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Golden Horn

F. Yeats-Brown · 1932 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this vivid political memoir from British Indian army officer, Francis Yeats-Brown. The first edition, first impression of this work.With the publisher's original dust wrapper, un…

Scottish and Jacobite Glass

Arnold Fleming · 1938 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Glasgow , Jackson, Son and Co, 1938. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon study of glass from Scotland and the Jacobite Period, with illustrations. The first edition, first impression. An uncommon work.  With the publisher's original unclipped dust wra…

The Berry Scene

Dornford Yates · 1947 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited , 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Donford Yates' collection of comic short stories, featuring his recurring 'Berry' characters. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's origina…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts (Altemus&Apos; Edition)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1889 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Philadelphia , Henry Altemus , 1889. Cloth. The publisher's large folio edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's major poem, with many engraved plates by Gustave Dore. The Altemus' Edition of this work. Originally published with Dore's illustrations in 1875 by Do…

In Darkest England and the Way out

General Booth [William Booth] · 1890 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, 1890. Cloth. A smart copy of this work setting the foundation for the Salvation Army's modern social welfare approach. With a folding colour frontispiece. A detailed study in which Booth proposes a number of social r…

And Even Now

Max Beerbohm · 1920 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, William Heinemann, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Max Beerbohm's volume of essays, with an inscription from British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch to the front free endpaper. The first edition of this work.Inscribed to the front free endpaper 'R…

Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne · 1775 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, T. Becket, 1775-1776. First edition. Cloth. The letters and correspondence of writer Laurence Sterne. With volume III present in the first edition, and volumes I and II in the 'New Edition' of the following year. Complete in three volumes, present here are the …

Flora of Herefordshire

William Henry Purchas; Augustin Ley · 1889 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Hereford, Jakeman and Carver, [1889]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comprehensive illustrated work on the flora of Herefordshire. The first edition. The introduction of this work was first published in 1967 under the title 'A Flora of Herefordshire: Part 1…

Oxford Medieval Texts: The Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery

Diana Greenway; Leslie Watkiss [ed.] · 1999 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Oxford , Clarendon Press , 1999. First edition. Cloth. The first printed appearance of this lively narrative, which concerns the history of Mandeville earls of Essex and their lands. First edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.The Book of the Founda…

Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other Prose Works

D. H. Lawrence; Warren Roberts; Harry T. Moore [ed.] · 1968 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1968. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the second 'Phoenix' anthology, comprising D. H. Lawrence's previously unpublished and unknown works. The first edition of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped…

Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Leicester, 1103-1327

Mary Bateson [ed.] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London, C. J. Clay and Sons, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical work concerning the earliest archival records of the Corporation of Leicester. The first edition of this work. Volume one out of three. In the original cloth binding.Edited by Mary Bat…

The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad · 1924 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. Cloth. A smart collection of fourteen volumes from this set of the complete works of Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. Fourteen volumes of a twenty-five volume set. Lacking volumes 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. Canterbu…

Focus One

B. Rajan; Andrew Pearse [editors] · 1945 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Dennis Dobson Ltd. 1945. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of critical analysis of contemporary literature. First edition. An excellent collection of literary criticism with contributions from D.S. Savage, George Woodcock, Peter Yates, a…

Christmas at the Mermaid

Theodore Watts-Dunton · 1902 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, John Lane, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce poem from English critic Theodore Watts-Dunton, with illustrations. First edition. Very scarce work. Flowers of Parnassus - XI. Illustrated with a frontispiece, four plates, and numerous in-…

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill · 1951 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, Cassell & Company LTD, 1951-54. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first impression set of the final three volumes of Winston Churchill's monumental magnum opus. The first edition, first impressions, of Volumes IV, V, and VI.Finely bound in a smart unsigned crus…

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf · 1919 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Duckworth and Company, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Virginia Woolf's second novel, an Edwardian-set novel on love and happiness. The first edition.One leaf of adverts to the rear.Half-title is present. Collated, complete. Really a candidate for …

Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell · 1901 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Sands and Co, 1901. Cloth. This charming edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel Cranford illustrated by T. H. Robinson, in pictorial prize binding. Cranford was first published serially in the magazine Household World between 1851 and 1853. It was then first …

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

James Anthony Froude [ed.] · 1883 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this set, comprising the letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, annotated by her husband and leading Victorian writer, Thomas Carlyle. The first edition of this set, complete in three volumes. Uniformly re…

Tales from Timbuktu

Constance Smedley · 1923 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce collection of folk tales from around the world, collected by Constance Smedley, with wonderful accompanying illustrations by Maxwell Armfield. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth. A scarce collecti…

Twenty-Seven Illustrations, Designed for "the Cornhill Magazine

Frederick Walker · 1867 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1867 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce collection of twenty-seven striking plates, drawn by British social realist painter, Frederick Walker. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with gutta percha binding. Very scarce w…