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Authors by Profession Volume One

Victor Bonham-Carter · 1978 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, The Society of Authors, 1978. First edition. Cloth. The first signed edition of 'Authors by Profession' by Victor Bonham-Carter. A very scarce signed, first edition of Victor Bonham-Carter's study into how authors and dramatists have practised their prof...

Perfectly Pure and Good

Frances Fyfield · 1994 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,382)

London, Bantam Press, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this mystery novel from Frances Fyfield. Signed by the author to the title page. This is the second in Frances Fyfield's Sarah Fortune series of novels. In a blue cloth binding with original uncli...

Waxwings

Jonathan Raban · 2003 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Picador, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Jonathan Raban's second novel. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the title page. Jonathan Raban is a British travel writer, critic, and novelist. He has received several awards, su...

Unholy Crusade

Dennis Wheatley · 1967 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

London, Hutchinson, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A first edition signed presentation copy of 'Unholy Crusade&apos. Inscribed by the author: 'For D. Denham, With kindest remembrances from Dennis Wheatley&apos. A first edition. In a cloth binding with gilt lettering to ...

The Collected Dramatic Works of John Symonds: Volume One: The Bicycle Play

John Symonds · 1981 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, The Pindar Press, 1981. Paperback. The first volume from John Symonds' Collected Dramatic Works, The Bicycle Play. "A tragedy in two acts", this is a play about "men and women who are disorientated by the conflicts in themselves and the chaos in the contemporary w...

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach · 2012 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Fourth Estate, 2012. First edition. Cloth. A US first edition of this work about a junior baseball player. he novel focuses on the best year of the Westish basebell team, which Henry Skrimshander joins. Chad Harbach (1975-) is an American author and editor. In a cloth ...

Selected Novels of Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope · 1992 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Bloomsbury, 1992 - 1998. Cloth. A five volume collection of novels by Joanna Trollope. Titles are: The Men and the Girls A Spanish Lover The Best of Friends Next of Kin Other People's Children The Best of Friends is signed by Joanna Trollope to the title page. Joa...

Deadly Admirer a Kate Kinsella Mystery

Christine Green · 1992 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,061)

New York, Walker, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A very smart signed first American edition of this UK crime novel. Kate Kinsella is both a private investigator and an Registered Nurse. Her worlds collide when she finds a client amongst her patients - a paranoid fellow nurse who ...

Dmitri and the One-Legged Lady

Michael Pearce · 1999 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, Harper Collins, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Michael Pearce's second novel in the witty and fascinating Dmitri Kameron series. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original unclipped illustrated dustwrapper, designed...

Italy, a Poem

Samuel Rogers · 1830 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, T. Cadell et al. 1830. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of this poetical work by Samuel Rogers. In a signed binding by H. Mackenzie. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) was an English poet who was much celebrated during his lifetime. With steel engraved illustrations throughout....

Childe Harold&Apos;S Pilgrimage a Romanaut and Other Poems and Canto the Fourth

Lord Byron · 1812 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, John Murray, 1812-18. Leather. Two volumes of Lord Byron's lengthy narrative poem, in a attractive uniform leather binding. In a lovely morocco J Edmond of Aberdeen binding. With a folding Greek facsimile plate to the rear of volume I. Volume I is the third editio...

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin

Anonymous · 1800 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, J Wright, 1800. Leather. A second edition of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, in a leather binding. The Anti-Jacobin was a weekly English newspaper founded in 1797 in opposition to what was seen as the radicalism of the French Revolution. Many of the poems found in this...

The Poetical Works of Mrs Hemans Reprinted from the Early Editions with Memoir Explanatory Notes Etc.

Mrs Hemans · 1885 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1880. Leather. The complete poetical works by the popular English poet, Mrs Hemans. Illustrated, with six full page plates. With a biographical introduction by the editor. Published as a part of the 'Lansdowne Poets' collection from F...

The Devil&Apos;S Visit; a Poem from the Original Manuscript with Notes by a Barrister

Robert Cruikshank · 1830 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)

London, William Kidd, 1830. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this humorous poem The Devil's Visit. With five illustrated plates and an additional frontispiece by Robert Cruikshank. Advertisement on verso to title page signed C E D. Direct from the library of t...

Poems on Several Occasions

Matthew Prior · 1709 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1709. Leather. The first authorized edition of Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions. With a beautiful engraved frontispiece. With a long dedication to Prior's patron, the Right Honourable Lionel, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex. This is the f...

Lavengro the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

George Borrow · 1914 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, Edinburgh and Boston, T N Foulis, 1914. Leather. A beautifully illustrated edition of George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel. In a signed morocco binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt stamp to front pastedown. With twelve colour illustrated plates tipped i...

Ephemera

John Meredith Cobbett · 1898 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

Oxford , Alden and Co. Ltd. 1898. Cloth. A scarce anthology of poetical works from John Meredith Cobbett. Neatly inscribed by the author in ink. With an "Ode to the Queen on the Occasion of Her Jubilee, 1897." In original half cloth binding with cloth covered boards. Externall...

In the Shadow of Purple a Royal Romance

George Gilbert · 1902 · Rooke Books

£215.00 (€257.71 | $284.05 | ¥45,358)

London , John Long. 1902. Cloth. An historical novel by George Gilbert. George Gilbert is a pseudonym for Mary Lucy Arthur. Signed by the author, to the recto of front endpaper. Very unsually a signed copy. This work is based on the romance and life of Maria Fitzherbert. Fitzh...

Jephthah&Apos;S Daughter and Other Poems

Edward Henry Pember · 1904 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.90 | $85.86 | ¥13,711)

London , Printed at the Chiswick Press for Private Circulation, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce edition of Jephthah's Daughter and Other Poems by Edward Henry Pember and unnumbered limited edition a signed presentation copy by the author. 'To Brooks' C...

A Writer&Apos;S Notes on His Trade

C. E. Montague · 1930 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London , Chatto and Windus, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition, being number 3 of 700, signed by H. M. Tomlinson, author of the introductory essay. With a woodcut portrait of C. E. Montague to title page by Percy Smith and with a prefatory note by M. Montague, the w...