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Twilight
John Gawsworth · 1931 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
[London], Blue Moon Press, 1931. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce Romantic poem signed by a leading poet known for his eccentricities, and with a signed etching by award-winning illustrator Frederick Carter. Twilight, a vanishingly scarce poem, written and signed b…
Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, by Way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem: Performed in the Steamers of the Peninsula and Oriental Company.
Mr M. A. Titmarsh [William Makepeace Thackeray] · 1846 · Rooke Books
£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,523)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1846. Cloth. A smart second edition copy of William Makepeace Thackeray's popular foray into travel writing. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. Illustrat…
The Plays of John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy · 1929 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, Duckworth, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A first edition collection of Galsworthy's stage plays, with original dust wrapper. A smart first edition with unclipped dust wrapper. Featuring the bookplate of wood-engraver Simon Brett to the front paste down. Within, a coll…
Baby&Apos;S Red Letter Days
1903 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
Syracuse , Just's Food Co. c1903. Paperback. A very scarce, early twentieth-century baby book, illustrated by Golden Age book illustrator, Jessie Wilcox Smith. An early edition of this illustrated baby book. A very scarce and little-known work by prolific Golden Age America…
Any Wednesday; Any Wednesday Playbill
Muriel Resnik · 1964 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
New York, Stein and Day; Playbill, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Muriel Resnik's popular comedy play, in the original dust wrapper, and present alongside the scarce Playbill for the play's first run on Broadway. The first edition, first impression o…
A School Book of Help: Wherein Will Be Found Lessons Worth Remembering
William Cullis · 1850 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
Wrexham, George Bayley, c1850. Cloth. A very scarce little book offering biblical lessons for children, smartly rebound in blue cloth, with the original paper wraps bound inside. The fourth edition of the very scarce A School Book of Help: Wherein Will be Found Lessons Worth Rem…
Architectural Antiquities of Normandy
John Sell Cotman; Dawson Turner · 1822 · Rooke Books
£1,750.00 (€2,097.65 | $2,311.99 | ¥369,196)
London, John and Arthur Arch and J. S. Cotman, 1822 . First edition. Leather. The impressive first edition of this beautifully illustrated architectural study of Normandy. With plates from John Sell Cotman, a leading member of the Norwich School of Painters. The very scarce firs…
Southey&Apos;S Common-Place Book
Robert Southey; John Wood Warter [ed.] · 1849 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849-1851. Cloth. A four volume set of this collection of essays and extracts by Romantic poet Robert Southey. A four volume set. In the publisher's original green cloth bindings. A collection of the works of Robert Southey, an …
2 Vols China: A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People
John Henry Gray; William Gow Gregor [Ed.] · 1878 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1878. First edition. Cloth. A richly illustrated two-volume survey of Chinese law, customs, and daily life by the Archdeacon of Hong Kong, John Henry Gray, illustrated with one hundred and forty plates. In the publisher's original blue cloth bindin…
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett · 1783 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
London, T. Longman and G. Robinson, 1783. Cloth. A three volume set of Tobias Smollett's picaresque novels 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker' 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker' was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered…
Novels of George Alfred Henty Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades Friends Though Divided and the Young Buglers: A Tale of the Peninsular War
G. A. Henty · 1897 · Rooke Books
£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)
London , Sampson Low, 1897-1917. Cloth. Three novels of the popular Victorian author George Alfred Henty. Containing Winning His Spurs (1897), Friends Though Divided (1917), and The Young Buglers: A Tale of the Peninsular War (c.1906) Illustrated with 17 plates to The Young Bugl…
Lyrical Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Poems by Robert Southey; the Golden Treasury
Alfred Tennyson; Orbert Southey; Francis T. Palgrave · 1885 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
London, Macmillan, 1885, 1895, 1902. Leather. Three volumes of 19th century English poetry published by Macmillan, bound together as a three volume set. Alfred Tennyson was Poet Laureate during most of Queen Victoria's reign remains one of the most popular British poets tod…
Harvest-Home: Consisting of Supplementary Gleanings, Original Dramas and Poems, Contributions of Literary Friends, and Select Re-Publications in Three Volumes
Samuel Pratt · 1805 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, Richard Phillips, 1805. Leather. The collected works of the prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, Samuel Jackson Pratt, including the revised edition of his poem Sympathy. Complete in three volumes with a frontispiece portrait of the author to Volume I. Pratt au…
Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq F.R. S.
John Evelyn; Edited by William Bray · 1819 · Rooke Books
£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)
London, Henry Colburn, 1819. Leather. A detailed edition of the life and memoirs of diarist John Evelyn. Second edition. 'Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between K…
Elementa Philosophica de Cive and Eyphma Compendiarium in Religione Christiana Novum
Thomas Hobbes · 1696 · Rooke Books
£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)
Zeidlerum and Lipsiae, Job. Frid and Joh. Wittigau , c1674-1696. Leather. A sought after collection of scarce philosophical works from early English political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Written in Latin. Thomas Hobbes was one of the founders of modern political ph…
Eight Poems
W. B. Yeats; Edward Pay [transcribed by] · 1916 · Rooke Books
£1,500.00 (€1,797.99 | $1,981.71 | ¥316,453)
London, Form" at the Morland Press, 1916 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce advanced copy of W. B. Yeats's mid-1910s poetry collection, marking a dividing point between his early Celtic revival influences, and his later more modern work. A vanishingly scarce ad…
Merugud Uilix Maicc Leirtis: The Irish Odyssey
Homer; Kuno Meyer · 1886 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, D. Nutt, 1886 . Cloth. A scarce first English edition of Kuno Meyer"s translation of an Old Irish immram reworking the Odyssey, from the library of Captain Richard J. Campbell OBE In the publisher's original green cloth binding. First English edition. A scholarly …
The Dream Splendid
John Langdon-Davies · 1917 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, The Pelican Press, 1917. First edition. Paperback. A scarce Pelican Press first edition, written during Langdon-Davies"s undergraduate years at Oxford and published in the shadow of his conscientious objection during the Great War. In the publisher's original paper …
Lost in the Arctic: Being the Story of the &Apos;Alabama&Apos; Expedition, 1909-1912
Ejnar Mikkelsen · 1913 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)
London, William Heinemann, 1913. First edition. Cloth. The illustrated first UK edition of this record of some of the Greenland expeditions of Danish polar explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen. First UK edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixty-three plates, and a large folding map to…
Quain&Apos;S Dictionary of Medicine
H. Montague Murray [ed.] · 1902 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902. Cloth. A scarce edition of Richard Quain's major medical dictionary, edited by H. Montague Murray, with colour plates. The scarce third edition of this medical dictionary credited to Irish physician Richard Quain. In the original clot…