Letteratura
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Edmund Spenser; W. L. Renwick [editor] · 1928 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)
London, The Scholartis Press, 1928. Leather. A very scarce limited edition copy of this poetry collection by Edmund Spenser, signed by the editor. This very scarce edition limited to 95 numbered copies, this copy being number 47. Signed by the editor to the colophon.This coll...
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
Alain Rene Le Sage · 1813 · Rooke Books
£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.53 | ¥60,107)
Paris , A. Belin , 1813 . Leather. A beautifully bound copy of Alain-Rene Lesage's popular picaresque novel, written in the original French, complete in four volumes. Bound in a full calf with gilt tooling. Written in the original French. Stereotype D'Herhan. Complet...
A Poetry Book for Schools
Various · 1866 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)
London, Bell and Daldy, 1866 . Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated selection of poetry intended for use of children between seven and twelve years old. New edition. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth. A collection of carefully selected poetry intended for the use of young c...
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving · 1905 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)
London; New York, William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1905. Cloth. Arthur Rackham's strikingly illustrated edition of this popular tale by Washington Irving. The second impression of this Rackham edition, published two months after the first impression in November 1...
An Otter&Apos;S Story
Emil E. Liers · 1953 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)
New York, The Viking Press, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming novel about otters by "the otter man" Emil Liers, signed by the author. The first edition, first printing.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper.'An Otter's St...
Oeuvres de Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert · 1925 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1925-42. Leather. A set of three works by Gustave Flaubert, in the original French, including his best known novel 'Madame Bovary&apos. Three volumes of the works of Flaubert, of a total of ten volumes, all in the original French.Gustave Flaubert ...
Maigret Chez le Coroner
Georges Simenon · 1949 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)
Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1949. First edition. Paperback. A first edition of this unusual Maigret novel, in which the detective witnesses a coroner's inquest in Tucson, Arizona; with the original dust wrapper. An uncommon first edition copy of this work in the publisher...
L&Apos;Ours En Peluche
Georges Simenon · 1960 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)
Paris, Presses de la Cite, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A rare first trade edition copy of one of Simenon's 'romans durs', a semi-autobiographical novel, in the very scarce dust wrapper designed by J. Jacquelin. A very scarce first trade edition of this work in t...
Winter Nights: A Reminiscence
Edmund Blunden · 1928 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)
London, Faber & Gwyer Ltd. 1928. First edition. Hardback. A lovely limited edition of Blunden's poem 'Winter Nights', signed by the author, with two illustrations by Albert Rutherston. No. 49 of 500 limited edition copies of the large paper edition, printed on E...
The Water Beetle
Nancy Mitford · 1962 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)
London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1962. Paperback. A very scarce uncorrected proof copy of Nancy Mitford's anthology of essays, with autobiographical essays relating childhood memories. A very scarce uncorrected proof copy of this work in the original paper wraps. Uncorrected ...
The Fanfarlo and Other Verse
Muriel Spark · 1952 · Rooke Books
£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,443)
Adlington, The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition, first issue of this collection of poetry by Muriel Spark. The first edition, first issue of this work in the publisher's original brown paper wraps with red lettering.The Fanfarlo...
Cupid & Psyche
Joyce Carol Oates · 1970 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
New York, Albondocani Press, 1970. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A lovely limited edition copy of Joyce Carol Oates's modern retelling of Cupid and Psyche, signed by the author. No. 6 of 200 limited edition copies, printed on Hayle paper in Palatino type, in the publi...
Two Volumes from the Ariel Poems Series: Alone; the Early Whistler
Walter de la Mare; Wilfrid Gibson · 1927 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)
London, Faber & Gwyer Ltd. 1927. Brochure/Pamphlet. Two illustrated poems from The Ariel Poems series by Walter de la Mare and Wilfrid Gibson, with illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton and John Nash. Two works in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. The Ariel ...
The Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare; Howard Staunton [ed.] · 1864 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.86 | ¥158,177)
London, Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1864. Leather. A superb complete set of the works of Shakespeare, edited with notes and biographical information by Howard Staunton, and uniformly bound by Zaensdorf. A four-volume set uniformly bound in full calf, with gilt detailing to t...
Private Job Muggleston: Or, Fun&Apos; I&Apos; Th&Apos; Army
Walter Hampson · 1917 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)
London, William Nicholson & Sons, 1917 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce signed limited edition of Walter Hampson's illustrated comic novel. No. 17 of 30 copies of this limited edition 'Author's Edition', signed by the author to the bookplate t...
Les Gens Chics
GYP [Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau] · 1895 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)
Paris, G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, 1895 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this entertaining novel by Gyp, the pseudonym of Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau. Illustrated with colour plates. In the original French.The first edition of this work from Sibylle Aimée Ma...
Toad of Toad Hall
A. A. Milne · 1929 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)
London, Methuen & Co, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of A. A. Milne's dramatic adaptation of beloved children's novel 'The Wind in the Willows', in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's origin...
Leaves from a Missionary&Apos;S Notebook
Stephen Tennant · 1929 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)
London, Secker & Warburg, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The beautifully illustrated and scarce first trade edition of Stephen Tennant's highly amusing work on the adventures faced by a missionary sent to the tropics. The scarce first trade edition of this work, which was i...
Arabia Infelix and Other Poems
Aldous Huxley · 1929 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)
New York; London, The Fountain Press; Chatto and Windus, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first edition of Aldous Huxley's early collection of poetry. A limited edition work. Flat signed by Huxley to the half title.No. 433 of 692 copies produced, 300 of w...
Tales of War
Lord Dunsany · 1918 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
Dublin; London, The Talbot Press Ltd; T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Lord Dunsany's collection of remarkable short stories on war, mixing the tough realities of war and death with the fantasy elements he is best known for. The fir...