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Summer Stories

Oliver W. F. Lodge · 1911 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Birmingham , Cornish Brothers, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this collection of short stories by Oliver W. F. Lodge. The first edition, limited to sixty copies. The author's presentation copy, inscribed to 'Edyth Goodall from the a…

Papers on Art

J Comyns Carr · 1885 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1885. Leather. A collection of essays on art by J Comyns Carr. Well bound in leather with an attractive bookplate. Five essays in total, comprising of 'Drawings by the Old Masters', 'James Barry', 'Sir Joshua Reynolds', &ap…

Tails with a Twist

Belgian Hare" [Lord Alfred Douglas] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Edward Arnold , 1898. Hardback. A charmingly illustrated series of poetry depicting the more fearful traits of various animals, written by Lord Alfred Douglas. The first edition. In the publisher's original illustrated boards. With pleasing full-page coloured illu…

Victorian Sappho

PRINS, YOPIE · 1999 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. 1999, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0691059195) Soft cover. Book, "What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original …

Benedicti Lampridii Necnonio Bap. Almathei Carmina. Vivo Morte, Refectava Mea. Non sine Priuilegio.

LAMPRIDIO (Benedetto) · 1550 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Venetiis Apud Gabrielem Iolitum de Ferrariis, MDL. 1550. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 161 x 95 mms., 84 leaves, with detailed woodcut initials at the beginning of each poem and errata on verso of last leaf, later quarter calf, marbled boards (rubbed), remnants of label on spine; top of s…

A Diversity of Creatures / Letters of Travel 1892-1913

KIPLING, RUDYARD · 1925 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Trade Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The paper spine label has noticeably toning, and spots of rubbing and wear. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bump…

Chronicles and Characters

Robert Lytton · 1868 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1868. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this two volume collection of poetry by the 1st Earl of Lytton. The very scarce first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece to 'Volume I&apos. In the publisher's ori…

Crainquebille

Anatole France · 1913 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1913. Leather. A smart copy of this comedic anti-bourgeois play by Anatole France. In the original French.Originally wraps bound in. A comedic play in three acts by Anatole France, first performed in 1903. This play was adapted by France from one of his earl…

Snow

Maureen Freely, Orhan Pamuk · 2004 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 2e druk, 2004; Faber & Faber, Incorporated; 448pp.; Paperback met extra stofomslag: dit is wat verschoten + barcode met blanco sticker afgeplakt -- Conditie: Redelijk; The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to inv…

Down Where Changed

J. H. Prynne · 1979 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Ferry Press, 1979 . First edition. Paperback. An exceptional example of the very scarce first edition of J. H. Prynne's 1979 poem about economic alienation and modern society. A vanishingly scarce first edition of this work. A short work of poetry from Jeremy Halvar…

A Handful of Leather

Will H. Ogilvie · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of equine poems, illustrated with bright tipped in colour plates from Lionel Edwards. First edition. Illustrated with eight tipped-in colour plates. Collated complete. A charming …

Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry.

Robert Bloomfield · 1806 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1806 . First edition. Leather. Robert Bloomfield's charming anthology of pastoral poetry, 'Wild Flowers', wonderfully illustrated with eight plates. The first edition. Bound in full calf. A charming collection of poems by Robert B…

Whose Body?

Dorothy Sayers · 1949 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1949. Cloth. Cheap edition of this Dorothy Sayers's mystery novel, the eleventh impression. Dorothy Sayers's debut novel, introducing the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. First published in 1923, this is the eleventh impression. Complete with un…

Digby Grand: An Autobiography

G J Whyte Melville · 1890 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Longmans, Greene and Co. 1890. Leather. The first and very successful novel penned by George John Whyte-Melville. One of the twenty-one novels written by Whyte-Melville about hunting. George John Whyte-Melville was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field and poet. He w…

Time and Memory

F. L. Lucas · 1929 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929 . First edition. Hardback. A wonderful example of this very scarce early poetry collection from F. L. Lucas, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their press. The very scarce first edition, first impression of t…

Patchwork

Frederick Locker · 1879 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1879 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition comprised of literary extracts from Frederick Locker, in the publisher's original cloth. The first edition. Scarce work. A volume of literary extracts arranged by English man of letters, bibliop…

Les Oeuvres de Monsieur Scarron. Tome Premier.

Monsieur Scarron [Paul Scarron] · 1709 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Paris, Chez Michel David, 1709 . Vellum. Volume I only of a two volume set of the poetry and drama of seventeenth century French literary figure Monsieur Scarron. In the original French.Volume I only of a two volume edition Scarron's works.Works of poetry and drama from Fre…

We&Apos;Re Going on a Bear Hunt

Michael Rosen · 1993 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London , Walker Books, 1993. Hardback. A fantastic signed copy of the popular children's book We're Going on a Bear Hunt. A lovely reprinted copy of We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. Signed by Michael "Rosen hello! Michael Rosen was here"Michael Rosen i…

Fire and Wine

John Gould Fletcher · 1913 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Grant Richards, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful signed presentation copy of the first edition of an early collection of poems from John Gould Fletcher. A signed first edition of this collection of poetry from American Imagist poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, John…

Hannah More

Charlotte M. Yonge · 1888 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , W. H. Allen and Co. 1888. Cloth. Hannah More by Charlotte M. Yonge, from the Eminent Woman Series edited by John Henry Ingram (1842 - 1916) was an English biographer and editor. Hannah More (1745 - 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be sai…