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Fine Modern Library Collection of First Edition Novels, Signed by the Authors

Various · 2018 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson; Mantle; Little Brown; Michael Joseph; Oneworld; Orion, 2018-2022. First edition. Cloth. A superb set of six first UK edition novels, perfect for a modern library collection, all of which have been signed by their authors. Six volumes. First edit…

Some Luck, Early Warning, & Golden Age

Jane Smiley · 2014 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Mantle, 2014-2015. First edition. Cloth. A very smart three volume set of novels from American writer Jane Smiley, signed by the author. Three volumes. First UK edition, first impression. Each volume is signed by the author to the title page. The Last Hundred Years trilo…

The Madison Avenue Cook Book

Alan Koehler · 1962 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comical volume of recipes for those who cannot cook by Alan Koehler, signed by the author to John Metcalf. The first edition.Signed by the author to the half-title, "Pains across the sea …

Speaking Again, Poems for International Women&Apos;S Day

Martina Evans; Michele Roberts; Denise Saul; Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch · 2019 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Wales, Rack Press, 2019. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce anthology of poems published to celebrate International Women's Day, from the library of Carmen Callil, signed to her by one of the contributors. A very scarce anthology of poems, the first edition.This anthol…

Memories

Max Reinhardt · 1998 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Guildford, Biddles Limited, 1998. First edition. Cloth. The scarce autobiography of Max Reinhardt, limited to only three hundred copies, this is a lovely association copy from the library of fellow publisher Carmen Callil. The limited first edition, limited to three hundred unnu…

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov · 1961 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Paris, The Olympia Press, 1961. Paperback. An early edition of Nabokov's controversial novel, this copy being from the library of the founder of the Virago Press, Carmen Callil. A lovely literary association copy, from the library of Carmen Callil, signed by her to the rect…

The Myths: A Short History of Myth, the Penelopiad, Weight

Karen Armstrong; Margaret Atwood; Jeanette Winterson; Philip Pullman · 2005 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.35 | $634.11 | ¥101,259)

London, Canongate, 2005 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful, signed, Limited Edition set of three retellings of classical myth by Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and Karen Armstrong. With an original essay on myths by Philip Pullman. No. 1189 of 1500 signed, limited edition …

All Involved

Ryan Gattis · 2015 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Picador, 2015 . First edition. Cloth. A fine example of this signed limited edition of the first UK edition of Mark Gattis's novel, set against the backdrop of the 1992 LA riots. Flat signed by Gattis to the title page, this is no. 373 of 500 signed copies, produced…

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry; the Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy; Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

Rachel Joyce · 2012 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.08 | ¥55,904)

London, Doubleday, 2012-2022 . First edition. Hardback. A wonderful collection of three fine limited edition works by Rachel Joyce, all signed by the author, and including her beloved best-seller 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry&apos. Each of the three volumes present…

The Grey City of the North; the City of the West; R.L. Stevenson Memories

R.L. Stevenson; Jessie M. King · 1910 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1910-1912 . First edition. Cloth. Three delightful first edition works, each in the original wrappers designed by celebrated artist Jessie M. King. Including two of King's own works on the cities of Scotland, and an illustrated biography of Scottish…

The Vitopan Book of Instruction and Recipes

Unknown Author · 0 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Kent, Vitopan Limited, c1950. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce mid‑century Vitopan Ltd publication, this culinary ephemera pairs expert guidance on cookware usage and maintenance with a variety of recipes. In the publisher's original green paper wraps. Th…

England&Apos;S Helicon. A Collection of Pastoral and Lyric Poems, First Published at the Close of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth

S. E. Dyer; Robert Green, William Shakespeare · 1812 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

London, T. Bensley, 1812. Leather. The third edition of this very scarce anthology of old English poems, being a facsimile of the original seventeenth century first edition, signed by J. M. Barrie, the author of the beloved Peter Pan stories, and bound in full diced calf. The th…

The Captain from Connecticut

C. S. Forester · 1941 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Michael Joseph Ltd, 1941. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of C. S. Forester's nautical novel depicting the War of 1812, with an American captain protagonist. First edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This novel, which is the a…

Wellington&Apos;S Battlefields Illustrated. Bussaco.

G. L. Chambers · 1910 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co; George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of George L. Chamber's scarce study of the 1810 Battle of Bussaco, complete with folding maps. The first edition of this scarce work.Signed by the author to the recto of …

Hudson River Bracketed

Edith Wharton · 1929 · Rooke Books

£2,400.00 (€2,876.74 | $3,170.55 | ¥506,296)

London; New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant novel by Edith Wharton, signed by Wharton to Blair Fairchild. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, "For Blair, with love + Christm…

Pick of the Bunch

Harry Waugh · 1970 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Wine & Spirit Publications Ltd, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition presentation copy of Harry Waugh's sequel to his popular work on wine 'The Changing Face of Wine', inscribed by the author and in the original dust wrapper. The first editio…

Basil Seal Rides Again or the Rake&Apos;S Regress

Evelyn Waugh · 1963 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1963. Cloth. A smart limited edition of this short story from Evelyn Waugh, signed by the author. Limited to seven hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number four hundred and fifty-three. Signed by the author to the limitation page. With a colour f…

Belling the Cat & Androcles and the Lion

Aesop; Tom Paxton · 1990 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

New York, Marrow Junior Books, 1990-1991. First edition. Hardback. Two very smart first edition volumes of these illustrated and retold fables attributed to Aesop, with one volume signed by the author. Two volumes. First editions retold in verse by Tom Paxton. Androcles and the …

Friendship Album of the Howells&Apos; Japan Exhibition in Cardiff

Kathleen Olwen 'Joyce' Howell; Various · 1915 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

None, None, 1915. Leather. A very scarce scrapbook album commemorating Howells' Japan Exhibition in Cardiff, with watercolour paintings. A unique and very scarce friendship album, compiled by a twelve year old girl upon the Japan Exhibition in Cardiff.The scrapbook contains…

Handbook of Meteorology

F. A. Berry; E. Bollay; Norman R. Beers · 1945 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.40 | ¥79,109)

New York; London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1945. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first edition copy of this detailed treatise on meteorology, specially bound for the author, F. A. Berry. The first edition.A finely bound copy, detailed to the front paste down "this s…