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The Fudge Family in Paris

Thomas Brown · 1818 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,690)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1818. Leather. A smart second edition copy of The Fudge Family in Paris. A second edition copy. The Fudge Family in Paris is a verse satire by Thomas Brown, the younger. The verses were intended to be a comedic c...

English Prose Selections

Henry Craik · 1893 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1893-1922. Leather. Four leather bound volumes of Henry Craik's English Prose Selections. The first four of five volumes of English Prose Selections, edited by Henry Craik. The first volume is a first edition copy and the other three copies are...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

Dr J. C. Mardrus; Powys Mathers [trans.] · 1982 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Bibliophile Books, 1982-83. Cloth. A bright later printing of this Bibliophile edition of the celebrated tales known as 'Arabian Nights' rendered into English by Powys Mathers. The celebrated stories known as One Thousand and One Night in four volumes in the ...

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain · 1880 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

Toronto, Belford & Co. 1880. Cloth. An unrecorded Canadian edition of this work of travel literature by Mark Twain. Unrecorded Canadian edition. First published 1880. Illustrated throughout with in-text and full page sketches. A mixture of autobiography and fictional events, t...

The Monk. A Romance.

M. G. Lewis [Matthew Lewis] · 1795 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.65 | $1,314.54 | ¥209,848)

London , Privately Printed [B. Fawcett and Co.], c1890 . Leather. A scarce limited edition of Mathew Lewis's infamous and celebrated gothic novel, in beautiful half crushed morocco Zaehnsdorf bindings. A scarce late nineteenth century Limited Edition of Lewis's gothi...

The Works of Thomas Moore Vol. VI

Thomas Moore · 1819 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Paris , Galignani, 1819. First edition. Leather. A first Galignani edition of this volume of works by Thomas Moore. Volume VI from the Works of Thomas Moore. This volume includes Odes of Anacreon-Little's Poems, being the first Galignani edition. Thomas Moore was an Iri...

The Golden Treasury Series: Selections from the Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough; Poems of Shelley; the Golden Treasury: Second Series

Arthur Hugh Clough; Percy Shelley; Francis Turner Palgrave · 1894 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1894-1902. Leather. A beautiful group of three volumes from the 'Golden Treasury Series' of verses in exquisite uniform prize bindings. Three volumes from Macmillan's 'Golden Treasury Series&apos. With half titles, vignette illustr...

The Red Chipmunk Mystery

Ellery Queen · 1948 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.05 | ¥16,450)

London, Collins, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated first edition of this children's novel by Ellery Queen. First edition. Illustrated with drawings by E. A. Watson. Written by Ellery Queen, the pseudonym of American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay...

Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars.

Samuel Butler · 1761 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London, D. Browne; C. Hitch; L. Hawes; J. Shuckburgh; et al, 1761. Leather. A Hogarth illustrated edition of this important long narrative poem by Samuel Butler, this being the second Hogarth edition. The second Hogarth edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, five folding pla...

Poems

G. M. Cookson · 1932 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London , Elkin Mathews & Marrot , 1932. First edition. Cloth. A scarce signed copy of this collection of poems by G. M. Cookson. A scarce volume of poems by G. M. Cookson. Signed by the author:Reynolds Stone with good wishes from G. M. Cookson. Some of the poems that appear ...

The Killing Kind

John Connolly · 2001 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of the third novel from Connolly's Charlie Parker detective series. First edition, first impression of The Killing Kind by John Connolly in the original publisher's cloth bin...

The Redundancy of Courage

Timothy Mo · 1991 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1991. Cloth. A lovely limited edition of this novel by Timothy Mo, signed by the author and in the original glassine wrapper. Limited edition of The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo in the original publisher's quarter cloth binding and glassine...

The Train A.B. C.

None · 1914 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd, 1914. Cloth. A very scarce charming and educational ABC book of trains, for children. Scarce work. An ABC book for children who love trains: A is for arch and also for axle, B is for buffer and is the bridge, C is for coal and stands for carriag...

The Nine Tailors

Dorothy L. Sayers · 1946 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1946. Cloth. A very smart copy of one of Dorothy Sayers' most celebrated novels featuring recurring character Lord Peter Wimsey, enclosed in the original bright dust wrapper. The sixteenth impression of crime writer and poet Dorothy L. Sayers&apos...

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

[Daniel Defoe] · 1822 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

Chiswick , C. Whittingham, 1822. Leather. Two wonderful volumes of the infamous novel Robinson Crusoe, with woodcut illustrations throughout the text. A complete two volume set of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels round...

Half a War

Joe Abercrombie · 2015 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Harper Voyager , 2015. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first impression of this coming-of-age tale by Joe Abercrombie, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression of this work. Signed by the author to title page. Third and final volume in Joe Abercrombie&apo...

The Flower of Old Japan; Poems

Alfred Noyes · 1907 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

New York, The Macmillan Company , 1907-13. First edition. Cloth. A lovely pair of anthologies containing the poems by Alfred Noyes, first US editions in uniform publisher's bindings. Alfred Noyes was an English poet and playwright. Here are The Flower of Old Japan, seco...

Death of a Sweep; Death of a Policeman

M. C. Beaton [Marion Gibbons Chesney] · 2011 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Constable; CR Crime , 2011-14. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first impressions of these Hamish Macbeth murder mysteries by Marion Chesney. Two first editions, first impressions. Murder mysteries by Scottish author Marion Chesney, featuring her popular character of Hamis...

The Don and the Undergraduate

William Edmund Wood Collins · 1899 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1899. First edition. Leather. Scarce first edition of this tale by William Collins in a smart Bickers signed binding, author's presentation copy. Work of fiction set in Oxford by William Collins, Welsh-first class cricketer and author,...

Devices and Desires; a Certain Justice

P. D. James · 1989 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,593)

London, Faber and Faber , 1989-97. First edition. Cloth. Two bright first editions of these Adam Dalgliesh mysteries by Phyllis Dorothy James. Two first editions, first impressions. Mysteries by Phyllis James, English novelist and life peer. Nos. eight and ten of James's ...