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A Sheaf of Memories Speeches on Various Occasions by Sir Alexander Macdonald of the Isles
Alice Macdonald; Sir Alexander Macdonald · 1933 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)
London, A. Brown & Sons, Limited , 1933. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition presentation copy of this collection of speeches by Alexander Macdonald, lovingly collected and prepared by his wife, Alice Macdonald. The first edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the aut…
The Distribution and Status of Birds in Scotland
Evelyn V. Baxter; Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul · 1928 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)
Edinburgh , Oliver & Boyd , 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this ornithological study on Scottish birds by Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, with the original very scarce dust wrapper. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth with the…
The Day of the Dog ; on the Outskirts ; Sweet Dreams
Michael Frayn · 1964 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)
London , Collins , 1964-1973 . First edition. Hardback. The first editions of a collection of essays and stories by Michael Frayn. The first edition.In the original dust wrapper. The Day of the Dog is in a price-clipped dust wrapper and Sweet Dreams and On the Outskirts is in an…
The Gannet a Bird with a History
J. H. Gurney · 1913 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)
London , Witherby and Co , 1913. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this richly illustrated work covering the history of the gannet. The first edition. The Gannet a Bird with a History explores the names of the gannet, its distribution, nestling, habits, food, fishing, and…
Pictorial Sketches from Bible Lands
H. B. Kendall [ed.] · 0 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)
London, Thomas Mitchell, c1880 . Cloth. An extremely well-presented work containing illustrations from Bible lands. Second edition, in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Dated using Jisc from copies held at the University of Exeter Library. Edited by Methodis…
Sean Dana; le Oisian, Orran, Ulann, &C. Ancient Poems of Ossian, Orran, Ullian &C. Galic Antiquities
John Smith; Various · 1780 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)
Edinburgh; London, Charles Elliot; C. Elliot, T. Kay, and Co, 1780-87. First edition. Leather. The first edition of two works by John Smith, both focusing on Gaelic history, with a selection of ancient poetry, and an exploration of the druids. Two first edition works by John Smi…
Burmese Vignettes
C. Harcourt Robertson · 1930 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)
London, W. Thacker & Co, 1930. First edition. Cloth. Cecil Harcourt Robertson's own copy of the first edition of his illustrated collection of sketches about Burmese life. The author's own copy of this delightful first edition.Initially appearing in the Madras Mail bet…
The Standard Natural History from Amoeba to Man
W. P. Pycraft [ed] · 1931 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)
London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1931. Cloth. A detailed overview of natural history edited by W. P. Pycraft, in the original cloth and illustrated with colour plates. An early edition. First published in 1931 by the same publisher. In the publisher's original cloth. Il…
The Island of Sheep
John Buchan · 1938 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)
London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. 1938. Cloth. The third edition of this novel by John Buchan, with the very scarce original dust wrapper. The third edition. First published in 1936 by the same publisher. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped ver…
Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Children&Apos;S Books
Andrew W. Tuer [ed] · 1898 · Rooke Books
£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.26 | ¥18,559)
London, The Leadenhall Press, 1898-9. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of children's illustrations and stories from various forgotten children's books. The first edition. Illustrated profusely throughout with four hundred monochrome illustrat…
The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories Edited and Introduced by David A. Jasen
P. G. Wodehouse · 1980 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)
New York , Continuum , 1980 . First edition. Hardback. A collection of stories and a novella by P. G. Wodehouse published after his death. The first edition. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. The Eight-Carat Kid and Other Stories was first published in 1980 five years afte…
Toy Bearkins at School
John Howard Jewett · 1908 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)
London , Ernest Nister, [1908]. First edition. Hardback. A charming children's story of Toy Bearkins at School. The first edition. Very scarce. Toy Bearkins At School is part of the Little Mother Stories collection. In the original pictorial boards. This charming children&a…
The Land of Nursery Rhyme
Alice Danglish and Ernest Rhys · 1932 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)
London , E. P. Dutton , 1932. First edition. Cloth. A charming collection of children's nursery rhymes from the 1930s. The first edition. A very scarce edition of this work from 1932. A charming collection of nursery rhymes, transporting the reader into a world of castles, …
Heat & Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · 1975 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
London, John Murray, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this Booker Prize winning novel by Ruth Pawer Jhabvala. First edition. Winner of the Booker Prize and ranked by the Telegraph as one of the ten all-time greatest Asian novels in 2014. Following a youn…
Rites of Passage
William Golding · 1980 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
London, Faber & Faber, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of William Golding's award winning novel Rites of Passage, with the original dust wrapper. First edition. Written as the journal of a young aristocrat, Edmund Talbot, whose influential godfather has ar…
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy · 1997 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)
London, Flamingo, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this Booker Prize winning novel by Arundhati Roy. First edition. The author's debut novel, this family drama follows the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by laws ar…
The Birds of Scotland Their History, Distribution, and Migration
Evelyn V. Baxter; Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul · 1953 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)
Edinburgh; London, Oliver and Boyd, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Baxter and Rintoul's extensive study on Scottish ornithology, a unique copy with two signed letters from the authors, addressed to fellow ornithologist Dr. Ian Pennie. The first edition.Com…
In and Around the Grand Canyon the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona
George Wharton James · 1900 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)
Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1900. Cloth. An illustrated account of George Wharton James' exploration of the Colorado River, in the original pictorial cloth. In the publisher's original light blue pictorial cloth. With a frontispiece, illustrated title page, vig…
A Crooked Sixpence
Murray Sayle · 1960 · Rooke Books
£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.20 | ¥146,578)
London , MacGibbon and Kee, 1960. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of A Crooked Sixpence By Murray Sayle. Almost all copies were pulped after a libel writ. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. A very rare novel set in 1950&a…
If This Be Magic
Guy Lyon Playfair · 1985 · Rooke Books
£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)
London , Jonathan Cape , 1985. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of If This Be Magic a story of moral questions. The first edition.In the original publisher's cloth in the original unclipped dust wrapper. If This Be Magic tells the story of a young hospital doctor …