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The L-Shaped Room

Lynne Reid Banks · 1960 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Banks's first novel, The L-Shaped Room. First edition. Following the story of a young woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the bui…

Miscellanea

William Temple · 1696 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Jacob Tonson; Awnsham and John Churchill, 1696-97. Leather. The collected essays of the leading statesman William Temple, including his works pondering politics and medical issues. Complete as two volumes in one. Part One is the fifth edition, dated 1697. Part Two is the…

The Collected Tales of A.E. Coppard

A. E. Coppard · 1951 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this collection of outstanding short stories from A. E. Coppard. A first edition copy of this collection of tales by A. E. Coppard. This volume contains thirty-eight works by A. E. Coppard which wer…

Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson

Thomas Sadler · 1869 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1869. First edition. Cloth. A first edition complete three volume set of Henry Crabb Robinson's interesting dairies. A complete three volume set, in the first edition. Henry Crabb Robinson was an English lawyer and remembered as a diarist. He als…

Departures

E. L. Grant Watson · 1948 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Pleiades Books Limited , 1948. First edition. Cloth. Bright first edition of this autobiographical sketch of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, with decorations by John O'Connor. Autobiographical sketch of the life and work of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, author and bio…

The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces

William Golding · 1965 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Faber and Faber, 1965 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of essays by the well renowned British novelist William Golding. First edition of The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces by William Golding in the original publisher's cloth bindin…

Up the Junction

Nell Dunn · 1963 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1963. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from Nell Dunn. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A collection of short stories that depict contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham J…

Etat Des Cours de L&Apos;Europe Et Des Provinces de France Pour L&Apos;Annee M. Dcc. LXXXVI. Pubile Pour la Premiere Fois En 1783.

L'Abbe de la Roche-Tilhac · 1786 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Paris, l'Auteur et le Roy; Les Principaux Libraires de l'Europe, 1786. Paperback. A very scarce French almanac exploring the Courts of Europe in the year 1786, before the upheaval of the French Revolution. A very scarce work.In the original French.A French almanac for …

A Day of Dwarfs

Peter Everett · 1962 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Neville Spearman, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this uncommon novel by Peter Everett. Found in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition of Peter Everett's debut novel, found in the original dust wrapper. In order to bring the intensity o…

A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing; with Practical Instructions to the Trade in General

Philip Luckombe · 1770 · Rooke Books

£1,395.00 (€1,672.13 | $1,842.99 | ¥294,302)

London, W. Adlard and J. Browne, 1770 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Philip Luckombe's history of the printing press, with vignette illustrations throughout. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Johannes Gutenburg - inventor of the movable…

Farmer Duck

Martin Waddell · 1991 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Walker Books, 1991 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this award winning children's book. Inscribed by illustrator Helen Oxenbury to publisher Tom Maschler. The first edition, first impression of this delightful children'…

An Essay on the Causes Which Have Produced Dissent from the Established Church in the Principality of Wales

Arthur James Johnes · 1832 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, J. Hatchard and Sons, 1832 . Hardback. The second edition of Welsh county court judge Arthur James Johnes's essay on the causes of dissent in Wales. First published in 1831, this is the second edition of Jonhnes's work, very scarce in all editions. Johnes won t…

Reports of Cases Determined at Nisi Prius

John Campbell · 1811 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London , J. Butterworth and Son, 1811-1818. Leather. Four volumes of Reports of Cases Determined at Nisi Prius, three being first edition copies. A collection of four volumes of Reports of Cases Determined at Nisi Prius, in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas and on…

Early Chronicles of Europe England

James Gairdner · 1879 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , 1879. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of England by James Gairdner.  This work is from the series the Early Chronicles of Europe and explores the early history of England by James Gairdner. The work explores the r…

Who Only England Know

John Pudney · 1943 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Pudney's autobiographical account of a war-time journey in the scarce dust wrapper. First edition of Who Only England Know by John Pudney in the original publisher's cloth binding…

The Old Devils

Kingsley Amis · 1986 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Melbourne, Auckland, Johannesburg, Hutchinson, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Kingsley Amis's novel in the original dust wrapper. First edition of The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis in the original publisher's binding and unclipped dust wrapper.…

A History of Our Own Times: From the Ascension of Queen Victoria to the Berlin Congress

Justin McCarthy · 1879 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1879-80. Leather. A very smart complete four volume set of McCarthy's history of our own time. Four volumes. A history spanning from the accession of Queen Victoria to the general election of 1880, with details of: science and speed, Chartism and yo…

Riotous Assembly

Tom Sharpe · 1971 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London, Secker and Warburg, 1971 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of British comic Tom Sharpe's first novel, set in Apartheid South Africa. The first edition, first impression, with Sharpe's signature tipped in to the title page.In the publisher's or…

IL Libro de&Apos;Disegni Del Vasari

Licia Ragghianti Collobi · 1974 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Florence, Vallecchi, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume, first edition set of Vasari's book of drawings. A complete two volume set of these volumes on the work by Giorgio Vasari. The first volume contains the text and the second volume contains the drawings.Â…

The Life of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

Reginald Heber · 1824 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London , James Duncan, 1824. First edition. Leather. A complete two volume set of The Life of The Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, in the first edition. A complete two volume set. First edition copies. The Life of The Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor was written by Reginald Heber and gives a…