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The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author in Six Volumes; the Comedies and Tragedies of George Chapman Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author in Three Volumes; the Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen Comedies Now First Collected in Three Volumes; the Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author in Two Volumes; the Plays and

Thomas Heywood; George Chapman; Richard Brome; Henry Glapthorne; Cyril Tourneur; John Churton Collins [ed.] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£990.00 (€1,186.65 | $1,307.85 | ¥208,847)

London, John Pearson; Chatto and Windus, 1873-1878. Leather. A fantastic sixteen volume set of literary collections from five sixteenth and seventeenth century writers, in a Riviere calf binding. Sixteen volumes. In full green calf bindings, with marbled fore edges and endpapers…

The Book of Knowledge: A Pictured Encyclopaedia for Readers of All Ages

Harold F.B. Wheeler [ed.] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, The Waverley Book Company, c1930. Cloth. The complete eight volume set of the Book of Knowledge, a charmingly illustrated reference library on all manners of subjects for all ages, including folding colour plates. The Book of Knowledge, an eight volume alphabetical encyc…

The Picture of Dorian Gray a Play in Three Acts and Prologue from the Romance of Oscar Wilde

Grace Constant Lounsbery; Oscar Wilde · 1913 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1913. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition dramatisation of Oscar Wilde's seminal novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted for the stage by Grace Constant Lounsbery, with a Rex Whistler bookplate. An excellent first …

Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt · 1818 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First edition. Leather. The uncommon first edition of William Hazlitt's lectures on English poets, delivered at the Surrey Institution. First edition.Uncommon.Rebacked in full signed mottled calf, with the original spine laid down, by Rivier…

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Including Introduction and Notes

Sir Walter Scott · 1882 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, Frederick Warne & Co , [1882]. Leather. A prize binding of the Albion edition collection of poetry by Sire Walter Scott, illustrated with 6 plates. The "Albion" edition, stated in the introduction. In a full red calf prize binding, for Dorchester Grammar School. A signed…

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

[Thomas De Quincey] · 1823 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.33 | $647.32 | ¥103,369)

London, Taylor and Hessey, 1823 . Leather. A smart third edition copy of this influential autobiographical account of addiction by Thomas De Quincey. The third edition, originally published in 1821. In a half brown morocco binding. A signed binding by Sotheran. The work is an au…

The Complete Wildfowler

Stanley Duncan; Guy Thorne · 1911 · Rooke Books

£112.00 (€134.25 | $147.96 | ¥23,627)

London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1911 . Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated guide for sportsmen and hunters by Stanley Duncan and Guy Thorne. The first edition.In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, and 48 monochrome …

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Len Deighton · 1981 · Rooke Books

£238.00 (€285.28 | $314.41 | ¥50,208)

London, Hutchinson, 1981. First edition. Hardback. An excellent signed first edition of Deighton's thrilling spy novel. An excellent first edition of Leonard Cyril Deighton's thirteenth novel. Signed by the author to bookplate on front free, dated March 1986. Signed co…

Palestine Memories 1917-1918-1925

Robert H. Goodsall · 1932 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Canterbury, Cross and Jackman, 1932 . Cloth. A smart copy of this richly illustrated cheap edition of Robert H. Goodsall"s memoir of wartime and Mandate-era Palestine, inscribed and signed by the author to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original blue cloth bind…

The Pilgrim of Eternity

John Drinkwater · 1925 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1925 . First edition. Leather. With a letter from publisher Sir Ernest Hodder-Williams, this a specially bound first edition of John Drinkwater's biography of Byron, presented by the publisher to the author. The first edition of this work, in a…

Novels of Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst · 1988 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Chatto and Windus; Picador, 1988-2011. First edition. Cloth. Four first editions of significant Alan Hollinghurst's novels, including signed works, credited with bringing LGBTQ+ stories into modern literature. Four first editions of novels written by the award-winni…

The Novels of P.D. James

P.D. James · 1989 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, Faber and Faber, 1989-2011. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of six novels from British literary figure P.D. James, including signed works, Children of Men, her autobiography, and those from her celebrated Adam Dalgleish series. The first editions of six brillian…

The Youth&Apos;S Magazine or Evangelical Miscellany

Anonymous · 1835 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, Hamilton Adams and Co. 1835-1839. Leather. A four volume set of this popular magazine for young people, 'The Youth's Magazine or Evangelical Miscellany', in leather binding. Comprising volumes: Vol VIII Third Series (1835), Vol X Third Series (1837), Vol I…

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

J. G. Lockhart · 1837 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Boston; Philadelphia, Ostis, Broaders and Company; Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837-1838. Cloth. An early American edition of Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by J. G. Lockhart. With a portrait of Scott to frontispiece to first volume, engraved by R. W. Dodson from t…

The Cabinet Cyclopaedia Maritime and Inland Discovery Volumes I - III Optics Manufactures in Metal Volume I - Iron and Steel Descriptive and Physiological Botany History - the Netherlands History - Scotland Volume I

Rev. Dionysius Lardner · 1830 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.50 | ¥60,123)

London , Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, John Taylor, 1830 - 1838. First edition. Cloth. An Eight Volume set of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Bound in the original publisher's binding. This set includes Scotland by Sir Walter Scott, Optics by David Brewster, …

Bent Grasses a Jacko Inquiry

Frank Palmer · 1993 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London, Constable, 1993. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of the mystery novel by Frank Palmer. Frank Palmer's thriller begins in the Fenland hamlet of New York, and ends in Manhattan, as DI 'Jacko' Jackson investigates unravelling events following ter…

A Mortal Affair

Stella Allan · 1979 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.19 | ¥8,014)

London, Collins, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A scarce signed copy of this Stella Allan crime novel. First US edition. Inscribed by the author to the front free-endpaper. 'This gripping novel of betrayal will keep the reader guessing up to the last page.' In the origina…

A Question of Guilt

Frances Fyfield · 1988 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London, William Heinemann , 1988. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of 'A Question of Guilt' by Frances Fyfield. A near-fine signed first edition of criminal solicitor Frances Fyfield's disturbing crime novel. When a shrewd and wealthy widow falls in lo…

The Gaudy Shadows

John Brunner · 1970 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.59 | $396.32 | ¥63,287)

London, Constable, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by science fiction writer John Brunner. A scarce work by Brunner, especially with the original unclipped dustwrapper. With the bookplate of Brunner to the front pastedown which depicts the author in c…

Ournal 1936-7, Death of an Explorer, Leon Chestov

David Gascoyne · 1980 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Enitharmon Press, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A selection of writings by David Gascoyne. First edition of these works collected together in book form. Signed and numbered by the author to half title page 45/95. With original unclipped dustwrapper. David Gascoyne was an E…