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The Garden of Kama

Laurence Hope [Violet Nicolson] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, William Heinemann, 1912 . Leather. A beautiful Riviere-bound copy of 'The Garden of Kama', a delightful collection of poetry from Violet Nicolson, written under the male pseudonym Laurence Hope. A new impression. Elegantly bound by Riviere in full crushed moroc…

A Christmas Garland

Max Beerbohm · 1912 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, William Heinemann, 1912 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Max Beerbohm's collection of parodies of popular authors, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. In the very scarce publisher's original unclipped dust…

Wayfarer&Apos;S Love

Duchess of Sutherland [editor] · 1904 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

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…

Happy England

Marcus B. Huish · 1904 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.46 | $155.92 | ¥24,901)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1904 . Cloth. The first reprint of this lovely illustrated biography of Helen Allingham, the Victorian watercolourist. Early edition of Happy England as painted by Helen Allingham, with a memoir and descriptions by Marcus Bourne Huish. In the ori…

Flowers: A Garden Note Book with Suggestions for Growing the Choicest Kinds

Sir Herbert Maxwell · 1923 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Glasgow, Maclehose, Jackson & Co. 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this practical and charming guide to cultivating the finest flowers, enriched with the author"s own colour illustrations. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding.This volume…

A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain, Now Called England

John De Waurin · 1864 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London , Eyre and Spottiswoode; Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green , 1864-1891. Leather. Two volumes from A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain, now Called England. Two volumes from the Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories o…

Etchings of William Strang A.R. A.

Frank Newbolt · 1907 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, George Newnes Limited, 1907. Cloth. An impressive volume looking at the art of William Strang, complete with forty-nine examples of Strang's art. A lovely study of the art William Strang.Strang was a Scottish painter and printmaker who worked in many different mediu…

1937 Poems

Thomas Gray · 1937 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Eton, Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society Limited, 1937. Vellum. A lovely collection of verses by Thomas Gray, privately printed for leavers of Eton College and presented in a vellum binding. Thomas Gray (1716-1771) was an English poet and letter-writer. Often considered …

The Poet As a Citizen and Other Papers

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · 1934 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1934. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first edition copy of this volume of essays by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The first edition, first impression.Finely bound by Syd. A. Howe.A series of nine essays by Arthur Quiller-Couch.Containing &a…

The Casquet of Literature: Being a Selection in Poetry and Prose from the Works of the Most Admired Authors

Various; Charles Gibbon [ed.] · 1880 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, Blackie and Son, 1880. Leather. A handsomely presented six-volume collection of various important works across English literature, edited by Charles Gibbon. A selection of the prose and poetry of various eminent figures of English literature. Complete in six volumes.Unif…

The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism

Isaiah Berlin · 1993 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, John Murray, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of Isaiah Berlin's study of the work of Johann Georg Hamann, a man he describes as a 'radical Enlightener&apos. The signed first edition, first impression of social and political theorist and phi…

A Bit of Okanagan History [Westbank, British Columbia Local History]

Gellatley, Dorothy Hewlett · 1932 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines, Member of

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

Good No dust jacket as issued Illustrated by Emmens, E.H. Kelowna Printing Company First Edition Presents the local history of Westbank, British Columbia in order to perpetuate the memory of the area's pioneers. Includes facts, stories and dates of principal events. Chapters inc…

The Genus Agapanthus

Duncan, G. · 2021 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Kew Publishing 256, 240+ col photos, 12 maps. 246x190mm. HB. Fine in d/w.. <i>Agapanthus</i> is a world-renowned group of mainly blue-flowered, rhizomatous plants endemic to South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini (Swaziland) and Mozambique. First cultivated in The Netherlands in the la…

Twenty-Four Portraits: with critical appreciations by various hands

ROTHENSTEIN, Sir William (1872-1945) · 1920 · Fine Editions Ltd

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.43 | ¥10,221)

New York Harcourt, Brace Limited Edition (2,000 unnumbered copies printed, of which 1,200 for sale in Great Britain and 800 in the United States), collecting portraits of Rothenstein's friend and contemporaries (including Max Beerbohm, Joseph Conrad, Sir Edward Elgar, André Gide…

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth

WELLS H G · 1904 · Fortuna Books

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

MacMillan true first as colonial preceeds Uk edition. Blue cloth with embossed vignette about gilt title on upper board. Gilt titled spine.. Boards soiled and rubbed to edges with splitting to spine joints and chipping to cloth at head and tail, corners rubbed through to boards.…

La Luz de Jesus 25: The Little Gallery That Could

Gore, Janice S. · 2011 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Los Angeles, La Luz De Jesus Press, 2011. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering and metallic red stamped illustration. Color and BW illustrations. "To celebrate the 25th anniversary of La Luz de Jesus, mastermind Billy Shire has organized a monumental group s…

John Lewis contributes an illustrated article, 'Book Illustrations by John Minton', to the inaugural issue of the periodical 'Image. A Quarterly of the Visual Arts'. No. 1, summer 1949. Edited by Robert Harling.

JOHN MINTON. · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Art and Technics Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 84pp. Lettered card wrappers, very slightly discoloured at the margins. A lovely crisp copy in slightly faded and spotted non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a lengthy crease to the spine pan…

The Glory of the Nightingale

ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON · 1930 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1930. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have so…

Nothing But the Truth

LESCROART, JOHN · 1999 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385333536. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with an inscription by the author, on the title page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its conten…

The Perfume Holder. A Persian Love Poem.

CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS. · 1891 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Saalfield & Fitch Publishers, New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 49pp. Cream buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board and with bevelled edges. Fore edges rough-trimmed. The buckram somewhat soiled and lightly toned at the margins. Some bruis…