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Kingsley Amis · 1967 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poetry by noted author Kingsley Amis. In the original unclipped dustwrapper designed by Leigh Taylor. Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. Amis's first nov…

The English Historical Review Published Quarterly

Various; Rev Mandell Creighton (ed) · 1886 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1886-87. Leather. Two volumes of 'The English Historical Review' edited by Rev Mandell Creighton, with work by author such as H G Keene, Oscar Browning, and S R Gardiner. The English Historical Review is the oldest surviving English langua…

The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, with the Elegies of Tyrtaeus; Translated from the Greek Into English Verse. To Which Are Added, Dissertations and Notes in Two Volumes. [and] the Work of Tibullus. Translated from the Latin

Rev. Richard Powhele; James Grainger · 1810 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

London, J Sharpe; Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1810-1812. Leather. Two volumes from the 'Works of British Poets' set.. Volumes fifty-nine and sixty-seven of the 'Works of British Poets', in uniform leather bindings. With four volumes in two, with two frontispiec…

The Young Traveller in Space

Arthur C. Clarke · 1954 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.79 | ¥78,054)

London, Phoenix House Ltd. 1954. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this children's work by noted author Arthur C. Clarke. In the original dustwrapper and pictorial boards designed by Edmund Louis Blandford. Scarce in this condition. Contains one colour plate, th…

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall

Thomas Hardy · 1923 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,915)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1923. Cloth. A beautiful edition of Thomas Hardy's play, 'The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall&apos. This one-act play by Hardy, is one of only two pieces of drama written by the author. Designed for 'mummers' the play was des…

Catherine Walker: An Autobiography by the Private Couturier to Diana, Princess of Wales

Catherine Walker · 1998 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

New York, Universe, 1998. First edition. Hardback. An autobiographical account by Catherine Walker covering her life, her fashion designs as well as her professional and personal relationship with Princess Diana. The first edition of this work. Held in original dustwrapper. Cath…

Mr Pickwick Pages from the Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens · 1910 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.08 | ¥55,904)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Vellum. A beautifully illustrated edition of a selection from The Pickwick Papers. Limited Edition. Number 150 of 350 copies of this edition. Signed by the illustrator, Frank Reynolds. Featuring 25 tipped-in colour plates with lettered tissue …

The Sanfield Scandal

Richard Keverne [Clifford James Wheeler Hosken] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Constable & Co Ltd , 1929 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition presentation copy of Keverne"s Golden Age mystery, inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication and retaining the original unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's …

The Faulkner Investigation

Ross Macdonald; Eudora Welty; Ralph B. Sipper · 1985 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Santa Barbara, Cordelia Editions, 1985 . First edition. Paperback. A smart limited edition copy of two essays on William Faulkner, with a signed business card of Ralph B. Sipper. A limited edition copy, with this being one of a five-hundred copy limitation.  Including a signed …

Mr. Pye

Mervyn Peake · 1969 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Allison & Busby, 1969. Cloth. A lovely edition of Mervyn Peake's satirical tale on an evangelical whose deeds shape his appearance. A charming edition of Mr. Pye, a curious novel following the titular preacher upon the Channel island of Sark, written by influential …

Aha

Rex Whistler, Laurence Whistler · 1978 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, John Murray, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A humorous poetical work with numerous topsy-turvy portraits by Rex Whistler, written and signed by his brother and prolific poet Laurence Whistler. The signed first edition of Aha, a topsy-turvy poetical anthology, written, illus…

Lays of the Round Table and Other Lyric Romances

Ernest Rhys · 1905 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, J. M. Dent & Co. 1905 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce, historical poetry collection, signed by the author, Ernest Rhys. First edition. Scarce. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Signed by the author to the half-title page. A lo…

Along the Years Poems 1911-1937

Joseph Leftwich · 1937 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Robert Anscome & Company, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the limited edition, first edition of Joseph Leftwich's collection of his poetry from the early 20th century, in the original dust wrapper. The signed limited edition first edition …

Beau Brummell: His Life and Letters

Lewis Melville · 1924 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1924. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Melville's biography on the celebrity dandy in a lovely blue half calf signed binding from B.G. Ward. The first edition of Beau Brummell: His Life and Letters, a charming biography on the pre-eminen…

2vols in 1 Voyages de Gulliver

Jonathan Swift; Pierre-Francois Guyot Desfontaines [Trans.] · 1727 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.79 | ¥78,054)

Paris, Gabriel Martin, 1727. Leather. The scarce corrected second edition of Desfontaines' influential French translation of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," published within a year of Swift's English original. Two volumes bound in one, in a contemporary full ca…

Remarkable Satires

Porcupinus Pelagius [Macnamara Morgan]; William Kenrick; Quidnunccius Profundus [Pseud.] · 1760 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

London, Printed for Mrs. Newcomb, 1760. Leather. The very scarce first collected edition of these effusive political satires, in the notable issue without the apparently suppressed "Causidicade." In a later half calf binding with marbled paper boards, endpapers renewed.  The fi…

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The Biographical Edition

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1898 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.78 | $1,182.35 | ¥188,806)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1898-1899 . Leather. A smartly bound complete thirteen volume set of the illustrated Biographical edition of witty Victorian writer William Makepeace Thackeray's works. Complete in thirteen volumes.  The Biographical edition. Uniformly bound in h…

Essays on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladies

Hannah More · 1778 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, J. Wilkie; T. Cadell, 1778 . Leather. In a full calf binding, this is the third edition of Hannah More's collection of essays offering advice on morality, religion and behaviour to young women. The third edition of this work. A reissue of the second edition, with a …

Who Goes Home

Maurice Edelman · 1953 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Allan Wingate and The Book Society, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition, first impression of Edelman's second political novel, featuring the publisher's bookplate, and encased in the original dust wrapper designed by Mervyn Peake. The uncommo…

The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Bristol

C. F. W. Dening · 1923 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Bristol; London, J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd. 1923 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this engaging study of the eighteenth-century architecture of Bristol, featuring seventy tipped-in plates. First edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Attractively i…