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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
George MacDonald · 1858 · Rooke Books
£2,950.00 (€3,536.04 | $3,897.36 | ¥622,358)
London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1858 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful copy of the first edition of George MacDonald's most well known work, about a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for the 'Marble Lady&apos. A beautifully bound first edi…
The Talaings
R. Halliday · 1917 · Rooke Books
£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)
Rangoon, Superintendent, Government Printing, 1917. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce study on the Mon of Burma, a vivid description by Robert Halliday, the first edition complete with illustrations. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.In the original unclipped d…
The Sea of Mountains: An Account of Lord Dufferin&Apos;S Tour Through British Columbia in 1876.
Molyneux St. John · 1877 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
London, Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1877. First edition. Cloth. A handsome two volume, first edition, account of Lord Dufferin's travels through British Columbia. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding with gilt detail to the spin…
Angling in Salt Water: A Practical Work on Sea Fishing with Rod and Line, from the Shore, Piers, Jetties, Rocks, and from Boats; Together with Some Account of Hand-Lining.
John Bickerdyke · 1887 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, L. Upcott Gill, 1887. First edition. Paperback. A very rare first edition of this angling classic by Bickerdyke. In the publisher's original pictorial paper binding. Very scarce, Hampton page 77 but only recording the second edition of 1900. Even rarer in the publis…
Plum Pie
P. G. Wodehouse · 1966 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A collection of nine wonderful short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, including many of his regular popular characters such as Jeeves. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A collection of nine en…
Khaki and Gown an Autobiography
Lord Birdwood; Winston Churchill · 1941 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)
London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Lord Birdwood's enlightening travel work on his time with the British Army, complete with colour folding maps. The first edition of this work, printed in 1941. The compelling autobiograph…
The Villa Garden Directory, or, Monthly Index of Work to Be Done in Town and Villa Gardens, Shrubberies and Parterres
Walter Nicol · 1809 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
Edinburgh, A. Constable and Co, 1809 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Walter Nicol's early nineteenth century guide to the management and maintenance of the villa garden. The very scarce first edition of this guide to the maintenance of the villa g…
Smiley&Apos;S People
John Le Carre · 1980 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, Sydney, Auckland and Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of John le Carre's popular spy novel 'Smiley's People, complete in an excellent dust wrapper. This work follows George Smiley as he is forced to leav…
The Matarese Circle
Robert Ludlum · 1979 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
New York, Richard Marek , 1979. First edition. Cloth. Two volumes of this novel by Robert Ludlum, the first edition, first impression and a smaller copy, both in the unclipped dust wrapper. Two volumes of The Matarese Circle, spy novel by Robert Ludlum, prolific American author…
Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit
Henry van Dyke · 1908 · Rooke Books
£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)
New York, Charles Scribner's Son, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A smart, illustrated first edition of this travelogue of Presbytarian Clergyman and educator Henry Van Dyke. A smart first edition of this early twentieth century travelogue. With a recognisable pictorial binding…
The Romance of Fra Filippo Lippi a New Version of the Love Story of the Friar-Artist and the Nun Lucrezia
A. J. Anderson · 1909 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Stanley Paul & Co, 1909. First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound first edition of this study of the relationship between Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.In a signed binding by Morrell.The romantic story of Filip…
First Love and Last Love
James Grant · 1822 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London & New York, George Routledge and Sons, c1880. Leather. A lovely edition of prolific Scottish writer James Grant's military novel. James Grant (1822-1887) was a Scottish novelist and a distant relation of celebrated poet, Sir Walter Scott. He wrote around ninety books…
A History of England in the Eighteenth Century
William Edward Hartpole Lecky · 1892 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1892. Cloth. A selection of historical and political writings by William Edward Hartpole Lecky. Comprising volumes I, III, V and VI of the seven volume work 'A History of England in the Eighteenth Century', volumes I and II of 'Hist…
The History of Henry Esmond
William Makepeace Thackary · 1852 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1852. Cloth. William Thackeray's historical novel about a colonel in the service of Queen Anne. Complete with two volumes bound as one. 'The History of Henry Esmond' tells the story of the eponymous character, who was a colonel for Quee…
The Entomologist&Apos;S Useful Compendium; or an Introduction to the Knowledge of British Insects, Comprising the Best Means of Obtaining and Preserving Them, and a Description of the Apparatus Generally Used; Together with the Genera of Linnãâ©, and the Modern Method of Arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, Spiders, Mites and Insects, from Their Affinities and Structure, According to the Views of Dr. Leach.
George Samouelle · 1819 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, Thomas Boys, 1819. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this work on entomology, illustrated with beautiful engraved plates. The first edition of this work. Recased with endpapers renewed and blanks discarded. Illustrated with twelve engraved plates, fiv…
The Wood Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton
Penelope Hughes-Stanton · 1991 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
Pinner, Private Libraries Association, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A lovely catalogue showcasing the work of Blair Hughes-Stanton, a major figure of the English Wood Engraving Revival of the twentieth century. The first edition of the Wood Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, a p…
Letters from Hollywood
Michael Moorcock · 1986 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Harrap, 1986. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an entertaining expose into Hollywood, signed by the prestigious illustrator Michael Foreman, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. The first edition of Letters From Hollywood, a collection of letters exposing the re…
The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners
William Hazlitt; Leigh Hunt. · 1817 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First edition. Leather. A complete two volume set of the first editions of this this collection of essays by notable critic William Hazlitt, wit contributions by Leigh Hunt. The first editions.I…
Journal of a West India Proprietor, Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica.
Matthew Gregory Lewis · 1834 · Rooke Books
£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)
London, John Murray, 1834. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this contemporary account of plantation life in Jamaica during the final years of slavery in the British Caribbean. In a smart later half morocco binding with brown cloth boards. First edition.A journal des…
Publications of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society
C Brett et al · 1969 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London , Ulster Architectural Society, 1969-1977. Cloth. A nine volume set of works on historic buildings published by the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. Surveys of various areas including lists of Historic Buildings, Groups of Buildings, and Buildings of Architectural I…