped dust wrapper.Thomas Hardy's penultimate p...
The New Rythum and Other Pieces
Ronald Firbank · 1963 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
New York, A New Directions Book, 1963. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this volume of previously unpublished works by Ronald Firbank, discovered after his death. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A previously unpublished work b...
In a Balcony
Robert Browning · 1902 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
New York, The Laurentian Press, 1902 . Cloth. A beautifully designed limited edition of Robert Browning's one-act play, which was originally written in 1853. An uncommon limited edition, with this being number 98 of 265 numbered copies printed on hand-made Van Gelder pape...
Balthazar
Lawrence Durrell · 1958 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Faber and Faber, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Lawrence Durrell's second 'Alexandria Quartet' novel, described by the author as an 'investigation of modern love&apos. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's or...
Avery&Apos;S Mission; a Palace of Art; Our England Is a Garden; Mungo&Apos;S Dream
J. I. M. Stewart · 1971 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)
London, Victor Gollancz, 1971-1979 . First edition. Cloth. Four first editions of the works of Scottish novelist and academic J. I. M. Stewart, with three of these works being the author's own copies. Four first editions, first impression.In the publisher's original ...
James Joyce; Thomas Love Peacock: Writers and Their Work, Nos. 91 and 156
J. I. M. Stewart · 1960 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, The British Council and National Book League by Longmans, Green and Co, 1960-1964 . First edition. Magazine. Two volumes of J. I. M. Stewart's contributions to the 'Writers and their Work' series, discussing writers Thomas Love Peacock and James Joyce. N...