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Aunt Louisa&Apos;S Alphabet Book: Comprising the Nursery Alphabet, Country Alphabet, London Alphabet, Alphabet of Games and Sports.

None · 0 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1872. Cloth. A scarce edition of Aunt Louisa's illustrated alphabets. Scarce work. Illustrated with 24 coloured plates. Collated, missing frontispiece. Comprising the nursery alphabet, country alphabet, London alphabet, and alphabet of games…

Favourite English Poems and Poets

Various · 1870 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

London, Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1870. Leather. An extensive volume containing 218 of the most popular poems ever written in the English language, a beautifully illustrated work. In a lovely tree calf binding.An impressive collection of two hundred and eighteen of the most p…

The Rehearsal

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; Montague Summers [ed.] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.31 | $101.74 | ¥16,249)

Stratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1914. Cloth. A bright facsimile edition of George Villiers's satirical play, one of five-hundred and ten copies. A satirical play addressed specifically to John Dryden and the pretentious theatre of the Restoration tragedy. F…

The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds

D. Cox [Intro.] · 1986 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Leeds, University Library, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition study of fifty of the most exciting works held by the University of Leeds's Brotherton Collection. The first edition of this work celebrating the 50th anniversary of the University of Leeds being…

Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt · 1819 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

London, Taylor and Hessey, 1819. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of these fantastic eight literary essays by William Hazlitt, discussing various comical writers in English history. The first edition of this work.A selection of eight essays by William Hazlitt, studying…

The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

John Lord Campbell · 1849 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, John Murray, 1849. Cloth. John Lord Campbell's collection of concise biographies on the Chief Justices of British history, a fascinating work of biography. Complete in two volumes.This work is completely devoted to the biographies of the Chief Justices of England, f…

Idylls of the Tweed

J.H. Hallard · 1935 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this collection of poetry and translations by J.H. Hallard, in the very scarce original glassine. The uncommon first edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. In t…

Mary and Charles Lamb: Poems, Letters, and Remains

Mary Lamb; Charles Lamb; W. Carew Hazlitt [ed.] · 1874 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1874. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated biographical study of Charles and Mary Lamb, with their collected letters and poems. The first edition.In the publisher's original decorative blue cloth binding.Illustrated with …

Merry-Go-Down: A Gallery of Gorgeous Drunkards Through the Ages

Rab Noolas [Philip Heseltine] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, The Mandrake Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition of this satirical work on drunkards and drunkenness, with illustrations throughout. Limited to six hundred copies, of which this is number five hundred and forty. Illustrated throughout. An anthology in pr…

Pomes Penyeach

James Joyce · 1933 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Faber & Faber, 1933. Paperback. A first UK edition, second impression of Joyce's second poetry collection, written between between 1904 and 1924. The first UK edition, second impression of this work in the publisher's original card wraps, with the original gree…

Thomas Platters Des Jungeren Englandfahrt IM Jahre 1599

Hans Hecht [editor] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Halle/Saale, Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1929. Cloth. A smart copy of this record of the travels of Thomas Platter the Younger across England in 1599, in the original German. German. Illustrated throughout. The travels of Thomas Platter the Younger, a Swiss-born physician, traveller an…

The Honorary Consul

Graham Greene · 1973 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York , Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1973. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S edition of this thriller by the popular Graham Greene. The first US edition, first impression with a complete number line. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.…

The King&Apos;S Threshold

W.B. Yeats · 1915 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, 1915 . Paperback. A scarce edition of this poetic one-act play by acclaimed Irish author W.B. Yeats, signed by New Zealand historian J.C. Beaglehole. A scarce edition. In the publisher's original brown paper wraps.  A play by W.…

Poems the Saint&Apos;S Tragedy

Charles Kingsley · 1884 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1884. Leather. A beautifully bound edition of Charles Kingsley's The Saint's Tragedy. In a signed Sotheran and Co binding. Published as a part of his Poems, this being volume I. This verse tragedy, in the style of Shakespeare, is based on the …

On Baile&Apos;S Strand

W. B. Yeats · 1907 · Rooke Books

£72.00 (€86.32 | $95.14 | ¥15,194)

Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1907 . First edition. Paperback. The first separate edition of W. B. Yeats's drama based on the early Irish folk story Aided Óenfhir Aífe. The first theatre edition, first separate edition of this work, based on the revised…

An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent-Garden Theatre

George Anne Bellamy · 1786 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, J. Bell , 1786. Leather. An autobiographical work from the Irish actress George Anne Bellamy, an early edition bound in full tree calf. The fourth edition. A four volume set, complete in five. Includes volumes 1-4. Illustrated with monochrome steel engraved frontispiec…

Like Birds, Like Fishes and Other Stories

R. Prawer Jhabvala · 1963 · Rooke Books

£54.00 (€64.74 | $71.35 | ¥11,396)

London, John Murray, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of this collection of short stories by novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Like Birds Like Fishes' is a collec…

The St. James&Apos;S Beauties; or, the Real Toast

1744 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

[London], [J. Robinson], [1744]. Unbound. A very scarce satirical poem, discussing the upper-class women of London society. A very scarce satirical poem on the society of London during the Georgian era, in particular the upper-class women who frequented St. James's Park. An…

Essays of Elia: Complete in One Volume

Charles Lamb · 1840 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Edward Moxon, 1840. Leather. A complete collection of Charles Lamb's popular essay collection, bound in pleasing signed half calf by Root and Son. This work contains both volumes of 'Essays of Elia', a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb, who wrot…

Books in General Second Series

Solomon Eagle · 1920 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of Books in General Second Series by Solomon Eagle or J. C. Squire. Solomon Eagle was the pseudonym for J. C. Squire a British writer. This copy is signed J. C. Squire to the front pastedown, with a bookplate …