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The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith · 1904 · Rooke Books
£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)
London, Methuen and Co, 1904. First edition. Vellum. A first edition of this issue of Oliver Goldsmith's novel, 'The Vicar of Wakefield&apos. After Goldsmith gained renown as a poet, John Newbery finally published 'The Vicar of Wakefield' in March 1766. The b…
The Brown Fairy Book
Andrew Lang [ed.] · 1904 · Rooke Books
£330.00 (€395.61 | $436.05 | ¥69,640)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1904. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this captivating Fairy Book from Andrew Lang, adorned with colour plates and engravings by H. J. Ford. The first edition of this enchanting anthology of fairy tales.In the publisher's original…
The Yellow Fairy Book
Andrew Lang · 1911 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
Longmans, Green, and Co, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1911 . Cloth. A 'new impression' of the fourth work in Andrew Lang's popular fairy book series, beautifully illustrated throughout by H. J. Ford and in the publisher's original cloth binding. First published i…
The English House-Wife
Gervase Markham · 1637 · Rooke Books
£1,295.00 (€1,552.49 | $1,711.16 | ¥273,283)
London, Printed by Anne Griffin for John Harrison, 1637. Cloth. An early edition of Gervase Markham's seventeenth century work on housewifery, a scarce work in any edition. A fascinating seventeenth century work on housewifery, including cookery, medicine, party-planning, p…
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith · 1792 · Rooke Books
£525.00 (€629.39 | $693.71 | ¥110,791)
London, E. Harding, 1792. Leather. A complete two volume edition of Oliver Goldsmith's popular Victorian novel 'The Vicar of Wakfield', illustrated by Thomas Stothard. Complete as two volumes in one. 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was one of the most popular a…
The Traveller a Poem
Oliver Goldsmith · 1770 · Rooke Books
£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)
London, T. Carnan and F. Newbery Junior, 1770. Disbound. An early edition, probably seventh, of Oliver Goldsmith's popular poem, pondering on happiness and unhappiness. No edition is stated to the half-title, though it is likely to be the seventh edition, with a fourth edit…
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith; Austin Dobson · 1894 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1894. Cloth. An early printing of Oliver Goldsmith's notable novel, beautifully illustrated by Hugh Thomson. One of the most popular novels among Victorians, The Vicar of Wakefield was originally published in 1766, and concerns family endurance, an…
Jericho: The South Beheld
Dickey, James and Hubert Shuptrine · 1974 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)
Birmingham, Alabama, Oxmoor House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of the illustrated homage that brought attention to the Tennessee artist, Hubert Shuptrine (1936-2006). The resulting collaboration of…
Country Comets
Cecil Day Lewis · 1928 · Rooke Books
£89.00 (€106.70 | $117.60 | ¥18,782)
London, Martin Hopkinson, 1928. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of the second anthology written by the British Poet Laureate, characteristic of the romanticism for which Day Lewis is known. The first edition of Country Comets, an lovely anthology, written by Britsh Po…
Season Songs. [First English Trade Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
HUGHES Ted · 0 · Island Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
Faber, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers lightly browned; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little spotted at fold-ins. Cover artwork by Leonard Baskin. Published a year after the limited ed…
The Case of the. Fox: Being His Prophecies Under Hypnotism of the Period Ending A.D. 1950. A Political Utopia
William Stanley · 1903 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, Truslove & Hanson, 1903 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of William Stanley's futuristic work of science fiction. Many of the author's prophecies have come to fruition. The first edition of this very scarce work from inventor William Stanle…
The Golden Treasury (Palgrave's Golden Treasury): Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, and Arranged, with Notes; (Golden Treasury Series)
PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER (SELECTOR) · 1904 · Bluebird Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. Hardcover. Francis Turner Palgrave, a 19th century English scholar, poet and critic, won wide acclaim for his collection of poems, songs and lyrics, first published in 1861. With a brief dedicatory note by Palgrave. Indices of writers and f…
The Quartier Latin: Volume III, November 1897, No. 16
Wood, Trist (Editor) · 1897 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)
London, Illiffe & Son, 1897. Paperback. Off-white sewn wraps with red and black illustration and black and red lettering; 538-582 pp.; richly illustrated. One issue of this influential art periodical by The Association of American Artists in Paris. Contents include "A Girl from …
The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms
Sir David Lyndsay · 1871 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)
Edinburgh, William Paterson, 1871 . Cloth. A smart two volume edition of the poetry of the Scottish herald Sir David Lyndsay. Working as usher to the future King James V of Scotland in his youth, David Lyndsay lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, eventually attaining …
Master of the lotus garden. The life and art of Bada Shanren (1625-1705).
SHANREN,BADA [born as ZHU DA]. Fangyu,Wang & Richard M. Barnhart. · 1991 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.
€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991. 229 pp. B./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (black cloth, gilt lettered on spine), d./j. Published for the exhibition held at Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 22 -Oct. 28, 1990, and at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., …
Granny Maumee; the Rider of Dreams; Simon the Cyrenian: Plays for a Negro Theater
Torrence, Ridgely · 1917 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with bruised and scuffed tips and spine head and foot, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighti…
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison; Thomas Tickell · 1804 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)
London, Vernor and Hood; John Walked; Cuthell and Martin; et al, 1804. Leather. An illustrated edition of the collected works of Joseph Addison, comprising of his best known literary works. Complete in six volumes.The collected works of Joseph Addison.Addison was an essayist, po…
THE HARP OF THE BIRCHES AND OTHER POEMS
PEATTIE, Donald Culross · 1909 · Charles Agvent
$3,125.00 (€2,835.22 | £2,364.99 | ¥499,082)
n.p.. A unique manuscript (5" x 8-1/2") accomplished in a decorative calligraphic style with small illustrations by Anita Helen Parkhurst of poems presumably written by the author when he was 11 years old, seven years before his first commercially published book, BLOWN LEAVES of…
The Waverley Novels
Sir Walter Scott · 1871 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1871. Leather. Twenty-five volumes of the centenary edition of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. With an illustrated frontispiece to every volume and a facsimile of 'The Marriage Contract of the Bride of Lammermoor' to volume VIII…
The Maggie Poem
Shelton Lea · 0 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB
A$330.00 (€202.85 | $223.58 | £169.20 | ¥35,707)
[Shelton Lea] [Mountain View] First Edition Fine Condition 29.5cm x 21cm. [4] pages. Single folded sheet. Poem printed in Lea's usual 1980s photocopy Mountain View output, this piece about his relationship with the red-headed Irish prostitute Maggie, and her death by his side in…