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British Ports and Harbours; the Port of London
Leo Walmsley; John Herbert · 1946 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Collins, 1946-47. First edition. Hardback. History of British ports and of the port of London from the 'Britain in Pictures' series by Collins, second and first impressions. From the 'Britain in Pictures: The British People in Pictures' series, illust…
A Shropshire Lad
A.E. Housman [Alfred Edward Housman] · 1898 · Rooke Books
£385.00 (€461.48 | $508.64 | ¥81,223)
London, Grant Richards, 1898. Cloth. The second edition of Housman's famous poetic cycle, the first to be a hit, and would later gain great popularity among young audiences during World War I. The sought after second edition of A Shropshire Lad, a poetic cycle, written by E…
Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope · 1862 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1862. First edition. Leather. A smart copy of the uncommon to see first U.S. edition of Anthony Trollope's personal favourite of his novels, complete with the original illustrations by Millais. The first U.S. edition, published in the same year …
Kai Lung&Apos;S Golden Hours
Ernest Bramah · 1922 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Grant Richards Ltd. 1922. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work from the popular 'Kai Lung' series by Ernest Bramah, inscribed by Naomi Royde-Smith. The first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Inscribed to the …
The Broken Root
Arturo Barea · 1951 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Faber & Faber, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A smart, first edition copy of this work on the political climate of Spain after the Franco regime, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Written by Spanish journalist and Republican sympathiser Arturo Barea. He lived and work…
Kai Lung&Apos;S Golden Hours
Ernest Bramah · 1924 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Grant Richards Ltd. 1924. Cloth. A signed, limited edition copy of this popular work from the 'Kai Lung' series about ancient China. An early edition, limited to 250 copies of which this is number 20. Signed by the author to the limitations page. In the publish…
Biographies, Reference, and Novels
Various · 1972 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, Various, 1972-2006. First edition. Cloth. A bright group of seven volumes of biographies, novels, and works of reference in the original dust wrappers. Comprised of the following:Michael Ffinch's biography 'G K Chesterton,' the first edition in its unclipp…
Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope · 1866 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1866. First edition. Cloth. The first remainder edition of this realist novel by Anthony Trollope, with illustrations by John Everett Millais. A first edition, later issue, made up in 1866 from remaindered sheets of the first 1862 edition with a new tit…
Utopian Fantasy: A Study of English Utopian Fiction Since the End of the Nineteenth Century (Routledge Library Editions: Utopias)
GERBER, RICHARD · 1955 · Pegasus Books
$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)
London: Routledge, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 7.9 X 5.3 X 0.6 inches; xii, 162 pages; First edition from 1955. Hard cover is green cloth with faded gold lettering on spine. No DJ. Former library book, with typical markings. Boards have markings, sunning, fading,…
Passage Parijs. In het spoor van de schrijvers
Dirk Leyman · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS
€39.50 ($43.54 | £32.95 | ¥6,952)
, Pelckmans, 2025 hardcover, 720 pag. afbeeldingen, 24x17cm. ISBN 9789463103978. Passage Parijs doet het hart van elke Parijsminnaar sneller slaan. In dertig uitbundige verhalen vangt Dirk Leyman de atmosfeer van een eeuwig verlokkelijke Lichtstad. ?Ik hoef maar met mijn hak op…
Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930-1945. Reading between the frames
Lara Feigel 310418 · 2010 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV
€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)
Edinburgh University Press, 2010, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 292, This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature. Dismayed by the ris…
Reporting the Second World War: The Battle for Truth
Brian Best · 2015 · Winkles Books
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Military Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall After a slow start, the Second World War produced an enormous number of war correspondents. Correspondents like Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and George Orwell were all inspired to put their exp…
The Near and the Far (containing The Root and The Flower and The Pool of Vishnu)
Myers, L. H. · 1956 · Bookbarrow
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
The Reprint Society, London, 1956. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Yellow Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Myers was born in Leckhampton House, Cambridge into a cultured family; his father was the writer Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901) and his mother the phot…
Hell and good company : the Spanish Civil War and the world it made.
Rhodes, Richard. · 2015 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xviii, 302 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Pic…
The Works of G.J. Whyte-Melville
G. J. Whyte-Melville; Sir Herbert Maxwell [editor] · 1898 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
London, W. Thacker & Co. 1898-1902. Cloth. Nine smart volumes of the twenty-four-volume limited edition set of the works of Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. Nine volumes of a twenty-four volume set. Limited to one thousand and fifty copies, printed by Morrison and Gibb L…
Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope · 1862 · Rooke Books
£725.00 (€869.03 | $957.83 | ¥152,952)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1862 . First edition. Cloth. The two volume first edition in book form, Sadleir's fourth issue, of Anthony Trollope's favourite novel amongst his own works. The fourth issues of the first edition in book form of this Anthony Trollope novel. Or…
Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope · 1862 · Rooke Books
£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1862 . First edition. Leather. The two volume first edition, first issue of this novel from Anthony Trollope. Bound from the original parts, and with the very scarce publisher's original wraps bound in. The first edition, first issue of this Anthon…
CHARACTERISTICS: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims With Introductory Remarks by the Editor of the "Monthly Repository."
Hazlitt, William [1778 - 1830]. Horne, Richard Henry [or Hengist. 1803 - 1884] - Editor · 1837 · Tavistock Books, ABAA
$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.89 | ¥26,348)
London: J. Templeman, 248 Regent Street .. J. Miller, 404 Oxford Street, 1837. Second Edition, a reissue of the 1st edition sheets with Horne's new introduction. Cf. NCBEL III, 1232. Original publisher's diamond weave green cloth binding with paper title label to spine. 152 pp. …
Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope · 1862 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Leather. The two volume first edition in book form, Sadleir's fourth and second issue, of Anthony Trollope's favourite novel amongst his own works. Two smart early issues of the first edition in book form of this Anthony T…
Mainly on the Air
Max Beerbohm · 1946 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, William Heinemann LTD, 1946. Cloth. A series of essays and radio broadcasts by Max Beerbohm, a review copy, given by T. R. Fyvel to Roy Fuller An early issue, in the very scarce green dust wrapper, with the publisher's name slightly blurred to the tail of the spine.…