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The Servitour: A Poem
Anonymous · 1709 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)
London, H. Hills, 1709. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce satirical poem on the society of the University of Oxford, the first edition. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.'The Servitour: a Poem' is a satirical poem on life at the University …
A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul · 1961 · Rooke Books
£2,500.00 (€2,996.61 | $3,302.86 | ¥527,257)
London, Andre Deutsch, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant novel on a man finding success in a postcolonial world by V. S. Naipaul, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper. &ap…
The Glimpses of the Moon: A Novel
Edmund Crispin · 1978 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition, fourth impression of Edmund Crispin's last novel, featuring the amateur detective Gervase Fen. The first edition, fourth impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, wi…
To the Memory of a Lady Lately Deceased. A Monody.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton · 1747 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,671)
London, A. Millar, 1747 . First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first edition of George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton's moving poetic tribute to his late wife, Lucy Fortescue. The first edition of a work that is scarce in all contemporary editions.This work of poetry w…
Advice to a Lady
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton · 1733 · Rooke Books
£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,017)
London [Edinburgh], Lawton Gilliver, 1733 . First edition. Unbound. The very scarce first edition of George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton's poem, addressed to Lady Diana Spencer. Lacking the first leaf, which is the title page.The very scarce first edition.This poem, addre…
The Water-Colour Drawings of Thomas Bewick
David Croal Thomson · 1930 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)
London, Barbizon House, 1930 . First edition. Leather. David Croal Thomson's limited edition celebration of the watercolours of English wood-engraver and natural historian Thomas Bewick. One of two-hundred copies of this work printed on hand-made paper, and numbered 326 to …
George Grenfell and the Congo
Sir Harry Johnston · 1908 · Rooke Books
£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)
London, Hutchinson & Co, 1908. First edition. Cloth. Exceptionally bright examples of the richly illustrated first edition of Johnston's study of Grenfell's travels. The two volume first edition of British explorer, botanist, artist, colonial administrator Sir Harry Jo…
Selected Works of Henry Hart Milman
Rev. H. H. Milman [Henry Hart Milman] · 1818 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)
London, John Murray, 1818-1823. First edition. Vellum. A wonderful set of five volumes of early and first editions of the poetry of Henry Hart Milman, in full vellum bindings. Five volumes of poetical works from Milman, an accomplished poet and writer was also responsible for an…
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
Lemony Snicket [Daniel Handler] · 2002 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)
New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. First edition. Hardback. A very fine first edition, first printing of this fictional "autobiography" of author and character, Lemony Snicket, with the fine dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing. With the publisher's fine …
Herself in Love and Other Stories
Marianne Wiggins · 1987 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)
London, Collins, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first UK edition of this collection of short stories from American author Marianne Wiggins, signed by the author. First UK edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. A collection of nine short stories,…
Books One to Four of the Jesse Jameson Series
Sean Wright · 2003 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)
London, Crowswing Books, 2003-2004. First edition. Paperback. A set of four first paperback edition volumes from the Jesse Jameson fantasy series by British author Sean Wright, signed by the author. Four volumes of a six volume set, lacking volumes five and six. First paperback …
The Cry of the Icemark
Stuart Hill · 2005 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)
Somerset, The Chicken House, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of the first novel in the Icemark Chronicles from British author Stuart Hill, signed by the author. With the original slip case. First edition, first impression. Signed by the a…
The Elder Statesman: A Play
T. S. Eliot · 1959 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)
London, Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this play in verse from American writer T. S. Eliot. First UK edition. A play in verse, exploring the late life of Lord Claverton, a retired Cabinet minister who idly fingers the empty pages of his …
The Giant, O&Apos;Brien
Hilary Mantel · 1998 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)
London, Fourth Estate, 1998. First edition. Cloth. Hilary Mantel's haunting novel about the eighteenth century giant Charles Byrne, the first impression, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Giant…
A Summer Bird-Cage
Margaret Drabble · 1963 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Margaret Drabble's debut novel, signed by the author. The first edition, second impression, published in June 1963, following the first impression of March 1963.Signed by the author to the tit…
Busman&Apos;S Honeymoon
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1937 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this early Sayers novel, with the scarce errata slip present. The first edition, first impression.A mixed state, with "!" for "." on page 378 but with "errific" corrected to "terrifi…
Full Moon
P. G. Wodehouse · 1947 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)
New York, Doubleday and Company Inc, 1947 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first US edition of this farcical novel from P. G. Wodehouse, set at Blandings Castle. The first US edition, first printing of this work. This US edition was actually published four months prior to the UK…
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Ntozake Shange · 1982 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
New York, St. Martin's Press, 1982. First edition. Hardback. The first edition, first printing of this immensely rich novel by the prolific American author Ntozake Shange, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing of the work. With the orig…
The Tiger in the Smoke, the China Governess, Cargo of Eagles, the Allingham Case-Book
Margery Allingham · 1952 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1952-1969. First edition. Hardback. The first and first U.K. editions of four crime novels by so-called 'Queen of Crime' Margery Allingham, with the original dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression of The Tiger in the Smoke (1952), C…
My Son&Apos;S Story
Nadine Gordimer · 1990 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)
London, Bloomsbury, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A signed first UK edition of this story about a family torn apart by political struggles and adultery, written by the Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer. The first edition, first impression with a complete numberline. Sig…