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The Renaissance Garden in England
Roy Strong · 1979 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
London, Thames and Hudson , 1979. First edition. Paperback. A signed first edition copy of this detailed book about the Renaissance gardens of England. The first paperback edition. Signed by the author to the title page. With numerous monochrome illustrations throughout. A detai…
Waltzburg: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
[Frances Rose] · 1833 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)
London, Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. 1833. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce nineteenth-century novel by Frances Rose, a presentation copy from the author to members of her family, with the family bookplate to the front pastedown. A fascinating early ninet…
The Barbizon School of Painters: Corot, Rousseau, Diaz, Millet, Daubigny, &C.
David Croal Thomson · 1890 · Rooke Books
£1,750.00 (€2,097.96 | $2,312.38 | ¥369,302)
London, Chapman and Hall , 1890. First edition. Leather. Striking large paper study of Barbizon art and painters by David Croal Thomson in a sumptuous Hatchards binding. Number two-hundred and thirty one of two hundred and eighty copies issued, initialled by the author. An exten…
Handbook to the Fine Art Collections in the International Exhibition of 1862
Francis Turner Palgrave · 1862 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London and Cambridge, Macmillan and Co. 1862. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this handbook of fine art collections within the International Exhibition of 1862 by Francis Turner Palgrave in half calf Worsfold binding. First edition of Handbook to the Fine Art Collec…
The Miser and Coxcombs in Petticoats
Moliere; George Graveley · 1953 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
St. Albans, W. Cartmel & Sons, 1953. Cloth. Two short plays by French playwright Moliere, translated by George Graveley. A signed presentation copy from the translator to British stage actress Edith Evans. Two comedies by seventeenth-century French playwright Jean-Baptiste Poque…
Green Arras
Laurence Housman · 1896 · Rooke Books
£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)
London; Chicago, John Lane at The Bodley Head; Way and Williams, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this poetry anthology by Laurence Housman, illustrated by the author himself. Illustrated by Housman with a woodcut frontispiece and title page and five plates…
Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey · 2010 · Rooke Books
£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)
2010, faber and faber, 2010 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first printing of this novel by Peter Carey inspired by his move to America in the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey in the original pub…
The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth-Century London
Richard Edgcumbe · 2000 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)
Oxford, Oxford University Press , 2000. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive work on Gold Chasers in Eighteenth Century London, with a signed slip by the author and copious illustrations. A first edition copy of this work on The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth-Century Lond…
No Wooden Overcoat
John Paddy Carstairs · 1959 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London , W. H. Allen, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A smart signed, first edition copy of this thriller staring Garway Trenton, by John Paddy Carstairs. A first edition copy of this work. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper:For Lisa Partner de Luxe! Some nonsense for …
Flowering Wilderness
John Galsworthy · 1932 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1932 . First edition. Leather. The first limited signed edition of this novel by award winning novelist John Galsworthy in the original acetate dust wrapper. The first limited edition of Flowering Wilderness by John Galsworthy in the original publi…
Songs from the Silence
Minnie Ferris Hauenstein · 1909 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)
Buffalo, N.Y. The Mathews-Northrup Works, 1909 . First edition. Leather. Very scarce first edition of this anthology of poetry and song in half leather binding from the early twentieth century. First edition of Songs From The Silence by Minnie Ferris Hauenstein in half calf bind…
Fables
T. F. Powys · 1929 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first limited edition copy of this collection of fables by T. F. Powys, a wonderful collection inscribed by the author. Signed by the author to the limitation page.The first limited edition work, limited to 750 copies…
The Coal Carrier
Rosalie Liguori-Reynolds · 1976 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
Johannesburg, Perskor Publishers, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition signed copy of this work by Rosalie Liguori-Reynolds, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition copy of this work. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. This novel fol…
Shalimar the Clown
Salman Rushdie · 2005 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, Jonathan Cape, 2005. First edition. Hardback. A signed, second impression of this intriguing novel by Salman Rushdie, exploring the politics of Kashmir. A second impression of the first edition. Signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Publishers original binding with…
Derby 200: The Official Story of the Blue Riband of the Turf
Roger Mortimer; Michael Seth-Smith · 1979 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)
Nottingham, Court Press, 1979. First edition. Leather. Beautifully bound in a full morocco binding, this is a wonderful Limited Edition celebration of two-hundred years of the Epsom Derby, signed by the Earl of Derby himself. A scarce, signed, Limited Edition copy of this public…
The Shepherd&Apos;S Week in Six Pastorals
Mr. J. Gay [John Gay] · 1714 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, Printed for J[acob] T[onson] and sold by W. Taylor, 1714. Disbound. The very scarce second edition of this early eighteenth century pastoral work from John Gay, poet and dramatist best remembered for 'The Beggar's Opera&apos. Printed from the sheets of the firs…
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee · 1999 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Secker and Warburg, 1999. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition copy of this novel by J. M. Coetzee, the Booker Prize winner in 1999. The first edition, first impression of this work. Complete with the original pictorial dust wrapper designed by Lucy Harmer, secon…
Black Swan Green
David Mitchell · 2006 · Rooke Books
£149.00 (€178.63 | $196.88 | ¥31,443)
London, Sceptre, 2006. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first limited edition of this semi-autobiographical novel by David Mitchell, housed in its original slipcase. First limited edition of this work, one of one-thousand copies printed, signed by the author, housed in the original,…
Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier · 2009 · Rooke Books
£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)
London, HarperCollins, 2009 . First edition. Cloth. A fine, signed, first edition of Tracy Chavalier's historical novel about famed palaeontologist, Mary Anning. A signed first edition, first impression of acclaimed author Tracy Chevalier's fictionalised account of the…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2003 · Rooke Books
£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)
London, Jonathan Cape, 2003 . First edition. Cloth. A fine, signed, first edition of Mark Haddon's award-winning and critically acclaimed 2003 novel. A signed first edition, first impression of Mark Haddon's celebrated mystery novel, the winner of the Whitbread Book Aw…