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The Works of George Bernard Shaw in Six Volumes
George Bernard Shaw · 1931 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)
London, Constable and Company Ltd, 1931-1937. Cloth. Six fascinating works from the eminent George Bernard Shaw, including fourteen plays and two critiques. Six brilliant works from the esteemed Irish writer, often considered a second only to Shakespeare. Included are two philos…
Cynthia&Apos;S Bonnet Shop
Rosa Mulholland · 1901 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)
London Glasgow and Dublin, Blackie and Son Limited, [1901]. Cloth. This scarce edition of Rosa Mulholland's Cynthia's Bonnet Shop, namely: the first thus illustrated by Gertrude Demain Hammond. In prize binding, with handsome, pictorial boards. Undated, and with no edi…
Just So Stories, Puck of Pook&Apos;S Hill & Something of Myself
Rudyard Kipling · 1916 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1916-37 . Cloth. A collection of three, well presented works from celebrated novelist, Rudyard Kipling, including a first edition of Kipling's autobiography, completed by his wife and published posthumously after the author's death. A trio of …
Clifford D. Simak Science Fiction Novels
Clifford D. Simak · 1962 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)
London; New York; et al. Pan Books; Panther Books; Berkley Books; Methuen; Fontana; et al. 1962-84. Paperback. Bright group of twenty novels from the science fiction novels of Clifford D. Simak, paperback editions. Twenty novels by Clifford D. Simak, influential American science…
Turnpikes and Toll-Bars
Mark Searle; Earl of Birkenhead · 1930 · Rooke Books
£1,475.00 (€1,768.00 | $1,948.56 | ¥311,161)
London, Hutchinson & Co, 1930. Cloth. A limtied edition work by Mark Searle exploring the many turnpikes and toll-bars of England and across the globe, profusely illustrated including with twelve colour plates. A limited edition, limited to 500 copies, Volume 1 numbered 354 and …
The Lives of the Chief Justices of England. From the Norman Conquest Till the Death of Lord Tenterden Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV
John Lord Campbell · 1868 · Rooke Books
£1,900.00 (€2,277.42 | $2,510.02 | ¥400,818)
London, John Murray, 1868-74. Leather. A beautifully bound set of John Lord Campbell's influential biographies on the Lord Chancellors and Chief Justices of England. Complete in fourteen volumes, being four volumes of 'The Lives of the Chief Justices of England', …
Six John Galsworthy Pamphlets: For Love of Peace; the Land; the Bells of Peace; International Thought; on Expression
John Galsworthy · 1912 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)
Cambridge; London; Oxford, W. Heffer; George Allen & Unwin; The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Animals Friend Society; Oxford University Press, 1912-1924. First edition. Paperback. Covering topics including animal rights, inter-war politics and literary criticism, pr…
The Barsetshire Novels of Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope · 1929 · Rooke Books
£959.99 (€1,150.68 | $1,268.21 | ¥202,516)
Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, Basil Blackwell, 1929. Cloth. The complete set of this well known and very sought after edition of Trollope, edited by Michael Sadleir The complete set of this well known and very sought after edition of Trollope, editied by Michael Sadleir st…
8 Vols Our Beautiful Homeland
Walter Jerrold; R. Murray Gilchrist; Sidney Heath; Arthur L. Salmon; Charles Edwards; F. D. How; George Morley; Edward Thomas; Canon Danks; George Benson; A. G. Bradley; G. E. Mitton; J. A. Nicklin; John Geddie; George Eyre Todd · 0 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)
London, The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd. c1921. Cloth. A beautiful illustrated eight volume collection of works from the Our Beautiful Homeland Series. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings.These copies are undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held …
The English Anthology
Joseph Ritson [ed.] · 1793 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)
London, C. Clarke, for T. and J. Egerton, 1793-1794. First edition. Leather. The three volume first edition of English antiquary Joseph Ritson's anthology of English poetry. A three volume first edition anthology of English poetry, edited by the English antiquary Joseph Rit…
Life in Paris; Compirising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours, of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, and His Bang-Up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O&Apos;Shuffleton; with the Whimsical Adventures of the Halibut Family; Including Sketches of a Variety of Other Eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis
David Caey · 1822 · Rooke Books
£1,350.00 (€1,618.17 | $1,783.43 | ¥284,792)
London, John Fairburn, 1822. First edition. Leather. The first edition of David Carey's satirical work on Parisian life, illustrated with hand-colour plates throughout by eminent illustrator George Cruikshank. The first edition, early issue of this work. A large paper copy.…
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club
Charles DICKENS · 1842 · Librairie Le Feu Follet
€550.00 ($606.17 | £458.85 | ¥96,798)
Chapman and Hall | London 1842 | 15 x 23 cm | relié | Nouvelle édition après l'originale de 1837 parue chez le même éditeur, conforme en tout point à celle-ci. Elle est illustrée de 43 planches satiriques légendées dont un frontispice et un titre-frontispice qui porte la date de…
John Gower's Rhetoric. Classical Authority, Biblical Ethos, and Renaissance Receptions
Georgiana Donavin · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS
€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,120)
, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 432 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 5 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503595771. Summary This is the first book-length study in decades to offer in-depth readings of a variety of late medieval poems across Gower's trilingual corpus. I…
DÉSIRS ET VOLUPTÉ À L'ÉPOQUE VICTORIENNE, Collection Pérez Simón
Véronique Gerard Powell · 2013 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS
€135.00 ($148.79 | £112.63 | ¥23,760)
, mercaterfonds - fondsmercator, 2013 HB, 280 x 240 mm, 224 pages , 130 colour illustrations, Texte en Francais. ISBN 9789462300132. À l'automne 2013, le Musée Jacquemart-André mettra à l'honneur la peinture victorienne (1860-1914). Durant le règne de la Reine Victoria (1837-1…
Eroticism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Magic, Marriage, and Midwifery
Moulton, L. (ed.) · 2016 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS
€77.00 ($84.86 | £64.24 | ¥13,552)
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2016 Hardcover with dusjacket, XV+171 p., 17 b/w ill., 152 x 229 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503567884. The essays in this volume explore varied manifestations of medieval and early modern sexuality. Magic rings; seductive she-devils; satyrs bo…
The Home Life of Swinburne. Mit einem Portrait-Frontispiz sowie sieben einseitig bedruckte Blatt Kunstdrucktafeln und zwei Faksimile-Abbildungen im Text.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles und Watts-Dunton, Clara (Hrsg.): · 1922 · Antiquariat Bürck
Spedisce da Germania · non spedisce in Russia
€28.75 ($31.69 | £23.99 | ¥5,060)
London: A.M. Philpot. 1922 Portraitfrontispiz, 288 Seiten,. Original-Leinwand. Octavo, 22,5 cm (Umschlag fehlt, etwas bestossen, Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempeln, ExLibris, Rücken mit Spuren der entfernten Bibliothekschilder, vereinzelt dezente Bleistiftanstreichungen, im Ganz…
ANDROCLES AND THE LION, OVERRULE, PYGMALION
SHAW, George Bernard · 1916 · Charles Agvent
$4,375.00 (€3,969.58 | £3,311.73 | ¥698,633)
London. Constable. First Edition. First Printing of one of Shaw's most popular plays, PYGMALION, a radical reworking of Ovid's classic tale with a feminist twist. Shaw wrote PYGMALION for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell who appeared to be the only actress willing to say the ta…
English Dramatists, the
ENGLISH DRAMATISTS; MIDDLETON, Thomas; MARLOWE, Christopher; MARSTON, John [&] PEELE, George · 1885 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
$2,500.00 (€2,268.33 | £1,892.42 | ¥399,219)
London: John C. Nimmo, 1885. The English Dramatists on Large Paper A Finely Bound Brian Frost Set of the Great Elizabethan and Jacobean Playwrights ENGLISH DRAMATISTS. The English Dramatists Edited by A. H. Bullen. London: John C. Nimmo, 1885-1888. Large-paper issue, one of only…
Fredric March and Norma Shearer. (Scene from "Smilin' Through")
[20th Century Photographer] · 1932 · Wittenborn Art Books
$50.00 (€45.37 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)
London: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [Ca. 1932]. Original hand colored real photograph issued as a postcard. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good+. Printed on verso: "Film Partners" Series, 85, Long Acre, London; No. PC 96. Made in Great Britain. Smilin' Through is a 1932 American pre-Code MGM r…
A Collection of Letters Illustrative of the Progress of Science in England from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second
Halliwell, James Orchard (Ed.) · 1841 · Pemberley Natural History Books
£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.21 | ¥42,191)
Historical Society of Science xix, 124, [2], 9, . . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, blind-stamped acanthus scroll frame to boards, with central gilt symbol to front board, corners lightly bumped. Bookplate of Yatton Court, Herefordshire. From the library of K.G.V. Smith (1929-2017), Briti…