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Galloping Shoes: Verses
Will H. Ogilvie · 1922 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)
London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1922. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this uncommon collection of illustrated verses from Scottish-Australian poet William Henry Ogilvie. First edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with a colour tipped-in frontispiece and seven ...
The Minor Poems of William Cowper
William Cowper · 1818 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)
London, John Sharpe, 1818. Leather. An anthology of the minor poetical writings of William Cowper, an illustrated volume bound in morocco. Complete as two parts bound in one volume.A smart volume of the poetry of William Cowper, a forerunner of the Romantic poets. He wrote ...
Hudibras
Samuel Butler · 1757 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)
London, Not Stated, 1757. Leather. An illustrated edition of this popular long narrative poem, printed in both English and French. Complete in three volumes.A unique bilingual edition of this important poem, printed in both English and French, with French to the recto, and Eng...
Elder Conklin and Other Stories
Frank Harris · 1894 · Rooke Books
£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,593)
New York, Macmillan and Co, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of this anthology of six brilliant short stories by Frank Harris. The first U.S. edition, first printing.A selection of six short stories by Frank Harris, containing 'Elder Conklin', &apos...
Running to Waste. The Story of a Tomboy.
George M. Baker · 1875 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)
Boston, Lee and Shepard, [1875]. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce novel by American author George M. Baker, the first edition of this illustrated tale for children. The first edition of this very scarce work.Part of the 'Maidenhood Series&apos.An entertaining and moral...
Randall and the River of Time
C. S. Forester · 1951 · Rooke Books
£54.00 (€64.73 | $71.34 | ¥11,389)
London, Michael Joseph, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of C. S. Forester's novel, set during the last one-hundred days of the First World War. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Randall and the Riv...
The Dons Sight Devon
Jack Lindsay · 1941 · Rooke Books
£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,803)
London, Oxford University Press, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. The charmingly illustrated first edition of Jack Lindsay's 'story of the defeat of the invincible Armada&apos. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Il...
The Literary Year Book 1897 the Literary Year Book 1901 the Literary Year Book 1908
F. G. Aflalo · 1897 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)
London, George Allen; Routledge, 1897-1908. Cloth. A scarce first edition of the very first Literary Year Book produced in 1897, and two later copies from 1901 and 1908. In the original binding, a scarce first edition of the 1897 Literary Year Book, published for the first tim...
A Stranger Is Watching
Mary Higgins Clark · 1978 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)
London, Collins, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A bright first UK edition of Mary Higgins Clark's gripping suspense novel, with the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK edition of this work. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A bestse...
Before the Frost
Henning Mankell · 2004 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)
London, The Harvill Press, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first UK edition of Henning Mankell's first and only instalment to this follow-up crime series, with the daughter of popular fictional police inspector, Kurt Wallander. The first UK edition, first impression ...
The Girl in a Swing
Richard Adams · 1980 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)
London, Penguin Books, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this popular novel by English writer Richard Adams. The first edition, second state. With the female protagonist being named 'Karin Forster'; the name was changed from 'Kathe Geutne...
The British Anthology; or, Poetical Library Volumes I to IV
Various · 1824 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
London, John Sharpe, 1824-1825. Cloth. A smart four volume set, bound in two, of the British Anthology of poetry, with engravings. Four volumes bound in two. Volume one/two is illustrated with six plates. Volume three/four is illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. A...
The Penny Sunday Reader
Rev. I. E. N. Molesworth · 1835 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)
Canterbury, The Office of the Kentish Observer, 1835-1838. Cloth. A smart five volume set of The Penny Sunday Reader, from English Reverend I. E. N. Molesworth. Five volumes. Scarce work. A British periodical of articles, poetry, and stories to be read and enjoyed on a Sunday ...
Passages from Modern English Poets
Various · 0 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)
London, William Tegg, c1876. Cloth. A delightful collection of poems with beautiful illustrations by the Junior Etching Club. A scarce work.An anthology of beautiful English poems by a variety of contemporary writers.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and forty-four plates.Colla...
Ourselves, Our People, Our Work. Six Addresses Given in the Divinity Schools, Cambridge
E. T. Leeke · 1891 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce volume containing six lectures by Edward Tucker Leeke, given at Cambridge, signed by the author. The first edition of this very scarce work.Signed by the author to the verso of the fro...
Three Tales: A Simple Heart; the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller; Herodias
Gustave Flaubert; Mervyn Savill [trans.] · 1950 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)
London, Arthur Barker Ltd. 1950. Cloth. Flaubert's short story collection, the first edition to be translated by Mervyn Savill. A first thus edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Flaubert's shor...
The Cocktail Party
T.S. Eliot · 1950 · Rooke Books
£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,690)
London, Faber & Faber, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the most successful play of T. S. Eliot, a verse drama following the troubled relationship of a husband and wife. The first edition, first impression.A later state, with the page 29 miss print corrected, ...
Picture of Nobody
Philip Owens · 1936 · Rooke Books
£1,750.00 (€2,097.63 | $2,312.01 | ¥369,080)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Philip Owens's vanishingly scarce novel in which Shakespeare is born in 1930s London. A vanishingly scarce work from Owens, who fought in the Second World War and died in 1945.The first edition,...
Limits and Renewals
Rudyard Kipling · 1932 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional first edition of this entertaining anthology of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the publisher's original unclipped dus...
Doctor Dolittle&Apos;S Return
Hugh Lofting · 1941 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1941 . Cloth. The third impression of Hugh Lofting's ninth 'Doctor Dolittle' children's novel, retaining the original illustrated dust wrapper. First published in 1933, this is the 1941 third impression of this work.In the publisher&a...