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All This and Bevin Too
Quentin Crisp · 1978 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, The Mervyn Peake Society, 1978. Paperback. A very scarce edition of this satirical poem, featuring the illustrations of Mervyn Peake. Very scarce The Mervyn Peake Society edition. In the publisher's original pictorial soft covers. Featuring seven full-page illustrat…
Essai Sur Les Diffã©Rentes Espã¨Ces de Fiã¨Vres: Avec Des Dissertations Sur Les Fiã¨Vres Lentes, Nerveuses, Putrides, Pestilentielles & Pourprã©Es
Jean Huxham [John Huxham] · 1776 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
Paris, Chez D'Houry, 1776. First edition. Leather. The scarce French translation of Huxham's award-winning medical treatise, the first to mention influenza, bound in tree calf. Essai sur les Différentes Espèces de Fièvres, a scarce French translation of An Essay on the…
Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros: Grimm
Brothers Grimm; Lucy Crane [translator] · 1882 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1882. First edition. Cloth. The lovely first Walter Crane illustrated edition of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, lavishly illustrated with over 100 drawings. The first Crane illustrated edition of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. In the publisher's …
Titus Groan
Mervyn Peake · 1946 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London, Eyre & Spotiswoode, 1946. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the opening novel to the celebrated Gormenghast series, considered among the greatest works in modern fantasy literature. The first edition of Titus Groan, the first novel within the groundbreaking dark…
The Court-Secret: A Melancholy Truth
[George Lyttelton] · 1741 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)
London, T. Cooper, 1741. First edition. Disbound. A scarce first edition of this intriguing anti-Walpole Oriental satire, attributed to George Lyttelton. Disbound. First edition. Published anonymously as the work of "an Adept in the Oriental Tongues" and attributed to George Ly…
Christian Principle in Little Things: A Book for Girls
1860 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, T. Nelson And Sons, 1860 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this eighteenth century children's book aiming to guide girls to religious duty, with a frontispiece. A very scarce work. The first edition. In the publisher's original blue clot…
The Andree Diaries: Being the Diaries and Records of S.A. Andree, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel
S.A. Andree; Nils Strindberg; Knut Fraenkel; Edward Adams-Ray [trans.] · 1931 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. The first authorized English edition of the Andree diaries, recounting Andree, Strindberg, and Fraenkel's balloon expedition to the North Pole. An exciting first English language edition of the Andree diaries, …
Biographical Memoirs of the Late Revd. Joseph Warton
John Wooll · 1806 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
London, Cadell and Davies, 1806. First edition. Leather. The first edition of a charming biography on the English Enlightenment literary critic and poet, with select correspondence with notable figures to the rear. The first edition of the scarce Biographical Memoirs of the Late…
The Drunken Boat: Thirty-Six Poems
Arthur Rimbaud; Brian Hill · 1953 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition, second impression of this bilingual French-English poetry collection in the original dust wrapper. First edition, second impression. Very scarce. In the publisher's original red cloth bin…
Knotting & Netting: The Art of Filet Work
MELEN, LISA · 1972 · Pegasus Books
$45.25 (€41.05 | £34.25 | ¥7,226)
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972. First English Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0442299583. B & W ; 6 3/4 x 8 3/4\"; 88 pages; Hard cover has blue spine with silver lettering. Slight rubbing to covers. DJ has some shelf wear; in a mylar cover. Originally published…
Hollywood Tough
CANNELL, STEPHEN J. · 2003 · Pegasus Books
$37.25 (€33.80 | £28.20 | ¥5,948)
New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003. First Printing; Softcover. ISBN: 0312989423. Shane Scully Novels Series; 4 1/4 x 6 3/4\"; 376 pages; Soft cover has a white spine with blue lettering. Light rubbing to covers. First paperback edition. Pages are clean and tight. 'In Stephe…
American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century
RISTOW, WALTER W · 1985 · Pegasus Books
$141.25 (€128.15 | £106.92 | ¥22,556)
Detrioit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1985. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0814317685. B&W Illustrations & Maps; 10.2 X 8.7 X 1.3 inches; 488 pages; AUTHOR SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE, below his printed name. Oblong shaped book has tan colored boards with black l…
The White Nile
Alan Moorhead · 1961 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961. Cloth. A scarce early impression of a popular exploration of the impact of Nile explorers upon the Scramble for Africa, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A scarce early impression of The While Nile, a popular history on the nineteenth century…
A Chesterton Celebration at the University of Notre Dame
Rufus William Rauch [Ed.]; Ralph McInerny; Frederick J. Crosson; et al. · 1983 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Notre Dame; London, University of Notre Dame Press, 1983 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition presentation copy of this commemorative Chesterton collection, inscribed by editor Rufus William Rauch and accompanied by personal correspondence and a photograph. In the…
Books for the Bairns I & XXVI: Aesop&Apos;S Fables
Aesop; W.T. Stead [ed.] · 1896 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, Review of Reviews" Office , [1896-1897]. Paperback. A scarce two volume set of pioneering Victorian journalist W.T. Stead's popular series of Aesop's Fables, illustrated throughout. A two volume set. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Two volumes o…
Opere Di C. Cornelio Tacito
Tacitus; Bernardo Davanzati [trans.] · 1790 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
Bassano, A Spese Remondini di Venezia, 1790 . First edition. Leather. The second volume of the vanishingly scarce first Italian edition of the works of Roman historian Tacitus, in a full calf binding. Translated by Bernardo Davanzati. Translated from the original Latin into Ital…
Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue
James Foster · 1749 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, Printed for the Author and sold by Mr. Noon et. al. 1749-1752. First edition. Leather. The first edition of these collected discourses from Baptist minister James Foster, who achieved a reputation for his religious controversy. The first edition, complete in two volumes.…
Sammelband of Religious and Political Pamphlets
John Latham; James Sloss; Mr Toland; Anonymous · 1717 · Rooke Books
£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)
London, W. Parker; R. Hett; J. Noon; J. Oswald; J. Noon; J. Brotherton, 1717-37. First edition. Leather. A collection of scarce eighteenth-century pamphlets, all concerning religious dissent and controversies. A sammelband of eighteenth-century pamphlets concerned with religious…
The Wayside Book
Gilbert Rumbold · 1934 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1934 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vibrantly illustrated topographical guide to the English countryside of the 1930s by Gilbert Rumbold. The first edition. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with pictorial pape…
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann R. Wyss · 1950 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Heirloom Library Limited, [1950]. Cloth. A smart copy of the first Peake-illustrated edition of this classic shipwreck adventure, with eight colour plates and the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original decorative orange cloth binding. Complete…