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The English Illustrated Magazine, 1884-1888

Various · 1885 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1885-1888. Leather. Two volumes containing issues of the monthly publication The English Illustrated Magazine. Two volumes in a half calf binding with marbled boards and end papers. Illustrated with eighteen plates to the first volume, thirteen plates t…

Reflections in a Mirror

Charles Morgan · 1944 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1944. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition, first impression of this first series of essays by Charles Morgan, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. A series of essays representative of the s…

Fifty Caricatures

Max Beerbohm · 1913 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, William Heinemann, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of caricatures from English parodist and caricaturist Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm. First edition. Illustrated with forty-eight tipped in plates and two standard plates. The fifty ca…

Happy England

Helen Allingham; Marcus B. Huish · 1903 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1903. Leather. A beautiful, signed, limited edition work showcasing Helen Allingham's watercolour paintings of England. The Deluxe Edition. Limited to 750 copies, this being number 396. Signed by Helen Allingham to the limitations page. Rebou…

Hotel de Dream

Emma Tennant · 1976 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Victor Gollancz , 1976. First edition. Cloth. Excellent first edition of this uncommon novel by Emma Tennant, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. An elegant, entertaining, and unsettling novels concerning dreams, snobberies, and rituals of contemporary England, immerse…

Study and Stimulants

A. Arthur Reade · 1883 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.72 | $2,576.65 | ¥411,508)

Manchester; London, Abel Heywood and Son; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of A. Arthur Reade's very important study on how narcotics and intoxicants can affect the brain. The first edition.A very scarce work.An important study on "th…

Wayfarer&Apos;S Love

Duchess of Sutherland [editor] · 1904 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Archibald Constable & Co. 1904. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charming collection of poems, with cover designs by Walter Crane. First edition. A collection of poetry with contributions such as: Life's Opportunity by Thomas Hardy, Being Her Frie…

Inheritance

Phyllis Bentley · 1933 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. Leather. A copy of Phyllis Bentley's most popular work, her regional and industrial novel, very scarce in leather binding. A very scarce example of a leather copy. Bound in quarter calf and blue cloth boards. With coloured endpapers and gi…

The Year&Apos;S at the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry

L. D'O. Walters; Harold Monro · 1920 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this brightly illustrated collection of poetry. First trade edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-three plates, many of which are in colour, and numerous in-text images. Collated…

The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems

Francis Turner Palgrave · 1886 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1886. Leather. A smart copy of this collection of songs, poetry, and lyrics throughout English history, handsomely bound in half morocco by McNamee. A handsomely bound copy of this poetry anthology, bound beautifully in half morocco by McNamee, with the…

The Year&Apos;S at the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry

L. D'O. Walters; Harold Monro · 1920 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated collection of poetry. First trade edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-three plates, many of which are in colour, and numerous in-text images. Co…

Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence · 1936 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1936. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this literary collection comprising poems, essays, reviews and other papers from controversial English writer, D. H. Lawrence. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth …

Sammlung von 15 Werken zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur

(Anglistik) · 1974 · Celler Versandantiquariat

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Verschiedene Verlage - gute Exemplare/ Enthalten: Amerika. Vision und Wirklichkeit. Beiträge deutscher Forschung zur amerikanischen Literaturgeschichte, herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Franz H. Link/ Angelsächsische Lyrik aus sechs Jahrhunderten. Englisch-Deutsch, Übertragung…

God's Funeral A Biography of Faith and Doubt in Western Civilization

A. N. Wilson · 2000 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Ballantine Books. 2000; Paperback; goed exemplaar / good copy. In the course of the nineteenth century, the idea of God became unknowable and then impossible. Scottish philosopher David Hume had wittily but devastatingly kicked away the logical underpinnings of Christian theolog…

AIR PIE The Royal Air Force Annual.

Seymour, Private W. Kean and Palmer, Cadet Cecil (Editors). · 1919 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Cecil Palmer and Hayward 1919. 1st Ed. 4to. x Adverts + 104pp. + pp.(ix-xx). Adverts. 7 colour plates. Colour advert for Lipton’s tear affixed to rear pastedown, ragged colour Bovril advert affixed to rear wrapp., creased plate affixed to upper wrapp., original chipped wrapps., …

The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, The Library, Seventh Series, Vol 2, No. 1, March 2001

Edited by Dr Oliver Pickering · 2001 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

The Oxford University Press, 2001. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contributors include: Margaret Lane Ford; Julian Pooley; Andrew Nash; Lotte Helinga; Martin Holmes. Contents include: A New Addition to the Corpus of English Incunabula - Wynkyn de W…

The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, The Library, Fifth Series, Volume XXIX, Number 2 June 1974

Edited by Peter Davison · 1974 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

The Oxford University Press, 1974. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contributors include: William E Fredeman; John Buchanan-Brown; Charles L Ross; William A Pettas; Gerald D Johnson; Wilmer G Mason; C John Sommerville; J P Hardy and J D Fleeman; L M …

New England Collectors and Collections

Benes, Peter and Jane Montague Benes · 2006 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$90.00 (€81.65 | £68.11 | ¥14,374)

Boston, MA, Boston University, 2006. Softcover. White wraps with bw illustration on front cover, black and red lettering, 224 pp, illustrated in bw throughout. Contents include: Introduction. Section 1. Forming early collecting institutions (early nineteenth century). "An equal …

The Library, A Quarterly Review of Bibliography Fifth Series Volume II 1948, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Third Series, Volume II

edited by F C Francis, contribs. by Miss S G Hands; Leslie Mahin Oliver; Fredson Bowers; W S Lewis; M E Kronenberg; A F Allison; J M Nosworthy; Edward Heawood; Victor Scholderer; A N I Munby; Robert Gathorne-Hardy; D A Winstanley · 1948 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

The Bibliographical Society, Oxford University Press, Geoffrey Cumberlege, London, New York, Toronto Melbourne, 1948. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Articles include: The Cathedral Libraries Catalogue; the Spanish Masquerado; An Examination of the …

The Garden of Kama

Laurence Hope [Violet Nicolson] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, William Heinemann, 1912 . Leather. A beautiful Riviere-bound copy of 'The Garden of Kama', a delightful collection of poetry from Violet Nicolson, written under the male pseudonym Laurence Hope. A new impression. Elegantly bound by Riviere in full crushed moroc…