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My Story
Arthur Lambton · 1925 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)
London, Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. 1925. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of his very scarce autobiography, inscribed and with a tipped-in signed letter. Presentation copy, signed by the author to the front free endpaper, "To my friends". With an additiona…
No Room for Secrets
Joanna Lumley · 2004 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, Michael Joseph, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first, signed edition of this insightful autobiography, with original dust wrapper, and numerous illustrations. A signed first edition autobiography, in excellent condition.This title uses the concept of a tour through…
ãâGypten Und Levante IV; Haus Und Palast IM Alten ãâGypten
Manfred Bietak · 1994 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)
Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 1994-1996. Paperback. Two fascinating volumes by the prominent Austrian Egyptologist Manfred Bietak, including his signed fourth volume on his leading journal Ãgypten Und Levante. Two scarce and fascinating journals on ancient Egypt, …
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939 - 1945 Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
Max Hastings · 2011 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)
London, Harper Press, 2011-2013. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition Max Hastings works in the publisher's original cloth, signed by the author to the title pages with black and white photographic illustrations throughout. In the publisher's original cloth. With …
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)
London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. A first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens' 'Little Dorrit', a critical novel on the state of Victorian society, government and institutions. First edition, first issue with the points as called for in…
(1921) Mary Stuart - First U.S. Edition, Signed; (1921) Oliver Cromwell - First U.S. Edition; (1923) Robert E. Lee - First U.S. Edition, Signed; (1925) Robert Burns - First U.S. Edition.
John Drinkwater · 1921 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921-1925. First edition. Cloth. Smart first-edition collection of the historical plays of John Drinkwater, including two signed copies. Smart quarter-cloth collection of four first U.S. editions of Drinkwater's historical play…
The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst · 2017 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)
London, Picador, 2017. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first impression of Hollinghurst's respected inter-generational novel, in lovely condition. An incredibly smart first edition, first impression of the 'Foyles Exclusive Edition', with complete nu…
Literary Biographies of Classic Modern Authors
Robin Maugham; Matthew J. Bruccoli; Anthony Burgess; Veronica Maclean; Alexander Waugh; Selina Hastings; Stefan Buczacki; Artemis Cooper; Barbara Cooke; Cristen Jaynes Hemingway; William Palmer · 1978 · Rooke Books
£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.69 | ¥56,958)
Various, Various, 1978-2021. First edition. Cloth. Eleven first editions of smart literary biographies of classic modern authors including D.H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway, including two signed works. Eleven first editions of literary biographies from classic authors of the tw…
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Edmund de Waal · 2010 · Rooke Books
£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.08 | ¥55,904)
London, Chatto & Windus, 2010 . First edition. Hardback. A very smart signed first edition, first impression copy of this family memoir by artist Edmund de Waal. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In publisher's original hardback bind…
The Fields of Death
Simon Scarrow · 2010 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)
London, Headline, 2010 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart signed and numbered collector's edition of the final novel in Scarrow's Wellington and Napoleon Quartet, with a signed notebook, signed post card, signed typescript page, and a book mark. The collector's …
Louis de Bernieres: The War of Don Emmanuel&Apos;S Nether Parts & Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Louis de Bernieres · 1990 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)
London; New York, Secker & Warburg; William Morrow and Company, 1990-1991. First edition. Cloth. A very smart set of first editions of the first two novels in Louis de Bernieres Latin American trilogy, with a signed copy. A two volume set, one of which is signed by the author to…
Shadow of the Moon
M. M. Kaye · 1957 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)
London, Longmans, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition of M. M. Kaye's first historical novel, a romance set during the Sepoy mutiny. Kaye is best known for her epic about the British Raj, 'The Far Pavilions&apos. The first edition, first impression o…
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare · 1929 · Rooke Books
£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.45 | ¥49,575)
London, Bickers & Son, Ltd, 1929. Leather. A beautiful tree calf volume of Shakespeare's complete works, published and bound by Bickers. William Shakespeare's complete works. With biographical introduction and glossary. In full signed tree calf prize binding by Bicker…
National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Original Music
J. W. Elliott · 1884 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Novello, Ewer and Co. c1869. Cloth. A charming nineteenth-century, illustrated music book of popular nursery rhymes. A pleasing early edition of children's nursery rhymes, in the original publisher's cloth binding, set to music by J. W. Elliott with vignette il…
The Complete Wild Body
Wyndham Lewis; Bernard Lafourcade [ed.] · 1982 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)
Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1982 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of this illustrated series of short stories by writer and painter Wyndham Lewis. A signed limited edition copy.Numbered 215 out of 276 deluxe hardcover copies that have been numbered a…
Seldon Society Fleta, the Reports of Sir John Spelman, Reports of Cases by John Caryll, Earliest English Law Reports, Dyer&Apos;S Reports, Hale and Fleetwood on Admiralty Jurisdiction, Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court, Year Book, Select Cases of Trespass, Centenary Guide, Port&Apos;S Notebook& the Eyre of Northamptonshire.
H. G. Richardson et al. · 1972 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)
London, Seldon Society, 1972-98. Cloth. A fascinating collection of Seldon Society publications, in sixteen volumes. the volumes over a wide diverse range of legal reports, ranging from thirteenth century law reports to personal notes on cases by some of the most esteemed men in…
A Stevenson Library Catalogue of a Collection of Writings by and About Robert Louis Stevenson
Edwin J. Beinecke and George L. Mckay · 1951 · Rooke Books
£675.00 (€809.08 | $891.72 | ¥142,396)
London, Yale University , 1951-1958. Cloth. A complete set of this catalogue of the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated with forty-six plates and facsimiles, many of which are tipped-in (collated complete). Containing: Volume I: Printed Books, Pamphlets, Broadsides, …
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose.
Rev. William Lisle Bowles, A.M. (ed) · 1806 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)
London, J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin et al, 1806. Leather. A scarce eight volume, leather bound set of The Works of Alexander Pope edited by William Lisle Bowles. This is the first edition of The Works of Alexander Pope that was edited by William Lisle Bowles. Eigh…
Room at the Top
John Braine · 1957 · Rooke Books
£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.01 | ¥200,409)
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this popular novel from author John Braine. Including a loosely-inserted card signed, 'With best wishes, Cheltenham 1958 - John Braine&apos. 'Room at the Top' is a novel by John Braine a…
A Look Round the Estate, Poems 1957 - 1967
Kingsley Amis · 1967 · Rooke Books
£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Kingsley Amis' poetical anthology 'A Look Round the Estate&apos. Featuring the original illustrated dustwrapper designed by Leigh Taylor. Kingsley Amis was a prolific author who is best known for his…