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The Moon Is Down

John Steinbeck · 1942 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

New York, The Viking Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of John Steinbeck's insightful military novella written and published during World War II. The first edition, later state. With large period on p.112 omitted, and with the following two lines added a...

Plays One: The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land, Dogg&Apos;S Hamlet and Cahoot&Apos;S Macbeth

Tom Stoppard · 1996 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, Faber and Faber, 1996. Paperback. A very scarcely signed copy of this collection of Tom Stoppard's plays. Signed by the author to the first page. A new collection of plays, with introductions by the author. In the publisher's original paperback. This colle...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1833 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1833-1834. Cloth. A complete twelve volume set of the important poetical works of Sir Walter Scott. Complete in twelve volumes. Volumes one, two, three, four, seven, eight are dated 1833. Volumes nine, ten, eleven and twelve are dated 1834. Volumes fi...

How to Be Topp

Geoffrey Willans; Ronald Searle · 1954 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Max Parrish, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Geoffrey Willans' comical children's novel based around the terror Nigel Molesworth, illustrated throughout by Ronald Searle. First edition. A satirical children's novel, featuring the popular...

The Poetical Works of Sir Alexander Boswell

Sir Alexander Boswell; Robert Howie Smith [editor] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Glasgow, Maurice Ogle & Company, 1871. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of the poetical works of Sir Alexander Boswell, with a memoir of the author. First edition. Scarce work. The collected poetry of Sir Alexander Boswell, a Scottish poet, antiquary, a...

The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse

Thomas Gray; Edmund Gosse [editor] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1884. Cloth. A smart complete set of the works of Thomas Gray with a frontispiece to each volume. Complete in four volumes. Early edition. With a frontispiece to each volume. Collated complete. A collection of the prose and poetry of Thomas G...

Poems

Thomas Gray · 1778 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, J. Murray, 1778. Leather. A new edition of this collection of poetry from English writer and classical scholar Thomas Gray. New edition. With a frontispiece, title page vignette, and two plates. Collated complete. A collection of poetry including titles such as: Ode on...

The Light That Failed, Captains Courageous, & the Naulahka

Rudyard Kipling · 1925 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1925-1928. Cloth. A smart collection of three of the novels of English writer Rudyard Kipling. Three volumes. Later editions. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer who was awarded the...

Limits and Renewals

Rudyard Kipling · 1932 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this entertaining anthology of short stories and verses by Rudyard Kipling. First edition. A collection of short stories and poems including: 'Dayspring Mishandled', 'The Chu...

Traffics and Discoveries

Rudyard Kipling · 1904 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from English writer Rudyard Kipling. First edition. A collection of short stories and verses, including titles such as: The Captive, The Bonds of Discipline...

The Butterfly

L. Raven Hill; Arnold Golsworthy; Various · 1899 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Messrs Butler & Tanner; Walter Haddon, 1899. Cloth. The first six issues of the literary magazine 'The Butterfly' bound in one volume, with the original front wraps and illustrations. Volume I of 'The Butterfly', containing six issues from May to Oc...

Murder Off Miami

Dennis Wheatley · 1936 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) LTD, 1936. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of Dennis Wheatley's unique crime dossier, a mystery novel told through a series of documents for the reader to solve the murder. The first edition.A unique crime dossier by Dennis...

Mrs. Craddock

William Somerset Maugham · 1902 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, William Heinemann, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel on late Victorian society and a woman's place in it by W. Somerset Maugham. The first edition, first impression.'Mrs. Craddock' follows an attractive and rich young woman who ...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay; George Otto Trevelyan · 1880 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,690)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1880. Leather. An insightful and smartly bound biography on Lord Thomas Macaulay, written by his nephew, George Otto Trevelyan. Bound by Baker & Son.Complete in two volumes.A comprehensive and fascinating biography of the life of Lord Thomas Ma...

Poems on Several Occasions

William Hamilton · 1760 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,889)

Edinburgh, W. Gordon, 1760 . Leather. A mid-seventeenth century volume of poems written by William Hamilton, a poet and officer in the Jacobite uprisings. With a preface from Adam Smith, who edited the work early in his career. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.First pu...

Gad&Apos;S Hill Place and Charles Dickens

Edwin Harris · 1910 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

Roschester, Edwin Harris & Sons, 1910 . First edition. Leather. The scare first edition of Edwin Harris' wonderful study of Dickens' association with Gad's Hill Place, with a signed letter from the author to the founder of the American Dickens' Fellowship. ...

The Song of Songs: A Fragmentary Wedding Idyll

None stated · 1952 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Selwyn & Blount Limited, [1952]. Cloth. The first edition of this play based on the biblical poem the 'Song of Songs', with expressive drawings by Arthur Wragg. A play based on the original biblical poem. Illustrated by Arthur Wragg with an illustrated title...

The Poems of Joseph Fletcher for the First Time Edited and Re-Printed with Memorial Introduction and Notes (the Fuller Worthies&Apos; Library)

Joseph Fletcher; Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [ed.] · 1869 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Blackburn, Lancashire , Printed for Private Circulation, 1869. Cloth. A limited and privately printed copy of Joseph Fletcher's poems, edited with notes by Scottish clergyman Alexander B. Grosart. One of 156 copies printed for private circulation. From the Fuller Worthies...

The Works of William Shakespeare with Life and Glossary (the "Bedford" Edition)

William Shakespeare · 1888 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,799)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, 1888. Cloth. A charming pocket-sized "Bedford" edition of William Shakespeare's works. The "Bedford" Edition of this William Shakespeare collection. Containing eleven out of the twelve volumes (missing volume VI). Uniformly bound in the pu...

The Book of Dead Days; the Foreshadowing; My Swordhand Is Singing

Marcus Sedgwick · 2003 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Orion Children's Books , 2003-2006. First edition. Cloth. A delightful trio of signed young adult novels by Marcus Sedgwick, each complete with their original unclipped dust wrapper. The first editions, first impressions of these works. Signed by the author to ea...