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Madame de Chatelain [Clara de Chatelain] · 1865 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, A. N. Myers, 1865 . First edition. Cloth. The second UK edition of this very scarce children's work, originally published in German. Illustrated with vibrant colour plates. The second UK edition, first published in the UK five years prior.Adapted from the German by …

Churchyard&Apos;S Chips Concerning Scotland: Being a Collection of His Pieces Relative to That Country; with Historical Notices, and a Life of the Author

George Chalmers · 1817 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce work on Thomas Churchyard by George Chalmers, bound in full calf and previously owned by Joseph Haslewood, the founder of the Roxburghe Club. The first edition. Pr…

National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Annual Conference: Verbatim Report of the Proceedings Together with the Text of Mr. Churchill&Apos;S Speech.

Winston S. Churchill · 1948 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)

London , The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations , 1948-52. First edition. Paperback. Three scarce volumes featuring accounts of the annual conferences of the National Conservative Union, with reports of Churchill's speeches. The first editions. In the…

The Moon Is Down

John Steinbeck · 1942 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

New York, The Viking Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel fashioned for theatre adaptation from American writer John Steinbeck. First edition. Second state with correction to page 112. With the original price-clipped dust wrapper. The story of t…

Idylls of the King

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,671)

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1859. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue, of this Arthurian poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, focusing on the story of King Arthur and Guinevere. The first edition, second issue of this work, with the printer's imprint to the verso …

Selecta Poemata Archibaldi Pitcarnii; Poems in English and Latin, on the Archers, and the Royal-Company of Archers

Archibald Pitcairne · 1726 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.08 | ¥125,487)

Edinburgh, Not Stated, 1726-1727 . First edition. Leather. Two very scarce first edition of early eighteenth century works of poetry. bound together in a modern quarter morocco binding. In both Latin and English.Two very scarce works of poetry bound together.The first of these w…

The Outcry

Henry James · 1911 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Methuen and Co, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry James's entertaining final completed novel, 'The Outcry&apos. The first edition. Originally conceived as a three-act play, this work was converted into a novel in 1911 and was the last nove…

The Shropshire Racket

Stephen L. Robertson · 1937 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,225)

London, Sheed & Ward, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this parody of the work of A. E. Housman by Stephen L, Robertson, with illustrations by Thomas Derrick. The first edition, first impression. Illustrated by Thomas Derrick with monochrome vignettes. This vol…

The Backward Shadow

Lynne Reid Banks · 1970 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,280)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this sequel to Lynne Reid Banks' 'The L-Shaped Room', with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust…

Two Suffolk Friends

Francis Hindes Groome · 1895 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated paper on Suffolk and the people there from writer and commentator Francis Hindes Groome. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collate…

Wet Magic

Edith Nesbit · 1923 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, T. Fisher Unwin LTD, 1923. Cloth. An uncommon to see copy of one of Edith Nesbit's popular children's fantasy novels, an illustrated mermaid adventure. The first edition to be published by T. Fisher Unwin, having previously been published by T. Werner Laurie.A …

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

D. H. Lawrence · 1914 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Duckworth & Co, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this drama told in three acts by D. H. Lawrence, a dramatisation of his earlier short stories 'Odour of Chrysanthemums&apos. The first U.K. edition of this work, this is one of 500 copies published usi…

Black Mischief

Evelyn Waugh · 1932 · Rooke Books

£105.00 (€125.86 | $138.72 | ¥22,145)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of Evelyn Waugh's third novel, the humorous 'Black Mischief&apos. The first edition, first impression of Waugh's third novel, chronicling the efforts of the British educated…

Deliverance

James Dickey · 1970 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of James Dickey's debut novel, about a group of four middle-aged men who encounter danger in the backwaters of Georgia. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.…

James Ramsay Macdonald: Labour&Apos;S Man of Destiny

H. Hessell Tiltman · 1929 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, The Waverley Book Company, Limited , 1929. Cloth. A very pleasing biographical work on former UK Prime Minister, Ramsay Macdonald. A bright early edition of this biographical work. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding, with gilt to the spine. Undated, da…

The Terrible Threshold: Selected Poems 1940-1970

Stanley Kunitz · 1974 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,799)

London, Secker and Warburg , 1974. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first UK edition of Stanley Kunitz's collected poems. The first UK edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A series of selected poems written betwe…

Suffolk in 1327 Being a Subsidy Return (Suffolk Green Books No. IX. Vol. II)

1906 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Woodbridge , George Booth, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce record of taxpayers in Suffolk in the year 1327, bound in the publisher's very smart cloth. The first edition of this very scarce printed record. No. IX. Vol. II from 'Suffolk Green Books&apos. In t…

Chaucer&Apos;S Dream-Poems

James Winny · 1973 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study of three of Chaucer's early poems, a review copy with publisher's request. First edition. A review copy with the original request from the publishers. A study of three of Chaucer&a…

The Life and Death of Mr Badman

John Bunyan; J. A. Froude · 1900 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Wm. Heinemann , 1900 . Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated edition of John Bunyan's accompaniment to The Pilgrim's Progress, with striking illustrations by George Woolliscroft Rhead and Louis Rhead. The first edition thus, being the first edition with illustration…

The Dream

John Masefield · 1922 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, William Heinemann, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent, limited edition of John Masefield's poetical tribute to a friend, signed by both the author and his daughter, the illustrator, presented in the scarce glassine wrap. A limited, first edition. This copy be…