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Reflections in a Mirror

Charles Morgan · 1944 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1944. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition, first impression of this first series of essays by Charles Morgan, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. A series of essays representative of the s…

Fifty Caricatures

Max Beerbohm · 1913 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, William Heinemann, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of caricatures from English parodist and caricaturist Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm. First edition. Illustrated with forty-eight tipped in plates and two standard plates. The fifty ca…

Echanges, Nos. 2, 3, and 4

Allanah Harper [ed.] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Paris, J.-O. Fourcade, 1930-1931 . First edition. Paperback. The first editions of Nos. 2, 3 and 4 of Allanah Harper's celebrated quarterly review of English and French literature. In the original French and English.Nos. 2, 3 and 4 only of a quarterly periodical that ran fo…

Happy England

Helen Allingham; Marcus B. Huish · 1903 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1903. Leather. A beautiful, signed, limited edition work showcasing Helen Allingham's watercolour paintings of England. The Deluxe Edition. Limited to 750 copies, this being number 396. Signed by Helen Allingham to the limitations page. Rebou…

Hotel de Dream

Emma Tennant · 1976 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Victor Gollancz , 1976. First edition. Cloth. Excellent first edition of this uncommon novel by Emma Tennant, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. An elegant, entertaining, and unsettling novels concerning dreams, snobberies, and rituals of contemporary England, immerse…

Study and Stimulants

A. Arthur Reade · 1883 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.72 | $2,576.65 | ¥411,508)

Manchester; London, Abel Heywood and Son; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of A. Arthur Reade's very important study on how narcotics and intoxicants can affect the brain. The first edition.A very scarce work.An important study on "th…

Wayfarer&Apos;S Love

Duchess of Sutherland [editor] · 1904 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Archibald Constable & Co. 1904. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charming collection of poems, with cover designs by Walter Crane. First edition. A collection of poetry with contributions such as: Life's Opportunity by Thomas Hardy, Being Her Frie…

Inheritance

Phyllis Bentley · 1933 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. Leather. A copy of Phyllis Bentley's most popular work, her regional and industrial novel, very scarce in leather binding. A very scarce example of a leather copy. Bound in quarter calf and blue cloth boards. With coloured endpapers and gi…

The Year&Apos;S at the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry

L. D'O. Walters; Harold Monro · 1920 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this brightly illustrated collection of poetry. First trade edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-three plates, many of which are in colour, and numerous in-text images. Collated…

The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems

Francis Turner Palgrave · 1886 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1886. Leather. A smart copy of this collection of songs, poetry, and lyrics throughout English history, handsomely bound in half morocco by McNamee. A handsomely bound copy of this poetry anthology, bound beautifully in half morocco by McNamee, with the…

The Year&Apos;S at the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry

L. D'O. Walters; Harold Monro · 1920 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated collection of poetry. First trade edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-three plates, many of which are in colour, and numerous in-text images. Co…

Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence · 1936 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1936. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this literary collection comprising poems, essays, reviews and other papers from controversial English writer, D. H. Lawrence. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth …

Sammlung von 15 Werken zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur

(Anglistik) · 1974 · Celler Versandantiquariat

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Verschiedene Verlage - gute Exemplare/ Enthalten: Amerika. Vision und Wirklichkeit. Beiträge deutscher Forschung zur amerikanischen Literaturgeschichte, herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Franz H. Link/ Angelsächsische Lyrik aus sechs Jahrhunderten. Englisch-Deutsch, Übertragung…

Moral und Politik aus der Sicht des kritischen Rationalismus.

SALAMUN, KURT [ED.]. · 1991 · Antiquariaat Schot

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,225)

Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 1991. Original publisher's yellow paper-covered boards, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: 294pp., 12 contributions, footnotes, bibliographical notes, list authors, index persons, index subjects. CONTRIBUTIONS: 1. Hans Albert: Die Verfassung der Freih…

Survivors: The Animals and Plants that Time Has Left Behind

Fortey, Richard · 2011 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Harper Press xv, 336, 81 col photos, text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w. Small label removed from spine. From the library of David R. Nellist, British arachnologist, with his name to endpaper. An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of…

Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland

Murray, A. · 1853 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

William Blackwood & Sons Edinburgh/London viii, 145, . . HB. 8vo, unsophisticated copy in orig. cloth-covered boards, some minor wear, spine faded. Occasional neat marginal markings/annotations, a few relating to Scottish localities in the 1880s. Owner's name (Horace R. Last) to…

God's Funeral A Biography of Faith and Doubt in Western Civilization

A. N. Wilson · 2000 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Ballantine Books. 2000; Paperback; goed exemplaar / good copy. In the course of the nineteenth century, the idea of God became unknowable and then impossible. Scottish philosopher David Hume had wittily but devastatingly kicked away the logical underpinnings of Christian theolog…

AIR PIE The Royal Air Force Annual.

Seymour, Private W. Kean and Palmer, Cadet Cecil (Editors). · 1919 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Cecil Palmer and Hayward 1919. 1st Ed. 4to. x Adverts + 104pp. + pp.(ix-xx). Adverts. 7 colour plates. Colour advert for Lipton’s tear affixed to rear pastedown, ragged colour Bovril advert affixed to rear wrapp., creased plate affixed to upper wrapp., original chipped wrapps., …

Bulletin de la Société Scientifique et littéraire du Limbourg. Tome VII (7) 1866 & Tome VIII (8) 1867 [2 tomes]

Collectif · 1866 · Antiquariaat Pieter Judo (De Lezenaar)

€160.00 ($176.35 | £133.46 | ¥28,165)

Tongres, Imprim. de M. Collée 2 tomes complets (7-8) reliés en 1 volume: 306,[i] + 286,[i] pp., 23cm., reliure cart. moderne, dos en toile avec titre doré, 2 cachets, reliure faible de 4 pages, texte frais et sans rousseurs, bon état, [contient e.a. TOME 7: JANSEN Gerard: Les …

Histoire Des Colonies Françaises Et de L'Expansion de la France Dans le Monde

Hanotaux, Gabriel and Alfred Martineau · 1929 · Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA ILAB

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.04 | ¥47,912)

Paris, Société de l'Histoire Nationale, Librairie Plon. 1929-1933. 6 volumes complete, colored plates, b/w text illus. maps, burgundy buckram, thick quarto format, ex libris. Contents: t. 1, Introduction générale, par Gabriel Hanotaux; l'Amérique, par Ch. de la Roncière, et al. …