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Bernard Heidsieck · 1998 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

Not Stated , Archivio F. Conz , 1998. First edition. Hardback. A scarce copy of Bernard Heidsieck's sound poem, with a CD recording of his reading inserted to the work. The first edition of this scarce work.In the publisher's original hardcover with a printed photogr...

The Swastika Poems

William Heyen · 1977 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

New York , The Vanguard Press, Inc. 1977. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this important poetical collection from William Heyen on his personal ties with the Holocaust. The first edition of this work. Signed by the author to the title page under his name. In t...

Perilous Journey: A Tale of the Mississippi River and the Natchez Trace

C. M. Sublette; Harry Harrison Kroll · 1943 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Indianapolis , The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this adventure-romance novel set along the rivers of Mississippi and New Orleans. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Bound in the publisher's ori...

A Book of Old Ballads

Beverley Nichols · 1934 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1934. Leather. The first edition of this brightly illustrated selection of English ballads. First edition. Includes the front and rear fly leaves of the original unclipped dust wrapper only. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and fifteen coloured p...

Tough Sod: A Novel

E. R. Eastman · 1944 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

New York, American Agriculturalist Inc. 1944. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first printing of this novel set in a country village from American author Edward Roe Eastman. First edition, first printing. When a country village is awoken in the dead of night by the...

Paco&Apos;S Story

Larry Heinemann · 1986 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this intense novel concerned with one soldier's experiences of the Vietnam War. First edition. Paco Sullivan and his infantry group are sent to a fire base and soon a vicious massacr...

A Man of Parts

J. J. Nelson · 1924 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Stanley Paul & Co. 1924 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce novel surrounding the curious life of Professor Freyling, inspired by true events, written by J. J. Nelson. The first edition. Exceptionally scarce work. Bound in the publisher...

The Man Who Dreamed Right

William Holt-White · 1910 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Everett & Co. 1910 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce, science-fiction novel surrounding an unassuming British clerk who can see into the future, written by William Holt-White. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Scarc...

Iron Man

W. R. Burnett · 1930 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

New York, Lincoln Mac Veagh; The Dial Press, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first printing of this popular novel by W. R. Burnett, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Iron Man' follows a mechanic&ap...

Sunlight-Marchen

Johannes Jegerlehner · 1930 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Zurich, Ringier & Co, 1930. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon anthology of German fairy tales, a colourful and entertaining volume. The first edition of this uncommon work.In the original German.A charming volume of fairy tales penned by Johannes Jegerlehner, including 'D...

A Burnt-out Case

Graham Greene · 1961 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Heinemann, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A striking first edition copy of this touching novel by the popular author Graham Greene. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'A Burnt-Out Case' is a touching novel set...

Brigands of the Moon

Ray Cummings · 1931 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,017)

Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this exciting space opera by Ray Cummings, a nice association copy with the bookplate of Donald Allen Wollheim. The first edition of this work.'Brigands of the Moon' follows the adventurous...

Ten Times One Is Ten: The Possible Reformation

Frederic Ingham; [Edward Everett Hale] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1871. First edition. Cloth. Edward Everett Hale's haunting sci-fi novel, the first edition of this curious tale. The first edition of this work.'Ten Times One Is Ten' is the first novel in a sequence by Edward Everett Hale, writing unde...

The Juvenile Album, or, Tales from Far and Near

Mrs. R. Lee · 1841 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Ackermann and Co, [1841]. Cloth. An illustrated anthology of eight tales by Sarah Bowdich Lee, complete with plates by Thomas Woolnoth. A charming volume of tales "from far and near" for children, compiled by Sarah Bowdich Lee. Including a total of eight tales; 'T...

Puss in Boots

1961 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Bancroft & Co (Publishers) LTD, 1961. Cloth. A charming and colourful pop-up edition of this beloved fairy tale, a complete edition illustrated by Vojtěch Kubašta. A charming pop-up edition of 'Puss in Boots', a beloved European fairy tale, following an a...

A Night at the Movies; or, You Must Remember This

Robert Coover · 1987 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

New York, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Robert Coover's tribute to Hollywood; a bright first edition of this collection of short stories. The first edition, first printing of this work in a quarter cloth binding, with the original unclipped du...

The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol; Costance Garnett [trans.] · 1975 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.44 | $1,519.32 | ¥242,538)

Verona, Bodoni, 1975 . Cloth. A beautifully produced and scarce limited edition of Gogol's short story 'The Overcoat', illustrated with etchings by Pietro Annigoni, and signed by him. A scarce, limited edition work. Number 49 of 160 copies of this work produced...

Le Bon Ange: Dix Nouvelles Ecrites Pour la Jeunesse

Alfred Des Essarts; Alfred Vanauld; Gustave des Essards; Eugène Nyon; Fanny Richomme · 1848 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Paris, Louis Janet, c1848 . Hardback. A scarce collection of ten French children's tales, beautifully illustrated throughout and with a hand-coloured title page. In the original French.A scarce children's work consisting of ten short stories, by writers Alfred Des Es...

Aucassin and Nicolette: An Old French Love Story

F. W. Bourdillon [edited and translated] · 1897 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1897 . Leather. A beautifully bound second edition of Francis William Bourdillon's translation of the medieval French tale 'Aucassin and Nicolette&apos. The second edition of Bourdillon's translation.A romantic anonymously authored medi...

Er of Pamphylia and Other Poems

Edward Henry Pember · 1908 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, At the Chiswick Press for Private Circulation, 1908 . First edition. Leather. Edward Henry Pember's scarce limited edition collection of poems, with a signed presentation inscription from the author. A limited edition work, with this being number 143 of 200 copies...