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The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891
Florence Emily Hardy · 1928 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Macmillan and Company, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. Thomas Hardy's wife's biography of the famed author, providing a personal insight into the first half of his life, and illustrated throughout. The first edition of Florence Emily Hardy's biography of fame…
The Poetical and Prose Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith · 1874 · Rooke Books
£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)
London, Gall and Inglis, c1877. Leather. A charming collection of William Goldsmith's poetry, plays, essays and prose; notably containing two of his most popular works 'The Traveller' and 'The Vicar of Wakefield&apos. Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, p…
Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
Burlingham, Cynthia · 2018 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)
Los Angeles / New York, Hammer Museum / DelMonico Books (Prestel), 2018. Hardcover. illustrated boards w/ quarter cloth, white printed blue spine. decorative pastedowns & endpapers. 208 pgs, color illustrated. Poet, novelist, playwright and critic Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a p…
The Vision of a City and Other Poems
DUMONT, HENRY · 1907 · S. Howlett-West Books
$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)
San Francisco, CA: The Whitaker and Ray Co, 1907. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author with an inscription, on the front endpaper. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book …
Weir of Hermiston; Songs of Travel; in the South Seas; the Silverado Squatters; Lay Morals
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1896 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, Chatto and Windus, 1896-1911. First edition. Cloth. A varied collection of first edition works from Robert Louis Stevenson, including pieces of his poetry, travel writings and a novel. Five smart first edition works from Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel write…
The Works of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare; Charles Knight [ed.] · 1873 · Rooke Books
£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)
London, J S Virtue and Co. [1873-1876]. Leather. A remarkable collection of two colossal volumes containing the illustrated works of the national bard William Shakespeare, as edited by Charles Knight. The Imperial edition. The Imperial edition of this remarkable work edited by C…
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More (Complete in 2 Vols)
ROBERTS, WILLIAM · 1855 · The Wild Muse
$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1855. Hard. 8vo. Complete in 2 volumes. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8vo, frontis + 484pp; 479pp. Blind embossed brown cloth with bronze titles, colored endpapers. More was a religious writer, philanthropist and poet. Previous owner name/small em…
The Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence Volume I - Rhyming Poems the Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence Volume II - Unrhyming Poems
D. H. Lawrence · 1928 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, Martin Secker, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A scarce complete first edition of collected poems by D. H. Lawrence. The first edition, compiling a great number of poems penned by English writer D. H. Lawrence, most known for the notorious 'Lady Chatterley's Lover&…
Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry.
FERGUSON, Margaret W. · 1983 · The Book Firm
A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.79 | ¥2,488)
Yale University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Ferguson's study includes a theoretical discussion of the implications of studying the defense as a genre, and makes a case that literary defense should be considered a special class of writing. The author analyses exemplary defences by th…
A Collection of Novels from the Crime Club Choice
Nicholas Blake [Cecil Day-Lewis]; Joan Fleming; Harry Carmichael [Leopold Horace Ognall]; James Henderson; Rex Stout · 1968 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1968-1974. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of exciting thrillers and detective stories from the Collins Crime Club, with the original dust wrappers. Five volumes. Crime Club Choice. This set includes: The Private Wound, 1968. First edi…
Cassell&Apos;S Illustrated Shakespeare. The Plays of Shakespeare.
Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke · 1616 · Rooke Books
£780.00 (€934.95 | $1,030.49 | ¥164,556)
London, Petter and Galpin Cassell, c1875. Leather. The beautifully illustrated complete Plays of Shakespeare illustrated by Selous and edited by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Volumes I - III, complete. The three volumes are seperated into Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Wil…
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith in Six Volumes
Oliver Goldsmith · 1792 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
Perth, R. Morison Junior, 1792. Leather. A collection of The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. The set consists of volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 and is missing volume 3. Volume I contains: The Author's Life and his Essays, embellished with Copperplates. Volume 2 conta…
The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde · 1993 · Rooke Books
£1,850.00 (€2,217.52 | $2,444.11 | ¥390,293)
London, Routledge; Thoemmes Press, 1993. Cloth. A very attractive collection of works from popular Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, edited by his friend and literary executor, Robert Ross. A lovely selection of the plays, poetry and additional prose of Oscar Wilde.Complet…
The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1886 · Rooke Books
£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)
Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886-1901. Leather. The collected poetical and prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated with frontispieces. The collected works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in eleven volumes.The Riverside Edition.Henry Wadsworth…
The Works of George Lord Lyttelton
George Lyttelton; Baron Lyttelton · 1774 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, J. Dodsley, 1774. First edition. Leather. The first collected edition of the influential literary works of George Lyttelton, complete with a portrait frontispiece. The first collected edition in one volume.ESTC citation number T79264, including the errors in pagination.I…
The Medal. A Satyre Against Sedition
[John Dryden] · 1692 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)
London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1692. Leather. A very scarce early edition of John Dryden's sharp satirical response to the Earl of Shaftesbury's acquittal. The last edition of Dryden's lifetime. The third edition of this work, and the last edition of Dryden&apo…
Lord Lytton Novels the Knebworth Edition
Lord Lytton · 1874 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
London, George Routledge & Sons, 1874-1877. Cloth. The complete twenty-eight volume set of the Knebworth Edition of Lytton's Works. Twenty-eight volumes. The Knebworth edition. Written by Lord Lytton, an English poet, novelist, playwright and politician who coined famous ph…
The Free-Holder; or, Political Essays
Joseph Addison · 1723 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, D. Midwinter, 1723 . Leather. The third edition of Addison"s series of fifty-five political essays, written in defence of the Protestant succession after the Jacobite rising of 1715. In a full contemporary calf binding. Front board fully detached, but present. Third ed…
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1851 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, John Murray, 1851. Leather. A third edition of this collection of extracts from the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Third edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of conversations and reflections drawn from the intellectual life of Samuel Taylor Colerid…
Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review
Lord Macaulay · 1860 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)
London, Longman, Brown and Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1860. Leather. A handsome three volume set of the critical and historical essays of Lord Macaulay Including essays on: Milton, Machiavelli, Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, and Moore's Life of Lor…