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The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan · 1915 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. Cloth. The third impression of John Buchan's celebrated espionage thriller, in a facsimile of the original dust wrapper. The third impression. Originally serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, 'The Thirty Nine S…
Archaeologiae Atticae, Libri Tres. Three Bookes of the Attick Antiquities
Francis Rous · 1637 · Rooke Books
£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)
Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Edward Forrest, 1637. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this popular and early study on Ancient Athens, by Francis Rous. The first edition of this popular and oft-reprinted work.A scholarly study on the antiquities of Athens, describing t…
The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen
W. Hauff; E. Sadler; C. R. L. Fletcher · 1889 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
Oxford; London, B. H. Blackwell; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co, 1889. First edition. Vellum. The scarce first U.K. edition of this comical novella about drinking by German author Wilhelm Hauff, signed by one of the translators. The scarce first U.K. edition in English.Signed by one of…
Great English Novelists
Holbrook Jackson · 1908 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)
London, Grant Richards, 1908. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated series of biographical pieces of eminent English authors, from the author's own library. The first edition.From the library of the author, with his bookplate to the front paste down, a…
The Voyage of the Challenger
Herbert Swire; Major Roger Swire; G. Herbert Fowler · 1938 · Rooke Books
£680.00 (€815.09 | $898.38 | ¥143,459)
London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1938. Cloth. A limited edition of Herbert Swire's insightful first hand account of the Challenger expedition, colourfully illustrated by the author. A limited edition of three hundred copies by the Golden Cockerel Press, this copy is numbe…
Across the River and Into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway · 1950 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the first UK edition of Ernest Hemingway's novel, in an exceptionally vibrant dust wrapper. The first UK edition, first impression.In the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.'A…
The Vanished World, the Blossoming World, & the World in Ripeness
H. E. Bates · 1969 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, Michael Joseph, 1969-1972. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this three volume autobiography from British writer Herbert Ernest Bates, with illustrations. Complete in three volumes. First edition. Illustrated throughout. The autobiography of Herbert Ernest B…
Rupert Annuals for the Years 1964 and 1965
Mary Tourtel; Alfred Bestall · 1964 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London, Daily Express Publications, 1964-1965. First edition. Hardback. Two smart first editions of the Rupert Bear annuals for the years 1964 and 1965. Two volumes. Brightly illustrated in colour throughout. A collection of stories about Rupert, a bear who lives with his parent…
Spanish Blood
Raymond Chandler · 1946 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company; Tower Books, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling collection of five short crime fiction stories from Raymond Chandler. The first edition, first printing of this work, published in July 1946.In the…
With Kitchener to Khartum
G. W. Steevens · 1898 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1898 . Cloth. A detailed account of the campaign in Sudan, known as the Madhist Revolt, or the Second Anglo-Sudan War of 1896-9, illustrated with folding maps. Fifth edition. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Written by G…
Week-End Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse; Hilaire Belloc · 1951 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A smart anthology of fiction and non-fiction writings by comical author P. G. Wodehouse. The first edition thus.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.An anthology of fiction and non-fiction writings by P. G. Wodehouse, in…
What the Blackbird Said, a Story in Four Chirps
Mrs. Frederick Locker · 1881 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1881 . First edition. Leather. A finely bound copy of the uncommon first edition of this charming children's tale, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott and in a Zaehnsdorf binding. The uncommon first edition of this charming Victorian childre…
Sir Andrew Wylie, of That Ilk.
John Galt · 1822 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1822 . First edition. Cloth. A smart complete three volume first edition of John Galt's novel about an aspiring young businessman, who journeys from Scotland to London. The first edition of this work, complete in three volumes.Retaining the hal…
La Nouvelle Heloise
J J Rousseau · 1889 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
Paris , Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1889. Leather. The small paper illustrated edition of J J Rousseau's epistolary novel in six bright and uniform volumes. Complete in six volumes. With half titles. Small paper edition. Large paper editions were issued in limited numbers.E…
Nature and Sport in Britain
H. A. Bryden · 1904 · Rooke Books
£33.00 (€39.56 | $43.60 | ¥6,962)
London , Grant Richards, 1904. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this early twentieth century volume on hunting in Britain. A first edition of Henry Anderson Bryden's work on wildlife and hunting in Britain. Collated but lacking the plates called for at pages 7, 12…
Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe: Norway, 1871; Archangel, 1872; Petchora, 1875
J. A. Harvie-Brown · 1905 · Rooke Books
£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this two-volume account of the author's travels in Northern Europe from 1871 to 1875, with friends, E.R. Alston and Henry Seebohm. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth…
The Leopard Woman
Stewart Edward White · 1916 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Hodder and Stoughton , 1916. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first UK edition of Stewart Edward White's popular adventure romance novel. The very scarce first UK edition. Held institutionally in only three UK libraries. In the publisher's original pictori…
The White Dragon
Logi Southby · 1934 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Rich & Cowan Ltd. 1934. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon children's work by Logi Southby, 'The White Dragon', colourfully illustrated throughout and enclosed in the very scarce dust wrapper. A delightful children's work, The White Dragon, who destroy…
The French Retreat from Moscow and Other Historical Essays
Earl Stanhope · 1876 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, John Murray, 1876. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition collection of historical essays written by the late Earl Stanhope, in a signed binding by W. Bone & Son. First Edition, Scarce.Bound in cloth by W. Bone & Son.This is a collection of historical essays that w…
The Twisted Claw
Franklin W. Dixon · 1939 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A true first edition of the eighteenth work to be published following the Hardy Boys, complete with a repaired original dust wrapper. Detective Fenton Hardy tells his sons Frank and Joe that a gang of smugglers is operating…