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A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson · 1997 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.61 | ¥121,300)

London, New York, Toronto, Sydney and Auckland, Doubleday, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this travel autobiography, with a personal inscription by the author, acclaimed and prolific writer Bill Bryson. 'A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appa…

Love Among the Ruins a Romance of the Near Future

Evelyn Waugh · 1953 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful signed limited edition dystopian novella, signed by Evelyn Waugh. A limited edition work, limited to three-hundred and fifty copies, of which fifty were signed by the author. This copy is numbered forty-eight.Signed…

Antarctica, Cambridge, Conservation and Population: A Biologist&Apos;S Story

Colin Bertram · 1987 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Not Stated, Colin Bertram, 1987. Paperback. A privately printed autobiographical work detailing the author's time in the polar regions, his work on conservation and population and personal life. Dr George Colin Lawder Bertram (1911-2001) was a British zoologist, remembered …

An Artist in the Tropics

Jan Poortenaar · 1927 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1927. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated volume detailing the artists travels through what was the Dutch East Indies. Jan Christiaan Poortenaar (1886-1958) was a Dutch painter, graphic designed, etcher, author, illustrator and lithographer…

A Jackdaw in Georgia a Book of Polite Parodies and Imitations of Contemporaries and Others

William Kean Seymour · 1923 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, John G. Wilson, 1923. First edition. Cloth. The first, uncommon signed edition of this volume comprising humorous poems and rhymes by William Kean Seymour. The first edition stated of this clever and amusing anthology of poems, written by William K Seymour on his contemp…

Pioneers and Sportsmen of South Africa 1760-1890

Servaas D. le Roux · 1939 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

Salisbury, Servaas D. le Roux, 1939. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this very scarce and interesting account of early hunters and explorers in South Africa. The first edition of this volume privately published by the author. A fascinating and informative account of e…

The Home of Mankind the Story of the World We Live in

Hendrick Willem van Loon · 1939 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,227)

London, George G. Harrap & Company LTD. 1939. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated history of the world and it's many countries, illustrated with detailed colour plates, and many monochrome plates. An educational history of the world for children.In this work van Loon explores …

King of Rugger

Lewis Jones · 1958 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Stanley Paul, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition copy of this autobiography by Lewis Jones. First edition of this scarce autobiography on the life of Lewis Jones, professional rugby player during the 1950s and 1960s. He has been described by rugby histori…

Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795: The Man and His Travels at the Cape

Patrick Cullinan · 1992 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

Winchester, Struik, 1992. Leather. One of 150 limited editions of this biography of Dutch explorer Robert Jacob Gordon, signed by the author. Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795) was an explorer, linguist, solider and naturalist. He made his first journey to the Cape Colony in 1772, …

Hornblower and the Atropos

C. S. Forester · 1953 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Michael Joseph, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A First Edition first impression copy of the third of C. S. Lewis' Hornblowers series, Hornblower and the Atropos. A first edition, first impression copy of Hornblower and the Atropos, one of C. S. Forester's series f…

A Smell of Burning

Margaret Lane · 1965 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this enthralling novel set against the backdrop of Morocco. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dustwrapper, designed by Duncan Grant.A char…

In the Steps of John Bunyan

Vera Brittain · 1950 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.63 | ¥46,411)

London, Rich and Crown, 1950. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this critical and historical guide to seventeenth century England. An important study on Bunyan. Signed by the author, Vera Brittain.  Vera Brittain was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, writer and feminis…

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

Salman Rushdie · 1987 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Picador, Pan Books, Jonathan Cape, 1987. First edition. Paperback. A Signed First UK Edition of Salman Rushdie's The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey A signed, first UK edition of Salman Rushdie's first non-fictional work The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journe…

The Sellout

Paul Beatty · 2016 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Oneworld, 2016. First edition. Paperback. A fine signed first edition of Paul Beatty's humorous Man Booker winning novel. The first edition, first impression of this work. This paperback is the true U.K. first, being published in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus, and Giro…

Milkman

Anna Burns · 2018 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, Faber and Faber, 2018. First edition. Hardback. A fine signed first edition of Anna Burns' Man Booker winning novel, signed to the book and to a bookmark. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page, and to one of the loos…

Poems for Charles Causley

Various · 1982 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, The Enitharmon Press, 1982. First edition. Paperback. A signed first edition of this commemorative poetry collection, published for the sixty-fifth birthday of Charles Causley. Inscribed by David Gascoyne. The first edition of this work.Inscribed by David Gascoyne to his…

Nebuchadnezzar and the Story of the Fiery Furnace

1929 · Rooke Books

£500.00 (€599.32 | $660.53 | ¥105,478)

London, The Fulcrum Press, 1929. Hardback. A signed limited edition of this biblical story, signed by the illustrator Lynton Lamb. A limited edition work, limited to two-hundred and twenty copies, of which this is numbered sixty.Signed by Lynton Lamb to the edition page.The bibl…

Soldier True

Victor Bonham-Carter · 1963 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Victor Bonham-Carter's biography exploring the life and affluent career of Sir William Robertson, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the recto…

Set in Darkness

Ian Rankin · 2000 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, Orion, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of Ian Rankin's eleventh Inspector Rebus novel, part of his immensely popular and thrilling series. The first edition, first impression, of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the origina…

The Complaints

Ian Rankin · 2009 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.62 | ¥12,235)

London, Orion, 2009. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of Ian Rankin's first Malcolm Fox novel, a thrilling mystery. The first edition, first impression, of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.'The Complaints&…