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Gedenkrede Auf Beethoven
Rudolf G. Binding · 1927 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)
Frankfurt, Private Print of the Art School in Frankfurt, 1927. First edition. Paperback. A scarce limited edition of this speech given by Rudolf G. Binding to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the death of Beethoven, signed by the author with a letter. In the German langua…
Out of the Past: Some Biographical Essays
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff · 1903 · Rooke Books
£77.00 (€92.31 | $101.74 | ¥16,249)
London, John Murray, 1903 . First edition. Leather. The scarce two volume first edition of this collection of biographical essays by Sir M.E. Grant Duff, in signed half calf bindings by Bickers. A scarce first edition from Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, a Scottish polit…
Reminiscences of Childhood with Reflections of Riper Years. Forming a Miscellany of Moral and Religious Poetry
W. Pringle · 1867 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
Durham, Andrews and Co, 1867. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this very scarce volume of poetry designed to inculcate compassion and mercy in its readers. A first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry by Reverend W. Pringle. Little is known about the author o…
Bertie on the Beach
Jane Johnson · 1981 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)
London and Tonbridge, Ernest Benn, 1981 . First edition. Hardback. A scarce presentation copy of this children's book, signed by the author and from the library of Tom Maschler. A beautiful and near fine first edition copy of this uncommon children's book by Jane Johns…
Among Friends
Samuel McChord Crothers · 1910 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910 . First edition. Cloth. A presentation copy of the first edition of Samuel McChord Crothers's collection of essays. First edition of Among Friends by Samuel McChord Crothers in the original publisher's cloth binding.A…
The Girl in a Swing
Richard Adams · 1980 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Allen Lane Penguin Books LTD, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this popular novel by RIchard Adams, inscribed by the author to the title page. The first edition, second state of this novel, with the female protagonist being named 'Karin Fors…
Sermons and Sermons Principally Designed to Illustrated and to Enforce Christian Morality
Rev. Thomas Gisborne · 1811 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London , T. Cadell and W. Davies , 1811-1814. Leather. A collection of three volumes of Sermons by Thomas Gisborne. A three volume set of Sermons by Thomas Gisborne, including two volumes of Sermons and one volume of Sermons Principally Designed to Illustrated and to Enforce Chr…
All on a Summer&Apos;S Night
Maurice Edelman · 1969 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of this novel concerning power and inner conflict, inscribed by the author Maurice Edelman. The first edition of this novel in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped d…
A Widow&Apos;S Tale and Other Poems
Bernard Barton · 1827 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)
London, B. J. Holdsworth, 1827 . First edition. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of this scarce first edition volume of early nineteenth century poems by Bernard Barton, presented to Sir John Bowring. The scarce first edition of this work, signed by the author with the inscr…
A First Sketch of English Literature
Henry Morley · 1892 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
London , Cassell and Company, 1892. Leather. A lovely leather signed binding of this introduction to English literature. A twelfth edition of A First Sketch of English Literature, being twenty-eighth thousand. This book is a sketch of English writers from the Celts to the reign…
The History of Bagendon
George Edward Rees · 1932 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
Cheltenham, Thomas Hailing Ltd. Oxford Press, 1932 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce presentation copy of the first edition of this history of this Gloucestershire village. First edition of The History of Bagendon by George Edward Rees in the original paper covered boards…
L&Apos;Assommoir
Emile Zola; Arthur Symons · 1928 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, T. Werner Laurie LTD, 1928. Vellum. A lovely limited edition of one of Emile Zola's best known works, looking at alcoholism. Signed by the translator, Arthur Symons. A limited edition, limited to one-thousand copies numbered and signed, this copy numbered six-hundre…
Play Power
Richard Neville · 1970 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The interesting essays of the prominent counterculture figure Richard Neville, in a decorative and colourful dust wrapper designed by Martin Sharp. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Lacki…
The Shaping of the Countryside
Ralph Whitlock · 1979 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
London , Robert Hale, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, signed copy of this work exploring the Wiltshire countryside. A first edition copy. Signed by the author to the front pastedown and with a signed Christmas card from the author. This book explores the cou…
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith; Austin Dobson · 1904 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1904. Leather. Oliver Goldsmith's celebrated novel in a prize binding signed Mudie, beautifully illustrated by Hugh Thomson. One of the most popular novels among Victorians, The Vicar of Wakefield was originally published in 1766, and concerns fami…
The History of the Wicked Plots and Conspiracies of Our Pretended Saints
Henry Foulis · 1674 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)
London, Ric. Davis, 1674. Leather. The second edition of Henry Foulis's important spirited work attacking the Presbyterians, published in the late seventeenth century. The History of the Wicked Plots and Conspiracies of Our Pretended Saints is an energetic attack on the Pr…
A Maggot
John Fowles · 1985 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. A specially bound signed Limited Edition of the first edition of John Fowles's postmodern historical novel, set between May 1736 and February 1737, in which Fowles examines historiography, the nature of history, and crimin…
The Poetry of Robert Browning
Stopford A. Brooke · 1903 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Isbister and Company Limited, 1903 . Leather. The third reprint of the first edition of Stopford Brooke's literary analysis of the poetry of Robert Browning. Early edition of The Poetry of Robert Browning by Stopford A Brooke in Hatchards signed half crushed morocco…
The Monk. A Romance.
M. G. Lewis [Matthew Lewis] · 1795 · Rooke Books
£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)
London , Privately Printed [B. Fawcett and Co.], c1890 . Leather. A scarce limited edition of Mathew Lewis's infamous and celebrated gothic novel, in beautiful half crushed morocco Zaehnsdorf bindings. A scarce late nineteenth century Limited Edition of Lewis's gothic …
Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars.
Samuel Butler · 1761 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)
London, D. Browne; C. Hitch; L. Hawes; J. Shuckburgh; et al, 1761. Leather. A Hogarth illustrated edition of this important long narrative poem by Samuel Butler, this being the second Hogarth edition. The second Hogarth edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, five folding plate…