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The Prince of Storytellers: The Life of E. Phillips Oppenheim
Robert Standish · 1957 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, Peter Davies, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A lovely and very scarce first edition of this volume illustrating the life of E. Phillips Oppenheim. The first edition of this work. A very scarce volume, held institutionally by two libraries only. A fascinating work by Robert…
De Coniuratione Catilinae
Sallust · 1556 · Rooke Books
£675.00 (€809.09 | $891.77 | ¥142,404)
[Lyon], [John and Francis Frelon], 1556. Leather. A sixteenth century edition of Sallust's popular historical account of the second Catilinarian conspiracy. A Latin edition of 'The Conspiracy of Catiline', a history chronicling the attempts to overthrow the govern…
From North Pole to Equator Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands
Alfred Admund Brehm; J Arthur Thomson; Margaret R Thomson · 1896 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
London, Blackie and Son, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A superior copy of the first English translation of zoologist Alfred Edmund Brehm's account of his travels. The first English translation, by Margaret R Thomson and edited by J Arthur Thomson.Illustrated throughout, with …
Unconditional Surrender
Evelyn Waugh · 1961 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)
London, Chapman and Hall , 1961. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of the conclusive novel for Men at Arms and Officers and Gentleman by the popular author Evelyn Waugh, in the original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. The conclusion to Evelyn …
The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin
Thomas Dibdin · 1827 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Thomas Dibdin's reminiscences of his time spent at various Theatres Royal in London, a wonderful look behind the scenes at Georgian theatre. The first edition of this work.Complete in two volumes.A se…
Gunmen&Apos;S Holiday
Charles Maxwell Knight · 1935 · Rooke Books
£3,400.00 (€4,075.44 | $4,491.88 | ¥717,294)
London, Philip Allan, 1935. First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce first edition copy of Charles Maxwell Knight's detective fiction novel 'Gunmen's Holiday&apos. With fascinating association. Accompanied by a hand-painted wooden diorama of a dalmation and chick…
The Book of Wonderful Characters Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in All Ages and Countries
James Caulfield, Henry Wilson · 1790 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, John Camden Hotten , c1869. First edition. Cloth. A highly compelling and scarce book comprising biographies of remarkable people compiled by Henry Wilson and James Caulfield. A first edition of this scarce work.An ode to individuality, this book groups together people t…
Five Science Fiction Novels
Martin Greenberg · 1952 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
New York, Gnome Press, 1952. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this fantastic collection of science fiction novels, with works by van Vogt, Leiber and Norman L. Knight. Contains 'The Chronicler' by A. E. van Vogt, 'Destiny Times Three' by Fritz Leiber,…
The Black House
Paul Theroux · 1974 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this popular Paul Theroux novel, signed by Theroux to the title page. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper, with publish…
Choice Emblems Natural, Historical, Fabulous, Moral and Divine, for the Improvement and Pastime of Youth
John Huddlestone Wynne · 1812 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, J. Harris, Longman and Co. et al. 1812. Leather. A quaint, pocket-sized eleventh edition collecting short, humorous and inscructive anecdotes. This work comprises the marvellous wood engraved vignette illustrations of the emblems, followed by descriptions in verse and pr…
A Suburb of Yedo
Theobald A. Purcell · 1889 · Rooke Books
£1,470.00 (€1,762.03 | $1,942.08 | ¥310,124)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1889. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this beautifully illustrated look into Tokyo as it was in the nineteenth century, a charming collection of sketches on the city. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.A charming …
Space Platform
Murray Leinster; [William Fitzgerald Jenkins] · 1953 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this exhilarating young adult sci-fi novel by Murray Leinster. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.A young a…
Lies of Silence
Brian Moore · 1990 · Rooke Books
£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)
London, Bloomsbury, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A lovely limited edition of Brian Moore's novel 'Lies of Silence', signed by the author and complete with a glassine dust wrapper. 'Lies of Silence' is a 1990 novel focusing on the effects that The Troubles…
Christ the Hunter
John Lehmann · 1965 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A lovely limited edition of Lehmann's spiritual prose poem, signed by the author. This work was first broadcast in 1964 on the BBC Third Programme, and is autobiographical and spiritual in nature.John Lehmann (1907-19…
Self&Apos;S the Man
John Davidson · 1901 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, Grant Richards, 1901. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this tragi-comedy by John Davidson. This is a tragi-comic play featuring a Roman cast, set on the outskirts of Pavia in Italy.John Davidson (1857-1909) was a Scottish playwright, poet and novelist. His poetry greatly…
The Portreeve
Eden Phillpotts · 1906 · Rooke Books
£600.00 (€719.20 | $792.68 | ¥126,581)
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1906. Cloth. An author's presentation copy of his novel, in which he has written a length inscription lamenting and criticising the work. Like many of Phillpotts' works, this novel was set in Devon.Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) was an ext…
According to Queeney
Beryl Bainbridge · 2001 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)
London, Little, Brown and Company, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this exciting historical fiction novel about Samuel Johnson, and his friendship with Queeney Thrale. The first edition, first impression, of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.…
Swords of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1948 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
California, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, 1948. Cloth. A lovely 1948 reprint of the eighth Barsoom novel, an exciting science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A 1948 reprint of this work, though 1936 is stated to the edition page; this is the 1948 reprint as the cloth is a tan…
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
Henry Walter Bates · 1864 · Rooke Books
£390.00 (€467.48 | $515.24 | ¥82,278)
London, John Murray, 1864. Cloth. The second edition of Henry Walter Bates' important work regarding his trip to the Amazon Basin. An influential work, referred to by Charles Darwin as the best book of Natural History travels ever published. With a folding plate to the rear…
The Saracen&Apos;S Head
Osbert Lancaster · 1948 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)
London, John Murray, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of this charming little book by Osbert Lancaster, illustrated. The first edition of this work. A charming little book following the adventures of a young British nobleman on the Crusades. Osbert Lancaster sa…