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Sharing Our Success: More Case Studies in Aboriginal Schooling; Band-Operated Schools: A Companion Report

Fulford, George Taylor · 2007 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$169.00 (€153.33 | £127.90 | ¥26,990)

Kelowna, B.C. Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education First Edition, First Printing pp. 147. 4to., measuring measuring 8.5" x 11". Illustrated card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Black-and-white photographs, maps, charts, tables, illustrations, etc…

A New Way of Housekeeping:

Black, Clementina · 1918 · Naomi Symes Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918) Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; recons…

Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs of All Ages and Nations

Jacob Cats; Robert Farlie; Richard Pigot [translator] · 1862 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1862. Leather. A smartly bound second edition of this illustrated collection of emblems from writers Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. Second edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and over one hundred in-text engravings. A collection …

Trottie&Apos;S Story Book, or, True Tales in Short Words and Large Type.

[Mrs. E. Burrows] · 1866 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Griffith and Farran, 1866 . Cloth. The second edition of this very scarce collection of short stories for children, written by Mrs. E. Burrows and illustrated by Harrison Weir. Second edition. Published the same year as the first. Bound in the publisher's original g…

Romance and Reality, Essays and Studies

Holbrook Jackson · 1911 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1911. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce series of essays by Holbrook Jackson, from his library with his bookplate. The first edition of this scarce work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, with his bookplate t…

A New Salome

Morris Dallett; Ludwig Behren · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Not Stated, Privately Printed, 1922. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce novella following a complicated romantic entanglement, illustrated by the author throughout. A very scarce work.The first private edition of this work, limited to five hundred copies, of which this is nu…

Gryll Grange

Thomas Love Peacock · 1861 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Thomas Love Peacock's final novel, a witty work that had originally been serialised. The scarce publisher's adverts are present. The first edition of this work.Peacock's final novel, …

La Vie Et L&Apos;Art Romantiques: Delacroix: Peintre, Graveur, Ecrivain

Raymond Escholier · 1926 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Paris , H. Floury , 1926-1929. Leather. An exhaustive biography of French artist Eugene Delacroix, laid out chronologically across three richly illustrated volumes. The 'Edition de Luxe&apos. Complete in three volumes. In the original French. Uniformly bound in a signed h…

Makers of History; Who's Who, 1981-82: Nationalist Leaders in Zimbabwe

Mitchell, Diana · 1982 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$89.00 (€80.75 | £67.35 | ¥14,214)

Causeway, Zimbabwe Privately Printed pp. 170. 12mo., measuring 5.75" x 8". Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Commander Josiah Tungamira, and Josaiah Tongogaga of the ZANLA forces, accompanied with many additional portraits of prominent political figures within Zimbabw…

Vicissitudes of Families and Other Essays

Sir Bernard Burke · 1861 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1861-1863. Cloth. A complete three volume set of this collection of essays from British genealogist Sir John Bernard Burke. Complete in three volumes, containing first, second, and third series. Volume one is the fifth edition, volume …

L&Apos;Histoire Du Cardinal Duc de Joyeuse

Antoine Aubery · 1654 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Paris, Robert Denain, 1654. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Antoine Auberys history of Francois de Joyeuse, the prominent 16th century French Archbishop and minister. Appended are several personal notes and missives, making the work especially useful to both the histo…

Mr. Britling Sees It Through

H. G. Wells · 1916 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1916. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. printing of this wartime novel by H. G. Wells, a touching portrayal of village life during World War One. The first U.S. edition, first printing, published in September 1916.Illustrated with a colour fro…

Arabian Nights Stories

1934 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Raphael Tuck & Sons LTD, [1934]. Cloth. Collecting together some of the tales of the Arabian Nights, illustrated with a striking "come to life" panorama pop-up. A charming illustrated edition of the tales of the Arabian Nights.The tales included in this volume are '…

Harrods Illustrated

1906 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

London, Harrods Limited, 1906. Cloth. A scarce catalogue for Harrods for the year 1906, an extensive and illustrated look at the products stocked at the department store during the Edwardian era. A scarce catalogue for Harrods for the year 1906, a wonderful look at the offerings…

Pompei

Charles Bonucci; G. J. · 1830 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Naples, l'Imprimerie Francaise, 1830. Leather. The second French edition of this fascinating work on Pompeii, written during a time of excavations in the ancient city, written by the Director of Archaeological Works in Pompeii. Illustrated. The second edition of this French…

With Lancashire Lads and Field Guns in France 1915-1918

Major Neil Fraser-Tytler; edited by Major F N Barker · 1922 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

JohnHeywood Ltd, Printed by Sir W C Leng & Co Ltd, Manchester, 1922. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Firm lightly marked red covers with plain slightly sunned spine, black lettering on the front cover, lightly bumped corners, sound binding, darkened…

Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 14, Pedigrees, Eyre-Matcham of Newhouse, co. Wilts. Pages 113-116 only

edited by Frederick Arthur Crisp · 1906 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Privately Published, Grove Park Press, Walworth Road, London, 1906. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Firm clean light blue covers with a dark blue spine containing an extract of the Pedigree for Eyre Matcham, of Wiltshire. Pencil note regarding conte…

Biggles Og Den Tyske Spion & Biggles Lander I Rusland

Captain W. E. Johns · 1952 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Kobenhavn, Grafisk Forlage, 1952-1953. Paperback. Two smart Biggles adventure stories from English pilot and author Captain W. E. Johns, in Danish. Danish. Two volumes. Scarce works. Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot and writer of adventure stories,…

New Treasure Seekers

Edith Nesbit · 1907 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. Cloth. The second edition of one of Edith Nesbit's popular children's adventure novels, a lovely illustrated work. The second edition, published three years after the first edition.Another of Edith Nesbit's Bastable novels, following…

American Notes

Charles Dickens · 1842 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Milner and Company, Limited, c1890. Cloth. Dickens' popular travelogue on American and North American society and culture, with various other works by Dickens included. A selection of works by Charles Dickens, containing 'American Notes', 'Sunday Unde…