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Red-Haired Android; This Is How You Disappear
Jeremy Reed · 1992 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)
San Francisco; London, City Lights; Enitharmon Press, 1992-2007. First edition. Paperback. Two signed anthologies from an award-wining poet admired by Bjork and Seamus Heaney, once considered British poetry's answer to David Bowie. The first editions of Red-Haired Android a…
Memoirs in Oxford
F.T. Prince [Frank Templeton Prince] · 1970 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)
London, Fulcrum Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The signed limited edition of a beautiful poem inspired by joyous memories spent at Oxford, written and signed by a British poet admired by T.S. Eliot. The limited edition of Memoirs in Oxford, an auto-biographical poem, written…
The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second
Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1871 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)
London, Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1871 . Leather. A smart complete two volume set of Lord Macaulay's praised historical account of England, in signed bindings by Riviere. Complete in two volumes. The new edition. In full brown calf bindings with marbled fore edge…
Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
Monsieur Pascal; Basil Kennet [trans.] · 1898 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)
London and New York, George Routledge and Sons, [1898]. Leather. A smart English translation of Pascal's Pensées, containing fragments written in defense of the Christian religion. The 'Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books' edition. In a half red morocco bind…
Subsong
James Reeves · 1969 · Rooke Books
£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)
London, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1969 . First edition. Cloth. A smart scarce signed limited edition copy of this poetry collection by British adult and children's writer James Reeves. The first limited editon, with this being one of only twenty-six copies specially …
Songs
Isel Rivero · 1970 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)
Vienna, Agens-Werk; Geyer & Co. 1970 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce signed limited edition copy of Cuban-born poet Isel Rivero's first work to be published in English, with illustrations. A scarce limited edition copy, with this being one of five hundred. A presenta…
Two About Music
William Stafford · 1978 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)
Knotting, Bedfordshire, The Sceptre Press, 1978 . First edition. Paperback. A smart scarce signed limited edition copy of this book of two poems by American poet and pacifist William Stafford. A limited edition copy, with this being no.8 of 50 signed by the poet, in a 150 number…
Shapes and Sounds
Mervyn Peake [pref. Maeve Gilmore] · 1974 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)
London, Village Press, 1974. Paperback. A posthumous edition of Mervyn Peake's poetical anthology written while writing the first drafts of his Gormenghast series, signed with a new preface by his wife Maeve Gilmore A posthumous edition of Shapes and Sounds, the wartime ant…
2 Vols Around Theatres
Max Beerbohm · 1930 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 . Leather. The first American edition of Beerbohm"s collected theatre criticism, complete in two volumes and handsomely bound in half morocco by T. Lloyd. Uniformly bound in a handsome half morocco binding with marbled paper boards by T. Lloyd. …
All&Apos;S Fair: Love, War, and Running for President
James Carville; Mary Matalin · 1994 · Rooke Books
£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)
[Connecticut], [Easton Press], [1994]. First edition. Leather. A smart signed first edition copy of this political memoir by husband and wife detailing the 1992 Presidential election campaign, new in a shrink-wrap. The first edition, signed by the authors. In the publisher&apo…
Exequiae Desideratissimo Principi Gulielmo Glocestriae Duci Ab Oxoniensi Academia Solutae
Anonymous · 1700 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)
Oxonii [Oxford], Theatro Sheldoniano, 1700 . First edition. Paperback. The striking and vanishingly scarce first edition of this collection of poems produced by the University of Oxford to commemorate the life of the young William, Duke of Gloucester, who died shortly after his …
The Old English War-Horse, or, the Great Horse As It Appears, at Intervals, in Contemporary Coins and Pictures During the Centuries of Its Development Into the Shire-Horse
Walter Gilbey · 1888 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)
London, Vinton & Co. Limited, 1888. First edition. Leather. A signed presentation copy of this commercially scarce, first-edition, equestrian history, charmingly illustrated and bound in the original full calf. First edition. Commercially scarce. In the publisher's original…
Une Passade
Willy [Henry Gauthier-Villars] · 1895 · Rooke Books
£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.27 | ¥92,821)
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, [1895]. First edition. Hardback. A scarce first edition, and a very scarce example of a presentation copy, signed by the author to the title page. A scarce work. A first edition. Undated, dated from the author's ink inscription, and from a copy hel…
Music & Silence
Rose Tremain · 1999 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A Whitbread Prize winning novel following an English lutenist's struggle with passion in the Danish royal court, written and signed by Rose Tremain. The first edition of Music and Silence, a charming novel set in the seve…
The Letters of J.E. Flecker to F. Savery
James Elroy Flecker · 1926 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)
London, The Beaumont Press, 1926 . First edition. Vellum. A smart scarce signed limited edition copy of the letters of British writer J.E. Flecker, bound in quarter vellum. A limited edition, being a scarce copy of one of eighty printed on parchment vellum and signed by the edit…
A Stevenson Medley
Robert Louis Stevenson; Sidney Colvin [ed.] · 1899 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)
London, Chatto and Windus, 1899 . First edition. Leather. A signed limited edition collection of facsimiles of author Robert Louis Stevenson's more obscure publications, letters and juvenilia. The first edition of this limited edition work, of which only three hundred copie…
Etudes Sur Les Glaciers
L. Agassiz [Louis Agassiz] · 1840 · Rooke Books
£1,400.00 (€1,678.10 | $1,849.49 | ¥295,340)
Neuchatel, Jent et Gassmann, 1840 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of the text volume only of Louis Agassiz's pioneering work on glaciers and the Ice Age, which proved for the first time that glaciers move. In the original French. The text volume only of t…
(1941) British Birds on Lake, River and Stream; (1943) Fishes of Britain&Apos;S Rivers and Lakes; (1943) the Poet&Apos;S Corner; (1944) English Ballet; (1944) Children As Artists; (1945) the Leaves of Southwell; (1945) the Bayeux Tapestry; (1945) Poisonous Fungi; (1946) Flowers of Marsh and Stream; (1947) Russian Icons; (1947) English Book Illustration: 1800-1900; (1947) a Selection of Engravings on Wood by Thomas Bewick; (1948) British Military Uniforms; (1948) Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer; (1948
Phyllis Barclay-Smith; J. R. Norman; Sir Max Beerbohm; Janet Leeper; R. R. Tomlinson; Nikolaus Pevsner; Eric Maclagan; John Ramsbottom; Iolo A. Williams; David Talbot Rice; Philip James; John Rayner; James Laver; T. D. Barlow; C. H. Gibbs-Smith · 1941 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)
London and New York, Penguin Books Limited, 1941-1957. Hardback. An attractive and highly illustrated collection of King Penguin Books, sixteen of which are first editions and five of which retain their original dust wrappers. A delightful collection of twenty-one "King Penguin"…
Elegy for Alan Clodd
Jeremy Reed · 2003 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)
London, Enitharmon Press, 2003. First edition. Paperback. A very smart first and limited edition copy of this uncommon poetry title, signed to the limitation page. A very smart first edition of this uncommon poetry title in honour of Irish publisher and collector Alan Clodd, who…
The High Tower
Frances Horovitz · 1970 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)
London, New Departures 6 , 1970. First edition. Paperback. A very smart first edition book of poems with original dust wrapper cover, and a hand-written poem, doubly signed. A very smart first edition. Signed by the author to title page. Additionally signed to front blank, benea…