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(1950) Mr Midshipman Hornblower; (1952) Lieutenant Hornblower; (1953) Hornblower and the Atropos; (1967) Hornblower & the Crisis; (1945) the Commodore; (1946) Lord Hornblower; (1958) Hornblower in the West Indies; (1962) Hornblower and the Hotspur.
C. S. Forester · 1945 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)
London, Michael Joseph, 1945-1967. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing collection of eight first editions in the Horatio Hornblower series, all clad in their original dust wrappers. Collection comprised of: (1950) Mr Midshipman Hornblower; (1952) Lieutenant Hornblower; (1953) Hornb…
Precious Balms
Arthur Machen · 1999 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)
Horam, The Friends of Arthur Machen; Tartarus Press, 1999. First edition. Cloth. The first Tartarus limited edition of this volume of literary criticism, in which author and mystic Arthur Machen compiles negative reviews of his early work. Limited to 200 copies for the Friends o…
Le Vallee de la Lune; le Tourbillon; le Cabaret de la Derniere Chance
Jack London; Louis Postif [trans.] · 1926 · Rooke Books
£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.27 | ¥92,821)
Paris, Les Editions G. Cres et Cie, 1926-1928. Leather. A handsome collection of French editions of Jack London novels, in a uniform signed binding by Flammarion. A lovely trio of French translations of works from pioneering American novelist Jack London, published by Les Editio…
Moral Stories
David Wright · 1954 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)
London, Derek Verschoyle, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, and an uncommon example of a signed presentation copy, with dust wrapper. A first edition. An uncommon example of a presentation copy, with the author's ink presentation inscription and signature to fron…
The Green Man
Andrew Young · 1947 · Rooke Books
£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1947. First edition. Hardback. A first edition poetry volume, and a very scarce example of a presentation copy, given to poet Basil Dowling. A first edition volume of poetry by Scottish poet and clergyman Andrew Young. A very scarce example of a signed and…
In an Emergency
Daniel Weissbort · 1972 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)
Oxford; Salisbury, Carcanet Press, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A very smart copy of this first collected and limited edition, signed by the author, with dust wrapper. A very smart copy of this first edition collection by British poet, translator and multi-lingual academic Daniel…
Gallery
John Stevens Wade · 1969 · Rooke Books
£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,227)
London, Poet & Printer, 1969. First edition. Paperback. A very smart, illustrated first edition, with very scarce letter, presenting this copy as a gift from the binder, who also signs the letter. A very smart first edition. Bound in publisher's original pink paper wraps. …
Repetitious
Peter Reading · 1999 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)
Not Stated, Laertides Press, 1999. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, individually bound poem; number 40 of a limited edition, signed to the rear cover. A very scarce work, in the publisher's original pictorial boards. In the limited edition - one of 250 copies, this …
The Venus Touch
Maureen Duffy · 1971 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A first edition volume of poems, and of the very scarce limited edition, signed by the author. A first edition volume of poems by English poet, playwright and non-fiction author Maureen Duffy, winner of the Benson Meda…
Book I Ukulele Music Book II Going on
Peter Reading · 1985 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)
London, Secker & Warburg, 1985. First edition. Paperback. A very smart first edition, signed by author, art historian and poet Peter Reading. A very smart first edition. Bound in original pictorial boards. Signed by the author to title page. Penned by prolific English poet and…
For David Gascoyne&Apos;S Eightieth Birthday
Jeremy Reed · 1996 · Rooke Books
£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)
Not Stated, Privately Printed, 1996. First edition. Paperback. A very smart copy of the limited edition run in honour of David Gascoyne, signed by Jeremy Reed. A very smart first and limited edition booklet. One of 80 copies signed by the author, with signature of Jersey-born wr…
Blue Sonata the Poetry of John Ashbery
Jeremy Reed · 1994 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)
None, Privately Printed, 1994. First edition. Unbound. A very smart, scarce first and limited edition literary critique, signed by the author. A very smart first and limited edition, in publisher's original binding. One of 75 copies, this being number 18. Signed by Jersey-b…
Poems About War
Robert Graves; William Graves [Ed.] · 1988 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)
London, Cassell, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Robert Graves"s posthumous war-poetry collection, complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, and with a warm autograph letter signed by the author with original envelope loosely i…
L"Honneur de Souffrir
Anna de Noailles · 1927 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)
Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1927. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Anna de Noailles"s poignant poetry collection, one of five hundred numbered press copies, warmly inscribed by the author and handsomely bound in full calf by M. Albinhac. In a contemporary full calf bindi…
Elegy for Kathleen Raine
Jeremy Reed · 2003 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Privately Printed, 2003 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce signed first edition copy of this poem by Jeremy Reed, dedicated to the English poet Kathleen Raine. The scarce first edition. Signed by the author. In a paperback binding. A poem by Jeremy Reed, a Jersey-…
Young Thomas Hardy & the Older Hardy
Robert Gittings · 1975 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)
London, Heinemann, 1975-1978. First edition. Cloth. A smart signed two volume set of first editions of these illustrated biographical accounts of the writer Thomas Hardy. A two volume set. The first editions. Signed by the author to the bookplates. In the publisher's orig…
Alice: A Novel
John Bayley · 1994 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)
London, Duckworth, 1994 . First edition. Cloth. A smart signed first edition presentation copy of this social comedy by John Bayley. The first edition. A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. In the publisher's original black cloth binding…
Outposts 42
Howard Sergeant [ed.] · 1959 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)
London, Outposts Publications, 1959. First edition. Paperback. A scarce copy of issue #42 of Britain's oldest independent poetry maagzine, signed by the contributor Peter Redgrove. Issue #42 Autumn 1959. Signed by the contributor, Peter Redgrove, to the front wrap. In t…
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book
Arthur Rackham · 1965 · Rooke Books
£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.79 | ¥78,054)
London, George G. Harrap, 1965 . Leather. Handsomely bound in half morocco by Hatchards, this is a charming collection of fairy tales illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham. The May 1965 impression of this work, which was first published in this edition in 1933. In a signed ha…
The Dun Emer Press, Later the Cuala Press
Liam Miller; Michael B. Yeats [preface] · 1973 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)
Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1973 . First edition. Cloth. A fine example of the very scarce signed limited edition of Liam Miller's history of Ireland's Dun Emer/Cuala Press, an institution with an important place in the history of modern Irish literature. The very scarce …