Letteratura

The Poets&Apos; Pleasaunce: Or, Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers

Eden Warwick · 1847 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this beautifully designed work exploring the relationship of English poets with flowers. A scarce first edition, in which artist Henry Noel Humphreys uses thirty repeating fu...

1896 Twilight Land

Howard Pyle · 1896 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1896 . Cloth. A scarce UK edition of Howard Pyle's charmingly illustrated fairy tale, inscribed in pencil to the front free endpaper by British illustrator and landscape painter H.M. Brock. An early UK edition of American author and illus...

The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.21 | $779.47 | ¥124,472)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1860-64. First edition. Leather. Consecutive first ten volumes of the popular literary magazine edited by William Makepeace Thackeray in striking uniform signed bindings. Volumes I to X of The Cornhill Magazine, monthly Victorian magazine and liter...

Oeuvres de Rabelais

Francois Rabelais; Louis Moland · 1926 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Paris, Librairie Garnier Freres, [1926]. Leather. Limited edition of the works of Rabelais in two volumes bound in handsome half morocco signed Flammarion. Complete in two volumes. Both from a limited edition of 1500 copies, volume I number 131; volume II number 97. Containin...

The Hermes Fall

John Baxter · 1978 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1978 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of John Baxter's novel about the collision of the asteroid Hermes with the earth. The first edition, first impression, with the publisher's price unclipped dust wrapper. Flat signed by...

Les Amours Du Chevalier de Faublas

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray · 1787 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Paris, Chez les Marchands de Nouveautes , c1880. Leather. New edition of Louvet de Couvray's novel in two volumes in attractive half calf bindings signed Mudie. A new edition, complete in two volumes. First part of French noelist and journalist Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Cou...

Oeuvres de Benjamin Constant: Adolphe

Benjamin Constant · 1889 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1889. Leather. A leather bound copy of Benjamin Constant's classic French novel, Adolphe. An uncommon edition of Benjamin Constant's classic French novel, Adolphe. Published in French, with frontispiece. Constant tells the story of an alienat...

Maitre Pierre

Edmond About · 1858 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

Paris, Hachette, 1858. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of Edmond About's novel, signed by the author. A first edition of Edmond About's novel, signed by the author. Published in French. With the author's ink inscription to the half title, 'Mons...

The Languages of Pao

Jack Vance · 1979 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1979 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the Limited Edition first 'restored' edition of Jack Vance's science-fiction novel, set in the distant future and celebrated for exploring the relationship between language and cultur...

Les Petites Allieãƒâoeã‚âEs: Roman

Claude FarreÃÂOe€re · 0 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, c1925. Leather. A signed copy of Claude Farrère's early novel, with thirteen illustrations by William Lambrecht. Published in French. An attractive French copy of this novel by Claude Farrère, signed by the author. With thirteen illustrations b...

Ode to France

Charles Morgan · 1942 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Macmillan, 1942 . Paperback. A lovely signed and limited edition copy of Charles Morgan's ode to the country of France, penned prior to its liberation from the Germans. Printed the same year as the first edition, this is number eighty-eight of the three hundred an...

Mr. Hervey&Apos;S Contemplations on a Flower-Garden, Done Into Blank Verse

T. Newcomb; James Hervey · 1757 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, J. Rivington and J. Fletcher, 1757 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this very scarce blank verse poem by English clergyman and teacher Thomas Newcomb. A charming and very scarce mid eighteenth century blank verse poem, constructed by Thomas Newcomb from...

A Collection of Works by P.D. James

P. D. James · 1997 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Faber and Faber, 1997-2008. First edition. Cloth. Four first editions from English novelist, Phyllis Dorothy James. Four volumes. First editions. Written by Phyllis Dorothy James, an English novelist and life peer best known for creating the police commander Adam Dalgl...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Charles Dickens · 1837 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1837 . First edition. Leather. The first edition in book form of Charles Dickens' immensely popular first novel. With the two Buss plates and many first issue points present, and illustrated throughout by Phiz. The first edition in book form of C...

Sappho: Parisian Manners. A Realistic Novel

Alphonse Daudet · 1886 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Vizetelly & Co. 1886. Cloth. An early edition of this English translation of Alphonse Daudet's realistic novel. Sixth thousand. Translated from the 100th French Edition. A realistic novel by Alphonse Daudet, French novelist of the nineteenth century. Illustrated ...

Stoker

Lindsay Clarke · 2006 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Nimes, Grand Phoenix Press , 2006. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce anthology of verses of Lindsay Clarke, a signed limited edition in the original publisher's wraps. The first edition of this work. A very scarce copy, rarely seen in commerce and not found institut...

Poems Mdcccxxx - Mdcccxxxiii

Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1862 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

Toronto, Privately Printed [for J. Dykes Campbell], 1862 . Hardback. A pirated edition of a collection of early poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, with a loosely inserted signed letter from the publisher, James Dykes Campbell. A collection of the early poems of Alfred Lord Tennyso...

The Prose Works, Letters, and Final Memorials of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb; Thomas Noon Talfourd · 1837 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Edward Moxon, 1837-1848 . Leather. A lovely set of this collection of poetry, prose, and letters by Charles Lamb in Sotheran Sackville signed morocco bindings. A beautifully bound collection of works and letters by Charles Lamb, including three sets rebound in Sotheran...

Poems with a Dramatic Entertainment

[Anne Percy] · 1771 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.21 | $779.47 | ¥124,472)

London, J. Dodsley; P. Elmsly; T. Davis, and F. Newbery, [1771]. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of the poetry of Anne Penny, a brilliant collection including Penny's translations. The first edition of this scarce work.ESTC citation number T42683.Illustrate...

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

William Shakespeare; Leon Garfield · 1992 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Heinenann, 1992-1994. First edition. Cloth. These two beautifully illustrated volumes of Shakespeare's plays for children are by-product the successful television series Shakespeare: The Animated Tales. Two lovely illustrated volumes of Shakespeare's plays fo...