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The Quest of the Golden Stairs
Arthur Edward Waite · 1927 · Rooke Books
£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.09 | ¥200,358)
London, The Theosophical Publishing House, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this fantasy novel from British poet and scholarly mystic A. E. Waite. The first edition, first impression of this very scarce work, in the publisher's original unclippe…
Harvest of Journeys and Sea and Islands
Hammond Innes · 1960 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)
London, Collins, 1960-67. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition works by Hammond Innes, describing his journeys and trips, illustrated with photographs and in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition. Two volumes. Illustrated with thirty-nine monochrome and fu…
The Button-Box and Other Essays
Alison Uttley · 1968 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)
London, Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce collection of autobiographical essays by Alison Uttley, the author of the popular 'Little Grey Rabbit' children's books. The first edition. In the publisher's original clot…
Biggles and the Black Raider
Captain W. E. Johns · 1953 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated Biggles adventure from Captain W. E. Johns. First edition, first impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight colour plates. Collated complete. The forty-…
Biggles Hunts Big Game: A Story of Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I. D. And His Special Air Police
Captain W. E. Johns · 1948 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling Biggles adventure, featuring the colour illustrations of Leslie Stead. First edition, first impression. Illustrated throughout with monochromatic colour images. The thirty-fourth book in …
Biggles Forms a Syndicate
Captain W. E. Johns · 1961 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. First edition. Hardback. A bright first edition, first impression of this adventurous Biggles novel, illustrated throughout by Leslie Stead. The first edition, first impression of this work in the original pictorial laminated boards. Ink marki…
The Horoscope in Detail
Alan Leo; H. S. Green · 1906 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)
London, Not Stated, 1906 . Cloth. The very scarce second edition of Alan Leo and H. S. Green's astrological guidebook. The second edition of volume IV of Alan Leo's 'Astrological Manuals&apos.Alan Leo was an English astrologer, author, publisher, astrological data…
Beacon Flashes
John Thomas · 0 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)
London, F. F. Longley , c1878. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce fiction work intended to teach morals and warn against alcohol, written and illustrated by John Thomas. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and twenty-six monoch…
Allan and the Ice Gods
H. Rider Haggard · 1929 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)
London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. c1929. Cloth. A 12th thousand edition of this thrilling adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, with original unclipped dust wrapper. A 12th thousand edition of this work.Undated, but probably published in 1929 according to institutional sources. Origi…
The Music of the Heart & Where Did Everybody Go?
Noel Langley · 1946 · Rooke Books
£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)
London, Arthur Barker Limited, 1946-1960. First edition. Cloth. Two first UK edition novels from South African-born American writer Noel Langley. Two volumes. First edition. Written by Noel Langley, a South African-born American novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director be…
Napoleon the Gaoler: Personal Experiences and Adventures of British Sailors and Soldiers During the Great Captivity
Edward Fraser · 1914 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1914. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated collection of personal accounts from British sailors and soldiers imprisoned in France by Napoleonic forces. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. …
The Antient Chronicles of Sir John Froissart of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, and Flanders, and Adjoining Countries
Sir John Froissart; John Bourchier [translator] · 1814 · Rooke Books
£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.09 | ¥200,358)
London, J. Davis, 1814-1816. Leather. A smart copy of Sir John Froissart's prose history of the Hundred Years' War, translated from the original French by the order of King Henry VIII. Complete in four volumes. Scarce edition. A prose history of the Hundred Years'…
Colonel Quaritch, V.C. Tale of Country Life
H. Rider Haggard · 1933 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1933. Cloth. A smart copy of this romance novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard, with the original dust wrapper. With a frontispiece. The story of retired army officer Harold Quaritch who moves into his deceased aunt's home in…
Fish and Company
Ralph Arnold · 1951 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first edition of this intriguing murder mystery novel set by Lake Como, written by Ralph Arnold. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Ver…
Six Novels by Bruce Marshall
Bruce Marshall · 1947 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)
London, Collins; Constable, 1947-1960 . First edition. Cloth. A collection of six first edition novels by Bruce Marshall, each in their original, bright and unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of six first edition novels written by prolific Scottish author, Bruce Marshall. Each…
Della Fisica
Leonardo Fioravanti · 1582 · Rooke Books
£1,580.00 (€1,893.86 | $2,087.41 | ¥333,227)
Venetia, Heredi di Melchior Sessa, 1582. First edition. Vellum. The first edition of this very scarce important scientific volume by the pioneering sixteenth century Italian doctor Leonardo Fioravanti. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original Italian.Bound with…
Somewhere a Voice
Eric Frank Russell · 1965 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)
London, Dennis Dobson, 1965. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of sci-fi stories by Eric Frank Russell. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An anthology of seven science fiction short stories and novellas b…
Moominland Midwinter
Tove Jansson; Thomas Warburton · 1958 · Rooke Books
£1,395.00 (€1,672.11 | $1,843.00 | ¥294,210)
London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first English language edition of the sixth Moomin book, written and illustrated by Tove Jansson, uncommon to see in the original dust wrapper. The first English language edition, first impression, translated by Thomas…
Maiwa&Apos;S Revenge
H. Rider Haggard · 1891 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1891. Cloth. The first illustrated edition of this short H. Rider Haggard novel, following a hunter set on revenge. The first illustrated edition of this work in the publisher's original red pictorial cloth binding with white end papers. Ill…
The Steam House (Part I. ): The Demon of Cawnpore
Jules Verne; A. D. Kingston [trans.] · 1893 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893 . Cloth. A smart English language translation of Jules Verne's novel 'The Demon of Cawnpore', the first part of his larger work 'The Steam House&apos. An early UK edition of this work, which was first published in …