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A Winter in the Hills
John Wain · 1970 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)
London, Macmillan, 1970 . First edition. Paperback. An Uncorrected Proof Copy of this novel from John Wain. Set in the Welsh mountains, and with an inscription from the publisher's Publicity Manager. A publisher's uncorrected proof copy of this novel from John Wain, a …
Adventures in the Skin Trade
Dylan Thomas · 1967 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1967. First edition. Cloth. An excellent set offering both the uncorrected proof copy and first impression of Dylan Thomas" play, from the novel of the same name. Including the uncommon uncorrected proof and the first edition, first impression of…
The Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare · 1890 · Rooke Books
£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)
London, Frederick Warne and Co , [1890]. Leather. A neatly bound collection of illustrated works by influential writer William Shakespeare. Part of the Landsdowne Poets series. Reprinted from earlier editions.Including life, glossary, etc. In full red morocco binding, with a g…
Adventures in the Skin Trade
Dylan Thomas · 1955 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London , Putnam, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the deadpan picaresque comedy by Dylan Thomas, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.In publisher's original black cloth. A delightful no…
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Andrew Lang · 1981 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, Faber and Faber, 1981. First edition. Hardback. A brightly illustrated version of Andrew Lang's retelling of this classic folktale, with artwork from British-Singaporean illustrator Errol Le Cain. First edition with illustrations from Le Cain. Illustrated with colou…
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Anatole France; Lafcadio Hearn (Trans.) · 1931 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 1931. Cloth. The first UK illustrated edition, with original unclipped fine dust wrapper and slipcase and twelve full page monochrome illustrations by Zhenya Gay. First UK illustrated edition in the publisher's original gilt-decorate…
On the Study of Words
Richard Chevenix Trench; A. L. Mayhew · 1914 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1914. Leather. An interesting study by the Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench, which established his fame as a philologist. The twenty-ninth edition, second impression of this work in a full calf prize binding, with gilt detailing to the…
The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson; Anna Laetitia Barbauld · 1804 · Rooke Books
£580.00 (€695.32 | $766.39 | ¥122,397)
London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the correspondence of Samuel Richardson in six uniform volumes. The first edition of this work. In six volumes. Correspondence of important English writer and printer of the eighteenth centu…
The Letters of Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb; Alfred Ainger · 1888 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London , Macmillan and Co. 1888-1891. Cloth. A complete two volume set of letters of Charles Lamb. Volume one is a second edition reprint published in 1888 and volume two is a third edition reprint published in 1891. Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet and antiquarian wh…
The Rural Life of England
William Howitt · 1838 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans , 1838. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Howitt's charming study of 19th-century rural England, embellished with vignettes. First edition. Complete in two volumes. Rebacked, with the original blind-stamped cl…
The Tunning of Elynour Rumming
John Skelton · 1928 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, The Fanfrolio Press, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition copy of John Skelton's sixteenth century long raucous and libelous poem, a colourfully illustrated copy by Pearl Binder. A limited edition of five hundred and fifty copies; this copy is out of series, being a copy …
The Fifth Decad of Cantos
Ezra Pound · 1937 · Rooke Books
£149.00 (€178.63 | $196.88 | ¥31,443)
London, Faber & Faber, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Cantos XLII to LI of Ezra Pound's long modernist poem, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Fifth Decad of Cantos' cont…
The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie
Alexander Montgomerie; James Cranstoun [ed.] · 1887 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. Leather. A very scarce collection of poetry by the Scottish courtier and poet Alexander Montgomerie, compiled by James Cranstoun. A scarce work in a half morocco binding with marbled boards and end papers. Top edge gilt. Bookp…
The Poems of William Collins
Edmund Blunden (ed.) · 1929 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald , 1929. First edition. Hardback. A smart signed limited edition copy of this William Collins poetry collection, edited with an insightful introductory study by Edmund Blunden. The first edition. In the publisher's quarter crushed …
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare; W. J. Craig [editor] · 1903 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)
London, Henry Frowde, 1903. Leather. A smartly bound twelve volume set of the complete works of William Shakespeare, with the original cloth covered slip case. Complete in twelve volumes. The Oxford Miniature Edition. With the vanishingly scarce original cloth covered slip case.…
The Beggar&Apos;S Opera
John Gay; Oswald Doughty · 1922 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, Daniel O'Connor, 1922. Cloth. A smart copy of this limited edition of John Gay's ballad opera, with illustrations throughout. Limited to one thousand copies of which nine hundred and fifty are for sale. Illustrated with twenty-eight plates in collotype and facs…
The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith; Robert Aris Willmott [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1860 . Cloth. A bright, new edition of this collection of Oliver Goldsmith's poetry, with Birket Foster's colourful illustrations. A new edition. First edition published in 1859.Dated using Jisc, from copies held at the British Librar…
The Life of Thomas Holcroft
Thomas Holcroft; William Hazlitt; Elbridge Colby · 1925 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)
London, Constable & Company LTD, 1925. Cloth. A limited edition illustrated biography on the eminent Georgian dramatist Thomas Holcroft. Complete in two volumes.A limited edition, limited to 700 copies.The expanded autobiography of Thomas Holcroft, written by himself, then expan…
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith; Peter Cunningham [editor] · 1854 · Rooke Books
£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)
London, John Murray, 1854. Leather. A smartly bound collection of the works of Anglo-Irish writer, Oliver Goldsmith. Complete in four volumes. Each volume contains a vignette title page, volume four also contains a frontispiece of Goldsmith's Monument in Westminster Abbey. …
A Prospect of the Sea
Dylan Thomas · 1955 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this posthumously published collection of stories by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A selection of short stories by Dylan Thomas, …