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Frank Fairleigh or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil

Frank E Smedley · 1846 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, George Routledge, c1870. Leather. A nicely bound copy of this illustrated work by Frank E Smedley, 'Frank Fairleigh' With an illustrated frontispiece, title page and an additional twenty-six plates. Undated, dated from Copac. Illustrations by George Cruikshank,…

Comedies and Dramas and Mrs Caudles Curtain Lectures the Story of a Feather and the Sick Giant and the Doctor Dwarf

Douglas Jerrold · 1852 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1852-4. Leather. Two volumes of work by Douglas Jerrold. With the bookplate of Sir Edward Watkin to the front pastedown of Mrs Caudles Curtain Lectures. Edward Watkin was a British MP and railway entrepreneur. He was notable for expanding the Metropol…

The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola

Giovanni Francesco Straparola · 1906 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Paris, Charles Carrington, 1906. Cloth. A limited edition of this collection of seventy five short stories from the late Medieval period - the work for which Straparola is best known. The title of the work is sometimes translated as 'The Facetious Nights' or 'The …

Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

D. H. Lawrence · 1925 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition limited edition copy of this collection of essays by D.H.Lawrence. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Number 394 …

Theatre de Moliere

Moliere · 1930 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Paris, Plon, 1930. Leather. A beautiful set of the Theatre de Moliere with illustrations. In the original French.Complete in six volumes.A collection of the works of Moliere.Moliere was a French playwright, generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Frenhc language…

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Embellished with Engravings from Designs by Thomas Stothard

Daniel Defoe · 1820 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.45 | $2,510.17 | ¥400,841)

London, T Cadell and W Davies, 1820 . Leather. Two beautifully bound volumes of this famous adventure work. Robinson Crusoe is presented to the reader as an autobiography of Robinson, a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island. The works discusses his encount…

Our Own Pompeii: A Romance of to-Morrow

Samuel Middleton Fox · 1887 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.99 | $1,981.71 | ¥316,453)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887 . First edition. Cloth. Inscribed by the author to his own mother, this is the very scarce first edition of Samuel Middleton Fox's entertaining science fiction novel about a society's failure to run a futuristic pleasure city…

A Rebours

J. K. Huysmans [Joris-Karl Huysmans] · 1961 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Paris, Fasquelle Editeur, 1961. Leather. A 1960s edition of J. K. Huysmans classic Decadent novel, strikingly bound in a beautiful morocco binding with floral gilt detailing. In the original French.First published in 1884, this is a 1961 edition of 'A rebours', which f…

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton

Gilbert White Thomas Bell [ed.] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, John Van Voorst, 1877. Cloth. A very smart first Bell edition of Gilbert White's important natural history of Selborne, edited by zoologist Thomas Bell. First Thomas Bell edition in the publisher's original cloth binding. Complete in two volumes. Volume I is i…

Essays Concerning Iron and Steel

Henry Horne · 1773 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London, T. Cadell, 1773 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Henry Horne's very scarce late 18th century work on metallurgy, smelting, iron ore and steel, and their development in both America and Great Britain. A very scarce first edition.Author Henry Horne offer…

Letters to the New Island

William Butler Yeats; Horace Reynolds [ed.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally lovely association copy of the first collected edition of these essays by W. B. Yeats. From the library of Yeats scholar Marion Witt, and with contextual annotations throughout. The first ed…

The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

Rev. John Fleetwood · 1814 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

Burslem, John Tregortha, 1814. Cloth. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates, this is Rev. John Fleetwood's popular account of the lives of Jesus Christ and his apostles. An early nineteenth-century example of Rev. John Fleetwood's famous book on the life of Jesus…

The Undertaker&Apos;S Garland

John Peale Bishop; Edmund Wilson Jr. · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce presentation copy of the first edition of this reflection on death, across prose and poetry, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. A very scarce example of a presentation copy of this first edition title.Illustrat…

For Daws to Peck at

Monk Gibbon · 1929 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Victor Gollancz Limited, 1929. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon presentation copy, in original dust wrapper, and inscribed to the author's friend, publisher Alister Mathews. An uncommon example of a presentation copy of this title, in its original, unclipped dust w…

The Song of the Scarlet Host and Other Poems

Joseph Bernard Rethy · 1915 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Portland, Maine, Smith & Sale , 1915. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this incendiary anti-war poetry volume, a vanishingly scarce copy of this work, with just two copies held institutionally. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with marbled paper cov…

Occasions

Holbrook Jackson · 1922 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Grant Richards, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the uncommon first edition of these brilliant essays on diverse subjects by Holbrook Jackson, inscribed to his brother. The first edition of this uncommon work.An association copy, inscribed by th…

Eden Versus Whistler the Baronet and the Butterfly: A Valentine with a Verdict

[James McNeill Whistler] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

New York, R. H. Russell, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in the publisher's original pictorial cloth, with many black and white illustrations by Whistler.  The first edition in the publisher's original pictorial cloth with gilt lettering to the front boa…

The Cook&Apos;S Oracle; Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery

William Kitchiner · 1829 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Cadell and Co; Simpkin and Marshall, 1829 . Leather. An early 19th century edition of William Kitchiner's popular and influential cookery work, which contains one of the earliest references to crisps. A 'new edition' of this work by English optician, amate…

For Jeremy Gaige

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1928 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

None Stated, Watch Hill Press, 1928 . Leather. A charming and exceptionally scarce private press item, there are no copies held institutionally as one of only ten copies printed for the infant Jeremy Gaige in 1928, featuring Stevenson"s poem "My Bed is a Boat". Bound in quarter …

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1881 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London , George Routledge and Sons, 1881. Leather. A smart Bickers binding of a collection of lyrical poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in full red calf with a frontispiece of the poet. The author's edition of the work.In full decorative red calf, bound by Bickers & Son.…