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Sensualite Amoureuse

Jean Lourrain · 1901 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Paris, Corbeil , 1901. First edition. Paperback. A scarce first edition novel by symbolist poet Jean Lourrain. The first edition of this work.Scarce in the original wraps. Illustrated throughout, with numerous illustrations depicting romantic scenes. Jean Lorrain was a French …

Palai

Francis Viele-Griffin · 1894 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Paris, Mercure de France, 1894. First edition. Paperback. An uncommon, signed copy of Francis Viele-Griffin's work of dramatic poetry, 'Palai&apos. In the original wraps with the original glassine protecting the wraps. Author's inscription in purple ink to the re…

Astra Les Joies Du Crime Resurrection Divine

Ivan Dietschine · 1894 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

Paris, Chamuel Editeur, 1894. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, first and only edition of this novel symoblist author Ivan Dietschine. A very scarce work, with only two listings on Worldcat and no records on Jisc. In the original French.Dietschine was also the author of …

The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis

Jeffrey Meyers · 1980 · Rooke Books

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of noted author Wyndham Lewis' biography by Jeffrey Meyers. An excellent copy in the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of Jeffrey Meyer's biograp…

Jerusalem 1920-1922: Being the Records of the Pro-Jerusalem Council During the First Two Years of the CIVIL Administration

C R Ashbee; Sir Ronald Storrs · 1924 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, John Murray , 1924. First edition. Hardback. An excellent first edition of this sought after, scarce volume, being the record of the Pro-Jerusalem Council spanning from 1920 to 1922. The first edition of this scarce volume by C R Ashbee, being the records of the Pro-Jeru…

Quintus Curtius Rufus de Rebus Gestis Alexandrim Macedonum Regis

Quinus Curtius Rufus · 1687 · Rooke Books

£415.00 (€497.44 | $548.27 | ¥87,552)

Amsterdam, Henricum Wetstenium, 1687. Leather. A scarce imprint of Quintus Curtius Rufus' only surviving work, his history of Alexander the Great. In the original Latin.From the library of the Crum Ewings and the Hamiltons of Lowood house.Illustrated, with four plates and a…

Three Bembridge Fables and Thy Youth and Cause

John Howard Whitehouse · 1933 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London; Cambridge, George Allen & Unwin; The Yellowsands Press, 1933-1934. First edition. Cloth. Two scarce works from MP and founder of Bembridge School, John Howard Whitehouse. Two scarce works, both in their first editions, from social reformist and Liberal MP J. Howard White…

The Rubaiyat of &Apos;Umar Kaiyam

'Umar Khaiyam; J B Nicolas; Frederic Baron Corvo · 1924 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful edition of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khaiyam, translated from the French of J B Nicolas. The first edition by the Bodley Head illustrated by Hamzeh Carr. A beautiful first Bodley Head edition of the Rubaiyat b…

Admonitions Against Swearing, Sabbath-Breaking and Drunkenness, Designed for the Benefit of Such That Are Guilty of One or More of These Vices.

James Stonhouse · 1811 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811. Disbound. A scarce pamphlet from an eighteenth century English cleric, advising against such sins as swearing and drinking. A scarce pamphlet from the English physician, cleric, hospital founder and religious writer Sir James Stonhouse.This …

Two Gallant Sons of Devon

Harry Collingwood · 1913 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Glasgow and Bombay, Blackie and Son Limited, 1913. Cloth. A captivating piece of boys' nautical adventure fiction by Harry Collingwood, bound in smart pictorial cloth. Set at sea, this work covers exciting incidents such as sailing ships, an attack by natives, sea r…

The Road to Corlay

Richard Cowper · 1978 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Richard Cowper's exciting science fiction novel, the first novel in a series, in the iconic original yellow Gollancz dust wrapper. Set a thousand years into the future, Britain has become seven Ki…

Under the Water

Maurice Noel · 1886 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1886. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition Victorian children's novel, following two children who get stuck in the underwater world. Illustrated beautifully by E. A. Lemann. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work.An exciting V…

The Survey of London

Walter Besant · 1902 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,388)

London, A. & C. Black, 1902-12. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of these eight volumes by Walter Besant, exploring the historical topography of London, illustrated beautifully throughout with plates and folding maps. The first edition of these works.Walter Besant's…

Nebula Award Stories

Brian W. Aldiss; Harry Harrison; Roger Zelazny; James Blish; et al. · 1967 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Gollancz, 1967-1972. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce, assorted collection of science fiction novels, award winners and runners-up for the Nebula Award from 1966 to 1971, in the unclipped dust wrapper. Volumes 2, 3, and 5 to 7 of the Gollancz c…

The Man with the Golden Gun

Ian Fleming · 1965 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Ian Fleming's final novel in the Jame's Bond series, published posthumously. 'The Man with the Golden Gun' is the best-selling final novel of Fleming's Bond series. The work foll…

A History of London

W. J. Loftie · 1883 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Edward Stanford, 1883. First edition. Cloth. A first edition history of the British capital through the ages, with numerous folding colour maps. With 38 plates between both volumes, many of which are folding maps. Collated, complete.A two volume history of the British ca…

The Rookeries of London: Past, Present, and Prospective

Thomas Beames · 1852 · Rooke Books

£249.00 (€298.47 | $328.96 | ¥52,531)

London, Thomas Bosworth, 1852. Cloth. An extremely scarce first hand account of the severe poverty of Victorian London. A scarce work, here in the 1852 second edition.This is the work of the Reverend Thomas Beames, a preacher and assistant at St. James, Westminster. After witnes…

Holland

Beatrix Jungman · 1904 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A decoratively-bound topographical work on Holland at the turn of the twentieth century, richly illustrated by Nico Jungman. With chapters on Gelderland, South Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, North Brabant, Overysel, Drenthe…

Late Lyrics and Earlier

Thomas Hardy · 1922 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1922. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Thomas Hardy's poetry collection. This collection of Hardy's poetry is more musical than his other work, often fondly recalling past memories in ballad format. It opens with an Apology in pr…

He Kaine Diatheke Novum Testamentum

Anon; Joannis Baskerville; John Baskerville · 1763 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.52 | $1,453.25 | ¥232,066)

Oxford; Oxonii, Clarendon Press; E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1763. First edition. Leather. The scarce first Baskerville edition of the New Testament. One of only 500 quarto editions produced by Baskerville. Printed in Greek and in Latin. The text of this New Testament mostly r…