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Mervyn Peake · 1941 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of Mervyn Peake's first collected volume of poetry, one of 1,000 copies issued, preserved in the striking original unclipped dust wrapper. In the  publisher's original quarter cloth binding w…

Rhymes without Reason

Mervyn Peake · 1944 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944 . First edition. Cloth. A desirable first edition of Peake's eccentric of nonsense verse, illustrated with sixteen colour illustrations by Peake, and complete with the scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's original…

The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret

Susanna Centlivre · 1736 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, W. Feales, 1736 . Leather. A smartly rebound copy of the third edition of Susanna Centlivre"s popular comedy of secrecy, jealousy and resistance to patriarchal authority. Rebound in a modern quarter morocco binding with cloth boards, endpapers renewed. The third edition,…

Poetry of the Present: An Anthology of the Thirties and After

Geoffrey Grigson [ed.] · 1949 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Phoenix House Limited, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. A smart 'first cheap edition' of this collection of mid twentieth-century poetry by a number of acclaimed authors, compiled by Geoffrey Grigson. The first edition.  In the publisher's original blue cloth…

Volumes from the Fundacion Para la Conmemoracion Del Bicentenario Del Natalicio Y El Sesquicentenario de la Muerte Del General Francisco de Paula Santander

Francisco de Paula Santander; Horacio Rodriguez Plata [ed.]; Juan Camilo Rodriguez [ed.]; Alvaro Lozano Esquivel · 1988 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Bogota, Biblioteca de la Presidencia de la Republica Administracion Virgilio Barco, 1988-1990. First edition. Hardback. A smart seven volume set on Colombia's national hero, Francisco de Paula Santander, including letters, writings, diaries, and a biography. A seven volume …

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Lady Luxborough, to William Shenstone

Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough · 1775 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, J. Dodsley, 1775 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of these posthumously published private correspondences from Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough to her personal friend, William Shenstone. A collection of letters from Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough, an Engli…

The Contemporaries of Burns, and the More Recent Poets of Ayrshire

James Paterson [ed.]; Isobel Pagan; James Fisher; Janet Little; John Ramsay et al · 1840 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

Edinburgh, Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder, 1840 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this delightful poetry anthology or works by contemporaries of Burns and those from his region of Scotland, edited by James Paterson. A scarce first edition. Illustrated with a front…

The Poetical Works of John Scott Esq.

John Scott · 1782 · Rooke Books

£330.00 (€395.56 | $435.98 | ¥69,620)

London, J. Buckland, 1782 . First edition. Leather. A handsome example of the charmingly illustrated first edition of the collected verse of Quaker poet John Scott, rebound in quarter morocco. The first edition of this work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, …

Ninfa Revisited

Kathleen Raine · 1968 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Enitharmon Press, 1968. First edition. Paperback. A signed limited edition of this uncommon poetry work, together with the original wraparound band. First edition. No. 244 of a limited edition of 325 copies. In the publisher's original soft covers with the original …

Privately Printed Catalogues N.S. 5: Rare and Valuable Books and Manuscripts on Central and South America: Including Works on Spanish Colonial Enterprise in the South of the United States, in the Far East, and on the Philippine Islands

1884 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, c1914. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this especially scarce privately printed catalogue from Karl W. Hiersemann. Very scarce. First edition. In the publisher's original soft covers. Illustrated with eight pages of plates, and fu…

Goodbye Picasso

David Douglas Duncan · 1974 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Times Books, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and scarce first UK edition of this photographic reflection on the life and work of Picasso. A very smart copy of the scarce first UK edition, published in same year as the US. Bound in publisher's original coars…

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter&Apos;S Tale

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1889 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd. 1889. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a gripping Gothic adventure by the brilliant Scottish storyteller, a bitter conflict between two brothers. The first UK edition of The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale, a gripping advent…

Parsons His Christian Directory: Being a Treatise of Holy Resolution. In Two Parts. Put Into Modern English. And Now Made Publick, for the Instruction of the Ignorant; the Conviction of the Unbelieving; the Awakening and Reclaiming the Vicious; and for Confirming the Religious in Their Good Purposes.

[Robert Persons]; George Stanhope [ed.] · 1742 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, D. Midwinter; W. Innys; A. Ward; J. and P. Knapton; T. Longman; J. Hodges; J. Rivington, 1742. Leather. The seventh edition of Robert Person's Elizabethan text, edited to appeal to Protestant readers by George Stanhope, exceptionally scarce in all editions. This, th…

Absolution

William Stafford · 1980 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Knotting, Bedford, Martin Booth, 1980 . First edition. Paperback. A smart scarce signed limited edition copy of this book of two poems by American poet and pacifist William Stafford. A limited edition copy, with this being no.38 of 50 signed by the author, in a 125 numbered limi…

These Foolish Things

Michael Sadleir · 1937 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Michael Sadleir's novel in its original dust wrapper. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding, together with the uncommon and unclipped dust wrapper. An intriguing novel on yout…

Napoleon and His Court

C. S. Forester · 1924 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1924. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition biography by Hornblower writer C. S. Forester, in the original cloth. A first edition. Bound in publisher's original green cloth. Decorated with gilt lettering and motifs to the front board …

Night Thoughts & Other Poems

C. H. Sisson · 1983 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Oxford Polytechnic, Inky Parrot Press, 1983. First edition. Hardback. A very smart copy of this illustrated limited edition work, housed in original slipcase, and doubly signed. A lovely copy. Housed in a very smart pictorial slipcase, and in the publisher's original pictor…

Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

Ingo F. Walther; Rainer Metzger; Michael Hulse [trans.] · 1990 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Oldenburg, Benedikt Taschen, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A very smart pair of first edition volumes, heavily illustrated and housed in the original slipcase, with dust wrappers. A pair of very smart first edition artbooks compiling and discussing the artistic legacy of Vincnet V…

Extempore Memorial (for C.H. )

A.L. Rowse · 1933 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

[Oxford], [Privately Printed], 1933. First edition. Paperback. A uncommon elegy in memory of a friend and fellow Cornish historian, written and signed by Shakespearean expert A.L. Rowse. The first edition of Extempore Memorial, an uncommon poem in the memory of Charles Henderson…

More Memories: Being Thoughts About England Spoken in America

S. Reynolds Hole · 1894 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Edward Arnold, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The revised edition of Dean Hole's shared memories and wisdom, including his reflections on America after his recent tour there. More Memories: Being Thoughts about England Spoken in America, written by prolific Anglican pr…