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The Red Thumb Mark

R Austin Freeman · 1907 · Rooke Books

£2,300.00 (€2,756.87 | $3,038.44 | ¥485,201)

London, Collingwood Bros, 1907. First edition. Hardback. A scarce, signed first edition of R Austin Freeman"s first Dr Thorndyke novel. Thorndyke was the world"s first ever fictional forensic scientist and his methods of solving crimes were based on collecting data and making in…

The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse and Prose

Alexander Pope · 1806 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.37 | $1,585.27 | ¥253,148)

London, J. Johnson et al, 1806. Leather. A handsomely bound complete set of the Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by Rev. William Lisle Bowles. Pope (1688 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his us…

A Muse at Sea

E. Hilton Young [Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet] · 1919 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919 . First edition. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of E. Hilton Young's delightful poetry collection inspired by his wartime experiences, with four handwritten letters from Jennings to one of his schoolmasters. A sign…

The Wine Drop and Other Poems

W. Murray Marsden · 1922 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Alexander Moring Ltd, 1922 . First edition. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of W. Murray Marsden's very scarce only collection of poetry, with seven original poems from the author loosely inserted, alongside a signed postcard. A signed pres…

Of Education. Especially of Young Gentlemen.

Obadiah Walker · 1677 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.24 | ¥167,711)

Oxon. At the Theatre, 1677 . First edition. Leather. Signed by the author, this is an early edition of Obadiah Walker's guide to the education of young men, and ensuring their moral, religious and intellectual development. Flat signed by the author to the title page, this i…

Poems

Dugald Sutherland MacColl · 1940 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Oxford , Basil Blackwell, 1940. First edition. Cloth. An excellent presentation copy of these poems from Scottish painter, critic and writer, Dugald Sutherland MacColl. Presentation copy, signed by the author to the front endpaper.First edition.In the original cloth binding. Wit…

Friends in Solitude

Percy Withers · 1923 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1923. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this scarce collection of prose from Percy Withers. A signed presentation copy of these writings from Percy Withers. With a personal letter from the author loosely inserted.In the publisher's …

From the Eastern Sea

Yone Noguchi · 1903 · Rooke Books

£2,850.00 (€3,416.13 | $3,765.02 | ¥601,227)

London , The Unicorn , 1903. First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce first edition with autograph inscriptions by Yone Noguchi, including a dated presentation to Elkin Mathews and a loosely inserted signed photographic portrait, an evocative early modernist poetry collecti…

Works by A. L Rowse

A.L. Rowse · 1946 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Macmillan & Co Ltd; Faber and Faber, 1946-1962. First edition. Cloth. A smart four volume set of first edition works by A.L. Rowse, with a signed presentation copy. A lovely four volume set of works by A.L. Rowse.In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the or…

No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting

Anne L. Macdonald · 1988 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

New York, Ballantine Books, 1988 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first printing of this historical account of knitting in America. The first edition, first printing of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, 'For Jenny.. Affec…

Apostate

Forrest Reid · 1926 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, Constable & Co, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first trade edition of award-winning Irish novelist Forrest Reid's tender autobiography, in which he writes of his youth in Ireland. The first trade edition, first impression of this scarce work.Flat signed by th…

Miriam

Truman Capote · 1981 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

Mankato, Minnesota, Creative Education, 1981 . First edition. Hardback. A signed example of the first separate edition of Truman Capote's chilling short story about two woman who share the same name, illustrated by Sandra Higashi. Flat signed by Truman Capote to the title p…

A Book of Mediterranean Food

Elizabeth David · 1968 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

1968, The Cookery Book Club, 1968 . Cloth. The Cookery Book Club edition of this collection of recipes inspired by France, Italy, and the Greek Islands, with illustrations and a dust wrapper designed by John Minton.  The Cookery Book Club edition in the publisher's origina…

Faked Passports

Dennis Wheatley · 1940 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.42 | $2,510.02 | ¥400,818)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1940 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce first edition Gregory Sallust thriller by Dennis Wheatley, in which the lead character is on the run after being shot down in Nazi Germany. The very scarce first edition, first i…

Through Lapland with Skis & Reindeer

Frank Hedges Butler · 1919 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1919 . Leather. A signed example of the third impression of Frank Hedges Butler's entertaining and informative account of his early 20th century travels across Lapland. The third impression of this work, which was first published two years earlier.I…

Posters by Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak · 1986 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

New York, Harmony Books, 1986. First edition. Paperback. A charming first edition, full of 'gallery-quality prints', in rich full colour. A lovely first edition, in original pictorial covers, with complete number line.Featuring a colour frontispiece, and 22 further col…

Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books; with an Analysis of the Work by Sir William Blackstone

William Blackstone; J.E. Hovenden · 1836 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

London, S. Sweet; A. Maxwell; Stevens & Sons, 1836. Leather. A complete set of Sir William Blackstone's descriptions of the doctrines of the English common law. The nineteenth editions. In half green calf, with marbled boards.With the last of the corrections of the author,…

Greece

Karl Baedeker · 1909 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker , 1909. Cloth. An excellent fourth edition of this classic guide to Greece from Karl Baedeker, illustrated with numerous maps and plans. Fourth revised edition.In the publisher's cloth binding. Illustrated with sixteen maps (two folding, including on…

Egypt: Handbook for Travellers. Part First: Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinal

Karl Baedeker · 1885 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Leipsic , Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1885. Cloth. The second edition of this popular Baedeker travel book to lower Egypt, complete with folding maps and plans. Second edition, revised and augmented. The present volume was issued as the second of a series of Handbooks for the Ea…

The Book of Common Prayer United Church of England and Ireland

N/A; N. Brady, D. D.; N. Tate · 1847 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1847. Leather. A handsome and vanishingly scarce Anglican book of Common Prayer, in full decorated morocco, with a charming clasp. A handsome edition of the book of Common Prayer for the United Church of England and Ireland.Bound in…