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Rupert Brooke: Fragments Now First Collected Some Being Hitherto Unpublished
Rupert Brooke; R.M.G. Potter · 1925 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
Hartford, at the press of the Finlay Brothers, 1925 . First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of this limited edition publication of the juvenilia and fragments of Rupert Brooke. Number 54 of 99 limited edition copies of this work.Edited by Brooke's first bib…
Railway Practice: A Collection of Working Plans and Practical Details of Construction in the Public Works
S. C. Brees · 1847 · Rooke Books
£2,750.00 (€3,296.31 | $3,633.13 | ¥580,165)
London, John Williams and Co, 1847 . First edition. Cloth. A complete four volume set of S. C. Brees's impressive study of railway engineering and construction in the nineteenth century, illustrated with over 250 folding and double paged plates. Present here are the third e…
A Monograph of the Genus Bos. The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes
George Vasey · 1857 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, John Russell Smith, 1857 . Cloth. A smart example of the second edition of George Vasey's informative and detailed monograph on the natural history of bulls, bison and buffaloes. First published in 1851 as 'Delineations of the Ox Tribe: Or the Natural History o…
The Making of a Railway
L. T. C. Rolt [Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt] · 1971 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, Hugh Evelyn, 1971. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work on the building of the great central railway, with many interesting photographic illustrations capturing the workers and the building process, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first i…
Die Lehre Vom Logos in Der Griechischen Philosophie
Max Heinze · 1872 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
Oldenburg, Ferdinand Schmidt, 1872. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Max Heinze's Philosophical work on the 'doctrine of the logos', written in German. The very scarce first edition. Written in German. Bound in quarter cloth with marbled pa…
Studies in History and Jurisprudence
James Bryce · 1901 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition set of this collection of essays and articles from British academic James Bryce. Complete in two volumes. First edition. A collection of Bryce"s essays and articles on the Roman and British …
A Collection of Novels from Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell · 1989 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, MacDonald; Little ,Brown and Company; Headline, 1989-1995. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of five volumes from English horror fiction writer Ramsey Campbell. Five volumes. First edition or first thus. Written by Ramsey Campbell, an English horror fiction writer…
The Rescue & the Shadow Line
Joseph Conrad · 1933 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1933-1934. Cloth. Two smart volumes from Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, being part of The New Adelphi Library. Two volumes. The New Adelphi Library. This set contains: The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows, 1933. One of Conrad's works …
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
Philadelphia, The Blakiston Company , 1940 . Cloth. The first Blakiston edition of Ernest Hemingway's celebrated novel set during the Spanish Civil War, with this edition being published the same year as the first due to a collaboration with Charles Scribner's Sons. Th…
The Ultimate Island: A Strange Adventure
L. De Giberne Sieveking · 1925 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)
London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1925 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this very scarce science-fiction novel focusing on the discovery of an Archipelago leading to Atlantis, written by Lance Sieveking. The first UK edition. Very scarce work. Bound in the …
An Autobiography: Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie · 1977 · Rooke Books
£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)
London, Collins, 1977 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful association copy of Agatha Christie's posthumously published autobiography, inscribed by her widower, the archaeologist and academic Max Mallowan. The first edition.Inscribed by Agatha Christie's husband of fort…
Specimen Historico-Criticum, Exhibens Vitam Amedis Tulonidis
Taco Roorda · 1825 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
Batavorum, S. et J. Luchtmans, 1825. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce exploration on the life of Ahmad ibn Tulun, the first edition, in the original Latin. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original Latin.Half-title is present. A biographical treatise on Ahma…
Masterpieces Selected from the Korin School
Shiichi Tajima; Mr. Joseph King Goodrich [trans.] · 1903 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)
Tokyo, Shimbi Shoin, 1903 . First edition. Cloth. Volume I of Shiichi Tajima's beautiful limited edition analysis of the Korin school of Japanese art. Signed by the editor, and with over thirty plates of striking works of art. The first edition of volume I only of a work th…
The Religious Minorities of Chios: Jews and Roman Catholics
Philip P. Argenti · 1970 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, Cambridge University Press, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the uncommon first edition of Argenti's scholarly study of the religious minorities of the Greek island of Chios, and the manner in which they have interacted with the dominant Greek Or…
The Massacres of Chios: Described in Contemporary Diplomatic Reports
Philip P. Argenti [ed.] · 1932 · Rooke Books
£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally bright example of Philip P. Argenti's very scarce history of the Chios Massacre, drawing from contemporary sources to document the catastrophic event. The vanishingly scarce first edition, firs…
Incarnate Isis
Shaw Desmond · 1941 · Rooke Books
£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)
London, Hutchinson, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Shaw Desmond's thrilling 1941 novel, a tale of reincarnation set in Ancient Egypt. In the charmingly illustrated original dust wrapper. The very scarce first edition, first impression.In the o…
The Blue Spider
Arthur Mills · 1929 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, W. Collins Sons & Co, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Arthur Mills's thrilling novel about a secret society and a collection of priceless emeralds that have been stolen. The very scarce first edition, first impression.Described by the p…
The President&Apos;S Hat
Antoine Laurain · 2013 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
London, Gallic Books, 2013. First edition. Paperback. A smart first English edition of this humorous story from French writer Antoine Laurain. First English edition, fifth impression. Signed by the author to the title page. One day in 1986, President Francois Mitterrand forgot h…
The Wild Boys
William S. Burroughs · 1972 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)
London, Calder & Boyars, 1972. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this intriguing post-apocalyptic novel by William S. Burroughs. The first edition, first impression.In the original publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.'The Wild Boys' is set in apocalyptic l…
Some Rain Must Fall
Michel Faber · 1998 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, Canongate, 1998. First edition. Paperback. A striking signed first edition of Michel Faber's engrossing collection of short stories. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.An imaginative and versatile collection of sh…