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October and Other Poems: With Occasional Verses on the War
Robert Bridges · 1920 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, William Heinemann, 1920. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from Robert Bridges, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of poetry from Bridges, with t…
Ode to Mazzini the Saviour of Society Liberty and Loyalty
Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1913 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
Boston, The Bibliophile Society, 1913. Vellum. A vellum limited edition copy of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne One of four hundred and seventy seven copies. Algernon Charles Swinburne was a poet playwright and novelist. This work is comprised of work discovered among the…
The Minor Minstrel or Poetical Pieces, Chiefly Familiar and Descriptive
W. Holloway · 1808 · Rooke Books
£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)
London, W. Suttaby, 1808. First edition. Leather. A scarce poetical collection offering the chiefly pastoral pieces of William Holloway, Dorset's forgotten poet. The first edition of this poetical collection from William Holloway. Scarce. In a contemporary full calf bindin…
The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling
Sir John Suckling; W. Carew Hazlitt [editor] · 1892 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Reeves and Turner, 1892. Cloth. A smart complete two volume set of the second edition of this collection of work from English poet Sir John Suckling. Complete in two volumes. Second edition, revised. With a portrait frontispiece to volume one. The poems and plays of Sir …
The Little Towns of Flanders
Albert Delstanche; Geoffrey Whitworth [trans.] · 1916 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Chatto and Windus, 1916. Cloth. Belgian artist Albert Delstanche uses woodcuts and descriptions to paint a portrait of his homeland before the destruction of the First World War. Translated from the original French by Geoffrey Whitworth.With twelve plates. Collated, comp…
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne; Heather Amery [ed.] · 1973 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, Studio Vista Books, 1973. Cloth. A highly illustrated abridged edition of the science fiction adventure novel by notable author Jules Verne. Originally published in 1870, when the exploration of the sea had hardly begun.This edition has been edited, annotated and abridg…
The Works of Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore · 1823 · Rooke Books
£790.00 (€947.08 | $1,043.88 | ¥166,713)
Paris, A. and W. Galignani, 1823. Leather. A beautiful collection of the works of Thomas Moore bound in excellent straight-grain morocco with gilt edges and borders. Comprising 'Lalla Rookh', 'Epistles, Odes and Other Poems', 'Intercepted Letters; or, th…
As the Bee Sucks: Essays
E. V. Lucas · 1937 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of essays from English humorist E. V. Lucas, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original price-clipped dust wrapper. …
The Scorpion God; Darkness Visible
William Golding · 1971 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London, Faber and Faber, 1971-1979. First edition. Cloth. Smart and bright first edition copies of two works by the renowned author William Golding. First edition copies of these two works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original dust wrappers. The dust…
The Wild Birds of Killeevy
Rosa Mulholland [Lady Gilbert] · 0 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
London; New York, Burns & Oates Ltd; Catholic Publication Society Co. c1891 (Undated, dated approximat. Cloth. London; New York: Burns & Oates Ltd; Catholic Publication Society Co. c1891 (Undated, dated approximately from the publisher's catalogue). Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" b…
Guy Mannering or the Astrologer
Sir Walter Scott · 1905 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, J M Dent, 1905. Leather. The Temple Edition of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novel, 'Guy Mannering', in a lovely Blackwell Binding. Volumes III and IV of The Temple Edition, and the complete two volumes of Guy Mannering, bound as one. With the bookplate of R…
The Heroines of George Meredith
Herbert Bedford · 1828 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
London, Hodder and Stoughton, c1914. Vellum. This edition was limited to One hundred copies, signed by the Artist and numbered, this is number twenty-one. With twenty tipped-in miniatures in colours. The volume discusses the heroines of Meredith's work, in chapters by title…
The Poems of Heine, Complete
Heinrich Heine; Edgar Alfred Bowring [translator] · 1859 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. Cloth. An early translated edition of this scarce collection of poetry from German writer Heinrich Heine, signed by the translator Edgar Alfred Bowring. Early edition, first published in 1858. Very scarce work. Signed b…
The Children&Apos;S Book
A. S. Byatt · 2009 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, Chatto & Windus, 2009. Paperback. A smart uncorrected proof copy of this historical novel from English novelist Antonia Susan Duffy. Uncorrected proof copy. This novel follows the adventures of several inter-related families, adults and children, from 1895 through the Fi…
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell; Roger Ingpen [ed.] · 1925 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
Bath, George Bayntun, 1925. Cloth. A two-volume illustrated edition of Boswell's important biography of Samuel Johnson, edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. A new two-volume edition of this work uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gi…
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell · 1859 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)
London , Henry G. Bohn, 1859. Leather. A complete ten volume set of The Life of Samuel Johnson. A complete ten volume set of this biography of Samuel Johnson. A new edition. Samuel Johnson was an English writer, poet, playwright, essayist and critic. These volumes also include…
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell · 1857 · Rooke Books
£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)
London , G. Routledge & Co, 1857-1859. Leather. A four volume set of one of the most famous biographical works by James Boswell, of his dear friend Samuel Johnson. A complete four volume set of The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell. New Edition copies which are elucidated …
The Prose of Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas; Helen Thomas; Roland Gant [Ed.] · 1948 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)
London, The Falcon Press Limited, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this compilation of the prose of Edward Thomas, with an introduction by Helen Thomas, his widow. First edition, in the original bright green cloth binding, with the original dust wrapper. Compiled …
The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith; Robert Aris Willmott [editor] · 1859 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, George Routledge & Co. 1859. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this collection of the poetry of Oliver Goldsmith with illustrations, a presentation copy inscribed by the editor. First edition. Inscribed by the editor to the front free endpaper in presentation to…
Al'Abri, or the Tent Pitched
Willis, N. P. · 1839 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)
New-York, Samuel Colman, 1839. Hardcover. Brown cloth, paper title on spine; 184 pp. A travel narrative of sorts penned by American author, poet and editor Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867), told in the form of letters to a distant correspondent referred to as "Doctor." Willis…