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The Gull"S Hornbook
T. Decker [Thomas Dekker] · 1812 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)
Bristol, For J. M. Gutch , 1812. Leather. A smartly bound reprint of Thomas Dekker"s celebrated satire of Jacobean London life, illustrated with engraved letters designed by Edward Bird and Ebenezer Byfield. In a modern quarter brown morocco binding with cloth boards, endpapers…
The Poetic Story of the Hero of the Ocean, or, Christopher Columbus from His Birth to Life&Apos;S Crowning Achievement - the Discovery of America
Rev. Horace Stillman · 1893 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)
New York, J. J. Little & Co. 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this illustrated poem on Christopher Columbus, signed by the author's sister. First edition. Very scarce. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Illustrated with a front…
The Savoy, an Illustrated Monthly: No. 3, July 1896; No. 4, August 1896
Various [ed. by Arthur Symons] · 1896 · Rooke Books
£460.00 (€551.37 | $607.69 | ¥97,040)
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896. Cloth. Two volumes in one of the influential short-lived illustrated monthly magazine of the Decadent movement, with the original paper wraps by Aubrey Beardsley bound inside. The first editions of Nos. 3 and 4 of The Savoy, the short-lived illust…
Red Lacquer Days; an Illustrated Journal Describing a Recent Visit to Peking
Hugh Casson · 1956 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)
London, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A charming copy of this limited edition illustrated journal of a trip to Peking, one of only 200 copies printed at the Lion and Unicorn Press. The limited edition of this work. Copy No. 3 of only 200, printed at the Li…
The Dead Kingdom Part II: This Neutral Realm
John Montague · 1984 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)
North Tonawanda; New York, Bolt Court Press, 1984. First edition. Paperback. A very smart copy of this first and limited edition collection of poetry, signed by the author. A first and limited edition copy of this collection of work from Irish poet John Montague. Illustrated th…
Repetitious
Peter Reading · 1999 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)
Not Stated, Laertides Press, 1999. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, individually bound poem; number 40 of a limited edition, signed to the rear cover. A very scarce work, in the publisher's original pictorial boards. In the limited edition - one of 250 copies, this …
For David Gascoyne&Apos;S Eightieth Birthday
Jeremy Reed · 1996 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)
Not Stated, Privately Printed, 1996. First edition. Paperback. An excellent condition copy of the limited edition run in honour of David Gascoyne, signed by Jeremy Reed. A first and limited edition booklet, in excellent condition. One of 80 copies signed by the author, with sign…
The Ox-Bow&Apos;S Heath
Adam Thorpe · 1999 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)
Not Stated, Ulysses, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and uncommon copy of the limited edition, scarce in this beautiful marbled binding. Bound in striking marbled blue cloth. One of a limited edition run, limited to 100 signed and handsewn in wrappers. This copy is one …
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Gustave Flaubert, [trans. and int. by Lafcadio Hearn] · 1910 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)
New York, The Alice Harriman Company, 1910. Cloth. A translated edition of Fluabert's classic work on the famous biblical tale, signed by Alice Harriman, known to be the world's first female publisher. A translated American edition of The Temptation of St. Anthony, the…
Elegy for Kathleen Raine
Jeremy Reed · 2003 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Privately Printed, 2003 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce signed first edition copy of this poem by Jeremy Reed, dedicated to the English poet Kathleen Raine. The scarce first edition. Signed by the author. In a paperback binding. A poem by Jeremy Reed, a Jersey-bor…
Poems 1948-1954
C. Wrey Gardiner · 1955 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)
Tunbridge Wells, Peter Russell, 1955 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce signed presentation copy of the limited first edition of this collection of poems by noted literary figure Wrey Gardiner. The first edition, limited to 350 copies. A signed presentation copy, inscribed by the…
Breakfast at Tiffany&Apos;S
Truman Capote · 1958 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional example of the first UK edition of Truman Capote's celebrated novella about a young writer's encounters with his remarkable neighbour, Holly Golightly. The first UK edition of this work, first impress…
To Verhaeren and Other Poems
William Kean Seymour · 1917 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)
London, John G. Wilson, 1917 . First edition. Paperback. The very scarce limited first edition of William Kean Seymour's second poetry collection, a special signed copy. First edition. Very scarce. One of a limited run of three hundred copies. Signed by the author to the ha…
Practical Agriculture; or, a Complete System of Modern Husbandry: With the Methods of Planting, and the Management of Live Stock.
R. W. Dickson · 1805 · Rooke Books
£740.00 (€886.99 | $977.59 | ¥156,108)
London, Richard Phillips, 1805. First edition. Leather. A fascinating first edition of this beautifully illustrated farming manual by Lancashire physician and agriculturalist Richard Watson Dickson. The first edition of this two volume work. Two volumes bound in a half calf, si…
Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte
Various · 1895 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)
Bielefeld; Leipzig, Velhagen & Klasings, 1895-1897 . Leather. A three volume set including nine issues of Velhagen & Klasings popular periodical, illustrated profusely throughout, in signed bindings. A three volume set. In half brown calf bindings. Signed bindings by Kerr & Rich…
The Cure at Troy
Seamus Heaney · 1990 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)
London, Faber and Faber, 1990 . First edition. Paperback. An exceptional signed first trade edition of Seamus Heaney's verse adaptation of Sophocles' play Philoctetes, set in the final days of the Trojan war. The first trade edition of this work, first impression. Flat…
Espedair Street
Iain Banks · 1987 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)
London, Macmillan, 1987 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Iain Banks's novel about the life of a successful bass guitarist, widely considered to be one of his most accessible novels. In the vibrant original dust wrapper. Flat signed by Banks to the title pag…
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Siegfried Sassoon · 1931 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)
London, Faber and Faber, 1931 . First edition. Hardback. The first illustrated edition of this fictionalised autobiographical novel from war poet Siegfried Sassoon, illustrated throughout with the colour plates of Barnett Freedman and in the original dust wrapper. The first illu…
Snaily House
Gillian Stone · 1975 · Rooke Books
£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.48 | ¥8,860)
London, The Cock Robin Press, 1975 . First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of Gillian Stone's limited edition poetry collection, with this being one of only fifteen scarce specially bound copies. A scarce first edition. Number XIV of fifteen copies specially bound by C…
Notices and Extracts Relating to the Lion&Apos;S Head
Charles Richardson · 1828 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)
London, Saunders and Otley, 1828 . First edition. Leather. A signed presentation copy of the very scarce first edition of Charles Richardson's history of the Lion's Head letter box at Button's Coffee House. A very scarce first edition. With a signed presentation c…