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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
Robert Browning · 1897 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1897. Cloth. A two volume collection of the poetry of Robert Browning, with portraits throughout. Containing his verses 'The Ring and the Book', 'The Inn Album', 'Pacchiarotto', 'Asolando', 'Pauline', &…
The White Hare and Other Poems
Lilian Bowes Lyon · 1934 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of significant twentieth century poet Lilian Bowes Lyon's collection of poetry, in the original dust wrapper. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original yellow and blue cloth bin…
The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, The Library, Sixth Series, Vol 21, No. 4, December 1999
Edited by Dr Oliver Pickering · 1999 · Bailgate Books Ltd
£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)
The Oxford University Press, 1999. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contributors include: Ralph Hanna III; Michael F Suarez, S.J.; R J C Watt; John Barnard. Contents include: Unnoticed Middle English Romance Fragments in the Bodleian Library - MS Eng…
The Old Lion
Walter de la Mare · 1945 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, Faber and Faber, 1945. Cloth. A lovely collection of short stories for children, illustrated by Irene Hawkins and penned by Walter de la Mare. Containing four of de la Mare's stories: The Old Lion', 'Maria-Fly', 'The Lord Fish' and 'Sam…
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1946 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
London, Victor Gollancz, 1946. Cloth. A very smart copy of one of Dorothy Sayers' most celebrated novels featuring recurring character Lord Peter Wimsey, enclosed in the original bright dust wrapper. The sixteenth impression of crime writer and poet Dorothy L. Sayers's…
The Airy Way
George A. B. Dewar · 1910 · Rooke Books
£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1910. First edition. Cloth. First edition of George A. B. Dewar"s charming nature essays, exploring the many meanings of "airy" through moors, flight, rooks, and the rhythms of rural life. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.This volume i…
The Confidential Clerk
T. S. Eliot · 1954 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this play by T. S. Eliot in the original dust wrapper with the first state misprint. The first edition. First impression, first state. With the original misprint on pp.7 with 'Ihad' instead of &a…
The Nun Ensign
James Fitzmaurice-Kelly; Juan Perez de Montalban · 1908 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. Cloth. The story of Antonio de Erauso, born as Catalina de Erauso, known as the Ensign Nun after escaping the convent in the 17th century. Scarce work. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and twenty-seven tipped-in plates. Collated complete. The…
Across the Atlantic
Robert Anderton Naylor · 1893 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, The Roxburghe Press, c1893. Cloth. A souvenir copy of the author's trip to the World's Fair in 1893, designed to narrate his travels in America. Written by poet and travel writer Robert Anderton Naylor. He formerly resided at Cuerdan Hall in Thelwall.This work …
The Unfortunate Traveller
Thomas Nash · 1930 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London , The Verona Society , 1930. Cloth. An illustrated re-print of the adventurous and enthralling novel The Unfortunate Traveller. This is a reprinted copy of Thomas Nash's novel The Unfortunate Traveller: Or the Life of Jack Wilton first published in 1594. The text has…
The Child World
Gabriel Setoun · 1896 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, The Bodley Head, 1896. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of poetry by Thomas Nicoll Hepburn, under his pseudonym Gabriel Setoun. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplate to the front paste down. 14 full page …
The Infernal Machine
Carl Wildman · 1936 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Oxford University Press, 1936. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this play by noted author and playwright Carl Wildman, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first UK edition of the work. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. The Infernal Machine is a play…
The Orphan Angel
Elinor Wylie · 1926 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of Elinor Wylie's unusual 1920s novel in which she reimagines the life of Percy Shelley, and has him travel to the New World in an America Ship, rather than dying at a young age. A signed limit…
The Bauer Brothers
Cooper, P.M. · 2015 · Pemberley Natural History Books
£9.99 (€11.98 | $13.20 | ¥2,108)
Natural History Museum 111, col illus. . PB. NEW. . This beautiful collection of artworks from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries celebrates the work of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer, two of the most accomplished natural history artists of all time. The art of Franz and Ferdina…
The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst, Alan Hollinghurst · 2011 · Klondyke BV
€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)
Paperback; 2011; Groothandel - Mac, Mac; 340pp.; Conditie: Goed; Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize It is the late summer of the last year before the first Great War. Cecil Valance, a beautiful young aristocratic poet, i…
The Peacock Party & the Lion&Apos;S Cavalcade
Alan Aldridge; Ted Walker · 1979 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1979-1980. First edition. Hardback. Two charming and exciting first edition copies of these illustrated children's works by Alan Aldridge and co. Two volumes. First edition. Illustrated throughout with full-page colour images. Written and illustrated …
The Light That Failed, Captains Courageous, & the Naulahka
Rudyard Kipling · 1925 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1925-1928. Cloth. A smart collection of three of the novels of English writer Rudyard Kipling. Three volumes. Later editions. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer who was awarded the N…
Reynard the Fox or the Ghost Heath Run
John Masefield · 1921 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, William Heinemann, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The very smart first trade edition of John Masefield's narrative poem about a fox hunt, illustrated throughout and with the scarce original dust wrapper. The first trade edition of this work.With the publisher's sc…
The Sirens: An Ode the Idols: An Ode
Laurence Binyon · 1925 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1925-28. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition volumes of poetry by Laurence Binyon in the uncommon original dust wrappers. Two volume set.First edition of 'The Idols' and the first trade edition of 'The Sirens', with a limited edi…
The English Garden: A Poem. Book the First
William Mason · 1772 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, R. Horsefield, 1772. Disbound. A good second edition of William Mason's long georgic poem about gardening, with the half-title and publisher's adverts present. The second edition of this work. Half-title and final leaf of publisher's adverts are present. C…