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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
Carl Sandburg · 1926 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this important two volume biography of the early life of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth American president. The first printing of the first trade edition of this influential biographical stu…
The Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare; Henry Irving; Frank A Marshall · 1922 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, The Gresham Publishing Company, 1922. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated, twelve volumes, in six of William Shakespeare's works. Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A Marshall. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and six plates to volume III-IV; a frontispiece and seven pla…
Occasio Arrepta Neglecta Huius Commoda Illius Incommoda
Ioanne David; Joannes David · 1605 · Rooke Books
£3,850.00 (€4,615.50 | $5,087.24 | ¥812,464)
Antverpiae, Ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1605. First edition. Vellum. The first edition of this uncommon, beautifully illustrated moralistic emblem book. In a contemporary vellum binding. Illustrated by the Flemish Baroque engraver, Theodor Galle (1571-1633). Ga…
The Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare · 1904 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)
Stratford-on-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1904-1906. Leather. The Shakespeare Head Press's limited edition of Shakespeare's works, in attractive bindings and printed on handmade paper. With a different tissue-guarded frontispiece in every volume. Includes the Come…
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire
Lord Byron · 1809 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
London, James Cawthorn, c1809. Leather. A forgery of the first edition of English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, a Satire by Lord Byron. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is a satirical poem written by Lord Byron. It was first published, anonymously, in March 1809; the opening pa…
The Wide Garden and Other Poems
Herbert Tremaine · 1917 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, C.W. Daniel, 1917. First edition. Hardback. The very scarce publisher's presentation copy of an attractive anthology of fantasy poems, written by First World War author Herbert Tremaine. The very scarce first edition and publisher's presentation copy of The Wid…
The Owl of Athene
Eden Phillpotts · 1936 · Rooke Books
£199.00 (€238.57 | $262.95 | ¥41,995)
London , Hutchinson & Co. 1936. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition novel from Devon-based author Eden Phillpotts with fantastical and science-fiction elements. The first edition, first impression of the work, bound in the publisher's original cloth.Undated, d…
Foggerty&Apos;S Fairy and Other Tales
W. S. Gilbert · 1890 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1890 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of fantastical tales by dramatist W. S. Gilbert, of 'Gilbert and Sullivan' fame. The first edition, first issue of this work, identified via the lack of copyri…
Four Eighteenth Century Comic Plays
Colley Cibber; George Farquhar; Isaac Bickerstaff · 1766 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)
London, J. and R. Tonson; T. Lowndes; John Bell, 1766-1781 . Leather. A charming volume of four comic plays, from Colley Cibber, George Farquhar and Isaac Bickerstaff, illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. The first two plays in this volume are the work of popular Rest…
Four Novels by Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher · 1988 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Guild Publishing; Hodder & Stoughton, 1988-2000 . First edition. Cloth. A collection of four wonderfully presented novels by best-selling British author Rosamunde Pilcher. A set of four novels by British novelist, Rosamunde Pilcher. Bound in the publisher's original…
York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries
Lucy Toulmin Smith · 1885 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1885. First edition. Cloth. The forty eight play cycle of York Mystery plays are gathered in this first edition copy. With an introduction by Lucy Toulmin Smith. A first edition of the York Mystery plays, edited by the Anglo-American antiquarian and …
A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, Delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeting- House in the Old Jewry to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain
Richard Price · 1790 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)
London, T. Cadell, 1790. Cloth. In this important and scarce essay, Richard Price gives his controversial support of revolution, sparking furious debate among his contemporaries. The sought after third edition of this work being the first expanded edition, rebound in a cloth bin…
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller · 1949 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)
New York, The Viking Press, 1949. Cloth. The first Book of The Month Club edition of this classic play regarding the American Dream by Arthur Miller in the original dustwrapper. The first Book of The Month Club edition, with no reprints stated on the copyright page and Book-Of-T…
Hedda Gabler a Drama in Four Acts
Henrik Ibsen, Edmund Gosse [Trans.] · 1891 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)
London, William Heinemann, 1891. Cloth. A excellent First English Edition of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, in the original publisher's binding. A pleasing first English edition of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, translated from Norwegian by Edmund Gosse. Published by William Heinem…
Programme for the Folly Theatre: Hester&Apos;S Mystery, Upper Crust & the Light Fantastic
A. W. Pinero; Henry J. Byron · 1880 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, Letts, Son & Co. 1880 . First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. An exceptionally scarce theatre programme for a trio of shows performed at Folly Theatre, including Pinero's 'Hester's Mystery' and H. J. Byron's 'Upper Crust' and 'The Ligh…
The Hound of Death
Agatha Christie · 1933 · Rooke Books
£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)
London, Odhams Press, 1933. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of detective fiction stories by Agatha Christie. An unusual work, as it was published by Odhams and not Christie's usual publisher Collins. A Collins edition appeared several years later.…
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Gustave Flaubert, [trans. and int. by Lafcadio Hearn] · 1910 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
New York, The Alice Harriman Company, 1910. Cloth. A translated edition of Fluabert's classic work on the famous biblical tale, signed by Alice Harriman, known to be the world's first female publisher. A translated American edition of The Temptation of St. Anthony, the…
The Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon: Centenary Year Programmes
Various · 1977 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
Wimbledon, The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, 1977. First edition. Leather. A smart complete run of all thirteen official daily souvenir programmes for Wimbledon 1977, the Championships" centenary year and Queen"s Silver Jubilee season, bound as one in full dark moroc…
Plays of Euripides: Hecuba, Medea, Alcestis, with Short English Notes for the Use of Schools
Various · 1864 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
Oxford, John Henry and James Parker, 1864-1865. Leather. A very scarce copy of three of Euripides" most enduring tragedies in one volume: Hecuba, Medea, and Alcestis, in the original Greek with English notes for the use of schools. Bound in half calf binding with marbled paper b…
Margarethe (Faust) Oper in Funf Akten
Jules Barbier; Michel Carre; Ch. Gounod · 0 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
Berlin, Ed. Bote & G. Bock , c1870. Cloth. The musical and vocal score of this grand opera in five acts from French composer Charles-Francois Gounod, in German. German. New revised edition, with Italian text. A grand opera in five acts to a French libretto from the play Faust et…