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Voltaire's coconuts, or, Anglomania in Europe.
Buruma, Ian · 1999 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 326 pp. - Voltaire's Coconuts is a wonderfully engaging and witty combination of history and biography which looks at how Europeans have been fascinated by all that it means to be English. Dutch by birth, Buruma came t…
Collier's Magazine, May 29, 1948 - the Secret Papers of Harry Hopkins / Christian Underground in Russia
HAYCOX, ERNEST; KYNE, PETER B.; WAGNER, CONSTANCE; NEIMAN, IRVING GAYNOR; SINCLAIR, FREDERIC; ROHMER, SAX; SHERWOOD, ROBERT E.; PALMER, GRETTA; FRAZIER, GEORGE; PARIS, LEONARD A.; SINKS, ALFRED H.; DUGAN, JAMES · 1948 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines
$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)
USA: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1948. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Karger, George;. 86 pages. Articles: The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins, part 1 - he wanted to be President; God's Underground in Russia - Priests work in secret to keep Christian faith a…
The New York Times Magazine, August (Aug. ) 25, 1963 - March on Washington Cover Photos
HARRIMAN, W. AVERELL; SHAFFER, SAMUEL; HUXTABLE, ADA LOUISE; DAVIES, JOHN PATON JR.; HUSSEY, CHARLES; WECHSBERG, JOSEPH · 1963 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines
$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)
New York: The New York Times & Arno Press, 1963. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Steve; Miller, Marilyn. 72 pages. Features: Cover photo of preparations for the March on Washington; Nice one-page ad for the Peugeot 404; Many marvelous color-photo fashion ads; What the (Mar…
Temple Bar a London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
Various · 1868 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London , Richard Bentley, 1868-1870. Cloth. Three volumes of this popular Victorian periodical. In the original publisher's cloth bindings. Comprising of volumes XXIII, XXIV and XXVIII. With works such as A Gentleman- According to Shakespeare, 'In Memoriam of Charles K…
The Miser and Coxcombs in Petticoats
Moliere; George Graveley · 1953 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
St. Albans, W. Cartmel & Sons, 1953. Cloth. Two short plays by French playwright Moliere, translated by George Graveley. A signed presentation copy from the translator to British stage actress Edith Evans. Two comedies by seventeenth-century French playwright Jean-Baptiste Poque…
Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum
Edward Phillips; Sir Egerton Brydges [ed.] · 1824 · Rooke Books
£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)
Geneva, Press of Bonnant, 1824. Leather. A limited edition copy of this biographical and critical work of poetry and poets prior to 1675, from the library of former Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery. A fascinating biographical and critical work of poetry an…
The Cabinet of the Arts a Series of Engravings by English Artists
Anonymous · 1799 · Rooke Books
£490.00 (€587.43 | $647.47 | ¥103,404)
London, Not Stated, 1799. Leather. A scarce collection of engravings by English artists. Contains 88 plates of engravings which include topographical views, portraits, emblematic scenes and reproductions of the engraved title pages of other publications. An interesting, if eclec…
The Outline of Literature & the World&Apos;S Library of Best Books
John Drinkwater; Wilfred Whitten · 1923 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, George Newnes, Limited, 1923-1925. Leather. A smart collection of uniformly bound volumes on the literature of the world, from George Newnes Limited. Seven volumes. This set contains: The Outline of Literature, 1923-1924. Complete in two volumes. Each volume is illustrat…
Illustrated English Social History
G. M. Trevelyan · 1957 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, Readers Union: Longmans, Green and Co. 1957-1958. Cloth. Four smart volumes of this illustrated social history of England from British historian George Macaulay Trevelyan, with the original glassine wraps. Complete in four volumes. With the original glassine wraps. A det…
Hugh Thomson: His Art, His Letters, His Humour, and His Charm
M. H. Spielmann; Walter Jerrold · 1931 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, A. & C. Black, LTD, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated first edition copy on the life of Hugh Thomson, written by M. H. Spielmann and Walter Jerrold, in the original publisher's cloth binding with a prize book plate from the Hinckley Grammar Schoo…
Biographia Dramatica, or, a Companion to the Playhouse
David Erskine Baker [ed. by Isaac Reed] · 1782 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)
London, Messr. Rivingtons et al. 1782. Leather. The revised and enlarged second edition to Baker's important reference work on British theatre and its playwrights, complete in two volumes. The second edition of Biographia Dramatica, or, A Companion to the Playhouse, an insi…
The Book of Knowledge: A Pictured Encyclopaedia for Readers of All Ages
Harold F.B. Wheeler · 0 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
London, The Waverley Book Company, Ltd. c1927-2935. Cloth. A complete set of Wheeler's encyclopaedia on every subject, profusely illustrated with coloured and folding plates, in the very scarce original dust wrappers. A complete eight volume set.In the publisher's orig…
Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel · 2009 · Rooke Books
£2,950.00 (€3,536.56 | $3,898.02 | ¥622,537)
London, Fourth Estate, 2009-20. First edition. Cloth. London: Fourth Estate, 2009-20. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9.5" by 6"; 11.5" by 8"; 8" by 5". Not Stated. A striking signed first impression set of Hilary Mantel's magnum opus, a trilogy following the rise and fall…
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose with a Selection of Explanatory Notes and Account of His Life by Dr. Johnson
Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson · 1812 · Rooke Books
£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)
London , Nichols and Son, 1812. Leather. A scarce set of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose with a Selection of Explanatory Notes and Account of his Life by Dr. Johnson First edition thus. Seemingly the first edition to contain solely the notes of Samuel Johnso…
The Nights of Straparola, the Novellino, & Ser Giovanni
W. G. Waters [translator] · 1894 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)
London, Lawrence & Bullen Ltd. 1894-1897. First edition. Cloth. The first translated editions of these limited edition volumes, illustrated throughout. Five volumes. First thus. Translated by William George Waters, a British scholar, biographer, and historian of the Italian Rena…
A Masque of Days
Charles Lamb · 1901 · Rooke Books
£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)
London, Cassell & Company LTD, 1901. First edition. Cloth. One of the popular tales of Charles Lamb, this edition beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane with colourful illustrations to every page. The first edition thus, being the first time this work was published separately f…
Collected Essays, Papers &C. Of Robert Bridges
Robert Bridges · 1927 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1927-1934. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of the twenty volumes of Bridges collected essays and papers, bound in eight. Twenty volumes bound in eight, of a thirty volume set. Lacking volumes twenty-one to thirty. First…
Our Beautiful England and Beautiful Ireland Ten Volume Illustrated Collection
Various · 1920 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
London; London, Dublin, Belfast, The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd; The Gresham Publishing Company Limited. c1920. Cloth. A beautiful illustrated ten volume collection of works from the Our Beautiful Homeland Series and Beautiful Ireland. Ten volumes from the Our Beautiful Engl…
2 Vols Collectanea Archaeologica: Communications Made to the British Archaeological Association
None Stated · 1862 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1862-1871 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this engaging and wide-ranging collection of archaeological studies, complete in two volumes, illustrated with sixty-four plates. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding. First e…
Women and Comedy
Susan Carlson · 1991 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV
€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)
University of Michigan Press, 1991, Hardcover, 388, The first comprehensive study of its kind, this book explores the contradictory connections between women and dramatic comedy. Women and Comedy shows how a genre that has been used historically to restrict women's behavior is b…