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2 Vols a Pocketful of Crows; the Blue Salt Road

Joanne M. Harris · 2017 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Gollancz, 2017-2018. First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed, first edition, two-volume set of Joanne Harris"s illustrated folk-inspired novellas, with illustrations throughout. In the publisher"s original cloth bindings with whimsical gilt embellishments.These volumes are…

Beeton&Apos;S Christmas Annual

Various · 1872 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, Weldon & Co; S. O. Beeton; Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1872-76. Leather. Four seasons of the Beeton 'Christmas Annual' profusely illustrated annuals collecting together entertaining tales and poems. Four seasons of 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' bound in…

A Practical Treatise on Painting in Three Parts

John Burnet · 1828 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London, James Carpenter and Son, 1828. Leather. A finely bound copy of John Burnet's exploration of painting, three illustrated treatises. Smartly bound in a morocco binding, with renewed endpapers, in a custom cloth chemise and custom cloth slipcase, an unsigned binding by…

Twenty-Five Aesop&Apos;S Fables Eight Volumes Bound As One

Aesop; Shogo Hirata [Contributor] · 1991 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Unknown, Joie, Inc. 1991. First edition. Cloth. Eight vibrantly illustrated volumes of Aesop"s Fables, skillfully rebound into a single volume. Rebound in brown cloth with charming gilt star decoration.This edition comprises eight volumes, each containing a selection of fables b…

Aesop&Apos;S Fables with Instructive Morals and Reflections

Aesop; Mr. Richardson · 1775 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

London, J. F. and C. Rivington; et al, [1775]. Leather. Aesop's enduring fables, an illustrated edition with ten scenes to each plate, including a life of Aesop. In a custom cloth clamshell, bound by Eric Sweet in 1998, clamshell is in a near fine condition.The important fa…

Fables of Aesop and Others

Aesop; Samuel Croxall · 1737 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, J. and R. Tonson; J. Watts, 1737. Leather. A finely bound edition of Aesop's fables, the fourth edition of the important Croxall translation, complete with illustrations. Smartly bound in a modern quarter morocco binding with patterned paper to the boards, in a cust…

The Thames and Its Tributaries

Charles Mackay · 1840 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition. Leather. Charles MacKay's very scarce study of the River Thames, the first edition of this illustrated history. The first edition.A very scarce work.Complete in two volumes.A sweeping history of the River Thames, tracing the riv…

The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq.

John Dryden · 1760 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, J. and R. Tonson, 1760 . First edition. Leather. The scarce four volume first comprehensive collected edition of the poetry, translations and literary writings of England's first Poet Laureate, John Dryden. A first edition, complete in four volumes.This was the firs…

The Complete Works of Doctor Francois Rabelais: Abstractor of the Quintessence Being an Account of the Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua, and of the Heroic Deeds, Sayings and Marvellous Voyages of His Son the Good Pantagruel

Francois Rabelais · 1927 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.60 | $455.87 | ¥72,805)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1927. Cloth. A limited edition set containing the complete works of French writer, Francois Rabelais, strikingly illustrated by Frank C. Pape. This edition, illustrated by Frank C. Pape and complete in two volumes, limited to 4,300 numbered se…

History of England, and, Short Studies on Great Subjects

James Anthony Froude · 1902 · Rooke Books

£1,750.00 (€2,097.96 | $2,312.38 | ¥369,302)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1902-08. Leather. A uniformly bound set of works by James Anthony Froude, including his important history of England. Complete in sixteen volumes, being twelve volumes of 'History of England', and four volumes of 'Short Studies on G…

A History of the Sind Cricket Tournament and Karachi Cricket in General

C. B. Rubie; B. D. Shanker · 1928 · Rooke Books

£6,500.00 (€7,792.41 | $8,588.85 | ¥1,371,692)

Karachi , Edwin Forster & Co. [1928]. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce, first edition of this illustrated exploration of Karachi cricket and the Sind cricket tournament, written by English and Indian cricketers, C. B. Rubie and B. D. Shanker. First edition. Dated using…

The Emigrant

Frederick Howard · 1928 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce novel surrounding emigrant life in Australia, based on the experiences of the author, Frederick Howard, presented here in the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, f…

A Pair of Blue Eyes; Under the Greenwood Tree; the Woodlanders; Tess of the D&Apos;Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy · 1920 · Rooke Books

£640.00 (€767.25 | $845.67 | ¥135,059)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1920-1930. Leather. A pleasing set of four of Thomas Hardy's 'Wessex' novels, uniformly bound in very smart decorative calf. Later impressions of the publisher's Wessex Edition, first published in 1912. Uniformly bound in …

The Life of Goethe

George Henry Lewes · 1864 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, George Routledge & Sons Limited, No date [1864]. Cloth. This scarce second edition of The Life of Goethe, an erudite biography by George Henry Lewes who is now best known as the partner of the celebrated author George Eliot. The second edition of the work; undated, but p…

Gad&Apos;S Hill Place and Charles Dickens

Edwin Harris · 1910 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Roschester, Edwin Harris & Sons, 1910 . First edition. Leather. The scare first edition of Edwin Harris' wonderful study of Dickens' association with Gad's Hill Place, with a signed letter from the author to the founder of the American Dickens' Fellowship. Th…

Pick-Me-Up

Various · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, [Wertheimer, Lea & Co.], 1892-94. Cloth. Eleven issues of this uncommon Victorian magazines bound in one. Eleven issues of the 'Pick-Me-Up' magazine bound in one, an uncommon work.'Pick-Me-Up' was a weekly penny paper published from 1888 to 1909. The …

A Collection of Science Fiction Novels from Pan Books

Robert Heinlein; Poul Anderson; Clifford Simak; Mark Clifton; Frederik Pohl; Angela Carter; John Burke · 1963 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Pan Books Ltd. 1963-1970 . Paperback. A collection of science fiction novels from Pan Books Ltd. Nine volumes. A collection of exciting science fiction novels and novellas. This set contains: The Man Who Sold the Moon, 1963. Written by Robert Anson Heinlein, an American …

Blast

Wyndham Lewis · 1914 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1914. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of the first issue of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist literary magazine, an example of the modernist movement before World War One. The first installment of 'Blast Magazine', the first e…

The Virginians

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59. First edition. Leather. A smart first issue copy of one of the popular novels of William Makepeace Thackeray, complete with his original illustrations. The first edition, first impression of this work. Issue points as follows; 'actresses&a…

The History of the Book War: Fair Book Prices Versus Publishers&Apos; Trust Prices

The Times · 1907 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, The Times, 1907. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce essay concerning the dispute of British publishers with The Times Book Club, from the library of William Foyle, the co-founder of Foyles bookshop. A very scarce work in the publisher's original paper wraps. Th…