Letteratura

Odes Upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters

Thomas More · 1828 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green , 1828 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Thomas More's satirical odes on topical political and economic matters, bound in the publisher's original paper-covered boards. The first edition. Uncommon work. Bound i...

The Heptameron

Marguerite de Navarre; Queen of Navarre · 1886 · Rooke Books

£680.00 (€815.08 | $898.38 | ¥143,414)

London, Privately Printed, 1886. First edition. Leather. An impressive edition of Marguerite of Navarre's collection of short stories, this being an extra-illustrated copy bound in two volumes by Ritter. An extra illustrated copy, bound in two volumes.The first edition of...

Pearson&Apos;S Magazine

Walter Besant; W. J. Gordon; Archibald Forbes; Various · 1896 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1896. Cloth. The first number of 'Pearson's Magazine' to ever be published, a very scarce Royal Edition, with Walter Besant's bookplate. A very scarce number of 'Pearson's Magazine', for January 1896, a str...

The Gowk Storm

N. Brysson Morrison · 1934 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Collins, 1934. Cloth. A scarce novel on the lives of three sisters by Nancy Brysson Morrison. A scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 'The Gowk Storm' follows three sisters who live in a secluded clergy house, in which modernity has never enter...

Changing My Mind

Zadie Smith · 2009 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Hamish Hamilton; Penguin Books, 2009. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon to see signed copy of this anthology of essays by Zadie Smith The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title, uncommon to see signed.An anthology of essays by Zadie Smith....

Observations on Poetry

[Henry Pemberton] · 1738 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, H. Woodfall; J. Brotherton; J. Nourse; R. Dodsley, 1738. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce discussion on poetry, by Henry Pemberton. The first edition of this scarce work.Half-title is present.Errata to the front.An examination on poetry by the G...

Poems and Plays

Oliver Goldsmith · 1780 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, B. Newbery; T. Johnson, 1780. Leather. An early edition collecting some of the best poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, and two plates. Collated, bound without one plate.A volume collection together some of the poems a...

Essays on Song-Writing

[John Aikin] · 1774 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

Warrington; London, William Eyres; Joseph Johnson, 1774. Leather. The second edition of John Aikin's examination on the history of English songwriting. The second edition.John Aikin's insightful study on songwriting, and the development of the tradition of English so...

The Seasons

James Thomson · 1797 · Rooke Books

£2,800.00 (€3,356.21 | $3,699.21 | ¥590,528)

London, P. W. Tomkins, 1797. Leather. A superb illustrated folio edition of the best known poetical work of James Thomson. A folio edition of 'The Seasons', the best known poem by James Thomson.Illustrated with a frontispiece, six plates, and fifteen engraved vignett...

An Experiment with St. George

J. W. Dunne · 1939 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. Paperback. A proof copy of this entertaining fantasy novel by J. W. Dunne. A scarce proof copy of this uncommon work.Published in the U. S. as 'St. George and the Witches&apos.A dramatised adventure of St. George, written by J. W. Du...

The Prince of Mull, or, Glimpses of Royal Life

[Mary Ellis Smith] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

Chicago, A. N. Marquis & Company, 1884. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this very scarce satire on the British Royal Family, signed by the author. The first edition of this very scarce work.Signed by the author to the title page, "Presented by the Author, Mary E...

The Centenarian; or, the Two Beringhelds

Horace de Saint-Aubin [Honoré de Balzac]; George Edgar Slusser [trans.] · 1976 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

New York, Arno Press, 1976. Cloth. A fine English translation of Balzac's seminal contribution to early science fiction. The first thus edition of the English translation of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Part of the Arno Press collection of sup...

The Works of James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper · 1888 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1888-1889. Cloth. Eighteen uniformly bound volumes from the Leather-Stocking Edition of the works of James Fenimore Cooper. A set of eighteen works uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the fro...

The Green Isle of the Great Deep

Neil M. Gunn · 1944 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this important work, exploring themes such as of knowledge without wisdom and published during the Scottish Renaissance. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher'...

Poems of Wordsworth

William Wordsworth · 1911 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1911. Paperback. A very scarce charmingly bound and beautifully illustrated edition of the poetry of William Wordsworth. A very scarce work.In a charming binding with colour pictorial onlay to front board.Illustrated with four colour plates by Briti...

The Love Family

Mrs. M. H. Spielmann [Mabel Henrietta Spielmann] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)

London, George Allen & Sons, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Spielmann and Moore-Park's charming children's work about the adventures of Cupid and his family. Stamped 'Presentation Copy&apos. A very scarce first edition.With a &apos...

Gnothi Seauton. Know Your Self. A Poem.

John Arbuthnot · 1734 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

London, J. Tonson, 1734 . First edition. Unbound. The very scarce first edition of the only recorded individually published poem by Scottish physician, satirist and polymath Dr. Arbuthnot. A very scarce first edition. The first and only edition of this work.The title of the wo...

The Yorkshire-Racers, a Poem.

William Plaxton · 1709 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, printed for the use of all sorts of jockeys, whether North, South, East, or West, 1709 . Unbound. A bright example of a piracy of this very scarce political poem, widely believed to be the work of William Plaxton. A very scarce work in all editions. A poem by William ...

The Apparition. A Poem.

Abel Evans · 1710 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, H. Hills, 1710 . Unbound. A piracy of Abel Evans's poetic attack on Mathew Tindal, formulated as a response to Tindal's 'The Rights of the Church Asserted&apos. Published in the same year as the first edition.Foxon E521The first published poem of Abel E...

Manners: A Satire.

Paul Whitehead · 1739 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London [Edinburgh], R. Dodsley, 1739 . Unbound. A pirate edition of this uncommon satire by Paul Whitehouse, the secretary to the infamous Hellfire Club. An uncommon work.This edition is noted in Foxon to be a piracy with a false imprint; an Edinburgh piracy.ESTC. T142265, wit...