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Memories of the Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1862-1865 Also of a Visit to Paris in 1867
Mrs Orpen · 1926 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, William Blackwood, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon illustrated autobiography by Adela Orpen. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 2 monochrome photographic illustrations. Collated …
Sir Lancelot of the Lake
Lucy Allen Paton [trans] · 1929 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, George Routledge , 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce illustrated romantic prose about Sir Lancelot from the thirteenth century, translated with an introduction by Lucy Allen Paton. The first edition. An American edition was published the same y…
Drawn from Life
Ernest H. Shepard · 1961 · Rooke Books
£33.00 (€39.56 | $43.60 | ¥6,962)
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated autobiography by Ernest H. Shepard. The first edition. With monochrome vignettes and full page illustrations throughout by the author. Collated complete. In the publisher's origin…
The Rescuers
Margery Sharp · 1959 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
London, Collins, 1959 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this charming children's story about Miss Bianca the socialite mouse. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. The Rescuers is a British children's novel by Margery Sha…
The Great North
Felice Bellotti; James Cadell [translator] · 1957 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, Andre Deutsch, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A very smart advanced reading copy of this exciting account of the expeditions of Bellotti, with illustrations. First edition. Advanced reading copy with request for review insert. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated compl…
Two Centuries of Foxhunting
A. Henry Higginson · 1946 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)
London, Collins, 1946. First edition. Leather. A smart first edition of this history of foxhunting, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated complete. A comprehensive history of the sport of foxhunting, with chapters such as: …
The Comedians
Graham Greene · 1966 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, The Bodley Head, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this politically inspired novel from Graham Greene, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Set in Haiti under the rule of Francois Duvalier and his police, this novel follows an …
The Home-Life of the Terns or Sea Swallows
W. Bickerton · 1912 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Witherby & Co. 1912. First edition. Leather. A well-presented first edition on the home-life of the tern, with many photographs captured by the author. First edition, in half morocco binding with green cloth to the boards. Written by ornithologist and birdwatcher, W. Bic…
Flowers from a Persian Garden, and Other Papers
W. A. Clouston · 1890 · Rooke Books
£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)
London, David Nutt, 1890. First edition. Leather. A Bayntun-Riviere first edition of William Alexander Clouston's travel work on Iran, a smartly bound copy of this scarce work. The first edition of this scarce work.Bound by Bayntun-Riviere.A charming travel work on Iran, to…
Last Poems & Plays
W. B. Yeats · 1940 · Rooke Books
£390.00 (€467.48 | $515.24 | ¥82,278)
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1940. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this posthumous collection of poems and plays by one of the foremost literary figures of the twentieth century, W. B. Yeats. The first edition, first printing.In the original price-clipped dust wra…
Vies de Haydn, de Mozard Et de Metastase; Storia Della Economia Pubblica in Italia
M. de Stendhal; M. Schlichtegroll; Giuseppe Pecchio · 1829 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
Paris; Lugano, Alphonse Levavasseur; Presso G. Ruggia e Comp, 1829-1831. Leather. A vellum-bound work concerning the lives of the important composers Haydn and Mozart, and the librettist Pietro Metastasio, with a history of the economy of Italy. The second edition of this work i…
The Birds of Yorkshire
T. H. Nelson · 1907 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, A. Brown and Sons, 1907 . First edition. Leather. The beautifully bound first edition of Thomas Hudson Nelson illustrated study of the native avifauna of Yorkshire. The two volume first edition of this work by British ornithologist Thomas Hudson Nelson.Nelson had an exte…
What Are You Going to Do About It? the Case for Constructive Peace
Aldous Huxley · 1936 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London , Chatto And Windus , 1936. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A pamphlet on pacifism and the case for constructive peace. The first edition. A pacifist pamphlet written in 1936 by Aldous Huxley. This pamphlet explores pacifism in relation to constructive peace. Within thi…
Conversation at Midnight
Edna St. Vincent Millay · 1937 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Millay's long verse poem Conversations At Midnight, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition. A long verse poem passionately searching for new gods to replace tat…
Records and Record Searching: A Guide to the Genealogist and Topographer
Walter Rye · 1888 · Rooke Books
£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)
London, Elliot Stock, 1888. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this guide to compiling data and recording it for genealogists and topographers. First edition. A comprehensive guide to records for genealogists and topographers, with chapters on compiling an pedigree, writin…
Our Village
Mary Russel Mitford · 1893 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Macmillan, 1893 . Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated copy of Mitford's sketches on rural life, with illustrations to accompany by Hugh Thomson. In the publisher's original cloth binding with decorative gilt floral design to the front board and to the spine.The fi…
The Life and Reign of Edward I
Robert Benton Seeley · 1872 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1872 . First edition. Leather. A smart, leather-bound copy of Robert Benton Seeley's biographical work on Edward I. First edition, rebound in a full calf binding. Written by publisher and author, Robert Benton Seeley. This biographical w…
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)
London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. One of the popular novels of Charles Dickens, following a young girl who was born and raised in a debtors prison, the first edition of this work. The first edition first issue of this work, being bound from the parts, wit…
Lady Chatterley&Apos;S Lover
D. H. Lawrence · 1946 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
Stockholm, Jan Förlag, 1946. Cloth. The first Swedish unexpurgated authorized edition of D. H. Lawrence's famously controversial novel. An uncommon edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. The first Swedish unexpurgated authorized edition of D. …
The Huntress Hag of the Blackwater, a Mediaeval Romance
Sir Harold Boulton · 1926 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Philip Allan & Co, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work of poetry by baronet, philanthropist and lyricist Sir Harold Boulton. The scarce first edition of this work, in the very scarce publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.A …