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Laughs and Whifts of Song
Theodore Maynard · 1915 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)
London, Erskine MacDonald, 1915 . First edition. Paperback. Scarce signed first-edition poetry collection from Theodore Maynard. Scarce first edition.In the publisher's original binding.Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper, dated 1917.From influential…
A Sketch of Old London
J.G. Crace · 1885 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)
London, Hodge and Hackett, 1885. Cloth. A very scarce book written by John Gregory Crace on London and its streets before the Great Fire of 1066. Previously owned by Crace's son and interior designer John Dibblee. A Sketch of Old London: Its Streets and Thoroughfares Before…
The British Essayists: The Spectator Issues 1-635
Various · 1834 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)
London , Mayhew, Isaac, and Co. 1834 . Leather. A smart volume of the British Essayists, containing issues no. 1-635 of The Spectator, with original dedications of the successive volumes. In half brown calf with marbled boards.Part of a series called the British Essayists, compr…
2vol Set Edmonton Past and Present
George W. Sturges · 1938 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)
London, The Montagu School Press, 1938-1941. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, limited edition two volume set, on the history of Edmonton, both signed by the author. A very scarce set of two limited edition volumes, illustrated, signed, and in their original green cloth.These…
Our Gracious Queen: Pictures and Stories from Her Majesty&Apos;S Life
O F. Walton · 1897 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)
London, The Religious Tract Society, 1897. First edition. Cloth. Am uncommon copy of this late Victorian biographical tribute to Queen Victoria designed for young readers, written by Mrs. O. F. Walton, and illustrated throughout. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth …
The Pageant of London Volume I & Volume II
Richard Davey · 1906 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)
London, Methuen & Co. 1906 . First edition. Cloth. Detailed first-edition history of London, wonderfully illustrated with 40 colour plates. First edition.Complete in two volumes.In publisher's original blue cloth binding.Featuring 40 colour plates total, including a frontis…
Northern Germany As Far As the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers
Karl Baedeker · 1900 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)
London, Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1900. Cloth. A very smart turn-of-the-century Baedeker guide to northern Germany, with numerous folding maps and plans. Thirteenth revised edition. In the original cloth binding. Illustrated with thirty-four maps and sixty-five plans, eleven …
Brood
Jackie Polzin · 2021 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)
New York, Doubleday; Picador, 2021. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of Brood, American author Jackie Polzin's first novel and a finalist for the 2021 First Novel Prize. The signed first edition of Brood by American author Jackie Polzin, published by Doubleday…
London and Its Environs
Karl Baedeker · 1923 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)
Leipzig , Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1923. Cloth. A classic guidebook to London from reputable German publisher, Karl Baedeker. Illustrated with many folding maps and plans. Eighteenth revised edition. In the publisher's cloth binding. Providing fifty-two routes exploring…
Typographica 10
Various; Herbert Spencer [ed.] · 0 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)
London, Lund Humphries , c1964. Unbound. A signed reprinted issue from the New Series of 'Typographica', containing only Charles Hasler's article on 18th and 19th-century stock blocks. No. 10 of the New Series, "Reprinted from Typographica". This copy only contain…
Voyages Et Avantures de Jacques Masse
[Simon Tyssot de Patot] · 1710 · Rooke Books
£1,275.00 (€1,528.27 | $1,684.35 | ¥268,970)
Bordeaux, Jaques L'Aveugle, 1710 [c1742]. Leather. A very scarce early imprint of this controversial work of enlightenment fiction, being an early example of Utopian fiction and a precursor to Robinson Crusoe in the 'voyage imaginaire' tradition. Rosenberg edition…
The Cry of the Icemark
Stuart Hill · 2005 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)
Frome, The Chicken House, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of this exciting fantasy children's novel, in the original unclipped dust wrapper and slipcase. The first edition of the work.A limited edition, with this volume being 881/1000, signed by the aut…
Newton Nottage and Porthcawl (from Prehistoric Times to 1950)
Leonard S. Higgins · 1968 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)
Llandysul, Gomerian Press, 1968 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this charming work of local history, with a signed letter from the author to the dedicatee of this work, British zoologist and geographer H. J. Fleure. The very scarce first edition, first i…
Historical Notices of Shipley, Saltaire, Idle, Windhill, Wrose, Baildon, Hawksworth, Eccleshill, Calberley, Rawdon and Horsforth
J. Horsfall Turner · 1985 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)
Leeds, MTD Rigg, 1985. Cloth. A fine 1980s facsimile edition of a 1901 historical study of the region surrounding Bradford, with a loosely inserted original signed letter from the author, J. Horsfall Turner. First published in 1901, this is a 1985 facsimile of J. Horsfall Turner…
A View of London
Colin Wilson [introduction] · 1963 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A striking series of London-inspired charcoal drawings from Edward Pagram, signed by philosopher-novelist Colin Wilson, who wrote the book's introduction. Signed by Colin Wilson to the title page. First edition.With the …
Life of Admiral Sir Archibald Lucius Douglas
Archibald C. Douglas · 1938 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)
Totnes, Devon, Mortimer Bros. 1938. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biographical work on Royal Navy officer and founder of the Japanese Navy, Admiral Sir Archibald Lucious Douglas, signed by the author. First edition. Scarce work. Signed and inscribed by the …
An Italian Garden: A Book of Songs
A. Mary F. Robinson [Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux] · 1897 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)
Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1897 . First edition. Leather. Beautifully bound in a crushed morocco binding by Otto Schulze, this is the first edition of A. Mary F. Robinson's limited edition collection of poems about the gardens of Italy. A limited edition, first edit…
The Wonders of Trees, Plants, and Shrubs, Recorded in Anecdotes
Joseph Taylor · 1823 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)
London, William Darton, 1823 . Leather. Beautifully illustrated with engraved plates of plants, this is an early edition of Joseph Taylor's scarce study of trees, plants and shrubs. The later 1823 issue of this work, dated via the plates. This volume was first published in …
Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye
Charles Richard Weld · 1860 · Rooke Books
£475.00 (€569.35 | $627.50 | ¥100,205)
London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 . First edition. Leather. An exceptional signed presentation copy of the first edition of this study of the Scottish highlands by Charles Richard Weld, illustrated with chromolithographic plates. Inscribed by the author to the t…
My Fellow Americans...
Jeff Jacobson; Russell Lockhart · 1991 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)
Albuquerque , University of Mexico Press in Association with Picture Project, Inc. 1991. First edition. Paperback. An excellent signed first edition of this provocative collection from American photographer, Jeff Jacobson. Signed dedication by Jeff Jacobson to the half title. "H…