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The Death and Burial of Cock Robin: To Which Is Added Pizzaro & Alonzo; or, Industry Better Than Gold

Anonymous · 1825 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

York, J. Kendrew, Colliergate, 1825 . Paperback. A charming and very scarce children's nursery rhyme, illustrated with vignette woodcuts. A very scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirteen further charming vignette woodcuts. Collated, complete.The classic &ap...

The Caged Lion and the Lances of Lynwood

Charlotte M. Yonge · 1899 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Macmillan & Company Limited, 1899-1901. Cloth. Two historical fiction novels by the English novelist, Charlotte M. Yonge, with detailed illustrations throughout. The second edition, fourth impression to 'Caged Lion', and the new edition, fifth impression to &...

Peeps Into Fairyland

Horace J. Knowles · 1924 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)

London, Thornton Butterworth, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Horace J. Knowles' magnum opus, a beautifully illustrated work depicting the magical world of fairyland. The scarce first edition.Beautifully illustrated with a colour frontispiece, an i...

The Jaded Hero

Douglas Garman · 1927 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Wishart and Co, 1927. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce book of poetry from Douglas Garman, a socialist and editor of the quarterly literary review, 'Calendar of Modern Letters&apos. The first edition of this very scarce work. In the original quarter cloth b...

Poems

Michael Heseltine · 1913 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Elkin Mathews , 1913. First edition. Hardback. A vanishingly scarce pocket book of poetry from Michael Heseltine, with personal depictions of London and Oxford. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work. In the original boards. A poetical pocket book, with a ...

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom · 2003 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, Macmillan, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of C. J. Sansom's opening instalment to his 'Shardlake' series, with the scarce original wrap-around band. The first edition, first printing of this work. In the publisher's unclipp...

Bibliographie Coreenne: Tableau Litteraire de la Coree

Maurice Courant · 1894 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

New York, Burt Franklin, c1965. Cloth. A very scarce three volume facsimile reprint of this Korean , in the original French. French. Complete in three volumes. Facsimile reprint, originally published from 1894 to 1896. A detailed and comprehensive bibliography of Korean works ...

The Plays and Works of J.M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie · 1928 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)

London, Hodder and Stoughton; Cassell & Company, 1928-1940. Cloth. A smart twenty-two volume set of the works and plays of Scottish writer Sir James Matthew Barrie. Twenty-two volumes. The Uniform Edition. A collection of the plays and works of Sir James Matthew Barrie, a Scot...

Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard

Thomas Gray · 1928 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,803)

London, The De La More Press, 1928. Paperback. A smart copy of this illustrated edition of Thomas Gray's well-known work Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. The Saint George Series. Illustrated throughout. Inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poe...

Evangeline, the Golden Legend, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longefellow · 1902 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1902. Leather. A smartly bound collection of poetry from American writer and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of the poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an American poet...

Lovel the Widower

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1861 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1861. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this touching novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, complete with his plates. The first edition.Bound by J. Larkins.A poignant novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, following a middle-aged man, Lov...

The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1849 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1849. First edition. Vellum. A smartly bound copy of this illustrated novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first edition in book form. The first edition in book form. A short and sombre novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, following a man who f...

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1852 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Smith, Elder, & Company, 1852. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this brilliant example of historical fiction, by William Makepeace Thackeray. The first edition.Complete in three volumes.Half-title present to Volume I.Bound without half-titles to Volumes II ...

The Virginians

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,889)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59. First edition. Leather. A smart first issue copy of one of the popular novels of William Makepeace Thackeray, complete with his original illustrations. The first edition, first impression of this work. Issue points as follows; 'actresses...

A Master of Our Time: A Study of Wyndham Lewis

Geoffrey Grigson · 1951 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1951. First edition. Paperback. A scarce copy of Geoffrey Grigson's study of the co-founder of the Vorticist movement, Wyndham Lewis. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. A study of the ma...

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843 · Rooke Books

£4,850.00 (€5,813.43 | $6,407.56 | ¥1,022,879)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1843 . Cloth. The second edition of Charles Dickens's festive novella, illustrated by John Leech and in the publisher's original cloth binding. The scarce second edition of this iconic work.The first run of 6,000 copies sold out entirely betwe...

In Jeopardy and Other Stories

George Manville Fenn · 1906 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.53 | $455.80 | ¥72,762)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1906. Cloth. George Manville Fenn's vanishingly scarce collection of short fiction stories about characters in perilous situations, in the original early dust wrapper. A new impression. First published in 1889. In the original publisher's ...

Artemis Fowl; the Arctic Incident; the Eternity Code; the Opal Deception; the Wish List; the Supernaturalist

Eoin Colfer · 2001 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Puffin , 2001-2005. First edition. Cloth. A stunning collection of first edition novels by Eoin Colfer, including the first four instalments of popular fantasy series, 'Artemis Fowl&apos. The first edition, first printings of these works. In the publisher's ...

Taking Pictures

Anne Enright · 2008 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,280)

London, Jonathan Cape , 2008. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition, first printing of Anne Enright's second collection of short stories, each with female-focused themes. The first edition, first printing of this work. In the publisher's original unclipped du...

Decline and Fall & Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh · 1947 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1947 . Cloth. The Uniform Edition of Evelyn Waugh's important and famous novels, 'Decline and Fall' and 'Vile Bodies', each with the publisher's original dust wrapper. The Chapman & Hall, Uniform Edition. Bound in the publi...